Chapter One
Arrival
A/n: To clear things up…
117: Male
116: Female
12: Male
37: Male
(Don't want a mix-up…heh heh)
117 Looked out into space, as he always did during spaceflight, it bored him. He started over to the table where Spartans 37, 116, and 12 were playing poker.
37 Stood up "HEY! WHOS DEALIN THESE CARDS ANYWAYS?"
12 Looked at the enraged Spartan "I think I'll fold…."
"Same here" 116 agreed
"So…what's the mission?" 117 asked
"Some battleship went missing, but now…they've found it, the odd part is, all of its crew were missing also, and when UNSC sent in a squad….they didn't return…"37 Joined 117 at the window
"Did you know…"117 asked "What Number the ship was?"
"Frigate OC34" 116 also walked over
"What!"
"What's wrong?" 116 asked
"That ship…." 117 trailed off "That ship, was A bio-Lab, the navy was testing bio weapons on that ship…."
12 joined the 3 "They don't tell us much anymore…"
The pilot turned on the loudspeaker, it was shaky and crackly, the longswords weren't built that well "We're 5 minutes out, be ready Spartans"
117 grabbed his assault rifle "You heard the man" Let's go…"
Arrival….
The four Spartans stepped out of the longsword into the hanger, which was black, with a few dim lights on
"Well….." 36 started
117 turned on his flashlight "We gotta get to the Bridge, the security cameras will show us what happened, the door is up ahead…uploading waypoint…."
A corridor…
"What is that stench?" 12 coughed
"I have no cl-" 117 stopped "The….the door gaskets?"
The ships "Hot" zones, with the deadliest viruses and bacteria had rubber door gaskets surrounding them, which kept the infected air in the "Hot zones" and kept the clean air circulating around the rest of the ship, normally they are powered by an electric motor, but with the power out, the gaskets deflated as air (and viruses) seeped out of them, the pungent odor was the infected air, now circulating throughout the rest of the ship.
A loud alarm screamed in 3 beeps, stopped, then started again
"AAANNN…AAANNN…AAANNN" It was the freezer alarm…"AAANNN…AAANNN…AAANNN…" The freezers were melting.
"Shit!" 37 jumped "What was that!"
"The freezer alarms" 12 told the rest of the crew "Normally, the freezers are kept at subzero temperatures, once the power went out, the temperature started to rise."
The men moved on, until they started hearing more buzzer alarms, signaling a gasket breach. Nonetheless, they moved on.
Cafeteria
The four Spartans looked over the dead bodies on the floor
"These must be the squad members" 117 stared in disbelief " This makes no sense….Why did the system fail?"
Another alarm filled the cafeteria…
To be continued…..