Covenant; on the landing above us, take them out!" Corana said.
"Nicolai, on your right." Tank ordered as he put a magazine into his commando.
Nicolai in his drunkenness pulled out his shotgun and fired off a few rounds to the upper level of the stairs.
The massive 8 gauge pellets hit everywhere but to his right and did little more than scare grunts firing down at the two.
They had made only a few rooms past the cryo bay when the covenant appeared from seemingly nowhere, boarded the ship and raised hell determined to kill the four. Whether they knew the master chief was onboard was unknown but they were certainly looking for someone.
Now Tank and Nikolai had the task of making it to the inoperable port side reactor dismantling it and bypassing the connection around the decommissioned reactor.
In response to Nikolai's bad aim. The grunts started pelting him with small bursts of green plasma and pink needles. Each shot ate away at his suits shields.
"They're firing back? No fair!"
Tank looked at Nikolai. "Blow it out your ass." In that weird low staticy voice again.
"The hell you say to me?"
"I said I'm gonna help you, hang in there."
"I could have sworn he said something else." Nikolai said to himself as he found a place to hide so his weak shields could recharge.
Dempsey crammed a fresh magazine into all three of his weapons. After this he pulled out his commando in one hand and his MA5 in his other hand and charged up the staircase both guns blazing taking out the grunts and elites.
Nikolai followed blasting what tank neglected to kill, which wasn't much but the occasional jackal or shield-less elite was a bonus.
"Looks like that's the last of them in this room." Tank paused "So where is this reactor?" He said as he and Nikolai began walking through more dimly light hallways.
"Not far, just a few more levels up."
"Any covenant?"
"Scanning… none that I can find . Though there might be stealth elites keep on guard."
"How would I go about spotting one if there are any?"
"Look for a shimmer or warped light around them. Also when they fire their weapons they give away their position."
Tank looked at his remaining ammunition. He had only a single magazine of RPK ammo and only 2 magazines each of his Commando and MA5.
'Lets hope there aren't any Im running a little dry.' Tank thought. "How's your ammo situation Nik?"
"Terrible. I have 3 mags of this Felafel and 8 more shotgun shells."
"It's a DMR." Cortana corrected.
"Shut up! I call it Felafel!" Nikolai shouted in response.
"Whatever."
"In short I could really use a max ammo right now." Nikolai continued.
"Max ammo?" Cortana asked puzzled.
"Yeah, its one of those glowing things that zombies drop."
Once again Cortana doubted the reality of her situation as well as her companion's intelligence and sanity.
Meanwhile…
Richtofen and Takeo had encountered relatively the same situation on the starboard side. Aliens of different species had attacked them with varying degrees of ferocity. Generally the bigger and more ornately armored the stronger and more aggressive they were. Richtofen took great pleasure in killing the smaller ones; they seemed afraid of him and for good reason. Some of them would run away if he got too close. The same wasn't true for the bigger ones. Richtofen was far too cowardly to engage these warriors head on, so he covered Takeo as he charged into their ranks as they continued through the ruined corridors of the Forward Unto Dawn.
"Where in the hell did these creatures come from anyway?" Richtofen asked as he had finished clearing another section of hallway on his way to the reactor on the other side of the ship.
"These are the covenant I told you guys about earlier." Cortana said to him over his radio.
"Yes I figured that but how are there so many of them?"
"The remains of this ship was discovered by a CCS class battlecruiser. It hosts a crew of thousands if not tens of thousands of covenant. They have no shortage of personnel to send out as boarding parties."
"Oh goodie, more for me then."
'Yeah hes definitely lost it.' Cortana thought.
Okay you two your destination is just ahead and to your left. Dont turn the reactor on untill things on our end are ready. Got that?"
"As you wish m'lady" Takeo said.
Richtofen entered the reactor room. Bieng an insane genius he couldnt help but think of all the weapons and explosives he could fashion from all of the shinny equipment.
"What I would give to have this kind of power output when I was working on the teleporters. I could have perfected them in months instead of years."
"Dr. We have a problem?"
"Yes, what is it now?"
"More covenant."
"Well that's never a problem for me. Richtofen reloaded his AUG and battle rifle and stepped back outside into the hallway to face the intruders."
"Alright then. Now all i have to do is give these two a crash course in electricity." Cortana said as she turned her attention to Tank and Nikolai.
"Ya know I think we got the short end of the sick when we agreed to this mission."
"You didn't agree. You volunteered." Cortana reminded him.
"What I mean is we have to disconnect a rector and rewire it. All they have to do is flip a switch."
"It's a little bit more than just that Dempshey." Richtofen said over the radio.
"O'ryly?"
"I'm under attack!"
"What's new about that?"
"I never work on things when I'm under attack- oh shit" Dempsey heard an explosion over the radio.
"Wow, that was impressive Takeo."
"Howbout you get off the radio. We're almost to the reactor."
"Reactor. Doesn't that mean nuclear. As in radiation poisoning."
"You won't have to worry about something like that. As long as you follow my instructions and don't touch anything."
"Who wants some ammo?" Richtofen blurted out over the radio.
Before Nikolai could respond a loud voice that was not Samantha's screamed MAX AMMO and the two Spartans weapons were once again laden with ammunition.
"Ah yes my guns are filled with bullets and my bloodstream is filled with vodka. Ummm vodka." Nikolai said as he topped up his M45 shotgun and reached in his bag to take another drink of vodka.
"I wish you would stop drinking." Cortana said
"I wish you would shut up. You remind me of 5th wife."
"5th wife what happened to the other 4?" Cortana asked
"Killed them. They all ether hated me, annoyed me, cheated on me, or a combination of the three."
"Wow that was convenient, thanks author." Tank said.
"And not a moment too soon. Look!" Cortana Exclaimed as an explosion ripped apart the hallway and blue and green bursts of plasma began pouring out from the darkness and the three could see the shadowy forms of covenant moving through the smoke.
Tank drew his recently stocked RPK and began putting suppressive fire down on the assailants. While Nikolai found cover in the corner of a hallway segment and began scanning for covenant heads to pop up from cover and kill them with his DMR.
One by one the two Spartans killed the three elites and dozen or so grunts.
"Well that was fun. Now lets get in there." Tank and Nikolai walked into the reactor room. As they entered blue plasma shots seemed to fire from nowhere at them?
"The hell?"
"Invisible covenant. Take cover."
"Don't worry I got this." Nikolai said.
Cortana watched as he dropped both cloaked elites with two shots to the head. How he was able to acquire a headshot on an invisible enemy while intoxicated was beyond her.
"They must have gotten in here during our firefight." She said.
"Well that's done. Now how do we go about getting this thing wired up?"
"It will be easy I'll walk you through it."
"Okay."
Meanwhile…
"Damnit Takeo get back here." Richtofen ordered as Takeo charged headlong into an enemy formation. An SMG in one hand and his Sword in the other hacking and shooting away at them from close range."
For the past 20 minutes Richtofen and Takeo had been holding off waves of covenant assailants. Now with their energy and ammo supplies dwindling they were nigh on giving out.
Takeo cut down another split faced alien. When he recovered from his attack he noticed that he was sorrounded by covenant and cut off from Richtofen. While he continued to slash away at the enemy he raised Cortana on the comms hoping that he could gain some insight as to how much longer they would have to survive."
Cortana was busy trying to help Nikolai and Tank get the decommissioned reactor unhooked so they could get a complete circut together for the still functioning reactor on the other side.
"It says to connect the red wire."
"Which one, there are two. I think I am seeing double."
"We cannot maintain our defenses." Takeo said to Cortana."
"Well hold on anyway we're not quite finished here."
After hearing this. Takeo made his way back to the doorway Richtofen was firing out of.
"We need to retreat from here. These pretties just want too much attention from their daddy than I can give right now."
"I agree but we cannot abandon our objective."
"Well we wont then."
Richtofen pulled Takeo inside the door and slammed it shut. Locking the two in the power room. Safe for the time being from the covenant but cut off from their teammates."
"Great now what?"
Richtofen looked around. The covenant were trying to break into the power room he and Takeo were in. And he knew once they did they would not be able to hold them off. Even though they had recently received a MAX ammo Richtofen had managed to use up allot of his allotted reserve.
He got out his c4 that had been replenished when they had recently got a Max ammo drop and placed three bricks on the door. After doing this he tossed Takeo the detonator.
"When I get the power on. Blow the door. It will kill anything standing outside and give us time to make a run for it."
"Right."
Richtofen made his way over to what he assumed was the main switch and got on the radio. "I hope you two don't have your fingers in an outlet right now cause the power is coming on."
"I told you guys to sit tight. We wont be much longer" Cortana replied.
"Sorry. can't hear you." Richtofen said as he threw the power switch into the on position. As he did so Takeo hit the detonator blowing the door off its mount and leaving behind a purple mist of alien blood. The two bolted out of the door to put distance between them and any covenant not killed in the explosion.
Meanwhile Nicolai was shaking as all the electricity was flowing through him. He was screaming in agony.
"Oh shit ill help you." Tank said as he tried to yank Nikolai away from the conduit. The moment he put his hand on him he began getting electrocuted as well. But he did manage pull the two of them away.
Nikolai landed on the floor face up. The smell of ozone and vodka reached Dempsey's nostrils.
"Holy shit Nik are you okay?"
His comrade stirred. "Uhg." He moaned. "My life flashed before my eyes. It was awesome!"
"You guys are either really stubborn or really stupid." Cortana remarked.
"Or just totally kick ass."
"But I did learn one thing. life is short, so I should drink more Vodka." He said reaching for his vodka.
Cortana facepalmed. "Okay lets get back the Cryo bay and get the chief thawed out."
"Right."
Tank and Nikolai exited the power room and began to re trace their steps back to the cryo bay.
Meanwhile…
"What's the status on destroying the Demon?"
"Not good at all. Out boarding parties are being repelled by an unidentified human force."
"That's impossible how are there still humans aboard that vessel?"
"I do not have an explanation but that is not the end of our problems it appears our forces have also encountered the flood."
"That is equally impossible the flood was destroyed on the Ark."
"Once again I do not have an explanation but there-"
The Ship master and Lieutenant were interrupted by the sound of an alert.
"What is it?"
"It's a Phantom dropship. Its flying erratically and getting dangerously close."
"Phantom 0040 cease your present course and re route to the hangar bay immediately." The shipmaster said over the comm.
"Shipmaster." Another elite on the bridge called out. "Life scans indicate that that dropship has flood forms on board it."
"Shoot it down, now!" The shipmaster ordered.
It was too late. The phantom evaded the cruiser's point interception fire and impacted with its hull.
"The dropship has impacted in sector 2 near the ventral bow. Scanners indicate that the flood are now on board this ship."
"Halt the landing of any more boarding parties on the forward unto dawn. Forces currently stationed there will continue their search for the demon. All others are to engage the flood in sector 2."
The shipmaster knew the importance of stopping the flood. He had fought the parasite in the days of the war with the humans from the second halo ring all the way to the Ark. He had witnessed the floods potential for destruction and knew the danger they posed to the all living things.
"Do not let the pestilence spread."
"Aye aye shipmaster." The lieutenant said.
A/N Well there's another one completed. Yes I know it took kina long but ive got something called college that is in the way a bit.
Preview: Our for zombie slayers are joined by a fifth but only to have their ranks shortened by two. Who will remain and who will be taken? Stay tuned for the next installment of Bring Me 117.
P.S. Can anyone guess who Tank is imitating/ being possessed by?
