For all you lovely, wonderful fans out there, I have decided to take part of me time and continue on with the story! (Applause). So, without further ado, I introduce to you: Chapter 9! (Applause again).

Disclaimer: I'm not rly sure if I actually have to write this for every chapter :) But im doin it anyway lmao. I don't own Halo.

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"Talking"
'Thinking'
Memories or Flashbacks
#Whispering#
::Radio/Intercom Chatter::

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Peeking around the corner, Master Chief spots the enemy boarding party in Landing Bay 15K. He could tell that this would be a tough fight. ::Linda, don't worry about what happens to me. I need you to stay alive; that's our only objective. Understand? Over.::

::Roger that, Master Chief. Over::

The Master Chief takes a deep breath, clenches his weapon tighter into his bloodstained fists, and dives into the room. The Covenant turn around after hearing a clanking sound behind them, but they don't see anything. An elite with gold armor commands two of the grunt soldiers to search for any enemies. The two follow orders without any arguing and waddle over to the location in which Master Chief was hiding. The two grunts disappear behind the steel wall, but do not return.

Master Chief release the grunts' necks and carefully place them on the ground behind him. He picks up one of their needlers, reloads it, and carefully looks into the room. 'Damn Covenant fools…they won't know what him them.' He fires three shots from the needler at a grunt. They spear it directly in the back of its head, and explode, spreading its brains and blood all over the floor. The other grunts jump in horror as they watch the body squirm around on the ground before it completely stops moving.

The golden elite utters a few strange noises, and all the jackals in the room place their shields in front of the entire group of aliens. They all duck behind them, holding their weapons at the ready. They waited for something to come out from behind the wall, but nothing showed up.

'These bastards…it's going to be too easy. Don't they get it?' Master Chief jumps out from behind the wall, throws a grenade into the group, and dives behind another wall. The Covenant soldiers had no time to respond and were killed by the explosion. All of the jackals and grunts were annihilated, which left the gold elite alone with Master Chief.

The Master Chief casually walks out into the Landing Bay, pointing his gun towards the elite. "You shouldn't have come, you're only wasting your time," he says to his opponent. He lunges into battle with his opponent, immediately shooting in its direction.

As the elite leaps around the room dodging all incoming fire, he wields his plasma rifle and begins shooting at the Master Chief. The plasma singes the energy shield, but it wasn't enough to deplete it. Yet.

The elite grabs onto the handrail of the balcony above them and swings up onto the platform. It fires its plasma rifle again, but misses his target each time.

Master Chief continues to empty his ammunition at his enemy. He was able to stick a couple of needle into it, but not enough take down the energy shield. Master Chief throws down his empty needler and jumps up onto the platform to follow the elite. He does this while picking up one of the jackals' plasma shields.

The elite sees the human doing all this and knows it will be hard to hit him while he's carrying the shield. He charges at the Master Chief, depleting the remaining amount of energy left in the battery of his weapon. His plan had worked, the plasma shield was burnt out. He picks up a fuel rod cannon dropped by one of the grunts and launches a shot towards the soldier.

Master Chief's reflexes get him to evade the cannon's shot as well as the next. His submachine gun runs out of ammo, and he exchanges it for his battle-rifle while rolling on the ground. He hides behind a cargo crate and reloads a full magazine into his weapon.

The elite shoots another round from the fuel rod cannon and sends the cargo crate soaring across the Landing Bay. The Master Chief immediately dives behind another crate for cover. Again, the elite fires his weapon at the human soldier. The crate is moved by the force of the shot, and Master Chief hides behind another crate. This time, he peeks around the side of it and fires a full burst the Covenant commander. It hits it in the left leg, and its shield flashes as it slowly gets depleted.

Constantly on the move, Master Chief continues firing at the alien, hitting him in the chest each time. Its shield goes down completely, and a few bullets pierce its armor. It lets out a rough, blood-filled roar as a sharp pain fills its upper body. The Master Chief jumps underneath the balcony to buy himself some time in order to reload his rifle. When finished, he comes out from his hiding spot and continues to fill the elite with his ammo.

Ignoring the pain being inflicted on him, the elite commander launches his final shot from his weapon and draws his energy sword. It jumps down from the balcony and runs at Master Chief. "The Demon shall die today!" he yells in his own language.

The Master Chief was caught off guard by the fuel rod ammo, but was still able to dodge the shot. He felt a sudden urge of excitement when he saw the elite draw his sword. 'That was his biggest mistake so far.' The Master Chief jumps at the elite. "What do you plan on doing now?" asks Cortana.

"This." Master Chief grabs the elite's wrist and snaps it, breaking the bone inside. He rapidly grabbed the sword out of its hand and spun around, slicing at the alien. But he wasn't fast enough.

The elite had already picked up a plasma shield and deflected the Spartan's attack. The collision of the two plasma energies short-circuited the battery of the sword, sending a shock down the right arm of the Master Chief. He dropped the weapon, unable to control his own arm: it had been paralyzed. He picked up a plasma pistol with his left hand and fired at the elite. The charge was strong enough to take down the plasma shield, but now he was vulnerable to anything that the elite threw at him.

With perfect accuracy, a sniper shot landed directly in the back of the elite's skull. It collapsed onto the ground as it was spraying purple blood onto the cargo crates behind it. Linda came limping into the room holding her rifle in her right hand. "Pretty sad that you needed my help," she said sarcastically.

Master Chief just ignored the comment and tried moving his fingers. He was slowly regaining control, but he wished it could be faster. "I told you to stay put, Linda."

"You wouldn't have survived if I didn't show up."

Again ignoring her, he picked up his rifle. He could now feel his arm at least, and move it enough to hold a weapon. Master Chief walked over to Linda and helped her into the corner of the Landing Bay.

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it. Are you sure you're able to fight?"

"Judging by the way she saved your sorry ass, yes," said Cortana, wedging her way into the conversation.

Just then, a second boarding craft hit the wall directly behind them, catching them off guard. "Another one?" asks Linda, surprised that she hadn't seen it coming.

The Master Chief just watches as the Covenant forces jump out of the pod and face them. Pulling his weapon into the aiming position, he tells Linda, "There's nowhere else to go. Now it's between us and them."

Linda puts on her armor's helmet and repeats his words, "Us and them."

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Ok, it's done. Thanks so far for all of the reviews and I hope you review this one right now. THX!