Rolm dodge two fighters on his tail. He just got done killing one when they came up behind him.

Must be his pack mates that want revenge

He did rolls and dodges, hoping that a ally would come to his aid. A longsword fighter fire its missile nearby at the two fighters. Doing no damage but weakling their shields as a seraph fighter broke off to engage the new threat. Now Rolm had to deal with one more fighter. As he cont to try to dodge, his ship would take a few hits. Lowering his own shields as he growl. He had a idea, which could work, or could get him killed. He made his ship speed decrease and went upwards to do a back flip sort of trick. The Jiralhanae pilot must still be in rage in killing its pack mate and rush forward. Giving Rolm time to get behind him and open fire with his plasma cannon. Destroying the ship and going off to sneak another battle.

yusnak flies into formation with some freindly fighters and his com crackles on
"right wing move to engage that group of seraphs, left wing move around and flank them"
yusnak taps a button on the controls "understood"
yusnak manuvers into possition behind the group of enemy sheraphs with three other friendly fighters as the rest of this group charges in from the front.
The enemy manage to take out 2 of the frountal assault but are ripped apart his attack on their rear, scoring 3 kills personaly. The flight wing re-groups and moves on to engauge the next target.

Logara and Kopaka stared down the two boarding craft, daring them to open. These things had latched onto the ship as they were on their way to take the fight outside. Now they hid behind their shields in front of one craft while a small collection of allies watched the other.

Both doors opened to the sound of screaming unggoy, the crowd of cannon fodder firing wildly in all directions. Plasma splashed over the lekgolos' shields and they sprayed long beams of plasma back, cutting down their group. A jiralhanae stormed out and fired several rounds from it's brute shot, while several more grunts filled the air with fire. The three explosives bounced off their shields, one hit the wall behind them and lashed their backs with shrapnel and heat.

The pair simultaneously fired incendiary capsules into the fray. Several unggoy and the jiralhanae caught fire and screamed in pain. Kopaka ran into their midst and swiftly brought death upon them with his shield and razor sharp spines. Logara stayed back and fired another capsule into the open door of the craft, lighting any more would-be intruders.

Logan had been the second out of the hangar bay, and had been quickly assaulted by a number of enemy seraphs. Perhaps they could tell which seraph was piloted by who. It would make sense, the Covenant wanted him dead as much as they did John. As far as they were concerned their greatest enemies were the Flood, the Demon, and the Colossus, in that order. Had it not been for some help right out of the gate from Austin, and Jak's cannon fire, Logan would have been toast. He only took out one of that group himself, with a well-placed plasma bolt right through the front view port. The jiralhanae pilot burned to death in the plasma before he ever got a chance to suffocate in the void of space.

Logan proceeded to concentrate fire on a tightly knit group of enemy craft. It was a good formation, with only one major flaw: it made it all too easy to fire on all of them at once. One craft was destroyed, two of the remaining three flew frantically away, badly damaged. The last was unharmed and fearlessly charged Logan. Pulse lasers were exchanged back and forth as Rolm took care of one of the fleeing craft. Both Logan and his enemy proved too good at dodging incoming fire to be taken down. Then, Logan saw something out the corner of his eye and instinct and training triggered the perfect response. Logan suddenly spun his seraph to port and let his enemy sail right through the place he had been a moment ago - where it collided with a perfectly aimed volley of plasma sent by Yusnak, the thing that Logan had seen in his peripheral vision. Logan instantly dispatched the last remaining seraph of that formation with a pulse laser to the engines.

Rolm chuckle which could be heard over the radio. "That was good flying..and good fighting." He headed back to the ship. "Should we head back to the ship Colossus?" He ask Logan. Wondering if they were done or should they stay out in case of another attack.

During the fighting, there had been an exchange of fire between the two capital ships. The sangheili had one again proved superior, aiming better and using better tactics. The enemy ship destroyed and it's squadron of fighters decimated, Logan responded to Rolm's query.

"Nope. Let's go home."

The squad landed in the hangar bay and the ship slid it's way into slipspace. Before they knew it, they were docked with a space station above Earth. While the others rested, Logan spoke, in person, with Lord Hood.

"You did well, Squad Leader. I only wish I could tell the Master Chief of your successes. He would be happy to know that you're okay, and still beating the Covenant senseless."

"Thank you, sir. But you know my standpoint on not telling John about the fact that some of us survived."

"Yes, I do know. And you know that your existence is top secret. And we both know if he knew, he would never be able to keep his mouth shut about it."

"I understand, and will follow your orders. Doesn't mean I have to like it."

"No, it doesn't. But that's enough about that.

Truth's ship has landed on the far side of the planet, near the ruins of New Mombasa. The Master Chief, along with an entire division of Marines, are dirtside right now, trying to stop him finding and activating the ark. I was going to send you down there, but our fears were not fully realized - he survived his little... landing."

"So what do you need us to do, sir?"

"I need you to go on yet another top secret mission. Truth has recently dispatched a squad of soldiers to Earth's capital. We believe he is trying to assassinate Earth's president - or destroy that whole city."

"Sir, that city is the size of Texas. They would need to do a slipspace jump in the atmosphere to do that much damage. Just like how they destroyed Mombasa."

"I know. But Truth is definitely trying to eliminate Earth's governing body. You have to stop them."

"I understand, Sir."

"Dismissed, Logan."

Less than an hour later, the group was once again being grav lifted to the surface from a phantom.

at last, a covert op

yusnak thought as he ran over the map of the mission area again in his head, rmemebering possible vantage points, entrances, exits, escape routes and natural cover. He kept all these thing in mind as he headed to the way point, making note of the geography on the way.

Yusnak go into possition, going prone and using some plants to hid him and covered his beam rifle, which he had sprayed dull gray, in some leaves.

there were several locations nearby where a sniper could take out the target, and he had taken up possition to compliment his team mates so all of the area as possible at all times.

They would be the parrying blade the strikes swiftly at the enemys heart.

Jak smiled as he set up his rifle on the top of a three story building he had climbed. He had chosen a human Rifle this time, simply because he could carry more ammo for it than he could a beam rifle. Also it was silenced, which made the kills all the more satisfying when the target couldn't even hear the bullet coming. He smiled at the thought of a patrol or scout team coming by and dying before they even new what happened. "Snipers in position." He said over the comlink

The lekgolo lifted their arms as a couple of unggoy wrapped dark cloth around their bright orange flesh. They were against the idea, but Logan took a bold chance and threatened the massive warriors to leave them from the mission. A few of the former Covenant had backed away in the tense seconds before Logara grudgingly agreed. Now the snorting little unggoy were scurrying around and climbing on them frantically trying to finish.

Not as quickly as they would have liked their necks, torso, glowing cannons, and any noisy joints were covered and padded. I will take the front. Kopaka sent to Logara. Crush the false prophets' puppets. Logara replied, and moved to the back of the group.

Austin stepped up beside Logan, an M7S Caseless SMG in each hand.

For this mission, he had chosen the two silenced SMGs, a CQCWS knife attached to his chestplate, and a pair of M6C/SOCOM "Automag" pistols.

"Ready to roll, sir."

After staring down Logara, one of the only two creatures in this group larger than him, and not by much, Logan had donned his favorite gear ever. Solid black, and employing an advanced version of typical Covenant active camouflage, this specially modified Mark VI MJOLNIR armor was the best armor system known to either mankind or the Covenant. Logan flexed and moved his limbs, observing with satisfaction the fluid darkness of the motion. He engaged active camouflage, and became almost perfectly invisible. He strode forward in a relaxed fashion beside Jeff, who gave a hilariously huge start when Logan said, in a shockingly good Hannibal Lecter impersonation, "hello, Clarice." Now that they were on the surface, however, the fun was over.

Logan sighted through the scope of electromagnetic stanchion rifle, which employed the same technology as MAC guns, propelling rounds at hypersonic speeds and needlepoint accuracy. Logan had elected to bring his favorite weapon, a rocket launcher, just in case he needed it. The miniature WMD was strapped across his back. Scanning constantly, Logan was the first to see the enemy, a small pack of jiralhanae, twelve in number, accompanied of course by several kig-yar and unggoy. The incredible range of the weapon in his hand let him see the enemies in fine detail from a range over two hundred meters greater than motion tracker range.

"Hostiles inbound. Unconfirmed, either scouting party or assassin squad, hard to tell. Yusnak, scout 'em, see if you can figure out if that's them or just scouts. Everyone, hold your fire until we have more intel."

yusnak scoped in and examined the group, the kig-yar seemed to be carrying beam rifles and the jiralhanae equiped with stealth veriants of the brute armor

"looks like their here for your leaders head demon, i think we have our assination squad. Looks like the kig-yar are moving to higher possition in the building opposite the target with snipers and the jiralhanae are moving towards the main building with the unggoy. Jak and I can take out the snipers we'll leave the others to the rest of you."

"Alright, men, here's what we'll do."

Over the course of about a minute as the enemy continued to advance, Logan issued his orders. Once all orders were given and carried out, the group were arranged in a semicircle, fanning out about seventy meters wide. The semicircle was concave as it faced the incoming hostiles; when the Covenant assassin squad advanced far enough, they would reach the widest part first. That was the moment Logan had ordered them all to wait for to open fire. All except for the lekgolo pair. They were waiting in flanking positions at the edge of the formation, waiting to close in behind the Covenant forces and trap them in. The team waited silently as the assassin squad closed the distance...

yusnak started to predict the paths of his targets as he followed them with his gun, if he timed it right he might be able to get 2 at once. He hovered his retical over a kig-yar's head, the moment the word was given he would give him a drastic make over.

Marius cocked his gun and silently waited in preparation for Logan's orders, he did not like waiting.

"Taking orders from a demon of all things, this is ridiculous!" Marius muttered under his breath, "How long must we wait?"

Logara crouched down as low as possible behind cover. The wall he was behind was only 7' high, so he found himself leaning against his shield with his spines pressed hard against his back. The demon will answer for this. Later.

Kopaka had the better hiding place. On the other side of the formation was a billboard that easily hid his bulk. He peeked out and saw the assembled Jiralhanae moving directly into the trap. He watched them move between him and his brother, then past the enclosure that Logara was behind. You can move closer now. Stay low and they will not see you.

Moving on all fours, Logara slowly closed the gap between him and the squad. There was a building between him and the snipers, so he only moved to the point where they would not see. Kopaka had no such luck, he was stuck in hiding until the fight broke out.

At long last, the last of the formation, a pair of unggoy, entered the semi-circle, just inside of Logara's position. Logan whispered into his mike.

"Alright, line up shots and coordinate attack on the front of the group. Kopaka, Logara, close in behind. Countdown to open fire: three... two... one..."

As one, the group fired. Logan's electromagnetic stanchion rifle cracked and sent a round into the dirt, a path twenty feet deep and over a hundred feet long, right after traveling through a kig-yar's head.

Muffled coughs filled the air as bursts from Austins silenced SMGs raked across the Covenant group. Two Unggoy fell, peppered with rounds.

A Kig-Yar screeched as it rolled aside, a shot nicking its arm and forcing it to drop its carbine.

yusnak pulled the trigger, taking off a kig-yars face just as the one behind him activates his shield causing his shot to reflect away into the side jiralhanae's head. The assassin squad fire towards some of the group, blindly spraying in their panic. Yusnak sustained his fire, taking out one enemy after another, only moving occationaly out of the way of a stray shot.

lambs to the slaughter

Jak reloaded his third clip. He had dropped four Unggoy and a couple of Jiralhanae each kill he marked on the rifle with his knife. Jak liked the humans rifle a lot. This is too easy. he thought positioning him self further away from the edge to avoid the burst of plasma fire.

Logara positioned himself behind the group, hiding behind his shield as much for protection from his own teams fire as for deflecting fleeing Unggoy and Jiralhanae. A half minute passed before Kopaka sprinted the distance between them and crouched nearby.

Though they were protected from the front, snipers had a wide open view of them. A shot from a beam rifle glanced Kopaka's shoulder, then another hit his neck. He swung around and raised his cannon, ignoring the pair of unggoy that scurried under him. As he found his target, a muffled crack sounded, followed by a spray of blood and his target falling to the ground. Very well.

He spun around again with his shield outstretched, sending several unggoy flying that had tried to sneak past and rupturing their methane tanks.

There was disarray at first, the opening rounds of fire sent the Covenant squad into a panic. But the plan went perfectly, Kopaka and Logara did their part quite well, blocking any escape and even taking a number of the assassins out in the process. After a moment, the group's fire combined with the lekgolos' blocking, got the remainder of the squad into a tightly knit group. It was then that Kopaka and Logara opened fire with their fuel rod cannons, burning all the remaining Covenant assassins as one.

"Alright, everybody, good work. Keep alert, though, we can't expect that to be all of them."

Austin ducked behind cover, and reloaded his SMGs.

"Uh, Logan?"

He gulped, as he noticed a cluster of red on his motion tracker.

"There's another squad, it's in the city..."

"All this to save your pathetic leaders." Logara said as started to trot deeper into the city. Kopaka stayed right next to him, making sure to keep close to the buildings. Do not complain about this opportunity. We get to kill many of the pawns today.

yusnak flew over to the group
"i will move ahead and inform you of the possitions of the enemy we havent seen and any civilians"
yusnak activates his active camo and flies towards the inner city and the enemys moving that are moving in