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Best of the Best Chapter 13: The Monitor
Team Omega slowly crept down the hallway toward the door to the control room of The Invader. Killing a few patrolling Elites and Jackals on the way, the team had no idea what to expect when the door opened. The chief readied his assault rifle as the rest of Team Omega did with their weapons. The chief then opened the door and sprung into the control room. There were many Elites, Jackals and Grunts in the room, running around. But none of them fired at Team Omega. The chief then saw something he thought he would never see again. It was 343 Guilty Spark. The once Monitor of Halo turned to the chief.
"Greetings Reclaimer. I'm surprised you've made it this far." He said in that high-pitched robotic voice.
"Monitor, what the hell are you doing here!"
"When I found out of the Covenant's plan to wipe out the Humans, I asked them to come along so I can finish what I started on the Pillar of Autumn, gather information about the human race. I offered my help and the help of my sentinels so that I could gather the information before they wiped you out."
"You're a twisted, sad excuse for an A. I." Cortana said harshly toward her nemesis.
"Why, thank you." The monitor replied. "This ship is under my control. These Covenant will do as I say. And I say eliminate them!"
The Covenant warriors then aimed their weapons at Team Omega.
"Take cover!" The chief yelled, as the team scattered in the control room to take cover behind numerous objects.
"Toodles." The Monitor said, as he exited the control room, as 6 or 7 sentinels entered the room.
Members of Team Omega took turns sticking their head out and firing at their adversaries. Samus blindly threw a plasma grenade overhead and heard the screams of Jackals and Grunts as it went off. The Master Chief took out his pistol and precisely fired his shots and the two Commander Elites at the main controls of the Invader. Spec Ops elites began throwing plasma grenades at the Chief's position, causing him to dive out of the way and take cover behind another object. Tommy reloaded his rocket launcher and fired, taking out a few Jackals and an Elite. Marle and Lucca popped up every so often to fire off their weapons. Nick and Jack were also too busy keeping their fingers on the trigger to notice the plasma grenade that hand landed by them. Raynor dived at them, knocking them out of the way on time.
"Thanks for that." Nick said.
"Yeah," commented Jack.
Raynor rolled his eyes at the two cops. He then turned and fired off his chain gun, tearing down numerous Covenant. 47 took his time to scope out the Elites and pegged most of them off one by one with the sniper rifle.
One Commander unleashed his energy sword, which was Crono's cue. He unsheathed his sword and charged at the commander, as plasma bolts flew by him from other enemies. The two engaged into another swordfight; Crono's favorite kind of fight. His eyes flashed white and he struck the Elite in the side, as his word was surging with Electrical Energy. The power of the sword cut right through the Elite's energy shield like a hot knife through butter. After the shield went down, the sword pierced the side of the great Elite. It let out a loud cry of pain. The Elite clutched its side and swung its sword at Crono, rather sloppily. Crono easily dodged it and struck the Elite on the leg with the sword. The Elite fell to one knee. Crono finished it off by impaling the sword in the back of the Elite's head. He pulled the sword out of the Elite's corpse, which was now covered in purple blood.
The sentinels then took their turn and fired their red lasers at Team Omega. The team shot their weapons, some of them didn't do much damage.
"Use plasma or explosives!" yelled the chief.
Samus charged her weapon and fired it at one of the hovering robots. The impact knocked the sentinel out of the sky. Tommy fired his rocket launcher, the explosion caused two sentinels to fall. Nick and Jack both tossed plasma grenades, miraculously both grenades latched to the sentinels they were aiming at. To more went down. The lasers from the sentinels wiped out the chief's shield. 47 fired a sniper round into the robot and it fell out of the sky. The last remaining sentinel turned to Raynor and 47, unleashing its laser. The laser burned a hole in Raynor's suit and it also singed 47's right arm. He clutched his arm in pain. Sgt. Johnson fired his Assault rifle at the last sentinel, and it finally fell to the ground.
"Chief," Cortana said, "343 Guilty Spark is no longer on this ship. But I do believe there is information that I can use to locate the Covenant Home World."
The chief walked up to the control panels and inserted Cortana's chip. The controls light up with bright white and purple lights. Cortana's voice can be heard through the entire control room.
"Ahh..." she said.
"Uh, what exactly was that monitor thing back there chief?" Raynor asked.
The chief was about to open his mouth but Cortana beat him to it. "343 Guilty Spark was the former Monitor of Installations on Halo. He tricked the chief into retrieving the index, making him think that they would use Halo to wipe out the Flood. The Flood was a parasitic life form on Halo that would devour both Human and Covenant soldiers, and turn them into their own. It was later revealed that Halo could only wipe out the flood by killing their food, Humans and Covenant, so they could starve to death. The Monitor's plan was stopped by the Chief and myself. But he somehow managed to escape the blast of Halo..." she said.
"Then what was he doing with these aliens?" Samus asked.
The chief thought about it for a sec. "The Monitor must have cut a deal with the Covenant. His assistance, and his powerful Sentinels, to help take out the humans as long as the Monitor hitched a ride to earth and downloaded all of the information of human history into his data base. But something doesn't seem right..." he pondered.
"What ever happened to the Flood?" Marle asked with curiosity.
"AS far as we know," Sgt. Johnson spoke, "They were wiped out on Halo. After the Chief found out about that little tin can's real idea, it became an all out war between the four sides. After the blast, it was to be believed that the Flood were completely wiped out. But there might be a chance that some escaped using the Covenant."
"You're right..." The chief said. "No Flood ever made it back to Earth, but what if some got back to the Covenant's home world? Do you think if that happened, the Monitor's real deal was to get to earth, and he told the Covenant he could take care of the Flood infestation on the Covenant's home planet?"
"That's a possibility..." Cortana started up again, "But that would mean there must be another super weapon out there he is planning to use to get rid of the Flood, unless he's just bluffing. If it would work the same way as Halo did, it would kill all of the Covenant to kill the Flood so they would starve to death. The Covenant must have made this deal with the Monitor not knowing what he really has planned. Then the Covenant and, and us, would be completely out of the Monitor's way and he would fly away with the data of three races! The little bastard!"
"Cortana, let's not jump to conclusions, though. We're not sure about this yet." The chief said.
"This is really confusing, you know?" Nick said.
"Yeah, I haven't got a clue what you're talking about." Jack said.
"I think I do..." Samus said, "But even if this was true, how would you plan to find out? Interrogate a grunt?"
"They would never tell a grunt this kind of information. Usually only Commander Elites and Prophets would most likely know about this kind of thing." Cortana said.
Crono looked down at the body of the Commander Elite he just had recently killed, then looked up at the team and shrugged. Marle giggled.
"All I have to say is let's burn 'em all to hell!" Tommy yelled, firing his Flamethrower into the air.
"If we could somehow get this information to the Covenant and break the alliance between them and the Monitor...this fight would be a lot easier. We wouldn't have to be fighting against an allied enemy." Cortana said.
"Yeah, good idea." Raynor piped up. "Let's call them up, ask to set a meeting, maybe have a few beers. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Knock it off," 47 said. "We need to think logically about this."
"I think I have a plan. Cortana, how are those co-ordinates for the Covenant's home world coming along?" The chief asked.
"I'm working on it, Chief. The Covenant sure do bury their info as deep as possible.
"You know that if there really is Flood on the Covenant's home world, there's a good chance that they're heading towards earth as well." Sgt. Johnson.
"Team, we've got ourselves in the middle of a four-front war." The chief said. "We're the only humans out here now. There's only twelve of us, possibly millions of Flood, billions of Covenant, and go knows how many sentinels are flying around. If you see something hat ain't one of us, kill it.
Best of the Best Chapter 13: The Monitor
Team Omega slowly crept down the hallway toward the door to the control room of The Invader. Killing a few patrolling Elites and Jackals on the way, the team had no idea what to expect when the door opened. The chief readied his assault rifle as the rest of Team Omega did with their weapons. The chief then opened the door and sprung into the control room. There were many Elites, Jackals and Grunts in the room, running around. But none of them fired at Team Omega. The chief then saw something he thought he would never see again. It was 343 Guilty Spark. The once Monitor of Halo turned to the chief.
"Greetings Reclaimer. I'm surprised you've made it this far." He said in that high-pitched robotic voice.
"Monitor, what the hell are you doing here!"
"When I found out of the Covenant's plan to wipe out the Humans, I asked them to come along so I can finish what I started on the Pillar of Autumn, gather information about the human race. I offered my help and the help of my sentinels so that I could gather the information before they wiped you out."
"You're a twisted, sad excuse for an A. I." Cortana said harshly toward her nemesis.
"Why, thank you." The monitor replied. "This ship is under my control. These Covenant will do as I say. And I say eliminate them!"
The Covenant warriors then aimed their weapons at Team Omega.
"Take cover!" The chief yelled, as the team scattered in the control room to take cover behind numerous objects.
"Toodles." The Monitor said, as he exited the control room, as 6 or 7 sentinels entered the room.
Members of Team Omega took turns sticking their head out and firing at their adversaries. Samus blindly threw a plasma grenade overhead and heard the screams of Jackals and Grunts as it went off. The Master Chief took out his pistol and precisely fired his shots and the two Commander Elites at the main controls of the Invader. Spec Ops elites began throwing plasma grenades at the Chief's position, causing him to dive out of the way and take cover behind another object. Tommy reloaded his rocket launcher and fired, taking out a few Jackals and an Elite. Marle and Lucca popped up every so often to fire off their weapons. Nick and Jack were also too busy keeping their fingers on the trigger to notice the plasma grenade that hand landed by them. Raynor dived at them, knocking them out of the way on time.
"Thanks for that." Nick said.
"Yeah," commented Jack.
Raynor rolled his eyes at the two cops. He then turned and fired off his chain gun, tearing down numerous Covenant. 47 took his time to scope out the Elites and pegged most of them off one by one with the sniper rifle.
One Commander unleashed his energy sword, which was Crono's cue. He unsheathed his sword and charged at the commander, as plasma bolts flew by him from other enemies. The two engaged into another swordfight; Crono's favorite kind of fight. His eyes flashed white and he struck the Elite in the side, as his word was surging with Electrical Energy. The power of the sword cut right through the Elite's energy shield like a hot knife through butter. After the shield went down, the sword pierced the side of the great Elite. It let out a loud cry of pain. The Elite clutched its side and swung its sword at Crono, rather sloppily. Crono easily dodged it and struck the Elite on the leg with the sword. The Elite fell to one knee. Crono finished it off by impaling the sword in the back of the Elite's head. He pulled the sword out of the Elite's corpse, which was now covered in purple blood.
The sentinels then took their turn and fired their red lasers at Team Omega. The team shot their weapons, some of them didn't do much damage.
"Use plasma or explosives!" yelled the chief.
Samus charged her weapon and fired it at one of the hovering robots. The impact knocked the sentinel out of the sky. Tommy fired his rocket launcher, the explosion caused two sentinels to fall. Nick and Jack both tossed plasma grenades, miraculously both grenades latched to the sentinels they were aiming at. To more went down. The lasers from the sentinels wiped out the chief's shield. 47 fired a sniper round into the robot and it fell out of the sky. The last remaining sentinel turned to Raynor and 47, unleashing its laser. The laser burned a hole in Raynor's suit and it also singed 47's right arm. He clutched his arm in pain. Sgt. Johnson fired his Assault rifle at the last sentinel, and it finally fell to the ground.
"Chief," Cortana said, "343 Guilty Spark is no longer on this ship. But I do believe there is information that I can use to locate the Covenant Home World."
The chief walked up to the control panels and inserted Cortana's chip. The controls light up with bright white and purple lights. Cortana's voice can be heard through the entire control room.
"Ahh..." she said.
"Uh, what exactly was that monitor thing back there chief?" Raynor asked.
The chief was about to open his mouth but Cortana beat him to it. "343 Guilty Spark was the former Monitor of Installations on Halo. He tricked the chief into retrieving the index, making him think that they would use Halo to wipe out the Flood. The Flood was a parasitic life form on Halo that would devour both Human and Covenant soldiers, and turn them into their own. It was later revealed that Halo could only wipe out the flood by killing their food, Humans and Covenant, so they could starve to death. The Monitor's plan was stopped by the Chief and myself. But he somehow managed to escape the blast of Halo..." she said.
"Then what was he doing with these aliens?" Samus asked.
The chief thought about it for a sec. "The Monitor must have cut a deal with the Covenant. His assistance, and his powerful Sentinels, to help take out the humans as long as the Monitor hitched a ride to earth and downloaded all of the information of human history into his data base. But something doesn't seem right..." he pondered.
"What ever happened to the Flood?" Marle asked with curiosity.
"AS far as we know," Sgt. Johnson spoke, "They were wiped out on Halo. After the Chief found out about that little tin can's real idea, it became an all out war between the four sides. After the blast, it was to be believed that the Flood were completely wiped out. But there might be a chance that some escaped using the Covenant."
"You're right..." The chief said. "No Flood ever made it back to Earth, but what if some got back to the Covenant's home world? Do you think if that happened, the Monitor's real deal was to get to earth, and he told the Covenant he could take care of the Flood infestation on the Covenant's home planet?"
"That's a possibility..." Cortana started up again, "But that would mean there must be another super weapon out there he is planning to use to get rid of the Flood, unless he's just bluffing. If it would work the same way as Halo did, it would kill all of the Covenant to kill the Flood so they would starve to death. The Covenant must have made this deal with the Monitor not knowing what he really has planned. Then the Covenant and, and us, would be completely out of the Monitor's way and he would fly away with the data of three races! The little bastard!"
"Cortana, let's not jump to conclusions, though. We're not sure about this yet." The chief said.
"This is really confusing, you know?" Nick said.
"Yeah, I haven't got a clue what you're talking about." Jack said.
"I think I do..." Samus said, "But even if this was true, how would you plan to find out? Interrogate a grunt?"
"They would never tell a grunt this kind of information. Usually only Commander Elites and Prophets would most likely know about this kind of thing." Cortana said.
Crono looked down at the body of the Commander Elite he just had recently killed, then looked up at the team and shrugged. Marle giggled.
"All I have to say is let's burn 'em all to hell!" Tommy yelled, firing his Flamethrower into the air.
"If we could somehow get this information to the Covenant and break the alliance between them and the Monitor...this fight would be a lot easier. We wouldn't have to be fighting against an allied enemy." Cortana said.
"Yeah, good idea." Raynor piped up. "Let's call them up, ask to set a meeting, maybe have a few beers. It could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"Knock it off," 47 said. "We need to think logically about this."
"I think I have a plan. Cortana, how are those co-ordinates for the Covenant's home world coming along?" The chief asked.
"I'm working on it, Chief. The Covenant sure do bury their info as deep as possible.
"You know that if there really is Flood on the Covenant's home world, there's a good chance that they're heading towards earth as well." Sgt. Johnson.
"Team, we've got ourselves in the middle of a four-front war." The chief said. "We're the only humans out here now. There's only twelve of us, possibly millions of Flood, billions of Covenant, and go knows how many sentinels are flying around. If you see something hat ain't one of us, kill it.