User:SgtKanine/SPARTAN-024 Series 1 Part 2

Spartan-024 A Halo story Arc by Kevin Montell Moore

Opening scene 1: Owen and Jason refit all civilian transport shuttles with close quarters 50 mm ship to ship guns. Hoping that it might give the civilians a chance if they are attacked while transporting them from planet to Ship. Slip space ruptures are everywhere and UNSC ships are exiting them, Admiral Stanforth and his ship “Gilgamesh” are among the first to arrive. Hundreds of UNSC ships are encircling planet Troy. Planet side hundreds of shuttles are exiting the atmosphere and entering UNSC controlled space, at least 1200 shuttles have boarded “The Chimera”, “Gilgamesh”, and “The Medusa”, not to mention at least 60 other UNSC ships. Admiral Stanforth is taking no chances all ships are ready to blast MAC rounds at any unauthorized ships entering UNSC controlled space. 3 hours before ETA of Covenant ships and everyone is on edge. Commander Delgrant is coordinating with Captain Trumann of the Destroyer “Galapagos” about possible escape routes and battle strategies. UNSC ships that are filled with civilians begin leaving the Hellespont System, on route to other more over protected planets such as Sigma Octanus IV of the Sigma Octanus System and Arcadia of the Procyon System. Admiral Stanforth and Commander Delgrant discuss the fate of the remaining civilians on planet Troy.

Commander Delgrant: Sir, this planet has a lot of civilians and if we can’t get them all of this rock then we die trying!

Admiral Stanforth: I’m sorry commander but I will not risk losing an entire fleet like Admiral Cole did to save one damned planet! I’m sorry but I won’t do it.

Commander Delgrant: So you would leave them to die? You heartless-

Lieutenant Jacobson: Sir, unauthorized ship entering the Hellespont System!

Commander Delgrant: Where?

Lieutenant: Jacobson: 300 kilometers off the Star board bow!

Commander Delgrant: Admiral get your ships into formation we are guarding this planet!

Admiral Stanforth: Delgrant if there are too many im jumping to a random vector and I’m ordering you to do the same!

Commander Delgrant: No promises sir!

(3 small Covenant frigates exit slip space and enter into a hail storm of MAC rounds but before they are destroyed, the Destroyer “Gilgamesh” receives a transmission, everyone on all the UNSC ships cheer for a split second before Admiral Stanforth tells them to shut up)

Commander Delgrant: Admiral what is it?

Admiral Stanforth: ATTENTION All UNSC SHIPS: we are leaving the System, more Covenant ships are on the way! The Covenant has sent us a transmission stating that we will pay for our insolence and that thousands of Covenant ships will replace the loss of 3 recon ships.

Commander Delgrant: Sir, I’m staying! Me and the ships that were here before are staying!

Admiral Stanforth: Get your civilians in shuttles and get them back down to the planet. That’s an order Commander!

Commander Delgrant: Sir, yes sir. Lieutenant Jacobson tell all civilians to get back in their shuttles and go back down to the planet.

Lieutenant Jacobson: Sir…..are you sure? I mean we could probably get them to other ships and to safety.

Commander Delgrant: Lieutenant…..just do it…..please.

Lieutenant Jacobson: Yes sir. (Over Intercom) All civilians aboard “The Chimera” please enter your shuttles and return to planet Troy. I am sorry for the inconvenience.

End Scene 1

Opening Scene 2: Owen and Jason watch as 60 civilian shuttles enter planet Troy’s atmosphere and land in different locations. Owen and Jason pray to god the Covenant hasn’t arrived yet.

Owen: Oh god…..has the Cov-

Jason: I don’t think so…they aren’t re-entering the atmosphere erratically. Their organized and calm, which means the Covenant aren’t here yet.

Owen: I’m going to contact Commander Delgrant. (Owen heads to the main base camp and opens a SATCOM link) Commander Delgrant this is Spartan-024 what’s going on up there?

Commander Delgrant: Covenant will be here sooner than expected all the ships the UNSC sent us to help get the civilians out of here are leaving. It’s just me, 10 other ships and the 3 Super MACs, if we fail up here your toast down there! Get your team ready just in case they decide to go groundside.

Owen: Sir, yes sir over and out. Jay! We might have company sooner than expected go check on Angie and Francis make sure rally point beta is up and running!

Jason: On it!

(Owen radios to all nearby Marines)

Owen: Soldiers we may have a lot of company soon I want Rally point Delta up and running I don’t want to be caught off guard. Lieutenant Galbadon what's the status on our ammo and food storages?

Lieutenant Galbadon: Not good Sir we have enough food to last us maybe a week and ammo is little or non-existent. I’m sorry to say that if it weren’t for “The Argo“ being demolished we wouldn’t have any kind of ammunition. We have maybe just enough ammo and weapons to last us 3 days at the most.

Owen: Damn! Jason what's rally point beta’s status?

Jason: (Over comm. channel) It’s up and running but has very limited food and ammunition stores. If the Covenant comes at us full force we won’t stand a chance.

Owen: Shit! What is this planet a completely un-armed rock?! (via SATCOM) Commander Delgrant we need ammunition and food stores down here A.S.A.P

Commander Delgrant: Alight son, I’m sending Sergeant O’Kelly down there with back up and supplies, if we’re caught up here with Marines it will be pointless they’ll just become bodies in space.

Owen: Thank you Sir, and good luck!

Commander Delgrant: You too son….you too, Delgrant out! (SATCOM link is cut)

Owen: Jason what’s your status?

Jason: We’re fine but our radar is either broken or on the fritz cause im not getting any kind of movement. I’m trying to rework it so that I get rid of birds and bugs and other crap like that. I’ll keep you posted.

Owen: You better! Angela how’s it going?

Angela: (Over comm. Channel) Good Me and Francis just got the last of the ammunition off “The Argo” that ship is bone dry.

Owen: Ok keep me posted.

(2 Pelicans start descending towards Owen-024’s position)

Sergeant O’Kelly: This is Bravo 29 requesting permission to land. Can anyone read me? Over.

Owen: I read you Bravo 29 landing site is 10 kilometers south of the green smoke, repeat 10 kilometers south of green smoke.

Sergeant O’Kelly: Thanks I’m landing now! Owen: Good to have you with us Sergeant!

Sergeant O’Kelly: It’s good to be here.

End of Scene 2

Opening Scene 3: Commander Delgrant waits for the inevitable Covenant onslaught and paces back and forth between the Captains chair and the Main view screen. The deck crew is nervous and awaiting orders from Commander Delgrant. An awkward silence runs throughout the ship and out of the blue a slip space rupture bigger than any they’ve seen before appears 600 kilometers of the prow of the ship.

Lieutenant Jacobson: SIR, that slip space rupture is bigger than any ship that the UNSC or the Covenant has……it’s a third party ship!

Commander Delgrant: This is Commander Delgrant ordering all ships to take Aggressive battle stances and have MAC guns at the ready! Get your Longsword Fighters out in space and ready to attack the Covenant Siph fighters!

Captain Trumann: Commander…….good luck!

Commander Delgrant: Good luck to you all! Arianna work with the MAC gun and get it ready to fire on the double!

Arianna: Yes commander! (Types something on an invisible keyboard) Hmm that’s odd…….the MAC gun is offline some how, give me a sec I’ll have this figured out in-

Commander Delgrant: We don’t have a sec! ALL SHIPS FIRE!!

Arianna: (She types something else on an invisible keyboard) There it’s finished fire away Commander!

Commander Delgrant: Lieutenant Jacobson OPEN FIRE!

Lieutenant Jacobson: On it Sir!! Firing MAC round!

(A Covenant ship about the size of Mars exits the slip stream with hundreds of Covenant Cruisers, Frigates, and Capital ships encircling it, All UNSC ships fire MAC rounds at the Covenant ships but only about 7 Covenant ships explode into a haze of hellish fire, The Covenant do not immediately return fire)

Commander Delgrant: What the fuck are they waiting for?

Captain Trumann: (Via SATCVOM) Boarding crafts and a shit load of ‘em!

Commander Delgrant: DAMN! (Speaks into Intercom) All Longsword fighters into position stop those bastards in their tracks!

Arianna: Sir their not boarding crafts! Their ground transports!

Commander Delgrant: God damnit! Get Spartan-024 on the horn, STAT!

(Lieutenant Jacobson immediately starts typing on her keyboard, and within seconds Spartan-024 is on the main view screen)

Owen: This is Spartan-024, what's going on up there?!

Commander Delgrant: Get ready the Covenant are sending hundreds of troop’s your-(Explosion). What in gods name was that?!

Crew member: We’ve been hit! Plasma torpedo, sealing off decks A-C!

Commander Delgrant: Let lose a SHIVA!

Arianna: Sir that will vaporize our own ships!

Commander Delgrant: Their dead anyways Lieutenant Fire the damn SHIVA!

Lieutenant Jacobson: SIR, SHIVA AWAY!

(Longsword fighters and Covenant Siph fighters are destroying one another and before the Covenant Ship Unworthy Descent knows what hit it, it explodes in a flurry of sparks and hellish rain, Longsword Fighters are vaporized along with Covenant ground transports and Siph fighters)

Commander Delgrant: Arianna are the MAC guns ready for another round?!

Arianna: Yes Sir.

Commander Delgrant: All ships FIRE MAC GUNS! TAKE THOSE UGLY SONS OF BITCHES DOWN!

(All UNSC ships fire MAC rounds into the heart of the Covenant fleet, 8 ships explode into a nuclear cloud, The Covenant return fire and destroy the UNSC ship “Achilles” and the UNSC Destroyer “ Common Wealth”, Commander Delgrant watches as they explode into nothing more than twisted metal and nuclear waste)

Commander Delgrant: Dear god…..how many archer pod missiles do we have?!

Lieutenant Jacobson: (Watches the horror of the Covenant Juggernaut, then looks at her moniter) We have all Archer missile pods ready to fire on your command!

Commander Delgrant: fire Archer pods A-F and pray to god they don’t miss!

Lieutenant Jacobson: Archer pod missiles away!

(Fire erupts in space as the Archer pod missiles hit hundreds of Covenant Siph fighters and ground transports)

Commander Delgrant: Captain Trumann, unleash hell! All ships break formation and destroy these Covenant bastards! Show them no mercy!! Arianna I’m sending you planet side the Spartans need you more than me!

Arianna: I’ll do a transmission transfer and put me on a hot link straight down to the planet.

Commander Delgrant: Do it….and keep them safe!

Arianna: The UNSC has lost one of its best Sir. (Data disrupts and her holographic figure disappears)

(Arianna heads down to the planet via a transmission code and all UNSC ships break their formation and engage the Covenant single handedly, 3 Covenant ships crash into each other trying to avoid MAC rounds and erupt into a hellish purple/red fire)

Commander Delgrant: God speed be with you Arianna. (Solutes)

End Scene 3

Opening Scene 4: The Covenant onslaught in space is only compared by the onslaught happening planet side, Grunts litter the ground along with Drones and a few Brutes. The Spartans are having a hard time keeping the Marines in formation and conserving ammo is almost pointless. Lieutenant Galbadon and Sergeant O’Kelly are protecting Alpha base and Rally point Beta, Jason and Francis are defending a group of ODST’s from a Hunter pair, while Owen and Angela stop the Covenant’s advance into a civilian base camp.

Owen: Damn! Is there no end to these things?

Angela: I don’t know but I hope so we have 6 clips left and maybe 3 hand grenades! Have you contacted O’Kelly yet?

Owen: Not yet I’ll do it now! (Enters a secure comm. Channel with Sergeant O’Kelly) O’Kelly do you read me?!

Sergeant O’Kelly: (Gun shots and explosions are heard) Loud and clear 024! What's your status….over?

Owen: Under heavy fire we’re pinned down with civilians can you get to the Pelicans?

Sergeant O’Kelly: One’s been shot to hell, but the other looks intact! I’ll be at your location shortly! Over and Out!

Angela: What’d he say?!

Owen: We’re getting a ride outta here get some civilians on the shuttles and tell them how to work the guns….just in case we run into some Locusts (Anti-Air Tanks) or Banshees!

Angela: Right! (Speaks to civilians) Alright let’s get you into the shuttles! I need you all to be brave and help us stop the Covenant….I need pilots, any takers? (10 people raise their hands) Good now let’s show you the controls!

(Angela spends 5 minutes showing the civilian pilots how to work the guns on the shuttles and how to arm the Archer Pod Missiles)

Angela: You all got it?! (Civilian pilots shake their heads in an up down motion) Good, now get others into the shuttles and when the Pelican arrives-(Explosion right next to Owen knocking him back 6 yards) Oh my god! OWEN! Get into the shuttles and be ready to go when the Pelican gets here! (Angela runs over to Owen) Owen! Are you alright?!

Owen: I’m fine I jumped at the right second! Let’s get the ammo and be ready when O’Kelly gets here!

(Angela loads civilians into shuttles while Owen gives them cover, after about 10 minutes Sergeant O’Kelly shows up with the Pelican and unleashes hell upon the advancing Covenant forces)

Sergeant O’Kelly: (Over comm. Channel) Stay 20 feet away from the door! While I kill the remaining Grunts and Brutes!

(Owen and Angela take cover behind an upturned semi truck; Sergeant O’Kelly launches two missiles at the grunts killing almost half of them and then switches to the chain guns mounted on either wing of the Pelican. All Covenant forces within the vicinity of the civilian base camp are slaughtered)

Sergeant O’Kelly: (Over comm. Channel) Ok lets get going it wont take long for the Covenant to come swarming back over here!

Owen: (Over comm. Channel) On it! Let’s GO!

(The remaining civilians enter the Pelican along with Angela and Owen; it takes little time before Covenant Banshees start attacking the Pelican)

Sergeant O’Kelly: Damn! I knew this was gonna happen! (Over comm. Channel) All shuttles prepare to engage Covenant air vehicles, civilian pilots you have been taught the controls of the shuttles and authorized and ordered to kill any Covenant you see. Good luck everyone! O’Kelly Out!

(50 Covenant Banshees attack the 11 Shuttles and Pelican, the Pelican takes severe damage to incoming plasma torpedoes but the shuttles take only minimal damage and the battle between the Covenant and the Civilians is over quickly, Sergeant O’Kelly and the Spartans barely make it to Rally Point Beta with half a pelican)

Sergeant O’Kelly: (Over comm. Channel) Galbadon? Lieutenant Galbadon do you read me? Over.

Lieutenant Galbadon: I read you loud and clear Sergeant, how did the rescue mission go?

Sergeant O’Kelly: Well the Pelican will never fly again other than that it went off without a hitch. What about you anything happen while I was away?

Lieutenant Galbadon: Spartans S16 and F46 arrived with backup saying that Alpha base is gone we have at the most 600 troops here Sergeant, and the ship A.I Arianna arrived via Transmission transfer and she thinks we should retake Alpha base.

Arianna: Oh don’t be so modest Lieutenant. You thought of the plan! I just worked out the flaws (weak smile) Owen….you need me.

Sergeant O’Kelly: Spartan-024 are you up for the challenge?

Owen: I’m always ready and Arianna I do need your help. Fire Team Bravo! Form up we’re taking back Alpha base!

All the Spartans: SIR YES SIR!

Arianna: Ok yank me and upload me.

(Owen walks over to the holo panel next to the transmission receiver and yanks out a small card that has Arianna’s data on it and shoves it into a slot in the back of his helmet)

Arianna: Hmmm it’s kinda empty in here.

Owen: No funny ideas.

Arianna: Heh me? C’mon don’t you know me better than that?

Angela: Ok you two we have a base to retake!

ODST: Sir requesting permission to aid the Spartans!

Sergeant O’Kelly: Granted! Spartan-024 take good care of these men!

Owen: Grab as much ammo as you need! We’re taking back Alpha base! Spartans and ODST’s: Sir, YES SIR! (Solutes and then goes to work)

(Spartans 024, S16, K59, and F46 along with 6 ODST units along with Arianna travel via Warthog convoy to the now Covenant infested Alpha Base, They have 3 Jackhammer rocket launchers and 12 rockets, Chain guns and ammo, and a bunch of other weapons and ammunition)

Owen: (Warthog wheels on gravel sound in the background) Ok we are here to retake Alpha base and under no circumstances are we to let them discover Rally Point Beta. Am I understood?!

ODST Officer: Sir yes sir! Now what happens if we get overwhelmed?

Jason: Pray to god your death is quick and that the grunts don’t go after your body.

ODST Private: The grunts are g-gonna eat us?

Francis: Nah they won’t eat yah unless they get a taste of your blood in battle.

ODST Private: (Gulps)

Owen: Alright! LOCK AND LOAD!

Angela: Ok snipers with me…..that includes you Private!

ODST Private: Ma’am, yes Ma’am!

(Owen and the rest of Fire Team Bravo prepare for the retaking of Alpha Base, Commander Delgrant and the remaining UNSC ships hold on to their last MAC rounds and pray to god a miracle will happen and reinforcements will come)

End Scene 4

Opening Scene 5: Commander Delgrant is barking orders to the remaining 3 UNSC ships to keep fighting till they die in a blaze of hellish glory. Commander Delgrant, Captain Trumann, and Captain Candelaria are the only remaining Leaders of the UNSC ships “The Chimera”, “Galapagos” and “Gladius”. Commander Delgrant is barking orders left and right. All Super MACs have been reduced to twisted metal and nuclear waste. The Covenant has lost over 200 ships but they still have thousands more. Commander Delgrant is calling on Admiral Stanforth for reinforcements.

Commander Delgrant: Mayday, mayday! This is The Halcyon class Cruiser “The Chimera” requesting reinforcements! We’re being slaughtered up here!

Admiral Stanforth: (On main view screen) Delgrant! What the hell is going on over there!?

Commander Delgrant: Sir, the Covenant is unstoppable, we’ve lost almost all our ships and all 3 Super MACs are gone! We need help-(Explosion, the UNSC ship “Gladius” has collided with A Covenant Cruiser and instantly became a ball of nuclear waste and purple/red fire) Oh my god! SIR, WE NEED REINFORCEMENTS!

Admiral Stanforth: Reinforcements on the way son! Hold out till we get there!

Commander Delgrant: Sir, please hurry!

(The Covenant turn their attention towards a small fleet of Covenant cruisers that have just exited slip space, it appear as if the new Covenant ships are betraying their own kind)

Commander Delgrant: What the hell is going on?! Are they turning on each other?!

Lieutenant Jacobson: Sir, incoming transmission!

Commander Delgrant: Put it through!

(A Covenant Elite appears on the Main view Screen, and Commander Delgrant is not happy with what he sees)

Commander Delgrant: You ugly bastard! How dare you show your face on MY ship!

Elite: Look human! I’m helping you here! I actually care for your race and your struggle! Now do you want help or not?!

Commander Delgrant: (growls) Fine! What's your damn name!?

Elite: I am A’das Medum but in your language I’m called Delilah. I’m a Covenant separatist and I have a small fleet under my command and we want you to win this war!

Commander Delgrant: (Growls) How can I trust you?!

Delilah: I give you my word! We elites are an honorable race and would never go back on our word!

Commander Delgrant: Well then get over here so we don’t accidentally target your ships and destroy them! Captain Trumann we have Covenant Separatists on their way to our location do not engage, I repeat DO NOT ENGAGE!

(Commander Delgrant, Captain Trumann and their new found Separatist allies engage the Covenant ships and are able to hold back the Covenants advance into planet Troy’s orbit)

Commander Delgrant: HAH! Watch ‘em burn! Hey Separatist!

Delilah: What is it?

Commander Delgrant: What's that ship in the back….its huge!

Delilah: It’s Unknown Judgment, the largest Covenant capital city that I know of. If you get within range of its guns…..you’re done for.

(The Covenant Capital City Unknown Judgment opens up a section of its hull preparing to fire a plasma beam)

Commander Delgrant: What the fuck is happening?!

Delilah: Its main cannon is preparing to fire! Hold on I’m going to jam the firing signal!

(Delilah races here fingers across an alien computer to stop the firing signal that is being used to power Unknown Judgment’s main cannon, just as she finishes however 2 plasma torpedoes spray across her ship Unwilling Vengeance boiling away her shield and burning a whole through the hull of her ship)

Elite Captain: Fleet Mistress! 3 hulls have been compromised and are boiling away! I can’t seal off the sections; we have to enter the planets orbit to avoid being wiped out!

Delilah: Do it! I’m not losing this ship to the Prophets!

Elite Captain: As you command!

(Unwilling Vengeance starts it’s slow descend into planet Troy’s atmosphere and just in time as half the ship is burned through, she lands close to where the Spartan’s Alpha base is and all the Covenant soldiers guarding Alpha base run or cower in fear of the Separatist ship)

End scene 5

Opening scene 6: Grunts flee, Jackals cower, and Brutes ready their weapons. Fire Team Bravo look in horror as the Covenant ship hovers above Alpha base and before they know it Commander Delgrant is on SATCOM (Satellite Communication) ordering them not to attack the incoming Covenant troops.

Commander Delgrant: (via SATCOM) Spartans do not engage the Elites….they are with us!

Jason: What do you mean?!

Commander Delgrant: (via SATCOM) The are separatists, If the Elites do not attack you they are on your side! (Explosion) God Damn it! I’m cutting the link we’re under -white noise-

Jason: Commander? COMMANDER?! Damn Owen, we’ve lost the Commander!

Owen: Crap, so what's with the Covenant in the Atmosphere?

Jason: Their Separatists aiding us against the Covenant! It’s what the Com- What the hell?!

(A huge plasma beam erupts from the snout of the Covenant Cruiser; the glassing of Alpha Base begins)

Owen: WHAT'S GOING ON?! We need Alpha Base!!! Get me contact with Delgrant, NOW!

Jason: On it sir! (Opens a link with Commander Delgrant via SATCOM)

Commander Delgrant: (via SATCOM) What?! Who is this?!

Owen: What the hell is going on?! The Separatists are glassing Alpha base!

Commander Delgrant: (Via SATCOM) They have their reasons soldier! Now fall back to Rally Point Beta and help Galbadon and O’Kelly!

Owen: Grrrr, Sir Yes SIR! (Cuts the SATCOM link) Move out back to Rally Point Beta!

ODST Private: B-but sir, what about Alpha Base?!

Owen: We have our orders! Now Fallback, soldier!

ODST Private: (Shoulder his gun) Sir, yes Sir

(Owen, the Spartans, and the ODST squad fall back to rally point Beta to find a larger army of Marines than before)

Owen: Galbadon! Galbadon! Where are you?!

Lieutenant Galbadon: Over here sir!

Owen: What's going on here?

Lieutenant Galbadon: Private Mills arrived with 200 Marines from a base over in West SunRing City; just in time too the Grunts came from the east and overwhelmed our first barricade. Mills was ruthless, he came in guns blazing and blew half the grunts to hell!

Owen: Where is Private Mills?

Lieutenant Galbadon: First barricade, 20 meters east from here! Owen: And Where’s Sergeant O’Kelly?

(Sergeant O’Kelly walks up with a bullet wound to his left leg)

Sergeant O’Kelly: I’m here (Holds his leg) but I need a medic.

Angela: Here’s where I come in. Owen, get to Mills, protect the First barricade!

Owen: Alright, be safe and O’Kelly, good job here.

(Owen walks away, and meets up with Private Mills)

Owen: Private, Private Mills!?

Private Mills: Private First Class Mills reporting for duty Sir!

Owen: What's your situation here?

Private Mills: We’ll these Grunts think that swarming us is gonna work, hell I’ve fought worse, I once fought an army of brutes with only a shotgun 30 rounds and 2 straps of grenades I ran out of ammo in 20 minutes and…well it’s a long story anyways we have everything under control here Sir! Owen: Good work Marine. Now head back to rally point beta so we can contact Delgrant and see what to do next.

Private Mills: Sir, yes sir!

(Owen, Jason, and Private Mills return to Rally Point Beta and set up a SATCOM transmission with Commander Delgrant)

Owen: Sir we have secured rally point beta and are preparing to find a larger base of Operations.

Commander Delgrant: Alright, is everyone with you?

Owen: yes w-wait where’s Francis?

End Scene 6

Opening Scene 7: Francis is standing before a hologram of the Covenant Prophet of Mercy; it appears as if Francis has been captured)

Prophet of Mercy: So you say he did not resist when you captured him?

Brute Chieftain: (Snort) He took off his helmet smiled and answered “Take me away boys”

Prophet of Mercy: Hmm so….human why did you not attack our forces when they captured you?

Francis: Heh I wanted to meet the almighty Covenant leader….of course I had other reasons too.

Prophet of Mercy: And what may I ask were these reason?

Francis: I’m not going to get killed by an enemy that we all know is superior and vicious. I want to join said enemy.

Prophet of Regret: And why should we not kill you now?

Francis: I have every maneuver, plan, schematic, and anything else you want to know.

Brute Chieftain: (Snort, grunt) Heh what makes you think we need-

Prophet of Regret: Silence Oranos, I will make you a deal….human. Swear loyalty to me and we will allow you to live and serve under us.

Francis: Heh consider it done

Oranos: (disaproving Grunt) Human follow me you will wear the armor of a brute. To better suit, the betrayal of your friends.

(A suit of armor made for a newly promoted Brute Chieftain is on an armor rack; Francis takes off his Spartan armor and puts on the brute armor, it molds to his form instantly)

Francis: I am no longer Francis-F46 I am now. (Voice changes dramatically) The Cord!

Oranos: (Snort of approval) Welcome to the Covenant, meat.

(The scene fades and then ends)

End of Scene 7

End Episode 2