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Chapter 20: Infection.

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Cloud stormed up the tower battle rifle roaring with each shot! THe urks had put up a stiff resistance against the joint stirke team but the nobodies and spartans were'nt backing down. Ranger landed and rushed into the fight. In a matter of minutes the outer door of the tower was captured. All about them however were dead marines. Five of them none of them were Zoku, Barret, or Neji however.

Ranger: They may still be alive.

Roxas: Hurry!

They rushed inside to find a pari of heartless trundling towards them! then from above came a swarm of bee drills!

Cloud: Cover me!

He switched to his spartan laser! He brought it to his shoulder and fired two blasts! Both hit the heartless and blew them apart! His sheilds fell rapidly to the heavy fire of the bee drills however so he dove for cover! The Nobodies and spartan's cut through the bee drills with ease!

The next thing Cloud new they were fighting more urks than he'd ever fought at one time! Many of them had maulers and several nobodies fell to the intense fire. On the platform adjecent to the elevator the remains of the bee drill swarm attacked and a nobody fell dead! However the joint strike team perseveired! Finally the lift was captured.

Cloud: David! Chibi! Stephen! Your with me. Ranger Stay here with the nobodies and hold the tower entrance.

Ranger: Yes sir.

Roxas: Darken this tower and the barrier will fall. Go spartans there is little time to waste.

The lift began to make its way upwards slowly but surely.

Chibi: God are these things slow.

When they reached the top Cloud only saw one urk. A chieftan with a plasma cannon. But that didn't seem right. After all the work they'd done to get here it didn't seem like the urks would just let them have the tower without a big fight. Then it hit him.

Cloud: Stealth urks! Watch your motion trackers!

Cloud brought his spartan laser to his shoulder while the others brought their weapons to firing postion.

Cloud: I've got the chieftan. Once he's down fan out and kill the stealthers.

Everyone's acknowledgment lights flashed green and then they moved into the fight! Cloud fired the laser instanly blowing down the chieftan! The instant it was down he dumped his spartan laser and brought his battle rifle to bear! There was a silence then all hell broke losse.

The stealth urks opened up with spikers and maulers at close range! The spartans sheilds shattered agianst the barrage and they rushed for cover firing only a few shots! Once they were covered Chibi hurled a few grenades into the hall. The went of with several loud thuds! The urks shuddered as a few of them lost camo! David and Cloud fired as many shots as they could witht their battle rifles before hostile fire forced them back into cover! Three of the obviously eight urks were dead.

Cloud: Stephen and Chibi get some fire out there! Full auto! I don't care how many rounds of ammo you use up!

The two spartans stuck their weapons out from cover and opened fire on the open area! Several urks cried out in pain! David and Cloud then used their battle rifles to finish them off! After about a minute of said fighting all eight urks lay dead. Chibi tossed down her empty smg and unslung a shot gun.

Chibi: We really need something like thermal imaging on our helmets.

Cloud: Stow it spartan.

He made his way up to the main switch while the spartans collected grenades from their slain foes.

June: Hit the switch Cloud and the barrier will fall!

Cloud pressed down on the pad and it hummed then the barrier fell outside fell. Cloud watched as the Shadow of intent made its way over the hills towards a massive tower in the midst of the valley below.

Axel: Now prophet, your end has come.

Suddenly there was a burst of blue light! Out of it came a structure Cloud had thought he would never see again. The castle that never was.

Axel: The castle... By the gods! Brace for impact!

The castle was flying straight over the carrier! Then out of tthe bottom came a couple of round objects that riped holes right through the carrier! One came hurtling right at their tower!

Cloud: DOWN!

The Spartans hit the deck as the boulder smashed through the window and crashed into the wall protecting the lift! Cloud raised his rifles as he heard the cries of the jelly fish. Then all hell brooke loose!

Jelly fish infection and combat forms leapt into battle! The spartans opened up full auto but they couldn't stop the infection forms from finding hosts in the urks they had just slain! Chibi and David's shot guns bucked blowing the undead monsters down! Stephen's smgs killed or rekilled two of the combat forms. When they finished the room was a mess of limbs.

The spartans made their way back onto the lift and Cloud hit the switch starting the lift.

June: Shipmaster what is your status over?

Axel: Significant damage throughout the ship! Weapons system's disabled!

June: Understood. Fall back to a safe distance.

Axel: Why would the parasite come here?

Dojo: The ark is out of range of all the active instillations! Priority we must contain this outbreak...!

June: No! First we stop Truth! Then we deal with the Jelly fish.

When the elevator hit the bottom floor the spartans entered a furious battle! Ranger, Roxas, and the last of the nobodies were doing there best to hold of an army of combat forms! The majority were the urk defenders of the tower that they had only oh so recently terminated. Ranger and Roxas had fallen back with the remaining four nobodies to the center of the room!

Cloud and the spartans leapt into action! Literally! Guns blazing they cut a path out into the open air! Even when they got the jelly fish were still pressing hard! A phantom however droped in low and thinned the ranks of jelly fish enough for the strike team to escape the tower. Dojo and Roxas rushed to the phantom as it hovered in low.

Dojo: Quickly I must asses the damage to the arks core!

Roxas: To the top of this ridge Orcale and no higher. We cannot risk your capture by the jelly fish.

As the pelican pulled away it finally hit home on Cloud exactly what was going on. The jelly fish were on the ark and without the threat of halo over their heads they had free reign over the ark. The shit had hit the fan, hard.

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