-1The Covenant had a base in Dogma, which was now the headquarters for the heretics. Inside, an Elite and a Grunt, both heretics, talked since they had nothing better to do. "Me scared" squeaked the Grunt "can we fight big Covenant with small us?" The Elite chuckled and replied "the great Prophet is wise and knows what he's doing. Soon those Forerunner worshippers shall taste true power!" "B-but" the Grunt spoke again "should we drink holy nipple first?" The Elite shook his head at the lesser being. "We cannot drink from the fountain yet" answered the large alien "not until the Prophet is ready to prepare for the cleansing." The Grunt laughed maniacally for some reason, and the Elite joined in. "Soon" the Elite said while still laughing "the Covenant will feel the wrath of-"
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A Seraph had fired some plasma torpedoes and blew up a wall, ending the lives of the two heretics. More heretics came to find out what happened, and were massacred by two Hunters who entered through the new entrance, which a few Covenant-sided Elites entered in also. One of them was the veteran Elite.
"Alright warrior" said the field master, who was there also "me and a few special ops are going to find Ponder, you go clear out the base." With that, the golden Elite activated a plasma sword and went into a room on the left, while the red Elite and the other Elites and Hunters went in the room on the right. More heretics came and the Elites shot them down.
The next room had it's roof gone, which would a problem. The problem was that a heretic drop ship was overhead and noticed the intruders. It fired it's plasma cannon and the Covenant fled to the next room. Unfortunately, some Elites and the Hunters didn't make it. Too make things worse, heretics that might have been inside the drop ship entered. The veteran smashed his plasma rifle into a Grunt's skull then fired on a heretic Elite. A heretic Jackal shot a charged-up plasma pistol projectile and hit the veteran. He retreated to a corner to have his shields recharged. He went back in action to finish off the heretics, but one Elite ally died when the veteran hid.
The next area was about two stories tall. The veteran and his remaining ally looked down to the bottom floor to see a lot of heretics run by. Since there were too many to take on, they decided to sneak out. A camouflaged heretic Elite killed the veteran's partner with a plasma sword. Surprised the red-armored Elite fired at the heretic. The un-cloaked Elite corpse went off the edge and fell to the bottom floor with a splat. The heretics below saw this and immediately fired towards the veteran. He ran for it, hoping there was help nearby. Instead, he encountered a pair of heretic Hunters.
The Hunters quickly fired their fuel rod guns, but the Elite managed to get out of the way. The veteran kept dodging attacks waiting for a chance to strike their weak points. One Hunter tried to hit the Elite with it's large shield, but accidentally hit it's partner instead. The other Hunter got mad and both began to fight. Now with a chance to attack, the red-armored veteran threw a plasma grenade and fired a few plasma rifle rounds on a Hunter's back. The Hunter fell, and the remaining one was enraged. Unfortunately, the Elite's plasma rifle had ran out of batteries, so he fled as the heavy armored heretic came after him.
Coming to a yellowish green-armored Grunt, he easily disarmed the alien and pushed it down. The Grunt didn't have any time to react, as the Hunter plowed through the shrimp. More heretics came down a corridor, and the veteran fired his newly-acquired Needler and let the rest get killed by the raging Hunter. Soon there was a dead end, and the Hunter was coming faster than ever. With no other good options left the veteran Elite waited and dodged the heretic Hunter at the last second. The armored alien crashed into the wall, the force cracking it. Now that it's back was turned, the Elite threw another plasma grenade on it's back. It exploded, but the Hunter was still alive and turned around. It was about to fire the fuel rod gun, but the ceiling, damaged by Seraph bombings and the wall too weak to hold it, fell on the Hunter. Not wanting to see if the heretic was alive or not, the Elite veteran ran off. Soon, luckily enough, he met some Covenant allies.
"About time someone came" grumbled another Elite veteran "we just found something that those heretics were protecting." The first red-armored Elite wondered what it is, and followed his comrade. Inside a very wide room, beside some Elites and Jackals and crates of plasma grenades, was a large fountain. It was yellowish green like the heretics' armor, and murky water poured from it. On the side of the fountain was three Covenant numbers, which were '616.' "I don't know why they would protect such a thing, but I say we should destroy it to show that the Covenant are superior! Jackals, toss some holy flares on it, wort wort wort!"
The Jackals complied and tossed a few plasma grenades on the fountain. Everyone stood back as the fountain soon exploded, which they cheered afterwards. "Eaugh!" the second veteran said "what is that stench?" The other veteran sniffed the air and gagged at a smell of rotting meat. Everyone soon noticed yellow gas coming from a hole which the fountain once stood. The veterans and a few blue-armored Elites walked closer to see the hole was very deep, with no visible end in site. "Hmm, it seems there might be something down there" the second red-armored Elite muttered "brother, go to the communication post in that room over there and see if you can ask for assistance, we'll check this hole out." The veteran complied and went into the next room. Just as he was about to activate it, a scream came from the other room, along with plasma shots. As went back to see what was happening, a frantic Jackal accidentally fired a plasma shot at the crates of plasma grenades. The force of all the grenades exploding sent the Elite flying to the wall. He lost conscious as everyone screamed and fired.
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To be continued.