Outbreak: Hell's Guardians
Posted By: gruntkiller99<joehret@yahoo.com>
Date: 15 June 2004, 1:04 PM
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Narssesil, Gratonkuf
Covenant Planet
2315 hours
The stutter of plasma rifles and pistols response of an S2 AM, a M19 SSM, and two Battle Rifles filled the air.
A minor Grunt heaved an ignited plasma grenade at the humans and shouted "Grenade!"
John raised his shield catching the well thrown grenade, it exploded and he appreciated the strength of the metal alloy when it wasn't even scratched. Fred's first salvo of 102mm rockets blew two Hunters and five Grunts to pieces. His second salvo hit one Hunter an Elite and a Grunt, the other Hunter roared in rage and fire three rapid plasma bolts at Fred who was at the right edge of the formation. He rolled behind a tree and reloaded. He peeked around, poked his launcher out and fire twice. The first 102mm shaped charge slammed into the Hunter and the second hit five Jackals and an Elite. The Master Chief emptied half of his clip into a charging blue Elite. A scarlet veteran snarled and opened fire at the armor clad human who waited until the plasma rifle over heated and dumped waste, he fired twelve rounds which impacted on the Elite's head and the last two penetrated and flew out of the back of the warrior's skull. The Chief then slammed his shield into the soft ground reloaded and holstered his SMG and un-slung his Battle Rifle. He peered through the scope and sighted a gold Elite, John fingered the trigger was about to fire when a sharp crack resounded and the Elite collapsed in a heap. Three more cracks sounded and three Jackals fell Linda's dead aim was responsible for the damage done. The Master Chief opened up on a group of a dozen orange clad Grunts, they fell quickly under the barrage of armor piercing bullets. He then tossed a frag into a clump of soldiers and it went off with a whump, thus ending the frantic firefight. Behind the piles of bullet riddled corpses was a large rectangular vaguely arachnid structure. He hadn't noticed it through his haste to kill the masses of Covenant soldiers. Now that he did he didn't want to enter, the last time he went into a building such as that he was attacked by relentless waves of infectious flood.
"I think we should check that building out Chief," suggested Linda.
The Chief warned them about the threat of The Flood. "Cortana what are the chances that the Flood will inhabit the structure."
"88 percent chance of Flood inhabitation," responded Cortana gravely.
The Chief sighed, swore, picked up his shield and un-holstered his SMG and continued as point man in their delta formation. They slowly walked down the hill to the structure. A dozen Grunts leaped from their cover, cluster of boulders followed by four Elites. The red veteran Elite fired; a barrage of glassy needles impacted on the Chief's shield and exploded dropping his shield to ¾ charge. He emptied his clip into it and the alien fell. The Grunts opened fire with their own barrage of purple needles. Thirty hit Linda, seconds later they exploded staggering her and causing her last shot to go wild. Will tossed a stolen plasma grenade onto a scarlet Elite's helmet the Elite warbled something just before he was enveloped in a flash of blue light along with two Grunts. Linda picked off the two remaining Elites and twenty-three rounds of AR fire was sufficient to end the short outbreak. The Spartans gathered plasma grenades from the fallen aliens, reloaded, and continued their short walk to the door. It was locked up tight, but Kelly was carrying a standard UNSC lock breaker. Three minutes later the door slide silently open and the armored humans broke formation and entered one at a time spaced out by a meter. They found themselves in a large room filed with Covenant communication technology, but no Covenant guarding it. Strange anything the Covenant deem "important" was usually guarded, but behind the purple COM boxes was a grav lift, they got on and Kelly who was closest hit a button on the holo panel and the lift lurched downwards. There was a pit in the Master Chief's stomach but he didn't dare say this because he needed everyone sharp if his and Cortana's suspicions were correct. At the bottom of the lift was a dozen Grunts and Jackals. Shotgun and AR fire ended the fight before it started. They passed through a door which lead to a hallway the split ninety degrees right and left. Will, Kelly, and Fred went right while the Chief and Linda went left. They passed what the Chief had come to know as a containment cell. It was closed, but John peered through the window and the room was empty. They met with the other half and went through another door. Inside were the bodies of two black ops Covenant strike teams. They were smaller than normal units which made the Chief wonder if there was Flood in here and they had used some of their bodies as hosts. He banished the thought and kept going, after thirty minutes of enemy less rooms the came to a large room which was split in half by a tunnel. A chill went up the Master Chief's spine as he went down into it. There was the familiar door which they went into, but rather than let the door close John put his shield in between the doors keeping them open.
"Chief what are you doing," questioned Fred.
"Leaving a way out," he paused, "trust me."
Suddenly his sensor painted contacts behind the door he just opened. Sure enough pod like Flood forms poured through pushing the shield out of the way. Knowing what they were the Master Chief opened fire at them a hail of armor piercing rounds popped dozens of them. The other Spartans saw him fire and followed suit until they finished the leathery bastards off.
"What the hell where those things," asked Linda.
"The Flood," replied the lead Spartan grimly.
Seconds later another outburst of Flood came this time behind them. They had just enough time to swear and start shooting at the balloon like creatures that hopped, rolled, and leapt at the armor clad humans.
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