Chapter 1: Cruelty of the Flood

"Stay strong soldier!" commanded First Sergeant Pike. The marines still were uneasy about being trapped in a flood infested lab, and there Spartan protector, 104 dead.

"were all going to die!" whined a marine with a magnum.

These marines had been stuck in these labs ever since Reach fell, and the truth is that there were only three survivors. The covenant arbiter swept through killed the heretic leader and left. These marines have been fighting floods and heretics.

"marines barricade those doors!" ordered pike pointing with his needler.

"Sir yes Sir! They saluted pushing chairs, machines and anything against the door. They were in a restroom and they took apart the stalls and used them to barricade the doors. They had water from the sinks, but they had to boil it.

Pike lit up his last cigar, and watched his soldiers barricade the door.

"that's enough! Now get the vents filled and barricaded!" Said Pike

"yes sir!" the soldiers said taking clumps of toilet paper, soaking them with water and then shoved it up the vents. They hammered a toilet seat on each vent.

" all places are barricaded sir!" said the one with the magnum, the other had a battle rifle.

"at ease! This is where our last stand shall be you understand?" barked Pike

"Yes Sir!" saluted the marines.

"this is where we give those flood assholes hell!" Spat Pike

The barricade on the door was shaking.

"Brace yourselves men!" said Pike aiming his needler.

The door only took two more hits and it blasted open. Flood filled the room, there were 30, 10 had no host, and the other 20 had taken grunts over and used plasma pistols and claws.

Pike stuck three needles in one grunt, causing the little beast to blow up. Then pike whacked a grunt coming from the sided sending a full needler round in the beast.

Pike reloaded and fired killing three more grunts. The marines and Pike backed to the wall blasting flood coming at them. The vent barricade went sending 15 more flood grunts into the fray.

"Sir we can't hold them!" said the marine with the magnum blasting a grunt in its ugly flood parasite.
"keep fighting!" ordered Pike firing many needles.

The wall blasted down behind them. A hunter flood was right behind them and whacked the one with the Battle Rifle into the mass of flood.

"ah!" screamed the marine

The grunts piled on him ripping open his stomach and pulling out his insides and eating them. Guts and blood splattered everywhere.

"oh my god!" said The marine with the magnum running by the hunter and down the corridor.

Now it was only Pike surrounded by flood, and witnessing the gruesome murder of his fallen battle rifleman.