HALO 2: THE BEGINNING OF THE END
Chapter 4
(I, Darsha 2, hereby assert that I do not own Halo, Microsoft, or Bungie.Or Zero Wing.)
The swamp was a very disgusting place. There were smells that could kill a man, if they had not the right protection. Ruka, Garlo, Michael, Tarak, and Susan were all truly shocked. There were corpses rotting all over the place. Ruka said softly, "We should be very careful here. You never know what could jump out at you." Susan hissed, "Ruka, cut it out. Your scaring Tarak!" Ruka argued, "Well, I still rest my case." Tarak heard something move, and spun around with his fuel rod cannon ready. Michael just about jumped two feet. He shouted, "Damn it Tarak, you scared the shit out of me!" There was something different about Tarak when he said to Michael, "Go to hell, you filthy human!"
Everyone was taken aback at the ferocity in the grunt's voice. Then Tarak spoke again, but this time, he sounded timid. "There's something moving over there!" Ruka whispered, "Get behind me." Tarak got behind him and he pulled out his plasma rifle. A tiny, weird looking creature appeared and started running towards Ruka. Ruka fired about thirty-four rounds, but the thing was too quick. It cried out a shrill, "Shleorth!" Garlo yelled to Ruka, "I have heard much about these creatures. They are called The Flood. This one happens to be an infection form." Ruka shouted back, "Yeah, well this one is going down." The slimy infection form jumped over Ruka and slid towards Tarak. Without thinking, Tarak grabbed a nearby vine and whipped the infection form with it. The infection form stopped and stood still. Tarak whipped it again while saying, "Jump!" the infection form leaped into the air, landed, and stood perfectly still. Ruka's left eyelid started to twitch. "I can't believe it. Tarak tamed an infection form." Tarak answered, "Yep, it was easy. All I really had to do was whip it." Ruka just shrugged and walked toward the remains of a tree.
Ruka stood and thought for a few minutes. He said, "You know, this could be turned into a little camp." Then Susan looked at the dead tree. It's pieces were scattered in a position that actually could be augmented with the right parts. Susan then said, I think we should use this but we need some salvage. Judging by the marine corpses lying everywhere, there should be a dropship somewhere around here." Michael said rather sarcastically, "Well how smart can you get Susan? I never knew that we marines had dropships." Susan shouted "Oh, drop dead you sonnuva…" Ruka interrupted, "Now hold on. Don't fight just yet, we have a crash site to find." The two nodded but turned away from each other. All the while, Tarak was tying a vine around the infection form's waste, if you can even call it a waste. Tarak walked toward the gang shouting, "Come along Shleorthy!" Garlo asked in a loud tone, "You named it?" Tarak nodded, and the others smacked their own foreheads and said "Oh brother!" all of a sudden, there was a mechanical laugh. Then this floating, glowing machine appeared out of the trees.
The machine had a greenish glow to it. It, surprisingly, spoke to the bunch of Rebellion members standing in front of it. "Greetings! I am 936, Malevolent Server. I am the monitor of installation 07." Michael just shouted to the air, "Why god? Why does their have to be a monitor?" "Because I said so." God answered. The monitor only laughed psychotically. Ruka angrily yelled at no one in particular, "God, these oracles are so god damned weird!" The monitor floated over to Ruka and said cheerfully, "I know you are, but what am I? Hmm hmm hmm! Anyway, I saw a crashed ship near here. Follow me!" the machine muttered to itself, "To your doom, you pathetic creatures! Hmm hmm hmm!" Malevolent Server guided the group to a very messy crash site near a large building. "Oh dude, somebody lost some porn near this log!" Michael shouted excitedly. Susan picked up the magazine and shot it with one of her plasma rifles, then walked off.
"Son of a bitch, I was about to freaking read that Susan!" Susan looked over her shoulder and said, "Oh shut up and deal with it you little…" Ruka yelled, very irritably, "Stop (bleep)ing fighting! Damn!" Garlo whispered to Tarak, "Wow, humans fight each other a lot." Tarak whispered back, "No kidding, jeez!" suddenly, Ruka practically warped near the two aliens with a crazed, demonic look on his face. With out any consciousness or thought to what he was saying he cried out, "How are you gentlemen? All your base are belong to us! You are on the way to destruction!" Tarak asked, "What you say?" Michael just started laughing along with Susan and Malevolent Server. Ruka shook his head and looked around. He spotted Garlo and Tarak cowering in fear of Ruka's sudden Zero Wing impression. "What was that sir?" asked Garlo. Ruka replied in a high pitched voice, "I don't know!" Michael was laughing so hard that he started moon walking all over the place. Ruka said exhaustedly, "Oh god, do I need a coffee break." And so, Ruka had his coffee break, salvage was gathered, and the camp was made. Tune in next time on chapter five of: The Tale of Ruka Ortumee!