Chapter 3:The Arbiter
Nick gunned the warthog, as the Phantom flew overhead. He turned right, down an alley and parked the hog. He climbed a fire escape and moved onto the roof. Thankfully, John had his sniper rifle, and Nick borrowed it. He zoomed up on the ship to see the grav-lift. It had tons of activity.
There had to be at least 1,000 elite's, grunts, and jackals. He quickly fired the rifle 4 times killing four elite's and reloaded. The Covenant warriors were stunned, they searched for the killer of their brothers. 4 more shots, 4 more dead elite's. Nick reached for another magazine, but none. He was out of ammo. He started to climb down the fire escape when a plasma blot hit him. He looked down to see 5 grunts shooting at him. And an elite about to kill John.
He fell from the ladder onto the elite. The elite died from the bone crushing impact. He pulled out his M6C and fired killing the grunts. He hid John inside a garbage dumpster and drove off toward the ship.
Once within 200 feet of the lift he got fired upon. He jumped out of the hog as it exploded from a blast from a hunter. Nick thought to himself, "Where did you come from big fella?"
He grabbed a fallen plasma rifle and fired upon the hunter. It charged, Nick dodged the hunter and fired. The plasma rifle over heated, but killed the hunter. He turned around to see a zealot charging. He threw down the rifle, and threw a grenade. The frag exploded, killing 5 grunts, but the elite still charged.
Nick fired his pistol at the elite, and it dropped its plasma rifle. It yelled "Demon." It pulled out its plasma sword and continued its charge. Nick dropped his pistol and charged the elite. He grabbed the sword, broke the elite's wrist and stuck the sword into the elite's face. Nick puled out the sword, and started slashing away. He killed thousands of grunts, elite's, and jackals till only one elite remained. It begged for mercy, then it looked up and said "Wort, Wort, Wort."
Suddenly 4 Phantoms appeared and dropped off hundreds of elite's, only elite's. Half of them had swords. "Damn" Nick said under his breath.
4 cracks echoed in the air and, then four more repeated again over and over. Once it stopped 80 elite's lay dead. He slashed away until the sword died and threw a frag. It went off with a BOOM! sending the last 2 elite's flying.
6 Warthogs pulled up, and John was with them. They gave Nick ammo and, and a M90, MA5B and a M6D. John and 25 Helljumpers exited the LRV's and stepped into the grav-lift.
Nick said, "Time to kick ass, on there home turf."
As soon as they went in the lift they started to get fired upon. The only problem was their weapon floated up out of their hands and they could not move. Plasma bolts burnt marine's faces and if it didn't hit their face their armor would burn them to death. 5 luck marines and of course John and nick made it to the top, and for the others, well lets just say they didn't have a happy ending.
"Oh my god mate! I made it! I made it!" a marine started yelling, "clam down amigo there is lots more to..." "Whe, where'd 'e go?" There was a big moment of silence. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" They heard a battle rifle burst inside one of the hallways then silence again. "Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god. We're gonna die in here! We're screwed! We're screwed!" a marine shouted from behind Nick, but when Nick looked back no one was there. Then he looked around the room and there was no one left, but the Australian marine. "John, keep an eye on that marine. I am ganna go see if I can find the killer. Oh and stay alive."
Nick walked up to a door and it hissed open. In the door was an elite. But this elite wore special armor from what Nick could see. The elite had a sword in one hand and a marine in the other. Nick could not help the marine. This elite was special in some way and Nick wanted to find out in which way. He quietly walked back to John.
He told John "You and the Aussie, go through that door, I'll go through the one behind us and we'll meet up on the bridge."
John protested, but Nick won in the end. John and the Aussie went through the door in front and Nick went through the back. When he got into the hallway the elite was gone. The marine lay there with no head or arms. He continued around the corner, until he heard the wheezes of grunts and the "Wort, Wort, Wort" from the elite's.
He clicked off the safety of his MA5B and rounded the corner. The Zealot unloaded on Nick's shields until the plasma rifle overheated, and Nicks shields still had 3/4 charge. He emptied the 60 round magazine into the elite's blowing holes through it. The grunts started to flee, when he threw a frag. It went off with a BOOM! Killing the 6 grunts. He advanced farther into the ship.
He killed hundreds of Covenant, saw one marine dead. Nick thought to himself "Damn John came through here, and the Aussie was killed, I am coming buddy."
He entered the bridge to see that only one elite stood in it. The elite in the special armor. It turned around and said, "Hello Demon, I am The Arbiter."
At that moment Arbiter pulled out his sword and started to charge Nick, Nick leveled his MA5B and fired.
John continued to the bridge running as fast as he could with armor on. He tried to dodge the sleeping grunts but one woke up. Luckily he was late to wake up the others and john quickly took him out with a silenced magnum. "This is too easy." he said to himself and ran back up to the hall. He came to a door, a big door. "This must be it, but this is too easy." The door opened and he saw a commander and two spec ops leaders. "Rah! a human, how'd he get here. Oh well, take 'Um down!" The two spec ops leader vanished and the gold elite charges with an energy sword. He shot him 3 times each bouncing of his shield. He fought well until he remembered about those spec ops leaders and then everything went black."Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" He fell down to the ground knocked out and almost dead. Lucky the elite's didn't know. One of them stabbed him in the back. "What shall we do with him sir?" one of the spec ops leaders said, "Go throw him in the prison chambers, at its only place besides the garbage. Perhaps we can learn more about the humans from him." The elite took him to the chambers. They were painted with blood inside. Both human and Covenant. They also smelled like decaying bodies.
Nick fired his MA5B at the Arbiter, he dodged the sword slash and rolled onto his feet. He continued to fire, 36 rounds left. He dodged another barely, his shotgun got slashed in half. He again kneeled and fired 15 rounds left.
The Arbiter this time made contact with Nick disabling his shields completely. Nick thought to himself, "What? Damn you Ackerson you liar, now I am in trouble."
He fired the last 15 rounds at Arbiter and his shields held. Nick dropped his MA5B and drew his pistol. He rolled, jumped and fired, clip after clip till there were none left. He dropped his pistol, and pushed his weight at Arbiter. His shields were now fully charged and hoped he could get in on this elite bastard.
He grabbed Arbiter sword hand and tried to brake his wrist. No luck. This elite was special in many ways and Nick now new some. He was stronger, tougher, faster and smarter, even quite possible the best elite ever. He grabbed his other hand and attempted to put it into the swords path. Again no luck. Arbiter kicked Nick and he slammed into a computer console. Arbiter charged and cut the console in half, barely missing Nick.
He moved in on the Arbiter again and this time Arbiter got him. Arbiter fought the human, and stuck the sword into his shoulder, and then into his arm. Nick screamed at the pain as the sword entered his flesh, and cut the bone.
Nick quickly reacted, he kicked the Arbiter in the chest, and his plasma pistol fell from its holster. He charged it and fired, Arbiter felt the charge hit and kill his shields and his sword. Nick ran and punched Arbiter 5 times and once he was dazed pushed him into a emergency escape pod on the bridge. Arbiter tried to get out before the doors closed but, too late.
The doors closed and Nick said, "Get off my ship!"
Arbiter stared at The Demon and once Nick hit the release, he left. The engine-less pod drifted off into space.
Nick fell to the deck. He quickly applied Bio-foam to stop the bleeding in his shoulder and arm. He wondered to himself, "Where's John?"
He checked the cameras once his wounds stopped bleeding. He saw John was in the brig, being interrogated by some elite's. He walked off of the bridge and into the corridor. He grabbed a plasma rifle off of a dead elite and also grabbed his sword.
Nick started to walk down the corridor toward the brig when he said, "Time for a rescue."
