Halo Reach: the flag
"Oh man, this is the worst half-assed plan I've ever come up with". I say to Ryan (my friend and cohort in this match) down my mike as I reload my shotgun and get ready to evade once more back into the blues base and steal their flag. they had 3 people in the base last time I looked, it used to be four, until I blew some unlucky guys face off. 3, 2, 1, GO. I roll in then roll to my left and pull up the shotgun, at this range I don't even need the follow up punch. 1 down, 2 to go. They both come in at the same time, one from the right side of the wall, the other through a hole in the roof of the circular bunker, I'm surprised no other enemies had come to join the party but judging by the noise outside I guess Ryan is holding them back. Roof man meets the floor with a lot of holes in him, whilst gunman number 2 gets shot then punched. I pick up the flag, hefting its familiar weight and think to myself "right next to the headlight fluid?". "Ryan I'm ready for a lift back to base now, meet me at the front door would yah?" I shout down my mike. As I get to the door I see Ryan's revenant hurtling towards an enemy soldier whilst he fires its cannon at a warthog. Once the ground-pounder is just paint on the front of his revenant he turns towards the base and come in to pick me up. I hop into the passenger seat and hang onto our spoils of war like there's no tomorrow. Ryan uses the boost ability of the revenant till its out, but we're still only at the halfway point in the canyon. "Shit, Ryan, their scorpion's back. Hurry the fuck up!" I nearly scream at Ryan. He uses what little boost he had left but it still isn't enough, as a filthy blue gets into the scorpion and starts firing towards us. Miraculously, none of them hit us and we're nearly there. Ryan drops me off beside a ramp that takes me up to the top of the base and I run up it then jump down the hole in the roof just as I hear the commentator announce "5 minutes remaining" followed by "flag captured" then "Game over". looking at the post game results I learn that Ryan killed 20 people whilst I was grabbing the flag. I un-mute my mike and say down it "good game people, lets do it again sometime".
