CHAPTER 9

DIVIDED

Gun fire went back and forth. Josh struggled as he looked forward. Seeing Ares slashing through enemies. Hailey avoiding gunfire and red alarms going off.

His body felt small bits of pain as his shields recharged. Went off and on with massive sounds of beeping.

Josh looked at the ground seeing the dropped assault rifle. Reaching out towards it. His hand was stomped. Squished as he looked up grunting.

He stared at the Elite aiming his Plasma Repeater. The Elite's abdomen was stabbed through as it yelled and died. Being tossed aside into the ground.

Ares looked towards Josh. With an opened hand. Looking down towards him. Saddened by the mere fact of what truth was.

Josh took his hand as he was helped up. ODST's screamed as slashes could be heard from down the left side corridor.

Hailey ran out into the hallway firing the quick Plasma repeater. It's blasts effected there shields and blood spilled.

Hailey went on steadily killing them in there cloaked appearances.

"ECHO, Shadow! Get to sub level Delta! Now!"yelled Deka

"MONTE, OLIVE get to Docking Level they have breached into the Docking bay"said an AI

Hailey avoided the first swipe from another Elite as she spun around. Firing and elbowing what she could.

Behind her ODST's in colors of white and black moved behind her. Returning fire as they took point behind her.

CHANGE OF VIEW...Towards another Group within the EXILES DIVISION...

Elevator moved shaking little by little. 2 Spartan IV's were inside the elevator. The smaller one was a SPARTAN IV. His name was Olive.

Yet he was the most intelligent. The other one was a Warmonger. Not caring much about what he fought. Not caring about what he had to do.

He was a beast in combat but a horrible speaker and driver. Annoying man he was. He was a tall SPARTAN III solider named "Monte".

Monte weared Soldier Armor. Olive weared Recruit armor. Both were in colors of red and Black. Monte held in his hands a massive beast.

The machine gun turret. He looked towards Olive as Olive sighed and looked away.

"Seriously man, on the scale of one to ten there won't be many"said Olive

"Really?! You wanna bet those words bro?"asked Monte

"Seriously they probably came for that one reason like I said before"said Olive

Monte looked away from him smiling inside his helmet. Looking at the trigger finger of the machine gun turret.

"Bro not this shit again, I mean it's never solved"said Monte

Doors opened as Monte fired away at the many scattered Grunts and Elites. Hunters looked back seeing the gun fire from the distant Elevator behind them.

Rushing with sounds of rage. Both Hunters stood side by side. Heading towards Monte and Olive. Olive slapped the back of Monte as he made him a signal.

As he slapped Monte's back that meant "Cover Me".

"AHAHHAHAHHAHAA COME!"yelled Monte

Olive ran and jumped forward as he fired his Assault rifle in mid jump as he killed a suicide grunt before reaching towards him.

Olive slammed hard into the steel ground. Olive looked forward seeing the Pelicans blasted and blown up. Small fires were spreading.

Olive reloaded his assault rifle. He stared towards the outside. The docking bay had a large shielding.

Large shields protecting them from being hauled out into space. He stared through it.

"Shit,Shit, ugh Deka?! We have a big fucking problem?!"yelled Olive

Monte's machine gun turret ran out clean of ammo. He looked down towards it as he sighed. Tossing it into the ground.

He looked towards the glowing green lights of the 2 Hunters. Monte smiled and grabbed his grenade launcher on his back.

"Bring it, Monte loves a good fight"said Monte

CHANGE OF VIEW...

Deka looked down at the ground. It opened up as a weapons locker popped up towards her.

The holograms of enemies and casualties went off on her screens.

"Deka at this rate the enemies have multiplied from before"said The AI

"That's fine will deal with them just like before"said Deka

Deka looked back towards one hologram as Josh and Ares both fought side by side. Adela was still trapped in her cell.

Another hologram showed Hailey and a squad of ODST's fighting Elites and Hunters. Another showed what Olive and Monte were doing on the Docking bay.

"Shadow Squad Get to the 3rd Level now!"yelled Deka

CHANGE OF VIEW...To Shadow Squad...in the Delta "Prison Level"...

The Elite aimed both Plasma Rifles left and right. Beside him was a bended down on one knee female Spartan. She breathed in and out.

Calmly seeing the dead bodies of enemies. The Male Elite was named "Joma". His Elite helmet had 4 glowing blue eyes. His colors were steel and white.

The female Spartan was named "Jesse". She was a SPARTAN III. She wore the Assault Armor.

"Anything?"asked Jesse

"Nothing, Donny what's your situation?"asked Joma

Hunter's fell into the ground. Delta lobby was large. Filled with gunfire and blood. The cloaking of a standing individual went off.

The soldier was standing with a UNSC Saber Energy Sword. A long steel sword with the blade of an energy sword. He held the sword in his right hand.

In his left hand was his handy Grenade Launcher. His body was tall and robotic. A robotic body of a soldier. The kind known as "Ciphers".

Ciphers are individuals who can link towards other bodies. Only the lifeless ones. Mechanical robotic ones are chosen as best.

His body was a robot inside the suit of a recon soldier. His visor scanned the lobby. His name was "Donny " (Introduced in Echoes 2: SHADOWS LIGHT).

Hos armor colors were steel and blue. His team mates were scattered across the Exiles Base. Donny looked left and right seeing nothing else on his scans.

"Enemies are dead, except Dansuke has escaped"said Donny