Halo: Bliss Run
Chapter 1: Sidekick
Date: June 12th/ 2564
Location: planet/ Emerald Cove
It had been a while since Adam was on Emerald Cove. He was still surprised to see that the planet was not glassed, and had became a large resort world; but he didn't think about that too much. He was just there to pick up a package. This one was small, considering his last load. His last one took up the whole cargo bay area of the ship while this package he was carrying by hand. It was a medium sized box that he carried with both hands. The contents he didn't know. Diamonds. Forerunner Tech. It didn't matter to him. All he knew was there was money for him if he delivered it.
As he carried it down the street, he noticed an unggoy being jumped in an alleyway by two middle aged men. The reason was unknown to Adam but….he decided he wanted to help the unggoy. Even though he himself was a criminal, he always thought of himself as morally correct. With that, he put down the box at the end of the alleyway and ran towards one of the two men. He then gave the man a swift punch to the face that knocked him against the wall of the alleyway and knocked him out. He then turned to the other man who pulled out a knife and cut Adam in the arm. Adam saw the wound but then used it against the man and said, "Wow…you're lucky you didn't ruin my favorite green T-shirt." He then laughed as the man dropped his weapon and ran.
At this point Adam looked at the unggoy and said. "Are you alright?" to which the unggoy replied by hugging his leg and saying, "!" Adam fell backwards and shouted. "Gahhh! Get off my leg you fucking leech." The unggoy then looked up and said, "Sorry….my bad. Thanks for saving me. I could have had taken them myself though with my NINJA SKILLZ!" he said making an odd pose. "Okay….so my name is Adam. What is your name?" Adam asked. "My name is Nakbad. Pleasure to meet you….thanks for saving me again. Do I owe you anything?" he asked. "Just tell me this….are you in over your head and need to get off this planet?" Adam asked with a blank tone. It wasn't common to find someone who was in need of getting off a planet due to trouble. Adam helped those sorts of people before and wouldn't mind doing it again.
Nakbad looked at Adam and said. "Yeah. Long story short, I was looking for a job and got mixed with the wrong people," he said scratching the back of his methane tank. The new methane tank that all grunts wore now due to the new peace treaty was now like a round dome that fitted to the shape of the grunts back. "Then you can take a ride with me to another planet. I will drop you off where I make my next delivery," Adam said with a smile. "Okidoki then," Nakbad said happily. He then ran over to the box Adam was carrying earlier and picked it up over his head. Nakbad then said. "Let's go. The sooner, the better." Adam shrugged a little, got up, and walked with Nakbad back to his ship.
They finally reached Adam's ship The Felicità, a small ship that could carry a good amount of cargo as well as passengers. As they both entered the ship, Nakbad looked around in amazement and said, "Wow…you manage this thing by yourself?" to witch Adam replied with, "Just me and a Huragok." Within seconds of Adam saying that his Huragok "Very Light" floated on in. However Adam referred to him as V.L. "This is V.L. Loves to tinker with things. He is the whole reason this ship is still afloat." Adam said. To which V.L responded with a squeal and a flail of his flagella.
Later that night during the slip-space jump Adam was at the controls of the ship. Right now his thoughts were only on what to do with his passenger when all of a sudden he heard a squeal from down the hall. He automatically knew it belong to V.L. He walked out of the cockpit only to open the door to a gun in his face. "Hello sir….have you seen a unngoy aboard this ship?" said one of the men Adam had found upon opening the door. From what he could see there were four men, one of them holding V.L aiming a SOTCOM at his head while everyone else had Maulers. One was a bald man. Two were blond twin females. The fourth was a really large guy. He was the one holding V. what Adam guessed they were some of the men Nakbad had messed with. "No sir…no I have not. It's just me and my Huragok on this ship." Adam bluffed. "Wrong answer….I'm going to count till three or else your buddy gets it." The bald one said said. "One……two…." He said but was interrupted to what sounded like a high-pitched scream.
"!!" Nakbad shouted as he ran down the hall. He had equipped to a plasma turret in his hands…however it was being dragged on the ground. On his back was a JACKHAMER and on his hip was a modded Brute Plasma Rifle. The mod was so it could fire faster…it was to be used in one burst to clear out a hallway. Nakbad fired the turret but the recoil caused him to slide back against the wall. On impact a large pipe fell and smacked one of the twins on the head knocking her unconscious. As they turned to see the unngoy shooting at them Nakbad pulled out the Jackhammer and fired it however he missed and shot to high. The recoil also caused him to hit the wall again. However the blast caused a ceiling panel to fall on the fat guy freeing V.L who flew off into the vents. The two henchmen still standing began firing at Nakbad. "OH SHIT!" Nakbad shouted as he ducked behind the corner. He then took the Modded Brute Plasma Rife ((now being shortened to MBPR)) and fired around the corner. The bald man grabbed the other twin and used here like a shield. As Nakbad dropped the gun in pain due to the high overheat the bald man grabbed Nakbad by his neck and lifted him up to his face. Then said. "You little runt…you have caused me so much trouble…I should kill you right now." He said in anger. He pulled his mauler up to Nakbad's face and gripped the trigger.
"GAH!" the man shouted as he was kicked to the ground. He had forgotten Adam was still there. "Now I don't like people just sneaking on my ship now…." Five minutes later the bald man awoke with his teammates in an airlock. The intercom went on and Adam said. "Now I don't want to see your faces again now….ya hear." To which the bald man replied with. "To bad….when we get back to our boss we are gonna tell him all about you. Then you will be dead." To which Adam replied to by saying. "No I mean don't let your bodies cling to my ship." Adam then opened the airlock and let the four out into the vacuumed of open space. Adam then made his jump slip-space again.
Adam sat down with Nakbad in his kitchen. Nakbad was worried that what he had caused Adam to deal with was going to get him thrown out too. However Adam looked up at him and said. "Well what you did was dangerous, wrong, and almost killed me and V.L. I should shoot you right now….but you saved our lives and showed bravery I did not know an unngoy possessed…so I want to ask you…wanna be a member of my crew?" To which Nakbad responded with a smile behind his mask. "This does mean I will need to outfit your armor and weapons to fit you persoGACK!" Adam began to say but Nakbad glomped onto him. Adam then just sighed and patted Nakbad on the head.
Thus begins the creation of one of the most ragtag space crews in the universe.
End of chapter 1.