Raddin slammed hard into the brute with all his might. The brute collapsed with the crunching of bones, as Raddin stomped over it with his heavy boots. He stopped a few meters from the pile of mush. He smiled in his helmet as he saw the bleeding bloody meat pile he had just ran over. "It's just so funny to watch them break". He walked into a room and looked around for more enemies to kill. He was trying to win a bet on who can kill the most enemies. He sighed after checking a few hundred rooms to be empty. He walked to the nearest window and looked out of it. Buildings were either half standing or not standing at all. Some even still slightly in one piece. He saw the giant warship floating above the city. He looked at it and decided to stop playing around and find some covenant infantry squads before he went to set a beacon on the warship that dropped a few pods every 30 minutes. He jumped out of the window and fell 500 stories and slammed into the ground creating a shock wave below his feet. He got up from his crater and walked forward into the suburbs of the city. He walked for hours before he decided to get his marker ready for tagging. He pulled out the marker and in the corner of his peripheral was humanoid figures in the ally way. He quickly turned to it and pulled his gun out and opened fire. He looked around and saw 12 grunts laying dead, with glowing blue blood splattering the ally way like a painting. He walked over to them and followed the path they were coming from. He decide to take his tagger out and aimed at the warship and within a few seconds beams of light struck upon it and incinerating the center and hull of the warship. It crashed into a large populated area of buildings. A humongous shock wave painted the ground causing a few buildings to collapse and a tower to fall. He smiled at the rush he got from almost being crushed by a tower. "I like it when I do that". He walked the path with an assault rifle on his hands. He saw a few pods around the corner and aimed his rifle and then noticed that they were already opened. He sensed something behind them even though his radar read that the area was clear. He got ready to fire as he moved near the pods. In an instant, little brown pods jumped at him. He shot every one of the pods but one. It scrambled off into a building. "what the hell were those things?". He looked at the remains of one and kicked it with his foot. Dust came off of the remains and floated in the air. He decided to keep away from the dust. He walked to the building that the little pod ran off too. He climbed into the window and inspected the bottom floor and found nothing. He walked up stairs and checked the room and still saw nothing. He got up to the third floor and saw the pod standing in the middle of the floor. He walked to it and it didn't even try to jump at him or run away. He was a foot lengths away from the little pod. He bent over to pick it up. It didn't move. He observed it and was creeped out by it immediately. As he went to put it back down it jumped on him and crawled around his body. He tried to get it off him but it was too fast. It tried to burrow through his armor but then popped as it did. His shields went down a bit and he ran out of the building and continued his little journey through the city.
He found one building that wasn't destroyed as much and decided it would be a good place to camp out at. He went inside and saw on his radar and saw 4 red blips. He used Promethean vision and saw it was 3 brutes and one weird shaped elite. He through a grenade and saw them scrabbling around and he shot the 3 brutes dead and started shooting the elite when his rifle was sliced in half by an energy sword. He through the useless weapon at the elite and tackled it and pulled his knife out and he got a good look at its face and he stopped dead in his movements. The smoke cleared out and it too saw his helmet and stopped struggling. He got up from his catch and noticed he broke a bone on the elite. Its leg was bent in a non-elite way and a bone was sticking out of its left arm. It was holding its arm and hissing at Raddin. He got his med-kit out and reshaped the leg back in place and put a splint on it and pushed the bone back in its arm and stitched the wound and put a splint on it. It hissed at Raddin again and tried to crawl for its sword, but he grabbed it and put it on his belt. It looked at him defeated and laid there looking at Raddin. "what are you doing demon?" it asked. Raddin stood there without responding. He started a little fire to make some light as it got dark. He covered up the windows to keep any enemies from become suspicious of light. It started raining after he was done. He sat in the same room with the fire and the elite. "you still didn't answer my question demon." it said. He grumbled a bit and still didn't respond. "are you female?" Raddin asked in a monotone voice. "yes" she said. He sat a little taller. She noticed this and thought to herself. He brought out his ration pack. She looked at him and growled "are you not going to share or are you going to let me starve!". "oh...your kind eats.." he said a bit rude. She was taken aback by what the demon said to her. "in fact you are the first female squid face I have ever seen". She gasped at his words. "how dare you compare me to a squid!" she barked. He started laughing at her. "I'm playing with you...here" he gave her a ration pack. She glared at him. "what do you know what joking means?" He asked as if she was stupid. "hey! Watch it demon...don't push your luck". "what luck? There is no luck in survival...only preparation". She looked at him and grumbled and opened up her ration pack and started eating. Raddin threw his trash in the fire. She watched him with an intense glare. "does the demon have a name?". "why yes he does have a name and he refuses to tell you anything about himself...does the bitch have a name?". She gasped again and growled as her face got purple with anger. She calmed down and looked down in sadness. "aww come on don't tell me I hurt your feelings.." he said. She looked away. "yes demon...you did hurt my feelings...I can't believe I'm so weak to have been injured from you tackling me". "no your not weak...I'm just big and heavy". "to be honest most brutes I faced died on impact of me running at them..". She looked at him and gawked. She felt a bit better on the inside knowing that she is strong. "why did you tell me that demon?". "cuz'...". She waited for him to finish. "cuz'?" she asked. "I'm not telling you why" he said. She looked at him. "fine! Don't tell me!". She snorted and looked away and laid down showing her back to Raddin. He stared at her back and observed her backside to see if she was really going to sleep. He took his helmet off as he sensed her sleeping 30 minutes later. He combed his finger through what little hair he had. He fluffed up his mohawk by rubbing his hand the opposite way his hair went. He sighed in little comfort he got from fluffing his hair so his scalp can breath. He opened his last ration pack and ate as fast as he could. He put his helmet on and put a portable heat lamp next to the elite and put a thermal blanket on her. He put his helmet on and got up and put optical guard cameras outside the room in the hallway so that if something sneaked in he could be alerted as he slept. He closed the door quietly and locked it. He sat on the other side of the dead fire and put his night vision on and his optical guard cameras online so he can see whats going on outside the room. He sat against the wall and closed his eyes and put alert on.
Raddin awoke at 4:23 A.M. , and immediately checked his optical guard cameras. Nothing. He sighed inside his helmet as he was thankful nothing happened during the night. He looked at his buddy on the other side of the room ;sleeping like a rock. He stayed awake from that time. He was going over videos of his encounter with the little brown popcorn pods. He wanted to know where they came from and what they are. He wasn't connected to the web so he couldn't access any data files. He sighed again and felt trapped. Eventually she wakes up gasping in pain as she tries to get up. "are you kidding me?!". He goes up to her and makes her lay down.