"…and that's why this ship is called the Bountiful Hunter." Cortana finished.
"Well, at least the Covenant have a sense of humour" the Master Chief chuckled as he walked down yet another hallway. "So, are you sure you know where you are going? I don't remember this." He pointed a door that was heavily dented in the middle.
"There doesn't appear to be any movement inside; I suggest that you try to open the door. You never know, there might be some weapons inside, and your plasma sword is running low on energy."
"Good point" the Chief muttered as he looked around for any passing grunts, before gripping the gap between the doors, and pulling them apart. What met his eyes was not a pretty sight.
Just like with the Spartans, it appeared that the creation of the Immortus soldiers was also made up with some trial and error. Countless beds occupied the room, each of them with what appeared to be an elite on them. The Master Chief made a quick scan of the room, and found that only two of elites were still alive, although one seemed to be in a coma. He walked up the conscious one, which was groaning silently.
The elite noticed the Spartans presence, and slowly opened its eye.
"Human" it whispered, so quietly that had it not been for the Master Chiefs enhanced hearing, he wouldn't have noticed it. "Kill me"
"Not before I get some answers." The Chief replied harshly. "What happened?"
The elite held up a half mutilated arm, pointing to a computer terminal. "Answers" it said, louder, but still barely audible.
The Master Chief walked up to the terminal. "Put me in right there." Cortana said. "This terminal appears to be detached from the rest of the ships mainframe, so there should be no problem with the Covenant AI's. The Chief did as Cortana asked him.
The elite pleaded to be killed again. Leaving Cortana to figure out what to do, the Chief walked up to it. It wasn't pleasing to look at, even for the battle-hardened soldier. It reminded him of the crippled Spartans that he had once seen, and almost felt sympathetic for it. This elite must have felt worse than it looked, if it was asking for death by a human, so he placed one hand on its shoulder, and the other on its head, and twisted.
The elites spine was immediately snapped in two, but its owner did not die. Instead, it coughed up blood before writhing uncontrollably. The Master Chief swore as he activated the sword he held, and cut its head off.
"These things are remarkably strong" Cortana said over the intercom in a concerned manner that the Chief noticed immediately.
"What's wrong?" he asked
"You're not going to believe this, but they're already working on the Immortus-II project. They sent the data on the original project to what they call the 'council'. I'm not entirely sure what that is, so I'm going to hack into the Covenant Battlenet as soon as I'm back in your suit. As you already know, this computer doesn't have access to anything out of it's system."
"Yeah…sure…" the he replied, fixing his gaze on a glass cupboard. Filled with weapons. He walked over to it, smashed the glass casing, and pulled one of the weapons out. It was exactly the same as the purple weapon that the platinum elite had carried.
"Whoops," Cortana said.
Then an alarm went off.
"We have to get out of here, NOW!" Cortana said, rather urgently.
"Agreed" The Master Chief pulled the construct out of the terminal and reinserted her into his helmet. He placed a plasma grenade onto the terminal, before they took off down the corridor.
Inside the mess hall, the alarm suddenly went off. All of the grunts who were sleeping woke up and added to the chaos by running around in circles, screaming "We're all gonna die!!!"
It was the elites who first reached the room that the Master Chief had so recently been in. Unfortunately for them, they noticed the blood surrounding the body the Chief had killed before they noticed the blue smoke of the plasma grenade.
Only one made it out of the room alive. It called for it's fellow gold elites to help it track down and ambush the cyborg before it got off the ship.
"Okay, so the council is basically a bunch of high ranking covenant who decide what happens. Great. Why would the Immortus data be sent to them, though?" the Master Chief asked Cortana, while inputting the commands to unlock the cells, "I'm sure they have plenty of minions to file the data for them."
"Well, it's only a thought, but I believe that the Council probably has apparatus a lot more advanced than this ship. Remember, this is a military ship, not a research one."
"Good to see you're back, Chief" the Sargent said as soon as the plasma screens had been deactivated..
"Nice to see you lot are okay too, but we have to get out of here, now. I'll debrief you once we get off this ship. Cortana: a nav-point, if you will." The Spartan replied.
"Of course" and with what, a blinking light formed on his HUD.
They all hurried out of the room, the Master Chief leading them, when they came across the group of gold elites.
"Go. Now. I'll meet you back at base camp." The Chief said in a low voice. "Here, take this." He said, handing the Sargent the weapon he had found in the glass case.
The humans ran off, leaving the super-soldier holding a fragmentation grenade and his sword. The cyborg and the elites just looked at each other, before the group of elites parted.
"Oh dear." The Master Chief commented, as another Platinum-coloured elite showed up, only this one looked angry.
"First you destroy an entire fleet of our ships. Then you cause problems with the Council. Congratulations; you have done what no other Human being has done. However, I shall not let you cause any more problems." It said, slowly walking towards the Chief.
Then a flash of green, behind it, which only the Master Chief noticed. Suddenly five plasma grenades where plastered to the platinum elites skull.
"GET DOWN!" Cortana shouted at him, even though the Chief had already dived backwards.
There was a huge explosion, and many rounds shredded the flesh of anything that attempted to move. Except one thing decided that it would not remain motionless, and a few rounds wouldn't stop it.
Although the Master Chief's plasma sword would…
A fairly interesting chapter, which I don't think is as good as the rest. I was basically trying to find a way of making the Master Chief walking down some corridors into a chapter. I'm not sure if it worked, so please read and review. And I deliberately left it as a cliff-hanger (well, that's what I hope the effect was), so that I can say: If you want to find out what the rest of the chapter is like, review it!!!!! (Insert evil laugh here) :)