Chapter 3: The Rescue
"Okay Spartans our ETA to the destroyer is five minutes I want you guy to get your equipment together and prep for boarding action!" the Chief surveyed the four remaining Spartans . They saluted Chief returned their salute and told them to prep. Linda was the first on finished with her gear and was piloting the Longsword. The Chief Insured everyone got a MA7B before getting one himself. Healso grabbed four frags and four plasma, a shotgun, and a plasma sword. The Chief check other Spartans. Aside from Linda the rest of the Spartans had the same equipment. Linda called out over the com
"Twenty seconds to insertion damn! There's our welcome party." As a squadron of the destroyer's seraph fighters came towards the Longsword. The Chief sprang into action
"Will man the weapons console!" "On my way sir!" Will replied, before taking the seat next to Linda. Will tapped a few buttons.
"Sir I'll need a minute for the AGSM-30's target locking software to initialize the 110mm cannons however are ready to go." Suddenly two of the fighters were destroyed the Chief looked over to see a phantom firing. The Arbiter's voice came in over the comm.
"Looked like you could use some assistance." The Chief gave his thanks before landing. The human and ex-covenant land and immediately decided to leave some elites in the launch bay to guard the hanger and to protect their only way out. The arbiter would join the Chief's team due to his familiarity to the security system and the ship's layout.
"Team the Arbiter and myself will take point, Fred and Will, cover our flanks. Kelly and Linda cover the rear." His team got into position. The Chief took a clip and slammed it home. The Chief pulled the charging lever and released it with a satisfying clack.
"Let's roll!"
The team headed to the to the first doorway, the Chief signaled his team to halt while the Arbiter went to the door control
"Fred, Will cover the door!" two acknowledgement lights winked in his HUD the Chief nodded to the Arbiter who input a set of codes the door slid open with a hiss. Six Jackals stood there before the Chief took advantage of this and primed a plasma grenade before throwing it at the lead Jackal's head. The Jackal screamed as the grenade adhered to its head and running in circle trying to get the grenade off but in a few seconds it exploded killing 3 of his teammates and injuring the other two. The chief fired two three round bursts into the two remaining Jackals.
"Let's keep moving."
After another five Jackal patrols and thirty minutes of making their way through the ship they were just out side the brig. Linda spoke,
"Sir something doesn't seem right here, since we boarded I haven't seen a single Brute." The Chief announced
"Linda is right stay frosty and prepare for anything!" the team tool up positions by the door, the Chief gave them the signal to move in and they entered the room in one fluid motion. The brig how ever was empty, except for the five elite prisoners in it. John frowned as he headed over to deactivate the shield barriers to the cells. He knew something wasn't right about this mission. The Chief asked Linda to hand him her plasma sword before instructing the rest of his team to do the same. The Chief handed the swords to the Arbiter to give to his men. He hit the release for the cells and heard a dull thump at the end of the corridor the Chief looked at the Arbiter with a puzzled look. The Arbiter just shrugged then began to inform the elites of their situation. The Chief nodded to his team, who took up positions behind him as they made their way to the end of the hall toward the door.
Meanwhile
"Are you sure this is what you heard?" the Arbiter asked a zealot named Fulsumee. The elite replied "Yes holy Arbiter, one of the brutes mentioned it."
Then the Arbiter's comm. Pinged it was the Chief
"Arbiter it seems that the door is locked it was a trap...Roaar shit!" then nothing the Arbiter heard another roar echo down the hall. The Arbiter activated his plasma sword before calling out.
"Warriors prepare for combat!"
The other elites roared in challenge before following the Arbiter lead.
The Chief and the rest of his team made it to the hallway's end only to find it locked. The Chief frowned and opened his comm. to the Arbiter,
"Arbiter it seems that the door is locked at this end it has to be a trap" That's when a Brute came though a gap in the ceiling and landing right next to Kelly. The Brute let out an earsplitting Roar. The Chief screamed
"Shit! Ambush! Suppressive Fire!"
Kelly turned around in an instant and came face to face with a brute. She put in a full assault rifle clip before the rifles bolt closed and her ammo counter read 00. Empty. The chief was fighting another brute when he saw a bloody mess of fir swing at Kelly. He put two bursts into its head before it died. However it momentum still carried and hit Kelly, who impacted the side of the wall, leaving a Spartan sized indent. The Chief checked Kelly's vitals she was unconscious, but alive. The Master Chief wrapped her right arm around his shoulder and held her on her feet. The Chief brought his shotgun around with one hand to face anther brute and pulled and pulled the trigger, the Brute was blown apart from the slug rounds, but the recoil also cracked John's right arm.
"Damnit!" the Chief yelled.
John gritted his teeth in pain. Another brute came out of nowhere and smashed into the Master Chief's shield, draining it completely. It swung again with the other arm but the Master Chief ducked and escaped the blow by a hair. Ignoring the pain, he took up his shotgun again and pulled the trigger once more. If it weren't for the MJOLNIR armor holding this arm in place, John's arm would've snapped, even with his augmentations. A third brute appeared and the Chief didn't have the strength to raise the shotgun again. Then when he thought it was over a plasma sword form nowhere decapitated the brute. The Arbiter de-activated his active camo materializing into view and his mandibles parted into a smile
"Looks like you needed some help." He said
"Thanks, but let's get the hell out of here, Will plant a charge on that doorway!" The Chief called
"On my way sir!" the Spartan replied
Will pulled out a block of C12 and but it on the doorway
"Fire in the hole!" he yelled
The doorway blew into a thousand metal fragments. The Chief told everyone to hurry and get to the ships.
Later
They made it to the hanger he told Fred to take Kelly in the longsword and prepare for take-off. Fred carried Kelly into the ship and the Chief ran back to the other two Spartans.
"Linda, Will cover me while I arm the HAVOK."
Two acknowledgement lights winked in his HUD the chief pulled out a HAVOK nuclear mine and inserted the arming card. The light flashed red indicating it was armed. He set the countdown to two minutes then told Linda and Will to get back on the ship Linda was firing when the first bruteshot hit her then the second and she blacked out. The Chief called back Will to help him carry Linda.
When they got back on the ship john took off Linda's helmet she whispered before blacking out;
"We won John"
"Yes we did"The chief slipped into unconciousness
Later
When John came to he way stuck is a gel like gloop. That and the fact that the top part of his armour was gone. he fought his way out of the muck and emerged in what must have been the infirmary.A few minutes later Linda and Kelly both emerged from the muck also missing their top armor. The Chief, turned his head away to give the two women privacy. Kelly spoke up first.
"I know we're in the infirmary so what was tthe damage?" The Chief walked to the medbay computer and looked at the records and grimaiced, he then said
"Linda you had 4 ribs broken and two more cracked." He then looked at Kelly's
"Kelly you had a broken tibia, a skull facture, and a cracked pelvis. As for myself, to put it simply i made the mistake to fire the shogun one-handed." Kelly spoke up.
"Um Chief? do you know if there is somewhere we can get this gunk off?
"If i remember correctly it is through this hall."
Mulling over the large range of choices in the room, the Spartans finally settled with Two that looked relatively unique. It was sort of closed off from the others. Except these had knobs that the Chief found he couldfamilarize with. This was a Purification chamber or was it the one for the preparation of the sacred acts? The Sanghelli had mentioned both. If there had been anything dangerous, the Elite would have warned him. Master Chief turned back towards the knobs andbegan turning them at random.Suddenly, mist seemed to sprayed out of the walls. Master Chief glanced around him.
At first, he had forced himself to relax however, when he got this strange feeling in him he knew something wasn't right. Looking around, the Chief's expression grew more alarmed by the second. The tingly feeling was growing inside of him. Something that must have lain dormant within him,something he thought wassuppressed during the augmentations. Beforethe hormones took over the Chief his soldier instincts kicked in. He had to warn Kelly and Linda. He Sprinted to the chamber they were in,but no amount of training could prepare him for what he saw...
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A/N: sorry this chapter took so long,i got some inspration from blue bastard on how to think of the chamberthere is a warning for lemons in the next chapter but please read and review also don't ya love cliffhangers?
