A Helljumper ending.

As Rilik plummeted towards the watery grave below time itself seemed to slow down, glimpses of the past had gone through his eyes, childhood on Harvest, the bully's picking on him as he walked to the bus, another got in his way and shoved him to the ground, as Rilik stood he sucker punched one in the jaw. The other caught unaware of the attack was kicked severly in the groin, as he fell the little Rilik picked up his stuff and jogged off to the buses.

Another flash back, meeting his to be wife at a local store when he was a teenager. She was gorgeous, brunette hair, brown eyes and a nice thin body, he couldn't help but stare as she walked past, she glanced back at him with a small smile on her face. He stumbled as he came back into the reality of the store as his mom shook him.

Rilik came back to the day of his proposal to her, her name was Olivia and they had been going out for two years and he had finally racked up enough courage to ask. Seeing himself propose again made Rilik felt awkward, he felt as though he stumbled on the words a few times.

The wedding day was next to come in his series of flash back, he was nervous and his friends were there in the best man section, she walked up the aisle her dress was magnificent, his jaw had dropped as she entered. The priest had started to say the lines but Rilik didn't hear anything until it was time for the vows, he said his vows and so did she. Even though they had dated for a long amount of time he still felt the same nervousness as the day he first saw her, as they started to kiss the flash back ended a new scene of memories took center stage.

Boot camp. He had joined a little over a month after he had been married, local insurgents had been causing trouble and Rilik thought it was his time to do something. When he had first entered he thought it would be smooth sailing. He was wrong. As the boot camp trainers pushed Rilik he had overcome most of the challenges thrown his way, now he was in the main office, with the boss of the camp. He had been upgraded from marine to ODST, all the trainers had suggested him to the CO and the request was approved, he was set to go aboard the Broken Justice in orbit in a few weeks to train with the other ODST's.

Rob. He had met Rob aboard the Broken Justice when he arrived, Rob was a green horn as well and a strict by the book at the time, he never differed from the set of rules for ODST's. Rilik himself was assigned to his assigned to be the sergeant of the fireteam, his team was there, Rob busy reading the manual, Alex sitting quietly in a corner, and the others chatting amongst themselves. He remembered in his mind how long it took to get this team functional and ready, Rob becoming less of a stickler and relaxing, them becoming almost brothers. The memory ended as it predecessors did with a flash of white light and onto the next.

Combat. As Rilik geared up to drop they were above Harvest, aliens had attacked the planet, the UNSC was being deployed in mass. They were set to drop in five minutes, Rilik and the squad was angry as most of them were drawn from the Harvest ranks with the exception of Sparza, he had come from a nearby planet which Rilik hadn't the slightest clue of the pronunciation of it. They were in their pods and strapped in as a count down sounded off, as the pods lurched out of the ship, he saw the swarm of pods following them and the covenant ships below firing their tremendous beams onto the planets surface. The squad had been deployed behind enemy lines, it was an area which Rilik was all to familiar. His home.

Coming back was hard to see as he entered the remains of his family were strewn across the house, plasma burns covered them and stab wounds coming from his parents midsection, he would have to get in touch with Olivia and see if she was okay, seeing as their home was situated far away from his parents. There laying next to his parents body was an alien corpse, it's reptilian face repulsing and the mandibles of it horrifying, next to it lay a pommel of some sort. Picking it up Rilik felt a switch on it and pressed, the pommel had dispersed energy from it in the shape of a double point sword. He pressed the switch again and put it on his side, his thoughts at the time were coursing with the thought of vengeance. He stepped out of the building unslinging his MA5 rifle and proceeded to search the buildings for any of the aliens.

Reach, Rilik had barely aged to his thirty's by then, he and his team had been forzen in cryo for several years, coming out of each time they had cursed command and the cryo bastards for forgetting them. This would be his last time serving for the UNSC as he would be horrified and angry with the war and how much pain it brought. His wife had been fine, she had.. remarried, Rilik had a biological daughter he never knew about until his deployment to Reach, she had thought him dead as he was never able to call or write, strict UNSC protocol that he never understood, only applied for the crew of the Justice. He knew because someone had given him a message that had been reluctantly been given to him by command. He had felt betrayed and for that he didn't go back to her when he deserted.

As he came back to the fall he hadn't moved far, he could see the mocking face of Helios peering over the side of the cliff, Rilik wouldn't go down in a wimper of weakness, he did something that was going to be impossible.

Karoc sat patiently at his desk as a blip came up upon his screen, the same one that had come up when they had first discerned the presence of a last subject. It was an emergency beacon from the subjects helmet, this was trouble. He was quick to dispatch the services of the marines to the location.

"I need you there now sergeant!" Karoc had yelled into the radio.

"Calm down we're on route, just wait and we'll tell you what we find!" replied the sergeant.

---20 minutes later---

"Uh captain, that major blip on the radar is a massive cloud, wait, it's filled with pegasi? And the architecture is that of the old Romans and Greeks! What should we do?" radioed the pilot of Thunderbird 1-2.

"Mac blast it now! Drop into orbit if we must! If these things can do what the marines have described to a spartan and some ODST's I'm sure as hell not taking a chance about them not having anti air capabilities!" the captain yelled as the ship shook as the MAC blast launched from it's massive cannon. A few minutes later the radio crackled to life as the pilot of Thunderbird began to talk.

"Target eliminated, returning to the Justice Thunderbird out." the pilot responded as the friendly icon in the map moved back towards the ship.

"Alright captain this is Thunderbird 1-1 we have arrived at the target location, it is the remnants of a village with a torn foundation at the edge of a cliff. Locater suggest the target is near or in the water, will scan the side wall for any signs." said the voice of the pilot as Karoc listened in his quarters.

As the pelican scanned the side of the wall with the marines checking in back Rodriguez saw something, "Hey someone give me a hand I think I see something!" he yelled as Ross and Chung made a link with the sergeant. He saw the helmet of an ODSt on a branch of the rock wall he grabbed it and checked the contents of it. A picture, the memory card for the ODST's video recorder sat inside the helmet. Rodriguez plucked out the picture as three faces on it immediately greeted him, a little girl and her parents. Was this the ODST and his/her family? he thought as he also took out the memory card. Only time would tell when they watched this and the records of the ODST, whoever he or she was. He threw the helmet over into the water, leaving only the two important items in his hands.

---1 hour later, aboard the Broken Justice---

Karoc had waited long enough for this oppurtunity and rushed to the flight deck as the marine group had plugged in the memory unit and a grizzled man had appeared before them, his face was devoid of emotion and scars and a scruf beard were also on his face. He look at the camera as the flashlight of it brought a creepy illumination to him. The darkness surrounding him was barely penetrated by the flashlight.

"Now see here, if anyone is to find this, I am dead in the most likely case but I just need to say two things before I do what I am about to do. One, this place is not for us, I have seen the inhabitants rip apart us, may they fall before is in hails of bullets but their ways of killing, is brutal. Do. Not. Come. Here. Two, the photo you have in there, I recently recognized as my ex-wife, at the time I never realized it but it's true. I saw my own daughter die and I wasn't able to save her." the man on the video had his voice cracking now, "I didn't even know she was my daughter at the time but my wifes face eventually came back to me. This is Rilik Koros of the 56th shock troops signing off for good."

The image cut to the sky and the shadow of the cliff hanging over the person wearing the helmet, heavy breathing residuated throughout the speakers and a sniper was pulled into vision, the sniper was aimed at an orange and red equine gazing down on top of the cliff, as the ODST took aim the picture which held the ex-wife and daughter flew out and snagged itself on the front of the scope, the helmet was dislodged from the head and the picture grabbed from the scope, as the figure plummeted he threw the helmet and it snagged on the branch it had, luckily the picture or memory unit had fallen out judging from the angle it hooked on. The helmet tilted down and watched it's bearer plummet to the watery depths beneath, a loud splash and water fountain obscured the view of the soldier, a green light coming from the water and then quickly fading as it did, the recorder maltfunctioning almost immediately after.