Disclaimer: I do not own Halo, Bungie, 343 Industries or anything associated with it. I do however own any oc character that happen to appear over the course of these stories. Any names that bear similarities with anything is purely coincidence . So without further delay read, review and enjoy
In Which Certain Characters Live
Chapter 1
Chyler Silva
Chyler couldn't believe this was really happening, they were the last people left alive in the entire planet. Many of their friends and fellow cadets were dead and they were under attack from God knows what the hell those things were. One thing was for sure, they were definetly not insurrectionists. This new threat had plasma-based weapons, cloaking technology and swords that could cut through solid metal. Now they were following whatever it was that saved them, He dwarfed them in size and had torn a weapons cage like it was paper. Her friend Thomas Lasky walked over to her to calm her down. Your going to be o.k. he said, and handed her a helmet. Chyler put it on with trembling fingers. Just then the one that saved then reappeared. "Who's the best shot?" He asked, "Chyler is" Lasky replied. "I'm good too", said April Orenski. The man spoke again, "You Lasky, can you drive a Warthog"? "Yeah" Lasky said after a moment, "good" said the man "because none of the NPCs I fight with seem to know how to drive at all". "Who are you", Lasky demanded, "call me Masterchief" said the man.
The group made their way to the warthog passing the bodies of UNSC soldiers and fellow cadets. As the neared their objective, they came under attack by enemy snipers. They were pinned down so Masterchief opted to draw their fire while Lasky started up the Warthog. It didnt take long for Chyler to expend her ammo. Then she spotted something, a strange looking rifle with a purple casing. With no other weapon available, she picked it up. It was huge and she held it clumsily, but she took aim and fired. The shot went straight and true, killing the sniper. Soon other snipers started dropping, Chyler looked behind her and saw Masterchief running in the open, picking off snipers with a pistol, plasma bolts seem to bounce off his strange armour. 'Who is this guy' she wondered, but before she could dwell on it, he was telling them to get to the Warthog. Everyone jumped in while MasterChief manned the gun, "DRIVE" he ordered. Not needing to be told twice, Lasky took off as fast as possible.
As the group drove towards the rally point. Driving the warthog was harder than Lasky thought, he was swerving all over the road. "Go right", Masterchief ordered, Lasky obeyed "it's only 5 minutes to the pelican, we need to get off the planet". Suddenly they were ambushed by more enemy shooters, "fire in control bursts" Masterchief commanded. They picked off many aliens and were soon out of the kill zone. The drive went smoothly for a few more moments, Lasky turned to Chyler, "good job" he said and Chyler smiled. Just then an alien jumped out of nowhere and got run over but not before firing a few shots. Lasky cursed, the hit had disabled the warthog so it was no use trying to start it up again. "Tom", Chyler whimpered, Lasky turned to Chyler to see if she was alright. It was then did he see a purple crystal sticking out of her abdomen, his faced turned pale. "Chyler's been hit", he yelled in a panic. Masterchief turned to him, "hand me the biofoam" he said, Lasky tossed it to him. Lasky picked Chyler up and layed her gently on the ground. Masterchief pulled the crystal out and applied the biofoam into the wound. Chyler cried, the pain was excruciating, like a thousand burning ants. "It will do for now" said Masterchief and Lasky breathed a sigh of relief. Lasky looked around and notice the enemy was retreating, he also saw a green light in the distance. "What's going on" he asked "we're being hunted" said Masterchief "get to the pelican and don't stop for anything, including me". "I'm coming with you" Lasky said "think of it as my way of saying thank you, and this time I'll draw their fire". Masterchief merely nodded and the two headed out while the rest of the group headed to the pelican. After expending all their ammo and grenades, Masterchief and Lasky manage to kill both hunters, Lasky served as a decoy while Masterchief shoved grenades in their torsos. "You did good Lasky". Masterchief said, Lasky merely nodded. "Thomas J. Lasky" Chyler yelled, he turned towards her and Chyler rushed up to him and embraced him. "You fool, you stupid crazy fool" she scolded as she hit his armor. "If you do anything that rash again I'll kill you" she said. Lasky just smiled.
The journey to the pelican went smoothly after that. They boarded the Pelican which was occupied by two others that dressed like Masterchief and took off. The Cadets took one last look as the enemy glassed the area, Then they turned towards the soldiers whose names were Kelly and Fredric. Then Kelly and Fredric took off their helmets, the cadets looked at them surprised. They were indeed human, but they were surprisingly young no older than 25 years. How old are all of you?" Lasky asked. Kelly and Fredric looked at each other, "that's classified" Kelly replied. 'Figures" Lasky thought, they turned their attention to Masterchief (whose name they learned is John). He never took off his helmet and just stared at the shrinking horizon.