[It is late so I'm going to keep this short. This chapter will cover the defense of crows nest but from Six's perspective. Six will go nearly if not completely lone wolf on this chapter. Also you may notice that Six's personality has taken a major overhaul. Well enough spoilers lets roll!]
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Grim attitude only leads to further suffering….
Current conflict: Battle of Earth turning point
Next conflict: The Ark
Concurrent conflict: Human covenant war
Last time we left Six he engaged a new and improved Krayt in a warriors death match only to be beaten nearly to death. Now back at the Crows Nest base our heroes plan there next move although tensions are running pretty high…
"Six is stupid you do realize that right…. I mean what the hell was the guy thinking running off trying to take Krayt on by himself in unarmed combat. Oh wait that's right he wasn't thinking" Jun said in disapproval in the Crows Nest command center.
"Don't talk bad about Six he did what he had to do would you have liked it better if he ran away like a coward." Luna argued back.
"You can stand up for your boy friend all day my point still stands, why Six likes you I will never know especially with a nasty attitude like that." Jun added
"Do you want to die?" Luna asked angrily reaching for her energy sword.
"Want to dance huh? Lets tango then." Jun said with his sniper rifle already in hand.
The tension was thick no one in the command center made a sudden move.
"Enough." Six said as he walked through the ops door his armor shining brightly no sign of his injuries visible.
"Six your…." Luna was ignored by Six completely.
"Chief, Arbiter, what did I miss?" Six asked.
"Well at the moment nothing Commander Keyes is going to be debriefing us on our next move any minute now. Wait there she is." Chief answered turning to salute Keyes.
At that moment a woman in her early twenties with brown hair, a UNSC naval suit, and fair colored skin entered the room. All eyes averted their attention except Six who seemed unimpressed not even bothering to salute the commander.
"Attention ladies, gentlemen and others." she said staring at Six who simply shrugged not thinking a second thought about it.
"We are going to evacuate the Crows Nest our scouts have already informed us that a massive covenant task force is heading our way to wipe out the last remaining resistance here. I want all the wounded to be evacuated first, no one gets left behind. Johnson and the marines are going to hold down the command center for as long as they can to buy us time for evac. Once we make it out Johnson is going to set the off the ops centers main reactor that will scorch this place, don't be here when that happens. Master Chief and Arbiter are going to clear the south hangars of incoming hostiles. Lunara you're going to come with me to help escort Lord Hood to his frigate." Commander Keyes finished.
"Well come on people we don't have all day lets move it, the core aint paying us by the hour." Johnson yelled as he started to bark out orders.
"Commander what about me?" Six asked as everybody began getting to work.
"Oh I have a special mission for you; we lost contact with the marines in the Northern barracks. You're going to eliminate all hostiles and see if there are any survivors down there." Commander explained already walking with Luna towards Lord Hood's quarters.
"Affirmative." Six replied
"Six if you don't get there in time a lot of people are going to die. The marines are counting on you." Keyes finished.
"Understood." Six simply replied
As Six ran over to the weapons rack he grabbed one BR55 battle rifle, two frag grenades, and one M45 tactical shotgun.
Six then opened the door north of the ops center and entered and sealed it behind him.
"Me alone against all those brutes…. they don't stand a chance." Six thought laughing to himself.
"Ahem." Dot coughed through Six's speakers.
"Fine they don't stand a chance against us."
"Better."
As Six saw the brutes kneeling at what appeared to be a sermon he dropped down for the attack. One well placed frag grenade stripped the armor off one brute and severely damaged the armor of two more. Six then quickly pulled out his battle rifle the precision tipped bullets ripping through their skulls. Six didn't stop he pressed on blowing chunks of armor off the brutes allowing him to follow up with a head shot. Within minutes all that stood was a lone brute chieftain rage emanating like a vibrant ray of sunlight. Death would come for him just like it would for all who lived but unlike the rest who lived his time had come. Six extended his combat knives from his armor's sleeves and charged. A minute later the brute chieftain's head rolled off into the corner of the room.
"Such a mess I really would prefer if you would just shoot these beasts instead of getting so close." Dot complained only for Six to reply coldly.
"If you don't like my methods then find a new Spartan." Six replied as he grabbed the brute chieftain's gravity hammer.
"Six I was kidding calm down." Dot responded immediately in her soothing tone that only seemed to aggravate Six even more.
"War is not a joke Dot, do your job and I will do mine you got that?" Six asked before continuing.
"Yes sir." Dot replied sadly.
Six then continued his walk to the barracks, only stopping to melee a passing drone in the air vents. Soon he made it to barracks door only to see a marine get thrown mercilessly against a brick wall instantly killing him. Six turned to see three brutes two watched as one had another marine in his grasp holding him as if to break his back.
"Help please…. show mercy!" The marine begged.
"These are warriors? More like whelps." One of the brute captains replied. "Finish him so we may feast on his flesh."
Having seen enough Six rushed in using his speed to send a bone crushing punch into his opponents skull instantly cracking it on impact causing the brute to drop the marine. Six then brought his knee into another brutes face before impaling its chest with one of his combat knives. Finally he punched the last brute into the ground before blowing its head into a bloody mesh with his shotgun. Six didn't stop his rage only grew as he saw the bodies of dead marines many of them under aged kids (sixteen) who had probably forged their way into the UNSC marine core… but then again the UNSC never had any problems using kids to fight their wars. Six ripped through his opponents dual wielding his shotgun with his gravity hammer crushing brutes and jackals that were not immediately killed by the shotgun shell massive impact. Six broke the necks of any who weren't fast enough to react. Six was now covered in the blood of his enemies his very appearance seeming inhuman, the surviving marines were even taken aback by his appearance. After this engagement Six took the surviving marines with him to landing pad for evac only for things to get very unsavory.
"Good job Six time for you go with the marines to the rendezvous point at crows nest. Chief and Arbiter are going to reactivate the main reactor and blow this place up." Commander Keyes chimed in.
"They could use my help back there I'm going to help them. I'll meet back up with you later." Six explained over his comlink already walking to meet up with the chief.
"Negative Six we are going to need you to help take back the city near the storm 30 miles from here. Return to the pelican immediately." Commander Keyes ordered.
"I'm not going anywhere but to the ops center to help reactivate that bomb." Six repeated now making Keyes angry.
"Six I'm am ordering you to get out of their now." Commander Keyes now yelled.
"No." Six replied
"What the hell are you doing Six?" Dot asked him through his speakers
"Come now Six or you will be considered as gone A-wall." The Marines now had the weapons aimed at Six."
"That's cute how you think you can take me… I will feast on your blood until death takes me." Six now answered through his comlink reaching for his shotgun the marines trembling with fear.
"Six are you really going to do this…. Is this what you want to do? Remember your friends back on Reach would they like to see you do this huh Six would they. I know you're mad and that you want revenge but this is down right too far. I saw what you did to those brutes back there. You literally peeled the skin off of them while they were still alive. Would Luna like to have seen you do that? Keep this up and you will be no better than that monster Krayt." Dot reasoned her voice emanating tough love, empathy but no pity.
"No they wouldn't like to see this…." Six thought now realizing what he has been doing.
"Good now get in the pelican so we can go help stop the Covenant once and for all." Dot now said the gentleness back in her voice but not completely.
Six then got back into the pelican and silently sat down in the troops bay. He then looked back to see the Crows Nest base explode in a bright orange flash.
"I don't know what the hell that was back at the landing pad but, it will be addressed when we get some down time. Do you understand Six? Dot asked/ordered.
"Yes ma'am." Six replied back to Dot
Chapter over
[Well…. Six kinda lost it there. Well there is Dot playing mom/big sister stopping Six from going A-wall. I did this personality change on Six to represent how that defeat with Krayt really affected him. With each growing chapter he will slowly start to go back to his pre Reach personality, a lone wolf killing machine with no emotion. I hope you enjoyed this chapter and as always keep the reviews coming. Seriously even if you are a guest just post a review. If you are going to flame do it with a reason. Well till next time I'm out.]