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Blade's POV

I jolted up in a cold sweat. I took a moment to look at my surroundings before acting. I was in some sort of medical office, on a bed hooked up to some sort of monitor. My helmet was still on so I concluded it was using my neural chip to monitor me.

"Testing, one two one two." I jumped at the sound of Vague's voice on my internal speakers. Normally that wouldn't have bothered me but it also sounded like it was coming from inside my head. "Well I am connected with your neural chip, and I was designed to have Freelancer AI fragment's abilities to inhabit the human mind through the chip." I hated it when she pointed that out. "Whatever, just don't make a habit of it. Access my-" "Already done. We're on a rebel freighter that is docked with Eclipse production facility Evergreen."

"What? Why?" A second passed before she answered. "Questions without answers at hand have answers elsewhere." "Meaning your clueless. Great." My tracker picked up motion outside the room. It was moving fast and my tracker said it wasn't friendly. I grabbed the pistol I was left with and took cover behind the bed I was on. The door burst open and three bodies came in. I fired six shots, two for each body. They didn't fall. When I finally got a good look at them, I was horrified. Flood have boarded the ship. I reloaded and fired at the infection bugs in their chests as they fired at me with human weapons.

I grabbed the nearest guns and paused as I heard gunfire. "Vague, give me a waypoint to where that fight is." I followed the path Vague gave me, fighting Flood all the way to what appeared to be the bridge. There, automated defenses and Ancilla were battling the Flood, and appeared to be doing a decent job despite the number of Flood. "Reclai- er, Blade! You're awake!" exclaimed Ancilla after I helped finish off the Flood near the bridge. "Not now, we need to destroy this ship. Where is everyone?"

"They left to respond to a distress signal sent by some Eclipse reclaimers." They left to help some enemy soldiers out? Well, on a station filled with Flood... "Where's my pelican?" "They left it on the surface of the instillation for fear of-" "Good. Now, blow this ship up before the Flood get a chance to use it, then you're coming with me. Vague, set a waypoint to where the SOS came from. Ancilla have any sentinels you have meet up with me, I'll need some extra guns on my side." I left the ship after I gave the orders, following the waypoint Vague set, praying that someone was still alive.

Zephyr's POV

You know that brilliant plan we came up with? Turns out that the Flood planned for that by bringing in some of their creatures that can fly. Soric mentioned that they were from Halo Wars, but I was more concerned about flying zombies. We lost five of the Eclipse humans and two elites, but we kept fighting strong. The only good thing about the mammoth at this point was the fact that it had rocket turrets.

I stopped using my sniper and found that Needlers make great anti-air. We probably would've fixed up the mammoth but then we began to run out of ammo. Anyone who didn't have any ammo ran inside, only to find some infected forms waiting inside. "We cant' hold this position!" yelled Falcon as we tossed his battle rifle to the side and began using one of the new weapons I found earlier. One of the elites began to say "We need to-" before a HUGE explosion had everyone stop and look to where it was coming from. Even the Flood seemed puzzled as to what caused it.

What came out of the fire and death was a green ghost, launching rockets instead of plasma, accompanied by a dozen Sentinels. It was damaged but not dangerously so. The next thing I knew, the ghost rammed every Flood near me and nearly blew up Soric's side with rockets.

But the thing that left me most speechless was the fact that it was Blade driving the ghost. "Alright everyone! Here's the plan: Zephyr Black, you're with me, Soric take this ghost and the Sentinels and ram through enemy lines and keep that depot secure, Falcon gather who's left and follow us in three minutes. We're going to punch to the nearest ammo depot, restock, find a ship and get the hell off this deathtrap." As we set out to do out what Blade told us to do, part of me couldn't help but wonder how long he was awake, and if that AI was still in his head.

I followed Blade in a non-stop charge through four lines of Flood already weakened by Soric's own charge. I could hear the our third wave finishing off the Flood behind us. When we hit the depot, Soric was doing tricks with his shotgun that would put Halioid to shame. When Falcon's group showed up, we managed to clear the Flood out of the area.

"Alright everyone, here's what we're going to do," Everyone not watching for Flood began to listen to Blade, "My team will act as scouts for a new ship. Our ship was destroyed by a core overload when Flood began to over take it." One of the marines spoke up "There's a ship yard five decks down with a Paris-class heavy frigate. It's nearly complete but the engines and navigational systems are online." "The Ship yards are in a vacuum and zero-g to aid in construction!" another marine exclaimed. "But we need class three clearance at the least to launch it under regular circumstances. Now we need something like class zero. That's why it's still there."

"That's why I have a very skilled AI with me to crack any codes that get in our way." Everyone hushed when Blade made his statement. "We'll follow a similar three wave attack. Except this time we'll charge to a nearby vehicle depot to grab some transport. This is what we need: armed warthogs and ghosts for the front, followed by Specters and hogs with supplies and troops then by Scorpion tanks." Everyone acknowledged his orders and began to restock.

I walked up to Blade after I restocked. "So... you're out of that coma." I said casually, unsure on what to talk about. He nodded and said "Just in time too. Flood were about to break into sickbay." I simply nodded in reply. I didn't know what to say. I admit I have mixed feelings about Vague being here, but I guess it was Blade's call.

"Zephyr, I need you to lead a strike team to the vehicle depot. Take Soric and Derby with you." "Yes sir." I said in response. "And Zeph?" I paused and looked at him. "It's good to see you." I smiled under my helmet. He may be an idiot at times, but at least he cared.