I watched as the ship faded away into the sky safely, until the blue fire of it's thrusters disappeared into the blackness of space and for the first time in a while I sighed. It was done. My mission was complete. The AI was safely aboard, and eventually the AI will be the savior of Earth and her colonies.
I grasped the few dogtags I was able to retrieve from my team members. One from Jorge, Kat, Emile and Carter. My heart weighted heavy with the loss of them. I had only known them less than a month and I had grown close to every one of them in a strange Spartan way. I had never been apart of a team. I was a lone wolf. A special force that worked undercover for the UNSC. Then as soon as I began to lose them one by one I realized why I had chosen to work alone. I couldn't get close to anyone without them dying.
I stood on the platform overlooking the ruined base. Dust and smolder littered the red air as banshees and enemy vehicles flew past, readying for the final blow. Covenant troop carriers lowered only a few hundred meters away from my position, coming to finish what they started. To kill the last Spartan of team Noble.
I clenched my fist, tucked the dog tags away, and grabbed my assault rifle from my back. There will be another timeā¦
The wind was beginning to pick up, throwing up red dust in the air and making it hard for me to see my oncoming enemy. I cocked my weapon and slammed the butt of it into a jackal who was suicide enough to charge me from behind flipped the gun around in my hands. More grunts came at me from the left, I rolled and dodged their bullets easily and shot them down wasting only two bullets.
The images of noble teams last few moments together played in my mind as I mindlessly killed and slaughtered anything that dared cross me. Rage was evident in my blazing green eyes behind the HUD. I wanted them all to pay.
I needler bullet struck into my armor from behind, barely damaging me but the pain was there. Spartans were trained not to feel pain so I pushed it away. Gritting my teeth I charged at the Elite holding the weapon, aiming my rifle right between it's eyes. Eventually it came down but was soon replaced by three more. I ducked behind a collection of rubble that used to be part of a building. I reloaded, shot at a jackal ten meters away. It took a few more seconds to pin down the others I managed to see over my hiding spot. Damn they were fast fuckers!
A shadow engulfed me and I rolled just in time for a energy sword to slice through the metal where I once was. I kicked at the red clad elites joints knowing where the creature was vulnerable after nearly fifteen years of fighting them. It stumbled for a moment, long enough for the barrel of my gun to find the open spot in his armor and fire. It roared before I kicked it down and expertly readied my weapon for the next one. Two came at me this time from the gap between two boulders. I was exposed to their plasma bullets that dug into my dark red and black armor, my visor blinked in warning. I ran at them with blind fury. The creatures were massive compared to me but that's what made them clumsy. Speed and agility is the only way to beat them. The orange clad one swung it's massive arm at me when I got close enough but I ducked and hit it with a force that knocked it back a foot. I shot at it until the other came at me, it's mandibled jaws splitting like a snake threatened. I only caught a glimpse of it's red eyes before I quickly spun and stabbed the elite through it's jaws and up into it's brain with my kukri. I pushed it's body over snapped a nearby grunts neck before getting thrown a good few meters away by the other elite.
This one's helmet was knocked off so a few good shots to the head caused the frenzied elite to drop dead after I quickly regained myself, but not without suffering a few energy bullets into my left shoulder. There was pain screaming at me from all over my body and it was becoming harder to ignore it.
The battle went on for what seemed like hours but could have possibly been only minutes. I saw so much blue and green blood and even some of my own. They came at me from everywhere, my vantage was that I was quick and could find a temporary hiding spot to reload in the swirling dust. That wouldn't hold them off forever though. I was on twelve more rifle bullets and my armor shield strength was beginning to weaken. That and there were more and more of them by the second.
I was hiding behind an overturned warthog, breathing heavily, my visor was cracked causing my vision to falter. I heard roars and taunts from the elites nearby and my fury lit up like gasoline to a fire. This was the end, and they were going to pay for the destruction of this planet with at least another twenty lives. I threw my empty rifle aside and pulled out my pistol. Might as well take a few more bastards with me.
I emerged out from behind the wreckage with a hatred so obvious in the way I walked that for a second I saw a flash of fear in the few elites eyes. I took several bullets that were now working their way past my armor and into my flesh, blood began streaming out, but I continued. I ducked, evaded and swung at the nearest one managing to shoot it straight into the head. Sadly it only knocked off it's helmet and it just stumbled back dazed. Another elite pushed me over trying to crush my body but with whatever strength I managed to get I kicked him off. The other came at me again it's energy shield in hand. I was pinned by another pair of appendages as I waited to die. I only hoped it was quick.
Yes I know this is short but it's just a starter chapter basically. Anyway I've been on a Halo hype for a while lately so decided to write a story of how Six survives and get's off the planet. If she does .
I remember very little of what happened before I was about to die. I had my eyes closed, face calm. Every Spartan dies it's what we were born to do. I don't believe I've ever known a Spartan to live to retire. It was my time. I've done my duty.
But I didn't die. Something exploded far to the left of me. It shook the ground in a series of tremors that carried through my aching bones. My brain rattled and the ground beneath me split open. I fell in darkness for the longest of times before hitting something hard with full force. Dirt fell all around me, in my mouth and on my skin. I tried to speak for god knows what reason but instead I fell into a darkness that would consume me for the next few hours.
