Halo: When worlds collide chapter 5

1855 Hours,April 23,2530(Military calender)
Eridanus star system, Eridanus 2, Luxor

      Matt sat on the back of the transport hog as it fowled the others to the space port. He had short  black hair and green eyes. He wore a green T-shirt with a brown leather jacket over it and a pair of blue jeans. He looked to his left and saw his friend Ryan. He had short brown hair and brown eyes. He wore a black t-shirt and a pair of gray shorts. He had a worried expression on his face. He looked to his right and saw his other friend Amanda with the same expression. She had long black hair, purple eyes, and she wore a purple T-shirt, yellow and purple striped socks, and a black skirt that went down to her knees. They have bean his friends for as long as he could remember and the three of them weren't liked at school, but Matt had the worst of it even before he lost his parents. Ever scene the Covenant attack started it was all he could think about, "why does my life suck so much?" He asked himself. It felt like the longer he lived the crapper his life got and he was surprised he's never thought of suicide. He looked at his friends and hoped that they wont have to lose their parents like he did. He looked to the front of the warthog, Rick was driving with one of the Spartans riding shotgun. "Where were they when harvest got hit?" he said to himself.
      Ryan looked at Matt and said "that was at the beginning of the war, and you don't know if they were there or not."
      "Hes right Matt." Amanda said "try to not think about it. It doesn't help."
      Amanda was always the one who reminded him of that when he got depressed "thanks" Matt said. He looked up and saw the space port half a mile away "lets hope nothing happens before we get there."
      After he said that he heard the Spartan yell "Incoming!" Matt looked up and saw a Covenant drop ship falling from the sky and crashed in front of the convoy of warthogs.
      When the purple smoke cleared the road was completely blocked of "Now what?" Rick asked sounding a little agitated.
      John looked around and saw a construction site to the left of the road "we go on foot from hear." he said and and started waking to the site. "Spartans, take point, Marines guard the rear flank."
      Everyone got out of the hogs and followed him. Fred waked to the modified transport hog and ripped the turret of its tripod. "We don't want to leave this behind." he joked and returned to the other Spartans.
      John and Kelly walked to the building seeing that the only exit was blocked of by smaller pieces of the drop ship. John started to lift pieces up and tossing them aside and Kelly started to do the same.
      Matt followed the others In to the building and saw dead construction workers. Next to one he saw a nail gun with 10 clips next to it, he piked it up and slid a clip in. while its purpose is to put nails in walls, he knew how to use it as a weapon. It had a simple safety system, it wont fire unless if  there is pressure on the sort barrel, all he needs to do is pule it back and he can use it on unarmored targets like the heads of Grunts and maybe Jackals if he can get around the energy shield gauntlet they have on there wrists. He started to put the spare clips in his pockets when Rick asked "what are you doing?"
      Matt turned to him and said "I can use this to take down weak targets."
      "And you're going to make yourself a target in the proses."
      "I'm not sure if you noticed but I already am a target. The Covenant want us all dead, it doesn't mater to them if I am armed or not, so I should be able to defend myself."
      Corneal Potter walked up to Rick "He does Have a point Major. It might not do much but it will help." He turned to Matt "Nice work thinking outside the box, you might make a good marine some day."
      John finished clearing out the exit than walked in to another room "all clear." he said and everyone followed him
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      Nixie walked across the bridge and saw Zemya's Shop, she walked in and saw shelves with different supplies, from throwing disks to pickaxes. Next to one of the shelves he saw a black Matoran waring a black Hau mask. "are you Zemya?" she asked.
      "yes, what can I help you with?" he replied.
      "I need a crystal for my telescope"
      "Ah, then you are in luck" he said "we just got a new shipment from the mines" he turned to a shelve and picked up a black case. He opened it showing 5 crystals just the right size for the telescope  "is this what you need?"
      Nixie examined the crystals, they were perfect, and the best part was that she didn't need to wait for them to be mined. she would be able to get back to Ga-Koro by morning "yes, how much?"
      "25 widgets."
      She handed 25 widgets to Zemya who handed her the case "thank you" she put the case in her backpack and put it back on her back.
      "you're welcome" he said.
      Nixie walked out of the shop and headed back to the tunnel and back to the surface.
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1857 Hours,April 23,2530(Military calender)
Eridanus star system, Eridanus 2, Luxor

      Matt followed the others through the construction site with his nail gun at the reedy. He wasn't sure if he would actually fight or run for cover but he was reedy to find out. The Spartan with green armor raised his fist singling them to stop. He turned to them and said "were detecting moment in the next room, wait hear until I give you the signal to move in." he looked to the other Spartans "you two stay hear as well."
      Both of them said "yes sir, Master Chief."
      John walked in and looked around. He saw nothing but his motion tracker was picking up one contact, but it wasn't in the room. He was about to tell the others to move up when a purple pillion fell through the roof crashing in the center of the room. It lit up a little seating up a energy barer. He looked around, the only way was up but he can't jump high enough. He heard a Phantom drop ship coming close and then heard it fire its plasma cannons destroying the roof. The drop ship hovered over the room and activated its gravity lift dropping one Elite then leaving. The Elite was waring gold armor and held a energy sword in one hand and what John thought was a new kind of grenade in the other. It tossed it at him and he got away from it. The Elite started speaking in its own language but switched to English. "whats wrong demon? Cant catch a sword?" It said in a mocking tone.
      John piked up the energy sword handle, he found a button on it and pushed it activating the two energy blades. "Does the Covenant always provide the enemy with weapons, or is this my lucky day?"
      "you fool, this is about honer, when I kill you in a duel then I will reclaim what I have lost."
      "I can see why you would be low on that, Glassing planets isn't that honorable" he brought his Energy sword up at a definitive position, his training never covered this kind of weapon and he wasn't sure if this would end well.
      "you're destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument's, it is the most honorable thing I can do." it charged at John and swung its sword but John blocked it. It drew back its sword and swung it again and John blocked. He did a barrel role getting to its blind side and swung his blade but it was blocked. He used his free hand to punch it in the face draining its shields. Before he could react, the Elite raised its massive foot kicking him dead center of the chest sending John flying in to the energy barer. The impact drained his shields and he fell to the floor. While he was getting up the Elite waked to him with his sword raised. It was about to swing it but felt something like six small daggers on its neck. The pain went away and it turned to see what it was.
      John looked up two seeing a parrot hovering just out of the Elites range, it was green with some red on the tips of the wings and some yellow and blue on the head. To both of their surprise it spoke "hello hinge-head, how goes the war?" it asked in a mocking tone.
      The Elite looked at its talons seeing a purple liquid on it "how dare you spill my blood ill-"
      Before it could finish John ran up behind it and jabbed his sword right in to its back and the alien fell down, he jabbed it again to make sure it was dead and then took out a grenade and tossed it at the pillion. After it detonated the barrier fell and then he looked back at the group "the movement is in the next room, lets go."
      Matt followed the others in to the room and looked up at the parrot "Jack?"
      "Did ya miss me?" the parrot flew down and perched on his shoulder. He looked around and saw that The other civilians and some of the marines were just staring at Jack  "what?" he asked "you never seen an unusually smart bird before?"
      Matt looked at him "Jack, I think you just blue there minds." The Spartans moved into the next room and Matt herd gunshots.
      One of them said "all clear." and the group followed them out of the building. In the distance they saw the space port, under attack and the shuttle exploded. A spartan got on his helmet radio "UNSC Powhatan this is-"
      "don't call the ship, that will take to long" Potter got on his radio "staff Sargent we need extraction on the double." he got a response and turned to the Spartans "four Pelicans are coming, ETA twenty minutes."
      "Move the civilians back inside" John said raising his smg's "hostiles inbound."