Chapter 10

The Space Pirates' Surprise

The Master Chief slammed in his last clip for his assault rifle, Samus was running low on missiles and they weren't even half way to the activation switch. The Flood carried Covenant weapons, but the Master Chief didn't want to use any of them unless he had to; he preferred human weapons over that of the Covenant.

"Reclaimer, this is taking awfully long, are you sure you do not wish to blow the planet?" 343 Guilty Spark asked,

"Yes," replied the Chief, "I'm sure."

They continued down the path and encountered nothing for a moment, until they reached the last door to the activation switch.

"Stop." A deep voice yelled,

Samus and The Master Chief turned around and saw a large group of Space Pirates. "Great, what do they want?" Samus asked annoyed by their presence,

"We have come to insure the death of 'The Bounty Hunter'!" a Space Pirate bellowed,

"And how do you intend to do that?" The Master Chief asked,

"With an old friend of Samus'." With that said a large black figure moved through the air. It was fast, so fast that the only thing the two warriors saw was a black blur.

"'Recalimer'," the same Space Pirate said to the Mater Chief, "Meet Ridley."

The monster known as Ridley landed on the ground behind the Space Pirates, he was larger then usual, and most of his body was black metal anything else not covered by the black metal was a dark red substance that looked like muscle. He had large claws and large wings and a large mouth with large teeth and his eyes were yellow and red.

"What the hell is this thing?" The Master Chief asked Samus,

"No way……." Samus whispered, "I killed that damn thing twice! And it's still alive!"

"Yes 'Bounty Hunter'," a Space Pirate said, "it was hard to bring Ridley back from his grave, yet again, but." He paused, "You are worth it."

"Oh enough of this!" 434 Justice Spark replied annoyed, "Sentinels kill the Pirates!" Large silver robots flew into the scene of action and began to laser away.

"Leave Ridley to me." Samus said sprinting forward,

"What am I suppose to do?" The Chief asked,

"Now is your chance Reclaimer," 343 Guilty Spark replied, "activate the first part of the weapon!"

The Master Chief sighed and jogged forward to the large blast doors. He grunted and mumbled, "Stupid Samus, getting all the fun, while I do all the intellectual work."

The Master Chief got the door opened, with the help of both monitors and their annoying voices laughing and saying, "We are geniuses."

He ran forward and a group of Flood came his way.

Samus fired a missile at Ridley, who easily dodged it and returned with a shot of the large beam from his mouth. Samus jumped over it, dodging it by mere inches, and rolled. She charged her beam, sprinted forward and fired at one of the exposing flesh spots. Ridley roared, he began to bleed vigorously and fell to the ground dead.

"That blast shouldn't have killed him." Samus said to herself and found the true reason of Ridley's death. A small group of infection forms had attacked Ridley from behind and had gotten the better of him. Samus ran from the scene and hurried to follow the Master Chief, she didn't worry about the Sentinels, they could take care of themselves, and she didn't worry about Ridley becoming a Combat Form, he was too much metal and too little flesh. She sprinted forward jumping over dead Combat Forms and joined up with Master Chief shortly after.

Back near the death site of Ridley, Ridley lay still. But the infection forms weren't feasting on him anymore, they began to slowly, bring him back to life.

Zuka 'Zamamee and Yayap ran through the thick jungle trees, ignoring the insects. They ran for their lives from a group of Flood forms that wanted to infect them, or just 'Zamamee. Yayap aimed his gun, blindly and fired two charged shots. He looked at his gun battery, almost drained.

"Excellency," Yayap said, panting, "Where are we running to?"

"There is a Covenant post, not too far-" He took a breather, "From here, we should be able to fight off those things there." The emerged from the jungle and saw the Covenant post. There were a few fires and bins knocked over. Combat Forms were everywhere, and dead bodies of Grunts, Jackals and Hunters were scattered, bodies sprawled. They lay in their own pool of blood, rotting, while flies covered them.

"This isn't good." Yayap said sadly as the Combat Forms finally saw the two soldiers. Suddenly, plasma fired rained from nowhere and the Combat Forms were killed. Elite Commando's materialized from thin air and two drop ships of more black armored Grunts and Elites stepped out. Also with them were about ten Hunters.

"Who are you?" The largest Commando asked 'Zamamee,

"I am Zuka 'Zamamee. This is my companion, Yayap."

The Commando looked at the Grunt and grunted, "Yes, you are the Elite who was suppose to rid us of the special armored human."

"That is correct." 'Zamamee replied,

The black Elite grunted again, "Come, the Prophets would like a word with you." And he led them into a waiting drop ship.

The Master Chief clicked buttons and pulled levers that the two monitors told him to and the first switch was activated.

"Good job Reclaimer!" 434 said, "Now we can wait here for the 'Bounty Hunter' and we can take the warp pad back to the entrance."

"Warp pad?" The Master Chief asked.

"Yes, they are located in every chamber." Replied 434,

"Why didn't we use it to get to the controls in the first place, instead of running around this damn thing!"

"You never asked."

"Damn bastards."

Samus came jogging in a few moments later and asked, "You get the switch activated?"

"Indeed we did 'Bounty Hunter'." 343 replied,

"Let's get going then, to the warp pad." Samus suggested,

"Wait," Master Chief said, "You knew about the warp pad?"

"Yes, why?" Samus asked,

"Why didn't we just use it in the first place instead of running around this damn thing!"

"The warp pad is only useable when the controls are activated, don't you know how to ask?"

"Apparently he does not." Guilty Spark said with his little robotic chuckle. The Chief sighed and they used the pad to warp back to the entrance of the chamber and they began to follow the two monitors to the next chamber.

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To reply to the 15th review, in this book they are brothers, all of them, for some reason unbeknownst to me. (For those who don't know what unbeknownst means, it means unknown.)

I'm not so great at writing about fight scenes so I kinda killed Ridley too fast. Sorry bout that, but don't worry, he'll be back.

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The Flood Strikes Back