Now the team gets a new squad member.
BOOM!
It was all thanks to me that the dropship blew up. I just had to throw a needle at the Elite, and it just had to hit his plasma grenade. The grenade blew up, we plummeted at an extremely high speed then crunched onto the ground. Well, at least we thought it was the ground. It was actually an enormous human ship, and we were about a kilometre from the soil it was resting on. The squad and I stumbled out of the dropship, with another Grunt.
'Who are you?' I asked him.
'I'm Modnar. I'm a Grunt. Stuff is cool,' he replied.
I looked at him weirdly and said, 'Okay...'
Rinyo gave a loud cough that sounded a bit like he said 'psycho'.
Suddenly I saw one of the human vehicles zooming along to the right. It was getting closer and closer, so I had to think quick. I noticed Greeny inside, and I heard him say, 'To the escape ship we go! And if there's any little Grunts around, don't hop into the back as I drive past.'
What a great idea! I thought.
'Hey, everybody, how about we jump into the back of the human vehicle as it drives past,' I said.
'Who's driving it?' asked Rinyo.
'Greeny,' I replied, and just after I said it I could've sworn I heard that Elite from HQ say, 'Demon, not Greeny darn it!'
Greeny was speeding up to us, so we crouched, ready to leap into the back. He drove up to our position,we lept to the back end of the vehicle then grabbed the metal bar on the rear. We all climbed up to where the gunner would stand and sat down, without Greeny noticing the slightest bit. It seemed like we were there for hours, bumping around on the hard metal, but Greeny soon stopped. But there was no ship there. Then, from the far left, a human dropship flew toward us. It had smoke streaming out of the rear and two Banshees were firing at it. The ship flew over us and into the distance, with the Banshees still hot on its tail. Greeny started the vehicle up again with a jolt and sped along a tunnel. This human ship was pretty complicated on the outside! Then I noticed something up ahead.
'Um...guys?' I whimpered as I pointed in the direction we were going.
'Yeah? Wha--' said Torbei, 'Oh no. Save us, Prophets! Save us!'
There was a huge ramp in front of us, and Greeny zoomed easily over it. While we were in the air, everything seemed to slow down. We all held on to the vehicle tight, but Modnar didn't hold tight enough and cascaded down the shaft to his doom. The vehicle landed back on the ship more smoothly than we thought, but still pretty suddenly. Now we could finally see a small escape ship at the the end of a long straight. Greeny slammed his foot down to turn every parasite form in the way into roadkill. The vehicle was still rolling toward the ship when he jumped out. We jumped out with him, but behind him. Our squad entered the escape ship just as the door closed behind Greeny, and it took off. We watched out the back window as the Flood shook their fists angrily at us. I wasn't expecting it at all, but the Sacred Ring exploded into pieces, some of them hurtling into other parts of the ring. It was a sad, but amazing sight. I thought I'd never see it again. Well, that's what I thought.
This is the last chapter of the story, but I'm making a part with character profiles soon. Stay tuned!