Purpose Of Existence Chapter 27: Tear Drop
"We are not going after the scrambler". It made sense. Of course it did, but one still had to think what if? You know that feeling when you are confident enought in your leader not to question his decisions but still wander what could have happened if things were done differently? If you would have done something differently? Perhaps humans would bear the mantle now, or perhaps the Banished would have crushed them allready. These were the things running trought blue teams mind as they mechanically pushed trought the opposing Banished forces. Halos command tower as their destination.
After Chief's decision they had continued moving forward and trought be told, they haven't met even half of the resistance they expected to meet. Of course they didn't complain but something seemed off. Everything felt like another test back in the days of their training. Forces with lethal firearms without the intention of killing.
It was clear that banished soldiers were eather Covenant dropouts or some type of mercenaries. Some of them were more sloppy and some were as well or even better trained than the Covenant elites. Yet they all shared a similar faith. They all died by the hands of blue team.
"Grenade! Get down!" Fred yelled as a Banished elite threw a plasma grenade to their current hiding spot. Everyone scrambled but only Kelly was fast enought to dodge the entire explosion of the grenade. Fred took a minor hit, his armor melting from places but nothing major. Chief was standing in front of Linda so she didn't really feel the grenades effects. Chief lost his shields. "We need to move!" Kelly yelled and chief agreed with his second in command.
"Move push to the tower, regroup at the front gate and don't get killed one me!" Chief's commands were met with cries of yes sir and yes Chief. It was a sloppy plan but this had to be the most enemies they had faced on their way here and they were proving to be quite the challenge.
Chief was the second last to stand up. Linda taking up the rear as Nornfang woudn't be that useful in close range. Kelly warned them about a hunter pair coming towards them and Chief ducked just in time to see a flash of green flying over his head barely missing Linda. She shot him a glare trought their helmet cameras and continued running.
Their team had no heavy weapons since their pelican came crashing down so they had to deal with the armored beasts creatively. How?...Well he had to be honest, he didn't have a smallest idea on this one. Their weapons woudn't pierce the not so gentle giants armor and trying to get to their weak spots was extremely dangerous. Chief heard steps behind them and turned around to see a pair of elites decloaking. He shot the other elite but the other was faster and tryed to push his sword trought Chief's chest. He reacted purely by instincts and pushed his hand between the blade and too a grip from its hilt. The elite looked at him eyes wide, only to see the cold hard visor of chief's helmet. After a second the elites head exploded and Linda ran next to him.
"Thatl be twice saviour of the galaxy". She remarked. After that she turned and fired a round only to duck again and start speaking "Their armor is way too thick for our weapons to pierce it. You know just as well as I do we have to do something risky. I say lets bring the entire mountain on them.
Chief's eyes widened and he looked at her if she were crazy. "If we cause an avalanche, well get buried too Linda". She had no answer to that but Kelly cut in, she and Fred had listened the entire conversation. "Chief there is no other way! There are too many Banished here to push trought without help! Damn". They heard her mutter as a plasma grenade almost hit her. "Im the fastest so I will start the reaction and you will make a run for it. Go straight inside and do not look back!" Chief knew this was the only way. They were outnumbered 1 to 8 currently and spartans have survived worse but they were running out weapons and ammo. He didn't like it but coudn't find any valid counter argument and gave a affirmative.
He could only watch as Kelly took of to a full sprint towards one of the more secluded hunters, dodging their plasma shots along the way. The hunter tried to swing its shield but she jumped planting a foot on the corner of the shield and jumped grabbing the hunter's weapon hand and just as it was about to fire turned it towards the peak of the mountain. This was the moment they all started running. The plasma shot hit the sight of the mountain and a thunderous sound could be heard and then...A giant crack.
After that it was running. Running for your live, he could see red in his vision and his legs hurt, he had never ran this fast but the sound of the avalanche kept him and the rest of the blue team extremely motivated to keep running. He could see the giant doors they were opened and a squad of 5 elites walked trought them to stop the spartans. After the elites had passed the gates started closing.
Chief pushed himself even harder, crashing to one of the elites sending the bigger creature flying. He activated the looted energy sword and ducked another elites swing. He pushed his sword in the elites stomach and kept running towards the gates, he was first to pass trought and turned around to see if the rest of his team had arrived.
Fred was next to come and he collapsed against the nearest wall. Only a moment later Linda came and crouched down to take a breath. The rolling wall of snow could now be heard so loud that Chief was sure it would hurt his ears if not for the mjolnir armor.
The doors were closing fast and Kelly woudn't come soon she would be buried under the tidal wave.
Chief looked around he could see that Fred was also looking at the door and even Linda's shoulders were tense.
The door was about to close it barely had a houl size of a man.
Just before the doors closed completely a blue blur jumped trought it crashing to the ground in a odd angle.