Outbreak: Escape from Hell
Posted By: gruntkiller99<joerhret@yahoo.com>
Date: 20 June 2004, 12:34 AM
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Narssesil, Gratonkuf
Covenant Planet
2427 hours
The next two outbreaks were just the pods, but the third had two "Elite" combat forms. Realizing their threat the Chief shot off their legs. He spun and fired into the wave of infectious forms. Finally after the Flood stopped coming everyone reloaded and asked questions about the Flood.
"Quiet, The Flood are parasitic life forms that use Elites and Marines as host for combat forms," He said pointing to the shambling tatters of flesh lying on the ground. He continued on describing their intelligence, and other traits such as the S2s ineffectiveness because of their rapidly liquefying insides. They took a moment to try to understand it all.
"Let's keep moving we're going to need to if we're going to get out of here alive," said the Chief.
Fred set his C7 on the door out and then took cover inside a containment cell. Five seconds later the C7 exploded blowing the door to pieces. The Spartans stepped out and turned facing each entrance to their position. The Master Chief fired a shot at a combat form that strayed in front of the entrance. They moved out and eliminated half a dozen combat forms and thirty infectious forms. They walked through a door and were in a room, were the Covenant were battling the Flood on the landing below them. They let them whittle each other down before throwing plasma grenades into the scuffle killing the rest of the forces. They crossed the energy bridge and went through another door leading to another Covenant, Flood firefight. This energy bridge was faulty and wouldn't turn on. So they waited until they had beaten each other down to a reasonable amount then they jumped down. The Master Chief fired his M90, the 8 gauge buckshot shells tore the nearest combat form apart. He turned and a found himself face-to-face with a human combat form. It lashed out the tentacles snapped at him like a whip knocking him against a wall. The Chief dropped to one knee, narrowly missing the second blow. He pulled the trigger on his shotgun blowing a foot wide hole in the creature. He saw Fred struggling with a combat form his shotgun lay idle two meters away. The Chief slung his M90 worrying about the scatter gun hitting his teammate in favor of his Battle Rifle and fired three short bursts at the tattered hunk of flesh. Fred grabbed his shotgun and nodded in thanks to John. When he heard a sizzle and saw a ruby red beam of light pop a dozen infection forms. The Chief realized that since the Flood was here naturally Sentinels would be. They would be great helps as long as they stayed unprovoked. The Chief saw Will and Kelly take aim on a patch of the machines and, before he could shout a warning they fired. Four came down under the initial barrage of bullets. The quickly returned fire and now there was no chance of a friendly alliance. Still the Sentinels would focus on the Flood so he focused on the Sentinels. He was looking upwards, aiming at the flying machines when a combat form opened fire, twenty glassy needles impacted upon the Chief then three seconds later exploded, nearly knocking him to the floor. Remembering not to let his guard down lest he wanted the infection forms catch him with his shield down - again. He aimed at what was left of its head and squeezed the trigger and the flood form hit the ground. Just then a carrier form waddled in and exploded under the impact of Kelly's well aimed shots spewing more pods. That ended the real battle and the Spartans popped the remaining balloon like forms and regrouped.
"What the hell were those flying things," asked Linda.
"Sentinels," answered the Chief, "Their job is to stop the Flood from spreading, they're not our friends but they will focus on the Flood before they fire at us unless in self defense." Kelly and Will shifted uncomfortably at their mistake being mentioned, "Now let's move."
He walked through an entrance that's door had been destroyed. Again he split his team and walked through the paths. This time however the cells were open and two combat forms lunged out but fell to the floor under the Spartans' hail of fire. He heard the chatter of automatic weapons and realized the others must have run into opposition. They met at the door and continued into a room that could only be described as chaotic. Flood fired at Covenant who fired at Sentinels who fire back at both sides. The Chief tossed a smoke grenade in and charged forward his movements masked, but that also caused the Grunts and Jackals to fire randomly hitting some of their own teammates. Linda picked off the Sentinels which had no problems firing into the scuffle for they were above the thicker smoke. The Chief battered a Grunt aside and pulped an Elite with the butt of his rifle. He heard an explosion as a carrier form burst knocking Will who had the misfortune of being too close into a Jackal. Will slammed his rifle into it killing the alien instantly. The Chief fired three times at a cluster of combat forms and Kelly killed the last Elite ending the fight. He stepped out of the smoky area and looked for a door it was resting behind a Covenant communication box.
"Chief," Cortana said, "I believe that door leads to the security room. Maybe we can keep the Flood contained for the moment."
The Chief relayed this information and walked through the door there were dozen of infection form in the room. His shotgun boomed and killed most of the leathery monstrosities. Kelly finished the rest with a spray of AR fire. The Chief walked up to the holo panel and inserted Cortana into a slot.
"This will only take a minute," said Cortana coolly.
There was a sudden bang and the door dented in.
"Hurry," said the Chief his voice amazingly calm, "We might only have seconds."
Just then the door caved and hundreds of infection forms poured through. They stopped and looked both ways, there was nothing there. The Spartans sprang up from their cover behind the holo panel's base and sprayed the Flood forms each bullet passing through the holo panel made it shimmer and shake. It took only seconds to kill them all.
"There done, the only way out now is a series of tight winding corridors," Cortana informed them, "Though you'll need to shut down your shields to squeeze through some."
"All of you heard Cortana," said the Chief, "that means watch out for the little bastards."
The Master Chief popped Cortana out of the holo panel and inserted her into a slot at the base of his neck. They exited through a side panel barely large enough for one Spartan. John took point followed by Will, Linda, Kelly, and then Fred. The Chief spotted three Grunts ahead and fired a three round burst into each of them. He kept going without breaking stride, and found another door this one too small to fit through. So he deactivated hi shield signaling for his team to do the same and slid through shoulder first, though he still vaguely aimed his gun forward. They exited out of the small passageway and found themselves in a normal sized room littered with bodies, but not all of them were dead. Eight Brutes and Four Elites aimed at the armored humans the Elites snarling and the Brutes roaring a battle cry.
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