Chapter 2

Meanwhile, on the other side of the Frigate, a man in a moderately armored powered suit was trekking along the Savannah's hull. Like Master Chief, he was also completely covered in the powersuit and was also searching for a way in when his suit flashed and an image of a woman appeared. "Hey, Isaac, remember that your objective is to find the battery cell for our ship so we can escape this planet, not investigating the armory of this strange ship. You better hurry, though. Santos is dying of blood loss from when you extricated her from underneath the space debris on Tau Volantis."

"Please don't remind me of Tau Volantis again, Ellie." pleaded Isaac. He fought through miles and miles of frozen wasteland to stop the Necromorph outbreak, and he only succeeded in spreading it even further. He remembered the time he fought the Nexus, a 5-story tall monster, and the time he found Buckell dead. He remembered the time where he had to shoot a crazed Norton in the head. And all Isaac Clarke wanted to be was a space engineer, not some Necromorph slayer.

"What surprises me is that this ship is human, but it doesn't appear to show up as a cruiser in service. The S.C.A.F. and EarthGov has never seen anything like this, let alone heard of a 'UNSC'. The weaponry on this ship is advanced and built with mechanisms and controls that are incomprehensible." Said Ellie.

"I think the Sovereign Colonies Armed Forces are Lying, because the 'SC' in UNSC could mean Soverei-" Isaac was interrupted by a tentacle protruding from the hull. "What the **** is tha-" Isaac was pulled in the ship, his helmet grazing a jagged piece of metal, ruining his comm systems. He smashed onto the floor, jagged pieces of glass cutting through his armor. He stood up and limped to a corner, pulling the shards out his back and managing to suture the cuts, applied disinfectant to it, and took a heavy dose of painkillers. It'll do for now, he thought to himself while repairing his armor. In less than a minute, he was ready to go. He saw a blue glowing object in the room next to him, and he took out his Plasma Cutter. He had modified it so that it fired on full auto and added a module to his gun that acid-tipped his shots, causing even more damage. He kept the rotator cuff module on it, so he could change his reticule from vertical to horizontal and vise versa.

He wanted, really badly, to use his weapon. He shot at the glass, causing it to shatter, explode, and melt away. Cautiously entering the room, he went over to the object and picked it up. It emitted high amounts of radiation from some of its cracks and ruptures, but Isaac's armor protected him from radiation. He shut the battery cell off and pushed a button on his suit aka RIG, which in turn deployed a gas, and a robotic voice uttered "DECONTAMINATION COMPLETE". He walked out of the room, and immediately headed for the armory. He figured that it could have some weapons to give to Ellie and the rest of the crew to defend themselves. He also thought that if he salvaged some weapon parts, he could build his own gun! The thought of having an overpowered seeker rifle excited him. A low growl startled the living daylights out of him and he brandished his modded Plasma Cutter and shone his helmet's flashlight on a Necrmorph... except that it looked fairly different. Its head was replaced with three short tentacles with red, barbed ends. It was wearing some blue armor that seemed alien-like, and it was even more decomposed and mutated than a Necromorph. What scared him most was the fact it carried a bluish glowing sword of some sort.

Without warning, the Necromorph lunged at him. Isaac knew all he had to do was shoot the limbs off, so he cut off its sword-wielding arm. It merely looked down at its arm, then picked the sword up with its other arm. Isaac responded by shooting all of its limbs off, then finishing it with a stomp. A mixture of blood and mucus caked his boot. Isaac made his helmet retract into his armor and threw up all over the fallen body. He shouted "HOW DO YOU LIKE IT?! EAT MY BOOT! AND REGURGITATION! DO YOU LIKE THE TASTE OF IT?! DO YOU LIKE THE TASTE OF IT?!" as he stomped the corpse repeatedly. The three tentacles on its head slid out and a small bug popped out. It walked with its three tentacles over to what seemed to be a seven foot tall, hairless monkey. It burrowed in its chest cavity, and the body was violently spasming. Strange growths grew out of the skin dramatically, and the body stood up, horribly disfigured. It held what seemed to be a hammer. The infected monkey swung the hammer at Isaac, but he dodged it. The hammer struck the ground, sending out a force more powerful than a force gun. Organs and flesh blasted everywhere, and Isaac tried not to throw up. He whipped out his plasma cutter and instinctively shot the head, and it immediately died. He ran to it and stomped on it until it was a pulpy mess.

He looked to his right and he saw a robot donning green armor running away from a corridor, shooting a strange assault rifle that fired super fast. He saw Necromorphs swarming out of the corridor, with limbs and bodies full of bullets. Isaac took them out like a pro, one-shotting them. He turned to the robot, and said "You're a pretty bad aimer for a robot."

The robot replied by taking off its helmet, and Isaac saw a man's head instead of a robot's. "WELL, it's pretty hard to run, turn around, and shoot at attackers with bladed arms with an assault rifle, one handed." He showed Isaac his rifle, and it had an ammo counter on it. When he reloaded the weapon, the counter turned to 60. He a flipped a switch on his weapon, and the counter turned into a red dot scope with up to 5x magnification.

"Your rifle holds 60 bullets?!" Isaac asked, astounded. "Who has acquired the technology to do that?!"

The chief looked at Isaac's armor, and then Isaac's weapon. He then told Isaac that his armor seemed ancient, and asked Isaac where he came from. Isaac responded "Lunar Colonies."

"Lunar Colonies?! What the Jackal are you talking about?! I thought that the Lunar Colonies fell over 200 years ago!" Replied chief.

"How about we just skip to introductions?" Isaac asked, trying to avoid confusions. "My name is Isaac Clarke, engineer of the CEC on Titan Station. And you?"

The chief hesitated for a moment, but moved on. "Master Chief of the U.N.S.C., Spartan II."

Isaac asked "Does the SC in UNSC stand for Sovereign Colonies?"

"No, UNSC stands for United Nations Space command. I am a Spartan II, a supersoldier that wears armor, like this. Unfortunately I am the last of my kind. All that is left are Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. All the Spartan 1 s are dead." Replied the Chief.

The duo was interrupted by a chorus of growls, moans, and screams. Master Chief leveled his VK5B, and Isaac reloaded his Plasma Cutter.

"Who do you have?" asked the Master Chief who was putting on his helmet.

"Necromorphs... you?" asked Isaac as his helmet slid back on.

"The Flood. Are the Necromorphs the things with blades on their arms?" asked the Master Chief.

"Yes, and I'm guessing that the Flood are those things with the tentacles on their heads." said Isaac.

"Tentacles? What the heck are you talking about- OH CRAP!"

Countless Flood forms and Necromorphs surrounded them, but then suddenly, a flood form spawned a nasty idea in what brains it had. It walked over to a dead necromorph and infected it. After lots of violent spasmings, blood shedding and morphings, the end result was... Cortana as a human?

"Cortana...?" Master Chief mumbled as he stumbled over to embrace her.

"MC, NOOO!" Isaac screamed, but it was too late. Human Cortana exploded turned into a 20-foot tall beast with 10 thorned arms, each holding M41 rocket launchers. Now, the M41 was not something to be toyed with. It held 2 rockets, one in each barrel, and had a homing rocket that could level some buildings. One fired and it blasted Chief back to Isaac. His energy shielding was knocked out. The beast It gave off a stink so powerful that Master Chief's gun started to corrode and melt. Isaac turned on the Decontamination on his suit and the biochemical gas formed a bubble around Isaac. Master Chief's armor was doing fine, but his weapons had melted off. So he picked up an Energy sword and turned it on. "Come at me, bro." Isaac muttered to himself. Master Chief just seemed to taunt the Flood forms by swinging his energy sword around.

The Florph (Flood-Necromorph) beast eyed the duo suspiciously, and spontaneously bellowed a low moan. All the Flood, Necromorphs, and Florphs converged on the Chief and Isaac, and the epic battle of the two versus hundreds of biological anomalies began.