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Subject Name: Evie-E833
Gender: Female Age: 22
Date of Birth: August 30th 2531
Mission: Deliver the PACKAGE to the UNSC frigate, Pillar of Autumn
Mission Status: -Unknown-
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She could hear his ragged breathing over the comm. uplink, and she hoped she could get to him before he died.
"No, not die" she thought "Spartans never die"
"Shit" she murmured, seeing several red blips on her motion tracker
she quickly ducked behind an old concrete road block and reloaded her assault rifle and her DMR.
She cautiously peered around the corner to see sever special operations grunts walk out of the old factory doors
"I really don't have time for this," she snarled, standing up and easily dispatching the grunts with a quick burst from her DMR
"Almost too easy" she said, reloading her weapon and slowly walking into the factory and seeing a med kit on the ground "I'll save this for later" she murmured, placing it in her utility case
Just then a blue plasma bolt whizzed past her
"Crap" she thought as several more bolts pummeled her shields
She quickly sidestepped and hid behind the wall to let her shields recharge
"Come on, come on" she quietly urged her shields, just as the Elite came running through the doorway looking for her.
"Guess who" she growled, jumping on the elite and slitting his throat with her combat knife
She returned the knife to its sheath and pulled out her AR and walked slowly into a supply room, watching her motion tracker carefully al the while
"Not good" she thought, seeing her low ammunition count "need ammo" she muttered, looking for an ammunition or weapons locker, and finding none.
"Oh thank god" she breathed, finding a clip lying on the ground next to a dead marine "damn…only half full" she thought, putting it into her utility case with the med kit and other clip and stepped cautiously out of the room
"SHIT!" she yelled when a blast from a fuel rod cannon hit her squarely in the chest, knocking her back against the wall and draining her shields entirely
"Damn, damn, damn" she thought, scrambling to get away from the barrage of fuel rod blasts.
She crept quietly over to a window and peered out and saw an elite zealot with a fuel rod cannon on the catwalk on the opposite wall, and another one with a plasma rifle searching for her across the room.
"Lets see how you like this" she said quietly, firing a few DMR rounds at the zealot. He turned and looked at her as she walked out the door again and fired his fuel rod cannon at her
She just grinned under her helmet and activated her drop shield, which absorbed each of the fuel rod blasts, and ran out while he was reloading the cannon and tossed two plasma grenades at him, both staying true to their target and sticking him, then she pulled out her AR, draining most of his remaining shields. After the grenades detonated she quickly ran up the stairs and grabbed the fuel rod cannon and fired it at the other elite, who was charging at her plasma rifle blazing, killing it and emptying the clip in the process. She threw it down and picked her AR back up and put the last clip into it.
"I'm coming Emile" she said over her comm. Link
She ran around a corner only to be thrown back by an Elite Zealot, armed with an energy sword
"Fuck" she thought, unloading her remaining ammo onto the zealot, barely damaging his shields "damnit, out of ammo" she thought
She heard the zealot sniffing around for her and she dropped both guns and stepped out from behind the pillar that she was hiding behind.
"Come get me!" she called out to the zealot, pulling out her combat knife
"You are brave, human" the elite said, in perfect English "but you and your kind will fall" he finished, charging her and yelling a sangheili battle cry
"Not today" she snarled, dodging him quickly and stabbing him in the back of his shoulder
"Pathetic" he grunted, charging her again, this time slashing her leg as she jumped out of the way
"Fuck!" she cried out in pain, then ran at the elite, catching him off guard and grabbing his energy sword arm and shoving her knife up through a soft spot below his rib cage, piercing one of his two hearts, then threw him to the ground
"You…have fought honorably…human" he gasped "please…finish what…you started" he gasped pleadingly
"With pleasure" she growled, plunging her knife into his chest
"Thank…you…I die…with honor…" he said with his dying breath
She stood over his body for a minute, looking down at him curiously
"Noble six, where are you?" Captain Keyes asked over the comm. link
"Oh crap" she thought "approaching the Mass Driver now sir" she replied
"Well hurry up Spartan, that cruiser's getting awfully close" he said
"Yessir" she said, climbing the ladder to the driver emplacement. Before mounting the cannon she walked over to Emile
"Just like you to kill the one who stabbed you in the back and live through it" she said
"Six…the cruiser" Emile said slowly
"Okay Emile, just stay alive until it's over"
"I promise" he said "now just hurry up"
She climbed into the MAC emplacement, dispatching the phantoms that were too busy trying to avoid the rounds to aim accurately
"Fire! Now, Lieutenant! Hit her in the gut!"Keyes shouted over the comm. link
She charged the cannon and fired, one shot in the belly of the hulking cruiser was all it took to disable it
"Thank you Spartan" Keyes said as the Pillar of Autumn took off
She exited the driver and walked towards Emile. As she was walking she stepped on something that grated into the ground with a metallic scraping. She looked down and saw Emile's Kukri knife and leaned down to pick it up
"Hey…that's mine…"Emile said
"May I?" she asked, smiling slightly
"Sure" he replied
She picked it up and walked over to him, cleaning off the elites blood, and slid it into his sheath
"Thanks for sharing" she said, remembering Kats words after their assault on the covenant spires.
She took off her helmet, her long copper colored hair falling out and framing her face. She looked down at her helmet and saw her reflection in the visor, her skin was pale as a ghost with dark lines under her eyes from a lack of sleep, and bruises from being thrown back by the Zealot
"Heh…you look like crap" Emile said
"I bet you don't look so well under that helmet of yours either" she retorted, placing hers aside and reaching down to take off his helmet
"No…leave it" he said
"Ok" she replied "here" she said, pulling out the med kit from her utility case
"No…keep it…I'm a dead man" he said, seeing the kit
"I'm not going to stand by and watch another of my team mates die" she said sternly
"Evie…there's no helping…me now" Emile said, using her real name "head for rally point Omega…you need to find survivors…and find a way…off this rock"
"I won't go without you" she said
"Fine…I didn't want…to do this…as your superior I…command you to…leave, now" he said
"I…if that's what you want…sir" she replied
"It is…you still got the big guys tags?" he asked
"Yes, why?" she said, confusedly
"Keep 'em with you…" Emile trailed off, then quietly slumped over