CHAPTER 6

BELIEVE TRUTH

Josh grabbed ahold of the silenced weapons in the weapon stacks. He looked at his scans showing the large ammo capacity.

Then as he reached out ready to grab the Shotgun. Hailey reached out and grabbed his hand. Josh stopped and looked at her slowly.

"Josh are you okay?"she asked

"I'm fine Hailey"said Josh

"Josh I know you quite well when your lying"she said

He sighed thinking of what to say. Or even how to explain anything to her since he barely ended up discovering what he seems to really be.

"I just found out recently through my Father's memories, my real mother was killed long ago, and she was pregnant with me still inside"said Josh

Hailey looked away thinking of what that must have been. She looked back at him and thought.

"Josh...I don't know what to say"she said

"That my mother who was beside me growing up wasn't really my mother, and that I'm a clone"said Josh

Hailey stared at him. Just staring for a second. She stayed silent as she dropped her assault rifle. Josh looked down at the ground.

Within seconds Hailey embraced him. Holding him in a stable hug. Josh lowered his arms and held her close.

"No, I don't believe that Josh...I-I have known you for so long but I don't care if you are, I-I love you either way"said Hailey

Josh didn't let go as he heard her say those words. He closed his eyes and thought of who he had met since his younger days. The days before Hailey left.

"Your all I got Hailey"said Josh

"Your what's left and damn right I'm the last thing you have left that means more than just someone Josh so you can't throw yourself away at all"said Hailey

She looked up towards him. She was staring at his visor as he was staring back into hers.

"I don't want to lose anyone else Josh, because your the last I have"said Hailey

Both stayed hugging and thinking of what they have to do.

CHANGE OF VIEW

Josh and Hailey got off they're Pelican as it flew away. Hailey looked at the ruins of the broken apartment building. They were standing at the very top floor.

Josh lowered his shotgun and walked around. His visor scanned the ground. The bodies of Elites had been slit and killed by a human knife.

He knew who was doing this. Hailey looked at him. Noticing him slowly checking and thinking.

"Josh you know who is doing this don't you?"asked Hailey

"Adela, she's trying to send me a message"said Josh

"Why? Is she the same one responsible for the train?"asked Hailey

"Yes, she was testing me by killing the hostages"said Josh as he bended over and scanned boot prints

Hailey looked back seeing the distant city of newly built New Mombasa city. She couldn't believe it.

"Let's find her"said Hailey

"Targets are at the 5th floor, ground team double time now"said Deka's voice through the radio

Josh and Hailey ran towards the edge of the building and activated there gravity boots and hooked they're safety lines.

Josh and Hailey moved quickly heading down jumping away from the windows little by little.

"Go left I go right"said Hailey

"Roger that"said Josh

The building shook little by little. Josh looked downwards. Seeing the far distance of the height of the building to the street.

Yet at the same time he noticed the explosions at the far distance below. Floor by floor exploded. One by one as it rapidly went towards Josh.

He looked up towards Hailey.

"HAILEY GO UP!"yelled Josh

Hailey yelled as Josh's floor exploded. She stared reaching out towards him. The flames consumed his entire body. His cable snapped as he dropped.

Hailey yelled out his name. She instantly moved down avoiding the explosion at the floor above her.

Papers floated with broken glass and burned office belongs falling. Josh fell and fell.

His SPARTAN IV body armor was burning and the white and blue paint was battered and worn off.

Instantly Josh was caught the by the Mysterious Adela Woman and thrown into a burning ruined floor. She threw him into the shattered glass ground.

He grunted and rolled back up to his feet. She dropped letting go of her cable. She landed heavily into the ground.

She looked towards Josh as he stared back up towards her.

"What the hell?!"he yelled

Josh ran towards her firing his side arm Silent Pistol. Adela cloaked herself as she avoided his bullets.

Yet Josh stopped trying to punch and kick her as flames and electrical sparks went off around him.

"You are nothing like your Father, even if you try to be"said Adela

"What do you know about my father?! He wouldn't kill innocent people!"yelled Josh

"Yes he would have in order to do what is necessary, that is your weakness the enemy won't stop"said Adela's voice

Josh looked back and forward. His Helmet radar showing nothing but static. Images of rapid infection into his suit.

Josh looked around trying to make sense of things. Yet at that moment of being blind. An image showed of "Classified Documents".

Images of his father killing hostages, images of his father heading towards the Halo ring. Josh grabbed hold his helmet wanting to toss it aside.

Adela punched him into the ground and stomped his chest. She kicked his ribs and looked down at him. Her body became visible again.

"Find the truth Josh, your a clone! You have been since the day she created you!"she yelled

Yet at that moment Hailey came rushing in through the right hand side. Swinging into the shattered glass window and kicking Adela into the ground.

Hailey rushed in firing her assault rifle towards Adela as she rolled and jumped back to her feet.

"Get away from him you bitch!"yelled Hailey rushing towards Adela

"He is nothing like you or his father!"continued Hailey

Both collided fists against one another. Both struggled in a fist hold. Both stared into each other. Adela's small gas mask was solid black.

Yet her eyes looked into the visor of Hailey's SPARTAN IV helmet. Both pushed against each other.

"You have no idea what he is! What he can do!"yelled Adela

"I know him well enough! I wont let you manipulate him!"yelled Hailey head butting Adela head on

Josh tossed his SPARTAN IV helmet into the ground and looked towards Hailey and Adela. He rushed in towards them.

Adela ducked Hailey's left punch and grabbed her left hand tossing Hailey into the burning flames in the hallway.

Josh tried to fight back Adela as she looked at him. Noticing the same lookalike of Samuel when he was younger. She smiled remembering her old days.

Adela grabbed her dual pistols from her belt and aimed towards Josh firing directly at him.

His shields recharged quickly as he rolled on the ground back to his feet. Josh was able to right punch her.

Adela turned and round house kicked Josh. Yet Josh fell and rolled back to his feet and ran again. Determined not to give up.

He swung left then right. Adela fired her pistols into his chest and joints. Josh's shields kept on recharging again and again.

Then left hand uppercut her as she stumbled a bit. Hailey tackled her into the ground and pounded her face. Adela grabbed her knife ready to stab Hailey.

Yet Hailey knocked the knife right out of her grasp. Adela was punched and punched. Adela's small gas mask around her nose and mouth flew off.

Adela lied on the ground. Hailey stood back up Josh looked at Adela and walked towards his helmet.

Josh looked back at Adela as he noticed his visor still scrambling. Continuous static.