Yang and the Chief made their down a burn and battle scared corridor until they reach a large ventilation duct. The duct was sealed off by a thick metal grate that was bolted in place. "Alright Chief all you have to do to get to the lower floor is pop this duct open and drop down." Cortana stated. Chief nodded and made his way towards the grate and prepared to rip it off but was brushed aside by Yang.

"Don't sweat it big guy I got this!" Yang says as she plants her hands firmly on the grate and began to pull hard on it. This causes it to bow and bend greatly but remains firmly attached. "Dang it! Why... won't... this... thing... come... loose!? Yang complains between togs before she finally rips it free causing her to fall over backward and the heave grate to pin her to the floor. "Ahhhh!"

"Are you alright?" Chief asks as he pulls the grate off of her and offers his hand to help her up.

Ignoring Chief's offer Yang quickly jumps back to her feet and dusts herself off. "I'm fine, just forgot my suit's dust supply is drained. When it's on emergency power like this the performance drops which means there is no super strength." She says with a half hearted chuckle. "Now then, how about we get going!?" She says before leaping down the duct.

Chief quickly follows suit and leaps down the duck after her. He lands on the lower level with a crash leaving a massive dent on the floor below. After landing, he quickly brings is weapon to the ready and begins to scan for possible threats. He spots no enemies but he does spot his yellow companion dashing down the corridor ahead of him so he dashes to catch up to the yellow brawler right as she comes to a stop at a fork. "Hey Chief, which way was it to the armory? My heads up display is not working properly anymore." Yang says while taping the side of her broken helmet causing sparks to fly.

"We will be taking the right passage to a stair case leading down to the floor below us where the armory is located." Chief says while pointing the way. The yellow brawler nods in agreement before the pare bolts down the corridor. While on the way curiosity over takes Chief and he turns his head towards the yellow armored girl and figures it's a good time to get some answers. "That armor you're all wearing, it seems very advanced almost Spartan but your teammate Blake said your scavengers. How did you come to have such powerful equipment when your not connected to any military unit?"

"Blake chooses strange times to become talkative." Yang said before letting out a sigh. "Well you helped us out big time, so I guess it's alright. These suits don't really belong to us. We are barrowing them from their creator. He said we could use them however we wanted as long as we returned them along with all of our combat data when we are done. I guess you could say we are his beta testers." Yang said with a chuckle.

"Who could is the armors creator? He must be quite the genius to design something so powerful." Chief asks.

"Oh ya, the guy is like crazy smart! He goes by the name Professor Geppetto and he designs most of our equipment. And I don't just mean our armor but our ship as well! He even created our AI Penny!"

"Professor Geppetto, I feel like I heard that name before." Chief says while in deep thought.

"You should Chief. Assuming it's the same person than Professor Geppetto worked as one of Halsey's assistants during the Spartan II program. He helped design a few of the first prototype's for our Mjolnir armor. That would explain why the armor bares such striking resemblance to our own but. My records state that he has been missing for about ten years now."

"For what reason were you all given this equipment? To what end?" Chief asks.

Yang simply shrugs. "I can't really tell you. Truth be told, this is just a job for us. The professor gives us the gear we need and we bring back combat data. While were at it we make sure to bring back as many supplies as we can. And at the end we get a nice pay check for our troubles."

"This is very strange. None of it makes since." Cortana cuts in getting the attention of both Yang and Chief.

"What's there not to understand?" Yang inquires.

"You say this is just a job for you girls but you have highly advanced weapons and armor, a smart AI, and a personnel light weight ship capable of slipspace travel. The value of any of those items on the black market would set you for life. So why do put yourselves at such risk? Are the people you are working for so dangerous you don't feel like you have a choice?"

Yang began to laugh while waving off the question. "No it's nothing like that. It's not like we haven't thought about that but we quickly realized that they wouldn't be of much use to those who don't have easy access to the Dust that fuels them. All of our weapons, armor, and even our ship are designed to use dust and it's next to impossibly to get your hands on it off world. As for Penny, well there's no way we could sell her off. She is like family you know?"

"I see." Was the only response that Cortana had offered. Chief could tell the last line had, had an effect on her and he could certainly understand. The closest thing Chief had to family was his comrades and Cortana was no exception. He would do whatever it took to protect her and he knew she would do the same.

"By the way Miss Xiao Long..." Chief began before getting cut off by Yang.

"Yang is fine Chief. So what is it?"

"Yang, you said all of your equipment is powered by Dust. I remember your teammates also mentioning something about it but. I have never heard of such a fuel source. Care to elaborate on it?"

"Hmm well I use it a lot but I wouldn't call myself an expert. If there was anyone to ask on the topic it would be Weiss. I can show you however." Yang says before reaching into a pouch at her side and pulling out a large red crystal and handing it to Chief.

"Dust is a solid mineral? Is it naturally like this?" He asks while he inspects the crystal.

"Yep it's mined just like that. We call it Dust because it's only useful after we ground it down into a powder. However its much more table in its crystal form."

"I see. Hey Cortana could you?" Chief began.

"Already on it Chief." Cortana said as a light flickered on from Chief helmet and scanned back and forth over the Crystal. "Scan complete and Chief you aren't going to believe this."

"Try me." Chief responded.

"There is trace amounts of many different common elements but most of this crystal is of a very rare element. The element in question was only known to exist on one planet. Yang you couldn't possibly be from..."

Yang let out a wide smile. "That's right I am from Remnant!"

"Remnant? But that planet fell to the Covenant over five years ago. I thought it was destroyed?" Chief added.

"That's just partly true. You see when the Covenant attacked all those years ago, they ripped through our defenses and took hold of the planet without much trouble but. They were after something, something so valuable they couldn't risk destroying it in a glassing."

"Forerunner artifacts?"

"That's right but that's not all they wanted. They were also after the Dust as well and they wanted it badly. As you may have heard we were attacked us so suddenly that many of our people couldn't make it off the planet. It turned out we were the lucky ones though. The Covenant didn't want any word to reach the UNSC about their occupation so they targeted and destroyed nearly every single ship that left the surface. Of course we found out later that a few lucky souls did make it out."

"You said they were after the Dust, for what purpose did they want it." Cortana asked.

Well that was the big question wasn't it? We wanted to know as well so we banded together and did what we could to avoid their detection. Of course this meant watching them. We watched their every move and we began to learn a few things. Like how they were using the Dust to power forerunner equipment. Who would have thought right? Needless to say we were dumbstruck. I mean we never thought it had that kind of application. Anyway we soon began to wonder if we could use it ourselves. So we started to horde it and tinker with it. Before long we started pumping out weapons and we were able to fight back against them again but. We were heavily out numbered and for awhile it seemed like it was a losing battle. Then we made the greatest discovery of our lives." Yang paused as the pair arrived at the stair case and began to make their way lower and lower until they finally reached the door to their floor. The doors control panel was totaled and the door was gammed tight.

"Stand back." Chief says as he pulls a fragmentation grenade from his waist and forces it into a gap in the door frame before pulling the pin and backing away. The grenade soon goes off blowing a hole in the door large enough for Chief to stick his hands through. As he prepared to rip the door out of its frame he noticed blips begin to pop up on his motion sensor and the battle cries of Covenant Elites moving towards them. He glanced over at Yang who gave him a nod in understanding before the both of them then jumped through the open door ready for the fight ahead of them!

Three colorful blurs fly down a hallway leaving broken and bloody alien bodies in their wake. The leading blur colored in a deep shade of red begins to spin as a long bladed weapon appears and rakes through a crowd of Grunts blocking her way. Just as quickly as it appeared the weapon retracts and is tucked under her cloak. She then without slowing she glanced to a wall in which a waypoint arrow could be seen on her heads up display. "We are almost there guys just a little further!"

"We know Ruby, we can all see the waypoint. I think you are panicking a little because of Yang's situation. Maybe you could take a moment to calm yourself down!" Weiss responds.

"I am not panicking! Ruby snapped causing both Weiss and Blake to jump in surprise.

"Ruby, I believe our friends are right. Your heart rate has been well above normal perimeters for quite some time now. A rest could help to restore proper levels." Penny suggests.

"I can't there isn't enough time to rest!" Ruby snaps back again.

"Ruby, you sound like Blake when she is behind on paperwork!" Weiss responded.

"Ya you are... Hey!" Blake continued.

"Really though I am sure Yang will be fine, she always is. And if you don't slow down a little we won't be able to keep up! Weiss complains.

"Alright fine already!" Ruby says while throwing up her arms in defeat and finally slowing her frantic pace. Soon after a hologram of Penny flickers on behind her and looks back at Blake and Weiss to give them a wide smile before disappearing again.

"By the way I have been meaning to ask, who is this Spartan? I heard you call him Chief, is that correct?" Weiss asked.

"Ya he is Spartan 117 but he is also known as Master Chief. Most just seem to call him Chief so that's what I went with. He told me he was set adrift at the end of the war four years ago and has been here ever since." Blake responds.

"Wait thee Master Chief!? Isn't he the same Spartan that destroyed the Halo installation and help end the war in the first place!?" Weiss asked.

"He did mention something about that." Ruby answered.

"Wow who would have thought we would meet somebody like that out here in the sticks? In a way it's kind of thanks to him that we are able to be here today." Weiss stated.

"Hmm I guess that's true. I mean if he didn't end the war the covenant would have never pulled back long enough for us to take the Beacon. With out it there is no way we could hold off invaders now." Blake adds.

"I guess you could say it's Destiny." Ruby said before Penny cut in.

"No Ruby I do believe that is a completely different universe. Though I can understand how you could make that mistake." Penny stated.

"Huh?" The three girls said in sync right before they arrived at the hanger where their ship was docked.

The ship was completely cloaked but there were several Covenant forces walking through the dock. "Alright Penny now it's your turn! Disengage optical camouflage and activate the chain turrets!"

"Roger Captain!" Penny said right before the air in the docking bay began to flicker and the shape of a large ship appeared inside. All of the Covenant jumped in surprise right before a set of turrets deployed and began to unload on the un-expecting Aliens. Half of them almost instantly got shredded while the rest began to regroup and prepare for a counter attack. Until the girls of team RWBY leaped down on top of them and finished the job. "All hostiles terminated, returning to standby mode." Penny said while retracting the turrets and setting down on the ground to let the girls inside.

Once inside Weiss and Blake instantly went over to a locker with their name printed on it and began pulling out ammo clips and Dust cylinders and loading them into their weapons and armor. While Ruby sat down at the command chair and activated her long range radio. "There is too much interference for are normal intercoms so I need something with a bit more power." She presses a button and then begins to speak into the mike. "This is Ruby, Yang do you read me?"

"Hey sis, I read you loud and clear!" Yang responded through her head set while delivering a savage right hook to the head of an Elite causing it to drop to the ground. "What's up?"

"We have arrived at the ship and are ready for pick up. Are you in position yet?" Ruby asked.

"Not yet but we are very close! I will keep you posted!" Yang said as she glanced over to Chief driving a combat knife into the throat of another Elite. She glanced at his back and noticed that his Assault Rifle had run out of ammo. Yang then reached behind her back and pulled out the Battle Rifle she had found early. "Hey Chief heads up!" She said as she chucked it towards the Spartan.

Without missing a beat Chief snatched the weapon out of mid air and checked the ammo indicator. He couldn't help but crack a grin under his helmet when he seen that it was full. He instantly began to unload three round bursts into the heads of the remaining enemies. "My favorite how did you know?" He says jokingly.

"Hey I know what the guys like." Yang said as she strutted her way to the Armory. "So this is the place huh?" She then pressed a button on the panel to open the door. Much to her surprise it worked just fine. No need to forced entry for once. Not that she really minded break doors down but she could use a little break.

Chief placed the Battle Rifle on his back magnetic strips activating to lock it in place right next to the Assault Rifle and stepped inside the armory with Yang. "It looks like this Armory was mainly used by ODST. Their suits are well suited for pressure changes, so it's a stroke of good luck for us."

"Good luck huh, you seem to get a lot of that big guy. Not that I am complaining of course. Rather I think you and I need to hit the dice tables some time." Yang said as she smashed her way into a locker with a female sounding name and pulled out a space suit. "Nice this should work! Sorry about this Lieutenant Barbara but I don't think you will be coming back for it." She said while chuckling.

"Good you found a suit." Chief said before getting an awkward stare from the yellow armored brawler. "Is something wrong Yang?"

"Chief, I think we should give Miss Xiao Long some privacy." Cortana suggests.

"Oh, yes, right. I will let myself out." Chief says as he steps out into the hall and takes up a defensive position.

Moments later Chief heard Yang call back for him. He moved back into the Armory to see Yang now fully dressed in an ODST suit with a shotgun strapped to her back and her yellow gauntlets still strapped to her wrists. She also had a large duffle back thrown over her shoulder. "What's in the bag?" He asks.

"It's my armor of course! I can't just leave it behind. Anyway let's get ready for the pick up." Yang said in a matter of fact like tone.

"Right." Chief said as he picked up a crate of fragmentation grenades along with several rocket cases and dropped them all into a corner of the back wall. He then quickly grabbed onto several grenades and ammo clips for himself before they both stepped out of the room. "Alright this blast should punch a hole in hall of the ship. Once that happens we can we wait for your team to come around and then we board them. Is everything clear?" Yang nods while Chief pulls out one of the grenades and pulls the pin. He quickly chucks it into the back corner of the room and closes the door behind them. A massive blast erupts from the armory followed by the sound of air being sucked out into space.

Yang then gets on her intercom. "This is Yang we are ready for pick up! I repeat we are ready for pick up!"

"Alright let's do this!" Ruby shouts before she pulls Penny's chip out of her helmet and plants it back into the ship. For a moment another Penny appears before the combined into one.

"Fusion complete, all functions restored!" Penny reports.

"Good lets get this bird in the air!" Ruby says while she grabs the controls of their ship other wise known as the Zwei Mark I. Causing the other two girls to rush to their stations and do the same. "Penny focus our power in our thrusters and our shields."

"Diverting power Ruby!" Penny responds before she spins and punches the sticks causing the ship to rotate and zoom out of dock. "Debris incoming!" Penny says as Ruby weaves through ship fragments. She then zooms across the hall of the ship a lower back side were a noticeable venting hole was located. Ruby spun the ship so that the rear was facing the hole and opening a hatch on the back of their ship. Almost on queue a door inside the hole was opened and began to vent even more air. Chief and Yang jumped out from behind the door getting swept up in the air current and flying into back of the ship. The ships hatch closed soon after.

"Yang, Chief! Thank goodness you made it!" Ruby said.

"Ya I am glad too!" Yang responded while before making her way to her station. "But this is not over yet!"

"That's right Ruby! The Covenant is on to us and they are coming this way!" Penny added.

"Begin charging the slipspace drive and take evasive maneuvers!" Ruby ordered. The ships weapons and shields began to flare as stray shots from the Covenant battle ships slammed into it and they returned fire on the smaller fast moving ships. There was no way they could win a fight against them here. The Zwei was not well suited for ship to ship combat so they had to focus on keeping them off their tail. Ruby used their ships high speed and maneuverability to hook around the Forward onto Dawn and get out of their line of fire.

"Ruby we are ready for a slipspace jump!" Penny stated.

"Plot a course for Remnant! We are going home!" Ruby shouts.

"Already done! Jumping in three."

"Wait your jumping back to your home world!? What if they follow you!?" Chief inquires.

"Two!"

"Don't worry about that! Rather we are counting on it!" Yang states.

"One!" The moment Penny said a hole was ripped in space in front of them and the Zwei Mark I shot throw like a bullet leaving the chamber.