Chapter 4: Covenant Invasion
Chief and 115 stepped out of the pelican 3 clicks away from the Covenant drop site. Chief had not said a word too 115 throughout the journey to the site, likewise for 115.
115 pulled the lever back on his sniper and rested on his back, then drawing 2 magnums.
Chief was armed with the usual, an assault rifle with a magnum for a sidearm.
"John I don't too work with you, so lets just split up and get this damn mission done."
Chief nodded and went a separate way, 115 headed in the opposite direction.
Chief pulled back the lever on his assault rifle, the screen glowing a bright 32 full rounds ready too punch through Covenant scum.
"Chief? I am sorry you have to work with that traitor." Cortana said
"Never though in a thousand years would I see him again." Chief cleared a 5 foot jump landing gracefully on a boulder.
"Maybe it will do some good though Chief. Maybe 2 Spartans can save the world."
"He is not here to help us, he is here to get a new ship and supplies and then he will leave again."
"I don't know Chief, maybe just maybe he will stay and help."
Chief and Cortana continued the journey to the drop site in silence.
115 walked through the woods his camo now glowing green because of the dense jungle around him.
"Computer, 117 is now a hero to the humans right?"
"Affirmative sir."
"Why would they put their trust in such a weak Spartan?"
"In actuality sire, 117 is one of the most powerful Spartans ever created."
"Thanks, I really needed to know that."
"Your welcome sir."
"Computer, that was sarcasm..."
"Oh, right."
"Uh huh." 115 trudged along through the forest.
Chief came on to the Covenant drop site. He watched in silence.
"Be aware fellow Covenant," and elite spoke "The Demon is here, and there are rumors now of 2 demons." numerous murmurs drifted through the battalion of grunts, brutes, and other elites.
Chief stepped out and threw a grenade into the middle of a group of grunts who, on turn, went flying when it detonated.
"It is the Demon!" A brute yelled and began firing a brute shot at Chief.
Chief side-stepped the shots, jumped, and stuck the brute in the face with a plasma he ad scooped up from one of the dead grunts. The Brute exploded in a shield of bright blue light.
Chief then strafed left firing and killing 3 more grunts with his assault rifle.
A brute walked up behind Chief and raised his spiker ready to hit Chief when his head popped like a melon from a sniper shot.
115 shook his head and made his way down the slope wondering if Chief would ever learn to watch his own back.
Chief turned and saw the body of the headless Brute and 115. Chief shook his head and walked through the forest thinking about how slow 115 was, Chief knew he hadn't changed.
115 left Chief's path and climbed a ridge spotting a group of 7 Brutes.
"A new scent." one of them said, "Track it do-" the Brute's head exploded in a fountain of red mist.
"The Demon!" and then another Brute's head popped like a balloon.
"2 Demons!" another Brute yelled dropped his Brute Shot and ran away from 115 and Chief.
Chief tossed a spike grenade he had picked up, it stuck to the back of the Brute's head.
"It stuck!" the Brute yelled before exploding.
Chief and 115 looked to the sky and saw a fleet of Covenant ships seemingly destroying the UNSC marine air force. 115 looked at Chief.
"Still think the war is over?"
Chief looked away and began running back toward Fort Smith.
"Man down over here!" Joe yelled as a Marine next to him took a hot plasma shot to the chest.
"They are flanking!" yelled an ODST to his left.
"Fall back! Fall Back!" yelled a marine.
"Now hold your position!" Joe yelled as he gunned down a grunt, "We have back up on the way!"
Joe dropped and reloaded his gun when he saw it, a Covenant bomb in the center at Fort Smith.
"Radio Chief, tell him he needs to get his ass here now!" Joe yelled and a Marine tried too establish contact with Chief.
"Now radio contact sir, we have to hold off until they arrive!"
"Shit!" Joe yelled and popped from his cover again killing 2 more grunts.
"Joe, we can't hold them off!"
"Then we fucking die trying!" he yelled and tossed a frag at a Brute who dove away.
"I got a signal! Chief and 115 are 1 click away sir!"
"Hold them off men! 2 Spartans are on their way!"
"2 Spartans! Are you shitting me Joe!?" yelled a marine who was reloading his gun.
"No I am fucking not" and Joe fired killing a Brute.
Chief emerged from the trees seeing the battle and immediately went to work killing 4 grunts and crushing a Brutes throat with his rifle.
115 jumped from the trees gunning down a Brute and a Grunt with his 2 magnums.
"Hunter!" Joe yelled as it emerged from the trees.
Chief tossed a grenade stuck it and the hunter stumbled but kept running. 115 fired a shot, finishing the hunter off.
"Chief!" Joe yelled "Disarm that bomb now!"
Chief ran over and had a better idea. He grabbed the bomb and threw it into the forest where the Covenant were pouring in. They heard a deafening explosion and the flow of Covenant seized.
"My god! We won!" a marine yelled and saw something that everyone went silent upon seeing. On a screen in the middle of Fort Smith a face showed. It was the Face of the Prophet of Agony, the new voice of the Covenant.
"Fools!" the Prophet yelled, "Why dost though think your demon shall save you? For he is but a puppet but alas now 2 demons!" he said upon noticing 115 "This maybe caue for panic but there shall be none!" the screen went black and the power of Fort Smith finally went out.
