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Spartan IV: A Way To Win
Chapter 9: India
India P1, 0345 Hours, March 13th, 2556, Chernobyl, Ukraine
I raced over to Christian's position and saw him leaning against some debris, desperately firing a magnum at group of carriers. I lobbed a frag grenade to buy some time. "Christian *heavy breathing* Drop your weapons quick." I said.
"Leave me Kyle, I'm not going to make it." He replied weakly. But still dropping his weapons.
"To hell you aren't going to make it!" I yelled, throwing him over my back, holding him with one hand, my SMG in the other. "Hold on man, you're going to make it." I said to him reassuringly. I accessed the COM.
"Marine, call Emily for air support." I said over the COM.
I got in a small building with Kelley and Usla. "Alright Spartan? What do we do?" Usla asked.
"We wait." I said as I laid Christian down and fired from a broken window. It was about five minutes of being holed in the building.
"Human! The big demon is injured, help us!" Yagip yelled through a transmission, I could hear sounds of the Arbiter and Fred telling him to calm down. That meant Brady was injured. I took Usla and we ran out to the main scene where Linda, Bryce and the Marine had joined. Brady was limping while shooting.
"Brady? What happened?" I asked.
" I *heavy cough* don't *heavy cough* know *Lighter cough* bad damage *medium-heavy cough* shield broken." Brady kept firing as he coughed, he was probably coughing Blood.
"Look! In the sky!" Yagip pointed.
"Thought you might need my help." Emily said over the COM and blasted the rest of the flood. She landed and the lowering came down as she came out and fired with her Magnum. Brady came to the lowering and fired as well. I shifted my vision and saw the small building where Christian and Kelley were. Then my eyes widened in horror as an explosion destroyed the whole building. The one thing to worsen the blow, was that only Kelley came out as she rushed and joined the group.
"Where's Christian?" I asked desperately.
"He's dead, he died before the building exploded, he activated the explosion mechanism in his chest plate, he's gone." Kelley sighed.
"Damn, god damn. I ju-" I was cut off as a damaged flood ship plummeted and crashed nose first into the outskirts of the city. Causing a major explosion.
I woke up on the ground. As I slowly got up, everything was a blur. I looked around the pile of bodies. It was insane. Everyone was knocked out.. I saw a flood combat form jump and break through Emily's visor, and shove it's deformed arm straight through her head. Filled with rage, I looked on the ground and picked up my SMG. As I fired, the bullets went slowly towards the target, everything was still slow and blurry. The infection form in it's chest came out tried to infect Brady as it broke through his visor. I shot three bullets but found myself with an empty clip, and no bullets, but the three bullets were enough to destroy the infection form, and blow up Brady's head.
No, three comrades, I couldn't bear anymore. Brady's neural implants slid towards me. I picked them up and placed them on my belt, something to remember him by. It was gory scene. I turned around and saw Bryce running. He fell and a pure form ran towards him. I picked up my shotgun and saw the Arbiter get up. We exchanged glances and he picked up his energy sword. We ran towards Bryce in our last ditch effort to save one of the last of the few good men left in this world.
End P1
India P2, 0423 Hours, March 13th, 2556, Chernobyl, Ukraine
Where was I? I saw that ship plummeting and then a blur. I slowly stood up and couldn't figure out what was going on. I think I was separated from everyone else, suddenly I was ambushed my infection forms, I tried to climb over rubble. My next instinct was to pull my pistol from it's holster, luckily it was loaded. After the infection forms fell, I picked up a sniper and saw a pure from ready to kill Kyle, I made a quick move to shoot it as it attempted to sneak up from behind him. I let out a quick smile and passed out once more.
End P2
India P3 2212 Hours, March 12th, 2556, Inside unknown flood vehicle, Halo installation
John opened his eyes. Was he dead? No, he was inside of this beast. He checked his timer, Karovel should be leaving by now. John thought for a way out. He slowly moved and grabbed a grenade. It was a long shot but if he could prime it and push it away, he might have a chance. So he did. He pulled the pin and shoved a few inches away. The stiffening goo was hard to work with. A blast from the grenade opened a spot for John to get back on the surface. He picked up his assault rifle and made his way to a lowering that led him to a more complicated area. He slowly moved around, careful not to get sucked in again. He raced around, killing many flood along the way. Gathering stray weapons and ammo. Until John had to hunker down and use suppressed fire on larger groups. He was about out of ammo when he found a giant beating heart. John only instinct was to shoot it. The clip was emptied as the heart exploded. John retraced his steps as he darted to the top. His comrades were gone. But John saw a single hornet fighter on it's way to the vehicle. Karovel was piloting it. John smiled as he grabbed onto the side and leaned up against the cockpit. "Damn it Sergeant, I gave you specific orders to take the men and get away from here. You directly defied those orders. Thank you." John finished as he gratefully slapped a fresh clip in his assault rifle. "So, Karovel, this Hornet probably can't get us down to Earth, what's your plan?" John asked her.
"That." She pointed up into the sky where an infected covenant ship overlooked everything. "We hijack a covenant boarding craft or a seraph, anything that flies in space." Karovel said.
"Ok, hold I need to make a call." John replied as he accessed the COM. "Cortana, I need a status update." John said, trying to contact her on her ship.
"John? Thank god it's good to hear from you. Listen, the only ships left are Rtas' Shadow Of Intent and my Twilight Liberty." Cortana said.
"You mean, Lord Hood, he's-" John Was cut off.
"Yes he's dead. But John, we don't have the time. We need to leave, that slip space crystal, it's what we need for a very important mission, unfortunately, we've lost Earth, there's no saving it. Please hurry, we need to take what we have left. Cortana out." She left the transmission.
John sighed, as he and Karovel flew to the ship and entered the final stretch of this horrible, horrible war.
End India
