It all Seemed like it happened in slow motion. John squeezed the trigger of his MA5B spraying lead into the face of the leading alien in the door of the pod. It shrieked as his mag ran out. Four more fanned out of the
pod
"SHIT" he screamed.
He drew the two combat knives and lunged at the thing. But all he slashed was clear space. What the hell? He felt his shields fail and a searing pain in his back and doubled over. They grabbed him and pushed him into the pod.
He let them take him. They were too strong. He could fight one but not four. He heard a strange clicking sound and two of them stayed behind to scout the ship as the pod detached. The door slammed shut.
"Aren't my suits speakers supposed to translate other languages?" John whispered to cortana
"Yes, but this dialect is not in my data banks or your suit's , I guess we're dealing with an unknown foe"
that cant be good thought John. The only good thing was that the odds were evened out. There were only two of them. If he could take them by surprise, he could overpower them and kill them or throw them out the pod. Then he might have a chance of escaping. He stalked up behind them knives raised and lunged slashing down at their necks with each one.
He felt them sink into the soft flesh between the armour and sever their jugular vein. Blood gushed out of the wounds as the creatures fell to the ground clutching their necks.
Score one for the chief he thought softly chuckling as he inserted Cortana into the ship's control panel. Her avatar appeared on the pedestal next to the panel slightly flickering before saying
"What? I've seen this type of system before!"
"Its forerunner!"
"What? You mean the ones who built the halos!"
"Affirmative"
He Redirected his attention to the bodies of the creatures he now knew as the forerunners and looked at its weapon. Weird, he thought. its kind of like a whip type thing mixed with a gun. He picked them both up and attached them to the magnetic strips on his thighs. He could use those he thought.
Something hit the pod and he heard growling. Ive heard that before he thought. The door of the pod exploded inward and blasted John off his feet as little infection forms scuttled in.
"The Flood!" Cortana gasped "how could they be here?"
the chief dual wielded his newly acquired whippers (his new name for them) and squeezed the triggers. A long thread of blue light erupted from the end of each gun, popping all the nearby infection forms.
He looked out the back of the pod and gasped as he saw a silver planet with blue glowing lined running around it and covered in brown blotchy spots which he assumed to be flood "bases". .ships orbited the planet slowly, and shooting out what looked like a wraith's mortar cannon.
" I don't know what's happened but it cant be good" John whispered to himself.
Cortana said "it seems the portal might have taken us back in time to the forerunner-flood war"