Disclaimer: Well, If I owned Halo, I'd be so freaking awesome. I don't own anything of Aliens or Predator. If I did, I'd sooooo be making this into a movie. Well. Bye. I do, however own some of the Spartan's numbers unless they actually show up in later games. Otherwise, it's Bungie's. See ya.
Aliens Vs. The Flood
Chapter Five – New Allies
'Dr. Halsey?' he thought.
Dr. Halsey was one of the first people that introduced him to the Spartan Program and the others. Way before this all happened, on Reach, he was made into a Spartan. She, along with Dej'a and Chief Mendez, taught him and others everything he ever learned. But then, the Covenant found Reach, and they destroyed it. Master Chief thought that Dr. Halsey, along with the others, were killed. It was true, he found Linda after the first Halo was destroyed, but he realized that Reach's Spartans were alive. He went back and found them all, alive. But, Dr. Halsey mysteriously went missing, and she took Kelly, Spartan 078. She was one of Master Chief's closest friends. Right as the Chief left to fight the Covenant when he graduated, he had heard that they were working on another Spartan team. The Spartan III's.
"Master Chief, come with us. Dr. Halsey wishes to speak with you." Spartan 304 said.
The Pelican dropped lower and Master Chief hopped in. They flew over parts of a city, and Master Chief saw that it was overrun with the serpents. Flood were constantly fighting the things.
"It seems that the Flood have competition." Master Chief said to himself.
They flew to a deserted part of Halo. It was in a dense forest that Master Chief saw that there was a clearing, and they landed.
"Follow us, Master Chief." 304 said.
They walked into a compound with several men guarding the gate. As they passed, Master Chief kept hearing the guards say stuff like, "it's the famous Spartan, the one who single-handedly took out the other rings!"
They got to an elevator and got inside. Slowly, they made their way down into the darkness.
"Turn on your lights." 304 said.
They did as told and the elevator came to a halt. They proceeded out through a small cave corridor. Then they came up to a metal door. Instead of knocking, they whistled a six note code.
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Master Chief recognized it. It meant that the coast was clear and everyone could come out of hiding. Apparently, Dr. Halsey must have taught them everything he knows. The door slid open and they came into a brightly lit room that looked like a doctor's operating table room. They turned off their lights and made their way to a locker room. There, they settled in chairs that were arranged their. The seats had numbers, corresponding with the Spartan's numbers, Master Chief sat in the front with 304 and another, 317. As soon as they all sat down, The door opposite of where they came in opened and a slender, black-haired woman in a doctor's uniform stepped in.
'Dr. Halsey.' he thought.
Unlike the Spartans, she aged normally, and now had slight wrinkles in her features with silver hair lining her forehead.
"Greetings, Spartans. It seems we have finally found Spartan 117. You may call him John. That was his original name. John?" she asked.
He looked up.
"Good to see you again, Dr. Halsey." he responded.
"Likewise. Could you stand up for a minute?" she asked.
He did as told. She then introduced him as John, Spartan 117, of the Spartan II program. She then went on explaining everything about how his life was. And as she did this, he looked at the new brothers and sisters in arms. Their MJOLNIR armor was more complex, he realized. They probably could take a lot more punishment than he ever could.
"All right, I want each of you to go to the Training room. I'll explain more there." she finished.
"Master Chief, come with me." she called to him.
He followed her through a corridor and as they slowly walked she spoke to him.
"So, how is life? I hope it's going well. Your not dead." she chuckled a little at the dry humor. However, he wasn't.
Then her laughter quickly subsided and she began to talk again.
"I can't believe that that suit could take so much damage, you have survived where everyone else couldn't help you? Did you not go insane? The fact that you most of the time were alone. Without help or guidance. How's Cortana?" she asked.
"She's fine." he said.
"Cortana needs to be put into the mainframe of our computer, we need to download all she has come to see. Please, come with me."
She led him to the room and he uploaded her.
"How are you feeling Cortana?" she asked.
"I've been good, keeping this guy out of trouble, destroying ringworlds, the usual."
"Good to hear it. Master Chief, I think you might want to come with me, an old friend is waiting for you." Dr. Halsey said.
They walked and as they entered a room, Master Chief couldn't believe his eyes. There was a person wearing MJOLNIR armor, on the left part of the chestpeice, were the numbers 078.
"Kelly." Master Chief said.
In the forest
The Predators were hard at work chasing several Aliens through the forest. A Hunter shot the last straggler and they collected the skulls. They then saw a green dot in their thermal vision heading their way. It was unidentifiable. The Predators jumped into the trees and waited for their prey to come by. They then saw what looked to be an Alien, but with bluish-black armor. Then it stopped and looked into the trees. Was it possible that this creature could see them? Even with their cloaking devices on?
The creature then looked down and lowered it's body to the ground, it was preparing to jump. The Predators couldn't take chances, and aimed at the creature, it jumped up high and then disappeared. The Predators were shocked. It had cloaking abilities? If the Aliens had this technology, then this get very interesting, very fast. It disappeared from the tracker. A Predator let out a howl as an Alien tail ripped through it's insides, the top part of the Predator from the torso up, fell to the left, while the bottom part of it fell to the right, phosphoric green blood shot everywhere. The others looked hard and long, and couldn't find it. The lead Predator, jumped down and closed it's eyes.
"Don't move." it told them.
They followed orders and perfectly stood in the trees, waiting for another strike. The lead Predator listened for anything that might be unfit in this region. He heard a crack behind him and the wind whooshed behind him. He grabbed his spear and extended it. He then thrust it behind him under one arm. He heard a screech and a shriek as the new Alien "shimmered" back into visibility. It fell to the ground and acid sprayed onto the lead Predator. But, because of it's special armor, the Alien blood slid off. They collected the skull of this new creature.
This was turning out to be the greatest hunt they could hope for.
Outside of the crashed ship
Several Hunters shot their fuel rod cannons and destroyed a lot of the Aliens emerging from the entrance. Small facehuggers came and grappled themselves onto Grunt's and Elite's faces.
"Go! We must assist the Arbiter!" Natus'ii shouted to his troops.
They fought and fought. Several creatures were killed, but then, as the wave ended, six Ravagers stepped out of the entrance. A Hunter stood defiantly in it's way. The Ravager lifted a clawed hand and the Hunter fired. It did nothing. The Ravager sliced through the Hunter's armor and swiped it all the way through from left to right. The Hunter gave a gasp and stood there while everyone looked on. The Hunter split in two and fell to the ground. The Covenant then gave it everything they got and threw plasma grenades at the Ravagers.
"Arbiter, where are you?" Pokun'aa asked to himself.
Inside the crashed ship
Gonama'ee let out a yell as he sliced the last Warrior that was in his path. He then got into the same dome room as before. Where he got attacked by that Covenant Alien. Then he heard a noise.
'Damn.' he thought.
He listened in for any sounds. He then turned around and got smacked in the chest by a bony arm. He flew into the wall and dropped his energy sword. But before we was able to move, two bony arms pinned his own. His shields broke through instantly, and they wouldn't go back up because of the arms.
"Hello, Arbiter. Miss me?" it asked.
"No, not really." he said sarcastically.
"Well, it seems as though you've come back to die. Or become one of us, which one?" it asked.
"Go to hell." Gonama'ee shot back.
"That's a shame, it seems as though you need to be one of us to see our most valuable ways." it said.
As it said this, hundreds more appeared out of the shadows. Gonama'ee looked in horror as to how many Covenant have become one of them.
"You bastard." Gonama'ee said into it's face.
"Yes, I know, never had one."
A lone Covenant Alien came behind the lead one holding Gonama'ee and held a facehugger in it's hands.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt yet." it said.
Gonama'ee struggled against the thing's grasp. He couldn't move! He needed a miracle at this point. A Covenant Alien felt like Gonama'ee needed to suffer or something because it shot some acid on his right arm. It began to melt away.
"Let me help you with that." the Covenant Alien began to pull the acid struck arm and then dislodged it.
Gonama'ee yelled in great pain and the Alien pulled it and bone cracking could be heard. Then, it broke and the arm hung limp at Gonama'ee's side. Then the leader ripped it off and chunked it into the opposite side of the room. Gonama'ee was in serious pain and he was angry as hell. He began to struggle but the Covenant Alien put his free arm on Gonama'ee's neck. He was about to black out when the creature let out a roar of pain as it's top half fell to one side. Gonama'ee looked at the others and they were on fire from three heat beams. The facehugger leapt at Gonama'ee and was hit with a shot from the hole up top. It fell to the ground scorched and burned. Then, the other Aliens were suddenly being chopped into pieces in mid air. Gonama'ee saw bits and pieces being severed and torn from Alien bodies. Then, after they were all killed. Five large Predators uncloaked themselves as they collected more trophies.
Gonama'ee watched in amazement as they collected the trophies. Never has he seen anything as these creatures. Then, after they were done, one Predator turned to Gonama'ee. It extended it's wrist blades on one of it's arms and it lifted them up about to kill Gonama'ee. The leader quickly put a hand on the others arm.
"Do not strike defenseless creatures. Rule Number One of the Honor Code of the Predators." the leader said.
Gonama'ee listened to the growls and low rumble in the creature's speech as he was just spared by these bloodthirsty creatures. Holding onto the top part of his shoulder, which was still bleeding, he managed a "thanks" as he looked at them. They looked back and the leader pressed a few buttons on it's wrist computer. Then Gonama'ee heard his voice being played back in a low, garbled tone.
"Thanks"
Then they left.
"Arbiter, Arbiter!" Pokun'aa shouted from the hole up top. He jumped down and Gonama'ee looked at him.
"Crap! You've lost a lot of blood."
Gonama'ee looked back at the Predators but found that they were gone. He then began to black out into nothing.
Inside the bunker
"Kelly." Master Chief repeated.
"It's been a long time, John." she called back.
Kelly then removed the plugs from her helmet and slowly removed her helmet. Master Chief looked in shock.
"You haven't aged a day. And your armor." he said to her in awe.
"I've gotten it upgraded." she told him.
"Master Chief, tell me, how did you survive? After I heard that the other Halo rings were being destroyed, Marines said it was Spartan." Dr. Halsey asked.
"I'll answer that later. Tell me, Dr. Halsey, why did you take Kelly?" he asked.
She then sat down. She twiddled her thumbs and then looked at Master Chief.
"Kelly, will you please excuse us?" she asked.
"Yes ma'am." she responded, then left the room.
Dr. Halsey then looked back at Master Chief.
"Well, after I had heard most of my Spartans had died after the destruction of the 1st Halo, I thought there would be no hope for my Spartans. You were the only one left, and I thought you too would eventually be caught unguarded and killed in battle." she said.
"But, if you remember, most of my Spartans died because of reasons I couldn't control. Hardly any died in battle. It was in space that some Spartans died, it was their decision on Reach to stay behind and make sure the bomb took the Covenant on Côte d' Azur. They didn't die in battle. But on their own accord." he responded.
"Well, I took Kelly and kept her in cryostasis until the Spartan III's were ready to be let out onto the battlefield with an actual Spartan veteran. With Kelly, they could be the best just as good as the original Spartans were. Then we heard you were alive. I was so overjoyed. Not to mention the fact that you took out 6 Halo rings by yourself. Now that we have you, we can destroy the last Halo, then end the Covenant's evil ways by destroying what will be left of their fleet."
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"The serpents, they seem to help us in their own way by killing the Covenant. The less of the Covenant, the easier it will be to wipe them out. As well as the Flood." she told him.
"That is why we need you, John. We need you to lead us and help us destroy the Covenant and this last ring." Kelly said as she came back in.
Master Chief wanted the Covenant to pay for their crimes. He wanted them to suffer. But he didn't have time. He needed the Index so no Covenant could activate the ring. But, he needed soldiers, and he had Spartans.
"Very well, I will."
"Good, now we'll need you to be introduced to the team and need to get your suit upgraded." Dr. Halsey told him.
"Upgraded?" he said.
In what remains of Truth Beckoned
Gonama'ee lay in a hospital bed. He awoke with shock as to how he got there, and why his right arm hurt so bad.
'Wait, right arm?' he thought.
He felt his shoulder and then his arm. He looked down and found that he had a right arm.
"You like it?" Pokun'aa asked.
Gonama'ee looked up in startlement.
"Yeah, but how?"
"We had some medical Elites on some of the Phantoms. After you blacked out, I, along with Natus'ii, issued a global telegram to evacuate of the ring and come back to the Truth Beckoned. Only a few thousand are left."
"And what of the Prophets?"
"They are dead." Natus'ii chimed in as he walked into the room.
"Dead? Not by the Demon."
"No, it was the serpents." he said in a sad tone.
"So now we have no leaders to guide us. Last I remember, though, the Prophets crashed into the ground with the Index in tow in the Aericeth." Turaga'uu said as he walked in.
"So what do we do?" Gonama'ee asked.
"Pokun'aa and I are the only gold Elites left. We will lead the troops. You will need to retrieve the Index. Of course, you won't go in empty handed and alone. Our troops will assist you."
"What about my arm? How did you fix it? It was torn off and chunked in the fires of the explosion."
"The ship exploded, so you weren't going to get your arm back. So, we made you a new one." Pokun'aa said.
"It's made of metal and of the alloy used for the acid proof armor. If you'll notice in the closet, your entire armor was upgraded and you no longer need to fear the acid. Of course, severe exposure and long amounts of time with acid on the suit, will fry the circuits." Natus'ii told him.
"Of course." Gonama'ee added.
Wreckage of the Alien's ship
The lead Predator had just finished checking the site.
"These creatures aren't as defenseless as I thought." he told his team.
"We must continue the Hunt and ensure none escape this world. Onward warriors!" he shouted.
They continued on past the wreckage when they came across another ship in ruins.
"Looks like one of those creature's ships. Let's check it out."
They past several dead Elites and Grunts. A few Hunters and Jackals. Then they found a small metal T shaped object on the ground. It had a green fluorescent light extending from the top to the bottom.
"What is it?" one Predator asked.
"It looks to be of some importance to the culture, best not disturb it." the leader said.
As they continued on, one Predator walked slower until it stopped without the others knowing, it turned back and grabbed the object, and put it in it's belt.
End Chapter Five