Halo: The Reclaimer, Chapter 2
Xzaalbarth rolled his eyes at that last statement by the Monitor and fired at a cluster of Combat Forms with his Rifle. Limbs were flying in the air, and the Floods inhuman screams could be heard a kilometer away. Xzaalbarth felt something cold and slimy touch him on the back, followed by a sharp pain. Xzaalbarth cried out and then hit the injection form that was trying to lodge itself into Xzaalbarth. The form immediately exploded into wet fleshy bits.
"You need to be more careful, Reclaimer," said the Monitor.
"No shit," remarked Xzaalbarth, angrily. Xzaalbarth then lobbed a Plasma Grenade at a cluster of injection forms, and they exploded.
"I'm wasting to much time..." Xzaalbarth thought.
He then charged through the angry group of combat forms, injection forms, and carrier forms; bashing, stepping and firing on them as he went. Plasma fire from the Plasma Rifles the Flood had captured earlier, filled the air, extremely irritated that their food was running away from them. Xzaalbarth run out of the Flood housing complex, and into a swamp, the same swamp where Captain Keyes would be at, and the Master Chief being sent to rescue, 10,000 years into the future. Xzaalbarth just kept firing behind him and yelling curses as he ran. He then came across, and almost tripped over, the wing of a Forerunner Banshee. Xzaalbarth wasted no time jumping into the Banshee and powering up its engines. As he lifted off, plasma fire passed his wings. He eventually gained enough altitude to be out of firing range from the Flood and their plasma weapons. Even though the Banshee was a fast craft, he needed to think of a way to get to the Index faster. He then thought of it.
"Hey, Spark."
"Hmm??"
"What if we used the Teleportation Network across Halo to get to the Library?" asked Xzallbarth.
"We can't," replied 343 Guilty Spark. "You know as well as I do that the Teleportation Network is down, since the Flood attacked the Primary and Secondary Power Generators. I told you this before." Xzaalbarth frowned. 343 Guilty Spark never mentioned this to him at all. Xzaalbarth was beginning the think the little AI was starting to become insane. His thought was interrupted as a green ball of energy came out of nowhere and imploded into his wing. His Banshee's engines died, and the craft came hurtling towards the ground.
End of Chapter 2
Xzaalbarth rolled his eyes at that last statement by the Monitor and fired at a cluster of Combat Forms with his Rifle. Limbs were flying in the air, and the Floods inhuman screams could be heard a kilometer away. Xzaalbarth felt something cold and slimy touch him on the back, followed by a sharp pain. Xzaalbarth cried out and then hit the injection form that was trying to lodge itself into Xzaalbarth. The form immediately exploded into wet fleshy bits.
"You need to be more careful, Reclaimer," said the Monitor.
"No shit," remarked Xzaalbarth, angrily. Xzaalbarth then lobbed a Plasma Grenade at a cluster of injection forms, and they exploded.
"I'm wasting to much time..." Xzaalbarth thought.
He then charged through the angry group of combat forms, injection forms, and carrier forms; bashing, stepping and firing on them as he went. Plasma fire from the Plasma Rifles the Flood had captured earlier, filled the air, extremely irritated that their food was running away from them. Xzaalbarth run out of the Flood housing complex, and into a swamp, the same swamp where Captain Keyes would be at, and the Master Chief being sent to rescue, 10,000 years into the future. Xzaalbarth just kept firing behind him and yelling curses as he ran. He then came across, and almost tripped over, the wing of a Forerunner Banshee. Xzaalbarth wasted no time jumping into the Banshee and powering up its engines. As he lifted off, plasma fire passed his wings. He eventually gained enough altitude to be out of firing range from the Flood and their plasma weapons. Even though the Banshee was a fast craft, he needed to think of a way to get to the Index faster. He then thought of it.
"Hey, Spark."
"Hmm??"
"What if we used the Teleportation Network across Halo to get to the Library?" asked Xzallbarth.
"We can't," replied 343 Guilty Spark. "You know as well as I do that the Teleportation Network is down, since the Flood attacked the Primary and Secondary Power Generators. I told you this before." Xzaalbarth frowned. 343 Guilty Spark never mentioned this to him at all. Xzaalbarth was beginning the think the little AI was starting to become insane. His thought was interrupted as a green ball of energy came out of nowhere and imploded into his wing. His Banshee's engines died, and the craft came hurtling towards the ground.
End of Chapter 2