Halo: First Strike: Difference between revisions

While out in space, [[Master Chief]] and [[Cortana]]. Along with the last survivors of [[Installation 04]]. [[Sergeant Johnson]] finds out that one of the cryotubes, that Master Chief found is a SPARTAN-II. The Spartan happens to be [[Linda-058]]. While in the [[pelican]] the Master Chief strips off some pieces from the pelican, to put reinforce a [[Covenant dropship]] they're going to use. As they walk into the hanger of the ''Ascendant Justice'', the two men (Master Chief and Sgt.Johnson) witness [[Polaski]] practicing how to drive a Covenant dropship. As they enter [[Reach]] in real space, they see what has happened to it after the Covenant glassed the planet. They move the flagship closer as they that, during glassing that the Covenant "missed" a spot. The small fleet consisting of a dozen cruisers,two assault carriers and three squadrons of [[seraph]]s, ask why a flagship is at Reach. While on the ship the survivors hear a UNSC E-band. The E-band is "Oly Oly Oxen Free". No one on the bridge recognizes it, but only the Master Chief understood it. The section then returns to the year July 14, 2523. The memory plays the time when the Spartans played [[capture the flag]] against [[Tango Company]]. Back on Ascendant Justice the human crew debate whether they should go down to Reach in the reinforced covenant dropship. Cortana looks around to see a spot in which can be a extraction site to pick up the people going down to Reach. On the way down cruisers start to surround them in their dropship. They find a canyon with some movement in it. Before landing Master Chief says the code for "Oly Oly Oxen Free" and says to land them in a safe spot where the survivors would find them. The Chief wanders out alone to see if there is a trap and if there is he wants to trigger it. Haverson backs him up. At the bottom of the ramp Chief senses a single signal. The friend-or-foe tag wasn't working, so the signal isn't working. Chief drew his pistol and turned to see it was a Spartan. The Spartan was Anton-044 who led the Master Chief to the entrance of a cavern where two Spartans, Grace-093 and Li-008 were operating chainguns that were bolted to the sides two boulders. Master Chief and Anton followed by Grace went into the cavern where a person in navy outfit, Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb was standing at foldout card table which was the headquarters for Camp Independence. Admiral Whitcomb asked why Master Chief was here instead of a mission with Captain Keys deep in Covenant territory. Master Chief told him about the events that happened in Halo Combat Evolved, and while he was telling the story  Haverson and the others from the dropship arrived. Haverson asked Whitcomb how he was alive and he told Haverson that while everyone was evacuating he had stay behind because the UNSC was working on a new bomb called a Nova. Whitcomb armed the Novas with failsafe tampering detonators and a start a countdown timer. Whitcomb had a team of Marines, Charlie Company, to help arm the Novas, but they were wiped out, but he then saw Red Team on coded COM and asked to borrow a few Spartans, who armed the Novas and give the Covenant trouble with hit-and-run exercises. The rest of the Red Team where trapped underground in tunnels beneath the mountain where the CASTLE facility was. They used a Covenant dropship to rescue the remaining Red Team. They entered a huge cavern filled with about hundred Covenant forces containing few Elites, Jackals, and mostly Grunts that were clearing a cave-in. They landed the dropship a half a kilometer away from the Covenant forces. They destroyed the Covenant forces and three Spartans, Kelly, Fred, and Will, emerged from cover. Whitcomb asked if that was everyone and Fred replied that was one more. That person turned out to be Dr. Halsey who was holding a fist-sized crystal. They were about to leave when they detected Covenant forces. They were surrounded by thousands of Covenant forces on each of the 12 levels of the gallery, and crowding the balconies were Grunts, Jackals, Elites and several pairs of Hunters. They all prepared to open fire on them and then a Hunter pair roared with range and aimed their weapons at the Master Chief and his team and opened fired with the rest of the Covenant forces opening fire a split second later. Back in space the Ascendant Justice emerged from slipspace into a frozen Oort cloud to hide from the  Covenant forces because they knew that the Ascendent Justice wasn't one of theirs. Cortana eavesdropped on the  data streams of the Covenant by using the dissected Covenant AI to help. Cortana discovered that the Covenant forces were heading to Earth.