- MLG Cheehwawa
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- Fabled Mythic Member
He escaped in a Pelican with an ONI operative, an ODST, and a pilot. They link up with the Chief's Longsword and board a Covenant ship, commandeer it, and go to Reach. At Reach, Fred and co. have discovered a Forerunner crystal which the Covenant are after. Here they rescue Fred, Kelly, Will, Anton, Grace, Li (Spartan-IIs), Whitcomb, and Dr. Halsey. Cortana links the damaged Covenant ship up with a damaged human ship, to allow for more effective slipspace jumps. In Slipspace, the Covenant attack, and the pelican pilot, Anton, and Li are killed. They go to a rebel-controlled asteroid belt for repairs.
Dr. Halsey sedates Kelly and steals a ship and heads for Onyx. The Covenant arrive and a battle occurs, and they flee once more (the rebels decided to stay in the asteroid belt). Cortana detects a large Covenant force (500 ships) gathering at a space station, the Unyielding Hierophant, apparently to go to Earth (they do not know it's our homeworld). The Spartans assault the space station and cause its reactors to overload.
They escape, though Grace has been KIA by a Brute. They go back to the human ship, which has been given the Covenant slipspace drive. Whitcomb and the ONI operative take the Covenant ship and drift close to the station, telling the Covenant if they want the artifact from Reach, they have to come get it, displaying a hologram of it to the aliens.
The fleet pushes in toward the still ship, and the space station explodes, destroying all but about 12 ships, which are most likely some of the ships which came to Earth in H2 looking for the Ark portal.