31-THE LONG NIGHT OF SOLACE-1

As Jamie made his way out of Castle base he thought about how he should introduce himself to Noble Team, but then decided that he would let his actions speak for themselves as that would really prove that he wanted to save them and get them off this planet. As he entered the hanger bay he saw them, all six members of Spartan Team Noble getting ready to board a pair of falcons to go to the secret facility that kicks off Operation:Uppercut. As Jamie approached them he saw that noble six and three had already noticed him a few seconds before the others, as he approached noble one he finally turned and faced him after being nudged by three, Jamie stopped and gave a salute, "Noble One, I am to join you and the rest of noble team for Operation:Uppercut, my name is spartan Jamie-118." he said to noble one, somehow containing his excitement of meeting the legendary game character. Noble One looked him up and down"At ease Spartan, under whose authority have you been assigned to Noble Team?" he asked with his eyes narrowing slightly, which Jamie could see since the man had his helmet off "Under that of an unknown ONI superior" said Jamie resting "I never got a name during the debrief and Colonel Holland gave his ok when I met him so now i'm here to assist." he finished telling him. Noble One sighed "If it's ONI I guess that makes sense, though it's a bit having someone older than Jorge on the team." he said smirking at that last part with Emile chuckling in the corner, and Jun smirking under his helmet.

"Well then, welcome to Noble Team and Operation:Uppercut, now we don't have much time so you'll be getting to know everyone else in the field since we are getting ready to move out, have you been briefed by Holland yet?" Noble One asked. "Yeah I got the jist of it, slipspace drive bomb on covenant corvette that we then sneak onto that big supercarrier in orbit." Jamie said, Noble One nodded "Basically you'll find out more as we go along."

<Time Skip>

As Jamie looked out the falcon, he could see the sabre launch facility that they were going to, along the way there he had gotten the names for the others, even though he already knew them, Noble One was Carter, Two was Kat,Three was Jun, Four was Emile, Five was Jorge a Spartan ll like him and finally was Noble Six, no other name but Six. Jamie was now Noble Seven and he felt giddy the whole ride after realizing the fact, but was quick to snap out of it as they landed down the beach from where they needed to be, as he jumped out he and Emile took point, one with a shotgun the other with an assault rifle, as they all stormed the beach, covenant drop pods dropped down in front of them " Contact!" Jamie called out just as the pod door flew open releasing Elites and grunts onto the beach. They posed little challenge to Emile and Jamie as they beat down grunts and filled elites with buckshot and 7.62 ripping through their shiels with little assistance from the rest of the team, but six, six was even better, he was keeping pace and even going past the two of them not sparing the ammo but also not wasting it, with each bullet taking a life or downing a shield for other to take advantage of.

As the finish going up the beach and taking out the three Elite Ultras by the door the all stared at the closed facility door, so logically Jamie went up and knocked on it, as soon as he did the door flew open with marines pointing their weapons out side with one pointed at him, after a moment the marine moved their assault rifle and let them through without a word just nodding at them, as Noble Team ran through the facility they could see the marks of battle, plasma burns and bullet casing littered the walls and floor, with bodies from both sides all around especially in the chokepoints, as the round the bend the could see a control panel of sorts with plenty of bodies around it, Carter walked up a pressed a flashing light on the console, and after a few moments the hidden bulkhead raised up letting Jamie see that instead one one sabre, there were two, 'something that didn't happen in the games' he noticed.

As they walked towards the boarding ramps Six spoke "I'll take Jorge, Seven can ride solo or take someone with him." he said continuing up the ramp with Jorge behind him "It's your call." carter told him. "I'm going solo." Jamie said "It'll give me more stretching room." he joked while walking up the ramp with the others nodding and turning to leave. As Jamie approached the Sabre he couldn't help but get more excited at the fact that he was about to fly one, sure it would nothing like it was playing a video game but it would still be lots of fun. As he strapped in he heard Jorges voice come over the comm, "This is noble five, you copy Seven?" he asked testing the link, "I heard you Jorge." Jamie said as he finished sealing the cockpit and going through the checklist that the flight crew had briefly told him about, and after finally getting every thing done he waited for Sixs signal to take off

<time skip to anchor nine since i dont wanna fuck up a great scene with my bad writing>

As Anchor Nine came closer into view, Jamie noticed something there was more than one ship present, in the game the ship that had it's slipspace drive taken out was the Savannah and it was clearly right there, but for some reason the Everchanging was here as well. As they got closer to Anchor 9 the comm opened, "Spartans this is Colonel Holland, it's time to start Operation:Uppercut, as the Savannah has given her slipspace drive to the cause she will be going with you to jam communications between the corvette and the carriers with the Everchanging providing additional support." before any of the Spartans could reply a frantic call came through "This is Anchor 9, all station defences are offline and we have slipspace drive impulses coming in, fighter class requesting all nearby Sabre teams to assist!" Jamie remembered this, this was a killer level but very difficult on higher difficulties, "You heard him Sabres, assist and defend the station so that defences can be brought back online." Colonel Holland said

No long after all the Sabres formed up a dozen banshees arrived out of slipspace, as the Sabres moved in to engage jamie marveled at how similar yet different it was to fly a Sabre in real life compared it in a video game, but he didn't dwell on it for long as he dodged plasma fire and returned rockets of his own, after the first wave was cleared a comm from the Everchanging patched through, "This is Captain Magnus, of the UNSC Everchanging once the station defences are online we will move out with the rest of you providing fire support while the Savannah cuts of their comms, good hunting Sabres we got more incoming." and right on time as more banshees came out of slipspace this time with Saraph fighters, "I got the Seraphs." Jamie called out on comms, the time that he had to fly one to get planetside safely still fresh with him despite happening years ago. 

"Station defences are at 50% and climbing, hold out a little longer Sabres!" came a call from Anchor 9 as another wave of banshees and Seraphs arrived, this time in nearly double the numbers than before, Jamie was no longer finding amusement in piloting the Sabre, every plasma shot that hit his shield reminded him that despite his ability to fly and shoot, he was no pilot, noticing a pair of banshees behind him he was about to turn around before the were blown up, with a Sabre flying past them at breakneck speeds, gunning down another 3 with its cannon. "We got your six Noble 7." Jorge said over the comm as Noble six who was in the pilot seat destroyed a seraph and two banshees escorting it. Jamie watched in amazement as Six effortlessly flew through space, as if the sabre were just another part of him remembering now that Noble Six was a part of the Sabre program from the beginning. As the sabre cleaned up the rest of the stragglers the comms opened up, "This is Anchor 9 station defences are back online, hold tight though we got what seems to be the last wave, expect boarding craft as well as the usual bunch."

This was it the last wave, as the sabre got back into formation with Six and Jamie at the front the last of the covenant punched through slipspace, just as Anchor 9 had said but a bit scarier than in the games there were tons of banshees, a dozen seraph fighter and four phantoms all headed straight for the station. Jamie and Six blasted ahead while the stations cannons lit up the void with Six already chewing through banshees and Jamie catching and seraphs that tried getting in the way, eventually they found an opening to get at one of the phantoms through a ship that was being repaired, Six and Jamie both fired their rockets and with a silent BOOM and a blinding flash, the first phantom was gone. After that they split up helping clear the way so that others could take down the phantoms, and once the last one was down the few remaining banshees and seraphs fled the scene. "Sabre team, you are cleared to dock, no more slipspace ruptures detected, station is ready to refuel and rearm." upon hearing that the Sabres turned and headed back to the station. It was time.

Time Skip: in visual range of covenant corvette

"This is the UNSC Everchanging all Sabres are clear to engage, I repeat engage now, Everchanging and Savannah will provide support and their communications are down so they won't be calling for backup." Upon hearing that Jamie and Six sped forward in their Sabres with the other fast behind them, as they got closer, they could see dozens of banshees speeding through the void towards them, with seraph fighter close behind. As Jamie opened up with his cannon he watched as Six blew past the banshees and headed straight for the seraphs taking out a few banshees along the way. As he finished off two banshees that were tailing another pilot, Jamie noticed that the corvettes engines were starting to burn brighter as if they were about to speed up and try and escape, thinking quickly about how fun it was to blow the engines he quickly commed the Everchanging "Everchanging this is Noble Seven, the corvettes engines look as if they are getting ready to run, permission to clipple them?" after a few moments came the reply, "We noticed as well Noble Seven, you have the green light, hit em where it hurts!" "Roger that." Jamie said with a grin as he switched to his rockets and lined up the shot. He pulled the trigger and watched as the rockets streaked through the void as the covenant corvette could do nothing as its fighter were tied up with Six and the other pilots and there were no turrets on the back side of the ship, with a flash one of the engines exploded and the corvette almost noticeably slowed, but not by much.

As he destroyed another engine Jamie and the other pilots received a urgent message from the Savannah, "All Sabre pilots be aware, we have seraph fighter closing in, they are most likely coming back from patrol, take them out quickly we can't let them escape and possibly alert that supercarrier to what we are doing." Quickly Jamie abandoned what he was doing to the engines and focused on the Saraph that had been marked as letting them get away would spell doom for all involved. He wasn't alone either Six and another pilot turned around and engaged the new seraphs as well while the others kept the banshees and turrets busy. After a tense firefight between plasma and bullets, all the Seraphs and banshees had been destroyed with Noble Six destroying the other two engines that had kept the covenant corvette slowly limping towards the supercarrier, "Alright Sabres, good job, now find a way into the corvette so that we can proceed to phase 3, intel shows that there should be an opening towards the top so try there first." came a message from the Everchanging, and sure enough it was there, a simple force field that let the way into the corvette and in the game where Jorge lost his life thinking that he had just saved Reach, but not this time Jamie was determined to make sure that ALL of Noble Team made it off Reach.

As the Sabre touched down on top of the corvette and Jamie disembarked along with the rest of the pilots and Noble Six, he was ready to save all of them, even if he had to take the whole damn covenant with him.

(A:N)Took a break to play Dark souls while writing, I HATE blighttown sooo much dawg like come on man.