Final Moment

The marine had run for miles before he finally fell to the ground, exausted. He held his weapon up weakly at the advancing flood and pulled the trigger, only to hear the dry click of a spent round. He frowned then pulled it again, the same dry click answered him.

"Great."

He muttered to himself.

"Out of ammo..."

He dropped his gun and lowerd his head and closed his eyes. He thought of his family and friends, his mission, his purpose.

His squad had been dispached here to ambush a small group of covenant that were escorting prisoners. The objective was of course to kill all the enemys and bring the goodguys home. But enroute his squad was ambushed by some sort of creatures. They faught back but there never seemed to be an end to them, they just kept coming, wave after wave of mutated flesh untill finally he was the only one left.

Now it seemed he would die here, alone and afraid on this godforsaken ring in the middle of space. He looked up again at the foul creatures slowly surounding him and spoke.

"No! I won't be one of you!"

He said unsteadily. He fumbled around in his pack untill he found what he was looking for....A detonator and explosives. He quickly set the bombs and redied the detonator as they closed in on him. The explosion would kill everything in twohundred metters if he did it right. He layed down as the flood began to crawl on him, digging thier tenticles into him. He yelled in pain but did not waver. He held up the device in his hand, the small red button gleaming softly in the moonlight. He closed his eye, a single tear rolling down his cheek while he said his last words and pressed the button.

"I'm sorry mom...Goodbye"