The Plague Chapter 1: Awakening
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It was history; the peaceful meeting of human and Covenant. The human Commodore O'Keff and the Covenant Field Master Isna'Rallnme met in a tent, set up not too far away from the crash site. "So we know this, Thing, is some sort of biological weapon?" Isna inquired. "While I wish we didn't make it, yes." O'Keff sighed. "I've contacted section 9 on this one, and they said there sending in a specialist. I just hope they know what they are doing…" O'Keff gazed off into space. Isna sighed. "So, what do we do now?" O'Keff looked up. "I don't know. The Stalgrand, that's the research station up there, won't give any specs on this thing. Come to think of it, they haven't answered any calls we put in." She paused and mulled this over. Isna and she looked into each others eyes and said in unison, unrehearsed, "Oh shit."
The grunts were nervous. You could tell because of the way the fidgeted and pulled at their harnesses. Nusa'Nissana Was in charge of this section, and he was nervous too. With him were a company of Jackals and a pair of hunters. He could see the human troopship flying beside them. On board were a company of what the humans called, ODST. The were about the same ranking as Nusa and his kin were, battle wise. He hoped they were good. When his ship landed inside the human research station where this thing came from, he was waiting for a scene of carnage. That fact that there was none puzzled him. If something got loose and killed everyone on board this place, shouldn't there be some bodies? His troops thundered down the ramp, quickly setting up a perimeter. The ODST did the same. Once that was set up, it was time to go looking for IT…
Subject 417 stirred. Something had entered its domain. It sniffed the air, tasting its prey already. More of those fleshy pink things, and… something different. It shrugged. Nothing too different. It was still sustenance. Still food. It shambled off. New prey had come, and it was time for the hunt. It grinned in anticipation. Slowly, a scientists body, shot, broken, and now host to Subject 417, stumbled to its feet. It crouched, sniffed once, then bounded and leaped down the hall toward dock bay 17: Toward food.
A sweep of the area had turned up nothing living. A visual search had turned up numerous pools of blood, discarded small arms, broken or out of ammo sentry turrets, and so many shell casings that the floor was literally carpeted in them. But no bodies. Private Winslow sighed. This was another bug hunt. Another search through the dark, broken halls of science vessels. Leading to the eventual capture or death of the thing that had killed off the science station. The scopes were picking up nothing, and his sensor mate, an Elite named Kena, was asleep. He sighed again and turned back to the monitors, glowing with useless information. "Ping!" Winslow bolted upright, as did Kena'Slerocha. Both scopes were picking something up, barreling down Access Junction 499. Winslow thought about all those horror movies for a second, but only a second. He and Kena must have had the same idea, for they both pressed big, red, buttons.
Alarms wailed, marines, grunts, jackals, elites, and hunters alike were jostled out of bed, and AI controlled defenses were put online. Subject 417 took pause at the red lights and loud noises. He had heard these once before, when he escaped. That was when… He whirled about to those box-ish things he saw in the hall, and made ready to attack the Sentry guns… too late. A combination of bullets and plasma blew Subject 417 apart as Covenant and Human sentry turrets opened fire. Even when Subject 417 had survived the bullets of assault rifles, there was just too much, too fast. The body flew apart like wet cardboard, and soon melted under plasma fire. Subject 417, was terminated. Subjects 042 through 922 felt their brother's death, and moved in to avenge him. Subject 999, was already on the surface of the planet…
To Be Continued…Yeah, I know. There was no Master Chief, Cortana, or any other people from the original Halo. Don't worry. They'll be here soon enough. Whether they survive, that's up to reader input… MUA HAHAHA!!!!
