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Best of the Best Chapter 21: The Decision
"Your excellence..." a grunt asked Muka 'Mamamee, "Wouldn't it be much more efficient just to attack the humans when they first came to earth?"
"It is not that simple, fool." Muka answered, "Long ago on the planet were great creatures, much larger and powerful than us. It is not certain when those creatures vanished from earth, and we do not have the time to find out now. By destroying Team Omega, we will finalize our victory. My liege!" The Elite finished, as a Prophet entered the room.
The prophet, Shlabba, spoke to Muka in his mind. 'Have you begun the process?"
'My liege, we are rounding up fleets to send through the machine...'
'There is no time! The alliance with the Monitor has been broken. The band of Humans has taken control of the ring and is about to destroy this planet.'
'But my liege, are our defenses not impenetrable?'
'Not against such a weapon as this. Our planet will be destroyed. Our last hope is that your fleets can destroy those in Team Omega. Waste no time!'
"Chief, we're coming up on the third beacon now! It's somewhere in the next room, but I'm picking up a lot of movement!" Raynor spoke over the radio.
"Hold your position, we're on our way." The Chief responded to him. The chief turned to face Samus, Johnson and Payne. "The others have found the room, but there's a lot of movement there. We need to go help them, now." The four of them headed to Raynor's location.
"I'm not sure what's in there..." Lucca put her head up against the metal door. I hear noises, plasma fire..."
"Then there's more than one race in there." Raynor stated.
"Whatever the hell they are, let's just go kill 'em all." Vercetti said, hoisting up his rocket launcher.
"Take it easy, Tommy. The Chief said he'll be here in a minute."
"...Faster than that" Samus said, as she came around the corner with the rest of Team Omega."
"What are we waiting for; let's go get 'em!" Sgt. Johnson yelled out.
The Chief and Raynor approached the door. As the metal slid across, it revealed a bunch of Covenant firing at a squad of Flood. Team Omega rushed in and began to shoot anything that moved. Tommy fired a rocket into the corner killing off a bunch of Flood Combat Forms. Crono charged at the single Golden Elite planted in the middle of the Covenant Squadron. The Elite unleashed his energy sword. Lucca and Marle combined their powers to perform an Antipode attack. The attack knocked back many grunts and jackals. They both turned around to get smacked across the room by a gigantic Hunter. The Hunter then turned, charged its fuel rod cannon and fired it at the rest of the team. Samus was blown back from the attack, as well were a few Flood Combat forms. A Carrier landed behind the Hunter and exploded, sending the beast flying forward.
"Holy shit, look out!" Tommy yelled as the Hunter flew toward Raynor. He noticed it too late, however, and turned just as the huge Hunter crashed down onto him.
"God damn it, not again!" Raynor yelled, trying to move. The Hunter opened its eyes and looked into Raynor's eyes. Raynor looked back. "Uh...hello?" The Hunter let out a large roar, but then went limp again. Raynor tilted his head and saw that the Chief and placed a pistol shot into its weak point. "You couldn't have waited until he got off me, eh?" Raynor asked, jokingly.
Sparks flew off the energy sword and the Elite and Crono engaged in an old fashioned battle. Crono had hit the Elite several times and wiped out its power shield, but the Energy sword did knick Crono on the arm, and it stung painfully. The power of the weapon caused a simple scratch to hurt extremely. Crono managed to slice the Elite across the chest, causing the alien to grab it in pain. It let out a large grunt as it unlatched a Plasma Grenade and threw it at Crono. Crono ducked, the grenade attached itself to a Flood Combat Form which sent another band of Flood flying into the wall. Team Omega continued to fire their weapons until the few remaining Flood and Covenant were all motionless.
"Alright, now to the beacon..." The chief said, but he was cut short.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be able to allow you to do that." The annoying voice of 343 Guilty Spark flew out of nowhere as he came through the ventilation system of the room, along with numerous sentinels. The sentinels surrounded Team Omega. "You've just happened to ruin my plan for the last time, Reclaimer. It is the fate of the Human Race to be destroyed along with those of the Covenant, and I'm not going to allow you to change that."
The Chief looked at the floating robotic ball. "Try and stop me."
"Very Well."
The Sentinels opened fire upon the team. They returned fire as the Chief made a run for the beacon. He quickly took Cortana's chip out of his head and put it in the Control Panel.
"Chief...this one may take a while to crack, I suggest you hold off those Sentinels."
The chief ran back into the main room. Half of his team was on the ground, as more and more sentinels swarmed into the room through the ventilation system. He un holstered his pistol and fired at the machines.
"There's too many of 'em, chief, we gotta get the hell outta here!" Sgt. Johnson told him.
"No! We have to hold them off until Cortana can reprogram the energy beacon!"
The team continued fighting. The Sentinels deadly red lasers tore through them like a warm knife through butter. The chief's MJOLNIR armor was damaged, as most of his team's as well. Samus fired her missiles into the air, causing numerous Sentinels to fall from the sky and crash to the ground as a chunk of burning metal.
"Your attempt to stop my plan will fail." 343 Guilty Spark said, as he watched his Sentinels decimate Team Omega.
"Hang on chief, I got an idea!" Raynor yelled out. He pressed a few buttons on his chaingun, then unlatched it from his suit. It began to beep and he threw it in the center of the room. The chaingun then set off a loud noise, and a wave of light emerged from it. The Sentinels fell out of the sky and hit the ground with large, metallic thumps.
"What the hell was that?" Vercetti asked.
"An EMP wave." Raynor said. "Kills off any machine by scrambling their AI."
The Monitor remained hovering in the center of the room. His mind and structure was far to advanced to be destroyed by a simple EMP wave.
"Chief, its ready, I'm putting in the co-ordinates now!"
"Wait, Cortana!" The chief said. He radioed into UNSC HQ. "HQ, are there any units within our current location that can bring us home?"
A voice on the other end responded. "Yes, there are two pelicans scouting your area, about ten minutes away. Get out in the open and I'll have them pick you up."
"Cortana, set the co-ordinates to the Covenant Homeworld as well as this installation...we can have this freak causing any more problems..." he looked at the Monitor.
"I'm putting an overriding system in now, we need to go!"
"You will not get away!" 343 Guilty Spark shouted at The Chief and Cortana.
"It's time we put an end to your little game!" Cortana said, "Chief, get us out of here!"
The chief ran up to the console and grabbed Cortana's chip. He shoved it back into his own helmet. The team ran out of the door and headed out of the structure. 343 Guilty Spark followed them closely. The team finally got out of the structure and radioed to their nearby units to tell them their location. The two pelicans arrived there soon after, only when the Monitor emerged from the structure.
"Jesus, why doesn't this guy ever give up?" Marle asked, frustrated.
Six more sentinels which were patrolling outside came as the Monitor emerged from the structure. The Monitor ordered for them to fire at the Pelicans. The team took the Sentinels out too late, as they had managed to take down one of the two pelicans. The plane crashed to the ground and exploded.
"We need to go, now, Chief!" Cortana instructed. "But one Pelican can only fit eight...there are nine of us!"
"And that god damn metal thing is just gonna follow us and try to kill us anyway!" Tommy yelled out.
"We're running out of time, chief!" Cortana said.
For the first time in his life, the Chief didn't know hoe to take care of this situation. One of them had to stay behind. And he would rather it be himself.
Best of the Best Chapter 21: The Decision
"Your excellence..." a grunt asked Muka 'Mamamee, "Wouldn't it be much more efficient just to attack the humans when they first came to earth?"
"It is not that simple, fool." Muka answered, "Long ago on the planet were great creatures, much larger and powerful than us. It is not certain when those creatures vanished from earth, and we do not have the time to find out now. By destroying Team Omega, we will finalize our victory. My liege!" The Elite finished, as a Prophet entered the room.
The prophet, Shlabba, spoke to Muka in his mind. 'Have you begun the process?"
'My liege, we are rounding up fleets to send through the machine...'
'There is no time! The alliance with the Monitor has been broken. The band of Humans has taken control of the ring and is about to destroy this planet.'
'But my liege, are our defenses not impenetrable?'
'Not against such a weapon as this. Our planet will be destroyed. Our last hope is that your fleets can destroy those in Team Omega. Waste no time!'
"Chief, we're coming up on the third beacon now! It's somewhere in the next room, but I'm picking up a lot of movement!" Raynor spoke over the radio.
"Hold your position, we're on our way." The Chief responded to him. The chief turned to face Samus, Johnson and Payne. "The others have found the room, but there's a lot of movement there. We need to go help them, now." The four of them headed to Raynor's location.
"I'm not sure what's in there..." Lucca put her head up against the metal door. I hear noises, plasma fire..."
"Then there's more than one race in there." Raynor stated.
"Whatever the hell they are, let's just go kill 'em all." Vercetti said, hoisting up his rocket launcher.
"Take it easy, Tommy. The Chief said he'll be here in a minute."
"...Faster than that" Samus said, as she came around the corner with the rest of Team Omega."
"What are we waiting for; let's go get 'em!" Sgt. Johnson yelled out.
The Chief and Raynor approached the door. As the metal slid across, it revealed a bunch of Covenant firing at a squad of Flood. Team Omega rushed in and began to shoot anything that moved. Tommy fired a rocket into the corner killing off a bunch of Flood Combat Forms. Crono charged at the single Golden Elite planted in the middle of the Covenant Squadron. The Elite unleashed his energy sword. Lucca and Marle combined their powers to perform an Antipode attack. The attack knocked back many grunts and jackals. They both turned around to get smacked across the room by a gigantic Hunter. The Hunter then turned, charged its fuel rod cannon and fired it at the rest of the team. Samus was blown back from the attack, as well were a few Flood Combat forms. A Carrier landed behind the Hunter and exploded, sending the beast flying forward.
"Holy shit, look out!" Tommy yelled as the Hunter flew toward Raynor. He noticed it too late, however, and turned just as the huge Hunter crashed down onto him.
"God damn it, not again!" Raynor yelled, trying to move. The Hunter opened its eyes and looked into Raynor's eyes. Raynor looked back. "Uh...hello?" The Hunter let out a large roar, but then went limp again. Raynor tilted his head and saw that the Chief and placed a pistol shot into its weak point. "You couldn't have waited until he got off me, eh?" Raynor asked, jokingly.
Sparks flew off the energy sword and the Elite and Crono engaged in an old fashioned battle. Crono had hit the Elite several times and wiped out its power shield, but the Energy sword did knick Crono on the arm, and it stung painfully. The power of the weapon caused a simple scratch to hurt extremely. Crono managed to slice the Elite across the chest, causing the alien to grab it in pain. It let out a large grunt as it unlatched a Plasma Grenade and threw it at Crono. Crono ducked, the grenade attached itself to a Flood Combat Form which sent another band of Flood flying into the wall. Team Omega continued to fire their weapons until the few remaining Flood and Covenant were all motionless.
"Alright, now to the beacon..." The chief said, but he was cut short.
"I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be able to allow you to do that." The annoying voice of 343 Guilty Spark flew out of nowhere as he came through the ventilation system of the room, along with numerous sentinels. The sentinels surrounded Team Omega. "You've just happened to ruin my plan for the last time, Reclaimer. It is the fate of the Human Race to be destroyed along with those of the Covenant, and I'm not going to allow you to change that."
The Chief looked at the floating robotic ball. "Try and stop me."
"Very Well."
The Sentinels opened fire upon the team. They returned fire as the Chief made a run for the beacon. He quickly took Cortana's chip out of his head and put it in the Control Panel.
"Chief...this one may take a while to crack, I suggest you hold off those Sentinels."
The chief ran back into the main room. Half of his team was on the ground, as more and more sentinels swarmed into the room through the ventilation system. He un holstered his pistol and fired at the machines.
"There's too many of 'em, chief, we gotta get the hell outta here!" Sgt. Johnson told him.
"No! We have to hold them off until Cortana can reprogram the energy beacon!"
The team continued fighting. The Sentinels deadly red lasers tore through them like a warm knife through butter. The chief's MJOLNIR armor was damaged, as most of his team's as well. Samus fired her missiles into the air, causing numerous Sentinels to fall from the sky and crash to the ground as a chunk of burning metal.
"Your attempt to stop my plan will fail." 343 Guilty Spark said, as he watched his Sentinels decimate Team Omega.
"Hang on chief, I got an idea!" Raynor yelled out. He pressed a few buttons on his chaingun, then unlatched it from his suit. It began to beep and he threw it in the center of the room. The chaingun then set off a loud noise, and a wave of light emerged from it. The Sentinels fell out of the sky and hit the ground with large, metallic thumps.
"What the hell was that?" Vercetti asked.
"An EMP wave." Raynor said. "Kills off any machine by scrambling their AI."
The Monitor remained hovering in the center of the room. His mind and structure was far to advanced to be destroyed by a simple EMP wave.
"Chief, its ready, I'm putting in the co-ordinates now!"
"Wait, Cortana!" The chief said. He radioed into UNSC HQ. "HQ, are there any units within our current location that can bring us home?"
A voice on the other end responded. "Yes, there are two pelicans scouting your area, about ten minutes away. Get out in the open and I'll have them pick you up."
"Cortana, set the co-ordinates to the Covenant Homeworld as well as this installation...we can have this freak causing any more problems..." he looked at the Monitor.
"I'm putting an overriding system in now, we need to go!"
"You will not get away!" 343 Guilty Spark shouted at The Chief and Cortana.
"It's time we put an end to your little game!" Cortana said, "Chief, get us out of here!"
The chief ran up to the console and grabbed Cortana's chip. He shoved it back into his own helmet. The team ran out of the door and headed out of the structure. 343 Guilty Spark followed them closely. The team finally got out of the structure and radioed to their nearby units to tell them their location. The two pelicans arrived there soon after, only when the Monitor emerged from the structure.
"Jesus, why doesn't this guy ever give up?" Marle asked, frustrated.
Six more sentinels which were patrolling outside came as the Monitor emerged from the structure. The Monitor ordered for them to fire at the Pelicans. The team took the Sentinels out too late, as they had managed to take down one of the two pelicans. The plane crashed to the ground and exploded.
"We need to go, now, Chief!" Cortana instructed. "But one Pelican can only fit eight...there are nine of us!"
"And that god damn metal thing is just gonna follow us and try to kill us anyway!" Tommy yelled out.
"We're running out of time, chief!" Cortana said.
For the first time in his life, the Chief didn't know hoe to take care of this situation. One of them had to stay behind. And he would rather it be himself.