Captain Keyes jumped off the Pelican. He gazed around the swamp, searching for enemies. When he saw none, he turned around to the Pelican and motioned for his team to jump down. They ran, well, waded through the swamp to the old building covered in slime. He turned the corner and came face to face with a mutilated Elite. Keyes jumped back, but regained himself and continued forward. What had done that to an Elite? Elites are almost invincible, thought Keyes.
A door hissed open, letting Keyes and his team into the building. All he had to do is turn a corner to find another door. He approached it, but it didn't open. He put four rounds from his assault rifle into the door, but with no avail. He turned to his technician.
"Open it. Now."
"Yes… yessir," the young technician replied. All he wanted was some money and to go into to space when he enlisted, but instead he got crash landed onto a planet with no human life forms. He went to the door, and got a blowtorch from his hip tool belt. This was a simple Covenant door lock, only magnified by two. All he to do was to fry the locks on the keypad. The rest of the team rested back, joking with each other.
The technician suddenly heard movement. "Uh, Captain? I don't think we should open this door…" The technician sputtered.
"If I wanted your opinion, I'd ask for it, private," Keyes growled.
The technician opened the door, and he screamed for half a second before they were upon him. He then screamed even louder as the bubbly… thing stuck a tentacle down the young technician's back.
"HOLY SHIT!" yelled Keyes. He opened fire, and then gave the same command to his soldiers. Gunfire rang out in the narrow hallway. "CLOSE THAT DOOR!" Keyes yelled to the dead technician. These bubbly things popped easily, but they were fast, and there seemed to be a million of them. Every time he killed one, 6 more took its place.
Soldiers fell, one by one, their spines being ripped out from the inside. "RETREAT! RETREAT!" Keyes yelled, but no one was left but himself and one scared private.
"I'll cover you, captain!" yelled the Private, but immediately he was overwhelmed, and his fate was the same were the others. His face shone with agony as he let out a bloodcurdling scream, and fell to the floor, dead.
Keyes turned and ran. But one of the things jumped and caught him. It was pain unimaginable. The thing stuck a tentacle down his back, and tapped his spine. Keyes' whole body was burning, and he fell into the swamp, screaming. Then he blacked out.
Author's Note
Yes, that was the flood. Pretty scary, huh? This was what happened in the book named the flood, but I changed it around. A lot. In fact, this is completely different… Anyway, please RR this chapter, I think it's pretty good!