Hi guys! I work next weekend, so here's the next chapter!
"...what the fUCK HAPPENED?!" Naress was jerked out of her sleep to realize... all their stuff was gone. Their tent, gear, food, everything but the beds they had been sleeping on. And they where in the middle of the desert. Jaquelle stared at the dirt around them, on her feet in shock. They did though, have their uniforms folded neatly on their bed.
Kiara and Naress slowly arose from their beds, looking around in confusion and slight chaos. A distant rumble sounded : Someone was coming. Automatically, the group scrambled and it was Jelsa who yanked several defensive weapons from under her bed, tossing it to the others who were acceptable. Naress snatched her own energy sword from her pillow case, sticking it to her belt as she was only wearing pants and grabbed a long-distance rifle, kneeling down to look through the sights. Gigero and Lio grabbed heavy weaponry and set up while Glamfabuluos grabbed some grenades. Meanwhile Champagne looked thought long-distance scopes.
"...Stand down! It's PC personal." The group relaxed, returning the weapons to at ease before yanking on the rest of their uniforms. PC units arrived in a Falcon, and surprisingly it was-
"Hale? Ubevin?" Kiara asked loudly, stunned. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"We where gonna ask you the same thing. Apparently all the PC teams ended up 10 miles exactly from the main base last night : all the gear is already at base. What the hell happened?"
A snicker was heard from Naress, and when both the humans looked she was gesturing to the giant Sangheili who had casually decided to lean against the chopper and panic the pilot. Hale groaned. "I should have known..."
Ubevin was snickering until another Sangheili literally stepped out of nowhere and put his hands on the smaller's shoulders. He and his partners tensed, making Naress reach down for her sword.
"There you are, kiddo. Been looking for you for a while..." he rubbed Ubevin's shoulder who shied out from under his hands... and stood over by Naress. The Private could feel the glares of 'Champagne' boring into her back.
"Yeah, sorry about that but work's being pretty hectic," he grunted, not caring as the Private took a single step in front of him. She was seriously not liking the vibes of Kathenuos. Hale and Kiara could care less, as did Jesla and Hunter but the other two group were giving of different body languages. No Mercy was obviously edgy about this stand-off while Champange was pissed off.
"Mmm...we need to talk later. Right now we have another problem on our hands." The two Hero suddenly disappeared again, using active camouflage,only seen by the large footprints in the sand leading away.
Hale glared after before turning back, "Alright, all of yah into the choppers after ya get your weapons, we're reporting back to the main base on this planet."
The group grunted and followed after, Naress stumbling after Sertagia shoulder her. Ubevin grabbed her arm before she fell over, clicking something quietly before they boarded the Falcon. Another one was touching down as they took off to pick up Glamfabuluos and No Mercy.
Naress sat across from Jaquelle, who was still glaring at her, before finally glaring back; ripping off her headset off so the boys up front couldn't here.
"What's your problem?!" she hissed loudly in Sanghelios, getting a growl back .
"You're getting a little friendly with Ubevin. It's against the rule."
"Ubevin in my partner's brother linked! Of course I'm going to be friendly to him because he IS my friend!" Naress wanted to get up and slap some sense into the other female but luckily the Falcon's restraints were holding her in.
"Yeah, totally. Why don't you just keep your little whore lips away from him, he doesn't need to be hurt again!"
The younger Sanheili paused, the word 'again' reverberating in her head. What the hell did that mean? She was about to open her mouth and ask when a loud explosion came to their right. Literally.
BOOOOOOOOMMMMM.
She felt searing heat up her side, realizing it wasn't her skin burning but Kiara's as the human yelped, yelling illegible words. The headphones were blaring with the boys trying to control the helicopter.
"Kiara! Are you okay?!"
"I have second degree burns up my leg but otherwise I'm fine... We need to get out of this chopper!"
"How?!"
"We jump!"
Kiara reached over, unsnapping her partner before unsnapping herself and diving from the falling Falcon. Naress, in a panic, dove after. The ground was almost 30 feet away, so when Naress and Kiara landed they rolled several feet to take in the shock of the ground. Champange came next, followed by the boys right before the nose of the Falcon smashed into the ground and exploded. Naress groaned, lifting her head.
The place was a battlefield, PC personal taking cover behind their base as a strange species she didn't recognized advanced forward. Kiara spat, rubbing sand out of her burn which was painful enough on the other side of the bond.
"We need to get to cover," hissed Naress, staying low before grabbing her teammate in a cradle position and darting for the base rubble, narrowly avoiding getting shot by 'spiker darts'. Pushing her teammate behind a slate of rock, she stanched a DMR from the sandy ground and aimed for the knees.
Ratat. Ratat. Click. Click. Click.
Cursing, she threw the empty DMR away, rolling forward for a Type-51. Snatching it up, she aimed and fired the lazer at the feet of the oncoming enemies, not aiming to kill them. A hum of a Scarab told her Kiara had found a weapon and was firing away already. It was now she could see what they were. The creatures looked like human bears, or 'yetis', wearing thick helmets and chest-pads that were bullet proof, probably. Long tusks came from their mouth that twisted about, some with more twist then others. They didn't fall easy.
One of the cat-alien villagers had another DMR, shooting to kill. He swiftly looked over at Naress, a long bleeding wound from a grazing dripping blood. "Kill them! They'll kill everything here unless you don't!"
"I can't do that sir," she huffed, looking to her right as Ubevin rolled up next to her holding a sniper rifle. "Sir, the villager says shoot to kill and I told him we co-"
"Too late for that; three of the personal are already down, one dead. We shoot to kill now."
Naress blinked, nodding slowly and turned back to her attacking, aiming for the face and major arteries. Enemies began to drop like rocks from the killing blows. A loud 'ratatatatata' of a machine gun told her to duck as bullets laced the wall behind their hiding spot.
"Holy shit," she said loudly, pulling her partner close after Kiara army-crawled over. The three leaned against the wall, reloading silently before standing back up and firing away, leaping over the wall to advance.
They didn't get to far before her gun ran on empty, the Sangheili throwing it away and whipping out her energy sword. Using Evade, she dove forward and drove the sword into one of the Yeti's kneecap, bringing him down before stabbing him in the face. It dropped dead and she glanced over to see Kiara firing more DMR rounds into another's mouth. The rest of the Peace Core was advancing, trying to drive the enemy back but they were persistent. Both sides started dropping bodies, Naress hissing as bullet grazed her waist.
Ubevin appeared out of nowhere and knocked her down as a grenade flew over the two of them. She grunted loudly, opening her eyes to see the kit... priestess across from the field. She was praying loudly, using strange mythical attacks probably as she flew around the battle-field. Something about her patterns of flight though... More must be coming by the way she was flying past the group of current attackers.
"You okay?" clicked Ubevin, grabbing her hand and pulling her up.
"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks." she replied, shooting a Yeti from over his shoulder, "You?"
"Fine besides a bleeding thig- Behind you." He stepped widely around her, pressing his back to hers and shooting something out of her sight. Kiara scrabbled up, diving between their legs and using her last rounds on a Yeti's knees so Naress could jump to it's shoulders to break it's neck .
"Good to know. Where's Hale?"
"He over thhhhERRRRAAAAAAAAAAA-!" Ubevin grabbed his chest and fell to his knees, wheezing loudly. Kiara and Naress whipped around, looking at him before jumping off their prey to the Sangheili.
"What's wrong?!" Kiara asked in a panic while the warrant officer struggled to breath. It took the female to realize he wasn't hurt, but if he wasn't...
"HALE!" Naress spun on her foot, pile driving it across the field, looking for the human. Panic raced through her head and body as she tried to locate him. A Yeti stepped in her way, causing the Sangheili to halt. "Fuck you." Bringing up her leg, she kicked out into the Yeti's crotch, then punched under it's chin when it fell; stepping onto its shoulder and stabbing her energy sword into the back of it's neck. The beast dropped dead, and from her spot, she saw Hale.
The human male was laying in the sand and a pool of his own blood, gasping for air. She could only guess the Link was keeping him alive as three bullet holes in his chest bled rivers. Leaping off her kill, she grabbed the human, scooping him up.
"Kiara, I found Hale!" "Hale, nononno! Stay with me!"
"I...a-am, m-ma'am... But N-Not-"
"Don't even say that!" She ripped her clean shirt off, pressing it to his chest tightly. The bullets had gone clean through, meaning he could die quicker... She pressed it down more, swiveling to find a ship the get them out of here.
Salvation came from the skies as shuttles dropped like rock into the sand to get them the hell out of there, and Naress dove forward into one of them, punching the emergency evacuation keys and holding on to the side and Hale, who was breathing hoarsely.
"Stay with me, Hale...stay with me...I'm sorry..."
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