Vating was watching the view screen within Zeta Station. They were currently showing the survivors of Halo getting their awards and medal of honors, along with the encased medal for Captain Keyes' daughter. Shortly through it, lights start blaring red across the station with the loudspeaker saying, "All forces report to battle stations, this is not a drill." He looked out the window to see a Covenant fleet, they found Earth... He raced to the pelican hangar, ready to either board or land on the surface below.

As the battle started going on, the people aboard Zeta Station could feel the vibrations of every MAC round fired at the enemy fleet. The view was constantly being lit by MAC rounds and plasma blasts zipping into stations, not having much of an effect at the distance. Shortly thereafter, Covenant Dropships started appearing on the windows of the station, sucking in the air as they attached and made boarding tubes for Covenant boarders.

Vating was at one of the said tube's attaching point, firing away at the hostiles with his MA5B, not easily ripping through energy shields, but taking out the grunts one at a time. The others at his tube were holding the line as well, focusing fire on the Elites coming in.

Vating and the ten or so marines with him had cleared the first set of boarding pods. They were making their way to the next one, climbing over debris, weapons raised as they moved through the structure picking off each Covenant unit they found. The ones they didn't find were the problems a cloaked elite came in from behind and claimed the life of Jenkins immediately with his energy sword. Vating shouted, "Everyone to a wall, look for a blur!" They all huddled against a wall as the Elite came into sight, the minute they someone fired a round and hit the shields on it, hell broke loose and the Elite met his poor fate. sadly Vating didn't have much ammo left in his MA5B for there not being extras on the platform and the only reason he had it was because he brought it from his ship, it was his weapon obviously. He quickly attached the MA5B on his back and pulled out his silenced M6. Luckily for him, ammo for the M6 models was easy to come by and he could restock if necessary.

Vating and the rest of his forces finished clearing the rest of the interior of the station with few casualties. Within a few minutes, all ODST forces reported to the airlock and piled out, and into the depths of space, on the side of a space station with a loose magnetic connection to it, allowing them to make incredible jumps across the station. There were only Elites out here and they mean'that business, jet packs and duel wielding plasma rifles, cover won't be easy to come by. The ODSTs start firing away, hiding behind pillars and random mechanisms.

Thila was on the first phantom down to New Mombasa, his objective was to help take over the city (which is canonically successful Covie-side).  He was with a couple Unggoy, a pair of Kig-Yar, and two other Sangheili.  They moved through the alleyways, eliminating humans on their way through and eliminating humans they came across, this was going incredibly well for them as the humans were ineffective at living.  One shot was often enough to eliminate a foe.

Thila, who had been separated from his squad in a previous firefight with a Human vehicle with one of their primitive turrets on it's back, wasn't caught off guard to the gunfire due him already being on his toes in the battlefield. He dived behind some rubble and allowed his shields to recharge. As soon as that was done, he took out one of his two plasma grenades and threw it into the building this human was hiding in to flesh him out, just like the prey he was. After hearing it explode, he ran out with his Carbine and fired into the smoke. As he neared the building, he slowed to a walk, put it up, and pulled out his energy sword, an honorable Sangheili weapon. He then listened for every sound around him, no way was this one measly human about to catch him off guard.

Vating and the ODSTs had now all but cleared the outer area and were just firing at the last group, a sniper taking the last guy as he flew around to flank. They had lost a good ten soldiers outside due to the advantage the Elites had. The survivors made their way back inside and got new orders from the station commander, "ODST, go take our drop pods for a field test, we'll drop you into the staging point for the ground invasion, New Mombasa." Vating and every ODST all said, "Yes sir!" in sync before turning to the pods and piling in. He put away his assault rifle in his personal belongings and pulled out a Silenced M7 Caseless SMG, stuck it in his pod, along with his silenced pistol. He climbed in and gave the green light to go for himself. One by one, the ODSTs' lights turned green and as soon as the last one changed, the commander dropped them all down to New Mombasa, through the massive space battle currently going on and everything. Seraphs and Longswords were zipping past them as the entered Earth's atmosphere and lighting on fire. The pods did everything they could to slow down the fall, but it wasn't much and they eventually lost the parachutes slowing them down, only to slam into the streets across the battlefield, climbing out and running straight into battle.

Zain would close the file for a second and looked at his holographic companion Rose, what am I going to do with you? he said, letting out a small laugh If you're bored, create a new database for Spartan IV Recruitment he would look at the file he was reading for a second before adding And add Vating... Hamlick into a file named "Priority". he says to her before looking at his reflection in his desk mirror And what's wrong with my hair? he would ask

Zain would look at his AIs projection and listen to what she had to say Oh, Rose... Zain would say, slightly exasperated, before saying I like my hair the way it is thank you very much. Now, what are you looking for in this scrap pile of a ship? he asks Rose, standing up and looking at the projections.

MEANWHILE, IN THE PAST

Zain would have leapt onto another building as soon as he saw what appeared to be grenades flying at his vantage point. He spotted a glow in the cloud of smoke that ensued from the building collapsing and would jump down from the relatively small building he had landed on, now on ground level, Zain would roll one of his frag Grenades into the cloud, straight at the glow, which he could only assume was from an energy sword.

A ship going through space at a slow pace. On the side of the Large vessel was followed by it were a group of Frigates, Paris and Charon classes. On the side was a sign that said UNSC ARES. Inside the Capital Valiant class Heavy Cruiser, Navy Personnel walked around and in the Hanger bays, Pelicans, Longswords and other vehicles were inside. In the bridge several crew personnel sat and talked. In a chair in the bridge sat the Captain of the Ares, Darren Price. He watched a video over and over.

Battle of Earth

A Frigate went slowly with a group of frigates and a Capital ship. Commander Price sat at his chair in a frigate. After a few minutes a slip-space rupture was detected as a covenant fleet came out of the portal. Over the comms a message came through. "All ships battle stations, This is not a drill." They found earth.

Zain would laugh again as his AI spoke about Coffee You're sweet. he would comment before ordering a cup of coffee to be brought up to him. Well, I needed one anyway. Zain said, taking the cup that his secretary brought to him. He would drink it and lay back, letting out a sigh Hits the spot. Zain then remembered his AI's request Well, what to say about taste... I take sugar, so it tastes slightly sweet, which lessens the bitterness of the drink slightly. But not enough to make it seem like some kind of hot sweet drink. Zain would say. Anything else? he would ask his faithful AI.



If Zain hadn't possessed the relexes he did, he would have been nought but ribbons right now. Zain would hear the Elite speak Sangheili, but he wouldn't understand exactly what was said. Zain just decided to mock the language instead And "Blarg" to you too. Zain would say, leaning under the first slash. He would then either lean or sidestep all the sword stashes, before using the butt of his rifle to bash the elite in the face.