Chapter 32 Arriving at Earth and Battle With The Covenant and Meeting The Arbiter

Dark Pov

After the command is given the ships begun to disappear one by one not lang after the victory enters subspace and begins its journey to earth which due to distance will take a few days so I spend the time making sure everyone is ready to act the moment we arrive since shortly after our arrival the key ship will arrive once it does we need to stop it from getting to earth but I have a feeling the prophet of truth will not be stupid enough to not have ships on standby so I expect a battle the moment we immobilize the key ship.

2 days went by faster than expected and everyone was in battle positions with only 30 minutes till we exit slipspace I am in the my chair on the bridge with my team also sat in their chairs as the captain commands the bridge crew to prepare to send a communication to the UNSC defence stations to inform them of the arrival of the key ship and it's purpose also stating that Master Chief is onboard the ship.

As the captain was issuing his last command the ship exits slipspace appearing outside the range of the defense stations before the communication officer sends a message to the defense stations it did not take long before we got a response asking who we are.

The communication officer looked at me before I used the terminal on the arm of my chair to send my old identification codes the response I got was surprising they expected me to be dead but I was alive and no longer alone I had a fleet of 5 Frigates and 400 Corvettes with this fleet alone i could invade a planet it took a full 20 minutes to get them to stop asking questions when i told them i no longer serve the UNSC but that does not mean i will not protect earth its my birtg place after all.

As I was explaining things over the comms " sir a slipspace fluctuation has been detected it's a single ship" after i heared this I got ready for whats to come ending the comm link " everyone get ready to use the basic holding beam that was installed onnthe five Frigates we need to stop that ship but remember if possible send a team of spartans to help Master Chief enter the ship to get the Prophet of Truth" after I issue that order you can see that the clone Spartans are already leaving the bridge and heading to the shuttle bay where a pelican is waiting to take them but unlike normal pelicans this one is jet black.

Not long after the pelican is ready to leave the key ship appears and the five Frigates instantly fire their holding beams it took all five beams to actually stop the ship and give the pelican time to get close and thanks to Red Queen and Destiny developing an infiltration AI that can get the ship entrance open again while they were doing this I had the whole fleet focus on disabling the engine since once the Prophet's reinforcements arrive we would have to stop using the holding beam and due to so many ships shooting the engine it did not take long for it's to be disabled and just in time too as more slipspace fluctuations were detected

SYSTEM DISPLAY FACTION MISSION

Mission 1

Destroy the covenant fleet before it can arrive at the key ship and send reinforcement to the prophet.

Rewards

1000 Divine Points and Dimensional displacement Device( this device is deployed in a star system and will take the system and everything in it to a new location however this location will not be in the same universe as the one that the device was deployed in)

Failure consequences

The master Chief will die and the Prophet will get to earth and arrive at the ark.

Mission 2

Ensure that the Prophet of Truth dies to Destroy the Covenants leadership allowing the UNSC and Sangheili to win the war

Reward:

2000 Divine Points and Cortana will be repaired preventing rampancy thus stopping her death and will arrive at earth before the flood in an unifested UNSC ship

Failure consequences:

The Prophet is able to start the engines again and reaches earth activating the gateway to the ark

The other members of my team look at me I just shrug we were gonna do these things anyway but at least now we get something for doing it with that in mind I order the fleet to prepare for battle with the covenant fleet the moment it arrives.

Not long after I give that order a larger fleet of about 500 ships leaves slipspace and the moment they did just as I ordered all the ships in my fleet opened fire before they could react they lost about 10 ships but quickly reacted to the fire and began firing at use due to not enough personnel we did not have fighters but they did and they had launched them for the most part it was difficult for those fighters from breaking our shields but with the support of cruisers and destroyers we started to lose corvette class ships on the bright side they were losing shios faster than us but even still we are currently trading 1 ship for 5 of theres that meansbbybthe end of this we will lose 100 ships and its crew luckily the spartans armour allows them to enter space enviroment so they can be saved but the rest not so much.

As the battle was raging another slipspace fluctuation appeared and from it another fleet of Covenant style appeared in the system but the moment they appear they open fire at the covenant ships decreasing the load on my ships making the loss ratio more bearable at 1 of my ships for evey 10 of the covenant ships that are destroyed if one was looking at this from the outside it looks spectacular seeing the laser weapons on the ship fly across the battlefield hitting the ships on the other side ether damaging them or causing the shields to ripple if this was not a war it would look stunning " sir we have a communication request from the covenant ships that are helping us" after hearing this I knew it was time to meat the Arbiter of the Sangheili"put it through" not long after using the holo projectors installed on the Victory the holographic picture of the Arbiter appears "greatings Arbiter" he looks at me before speaking " you are a Spartan why are the ships you have more powerful than the normal ones" I kind of expected this question "I may have been a Spartan but I no longer serve the UNSC and these ships are mine not theirs I am only here to defend my home planet from the Covenant nothing more and I have already sent a team to help the Master Chief deal with the Prophet he will perish" the Arbiter nodded at my response before speaking again "good once the prophet falls the Covenant will be leaderless and scatter but the remnants will be hunted now let's finish here before the demon does" after that he ends the communication.

After that i gave the order to ensure not a single ship survives with that order my fleet began to switch targets if any ship tyres to get close to the key ship and destroy said ship preventing them from sending reinforcements to the key ship to help the Prophet.

After what felt like an eternity the battle slowly came to an end with the last covenant command ship exploding leaving only the fighters left which was easy to deal with now the fighters had no cover from other ships after they were delt with

SYSTEM DISPLAY FACTION MISSION COMPLETE

Mission 1

Destroy the covenant fleet before it can arrive at the key ship and send reinforcement to the prophet.

Rewards

1000 Divine Points and Dimensional Displacement Device( this device is deployed in a star system and will take the system and everything in it to a new location however this location will not be in the same universe as the one that the device was deployed in)

Distributing rewards

I looked and saw the Divine Points in the system but the Dimensional Displacement Device is no where to be seen[ the device has been sent to the station in the harvest system speaking of which you should really rename the star system instead of leaving it as harvest since you already renamed the planet] her response made me relax and she was right once I get back I will do that.

A/N that's the chapter after alot of testing I feel around 1500 words is the best word count for a chapter since it's not to long but also not to short and stops me from rambling so much making the chapters boring do note this is the basic word count in some case in where it's needed it will be longer if theres a large battle scene anyway thanks for reading.