"What the fuck just happened?!" said Master Chief as he woke up suddenly. He shook with cold and his body started thrashing. He forced himself to stop. "What's happenin to me?!" thought Master Chief.
"You should calm down. This is because of your non-stop use of your body. You haven't really given it any rest...except when you were unconcious." said Halsey.
"This sucks." said Master Chief, as he loosened himself and calmed down. Soon his body came under control again. He looked around in the darkness. "Where are we?!" Master Chief asked to Halsey.
"It's an ancient Forerunner room with relics and information of the past. We could learn lots from this!" exclaimed Halsey.
"Whatever." said Master Chief, but then he thought of something. Well, he tried to. Something in his mind told him that he was forgetting about something. Then he looked at his surroundings again and said, "Where's Victoria!".
"What?! She's not here?!" asked Halsey.
"Guys. What's the commotion?! Trying to get in some snooze here." said a voice.
"Thank god you're alive Vic. Thought you were destroyed along with the nuke."
"You shouldn't be worring about me. You can't even fight anymore. Your armor that covers your shield is gone. I'm suprised you didn't notice that..." said Victoria.
"What do you mean?!" said Master Chief as he tried to stand up, but then colasped. "Screw this." said Master Chief, as he thought of someway to repair it. He didn't have biofoam, and even if he did, this was now his achilles heel. No armor was a bad thing.
"John. Your fighting days are over, unless we find at least titanium A metal to replace your shin guard for the time being. Especially on this planet. Worst planet to lose your armor." said Hlasey in a sigh. Suddenly, something sprang out of the dark and went on Master Chief's legs. The thing made squishy sounds, and it made a hole and crawled in.
"Was that a Flood, or am i imagining things.?" asked Victoria.
"Ummm...oh shit." said Master Chief, as he collapsed and fell. "Chief!" screamed Victoria, but it was too late. No one would reach him.
"If he's going to turn into a combat form, we're creamed. What choice do we have but to destroy him?" asked Victoria to herself.
Halsey read her mind and said, "It has to be done Victoria. Implant me into your armor. We should kill him...so he doesn't suffer."
"What's happening? What did i miss?" said a startled Cortana who just awoke. She quickly understood what was happening, or what already happened. She had checked his nueral cord and his brain patterns, and something told her that a flood got him. She was about to ask if i was true, when she was taken away from his hud, and put into Victorias. She saw Victoria take a frag grenade and throw it to the floor next to him. Nothing could save a person from the Flood, not even her compound. The only option was death. They stood there silently, watching as time ticked away slowly...then the second came. There was a boom and a flash of fire...
TIME ZONE NOT ESTABLISHED ON PLANET
FOCKEE SYSTEM SECTOR 99
NAME: DAGONZKA?
NOT SUFFICIENT ENOUGH INFORMATION
"Mammode. Have we established a time measure yet. Without time we are nothing."
"No your exellency, but we are close too. You should come out and observe us. We already have buildings and walls. We also hvare electrcity, and we are about to launch 2 probes into space, and they will determine the time and we can also use them as messengers. We will have covered half this planet in around 1 more week, due to effiency of the findings of resources...but i must disturb you with something." said Mammode.
"You are free to say."
"Our prophet trainee, you know. The new prophet child."
"Yes. What about the child?"
"Well, he's found this ancient ruin. Something we think may be a holy relic left from the forerunners. He had demanded excavation. We had started, but then we found out something before we reached it. There was a swarm of black bubble shaped parasites, andit took at least 50 men to take down 100, though some are seriously injured. It xeems as they are mutating, and then the prophet transmitted a secret message to the prophets at home, and wrote the flood is here. He was immediately put in charge, since they said he has past experience, and he is now demanding that we kill all the non-workers and warriors so we can fight."
"This is outrageous! We came here to colonize. Not to die out!"
"I know but sir. He is threatening you to order it, and if you don not comply, they will order your execution. Or you could go and find more relics and evidence, so they can analyze this more and this way, they can leave the colony as it is."
"The prophets are going to pray. It was they who destroyed our race! I'm not going to stand here and tolerate this!" screamed Garucatus.
"Ease your temper foolish one. They appointed me this job because i am wise...as you are strong for a leader in combat. For your foolishness, i hereby demote you down to commander in training. If you use your anger out there, you would be dead. Now Mammode is your exellency. Oh yeah. I also need you to find the relics. I have just found out that there are two humans down there. You are lucky, tht i have enough tolerance to give you a job so fun. If you recover the relic and it is damaged, you will further be demoted to an engineer, and if you fail at all, you will be tortured, and then we will send you to the celestial sun and burn you. And Mammode, make sure he is under control, and if he reacts violently, destroy half of the relic down there. I want to see him live his rest of his lives as an engineer. You are dismissed." said the prophet on a sceen. Thenhe reappeared and said in a smirk, "One dead Sundererite makes a better universe." and then he showed a tatto in covenant language. No one understood, but only Garucatus had known. Then the prophet reallyleft.
"Mam-Your exellency. Will be move out now, and how many?"
"Don't worry Garucatus. You don't have to call me that. I should be calling you that. Without you, i wouldn't be as skilled in combat as you."
"Thank you for the dignity i have left." muttered Garucatus.
"So, we'll bring 2 teams, 5 in each, and you'll command one and i'll command the other."
"Okay. Let's get into our battle armors."
"OOnl select Hunters that you don't need. We'll use them as test subjects and see how strong the humans are...and how strong the Flood are."
"Why only Hunters?!" asked Garucatus.
"Because in the reports given o the young prophet, yes i hacked him, they say of a terrible enemy, and to begin evacuation immediately, because these parasites thrive on bodies, but hunters are too big, and grunts are too small, so only jackals and elites match their tastes so far, which means im the only one that can be sick. You others will either die or live."
"You can stay behind if you want to."
"No. My mission is clear. Let's go and see how terrible these humans and flood are." said Mammode, and then they walked to the armor room.
End Chapter.
A/N-O NO! MC IS GONNA DIE!
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