I told you so
Posted By: Reiyou<tristan98006@yahoo.com>
Date: 6 May 2004, 1:39 AM
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4679 12th Omega P.H.F
93,716 years before Human Recorded History
Auren made it through the door right before the grenade exploded. He turned around and aimed with the pistol in hand.
The rest of his squad was panting.
"Everyone here?" He asked. He got a ragged chorus of 'aye sir'.
An alert private who had made it through this sheep screw had noticed something.
"Sir!" He said, while looking at the elevator panel. "Someone's gone down and I can tell you it wasn't one of them." he said.
Sere held up a carbine's 90mm cartridge. "Yeah, I'm guessing our missing men went this way. Auren nodded. "Form Up! Once more into the Breach, People! A bunch of Yes Sir! Followed that were thankfully enthusiastic.
Kess had finally reached the bottom. Not where he wanted to be. Thankfully there were no flood around here. He heard the elevator go back up. He spun around and waited for it to come back down. It was Auren and the rest of his squad.
"Thank god it's you sir!" He shouted.
Always business, Auren nodded.
"What happened to Saran and Kalen?" He asked the other two missing members of his squad.
"Unknown, we ran into a pack and I lost them there." He said mournfully. The squad got off the elevator and approached the door.
The door opened and it was a Zurian. He was unfortunately dead and they looked into the chamber beyond.
It was the main control center.
Some areas were on fire and a massive battle had happened as dead of both Zurians and Flood littered the area. The primary control panel was blasted to hell. Another door opened and everyone spun to the noise. It was Kalen. Saran was over one shoulder and the other arm had an Anti-Tank Shotgun up and ready, no lighter then a pistol.
Auren reacted first. "Kalen, what the hell happened?" He asked. As Kalen moved into the room, checked it was secure and checked his rear.
"As you know we went after Kess and we caught up to him and he had recovered. So I decided we should head here and that's when we were attacked. Kess got separated from us and I guess you guys found him. So we finished the fight with the flood. We moved on looking for a way to get down and back up and we found an armory. High Com had sent us AT shotguns so we loaded up. I then locked down the armory and ordinance. We headed for the stairs and we got into another fight. We won no problems with these badass suckers. We reached level three and decided to move on. It was there we were ambushed and Saran caught a clip on full auto. I finished the fight and I've been fighting with him on my shoulder the entire time. So now I'm here with you." Kalen finished.
Auren took in the situation. Saran was also his electronics expert.
"Sere, patch him up and get him able to fight. Then tell him that he should fix the main panel. I think it's in his capability to get it working. I'm taking Kalen, Kess, and Janice to get ammo, armor repair kits, shotguns and whatever else I can think of. You read?" She nodded and then started to tend to Saran.
"Alright! Let's Rock!" He yelled and kicked down a door that was to the main gallery. Flood were everywhere and he opened fire with a carbine. Flood exploded into shards of flesh and bone as the massive carbine raked through their ranks. The rest of his squad fanned out in a rough semi circle and the rate of firepower that was fired at the flood would even make a squad of Spartans quake in their boots. Auren moved forward, and found that they had decimated the gallery.
"Scrounge ammo!" He ordered. The Zurians spread out and searched for spare ammo off of dead corpses. After everyone had collected what they could. Auren lead the way through another door.
"Sere, is Saran up?" He asked.
"Yeah, I'm up!" Saran replied. "Let me guess, Armory?" He asked. Auren heard a zap on the comm. Channel and Saran cursed.
"Yes, where is it?" Auren said as he spotted a flood. He opened fire and it was sawed in half by the slugs. Another dropped into his view and he blasted it apart as well. A third dropped down on his right. He fired a burst and the flood's chest disintegrated. It dropped in a crumpled heap. His squad piled past him.
"Done?" Saran asked.
"Yes."
"Great, 2nd floor, from the main gallery take a right through the right door from when you get on top of the gallery. Then take a left once you reach that room and go up the stairs. There should be more ammo along the way. I'll drop a NAV point for convenience." Saran finished. A NAV point appeared on Auren's HUD.
"Thanks." He said. He led his squad up a ramp and followed Saran's directions. He was right. Dead flood littered the area with hundreds of shell casings. Those two must've gone through thousands of rounds of ammo. Well, the carbine was known as the most accurate wall 'o' flak creator. He reached the armory and found the toys he liked the most. The Z77 Multi-purpose missile launcher was one of his favorites. It could fire four different missile types. Type I rockets were High-Explosive Armor Piercing rockets. One of them would splatter a bandit. The next type, Type II was for LONG range bombardment. They had a 5 km range and were hyper accurate. About as half as powerful as a Type I, they, were dangerous but not a one shot, one kill rocket. Type III were Flares, except powerful enough to blind anyone in a fifty meter radius on impact and burned for ten minutes. The final type was a small fusion bomb. It would glass a 25 meter radius at about 10 million degrees Celsius. He found the healthy supply of Type Is and IIs that usually came with Z77s but when he opened another crate he found four Type four.
"Jackpot." was all he said. He grabbed the rocket launcher and the type fours. He then grabbed four type 1s and slotted them where his grenades would go but he had ran out a long time ago. He then slid the rocket launcher on to a rack on the back of his armor and put his carbine on the other. He grabbed an AT shotgun and enough shells to last him for a long time. The rest of his squad was purring over the toys as well.
"Sir! Lots of contacts!" Janice said. She chambered a round into her shotgun and aimed at the door. The door started getting pounded as big indents appeared.
"Stow the rest of that and get ready!" Auren yelled as he also chambered a round. The door finally exploded inwards. Janice fired first. Three flood disintegrated. Auren fired as well. A small swarm of rangers were destroyed as well as another flood across the gallery.
"Sir! I've got company!" Sere reported. He looked at his squad monitor and noticed she was firing her weapon as well.
"Saran how much longer?" He yelled as he sprinted into the room and spun. He fired twice and 8 flood were killed in the twin walls of flak.
"Five minutes! Maybe quicker but the damn system refuses to start!" He said grimly.
"Back to the main control room! Let's scatter! Make them pay!" Auren yelled as he went into another room. Someone followed him as another shotgun roared along with his. He turned and found it was Kess.
"Let's go! No time to waste." He said and jumped 10 meters up and onto the next level. He slaughtered another pair of flood with another shotgun shell.
"Sir! It's getting crowded and hot in here!" Saran reported. His monitor reported that he was firing his weapon as well.
"God damn! How many of them are there!?" He yelled and skidded into a wall, leaving a small crater. Kess was behind him as well and skidded into the wall as well. Both kept going over a pile of corpses. Auren hoped he could get to the main control center before Sere and Saran were overrun.
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