Hunter POV

Spartan F-127, Designation: Hunter, sprinted down the hallway of the exploding Polar Winter as another plasma blast shook the already critically damaged ship, causing a tilting that knocked down the fleeing marines before they staggered back to their feet. This of course didn't bother Hunter, being one of the many advantages of being a spartan.

Continuing his sprint a voice suddenly sounded out through the damaged frigate, "Crew of the Polar Winter we are scuttling the ship, abandon your stations and make your way to the nearest lifeboat." A pause came, as soming else hit the ship causing even him to lose his footing slightly. Screams suddenly echoed through the halls, as gunfire and plasmafire traded blows over the intercomm before falling silent, the quiet yet impossibly loud crackling taking over.

Hunter stood in silence for a few seconds mourning the lives lost in the control centre, before resuming his sprint a new course in mind, being the lifeboats located near the armory.

After a few minutes of sprinting, with his spartan speed he managed to find a lifeboat with a vacant spot. With his own safety secured he activated his radio, speaking into it urgently, "Frost Squad this is Hunter have succesfully made it to lifeboat, and are heading to nearest planet now, Cody are you their?" Hunter frowned in his helmet as a familiar crackling filled his ears.

His frown was soon removed though as a familiar voice replaced the accursed static, "This is Damian, heading to lifeboats near medbay." Damian said in panic.

"Roger that Damian, glad to hear a friendly voice," Hunter replied a slight smile coming upon him, "Have you seen Cody?" He continued.

"Cody is here with me but is heavily injured, I've run out of ammunition and the Covenant have secured about half the ship already."

"Roger that, heading to nearest planet, now." Hunter replied as the lifeboat prepared to eject.

"See you planetside, Damian out." And with that the transmission was cut.

Leaning back in his seat he sighed in exhaustion. It had been a constant chase with the Covenant never giving up, no matter how many slipspace jumps they took they couldn't shake 'em. It had all gone to crap when Reach fell, and had never really gotten better.

They were soon ejected out of the now exploding ship, and were now headed to an unkown planet, being who knows how far from Earth. Randomly jumping with no idea where you were gonna end up would do that to you.

Staring out the small window in the door, he caught his final sight of the frigate he had called home for many years. A sad sort of smile graced his lips, but of course to the frightened marines around him he was basically a robot. Speaking of which all were simply staring at him some out of fear, some in awe, and some were jsut plain curious. He noticed one marine which was simply staring at the ground shaking.

"Hey," He said to the shaking marine, causing him to jump and shake even more. "What's your name kid?" He asked, trying to blend some sort of kindness into his voice. Gulping the marine replied with a quiet, "Jack.".

Nodding Hunter quickly scoured his brain for a way to cheer the marine up. Then the most wonderful idea appeared in his head.

He would bribe him.

"You get one question" Hunter said, bringing in even more stares from the marines.

Still shaking Jack asked his question, the question that would probably reveal something immensely private about him to all marines present.

"How old are you?"

Hunter blinked inside his helmet. Guess not.

"22" He said flatly, honestly being kind of glad at the innocence of the question.

A swift punch soon came to Jacks shoulder, with the marine who threw the punch beginning to scold him about how he wasted the question, before turning to Hunter and pleading for one more question, getting a simple no. Laughter soon filled the lifeboat as the marine simply slumped back into his seat with of a child being told they couldn't get the latest toy.

"It ain't the end of the world Kowalski, hell your lucky you even heard the answer, no matter how bad the question was." The marine to his right said, rolling his eyes at Jack.

"Hey, we could have gotten some good dirt on a spartan for crying out loud!" Kowalski said indignantly, bringing another round of laughs, and even a small chuckle from Hunter. Looking around the lifeboat at the marines, as they chatted joked and laughed, a single thought came to his mind.

This is what I fight for.

His thoughts were cut short however as a sudden rumbling overtook the lifeboat. Looking back over his seat the pilot said, "We're making our way into the upper atmosphere, you may want to hold on!" Having to shout at the end due to the now insanely loud rumbling as the interior became extremely hot.

The shaking got less bad, but didn't show any sign of slowing down as they got closer and closer to the ground, the hot flames that had plagued the lifeboat on entry were soon dissipated as they got a claer look at the planet through the front and back windows. Several jaws dropped as a wonderful sight came upon them, so beautiful that even Hunters mouth opened a little.

An endless plain of lush fields of green, with small villages dotted among it. But what really took everyones breath away was the majestic castle that stood on the side of the mountain, a beautiful array of gold and white blended togetehr perfectly to create a majestic sight. And it was getting closer by the minute.

Hunters eyes suddenly widened as they drew closer and closer. The other marines began to notice it too and quickly started to brace themselves.

Gritting his teeth Hunter braced himself as well preparing for the inevitable crash.

The towers were getting closer, as the pilot failed to pull out of the crash course they were on, a loud shattering sound of metal against stone sounded throughout the city, knocking through several towers and walls before colliding with a wall strong enough to hold the now slowed down lifeboat, as Hunter quickly lost consciousness from the impact, the laughter of the marines surrounding him echoing in his mind.

Author's Note

BEWARE!

All information about Frost Squad and the Polar Winter is completely made up by me, so don't go ranting in the comments about how I'm not honoring the lore.

Their is a reason it is called an alternate universe.

However if their is any mistakes please notify me immediately.

I also take the pov thing differently where I narrate that persons pov from the third person instead of the first person like most stories do.

Also tacos.

And Hunter has basically got Reach Odst armor with black and red colours.