Necrophobia
Chapter 1: ERROR
/Date/1-30-3024/ERROR…Unknown life forms encountered/ Mandatory system clean
out/Possible Flood vectors-Possible non-Flood vectors[[Running system wide scan]]
/ERROR/ Main engines off-line, Plasma generators at 53% output [[Running Crew Status]] 1187 alive, 13 dead [[Recalculating]] 1184 alive, 17 dead [[Recalculating]]
1184…1183…1182/ERROR/[[System shutdown initiated]]
"By the gods what is that?" said Field master Volago Utunamee
"I don't know Field master…I think it's the flood" Replied a Elite
"No it can't be, this system was sterilized years ago. Now get those lights on, I can't command this ship without being able to see"
"Yes sir, I can get them up in three minutes" said Ugama Putamee.
" Get that Comm array back up we will need it to give orders through this
Chaos" Volago stated.
Volago thought about this mess, how could this have happened? He thought to him self as he heard a rustling in the vents. The vent exploded as the creature came out, it had ruptured a electrical cord as it had burst through the vent. "Shoot the monster!" Volago shouted. The creature was horrifying it was a elite obviously, but so horribly disfigured it could have been the devil himself. The thing attack a nearby elite, with its blade like hands the thing tore through the poor elite.
"Shoot it, shoot it, SHOOT IT!!" screamed Mutaram, a Special operations elite. Mutaram pulled out his plasma sword as the monster tore through another brother. He got in closer and slashed off its arm, the monster roared in pain then proceeded to stab it's huge claws into mutaram's right arm. "Curse this…this thing! It won't die" shouted Mutaram as he attempted to hack off the creature last arm. Rataras, Mutaram's friend ran toward the monster and stabbed it in the chest with his blade. The creature slumped and Mutaram kicked it over.
"What the hell was that?" Rataras stated
" I don't know but we will need lights if were going to survive, Ugama how much longer?" Volago said.
" Almost got it…. There we go" Ugama answered while he started to get up.
"Good Ugama, now can you fix that Comm array?" Volago asked
As Ugama walked over to the array he replied "I don't have the tools to fix this we need to get down to engineering and secure a transistor module, this one is fried."
"Well lets get moving, Ugama take a couple soldiers with you. I'm going to the plasma generator room." Volago smirked and took some men with him to the engine room. " Jara your coming too, now brothers we will destroy this parasite and save our ship!" the rest of the elites cheered in eagerness, they where ready to kill.
"Rataras and you three your with me, were going to engineering. Mutaram you stay here watch the bridge with the rest of them" Ugama said.
"Okay, I will stay here but I will help guide you there" Mutaram snickered
"Don't count on it, I know this ship more than you do" Ugama scowled "okay lets get moving, what ever those things are… their not friends" Ugama walked towards the door and said " Rataras, Unamee take position near that door, Terak cover my back. Mutaram get that door open now" The door slid open and revealed darkness. The elites entered through the door. They walked down the blackened corridors as they came upon a group of dead bodies.
"Damn those things they got more of us" said Unamee as he kicked one of the bodies in frustration. To his surprise, to their surprise the elite got up and lifted Unamee in the air by his throat.
It screamed " Make us whole, make us whole, MAKE US WHOLE!" Unamee broke its death grip and kicked it in the stomach. The thing doubled over as Unamee slammed his knee in to the thing's face. He quickly backed off as Ugama and the others drenched it in plasma fire. "What…why did he do that?" Unamee said in shock.
"I don't know but I don't want that to happen again" Ugama said as he shot the rest of the bodies making sure there dead. "Well we have to keep going" muttered Ugama. They started moving off towards the engine room. Ugama saw a glimpse of what was a elite for a split second. He open fired on it and missed as it ran out of site.
"What was that?" Terak asked
"I don't know but I'm not going to get jumped by another dammed crazy elite" Unamee spat out with hatred. Unamee drew his plasma sword. He thought for a second about how much has changed since the Human-Covenant war. The weapons haven't changed much, well at least for the Elites. The humans are a different story. They have mastered slip-space travel just a little bit after the elites. Their weapons have been significantly increases in effectiveness. The human fleet now has over 2000 thousand war-ships, all armed with a improved MAC that can fire in slip-space and can fire it's shot's into slip-space while in normal space due too the mini slip-space hole that it fires before it shoots.
Rataras moved toward the hall that the thing passed through. He looked to his right where the creature had gone. He saw a open vent and he noticed he was on a observation deck. Ugama and the rest entered, taking up point to defend the area. "Look towards the deck below" Rataras said. They looked and to their horror they saw brothers dying. Three of them where left firing at the monsters, a vent burst in the deck below, a thing jumped at the elite and held one of the poor bastards in a death grip. The monster with its razor sharp teeth bite through his neck as purple blood splattered the floor. The other elite drew his sword and ran towards the monster, he was cut short when a projectile like barb hit him in the head, broke his shields and killed him. The last elite fired his plasma rifles wildly as a barb stuck his arm into the wall, another barb hit his last arm. He screamed in pain and in horror as the monster with the barbs came down off the ceiling and used his blade like tentacles, that where protruding through his back, to stab him in the chest. Ending the elites life.
"Well this is gonna be a happy day" Ugama said with sarcasm and a bit of dismay.