The pair huddled together, overlapping their shields, and rushed forward. Only about a half-dozen of them remained. Kopaka fired a shot into the fray, blasting a jiralhanae into the air and breaking down the shields of a few others.

Jeff replaced his assault rifle and pulled out his battle rifle. Bringing the sights up he began providing covering fire for the group, while making sure nothing could got close to the wounded Spartan. Austin was right, there was nothing they could do for now. He was unconscious anyways so giving him some painkillers would be near pointless.

He had to be careful not to hit his own allies, but he managed to pick off a Brute who's shield had been taken down by the Hunters' blast. "I think he looks a bit better with that new hole in his head!" Jeff joined in yelling insults at the opposing Covenant, it helped raise moral, and Jeff had to admit it helped release some tension.

Yusnak came out of cover and shot another shieldless brute though the head.
"I think you've started a trend human!" yusnak chitterd happily

At once, the two gave a huge shove. The few living brutes were crushed into the corner of the room, managing to fire off a few shots but not effectively. All that was left was for the group to finish them off.

yusnak primed a plasma grenade and threw it into the group of brutes, getting a flying run up for the extra distance, making them a seared pile of useless flesh and bone with the putrid smell of singed fur rising from the morbid heap. If the blistering heat and concusive force hadnt killed them then they would soon sufficate on the smoldering remains of their fallen comrads.

"clear."said yusnak flatly "We should keep moving. Can anyone carry the demon?"

Austin walked over to Logan.

"I don't know, if we try to move him too much we might do even more damage. See anything we could use as a stretcher?"

((srry i havent been on for a while, where do you guys want me to come in?))

Logara grunted and went over to Logan. "I'll stay with him. I can't do much good right now," he said, referring to his burned off arm, "so finish the mission and come back. I can carry him out when the time comes."

Logara grunted and went over to Logan. "I'll carry him out. You will have to protect us." He hissed out that word, as if unwilling to say it.

He placed his shield flat on the ground like a stretcher. Austin and several others carefully lifted Logan off the ground, trying not to move him around too much. Logara slid his shield underneath and they laid down the ton of Spartan and armor as carefully as they could manage. Logara lifted him with seemingly no effort.

Jason walked down the narrow corridor to the hanger bay. He was supposed to be meeting his new team there and there was supposidly two spartans in the group. Jason hadnt seen another spartan since he had last seen John, and that had been almost two years ago. Jason turned the corner and found that the door into the hanger bay was already open, so he just walked through and sat down on a stool off to the right side, waiting for his new team to arrive.

Austin peeked out of the room, before signalling all clear.

"Alright, let's get out of here quick."

He let the ODST's go first, and slowed his pace to walk alongside Logara.

"let get moving then" yusnak said activating his cammo "i will scout ahead and inform you of any civilians,"yusnak hurrys away into the shadows "see you back at the ship."

"Docking bay doors opening, standby."

The voice came in over the phantom's interior speakers from the control room of Lord Hood's spacestation. The doors of the hangar bay opened.

"Phanton 219, you are cleared for landing in Hangar Bay Seven. Welcome back, AMS Squad One."

The pilot carefully put the the phantom down and the team piled out.

"Alright, guys, go get him."

The speaker was Doctor Catherine Halsey, the creator of the Spartans, she directed the medical team standing beside her into the dropship to retrieve Logan, still suspended in it's stasis field to keep him from moving and furthering his injuries. Austin walked up to her.

"It's good to see you again, ma'am. Is it all ready for him?"

"Yes, his replacement bones and organs are all in order. And it's good to see you, to Austin."

Austin was about to question how she recognized him in his armor, identical to all MJOLNIR Mark VI suits, but then he remembered that she knew them all well and somehow always knew them apart.

"Ma'am, we have him."

The medical team had returned, carefully navigating the single largest stretcher any of the team had ever seen.

"Okay, let's get him to Emergency One and get to work on getting that armor off."

With that, Doctor Halsey and her medical team hastened away.

Jason was there when the phantom flew into the hanger bay, and was there when they rushed a Spartan away. He couldnt tell who the spartan was because they had rushed him away before he had gotten a chance to look at him. Jason walked quickly over to his new team and saw that they werent all human, two were hunters, one a drone, another an elite, there was the other Spartan who he knew as austin, and two ODST members. "Hello, i was assigned to your squad so i figured introductions were in order. My name is Jason or Spartan #75. What happened to the other spartan, Austin?" Jason saw that the drone had flown away from the other group but didnt try and stop him, he had no like for the aliens and he was sure they felt the same about him.

Jak snorted at the approach of the human. He barely like the ones he was with and even then the only one was the Colossus. He headed strait for the Amory. When he got there he picked up more ammo for his rifle and needler. He walked back to his room a laid down on the bed and soon fell asleep.

yusnak over heard the new addtion to the team and intercepted, now out of cammo as they were now on the space station.

"he was injured badly by a cheiftain during the fight demon. but a warrior that tenatious will recover soon enough, im sure of it."

Jeff walked out of the phantom releasing the safety clips on his helmet and pulling it off. He wiped his other hand through his hair as he looked at the newcomer. Another Spartan, they were just crawling out of the woodwork.

He hadn't known that there were so many Spartans still around, up until this mission he had only heard of Master Chief but he guessed that was the point, secrecy. Kept from both the public and the Covenant. He wasn't so sure he agreed with the first one, Spartans boosted moral. To know that there were this many still alive would give the humans more hope in this war. It wasn't his call though, he was just a grunt.

He switched his helmet to his left hand and extended his right toward the Spartan. "Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Melanson. Its good to have you along, Sir."

"A pleasure to be an addition to this team." Jason said with a nod. Jason turned from teh Staff Sergent and turned back to face Austin waiting for his reply.

Kopaka and Logara stayed long enough to see the newcomer, then left on their own business.
You need repair.
Most of my armor is unfit. I lost many lekgolo.
The chieftain deserved to burn. You will need a transplant.
I will need much more.

The pair moved deep into the space station. As usual, any beings they met parted in front of them and gave a wide berth. After a few minutes, they arrived in a room more closely resembling a garage than a hospital. Several humans and huragok populated the room, working on various machines of both human and covenant make. Logara gave a low pitched buzz to announce his presence and the workers looked up.

A human rushed over to them. "What is it you need?" he asked, ineffectively concealing his fear of them.

"A new cannon," Logara rumbled, "and more lekgolo and replacement armor."

The tech turned and whistled, summoning a huragok. He made a few hand gestures to it and it started separating Logara's chest armor from his body. The tech then ran across the room and loaded a purple alloy barrel and fuel-rod cannon onto a rolling dolley. He spoke with another person who hurried to a back room.

"You're armor is on the way." He said, bringing the dolley to a stop. "Here is the transplant and cannon." He opened the barrel and revealed a mass of orange eels. The huragok finished with the chest piece and it noisily fell to the floor. Logara leaned over to the crate and a column of the worms reached for his shoulder, stuck in, then separated from the crate. He sunk the new arm into the cannon and picked it up just as a new chest piece arrived.

"If you don't mind me asking, what happened to the old cannon." The tech asked sheepishly, attaching the chest piece to a ceiling winch. Logara buzzed quietly, considering ignoring him, then remembered talking to Logan about acceptance of humans. They may talk too much, but they don't mean any harm by it

"A brute hit it with his gravity hammer. It exploded." He said. They quickly attached the armor to his chest and backed away.

"its good to have another warrior of your caliber in our team, im sure you'll be invalubale"

yusnak said extending a claw

"Thank you..." Jason said extending his hand to the drone.

"Unngh... how am I, Doc?"

Doctor halsey looked down at Logan over her pad.

"Well, you just woke up through your anesthesia."

"So... still strong, then..."

"Yes, but you do still need some new bones and organs," she said as she hooked up a new bag of anesthesia to his I.V., shaking her head at the fact that he could still surprise her with how tough he was.

"Just... put 'em on... my tab..."

She smiled at him despite how worried she was.

"Relax. Let the anesthesia work."

"Okay... you always... knew... best..."

Logan's eyes closed once again and he knew only blissful dreams of Krystal.

Jak sat up in his bed. "Need...food." He grumbled. He washed his face in the sink in his room and headed off for the mess hall.

yusnak gave jason a firm hand/claw shake
"well if you'll excuse me i must rest, it has been a long day"

yusnak buzzed off to his quaters.

Austin walked past Jason and Yusnak.

"Have it your way, I'm going to grab some food at the mess."

Jason watched as the drone flew off to its sleeping quarters, and Austin walked off to the mess hall. He had grabbed food earlier, so he didnt need any now. He was ready for a fight, but it seemed like everyone was tired from the last mission and Jason didnt want to anger anyone by suggesting another mission so soon...especially since he was new to the team. He decided to go check on the wounded spartan, whom he still didnt know the name of, and judgeing by the state of his injuries he would be in the hospital wing. He started off in that direction to see what spartan it was.