The Clash of Realities
Chapter: 5
Title: The Battle for Command
Creator: Thundercracker417
Helpers: Genroththe1 (He is giving me ideas and Hunter-136 is based after him.)
Rated: T
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from it. I only own the OC's that are in the story.
(Lloyd-147)
13:05
I was staring down at the other commander that was next to me. How could I be so stupid? For god's sake, how could I forget that the person I just rescue had the same exact rank as me? I had always had the highest rank out of all of the Spartans which is probably why I thought I was the one that would be in command when I'm surrounded by multiple Spartans.
I knew that she wouldn't know that though. She wasn't a Spartan, and only they along with Dr. Halsay and other high ranking officials knew that.
"You're a commander?" Was all the other commander asked. I simply nodded. She seemed to get mad at this. She must have thought that she would be in command, not threatened by anyone else's rank.
"You're serious?" I again nodded. "Well, who's in charge then? Who will be leading us and our group?"
Chris-417 chose that moment to cut in. "How about we do a test to see who will be the leader?" Both the other commander and I nodded to this.
"Well, then come this way," Was his reply. He was walking toward a large room where you could hear swearing and screaming. 'I wonder what's in there.' I thought.
(Sergeant Johnson)
13:10
We entered a large room that was dark, but had lots of electronics that lit the place up. The walls were blue and the floor was a darker blue. In the center of the room was a large platform that had wires from the ceiling dangling down to it.
"Excuse me Chris-417, but what the hell is that?" I ask pointing to the platform.
"That Johnson, is a virtual reality platform. The wires coming from the ceiling are the wires that you connect to yourself to go into the virtual world. Inside the virtual world you move and talk the same as you would normally. So, would the two commanders step onto the stage? I'll show you two how to use it. In the virtual reality, the goal is to defeat the other players. The team that either has no people left or their commander is beat, is defeated." Chris said to everyone.
The two commanders slowly walked onto the stage, as if unsure about if it was safe. Lloyd actually voiced his concern though, "How do I know this isn't some kind of trick? We have just met you "Spartans", but why should I trust you with this virtual reality thing?"
"I can see why you don't trust me. This whole future thing must be wearing on you and I understand that. What could I do to make you trust me?" Chris replied to Lloyd.
"Well, if you're from the future, tell me what is going to be the outcome of this little battle." Lloyd said coldly. It was hard to see him in this dark room, especially since he has a similar shade of armor as the floor and walls.
"Well, since telling you that won't change anything, it's going to be a tie. Trust me. Now, please cooperate and step onto the stage." Chris said somewhat forcefully. Lloyd cooperated and then stepped onto the weird stage. Chris began instructing him and Miranda on how to attach the cable things. Then, after they were done, Chris told everyone else from our group to split up into teams. The teams ended up being Hunter, James, John, and I on Lloyd's team, while Captain Keyes, Kelly, Linda, and Emily on Miranda's team.
This was going to be fun.
(Lloyd-417)
I still didn't fully trust these "Future Spartans", but I wanted to see if his prediction of a tie would come true. I doubted that it would, but oh well. I actually wished for it not to be true because that would mean that my team and the other team are just as good as each other. I didn't think that my team could possibly lose. I mean come on, we had four Spartans on our team and an experienced soldier while our enemies consisted of an old, experienced man, three Spartans and their commander.
Everyone had the weird cables attached to them and we now were putting these funny-looking helmets on. I couldn't see anything because of the helmet, and I was starting to get annoyed when I felt dizzy and closed my eyes. I opened them to see myself in a large field with little cover. In my hands was an assault rifle and nearby me were the other people on my team. I decided to say something.
"Time to fight boys. Let's win this."
"Yeah!" Yelled Hunter.
"Agreed!" James happily said.
"Let's just do this!" John said, as if he was already bored. I was on the other hand extremely happy. It felt as though I was just walking and talking normally. This felt great!
"Everyone ready?" I ask. Everyone nods and raises their assault rifles.
I looked across the field to see the other team, seemingly getting ready too. This was going to be awesome. After this, I would be the leader out of our group. I had never really cared about leadership before, but this would mean that I would be the one to lead my friends and allies home from wherever we are.
My team started walking towards the other group. I noticed that they all were ready to fight…except their commander who wasn't there for some reason.
'Probably ran away. Coward.' I thought; glad that this would be easier now. James was using the only cover that we could use nearby. I honestly had no clue where Keyes could have gone.
"Time to interrupt your ballad lesson ladies, we're going to win." I yell out to the other team. This pissed Kelly off.
"Yeah right, us girls are going to win…along with captain Keyes who is not a girl." Kelly said, adding the last part after a little bit of thought.
"Haha, tell em Kelly. We are going to WIN!" Emily shouted energetically.
"Tell them ladies, these rookies don't stand a chance." Jacob Keyes said confidently, with a small laugh.
"Big talk for an old geezer. Hey gramps, how about you just go and play dead, this is a battle between us Spartans and you'll only get in the way." Hunter said. He had always loved to taunt his foes, as did I.
(The
time has come, to break out)
(I'm finding the win, beyond a
doubt)
(Gone all the days, I'm losing ground)
(I'm taking it
all, to the next round)
Then Hunter opened fire on the closest enemy. Lucky him, it was Emily. 'He must b3 having fun. I think I should assist him. James opened fire too, also on Emily. Emily in turn just dodged James shots, her shields taking the brunt of Hunters ammo. James suddenly fell in pain, with his shield collapsing. He lay on the ground waiting for his shields to come back up.
'What hit him? Oh well I should pay attention to myself instead of hi-' I was suddenly caught off guard when I felt a full clip of an assault rifle go into my back. Then I heard Jacob laughing. I was on the ground and honestly I hadn't felt a thing from the clip of ammo.
"Ha! Not such an old geezer now am I!"
(I'm
not going down, I'm standing my ground)
(You haven't seen the last
of me)
(Cause I'm at my best, put to the test)
(I'm looking for
a victory)
(I'm not gonna stop, till I hit the top)
(It's the
only place to be)
(Prepare for today, I'm coming your way)
(You
haven't seen the last of me)
He started to reload his weapon, which left me about 3 seconds before he could shoot again. That was 2.6 seconds more than I needed though. In a blur, I jumped to my feet and had turned around to face my enemy and I unloaded the entire clip I had in. He fell backwards, surprised onto the ground. His limp body disappeared and a light above him appeared.
"JACOB KEYES LOGGING OUT." The message said.
"That was easy." I say to myself while I watch my shields go back to full-power. They didn't however, and I just decided that my armor must be malfunctioning. I didn't see not having shields as a threat because of my durability. What could possibly cause me to lose?
Nearby James was Linda. He didn't seem like he wanted to attack her for obvious reasons.
"So, does Jamesy boy want to win, or will you not even try?" was all she said to him before shooting at him. He fell to the ground, in pain. Especially since the person he loved was shooting him. This was sad, really sad.
(Third person)
"Bring it!" Emily yelled at Hunter who had currently knocked her onto the ground and then had been tripped by her and was now wrestling with her. Neither seemed to be winning and they both seemed to be getting tired.
Nearby, James was being shot by Linda with Lloyd sneaking up from behind her to try and stop her. Sergeant Johnson was being shot by Kelly until "AVERY JOHNSON LOGGING OUT" was heard. John then pulled a sneak attack on Kelly. She could have fought him, but couldn't bring herself to do so.
Linda was shot in the back of her skull before she could finish James off when Lloyd pulled his assault rifle's trigger. "LINDA-058 LOGGING OUT" was heard by everyone that was left.
Soon after John had finished off the reluctant to fight Kelly leading to another "KELLY-089 LOGGING OUT". He had no idea why that had been so easy, but everyone else did.
Hunter had managed to deal a blow to Emily, causing her to retreat. She said with blood flowing out of her mouth, "You'll have to better than that to beat me, Hunter!"
"Well how about this, Emily?" Hunter pulled out his assault rifle and pulled the trigger and Emily fell backwards.
(I'm
bringin the win, I just can't be beat) (just can't be beat)
(I'm
not gonna fall, I won't accept defeat)
(Gone all the days, I'm
losin ground) (I'm losin ground)
(I'm takin it all, to the next
round)
(I'm not goin down, I'm standin my ground)
(You
haven't seen the last of me)
(Cause I'm at my best, put to the
test)
(I'm lookin for a victory)
(I'm not gonna stop, till I
hit the top)
(It's the only place to be)
(Prepare for today,
I'm comin your way)
(You haven't seen the last of me, last of me)
"EMILY-123 LOGGING OUT" was heard by Lloyd's team.
"Yay, we won!" James said. He had the same suit problem with the broken shield generator and he didn't have shields like Lloyd too.
"Yeah, we did win!" Hunter said. They were all forgetting about the one person that was left. That one person came out of no-where and sneak attacked James when he was near the only cover there was.
(Lloyd-147)
Something wasn't right. I didn't know what but something felt weird. Why wasn't the game ending? We had won, so why did we not get out? My concerns were pushed even higher when I heard "JAMES LOGGING OUT".
'What the…why did that happen? How could he just log out like that?'
Soon, I heard John yell and Hunter cough. I turned to see them both barely standing up with their shields down. In-between them was Miranda Keyes with two assault rifles in her hands.
"Did you really think that you had won? Good-bye, Spartans." Keyes said to them. She pulled her trigger and the two Spartans fell.
"HUNTER-136 LOGGING OUT."
"JOHN-117 LOGGING OUT."
"Now its just me and-augghhh!" Keyes started to say before I shot her in her back while she was turning to face me. She fell to the ground and dropped one of her rifles. I laughed. NOW I won. That future stuff is a load of bull because I WON. It didn't end in a tie. I had really WON.
I was so happy I didn't notice a rifle raise and point at me…with my shields offline.
"Ballad this!" Keyes yelled. After pulling the trigger she finally collapsed, in synch with my body hitting the ground.
After that, all I saw was darkness.