Purpose Of Existence Chapter 36: Anger Is A Faster Pathway To Power
During his lifetime as a soldier Fred had seen some things. Nasty things…
...But Jesus he wasn't a religious man but this was a bit too much even for him. Chief was brutal, like always...With the exception that with every kill he went completely overboard. Sometimes he would rip a brutes hand off or smack his fist deep into their skulls. Yet this was not the worst.
One of elites happened to be a veteran of the old human/Covenant war and actually had survived a encounter with Chief. With certain amount of luck of course. During the encounter, the Covenant cruiser they were onboard was in a duel against a UNSC Frigate and the room they were in took a shot. Chief was closing in on the kill when Cortana was forced to close the airlock, separating them both. Few seconds later the ships emergency backup systems came on, closing the explosion hole and saving the sangheili.
Only later had the elite learned of Cortana's existence and he decided that it would be a good idea to mock her "to set the demon off balance". Little did he know Cortana had died saving the Chief and was now the most sensitive spot you could ever mock.
Chief literally ripped the elites plasma rifle from his hands and plunged it through his stomach, leaving the elite there with a shocked expression painted on his face.
One could say he was overreacting even for a loved one's death. But many don't realise that if a spartan creates a bond with someone...Well let's just say the phrase "When you truly love someone, they become your whole world". Couldn't ever describe what they feel for their partner or sibling.
So it shouldn't surprise him that instead of retreating, they were know pushing deep into the enemy territory. In fact they were nearing the bottom half of High Charity's wreckage. Despite Chief's less than necessary use of force, he couldn't argue with the results, the problematic part was that they still haven't found the missing recon teams.
Spartans simply don't leave mission half done and the Chiefs "finds" were not part of the mission. So this is how they find themself deep inside the High Charity and surprisingly they weren't in a firefight. The Banished resistance had stopped little while ago, every single one of them had fled, like they were afraid of someone...Or something?
Didn't matter now, all he knew was that they had to be vigilant.
"You know, it's awfully quiet in here?" It was Alice's voice and no one could really argue, it was indeed eerily quiet. The fact that High Charity's main power was off, made the situation even more creepy. Only few corridors were partially lit and the already dark purple color scheme of the ancient station didn't help.
"Covenant troops were aggressive but rekkles, this isn't like them, even if its a splinter group or a rebel group". Jerome agreed.
"Just one more reason to be ready for anything". John concluded, shuffling his hands through another jammed door and forcing it open. John let the door fall on his back, allowing the others to pass through before letting it go.
Coming down, the door made a loud screeching noise making everyone gringe.
Kelly and Linda shot John a look even tho he couldn't see it.
"Smooth" and "Subtle" The women said in unicon and kept walking leaving John there. He turned his gaze to Fred who just shrugged.
Silently the party kept moving forward, their time was running out and they knew it. Soon Infinity would start asking questions if they didn't report back.
"This is useless, our change of finding those teams is about the same, that the flood survived the firing of the halo". Kelly complained, she always was the one with little patience and would get bored fast...very fast.
"I agree but the command is getting desperate, they are taking every possible possibility presented to them". Douglas answered.
"You don't need spartans for a mission like this, any fireteam could have cleared the raiding crews The Banished had here". Linda argued.
"I know but alarming increase of sentinel presence makes this top priority. A few? Yeah there's nothing new to that but The Ark suddenly moved hundreds of thousands of sentinels here. Isn't that at all interesting to you?" Douglas countered.
Just when Kelly was about to retort they heard Chief's aggravated voice "Enough! I don't have the patience for this right now". No more was needed to be said, they were spartans after all.
"We still have to report back soon, what's our plan?"
Chief turned to look at Linda "Well clear as much as we can from the bottom half in a one hour timeframe after that we will circle back and report of our findings".
"So you are going to tell them about...You know?" To this Chief actually stopped and after a moment turned around. He gazed everyone present, his brothers and sisters. Closest thing he has ever had to a family after and before Cortana. He took a deep breath his gaze set downwards "I would highly appreciate if that would stay between us. And by us I mean this group. We didn't find anything related to this mission and personally I believe her last message was meant for me and me alone".
Everone stared at him. Even with their visors blocking their eyes, Chief felt uncomfortable. It felt like every single one of them is trying to pierce his armor and look into his very soul".
Finally Kelly broke the silence "So you are asking us to basically leave critical mission events out of our reports?" Chief gringed at that, of course he knew. Stuff like this got your court martialled but he had done it before, hell he even went awol for her. This most certainly weren't as big of a deal.
"I'm aware but…"
His explanation was stopped by Kellys raised hand. She took off her helmet, revealing the unnatural beaty to everyone. "There's no need to explain. We went AWOL with you before and freddy said to you "We are with you till the end brother" and i'll be damned if we aren't going to keep that promise. We are with you John, now and forever".
They were heart warming words even for a spartan. But there was no malice in her words. Had she ever and I mean ever betrayed or harmed John in any way? No, of course she had not and neither had any other spartan. They were his family and it was time to stop shutting them out.
"thank you, every single one of you". Chief nodded his overdue temper finally calming down. Kelly put her helmet back on and turned around "Alright then let's finish this and get out of here".
Red team shared a look and started to follow.
"Im so goddamn hungry".
The next thing they heard was Jerome getting smacked to the side of his head.
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Ay dudes so i'm aware this chapter is long overdue and its content not that exciting. This is why i'm uploading the next one on tuesday, when I don't have school. You should know that we are nearing the end of the "ARK" Chapter and heading to the final one. Next chapter will also get a quite the "flying" start off and we shall see where it takes us. Thank you for staying loyal, all of you!