HALO 2: THE TRUTH
Chapter 3
I here by assert that I do not own Halo, Microsoft, or Bungie.
It was high noon on Halo, and the Covenant cruiser was on full alert. Susan held the two weapons she had taken from Regret's guards tightly and kept a lock on Regret as she dragged him to the grav lift. A small group of Elites waited for them. Susan shouted, "Drop your weapons or the Prophet dies!" the Elites dropped their rifles and put their hands up. "Good. Now activate the lift! Come on now, I don't have all day!" The Elite nearest to the controls pushed a couple keys, and the lift activated. Susan let the Prophet go and went down the lift. She then headed North, towards the nearby ravine where the other marines were waiting.
Back at the forest clearing, Ruka was still talking to the Grunt from the last chapter. "So what is your name Grunt?" Ruka asked. The Grunt answered, "My name is Tarak! I am a very important Grunt because of my marksmanship, my ability to destroy vehicles quickly, and the fact that I am very smart for a Grunt." Ruka then asked, "Tarak, would you like to come with me on my little quest?" Tarak took a moment to stop and think. Then he answered, "Sure! I don't see any reason why not to, quite frankly." "Good!" Ruka said. Then Ruka and Tarak met Garlo and Michael, and started talking about where they should go, and what they should do.
Out of the blue, Tarak asked, "Ruka sir, did you bring three companions with you here?" Ruka turned his head a little and said, "Not to my knowledge, at first it was only me and Garlo…" All of a sudden, about twenty-five plasma bolts hit his shields. Ruka spun around and spotted the woman he had captured earlier. The woman stood still and stared angrily at Ruka, then shouted, "You are going to pay dearly for what you did to me, you little bastard!" Ruka snapped back, "Alright, that's it, you have pissed me off for the last time! I will have my revenge!" He pulled out his energy sword and charged at the woman with all of his might.
Right when things looked to be their worst for the woman, Ruka ran right past her, but didn't cut her. Instead, He did a backward spin kick, which he learned, from Derga, his Elite foster parent. The kick knocked the woman down, but not out. Ruka stepped over her and spoke, with much hatred, "You humans are pathetic. Garlo, Michael, Tarak, get over here!" the three companions walked over and waited for instructions. Michael looked at the woman, and recognized her immediately. "Woah, its Susan! Ruka, don't kill her! She's a friend." Ruka lifted his sword as if preparing to strike, as he said, "Not to me she isn't!" But he suddenly deactivated the sword and said, regretfully, "But she is critical to the mission. The Prophets gave me this mission: to capture a human female and bring it back to High Charity, the Covenant holy city." Michael just stared in disbelief and said, "How could they ask you to do such a terrible thing? I mean, your only twelve right?" Ruka then replied, "My age does not matter. I must do what the Prophets ask."
Michael paused for a moment. Then, an idea occurred to him. He then said suggestively, "Why don't you just quit? Or, even better, we could create our own little faction!" Ruka thought hard for a moment or two, then he finally said, "Yes. We shall now be known as, The Rebellion." Susan then shouted, "Wait a minute. If your not gonna kill me, or take me to your leaders," Michael snickered softly, "then what is going to happen to me?" Ruka looked at her for a second and replied, "Well your coming with us!" Susan shrugged and said, "Cool." Garlo then finally spoke, "Well, we need some sort of destination sir." Everyone stared at Garlo. "Thank god your still alive back there!" Tarak said sarcastically. Michael argued, "Well your one to talk, you haven't talked for about two paragraphs!" Tarak lowered his head in sadness and said, "I don't have enough lines." Michael tried to comfort Tarak by saying, "Don't worry, the author will give you more lines." Tarak nodded his head and said, "Wait I have an idea, lets go to the swamp!" Ruka acknowledged, "Yes, there are some cool things to see there, or so I hear." So the Rebellion headed east, towards the swap. And a few other things. (Mysterious music plays) "Dammit, I said get that stereo out of here!" "Sorry lord Truth."