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Back on the Longsword: Hiding in the shadows of the ship was a pack of Spec Op Grunts. One of the Grunts could not wait any longer, so he attacked. "Your destruction is the will of the gods and we are their instruments!!" John grabs a shotgun and blows the shit out of the grunt. "There has to be more. Cortana, scan this ship for Covenant life forms." Hearing a scurry of feat in the dark of his ship John fires into it. Suddenly an explosion rocks the ship. "What the hell was that?" "I don't know. There seems to be nothing near us for at least 5 light years. Unless..." Cortana stops. They both stare at the dead Grunt, there is a blue thing stuck to it. "Holy CRAP!" MC yells, "there's plasma grenad-" The chief is cut off by it exploding. "These things are tearing the ship apart! We have to find somewhere to land and fast!" Cortana: "Shifting shield energy to jump. 3.....2.......1" "Look! There's a ship passing below us." The chief grabs a thruster pack and bangs open the door, "Lets go!" and he jumps out. "Ummph, Hey there's two of us in here you know!" "Sorry Cortana. Let's open the hatch." While Eric leads all the non- – SPECOPS as SPECOP backup, the SPECOPS have been split up into groups of two so they can enter from different directions and Chris and Julia have been paired up. "I wonder if the rest of the group has found anything," Chris wonders out loud. "I don't know an- Wait. What's that sound?" "What sound?" He hears a slithering from beyond the door in front of them. "Oh, THAT sound." Julia: "Funny, sounds just like those squid things in the video..." Chris: "Well we got to open the door so, you back me up with that Sniper Rifle." "Ok." Chris raises his AR and moves toward the door. As soon as he opens it hundreds of infection forms jump out at him. Chris: "Oh crap!" "The squid things!" He falls backwards, shooting at the creatures. "Julia, help me!" But she is to busy watching the door. Once Chris is finished with the infections, he gets up and yells at Julia. "Why the hell didn't you help me? Those things killed Sam-" She just points toward the door. "Oh My God!" Chris screams like a little girl. Sam the Flood Warrior: "I see you came here to protect my former squadmates. But, do you think they could hide from us? I already knew where they were!" "What the hell are you?" Chris and Julia say in unison. "Why, I am a flood warrior. A member of the highest I might add. My former life's advanced knowledge of military allowed me to be one of the most important. But sadly, a flood warrior or workers' life is short. 7 days, 34 minutes, and 6 seconds to be precise. And you will be one of us soon." Hearing this, Julia instinctly fires her sniper at him. But, it goes straight through him! "Silly, silly your weak sniper bullets go straight through us." He has no time to finish, because Chris rips off his head. "Yet again foiled by us, we do not need heads such as you," the decapitated Sam says. "How can you speak, you have no head!" "Why, I never actually SPOKE to you, I just mentally said it in your head." Seemingly from nowhere a voice says "Shoot it in the gut with the Shotgun." Just as Chris is pulling out his shotgun, Sam's mutated squad grab and hold them down. "Too bad, I guess we will have to turn you into flood by force. I was hoping you would just give in." "Then your obviously stupid!" spits Chris. "Really? Well, let me tell you what being assimilated feels like. First, you feel intense burning; that feels like your skin peeling off then, it does. The second sensation is your neck snapping and the bones in your leg crunching. Then your skin rots off. That is why we live only short while, it is unfortunate. Now I will give you a choice, A: You surrender and we give you a quick transformation or B: You struggle and we give you a slow transformation." All of the sudden something drops through the ceiling. "How about C, they DON'T have a transformation!" The Master Chief blows away all the flood with his M90. "Need a hand?" After they nod the chief pulls them out of the gooey mess. Chris: "Jesus. The Master Chief. John. Spartan 117. In the flesh, I thought you were only a myth. Um Chief, is it true you knew my father?" "Yes I knew him." "Is he alive? What happened to him? Where is he now?" John: "No. He was assimilated. The Truth and Reconciliation." Disappointed, Chris asks no more. TO BE CONTINUED |
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