Chapter 2: Spartan-713
713 looks at Regen and Backlash and sighs. "I was in the last of my training and we all had a 'buddy' who we went through training with. My partner was Spartan-654, she called herself Vanessa. She wanted to have a name unlike most of us. We weren't given names, cause they it would make us tougher some how. The half died, well that's what we called the half of us who died as small children. Luckily, Vanessa and me both survived the first half. Next we went into second half where we were combat trained. The way it looked we were going to survive it too, but then something terrible happened. We don't know how, but flood came out of nowhere and started to attack the base. That day i saw the most horrifying thing ever. I saw Vanessa get infected by a flood spore. she was right next to me." 713 stopped looked down at the ground.
Regen spoke up first "did you love Vanessa?"
713 looked up at her "yes, well I think so. At first i loved her as friend and as a sister sort of. Then we started to love each other more as we grew up. The last thing I said to her was 'I thought training was, but it was just the beginning' I said that cause it didn't matter how many times we killed them they just got back up.".
713 stood there back to back with another spartan shooting back masses of the flood.
713 held a shotgun while Vanessa held a assault rifle. then 713 said while blasting away a combat form "how many of these things do you think there are?" Vanessa never stopped firing and said "don't know, but I sure hope they end soon cause I'm running low on ammo."
Then the firing stopped "Vanessa?" 713 turned around to see a flood spore carving its way into her neck. 713 stood there terrified at the sight of the only being he ever felt any feeling about suffering a fate worse then death. Then she turned to him. Her body was changed, she was no longer human. She swung at him, but he dodged it. She continued her attack on him. He backed up against a door. the flood form of her charged and the door opened behind him and he fell in and the door shuts and she slams into it. 713 looks around he was in an old research facility. He looked around saw some weapons on a table he walked over to them. They were covenant weapons of all sorts. He picked up an energy sword, he know how to use these. He grabbed two and then looked around grabbed two maulers. He saw more weapons looked through them and they looked like experimental weapons. He picked up assault rifle, but there was an attachment that looked just like a shout gun but the bullets were glowing a slight blue. He loaded it up and but it on his back. He found several what looked like swords.
713 started thinking "are these just normal swords? wait the blades must be made of some sort of new metal and it has battery pack in the hilt."He grabbed two and put them on his hips and grabbed as much ammo and equipment as he could carry and went to the door. He took a deep breath in and opened the door and pulled out and energy sword. He turned it on and slashed just as the infected Vanessa ran in. She fell to the floor. He guessed she was dead and put the sword away and pulled out the experimental rifle. Runs out into the hallway and shooting down any flood that appeared. He stopped the next turn reveled a hallway filled with flood, ti the point that the walls were covered in their ooze. 713 put his finger on the second trigger, it was time to try the experimental part. He stepped out into the hallway the flood charged as soon as he stepped out and then he pulled he trigger. And he was sent flying back as the round went off. He hit the floor hard, but got up quickly to see that the walls were covered with body parts and what he guess it flood blood. He runs through. He saw a sign, he was near the dock bay and he remembered that they had flight training today, so there should be something to fly out here in there. He kept running not seeing any flood. He got to the door to the docking bay and opened it. The docking bay was filled with flood. They all charged him, he tried to hold them off as best as he could, but there was just to many. He had his back to a storage unit. He reached back to get support, but the thing spinned under his hand. He turned to see a turret and smiled. He grabbed it and started mowing down flood and made his way to the landing platform to find a short sword fighter, it'll work. He got on while shooting, then threw the turret at the flood and closed the hatch. He ran to the cockpit and started up the engines. He blasted out of the dock bay as fast as he could. He reached space and shut the engines down. He looked out the window at the planet that was his home and remembered everything. He remembered Vanessa and started to cry as the ship flew through space on its way to an unknown destination