Savior From The Stars: Part 2

Chapter one

David smiled as he looked down at his son walking from his mom Luna, to his grandma, Celestia, though she preferred "grandma Celesti." Now that Luna gotten use to Celestia being her mom, Celestia had started joking about "putting her on the time out moon again." David, of course got a kick out of it, even if it meant sleeping on the couch, it was still worth the laugh.

Stretching as he stood up, David thought for a second, it had been at least five years since he had arrived, and in that time David had convinced Celestia, with a great deal of help from the Liberty's data banks, showing her what the Covenant did to human civilizations, and was given permission to repair the Liberty, and put her in orbit behind the moon. There was a surprising lack of damage, and almost nothing needed repaired or replaced.

The defense system he had set up was simple enough. David had a watch rigged to alert if a transmission or an object that was non-natural, entered the solar system.

Equis had entered the gunpowder age due to the Minotairian war, but David made sure to keep most of the twenty first century tech he used in combat out of the reach of Equis, aside from the medical knowledge.

Smiling at Nexus, David's mind wondered back to when he convinced Celestia to allow him to re-commission the liberty, and why.

-two years post minotaur war-

David sat while drumming his fingers on a table, he was in his dress uniform to show how serious he was.

It had been two years, and the peace was unsettling, but after all the years of his race barely holding on to survival, he had to do something.

Celestia stepped in a David stood with a salute. "Good afternoon Tia, I needed to talk to you about something. Remember, how my race was at war with an alien race before humans arrived back on earth?"

Celestia only nodded.

"Well, let me explain how it all started, at least, for me" David said looking down.

-Bootcamp-

Another one of David's squad mates exploded in a red mist, falling to the ground. "Shit! Johnson!" David yelled as his buddy was hit, red blips surrounded him on his HUD that was displayed on his ONI designed visor, as well as a nearly empty clip on both his DMR and his sniper rifle.

Crawling over to his unmoving friend, David took two DMR clips off his friend and switched to his sniper. Turning on his target designator display, a red shape was running at him, and fast.

David aimed, fired off a round, hitting the target and causing its active camo to deactivate and it to fall forward. The shape was mark v armor, a spartan. ~One down~ David thought throwing his sniper down, and grabbed his DMR, since the other target were not that far away, standing and taking aim he heard a click behind him. Freezing David slumped his soldiers knowing the inevitable.

"Nice try scrub, but you lost" a loud boom and sudden pain entered his lower neck before his armor froze and he fell.

"Armor lock deactivated, ODST squad, Beta, lasted three minutes, twenty two seconds of five minutes. One of three simulated hostile commander eliminated." A voice said on a speaker.

"This simulation is a failure, ODST team beta return to base for debrief" a male voice said, clearly irritated.

"Which means ass chewing and getting PT-ed our asses off" Johnson said as he sat up "but nice shot there Smith" Johnson said looking at his armor "damn those Spartans are good shots, five rounds, all in an one inch area, from over one hundred and fifty yards out." he said looking at the red paint.

"Shit, I can't believe we lasted even as long as we did" David said as he stared standing up before a hand grabbed him, lifted him off the ground and a strong hand slapped his back."

"Hey scrub, nice shot" the spartan said with red paint still on her helmet. "Almost as good as a spartan, almost." She said walking off.

"I can believe you took his round in your face, bow chicka wow wow." The male spartan said with a snicker.

"Oh shut it Tucker" the female said taking off her helmet, her skin was pale white, as was her hair. David's heart skipped a beat when he saw her.

"I think you just got a thing for hell jumpers Cal" tucker retorted.

"Cal! New orders" the CO said.

"Yes Sir!" Cal responded before replacing her helmet, it would be the last time David would see her.

After a few more months of training, David and his squad where now graduates, and full fledged ODST troopers. While in the mess hall, news got to David, his brother Jason and their friends in the mess hall of the fall of Harvest to the Covenant.

The CO was standing in the room, close to the ODST's table. "And that's what's going on, less then twenty four hours, and Harvest fell." He said, looking as if saying that one thing aged him at least a decade.

"Shit, if these damn things can attack Harvest, what's stopping them from attack here?" One of David's buddy's said. "Smith, Henderson, what do you guys think?"

"Shit, it's an ugly mess, I heard not a single soul survived the attack" he said shaking. "Looks like the'll be reinforcing Reach and Earth now" David said.

"No shit, lets hope you'll be okay here on Reach bro" Jason said. "I'm being sent to the Liberty as extra security."

"And im getting sent to orbital defense. If these fuckers invade Reach, im going to the front, and put my boot up some damn split jawed ass! Fucking Feet first into hell" David said with enthusiasm, earning a 'hoorah' from his fellow ODST's.

Another soldier pipped up "just give me a gun, I'll take out an entire covey corvette by myself" this got laughs from the soldiers in the room, except David, who couldn't get the images the young cadets, barely trained to fighting, and dying against elites.

"So sir, how many survivors actually got off Harvest? I heard a rumor three cadets where pulled out by a special forces, was it one of our guys?" Johnson asked.

"No ODST could make that rescue op." the CO said "it was a Spartan Team"

-present

"So, the covenant started the war with humans? But why attack civilians?" Celestia asked, her ears flatted.

"Well, to the covies, humans are a virus, worthless and need to be exterminated, it doesn't matter age our gender, they killed all humans."

"I see, then yes, you may repair the Liberty and put up a defense system" Celestia said with a smile.

"Thank you Tia" he said as he stood and gave her a hug. He then sat down with a sigh of relief, step one down, step two, get the ship in shape.

-present day-

David was doing a routine systems check onboard the Liberty, when alarms started to sound throughout the the command deck of liberty.

David ran over to a terminal the second he could and heard a static message "th...is the UN...A.I. Cor..na,.. Sur... ors in..lu..e one a.i. and.on...spartan...eria 117. Our slip spa....malfu..... repeat this ...UNSC."

David froze before bolting off towards the hanger to grab a Saber.

~Chief?! It can't be!~