A/N: Rewrite of part 1&2 with the new addition of part 3.

Halo 4 is coming out in 2012… if you guys think the world ends in 2012, let's hope it ends AFTER the release of Halo 4.

And did you guys know that John-117's current rank is actually Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy… but he was posthumously promoted to this rank.

XXxxXX

Dark Hearts, all parts.

In the secure domains of NORAD Headquarters, an operator sat at his desk, downing another cup of coffee. Apparently his colleague was sick, and so the operator also had to fill in for the ill man. This is going to be a long day, sighed the operator.

His eyes scrolled across the screen, when an alarm alerted to him that a satellite had detected something in the Nevada desert, nearby Nellis Air Force Base.

"Sir, we have something on our hands," said the operator, "putting it on screen,"

All the staffs' attention was now focused on the main screen.

"Oh my god," some whispered, as they saw a misshapen object perched at the top of a mesa in Nevada USA.

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The office was of a typical layout for any high ranking military personnel, a selected theme of oak wood and white walls. A bookshelf on at one wall and a cabinet on another filled with medals and pictures. At the far end of the room, was an oak wood desk, in front of it stood two arm chairs, behind the desk were three bullet proof windows decorated with curtains, and beside the desks stood two flags.

"Nellis Air Force Base, this is NORAD, we have signs of an extra-terrestrial landing some kilometres south-south-east of your position,"

General Wade Eiling, was sitting at his desk, when the call came in from NORAD.

"Copy that NORAD, we'll deal with it,"

Eiling switched of the channel and then tuned to his Commander, get the men ready and move out.

"Yes sir,"

XXxxXX

Across the night sky, USAF Helicopters thundered through, whipping up sand in their way as they flew low along the ground.

"Gamma and Bravo Company, secure the perimeter, remaning 5th Battalion elements remain in support for continainment. 6th Battalion, remain on standby. The rest of you, evacuate those towns, I'll be in Goldhanger, out." Said Eiling through the radio.

The units then moved out to complete their objectives.

XXxxXX

5th Battalion had moved in and secured the area, until they were counter-attacked by the robotic creatures. Quickly, the unit was steam rolled over by spider like robots and robots that mimicked wolves.

"Fall back! Fall back!" yelled a Lieutenant.

"Someone bring up that fifty!"

"BROKEN ARROW! BROKEN ARROW! We're taking heavy casualties, we need to withdraw!"

The alien threat poured out more combatants that just swept aside the Army; some of them bypassed the soldiers and jumped on the landed helicopters to gnaw the crafts to pieces.

The Army's radio chatter were hectic, all of them screaming the same thing.

"This is Captain Vance of Gamma Company, we're taking heavy casualties, I've just lost third company and most of second company, we can't hold out much longer!"

"This is Captain Han of Bravo Company, we're being over runned, HOLY SHI…" the radio broadcast was cut short by static.

"Containment has failed, and we are taking heavy losses," said the Commander into the radio as he fired his pistol, "we're requesting emergency support, I repeat we cannot contain them."

The Commander and his remaining men doubled back to the still operation helicopters and retreated from the immediate area.

"All Fifth Battalion and Sixth Battalion elements are to fall back," ordered the Commander.

XXxxXX

"Sounds like the Commander could use a little reassurance," said Superman as he soared through the sky with many other leaguers who could fly under their own power.

"Let's hope we can give it to him," Batman said coolly in the seat of his Batplane.

"Well give it to him alright, and then some," said Diana who was piloting the Javelin, "strength and numbers and all that."

Bruce piloted the Batplane and flew over the mysterious object that sat atop a mesa, while Diana circled ahead in a Javelin. From the sky, it looked like some kind of grey-metalic-organic half melted object; its current shape was that of a tumour with irregular points jutting out.

"It's growing bigger," said Batman with a small hint of concern, "it's somehow devouring everything around it and converting it into mass."

"And those spider like things?" asked the Amazon.

"The same," replied The Caped Crusader, "and once they're done with the debris from the Army's attempt to beat them back, they're going to spread out to those three towns,"

J'onn then contacted Diana via the Justice League Comm network. "Diana, I have the communication's feed from the General on the ground, patching you through,"

Diana the selected the communications channel with the General on the line.

"This is Wonder Woman, go ahead General," said Diana.

"This is General Eiling USAF," Eiling's voice sounded over the Javelin's speakers, "we're in the process of evacuating the three towns in the immediate vicinity. We need those things locked down."

"Then the first task is containment," said Diana in agreement.

"Any word from the Spartans?" Eiling asked.

"None, they may come later though,"

Outside, the Batplane overtook the Javelin.

"I've got something on board that may buy us more time,"

The Dark Knight's fingers danced along the panel and the plane released a bomb. A mist engulfed the large tumour like object and froze it, which left a shiny tint on its hull. The things that weren't frozen expanded from ground zero.

"Batman, what was that?" asked Diana over the comlink

"Thermionic gas cools to within a few degrees of absolute zero," replied the Dark Knight.

"Why would you have something like that on board?"

"I needed to freeze the Gotham River once, long story."

"Move in!" gestured Superman, the Kyrptonian lead the charge into the fray, with the other Leaguers following closely behind him.

The Man of Steel and Supergirl swooped in close to the drop off, where the parasitic things were crawling down the mesa, the two punched and smashed the robots into smithereens. Shinning Knight on his noble steed flew in and slashed at the robots with his blade while Booster Gold and Green Lantern blasted the spider like creatures with pure energy and Red Tornado churned up the enemy ranks with his abilities.

On the ground were Diana had just landed, more Leaguers poured out of the Javelin.

"Good job everyone," compliemented Diana, "surround them and close in,"

"Hold on a sec," said Clark as he tapped into his X-ray vision ability. He stared deep into the mesa and saw the spider-like things burrow deep into the rocky structure, he then shifted his gaze to the sand beneath them to see more of the spiders underground.

"They're right under us!" he cried.

In an instance the creatures jumped out of the ground and took the Leaguers by surprise. Tens of the things latched onto the landed Javelin, and tore away at the craft's hull. Vixen caught one in mid-air and ripped it apart with her bare hands. Superman blasted a few with his heat vision while Diana stomped on one and punched another.

Diana smashed a few more of the things as she pulled back when Eiling called her.

"Wonder Woman, I'm in Goldhanger, about two klicks from you and we won't be able to get everyone out in time,"

J'onn then interrupted on the communications channel. "You won't have to; the Watchtower is now in stationary orbit over the site. Clearing binary fusion generator for firing,"

"The what?" Eiling said sternly.

"It converts our Space stations' entire energy output into a single shot," explained J'onn, "it's a gun with a punch of a small nuclear weapon, General,"

"You're not serious?" said EIling with a hint of shock.

"We're very serious," J'onn said in his emotionless tone, "now pull you're men back, we can't hit the aliens directly because it could scatter them for miles, so we're going to be burning a trench around them."

Eiling complied and pulled back his men.

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In the Watchtower…

J'onn's finger danced across the keyboard as he typed in the firing sequence. The alarms blared across the Watchtower as the canon was almost done with its firing sequence.

"Capacitors have reached maximum, Canon now fully deployed," said a technician, "you're cleared for firing,"

J'onn entered in a few more keys and pulled down on the lever which released the energy stored in the Capcitors.

A ball of yellow-white energy formed at the tip of the Watchtower, and then streaked towards the Earth's surface.

XXxxXX

Below the Army and the Justice League had retreated to minimal safe distance. Everyone could hear a sound emanate from the sky, the sound was like the beginning of an artillery barrage, that split second of a screaming sound before the first shell landed and exploded.

A yellow-white beam burned into the ground, carving a trench in its wake. Everyone shielded their eyes from the intense light, everyone but Superman.

Once the smoke had cleared, everyone saw a deep trench carved around the site, by now, the robotic creatures had consumed the most, if not, the entire mesa they were on and now touched down at the bottom and expanded to the next mesa.

XXxxXX

In the Watchtower it was dark, only the faintest of lights were on; J'onn stood at the console and looked at the screen. 59 minutes and until power would be fully restored in the Watchtower.

XXxxXX

"An hour till we find out if it worked," the Martian said, with a hint of concern for his friends. He then looked out at the view port and stared at the Earth.

Back on the ground, Superman looked intently at the aliens.

"That should buy the Army more time to get the towns people out, now I wanna learn about these things."

Superman then stared at the spider-like things with his X-ray and microscopic vision.

"I think the main spacecraft is replicating. There's some kind of molecular machine in every one of them, a sort of Dark Heart building around itself,"

Overhead Batman flew in his Batplane, surveying the area.

"We need Ray Palmer in Boston," said Bruce into his comlink, "Superman, you'll get there faster than any of us,"

"Agreed," said Clark, "I'll be right back,"

The Man of Steel then shot up into the sky.

"Hold the line,"

XXxxXX

Majestic had just picked up the Spartans and now was in orbit, vectoring for an American desert.

John's eyes scrolled across his HUD as Cortana fed tactical information through the Spartans' armour. Out in the desert, there was an extra-terrestrial object discovered and currently under quarantine by the US Army, well, was under quarantined until robotic creatures started to pour out of the object and attack the contingency force.

Then the Justice League arrived on scene to help out and was having some trouble holding their own against the unknown force.

Currently the Spartans were en-route to help out with the containment.

John's eyes scrolled across his armour's HUD, the Leaguers had just fired their orbital weapon, and by the looks of things, the Watchtower was out of action from the power output. The trenched carved out by the Watchtower had slowed the aliens down for a while.

"Flood much?" said Kelly lightly

"Only this time they don't turn you into a half-naked, pale, killing machine," added John, "Commander, how long until we are above the subject?"

"Fifteen minutes Chief, want me to drop you guys in early and then have Johnson bring in the cavalry later?"

"Sure,"

"So how are we going to go in, sir?" asked Tom

"Feet First," John smiled.

Feet First into hell…

"Good luck guys, out," said Miranda over the comlink.

The Spartans entered the drop pods, punched in the codes and streaked towards the Earth's surface. John felt his stomach lurched as he entered the free-fall; entering the atmosphere, the bottom of the pod glowed a vibrant red.

The screeching sound of air rushing past the pod climbed into a great crescendo as it shook violently.

Soon the drop pods reached a suitable altitude to deploy air brakes. The Spartans entered the code onto the panel and the pods' descent quickly decreased as the chute was activated.

"Engage reverse thrusters on my mark," said John.

Green acknowledgement lights winked on.

"Three… Two… One… Mark!" John barked.

The eight pods' descent to the earth's surface decreased even further as the reverse thrusters were engaged.

XXxxXX

Diana looked up and saw grey plumes of smoke following the wakes of the glowing red pods streaming towards the earth's surface.

The Amazon Princess instantly knew it was the Spartans, the pods came in with a loud screech and thudded into the sand, kicking up some of the soil. The hatches of the pods opened and out rushed the Spartans, weapons high.

XXxxXX

John felt the landing rattle him, his motion sensors showed a swarm of red dots at the upper section of the gadget, the Spartan gripped his FAR, and opened the hatch. The alarms sounded and the pod hatch hissed and popped open, revealing a ravaged Nevada desert to the Chief. The Spartans rushed out of their pods, weapons high and live.

Fred wielded a Heavy machine gun, blanketing the enemy formations with automatic gun fire. The Spider things reeled back and shattered from the horde of bullets.

Linda and Mark flanked John's left, and held their signature sniper rifle. The artisan marksmen picked off the mechanical attack tigers that were showering the Spartans' position with laser fire.

Kelly and Olivia shouldered Spartan Lasers and denied the alien attackers their recently gained ground. The two Spartans crouched as they fired their weapons into the enemy horde. The angry scarlet tendrils slashed across the aliens, those caught in ground zero of the blasts were melted, and those further out were blasted to bits, sending shrapnel in all directions. The discharge of the Spartan lasers left a line of angry ash and glass scares across the desert plains.

Lucy, Tom, Ash and John decided to use assault rifles as their primary weapons, so that they could effectively fight the variety of combat units fielded by the aliens.

"Fan out guys, Linda and Mark, hang back and provide support,"

Green acknowledgement lights winked on, on the Master Chief's HUD.

"Chief," it was Cortana, over the com channel.

"Yeah?"

"Do you have the EMP grenades, Doctor Halsey gave you?"

"Yes,"

"Now would be a good idea to use them,"

"Got it,"

John reached for a soft drink can size device, he held it in the palms of his hands, primed it and hurled it into the enemy horde. The grenade went off, but to his disappointment, no avail.

"No effect, I repeat, no effect,"

"Say that again John," spoke Doctor Halsey.

"The EMP grenades are ineffective against the hostiles," said John as he spoke into the comlink.

"Interesting, these subjects are EMP resistant and can convert mater," pondered Halsey, "we'll send you more support, looks like you Spartans have to do this the hard way,"

"When haven't we done it the hard way?" Kelly sighed as she joined in on the conversation.

The spiders were easy to deal with, they were very similar to the Infectious Flood Forms and were easy to eliminate, but they were so many. The attack tigers on the other hand proved to be troublesome, they big, tough and fired lasers out of their mouths, which would force the Spartans back. A Spartan would fall back when their shields were drained; the gap they left in the formation would be filled up by the rest of the Spartans who would tighten the formation, this obviously forced the Spartans into a fighting retreat.

This entire experience reminded John too much of the Flood, memories of the Flood rushed back to the Spartan, the smell of rotting flesh being burned, the horrific gurgle and cries, the sound of screaming men as they were mutated, and the experience when the Chief nearly became one with the Flood.

John forced himself to snap out of the quick half-second flashback and stuffed the memories in the back of his head and continued on fighting.

Angry ash scars riddled the land, the sound weapons discharge filled the air and columns of thick black smoke clouded the starry night sky. The battle dragged on, but the Spartans managed to hold.

Kelly slung her FAR and shouldered her shotgun, and shot a cluster of spiders. The mechanical things were torn to shreds by the 12-gauge ammunition.

John fired a quick burst into a huge scarab like robot, the blue beams burned through the robot's legs, but it was not yet eliminate. It then launched itself at John, in hopes of crushing the Spartan. John ducked and extended his right arm, and activated his energy wrist blades. As the scarab soared past the Spartan, the energy blade burned through its armoured layers and destroyed it.

John then crouched and shifted left, he fired a quick burst into a cluster of spiders, which instantly blew up into shrapnel.

The counter on John's FAR read zero, he ejected the depleted battery cell, and slapped in a new one, rewarding the Spartan with a satisfy whir. He then fired a long burst into an attack tiger, the alien toppled over with smoke curling up from the holes that were burned through its body.

Ash ducked as a scarabs chrome coloured arm swept across his head. The young Spartan-III jumped on to the mechanical scarab's bulbous body and pulled the trigger, releasing a torrent of blue beams into the alien's body. He then activated his left energy wrist blade and rammed it deep into the Scarabs head, crushing and burning it simultaneously. The scarab's legs buckled and the thing crumbled into a heap. But Ash's balance remained unaltered; he crouched on top of the bulbous body, and aimed his FAR at an attack tiger that was charging straight at him. Ash held his ground and fired a long burst into the attack tiger's head as it jumped. Its head burst into a fireball as the beams tore through its mouth. The momentum of the tiger's jump still propelled it forward, which in turn, prompted the Spartan to roll off the Scarab.

The husk of the tiger sailed over the bulbous body of the scarab and scrapped the top, before the tiger landed into the sand, carving away the sand in its wake.

"Nice, lil 'bro," complimented Linda over the Spartan's private comlink channel.

"I second that," added Kelly, "that was awesome,"

"Awwwwww thanks," said Ash bashfully.

The battle continued as the Leaguers, US Army, and the Spartans fought to contain the aliens.

"Commander, can you deploy some sentinels?" asked John, the Spartan fired a burst from his FAR, the blue beams shredded a mechanical attack tiger's head off.

"Cortana's sending them in Chief," she replied over the comlink.

Ten minutes later, a squadron of Albatross Dropships which carried Rhino tanks, and two Albatross carried the Juggernauts, and two vultures. and hundreds of Sentinels poured onto the battlefield.

The Sentinels deployed in this battle were the Onyx Sentinels.

Johnson, wearing his Forerunner Combat skin/ODST BDU; stepped off the lead dropship with an MA5C ICWS cradled in his arms, and a lit Sweet William Cigar in his mouth. He took one long drag from the cigar and threw the butt on the ground, and then pulled on his BDU helmet.

"Let's finish this,"

His helmet's visor polarised into a silver colour.

John smiled under his faceplate and nodded.

The Onyx Sentinels kept their distances from the hostiles, and blasted away at the aliens with their golden beam weapons. The beams slashed through the air and burned through the enemy ranks. Deep within the memory cores of each Onyx Sentinel was information on how to combat certain foes; these robotic aliens that were attacking Earth were not much different from the Flood, which meant that the Onyx Sentinels were having a devastating effect on the alien formations.

The Rhino tanks, which are piloted by simple AIs created by Cortana, parked at the outskirts of Goldhanger and provided fire support. Explosions caused by the plasma bombardment ripped through the aliens, and brought the evacuating civilians more time.

The Vultures on the other hand, orbited the zone and pummelled the earth beneath.

"Tom and Ash, it's your turn to drive the Juggernauts,"

"Tut sweet, sir," said Tom.

The Spartan-III mounted into the Juggernauts and opened fire, unleashing a vast array of firepower at the aliens.

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The Leaguers took a quick breather and watched the Onyx Sentinels with great fascination. These chrome with gold trimmed coloured Sentinels hovered three metres above the ground; they hard a remarkably similar appearance to a Monitor and were about three metres in size, and around their main body are three metre long cylindrical spars or "booms".

From what Diana could tell, these Sentinels were adapting to their new foe, they manoeuvre and kept their distances from the aliens, all the while, methodically burning every square inch of soil claimed by the invaders.

XXxxXX

General Wade Eiling watched the Spartans with great amazement and awe. The technology they possessed was, as some would call it, treasure. It also made the Wade shudder, the Spartans could easily take over the Earth if they wanted to, the Leaguers had a super weapon in orbit and the Spartans had vast military technology.

Even though the Sentinels were extremely effective on their immediate foe, the alien mother ship produced offspring at an incredible rate which prompted Commander Miranda Keyes to take more action.

"This is UNSC Majestic, we're in bound for a glassing run," said Miranda

The Dreadnought descended from the Earth's atmosphere fast and began to hover over the alien threat.

All at the site saw the massive matte grey trigonometric shaped warship hover above the aliens. The hull of the warship was covered in black streaks, caused by weapons fire from the Gordanians

"Beam weapons at the ready, Commander," said Cortana

"Commence bombardment,"

"Aye, aye. Burning those bastards."

The bombardment began as Majestic's beam turrets opened fired, illuminating the night sky. The weapons methodically burned into the ground, the blue beams slashed at the sand until nothing remained on the surface but glowing red glass.

Wade stood in shock from what he just saw. A huge warship had just descended from space and bombarded the zone of incident with beam weapons, until the whole ground was turned to glass.

But the machines were not yet defeated. They crawled out of the sands by the thousands.

"Ah shit!" cursed Miranda

Everyone could see that the alien mother ship's hull was melted into a smooth surface. Now the thing just looked like an expanding and beating, smooth, white hot, silver dome.

XXxxXX

Bruce circled around the target zone; he sat in awe of what had transpired. Majestic held a stable position of a few hundred metres above the area. The ground below was blasted to ash and glass.

Seeing glassing on a monitor was one thing, but seeing it in action was a totally different thing.

XXxxXX

Superman quickly returned with Atom, or Ray Palmer.

"Amazing," said Ray as he took in the entire dawn landscape before him. The mesa and the mothership that was perched upon it was turned to glass, millions of parasitic robots oozing out of the craft, and Spartan, US Army, Leaguers and Sentinels fighting alongside each other, attempting to contain the situation.

"I take it that's the Spartans' ship," said Atom as he pointed at the lumbering Dreadnought. Superman nodded.

"We need your help with these things,"

Superman than glided down and landed next to Diana, Atom then jumped out of the Man of Steel's ear and morphed himself back to his normal human size.

"Atom, what are these things?" asked the Amazon Princess.

"The subjects appear to be parasitic robots, you either have to shut down its heart and mind or wipe it out totally, leave a shred of these things and it will rebuild itself and the nightmare will repeat itself."

"Any ideas then?"

"We'll have to make our way to the mothership, where I can enter it and destroy the central processing unit,"

"Then it is decided, the Spartans will punch a way through to the mothership, Diana, you transport Atom to the mothership and stay close to the Spartans. The League and I will provide cover for you." Said Batman.

XXxxXX

John had just received word from Batman about the counter attack. The Spartan keyed his mike.

"Alright, everyone listen up. I want all foot mobiles to form a defensive perimeter around the vehicles, we're going to burn our way to the mothership so that the Leaguers can drop of an HVI who can disable the aliens."

Green acknowledgement lights winked on.

The tanks began to rumble and roll forward, while the Spartans jogged besides the tanks to provide cover. Cortana on the other hand, was coordinating cast missions and fire support to thin out the enemy ranks.

Wonder Woman was staying close behind the Spartans; it was obvious to John that she was carrying the HVI.

A good half hour of fighting and the Spartans had burned through the enemy ranks, all the way back to ground zero.

"This is as far we can take you," John said to Diana, "good luck,"

The Amazon nodded, and placed the shrunken Atom in her ear, then flew off.

"Spartans, defensive wedge formation," barked John, "move it,"

The Spartans complied, the tanks moved to the vertex of the formation while the Spartans formed the sides. They then directed their fire into the sea of invaders. Tank rounds sailed into the enemy ranks, hand held weapons churned up enemy units and plasma grenades incinerated them.

"This is Wonder Woman," that Amazon's voice crackled across the public channels, "I have dropped off Atom, it's all up to him now,"

Once again, it was another long and excruciating wait for everyone who was fighting. John had lost count of the numbers of aliens he had destroyed, and now he was down to his second last clip.

Atom's voice then sounded across the com channels, "Everyone, you cannot believe the amount of knowledge here in this ship. Apparently there were two factions at war thousands of years ago, a war that reached across the entire galaxy. Both sides built self-replicating war machines to fight each other. These things consumed entire planets, this one in particular followed its programming, go to conquer and expand. But the war must be over by now, and this hasn't been deactivated."

"Can you deactivate the mothership?" asked Miranda, "if you can't, we may need to call in a hammerdown."

"Hold on, I think I've found the heart,"

Another long wait began to set in, a couple of lances of Onyx Sentinels had broken through the alien's ranks and had now linked up with the Spartans. Cortana's bombardments and air casts began to intensify as more robots began to pop up.

"I need a mag, I'm outta ammo," yelled Ash.

John grabbed a FAR mag from one of his pouches and threw it to Ash. Who caught it and slapped it into his weapon.

"Ash, that's my last one,"

"Thanks sir,"

"John I'm down to my last mag," said Kelly.

"I'm out," said Fred as he placed his heavy machine gun onto the tank, "switching to melee."

Fred then activated his energy wrist blades and slashed at any mechanical foe that came his way. One attack tiger lunged at him, Fred sidestepped to doge the attack, and then slashed his blades at the tiger's throat. Electric sparks hissed out of the "wound" and the robot collapsed at the Spartan's feet.

John then activated his comlink, "Cortana, we're running low on ammo, can you drop off some supplies."

"Copy that Chief, I'll try and see what I can do, number of enemy air units have increased,"

The Spartans looked overhead and saw a few Hornets escorted by five Onyx sentinels fly over. The Hornets then dropped off the much needed ammunitions and took off.

One by one, the Spartans fell back to the supply crates to resupply then retake their position so another Spartan can go and re-arm. Fred had deactivated his energy wrist blades and was now blanketing the enemy formations with heavy machine gun fire.

Then all of a sudden, the machines just stopped. They froze and dropped to the ground.

"YES! YESYESYES!" Yelled Atom over the com, "I've just gave it a heart attack… aww this is going to get messy,"

Right at that moment, the mothership exploded, but not a violent explosion, more like a bursting water balloon, sending purple sludge everywhere.

XXxxXX

It was dawn now, and the Spartans had made their way onto the mesa where Wonder Woman had dropped off. Next to Fred stood Wonder Woman and Superman, they all scanned the mothership, all in search of Atom.

Then a whinning sound was heard, a small figure began to appear and grew larger by the second. It was Atom, and he was covered in the purple liquid.

"Ohkay, that was disgusting. I'm old now and I shouldn't be doing things like this,"

Superman and Wonder Woman just laughed and helped the scientist up.

John then keyed his mike.

"Commander, I suggest we destroy these aliens,"

"Good idea Chief, Cortana, order the sentinels to burn as much of the wrecks as possible,"

"Copy that."

However it proved to be fruitless as some pieces of the aliens were saved by the US Army.

The Leaguers and the Spartans linked up with General Eiling, who was standing at Ground Zero.

"Do you need some help destroying those things sir?" asked John.

"You wouldn't want that technology falling into the wrong hands," interjected Superman.

"No," replied Wade, "we can learn something from it; after all, it slowed down the Spartans and almost beat the Justice League, after all."

"Why would you need something like that?" asked Diana, with a hint of disgust in her voice.

"Oh I don't know, maybe it's because the Justice League had a secret orbital WMD and the Spartans have an army of drones and a gigantic warship which could turn Earth into molten slag. We'll have to talk about it someday. Ma'am."

Eiling snapped a salute, in which all the Spartans returned. The General then boarded a helicopter and took off.

"Un-believable." Sighed Atom, "Show a man something that destroyed its creators and everything in sight, what's to stop history from repeating itself?"

"We are," said Superman.

XXxxXX

Ah, tis finally done.

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To La Sandman:

Thanks for the review, Team Katana is a SPARTAN III team, they're in the book Halo Ghost of Onyx.

The reason why I killed those guys off was that they had barely any background, and I don't like to do speculation with "not so developed" characters.

With the swear words, I use the "S-word" to convey the gravity of the situation, I don't use the f-word.

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Please review, its common courtesy after all.