CHAPTER 2
Jimmy, my last friend
"It's Delta and Chief, isn't it?" I looked at him as he asked me this question
"Hmm, I miss him. It's been three weeks and we haven't heard a single word Jimmy."
"Oh." He fell silent and stared into a single spot on the wall. I climbed onto the top bunk and stared at the ceiling.
"Hey," Jimmy's head popped up over the rim of the mattress. "What?" I asked, turning my head to look at him. That's when I noticed that he was wearing a pitch black suit of armor, "Here." He said handing me my cyan helmet and then stepping away from the bed. I looked at my armor and then to him with a quizzical expression. "We're getting Chief and Delta back." He stated and walked to the lockers.
I jumped from the bunk and pulled my uniform off and started to get dressed when I realized Jimmy was smiling at me. Our eyes met in the mirror on his locker, after a few moments he continued to pack his bag. I quickly pulled on my chest plate and my gloves; I then walked over to my locker and grabbed my battle rifle and Spartan laser.
"Umm, Jimmy?" I said in a shaky voice, "I-I haven't said everything about the planet, the thing is we weren't being chased by Covenant. It-It was the Flood!" Jimmy then pulled me into a deep embrace as he attempted to calm me but it did very little. "I know he's alive! I just know it!" My breathing was staggered as I tried to speak but it was of little use.
"We'll get him back Millie, I promise." Jimmy stared into my eyes as he pulled my helmet on my head and then grabbed my hand. "I won't let anything happen to you or them." We then walked towards the hanger and got in a Pelican, we set the course to a far distant planet named Riecha. Me and Chief went to take out a small installment of Covenant, nothing too big but then we realized that the Flood had invaded the planet when we landed.
"Hey you never told me how you and Chief met." Jimmy looked at me waiting to hear some long story about my past but I decided not to bore him with the details.
"I was one of the first Spartan II's, I somehow was placed in a Cryo tube years before Chief was ever trained. The funny thing was it was the Pillar of Autumn I was stored on. When the lifeboat crashed on the first Halo somehow I made it out of the bucket of bolts alive," I paused and stared at the ground for a while, "Chief found me helping some survivors stand off the Covenant attacks. He may not seem like it but there's a soft side to under that scarred piece of armor. But anyway he knew I was a one of the first Spartan's and he let me join him against the Covenant. Knowing that we both wou-! Oh I'm probably just boring you now!" I said sort of embarrassed by my rambling, Jimmy just giggled.
3 Hours later…
"Ten minutes till landing!" The pilot warned us as we began to slow down into Riecha's atmosphere, that's when a Wraith shot our left wing clear off. "We're going down! Hold on back there!" We could hear her calling maydays on the radio. I had never crashed in a pelican, sure a Banshee or a Hornet but those weren't as high flying as these, I looked to Jimmy scared. He had been through this stuff before, he pulled my in with one arm and he spoke a few words over the helmet radios, "Just hold on it'll be fine."
I was becoming dizzy from the constant spiraling motion; finally I fell to the floor as I put my hand on my helmet and began to gag. It was making me sick; I could fell every tree branch snap as the Pelican continued it's descent to disaster. My hands and knees left the unstable floor for the transparent air filled with my screams, as we hit the ground. My suit took most of the shock from the crash but I knew in the morning I'd be sore. I grunted as I stood up, Jimmy helped me gain my balance as I walked out of the damaged Pelican.
*CHANGE OF VIEW**DIFFERENT PERSON*
"Chief there's just too many!" Corporal Stone yelled as the assault rifle recoiled in his hands. "Hang in there Stone!" Captain Tallisus yelled as she shot a small group of Flood before they could explode on him. Stone cursed under his breath as they continued to push forward through the waves of endless enemies. Chief took his Brute Spiker and aimed it at a turned Elite and fired, the clip emptied and he threw it to the ground as he grabbed his shotgun and blasted another larger group of the Flood.