With Omega team wiped out the rest of the squads had no other choice but to retreat. The Scorpions rotated their cannons and fired at the Flood while retreating with the squads. The Warthogs had their M41's shooting as the left the battlezone. Gary, Eric and their driver were still in their Warthog and took out as many Flood freaks as they could. The Flood from behind everyone was traveling in a huge pack and pretty damn quick. Marines on foot seemed to give into their tiredness and stopped. Some of the Marines collapsed. The Flood caught up to the Marines who had stopped and murdered them horrifically. Just then the Delta team squad leader came onto the voice communicator.

"To all remaining squads! Get the hell outta here! We're gonna go back for the fallen Marines!" He yelled. With that Delta team turned around and headed straight toward the Flood pack.

"This is Gamma team! We're coming to assist you!" the Gamma team squad leader yelled as his team also turned around and followed Delta team.

Alpha and Beta teams took look back at their brave comrades and continued towards the front of the Flood campsite. Alpha team was ahead of Beta and was approaching their destination. From out of nowhere 4 Flood groups surrounded Alpha team. Beta team stopped dead in their tracks and was shocked to see the Flood just pop out like that. It seemed like they rose from the earth! Now Alpha team was in trouble. Delta and Gamma were totally outnumbered and their units were falling quickly. Beta team was stuck in the middle of everything and their squad leader didn't know what to do.

"Sir! What are we supposed to do!?" a Marine yelled in panic. The Beta team squad leader looked at all the fighting that was going on around his team. Then he hastily thought of something to do and reported to his squad.

"Alright! We're stuck in the middle of everything! There's nothing much we can do but help the other squads! Everyone split up and assist the remaining Marines! Meet back at HQ! Now go!" the squad leader exclaimed as he ran off into battle. Beta team split up as they were told and fought with their allied squads.

"C'mon lets get this thing going! Lets head over and help Alpha team out!" Eric yelled to the driver. The Marine floored it and they headed towards Alpha team's aid. Eric could see Alpha team losing men fast so he held the trigger down on his M41 and started ripping through the Flood. Gary reloaded his Assault Rifle and picked off a few Flood freaks. Just then the Warthog was approaching 1 of the Flood groups and the driver slammed on the breaks making the Warthog skid and running over the Flood. The Marine hopped out of the driver's seat and ran into the middle of the Flood groups with the remaining Marines of Alpha team. Eric gave him cover fire as he ran into the middle but lost him when there was too much going on. Just then Gary's Assault Rifle made a clicking sound and he ran out of ammo.

"Damn! Eric give me one of you're A.R clips! I'm fresh out!" he yelled over the gunfire. Eric let go of the M41 and handed him a A.R clip. Then he took the M41 again and fired like mad. Gary reloaded again then started pumping lead into the Flood. Just then a huge explosion erupted where Delta and Gamma team was. Eric let the M41 again and channeled into Alpha and Gamma team's communicators. It was all just static. He knew it...they were gone. He then quickly channeled in on Alpha team to see how they were doing. He heard Marines talking to each other trying to give each other assistance. The conversations were scattered up, however, and he couldn't understand them.

"Rick there's 2 freaks at six o'clock! Watch yourself!....Copy that!....Tommy throw a nade over at ..Oh crap! Get him off me! AHHHH!..Fire in the hole!...Stick together and don't...I got him! HAHAHA!....Get outta there its gonna blow!...No! That's too risky! Just go over....." Eric could hear the transmissions all scattered up and it became very complicated to understand what they were saying so he switched the transmitter off. He tapped Ggary on his shoulder to get his attention.

"I just channeled in on Alpha team but I can't figure out how they're holding up in there!" he explained.

"Damn! Well we still gotta kill these bastards no matter how they're holding up so keep shooting!" he yelled back as he turned around to fire once again. Again his Assault Rifle went dry. Eric saw and took out another clip to give to Gary.

"Here! Take another...."

"There's no time!" Gary interrupted taking out his pistol and continuing attack. Eric put the clip back in his suit and was about to arm the M41 again but had a strange feeling something was coming. He looked back and saw the huge Flood stampede again but making their way towards him! He hopped off the M41 and into the driver's seat. Gary looked over at him surprised.

"Time to go!" Eric yelled looking at Gary. He stepped on the accelerator and drove around the Flood who was attacking Alpha team. He then took out a Frag grenade and tossed it at the Flood. It exploded and the freaks flew into the air and hit the ground hard. Eric laughed in triumph and kept driving.

"What the hell is so funny!? We just left our guys back there! Turn around we gotta help them!" Gary yelled angrily.

"Calm down! Did you happen to see the stampede over there?" Eric asked pointing towards the huge pack of Flood.

"If we stayed we would have got killed!"

"But..." "I know you're pissed but we had to leave. I'm pissed off too. Do you think I wanted to leave everyone behind?" Eric asked as Gary looked back at everyone. He then slammed his fist against the Warthog.

"Bastards!" Gary yelled in rage.

"I know man. C'mon let's go home." Eric said as he sped up and headed towards HQ.

"Wait! I know there no chance of us saving everyone back there but we should at least go back for any survivors!" Gary exclaimed.

"How are we gonna do that? We're low on ammo and there's only me and you. We can't fight the Flood now." Eric explained as he drove. Gary started thinking to himself.

"Alright! How about we go back and hide until the battle dies down and the Flood leave?" Gary asked.

"Are you nuts!? What if the Flood find us? We're toast!"

"C'mon man! Don't be like that. I thought you were all macho and shit." Gary joked. Eric looked at him like he was going to kill him.

"You're a funny man Gary.."

"Yeah, yeah but seriously lets go back! You don't wanna miss a chance you know you could have taken!" Gary said.

"That's true..and I wanna help out the guys..Alright! Let's do it!" Eric yelled as he spun the Warthog around. Gary slapped him on the back.

"You're a good man Eric! Let's go!"

NOTE: Sry about the long wait (if there were ppl waiting) for this chapter! I wuz away and I wuz at other placez and I neva had the time to to this chapter! But n e wayz here it iz and I hope the Paragraphing helped! R&R and thx! LATAZ!