A/N- Most of the parts where it has me talking to Chloe and Jason are really old. Forgive my stupidity, though some of them are actually semi-funny if at all. Ignore them if you want.
Chapter 4: A bit of halo
Disclaimer-I DON'T OWN HALO! Happy?
ODST: he he this chapter is gonna be fun!
Chloe: Why?
ODST Oh you just get pulled around like a rag doll...
Chloe: oh...
last time
The ride in the cramped pod got rougher and more uncomfortable as they sped towards the ring world.
Story start
The ring world sped into view, and the pilot made the necessary corrections. Warnings blared through the cabin as they began to violently shake.
Chloe squeezed Jason's hand tighter and closed her eyes as vegetation sped past them.
They crashed through a tree and its splintered sending shards every which way. The impact made Chloe's head slam into the seat and she blacked out.
"Chloe?" she heard Jason's voice.
"Yeah?" she replied not opening her eyes.
"You ok?"
"As soon as the little pink elephants go away yes."
He laughed and pinched her nose shut. Chloe slapped his hand and sat up trying to catch her breath.
"Turd." She muttered and stood up a marine lay dead outside of the pod. "Damn, that sucks."
"Enemy drop ship in bound." A marine yelled from behind a tree.
"Oh, che." Chloe ran up to the structure thing that the others were in and took what little cover there was.
Soon enough there was a deep rumble that alerted everyone. A giant, purple, U-shaped drop ship came into view and lowered down in front of them. Two hatches, one on either side opened and spilled out new targets.
"Sarge that's the enemy right?" she keyed a com she had snatched before they left.
"Yep. The small ones are grunts, the ones with hand held shields are jackals, and the tall ones like you killed before are elites. Got that?" he replied
"Elites, Grunts, Jackals. Got it." She nodded to Jason to make sure he over heard it.
He smiled in return and drew his pistol.
Chloe looked over the top of the concrete railing and counted, "Jason there are about 9 of them, five grunts, three jackals, one elite. This should be easy."
She jumped up from her crouched position and fired at the enemy. Considering she hadn't gotten to warm up she did pretty good 5 shots 3 grunts fell.
The other marines poured fire onto the enemy's position and took out the elite, two of the jackals, and the last of the grunts.
Chloe took aim at a corner of a jackal's shield and fired. It fired back as a slow moving energy blob and she ducked. Her round hit, its round missed. She grinned in excitement.
They did this about every five minutes for the next half an hour.
"Jason are you ok?" Chloe panted, he nodded sweating a little. She smiled at him, "We are going to make it out of this. I promise."
He smiled but it quickly faded as the next wave approached. This time it was going to the back. Only this time it poured out two elites a bunch of grunts, and a few less jackals.
She sighed and stood up as blobs splattered the ground around her feet. 'These pilots couldn't hit the side of a barn if it were against their noses.' She reloaded her pistol with a fresh clip and fired. The first shots worked on the few jackals, and she paused for a second. Something wasn't right.
She looked towards the back of the cliff; there was a green elite running over the hill. Funny, she must have missed that one jump out. She keyed her microphone, "Sarge there is a green elite in the back. Should I shoot it?"
"Does it have a golden mask across the face?"
She checked again, "Yep it does."
"Good don't worry about it. That's an ally."
'I don't remember anything about an elite being a friendly' Chloe though.
"Jason keep your eye on that elite."
He nodded, and tried to keep an eye on the elite while protecting himself.
The elite was on their side. He was shooting his own kind with a human pistol, and using human grenades. Strange. Either way the job was done in half the time it usually was and the elite was jogging up to Sarge.
Chloe jumped down in front of him and pulled her pistol on him. He stopped dead in his path. Sarge sighed and pushed her pistol down. She gave him a look that could stop a train.
"I don't exactly trust elites."
"He's not an elite. Master Chief is a human." Sarge half laughed.
"But the armor."
"I know, I know. Now shh go back to your post Shiva."
She stalked off but kept a close eye just in case.
"Chief we sure could use your help." Sarge smiled grimly.
"What's your status?" a female voice came through.
"Pinned down and I can't get a hold of HQ."
"I will try to make contact with them and request assistance." She said.
"Thanks Cortana. Chief, we need your help bad."
The green armor nodded silently and took cover under a tree as a drop ship dove in.
With the marines help, he had taken out the drop ship within 2 minutes after they were dropped off.
Chloe and Jason watched the soldier as he fought of 4 different attacks with much skill. He only used a little help from the marines as they shot what they could.
"This is Pelican Echo four-nineteen any UNSC forces please respond!" a female voice called over the comm.
"Pelican Echo four-nineteen this is Cortana. We have survivors and need immediate dust off. Do you copy?"
"Roger that." She clicked off her mike.
Chloe walked down the ramp and to where their pod was. She picked up her stuff inside of it and walked back out to meet with Jason.
He poked her side playfully, "Nice shooting Tex."
She giggled and put her hands up to block him, "Thanks you did pretty good yourself."
Jason blushed a little, and Chloe punched him in the shoulder.
"Foe hammer we need you to disengage your warthog, the chief and I need to go save a few men." Cortana's voice came over the intercom again.
A vehicle dropped from the belly of what Chloe guessed was a Pelican. The vehicle must have been the warthog.
Cortana's voice came over the intercom again, "Sergeant we need you to spare a few men."
"Alright listen up ladies. The chief and Cortana need a few men any volunteers?" Sarge said.
"Sarge can I go?" Chloe asked pulling herself up into the gunner's seat in the back.
"If Chief will let you." He sighed, "She is a pretty good shot chief."
"Alright," Chief grumbled, "but you have to ride shotgun."
"Yay!" She yelled and jumped into the side.
A rather happy marine jumped onto the back and yelled "Punch it!"
Master Chief floored the warthog and dirt flew up behind them. Chloe waved to Jason as she flew off.
They came to a cave entrance and Cortana piped up, "This cave is not a natural formation, so it must lead somewhere."
Chloe rolled her eyes but kept to herself. Chief sped into the cave. The walls were too tall for their own good really.
"Makes you wonder what was brought through here." Chloe wandered out loud.
"Know one knows." The gunner replied.
The Master Chief drove expertly through the tunnel and they got to a ramp. He backed down the ramp and Chloe understood what he was doing. She gripped the side of the 'hog as he floored it and they flew up the ramp.
They made it over and the gunner yelled, "Hell yeah!" when they landed safely. Chloe just released a held breath.
"You weren't nervous were you?" The chief asked sarcastically.
"Oh not at all, I just need to change my pants now." Chloe spat rolling her eyes.
The gunner laughed and chief just shook his head slightly.
They came around a corner and the massive tunnel widened into another room. Chief drove up to the edge of a chasm.
"Whoa. That's a long way down." Chloe looked over the edge.
"We need to look for a switch of some sort to activate the bridge." Cortana said.
Chief turned the hog around and pointed the nose back the way they came. He jumped out and started to fire his assault rifle at something. Chloe spotted something out of the corner of her eye, grunts.
She jumped out and snuck towards them. There were three in all, the first one she took down with no problem the second threw a grenade and it got stuck to the third ones hand, and exploded.
The pistol belched out one round and it went through the grunts head. "Ha! Single shot to the engine block!" she sang out and heard the marine laugh at her antics.
Chief was already running up the ramp and fighting two elites that had hidden up there. She saw him walk across the catwalk above and tap a button on control panel.
Four metal rods extended, two from each side, and began to glow the glow connected and made a bridge.
They all looked at each other not wanting to be the guinea pig, Chloe and the marine yelled, "NOT ME!" and laughed.
Chief shrugged and put his foot on the bridge. Nothing happened. He stepped on and nothing happened. Chief shrugged again and walked back to the 'hog and slowly drove across.
All of them let out a long held breath once they got across and he floored it through the rest of the tunnel.
They emerged from the gigantic tunnel and turned up a hill to the right. There was another pod on the ground. Except there were no marines to be seen, except one dead one.
Chloe looked at the carnage and frowned as master chief picked up the sniper rifle.
ODST: sorry! I have to stop! My hands hurt a lot right now -- wow my mom's insane⦠she came home and started eating what was left of my dinner, then we talked about the legendary Pomato and a few other random things then she went to bed.. o.O save me..
Anywho review!
lol that rhymed!
Jason: PLEASE REVIEW! SHE'S DRIVING ME NUTS!
