Chapter 2 Orange Warrior

In the words of my friends the Dragoons from Starcraft, "I have returned!" Ha-ha! yes! This is getting exciting. to answer some of the questions of you good reviewers, yes, I know that Spartan's weren't raised normally. That is why I made him have that incident. Because he has been deprived of a normal life and deprived of the necessary love from a mother and father. He is missing some things which others have. He has no family, or any Surogate family (for everyone treats him like a robot, or like a King). Yes, dying helplessly is a great fear of theirs. That is another reason why he freaks out when he is helpless to save himself. They don't ever scream or panic, because they are trained not to. So it remains bottled up inside of the Master Chief, and all comes out at this moment. Stalker Samurai, by together do you mean working together, or as in... going for each other. I don't know, I think you all will be pleased at where this story is going, it isn't just your regular stupid combination of stories.

The Master Chief pulled himself into the docking bay, and looked around. The bay was deserted, except for a couple Banshees which were scattered around.

"What happened here?" the Master Chief said.

The Covenant would always have guards in the docking bay, and artificial gravity as well. John crawled across the ceiling until he arrived at the other side of the docking bay. A lone door stood their, which appeared to go into some kind of air lock. The Master Chief opened the door, and walked into the air lock. When he emerged through the other side, he found that artificial gravity was active inside the ship. The air was also breathable. But the Master Chief did not remove his helmet.

"Cortana," he said, "do you read me?"

No answer.

"Cortana! Do you read me?"

Nothing but static. The Master Chief sighed, and began walking into the bowels of the ship.

"...and I lost his signal as he flew away," Cortana said softly.

Lord Hood sighed, and turned away.

"Just great," he said. "He was one of the last remaining Spartans and we lost him! Oh yeah, now the Covenant will just fall on their knees before us."

"Sir," Cortana said. "Aren't you worried that John may be dead, or... worse?"

"Who?"

"John," Cortana said. "You know, the Master Chief."

"Oh," Lord Hood replied. "Yeah, he could be dead, I guess."

"I'm glad to see you care about him," Cortana said sarcastically.

"We don't have time for this," Lord Hood said. "We have to retaliate against the Covenant for this attack. I need you to lead a special forces team to infiltrate a Covenant Vessel."

"No," Cortana replied.

"What?" Lord Hood said in surprise.

"You can get someone else to lead them into the Covenant Ship. I'm going to find the Master Chief. I'm going to find John. And if he is dead, then I will see to it that he receives the proper funeral."

"You can't be serious!" Lord Hood exclaimed. "I gave you an order Cortana! Carry it out!"

"No," Cortana's picture on the hologram disappeared.

The Master Chief checked his equipment. He had ten regular grenades, five covenant grenades, a Battle Rifle, and pistol. Not what he would have preferred to have been equipped with while investigating an unknown covenant vessel, but you have to go with what you have.

The Master Chief stood up, and began walking onward through the ship. Suddenly John heard the quiet sound of water dripping. The Master Chief gripped his Battle Rifle tightly, and began to follow the sound. The sound grew louder and louder as the Master Chief made his way down the corridors of steel.

He rounded a corner, and saw the source of the noise. The wall had been viciously torn open, and a water pipe had been wrenched out. The floor was covered with about an inch of water, presumably having come from the pipe. A steady supply of drips came from the pipe, plopping onto the ground, slowly increasing the amount of water on the floor.

The Master Chief walked on through the water, ignoring the fact that no normal human could break through a wall of such strength. Suddenly the Master Chief heard a strange noise behind him. John spun around, his metallic boots splashing the water around him. Before him stood a strange person dressed in an orange and red power suit. The Master Chief regarded the man, or possibly woman, who stood before him. The person's armor had incredibly large shoulder pads and the knee joints extended out into spikes. His/her visor, like the Master Chief's, obscured her features so that she didn't even appear to be human. But their were few people left who actually thought of the Master Chief as a human.

"Identify yourself," the Master Chief said.

He then stopped, and realized how martial he sounded. He didn't know if this person was affiliated with the Military.

"Who are you?" the Master Chief corrected himself.

The armored unit regarded the Chief, but did not speak. Instead, it raised its right arm. There, instead of a hand, it had a large cannon which either covered, or replaced much of the person's right arm. The end of the strange extension began to glow, and a ball of energy began to form on the end of it.

The Master Chief cocked his head in fascination. He had fought against both the Covenant and the Flood, but had never seen such technology. Soon the ball of light had grown to be even larger than the tip of the cannon. So now what would happen? Suddenly the Master Chief had a feeling that something was wrong. And as a Spartan, the ability to sense when things are wrong had been heightened. The Master Chief fell to the ground, right as the bright ball of light was released from the cannon, and sent flying across the room where it tore a hole in the wall. The Master Chief leaped back to his feet and rolled out of the way as the armored figure fired bolts of plasma energy at him. He dodged behind a corner, and shoved some ammo into his Battle Rifle. The Master Chief then popped out and let loose a salvo of bullets towards the armored figure. Then he watched in amazement as the orange warrior leapt into the air, somersaulting over the salvo of bullets.

"Holy crap," the Chief said under his breath.

He had never met anyone who could manage such amazing stunts. The Master Chief fired at his spiraling enemy. The orange soldier then landed on the ground, before whirling around to face the Master Chief. But the Spartan didn't give the person time to hesitate. He immediately loosed a barrage of bullets into the steel enemy. The bullets hit there mark, knocking painfully against the armor, but doing little damage. The Master Chief continued firing, and the armored warrior dodged behind a pillar. The Master Chief then chucked a human grenade. But his orange nemesis popped back out from behind the pillar, and shot a bolt of plasma energy into the grenade, detonating it prematurely. The Master Chief dove around the corner as the resulting explosion tore apart the hallway in which they fought. Before the Master Chief could react, the armored warrior leapt from his/her position, rolling through the air, before landing before him.

The Master Chief raised his gun, and prepared to fire. The armored warrior raised his/her arm cannon. Suddenly a loud creak echoed through the room. The armor clad warrior then turned, and ran away.

"Where are you going!" Master Chief shouted after his enemy. "What the heck do you want from me?"

Then the Master Chief heard the sound of metal being torn and wrenched apart. He spun around, and saw a metal door down the hallway which he stood in. The metal door was being viciously torn from its hinges by some mighty creature behind it. Then, with a final wrench, the door fell forward, and a Flood Carrier form stepped into the room.

"Oh crap," Master Chief said, tightening his grip on his gun.

The Carrier Flood began slowly creeping towards the Master Chief. John pulled the trigger and fired his weapon into the face of the Carrier. The bullets thudded into it, cutting into its skin and tearing apart its vital organs. It tumbled to the ground, and began to swell up. Then, it exploded unleashing the tiny spore forms of the Flood. They began scurrying towards the Master Chief, who simply gunned them down.

Then the Chief heard another crash to his right. This time another steel door was torn open. But this time a strange creature smashed the door open, and stepped into the hallway. It was purple in color, with green piercing eyes and strange arms which appeared to have firearms embedded in the flesh. Without a word, it opened its claw like hands, and began firing green bolts of energy towards the Master Chief. The Master Chief rolled out of the way, and fired his Battle Rifle. The blasts tore through the chest of the creature, piercing its heart, and knocking it to the ground. There it lay, dead.

Suddenly the Master Chief noticed something moving on the corpse. A small, amoeba like being rose up from the dead body, and began flying towards the Chief. John immediately held his gun up, and fired. But the bullets went straight into the small blue blob, and out the other side without doing any damage. Before the Master Chief could react, the tiny blue blob leaped upon him, and seemingly was absorbed into his flesh.

"What the heck?" the Master Chief exclaimed.

Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his arm. It then spread on into his chest, and up into his head. The Master Chief blacked out on the floor as the strange blue creature made its way through his system.

Yes yes, Master Chief gets invaded by the X Virus. But what will happen next? Why did Samus attack him? What will happen now that the X virus has entered his system? The Flood are involved? OH CRAP! Goodbye all you cool people out there. Leave me a review.