Chapter #5: The Nightmares Lurking
group of Kig-Yar and Unggoy running in fear of something through a swamp.
As it pans over them, the outline of a Pelican dropship can be seen through the fog and rain.
Rawley (COM): The last transmission from the Captain's dropship was from this area. That was over twelve hours ago.
the Chief, Scout, Sniper, Spy, Pyro and Medic got out of the Pelican entered the creepy swamp.
Sniper couldn't help but like the swamp reminded him of sometimes being on Australia on Earth hunting for animals.
however for Scout and Spy did not really like this type of terrain on the ring.
Scout: seriously they could have built it anywhere, but in a freaking swamp..
Spy: I know what you're saying but right now we have our mission objective... let me do some recon while you go ahead and scout out some other areas.
Master Chief: okay sounds like a pretty good plan..
as the pelican that dropped and left out of the trees of the swamp.
Spy look for anything that could have been for the captain however to a surprise and shock and horror there was a crash pelican.
Spy: everyone come over here!!
everyone came towards were spy wasn't even they were shocked to see one of their pelicans destroyed with supply scattered all over the place with a voice message repeated.
Victor 933's Pilot (Recording): Dropship Victor 933-(static)-Pillar of Autumn-(static)-need assistance. We are under att-(static)-attack by some new kind of hostile-(static)-isn't Covenant. (Static) Captain Keyes has been captured by hostiles. (static) -dug in at a large structure in a swamp-(static)-We need to pull out. Please-(static)-I will set this message to repeat at-(static)-regular intervals. Dropship Victor 933, clear.
this made Scout, Spy, Sniper, Medic, and even Pyro felt a bit on edge of what the recording said by it wasn't the covenant, but a new hostile.
Scout: a new hostile.. but not even covenant..
Spy: so it seems that there was some new enemy that captured captain..
Sniper: the real question is the recording didn't say anything about this new enemy, mates..
not to mention they noticed that there weren't any bodies which made them felt a bit more on edge.
Medic: that's strange there seems ze be no bodies.. zats seems to be strange..
Pyro muffling speaking: (that's easy for you guys to say it feels like that where I can some type of horror movie)
Scout: yeah you're right about that mumbles, this does feel like some type of horror movie of a swamp monster lurking around..
Sniper: come on now twinkle toes you don't think that there could actually be a swamp monster to actually took the captain to you..?
Scout: I mean.. I'm not assuming... I kind of weird feelings all of this seems to make us felt on edge..
Spy: I know this rather feels a bit something within a horror movie but I know that this new enemy couldn't be something like the covenant if it could be another alien Factor then probably the unsc would have known..
the Chief among with his recon team looked around when the moment surprised to come across a crashed Covenant Spirit.
Scout: okay this is rather unexpected for a group of covenants actually leave something be crashed in the middle of a swamp..
Spy: yes this is rather a bit unusual for the covenant to do something like this..
Sniper: I know but this is rudder unusual even for the covenant do you think they actually just hit some type of tree on the way when the moment they were landing..
Scout: you might be writing that the little guys don't even know how to drive..
the Chief among with his recon team heard a small small group of Unggoy and Kig-Yar, which they quickly eliminates.
the Chief among with his recon team, until Sniper stops which everyone did for some weird reason why Sniper stopped.
Scout: what's wrong, another group of covenants waiting for us behind the bend..?
Sniper: no.. Scout use your new headgear features..
Scout: gotcha..
Scout used the headgear called Signal Intruder to detect any heat signature of human or covenant in the area, however to a surprise he did see an unknown figure on top of the tree trunk.
Sniper: well mate, what exactly do you see..?
Scout: well for some weird reason, Signal Intruder.. on top of the Cliff of the of the tree bridge... however this unknown individual seems to be unknown..
Medic: you think it could be a friendly Marine that we stumble upon..
Scout: I don't think so it detected this figure unknown..
Spy: I'm guessing that this must be the hostile or maybe some native of the Ring..?
Scout: probably could be a primitive human..
Medic: Za, could be an possibility for zat the hostels could be primitive humans..
Scout slowly getting closer to the position only just please gun to his holster.
Scout: hey there fellow human of the Ring.. we come in peace so try not to harm us..
the shadow we figured to not reply and turn and ran away to everyone's shock.
Master Chief: I'm not even sure if that was actually even human...
Scout: how would you know I mean.. this hostile can be humid and could be some other unknown factor..
Master Chief: there's no way that the instruction could have been on this ring.. that means we are dealing with an unknown factor..
Sniper: well listen to that bloody fantastic, mates..
Spy: I know gentleman and do you forget the feeling that we're being watched by multiple angles..
what Spy said made it everyone else felt more on edge that there were being watched by an unknown factor.
Scout: Jesus fucking Christ's, Spy. we don't want to jinx this anymore further as if we want to..
Master Chief: not to mention our raiders have been detecting some friendly activity across the area..
Sniper: you don't say but why run away from them if they could have join us that seems rather suspicious..
Pyro: almost the whole thing could have been a trap..
Scout: I mean you might be on to something mumbles.. see if there are covenants among what their ship crashed this could be some type of trap set by the covenant..
Master Chief: I highly doubt that.. even if the covenant did set up a trap that doesn't mean that they aren't that intelligent..
Spy: I know, let's get a move on..
Master Chief and his little recon team continued moving on the the mountains until they saw more shadowy figures watching them until running off somewhere in the distance which made them felt a bit creeped out.
Scout: okay swamp... shadowy figures definitely feels like they were in some horror movie..
Sniper: quit your whining twinkle toes... probably I'll follow Marines are actually just spooked out..
Scout: yeah right, the one thing that really doesn't make any sense at the crash site of the pelican is that there weren't any bodies so that seems a bit suspicious and creepy...
Pyro muffling voice: (yeah certainly seems that there hasn't been any elite as well with the covenant group..)
Scout: yeah another thing to point out a company group should have had one or two elites with them... but instead we ran into grunts and jackals... doesn't that seem rather a bit off..?
Medic: za that lady a bit weird for the covenant to actually unify their own truce or maybe one of ze missing..
Spy: everyone be quiet! do you hear that..
Master Chief and everyone else heard some gunshots and explosions when the moment they got closer they saw grunts and shackles running out of the forerunner structure with some bullets and explosions that's one of the turrets squashed a jackal and a grunt.
Scout: so our friendly Marines were able to take care of some of the small group of covenants that are running out of the structure like little sissies..
Spy: no that doesn't seem right at all for them to run out of the structure unless if they were afraid..
Sniper: fixing to go so probably aliens might have actually gives us the answers..
Medic: unless zat won't be able to ask us nicely..
Spy: then perhaps that we're going to have to interrogate one of them.
Master Chief and his little recon team going towards group of covenants and killing until one grunt was left.
Grunt: please don't hurt me..
Scout grab the Grunt by the neck, and gave a look of a death glare to it.
Scout: you better start talking squeak you mind telling us what the hell is going on here..?
Sniper: for example whatever happened to your so-called pals, mate..?
Spy: and by telling us why are you afraid..?
the grunt was still scared and confused but they knew why they were here and still had fear within his soul.
Grunt: please don't go in there there are monsters lurking within the structure...
Master Chief and his little recon team looked at each other we're confused look either if the covenant were under insane or perhaps drunk.
Sniper: Oi! Mate, you were gone bloody crazy or perhaps you're just completely insane just like the rest of your pals that we killed...
Scout: and as if there were any other monsters crawling around this place it might have been some other third faction that we might have never came across..
Spy: but then again we can actually use you as a bit of a hostage..
Grunt: please don't take me back into the structure I'll do anything for you I'll give you the information of our military tactics or anything..
this rather surprised the group for the grunt to actually telling them he can do anything for them in a scared tone.
Scout: okay this is rather new even for us..
Sniper: since when did The covenant actually wanted to hand us information even though that a little pipsqueak like him is actually going to do give us the information..
Spy: Heck if I know but whatever scared him really scarred him for life..
Medic and Pyro checking around for any sign of where the gunshots and explosions came from however they found shells of bullets, Medic and Pyro return to the others interrogating the grunt.
Spy: well gentleman did you find anything of interest while you were in the structure..?
Medic: well I hate to be the bearer of bad news but zat the two of us found out that ze's no sign of nobody when the moment we looked for people of responsible or scaring out your friends..
Grunt: please I beg if you do not go in there the monsters lurk and feast upon their corpses and then you'll become one of them...
when the moment Grant said that everyone looked at as if he was crazy or completely gone off the end.. but it made them even more on edge.
Scout: yeah right.. made them became zombies right as if that was an impossible..
Spy: well for now we'll have to keep him beside us the time being or perhaps we can kill him now...
Sniper: I say we can kill the little bastard for All we Care..
only for Sniper to get out his weapon and shoot the grunt ending his life.
Spy: even though he was willing to sacrifice information you just want to shoot him..
Sniper: for one I think we should not take him a board for a hostage you might actually try to do something as if you spies would say backstabbers in the end.
Spy: it seems you have learned a lot from watching us betray our own comrades..
Scout: well let's go down there if our fellow comrades are still down there whatever spooked the covenants out..
Pyro muffing voice: (go deeper into the facility to find out what in the world is going on..)
Medic: zats seems like a good idea for us to actually move in and study the facility..
the rest of them did have no other option but to go into the facility unknown to them that some spear was actually looking at them from a far distance in the swamp and floated away.
Master Chief and his little recon team went into the structure and got on the elevator that took them into the facility where they encountered grunts and Jackal killing them.
Master Chief and his little recon team passes through several large rooms and many smaller ones inside the structure, filled with Unggoy, Kig-Yar, empty Shade turrets, discarded weapons, and dead bodies - both Marine and Covenant. Curiously there is no sign of any Sangheili, alive or dead.
Master Chief and his little recon team kind of felt a bit uneasy by the atmosphere around them.
Scout nervously: you know you forget the feeling that you're being watched by multiple angles..
Spy: I know as well trust me this weird feeling I have tells us to run out of this place..
Sniper: come on mates we have dealt with far worse Spooks like marasmus.. The islander.. especially a headless horseman there's no way a new kind of spook would actually come and try to spook us out..
Scout: you might be right sniper but this one feels a lot different..
Pyro muffling voice: (I know what you're getting at and trust me I can feel the address around feels a lot uneasy not to mention there hasn't been any elite that we have run into a lot of grunt and jackals..)
In one room, the Chief and his little recon team discovers a strange green-yellow substance falling from the ceiling.
Scout: what the hell is that stuff..?
Sniper: I have no clue, mate..
Medic went to the green and yellow substance in order to collect it and put it in a jar to examine it.
Scout: what are you doing.. have you lost your damn mind who knows if that stuff is contaminated!?
Medic: how would you know.. besides you're not zats doctor...
Scout: I know.. I'm just a bit concerned that's...
Spy: Scout.. what is wrong with you have you really gone paranoid..
Scout: I told you find all of this weird a crash pelican not to mention some shadowy figures that are watching us and not also that there hasn't been a single elite we came across all of this seems rather a bit suss that we might actually be falling into some type of death trap..
Sniper: okay mate it seems that we have actually managed to got ourselves a lot of red flags.
Master Chief: I agree as well all of this certainly seems to make all of us feel on edge... before we know it at the captain and the crew still here somewhere..
Scout: sighs.. I know it's just that.. I have this weird feeling that something is going to happen..
Spy: yeah I really hope the other is all right..
back at the control room of the Ice area of the Ring.
Demoman and Soldier were outside of the door of the entrance of the control room.
Soldier was asleep when the moment he got up felt a bit of a shiver down his spine.
Demoman: lad.. you're finally awake..
Soldier: it was nothing I have this weird shiver down my spine..
Demoman: don't worry mate, I bet our lads will be fine..
Soldier: yeah I really hope so..
back inside of the forerunner structure.
A lone Marine sits leaning against a wall, M6D magnum pointed at them.
Paranoid Marine: Stay back! Stay back, you're not turning me into one of those things! I'll blow your brains out! Get away from me!
Scout: dude calm down lower your weapon!!
Sniper: yeah what the bloody hell is wrong with you..?
Spy: and what in the world do you mean by turning you into one of those things..?
Paranoid Marine: Gaaaaahh! Aaaaaahh! Don't touch me, you freaks! I won't be like you, I'll die first! Find your own hiding place, the monsters are everywhere!
the moment Paranoid Marine said monsters just like what the grunt said had second thoughts about it, but still shoved It off.
Spy had enough of the crazy Marines antic and decided to end it his life.
Scout: spy.. you didn't really have to do that he was still one of our allies..
Spy: I know.. but seeing that he's gone and lost his mind off the deep end there's nothing we can do..
Medic: whatever zats monsters are they really have gone and heard about mentally and physically..
Sniper: no kidding.. talk just couldn't get any weirder..
Scout: but seriously there's something damn wrong about this... I mean the marine and the grunt said that they were monsters lurking around... and trust me we're not some monster hunters, but I do get the heebie-chees already..
Sniper: you're right about that.. I can feel the shivers down my spine enough as it is compared to fight against harassment this one gives me the spooks..
Spy: for the time being we're going to have to investigate for anything before moving on the next area..
all of them agree started searching around the area when the moment they did they noticed dead covenants and Marines especially what surprised in the most was an elite however its chest was ripped out.
Scout: Jesus fucking Christ what the hell happened to this guy...
Sniper: I see many things before, but this is a whole other level..
Medic using his head gear to examine the corpse of the elite and with that he was able to found out to his shock that it was the same green substance..
Medic: well mein Freund, it seems you might be right, because it seems the corpse of this elite actually has the same substance just like the one that was found earlier... give me a moment to analyze it..
Medic using his head gear to analyze the substance within the body of the elite and to a shock and horror he witnessed the blood cells with the green substance started to mutate them.
Medic: well scouts it seems you might be right this substance could be a virus of some sort..
get shocked everyone even further that the green substance was some type of virus.
Spy: what else can you tell us about this virus..
Medic: well it seems das virus has the ability to mutate the cells within the body into something..
Chief was rather shocked by the new information that he was got by dometic but that wondered if he put the pieces together clicked.
Master Chief: so the weapons cash was some type of virus..
Scout: well maybe.. and you heard recording right keys has already been captured.. so there's no point if he's even here already..
Master Chief remembered the recording of the message kept on repeating that Captain keys was actually captured by the unknown enemy if it could have been some virus.
Master Chief realize that there is no other option but to leave the facility seeing there was pointless that keyes might have already been captured.
however somewhere else deep within the facility a locked door with a code pad of some sort only for a shadowy figure looming over it.
only for the figure too smash the door open with brute strength it only let out a inhumane scream.
with Chief and a small recon team also heard the screeches of the human screeches and roars.
Scout: what the hell was that...?
Sniper: I'm guessing at that must be the new hostiles..
Pyro muffling voice: (I agree right now we should find exits immediately.)
Master Chief and his small recon team continued making their way to the elevator, however only be destroyed.
Scout: God damn it..
Sniper: bloody hell..
Spy: that's really there has to be an alternate way.. there must be more than just one elevator..
Medic: that's might be right seeing that could be more than one entrance...
Master Chief: you might be right about that there has been alternate exit for us...
Master Chief and his small recon team arrives at another elevator, but it goes deeper underground and Unggoy blood is seen painted on the elevator's shaft.
to their surprise that they are got themselves attacked by armed combat forms - both infected Sangheili and humans. This detour forces him to fight they way back up.
after killing combat forms of the elite and humans the group had a lot of questions raising to your minds.
Scout: seriously what the hell is even going on here...
Spy: I know what you mean seeing that this is something far beyond our leaks... medic you said that substance was a virus.. not to make you change stuff blood cells or might have mutated it..
Medic: well perhaps that might actually be the true after all..
Scout: don't tell me this facility is some type of lab that has some dangerous virus..
Pyro muffling voice: (so why would you even with some type of virus like zombie like..)
Scout: what we're dealing with an alien virus as if this wasn't worse enough with the covenant but now this..
Medic: well actually I am trying to run a few tests on the virus to find a cure... Scout can I borrow your bonk..
Scout: okay sure you can have one..
Scout tossed Medic a bonk can, Medic was able to feel the bunk with the substance using his head gear he was able to figure out that the bonk had some special immunity for the virus that was able to cure the person..
Medic: well it seems that your bonk might actually be the cure for the virus..
Scout: okay, that might actually be some good news for once on our time..
Master Chief: well that's some good news that we actually have a cure just in case anyone of us are infected..
Sniper: so right now we need to exit the facility..
Master Chief and his small recon team reaches the final elevator and rises to an exit from the structure.
Rawley (COM): "This is Echo 419. Chief, Scout, Sniper, Spy, Pyro, Medic is that you? I lost your signal when you disappeared inside the structure. What's going on down there? I'm tracking movement all over the place!"
Scout: let's just say it's a long story..
Sniper: yeah I seen it this is going to be available something you're not going to believe..
Master Chief and his recon team reaches the top where a trapped group of 10 Marines are holding out.
It is obvious they used a lot of ammo to escape, and it is all stacked in a pile. Most Marines hold shotguns and assault rifles, one or two have plasma rifles.
Scout: so seems the Marines were actually waiting on the other side of the facility..
Sniper: bloody hell.. for them to find any other exit..
Chips Dubbo: Sir! Thank God you're here. We've been lost out here for hours. After we lost contact with the rest of the mission, we, we headed for the RV point, and then these-these...these things...they ambushed us. We've gotta get out of here!
Flight Captain Rawley (COM): There's a large tower a few hundred meters from your current position. Find a way above the fog and foliage canopy and I can move in and pick you up.
Pyro muffled voice: (sounds like a plan unless it does zombie like creatures don't get us first)
Medic: don't worry, mein Freund... I'm able to have a cure or you could say a vaccine..
Marine #1: I got some good news for us to finally have a cure to be turned back to normal if we were infected..
Spy: gentleman we should get going immediately..
The Marine squad eagerly follows Master Chief and his recon team outside, where the Flood close in from all sides. Some Marines are attacked by Pod infectors, and their allies are forced to shoot them.
As Master Chief and his recon team comes near the tower Rawley was speaking of, an odd blue object and a flotilla of floating robotic automatons descend from the mist.
Sniper: well that's something you don't see every other day..
Scout: I wish engineer was here to see these weird looking robots..
Spy: well now I'm guessing that that must be some type of security system..
The robots begin to slice away at any nearby Flood with built-in energy beams, avoiding the Marines. After a few seconds of fighting around the base of the tower.
Master Chief and his recon team suddenly finds themselves enveloped in a bright gold light, and then appears on top of one of the legs of the tower.
The blue object hovers in front of him. The Chief and his recon team instinctively points their weapon at it.
343 Guilty Spark: Greetings. I am the Monitor of Installation 04. I am 343 Guilty Spark.
Scout: okay then..
Spy: it seems you must be the one that actually teleport us here..
343 Guilty Spark: indeed I have to admit.. that reclaimers like you came..
Sniper: reclaimers..?
The Chief and his recon team slowly lowers his assault rifle. Gunfire is still heard below, and bright beams slice through the dark swamp. The Chief and his recon team, the Monitor ignore the commotion.
Medic: your rather one interesting specimens on lactose so-called sentinels..
Pyro muffling voice: (yeah I wonder how they can create robots like him isn't that they're wearing more advanced computer graymenn's robots..)
Scout: teleported all of us up here for some reason..
Spy: continue for what you have to say 343...
343 Guilty Spark: Someone has released the Flood. My function is to prevent it from leaving this installation. But I require your assistance. Come. This way.
Scout in mind: [I don't like where this is going..]
The Chief and his recon team, the Monitor vanish in another series of gold flashes.
Rawley (COM): Chief, I've lost your signal! Where'd you go? Chief? Scout! Sniper! Spy!! Pyro!! Medic!!!
To Be Continued...
A/N: sorry for not uploading my stories early I know I had a lot of things to do in my own life... but don't worry I will continue uploading this story..
