The Lost Spartans: The Loss

Down on the planet, little life was left of the explosion site. All that as left was a giant crater and small remains of trees. Suddenly, hands emerged from the ash, pulling up the bodies of Commander Hudson, Private Watson, and Colonel Cleveland. As they emerged from the ash, they looked around in awe as they saw nothing but mist and ash all around them for what seemed like miles. They found each other in the fog, but realizing there was only three of them. "Where is Private Bronson?" Hudson said in a shocked and meek tone. The other men looked at each other, then sadly to the ground. Private Bronson had to be dead. They searched the ground for what was they could find of him but they found nothing. "I guess he won't be able to go home like he wanted," Cleveland said sadly.

"There's nothing we can do now," said Hudson. He looked down on the ground and picked up what was left of the detonator. "Whatever this was, it was no thermal detonator. This wouldn't be able to cause all of this destruction," he said looking around him. "Let me see it," Watson said, grabbing it from Hudson's hand. "I've never seen anything like this. We weren't taught about explosives such as this back at the academy," he said while giving it back.

"It doesn't matter now, we need to get a hold of command and tell them the situation," said Hudson. The others nodded and turned their radios on, only getting the sound of static, spearing through their ears. "Our radios are jammed!" Cleveland said quickly turning his off. "It seems whatever did this, can destroy radio signals too," "We won't find anything out if we just stand here," Hudson said pulling a map from a compartment in his suit. He opened it, scanning over to find a place for them to go. "There is an old Covenant temple south of here. It should be abandoned. There might be some sort of equipment there to get command down here to help us," he said, closing it after.

"Well let's move then," said Watson as he darted off, with the others behind him. Shortly after they left, a small pod crashed into the ground. Slowly opening, the pod revealed Spartan M-1, stepping out of the ship, leaving marks in the ground from the weight of his feet. "Mission successful, landed safely on the planet Salphara. Next order is to terminate all Covenant life forms in the area," he scanned the area for signs of life, finding none, only the footprints of someone, or something, leaving the area. "Life forms known to be heading south. Follow and terminate." With that said, he walked slowly south, in the direction of the Covenant Temple, and the other Spartans