Halo: Reassigned

Prologue
"Twenty eight Marines and fourteen crewmen dead, sir."

"The Covenant, trust them not to give notice of a pending attack. Bastards. Any one else left?" Asked the Captain of the ship.

"Scanning. Yes, five vital signs in Cryo Storage-B." Just as the AI Jessica answered, a loud thudcame from the nearby door, louder than all those prior.

"Who are they? Marines? Ops? Them?" Asked a now nervous Captain.

"Give me a minute..."

More thudding came from the door, this time the sounds of plasma charges could be heard. Their patience had run out, they were coming in.

"I need an answer now, Jessica."

"Sir, this ship's falling to pieces, it is quite hard to-"

"Now!" Never had the Captain's voice been heard this loud.

"Spartans, sir. Five of them." Replied the soft voice of Jessica.

"How didn't I know about this? It was ONI I presume." Now sounding calm, though irritated at the fact, the Captain pressed a multitude of keyes on a pad in front of him, before closing his eyes and continuing.

"Jessica, disengage all cryo pods and send them to ground, they've just been reassigned." With a smirk now on his face, the Captain opened his eyes and looked down towards the floor.

"Done, and what about you, sir?"

"We both know Jess, gotta follow CP, we're going down with the ship."

Jessica let out a soft sigh before shutting off all systems in the ship, save for the room they were in.

"Sir, one more thing, look behind you."

As the Captain turned, he was met with the fist of an impatient Elite. A heart beat later its blade was drawn and ready to slice the Captain.

"Buddy, we share something incommon, we're dead." And just as the Captain finished his sentence, the ship was soon a gigantic fireball, the space around it stopped the incoherent sounds from reaching anyone but the Captain's ears.