Disclaimer: I don't own halo or anything about it, im just borrowing...for now
Chapter 1-Prison Break
0603 hours, December 5, 2525 (military calender)
Epsilon Eridani system
unknown location
John listened for tapping from the next cell over. He couldn't remember how long he had
been sitting in that goddamn prison. It had all started as a routine survival exercise. He and his team had been dropped in into a jungle planet with nothing but there survival equipment. No maps, nothing. They were supposed to find an emergency radio transmitter that had been randomly dropped on the planet. The insertion had been fine, but as they say in the in the ODST's, the problems start after you land.
Almost immediately after touchdown, they had encountered problems. Apparently some higher-ups wanted the Spartan project to fail. A lot.
Teams had been sent out to find and capture them. They had avoided them for days, staging hit and run attacks. But one by one they were captured. John cursed under his breath. He had let his team down. He slammed his fist into the wall and screamed. If only he had been better, if only he had done things differently
No. He couldn't think of that know, what's done is done. It was time to think about the task at hand. He had to get out. He had to get his team out. He would not fail.
His captors had made one major mistake. They had given all the Spartans, him, Linda. Fred, Will, and Kelly, cells right next to each other. They had spent weeks collecting the necessary materials from their meals. He looked at what he had assembled before him. A polished metal tray that he used as a mirror, a lock pick that had been fashioned from his fork, and a plastic knife he had ground to a deadly weapon. He was ready.
It was five or so minutes before he heard the tapping that was the signal that a guard was coming down the hall. He gathered up his tools and leapt into action. He quickly picked the lock, and used the mirror to determine the perfect time. The guard crossed right in front of the door. Perfect. He slammed the door open, instantly crushing the guards skull.
But there was something else, a snag. He hadn't expected the guards shift to have changed.
He hadn't had time to do anything but grab the guards keys and gun, before two more rounded the corner. He ducked behind a barrel just in time, but they still discovered the body. He heard one of them key their mic and exclaim loudly about a man down. The other rushed over and began to check his comrades pulse. But before he could, john slammed the butt of his rifle into his face, crushing his nose and sending blood flying everywhere. He instantly snapped around and but three rounds into the second guards face.
He knew it wasn't long before more would come and find that they were escaping. He hadn't much time. He unlocked all the other cells and rounded his team. They equipped them selves with the dead guards weaponry. Each one of them had at least a side arm to use, and all of them were ready.
"Lets get out of here before more of our friends come" said John. "But the parties just getting started" Linda whined right back
