Things have been going worst for the UNSC and the UAC as their forces couldn't contain the demons and more would come through the portal if it doesn't close, no one could really get through the Lazarus Labs anyway as the demons are continuing their onslaught to destroy every life in this facility. If there is a way for the demons to get outside then they will swarm over this planet, they will kill everyone on the surface and slowly turn this beautiful planet into a hell planet.
Right now the Master Chief and his brother Reaper joins with Phobos the Night Sentinel on the charge against the rift that is open for the three to escape, they will be fighting through the demons in order to reach it but it will get harder when they get closer to the rift. They will be striking through the imps and hell knights that stands in their way, using only their swords and Reaper's energy blade to cut through but will soon have to deal with the lost souls and the cacodemons when they come making an appearance, getting the lost souls to scream out loud when charging towards them and hits Phobos to the side of the chest.
"Damnit I hate these damn lost souls!" Phobos said when he cuts down a second lost soul that was coming at him. He turns to the other and somehow he manages to grab it before it exploded, throwing it towards a cacodemon that was opening its mouth, sending that soul inside of that cacodemon and causing it to explode from the inside.
Reaper would be nearby and was charging at this hell knight that was letting off a roar, it was telling the Spartan to come at him and he would by leaping in the air and stabbing his energy blade through the face of the hell knight, sending it falling back to the ground and Reaper would just roll forward. When he got back up he notices an imp coming at him, grabbing its neck and laying a punch across the face then a kick to the chest to send it flying back.
Chief would strike through two imps with his sword, looking back to Phobos then Reaper to see if they are right behind him. Together they started running towards the portal but just as they got close, this energy comes appearing in front of them, it was a summoning of a demon but this one was huge like something big is coming.
The three stood their ground and waits for the summoning to be complete, seeing this huge demon that the two have never seen before but Phobos has. The great guardian of hell, this large beast makes an appearance, looking towards the three and lets off a roar before charging. They all quickly rolled out of the way while the guardian runs past them, smashing through the rocks and started turning around to chase after them again.
"We don't have time for this!" Phobos said then looks to Chief and Reaper "Get to the rift, I'll draw its attention."
"Don't even think about it Phobos!" Reaper shouts
"Just go, I'll be right behind you!" He looks to the guardian then looks to the side seeing an imp about to grab him, quickly striking through the imp with his sword. He looks back to the guardian and runs to the side, trying to get its attention. "Over here you damn bastard!"
"John we can't leave him here." Reaper watches as Phobos runs off while taunting the guardian, seeing the guardian moving towards him along with some of the imps.
"We have to leave… We have to get the hell out of here." Cortana said
"He'll be alright." Chief said "Let's go."
With Phobos staying in hell, the two quickly make a run for it to the rift. When Chief got closer he noticed something wasn't right, he looked back and notices that a spectre was coming towards him, quickly swinging his sword forward when it got close enough to get hit across the face with the sword. He stabbed the sword through the top of the head then makes a run to the gate, seeing Reaper already running right through it and finally returning back to the UAC, back to where the hell gate is and still operational.
They both came jumping through the rift and made it on the other side, landing on the ramp then started moving away from the portal. Reaper will try to contact the UNSC while Chief thinks of a way of closing the gate, seeing the sides of the gate made of an unknown element and could be impossible to actually damage it.
"This is Spartan Reaper; I'm calling all UNSC forces. Can anyone ready me? This is Spartan Reaper, calling in all UNSC forces." He waits for a moment before turning his head to Chief "I can't reach anyone."
"Hello Spartan Reaper, I am VEGA." Finally, someone responds to Reaper's message "I see you have made it out of the oven, are you two injured or anything."
Chief will look to Reaper "VEGA, we need something to close the gate. Is there anything we can use to stop it?"
"I'm afraid I cannot, the demon smashed the controls and if you somehow remove the Argent Accumulator out of the container, it might end up sending you two back into hell again."
"Well that's good to know…" Reaper said
"May I remind you that the UNSC is planning on a nuclear determination to wipe out everyone inside the UAC in order to destroy the hell gate and the demons."
"Well that's something to…. Wait what?"
"The UNSC is preparing to unleash a nuclear warhead inside the facility, killing all the UAC personnel, the UNSC ground forces and the demons. It might also destroy the hell gate if the warhead is this powerful."
"That doesn't sound like good news… Couldn't you say the good news first and the bad news later?"
"There is no good news."
"Son of a…."
"How much time do we have left VEGA?" Chief asks while walking over to a dead marine nearby, leaning against the wall he takes his shotgun and checks to see how many shells are inside.
"The UNSC is planning on firing the warhead in exactly one hour, that gives the UNSC ground forces on the surface to retreat back to the ship and leave us down here to fend off the demons."
"So there's no way out." Reaper said
"We'll find a way." Chief turns to Reaper then to the portal, seeing a demon warrior coming through the portal and was about to fire. Chief fired a shell through the demon and got Reapers attention, seeing the demon falling back and soon two more will come through. "We need to go, now!"
While they quickly make a move out of the Lazarus Labs and grabbing any weapons off the ground off the dead marines, they try to reach to the surface to help assist the marines fight against the demons however if Del Rio fires off that warhead then everyone down there is going to die. Laskey would soon be force to contact the UNSC ground forces that was still trying to dig their way down, they will soon get the word and new orders to stand down and leave them to die.
Spartan Palmer was with the marines near two scorpion tanks and a few warthogs nearby as they watch the excavation team trying to pull the rubble out of the way, they even started using explosions to make things quickly and they have already done it a few times, they got a few more minutes until they finally get through and that is when Palmer gets the message from Laskey.
"Commander Palmer this is officer Laskey, you got new orders from Captain Del Rio."
"What's the order sir?" She responds
"Your all to stop what you're doing and retreat to the Infinity, the captain wants to use a nuclear warhead on the facility."
"Sir?"
"He's ordering you all to leave them down there."
Palmer started walking forward "Sir… You know we can't do that right; can't you talk to him?" She looks back to the excavation team "We are so close."
"I know… But I was too late to stop you from breaching through into the facility, somehow you made it on time."
She slightly laughs under her helmet "Understood sir, I got the message and we are preparing to retreat soon." She would turn off her transmission then started walking towards one of the marines who was carrying a Spartan laser, grabbing it off of him and taking aim at the rubble. "Everyone get cleared!"
The excavation team looks over and notices her charging it up, quickly they ran out of the way and so did everyone else inside the facility. She blasts right through it and finally breaching inside the facility, the moment light finally shines through that area, everyone quickly ran right out of there just when the pelicans arrive down to pick everyone up.
Back on the Infinity, Laskey comes running inside the bridge to let the captain know. "Sir, I got contact that Spartan Palmer has breached through the facility, I was too late to stop her."
"What!?" He looks towards him then looks back to one of the personnel who was arming the nuke "Don't fire the nuke until everyone is out of there, the moment you see the monsters coming through, let me know." He then looks back to Laskey again "The moment those monsters come out of that facility, I'm firing it with or without the people."
With everyone rushing out and charging towards the pelicans when they go landing onto the ground, doctor Samuel Hayden was one of the few to get on board the pelican, just as he got on board he took out a little chip off the back of his head. This small hologram appears above the chip like it was an artificial intelligence like Cortana however this one doesn't show any humanoid form, just this spirit form of what VEGA is.
Inside the facility not everyone has arrived to the exit yet as Rookie and his scientist partner is still going through the empty hallways, checking each room with the BFG while Reaper and Chief manage to get to the armoury, seeing the door broken through and the marines that were once here are now dead. All their bodies are mutilated by the demons that came through, only a few demons were left inside and Chief started firing shells through them until he ran out of ammo. Once the armoury was secure, they started gearing up on everything before they go running out of there to fight off against the demons.
In the next room there was a few imps in the room eating some of the dead bodies, one of the Pinky demons was eating a Spartan, already devoured its arm and leg and started working on eating the head of that Spartan. When both Reaper and Chief goes through that door, Reaper armed with a UNSC assault rifle while Chief was carrying an LMG, firing rounds through the demons and eviscerating the lot of them, killing a large group of imps then the two turns to the Pinky with Reaper quickly switching to two handguns while Chief kept firing his LMG at it before it got closer, quickly moving out of the way when it runs past them then Reaper threw a grenade at it, blasting the bottom part of the Pinky demon to bits.
Just as the Pinky demon dies they notice a Mancubus coming around the corner, it started firing these flaming projectiles at them and causing them to pull back through the room, taking some of the hits while reloading their weapons. When the door closes they look forward and started heading through, keeping their sights ready as they can tell there's more demons nearby.
"How far are we to the exit?" Chief asks Cortana
"Were nearly there, just head through some of the rooms and you will get the –"
"Hold up." Reaper said when he got contact on his radio from someone. "Someone is nearby…"
"This is Samantha Grimm; can anyone help me. I'm trapped in the locker room, the monsters are right outside and I need someone to help me get out of here…. Please can anyone hear me!?"
"Samantha Grimm…" Reaper looks to Chief "We can't leave her."
"We have to leave." Chief turns to him
"You guys go on ahead; I'll catch up to you two at the exit."
"Reaper…"
"Just go." He ditches his two handguns and takes out the Gauss cannon.
"You better get to the exit." He turns back and started running out of there.
"You better be there and not flying in space like an idiot!" Reaper shouts to him before going through the door on his right.
"He pretty much got you there." Cortana said
Chief would ignore her while running out of the room, checking the left and right of the straight hallways then heads through the right. With both of them splitting up, Reaper going to Samantha while Chief would discover Rookie and his whereabouts as he is still with the scientist that was trying to get through, he already fired a BFG round through the wall to remove a Mancubus and will be jumping through the hole in the wall with the scientist, just to take a shortcut but he only has one round left and he will soon use it again as a revenant will suddenly appear on a platform above them, it comes flying in the air and started aiming its two lasers at the scientist while he doesn't know he's about to get hit through his arms by rockets from above, blasting his arms and back to bits and collapsing him to the ground.
Rookie turns back and sees him collapsing onto the floor, when he sees that revenant in the air he was about to fire but the revenant fired first, hitting the BFG and damaging his shields for the moment, getting pushed back against the wall while the revenant lands to the ground and started firing rockets at him, hitting his chest a few times and finally breaking the shield. The revenant takes flight again and that's when Rookie charges at him by dropping the BFG, using his boost jump into the air and lays a hard punch across the revenants face, sending the two falling to the ground and getting Rookie to stand on top of it, with just one more time across the face and breaking its head right off.
After the revenant was dead he noticed another one coming through the room, quickly running towards it and manages to tackle it to the ground, laying another hard punch across the face to remove the head. After that he looks up and notices a summoner, bringing in four imps and two hell knights chasing after him, quickly he runs back and takes some of the hits of the fireballs but his shield held well but not for long and since he's got no more weapons he's left to use the final round of the BFG. He quickly runs back in the room and grabs the BFG, turning towards them and was about to fire however after what the first revenant did, he really shouldn't have pulled the trigger as it's about to backfire.
The Master Chief will come running through the room on the side, turning his head to Rookie then to the demons when they come through. Rookie did pull the trigger of the BFG and just when they come appearing in this room, it will become the death of them all as the BFG backfires and sends off a massive green energy explosion across the whole area, consuming Rookie and the demons, as well as sending the Master Chief flying out of there and crashing through a metal table.
"John!"
"I'm fine…" He said to Cortana while slowly getting back up off the ground, grabbing his LMG off the ground and quickly runs back into the room to see the damage.
Just when he entered the room he noticed the whole area was completely destroyed by the backfire of the BFG, it killed all the demons but Rookie would never be the same again. He was sitting against the wall, still alive but has sustain heavy damage from that hit as his arm that pulled the trigger was removed and his other arm shows that the side of it was removed also like it was bitten by a shark, the top and right side of the helmet was removed while the chest plate was also broken right through, the attack just melted onto his skin and was getting closer from going further through his body.
Chief would just crouch down looking at him while he just sits there, somehow still alive. All he would do is slowly raise his arm at the Chief, leaning his hand over his visor then slowly lowers it down until his heart finally couldn't go anymore. He turned his head to the side looking down at the ground, closing his eyes while the Chief just stood there watching him die as there was nothing he could have done.
He just sighs while lowering his head then raises his head up back to him. "I'm sorry Rookie…" He said to him then started pulling his dog tags off of his neck.
Elsewhere in the locker room the scientist Samantha Grimm was still in there, holding just a handgun while the door was barricaded on her side. She was alone and hurt, having blood going down the side of her head and got these two scar marks across her left leg. She was leaning against the side while hearing these noises coming out of the room, feeling that the demons are coming through and since no one is coming, all she has to do is close her eyes and wait for them to come through or use the gun which got her thinking for the moment when she looked down at it, all she needed was one round.
Suddenly she looks back at the door when the demons stopped hitting the door, she could hear them fighting someone else out there for a while and after a few minutes it went silent. Someone was on the other side and it wasn't demons, he ended up trying to open the door with his strength, pulling the door half open and started pushing the junk out of the way, walking right through and stopping in front of her while she just sits there.
Reaper stood there while reloading his shotgun after he ran out of ammo with the Gauss cannon, he places it on his back then lends his hand down at her. "Come with me if you want to live."
With that done he started walking out of here with her in his arms since she is injured, she just leans her body against him, raising her head to see his face while he keeps walking. "What is your name, Spartan?" She asks while whispering.
"Spartan Reaper." He turns his head to her while walking down the hallway.
"Reaper huh…" She would lower her head and started closing her eyes. "My brother was called 'Reaper'." She started to smile a bit "You do look like a Reaper."
"You should have seen the other guy. His reputation is like mine, except he's in a tournament while I'm getting real action here."
"Well then…" She sighs while falling asleep "Get me out of here…"
"Were almost there."
