Chapter 11

The Flood Strikes Back

The Master Chief, Samus and the two floating annoyances ran through the bushes and trees making their way to the second chamber. They finally were free from the foliage, but they didn't see a cave, like the other one. Instead they found HQ, the human base that Master Chief was talking about earlier.

"Is this a joke?" The Master Chief asked the yellow monitor,

"Of course not Reclaimer." The A.I. replied, "The human forces had built this complex above the chamber with the activation switch."

"So there is a large, secret that is built under HQ?" Samus asked,

"Indeed."

"So you're saying, there's a large number of Floods beneath this human complex." The Master Chief asked,

"Yes sir, but no need to worry, I had evacuated the entire lot of the humans before the Flood had escaped. But there were some casualties."

Master Chief sighed and they entered the complex. "I have to get to the armory first, need to restock on supplies." The Chief said, remembering he had very low ammo.

"Understood." Samus said and they headed for the armory. They did a series of twists and turns until they reached a large metal door that said: Armory on them. "I'll stay out here and keep watch." Samus said and the Chief nodded heading for the door.

The Master Chief opened the door and he was shot in the chest, not by a Covenant weapon, but a Human pistol. The Master Chief recoiled and the door closed automatically. "Damn." He whispered to himself. The Master Chief saw the door open, two Combat Forms of two mutated marines carrying M90 Shotguns. One aimed at the Chief and another at Samus. They ran up and got into point blank range.

"Look out!" Master Chief yelled and shoved Samus out of the way as both Combat Forms fired at the Chief. His shields when down and one of the mutated marines attacked the Chief with his tentacles. The Master Chief heard a crack of his rib and he slammed against the wall.

Samus tired two missiles at the creatures and fired a charge beam. The monsters went down and Samus rushed to Master Chief's side.

"Damn, never experience a broken rib before." The Master Chief said, "How the hell did it break my rib without breaking my armor?"

"No time come on, let's get you inside." Samus said and he lipped one hand over Samus' shoulder, inside the Armory.

"Zuka 'Zamamee." The Prophet said, to the Elite standing in the center of the room on The Pathogen of Death. "You have failed in your attempt on two raids on a human camp, and have failed two times in killing the human in special armor."

"I know Excellency." 'Zamamee replied,

"Instead of punishing you," another Prophet said, "we are taking you off this case and putting someone new in charge of your position."

"No…" 'Zamamee whispered, "You can't Excellency! He murdered my father! And Yayap's father! He-"

"Enough!" The third Prophet said, "Your friendship with the Grunt is unacceptable and your revenge for your fathers death is too great. This is why you fail. You shall be reassigned to a different position."

"Yes Excellency." 'Zamamee said with his head down,

"You are dismissed." The first Prophet said and waved his hand for him to be gone and he did just that.

"Ow! Shit!" The Chief said,

"Come on now, it's not so bad." Samus said as she put bandages around his chest.

"It is if your rib was broken- Ow!"

Samus smiled. They had taken off a portion of the Chief's armor to mend his broken rib. "I wanted to thank you." She said to him, "for risking yourself like that."

The Master Chief, his helmet still on, looked at her, "Don't worry about it, it's what I do. I would risk myself for the sake of others."

"Well isn't that nice of you." Samus said with a small laugh,

"It's a guy thing." The Chief said. "Ow! Careful now!"

Samus laughed, "All done." The Chief put back on his armor and got up. "You think you should be moving so fast?" Samus asked him.

He moved his arms in a circular motion and said, "Don't worry, I'm a Spartan, I was built to handle large amounts of pain."

"Oh really?" Samus said and punched him in his chest plate.

"Ow!" The Master Chief yelled, "You don't count!"

"Why not?" she asked,

"You have a power suit on."

She grunted and smiled, a smile that was hidden from her helmet, but the Master Chief had a feeling she was smiling. "This guy isn't so bad after all." Samus thought "It'd be nice if I met more people like the Chief."

"She's a nice girl." The Chief thought as he grabbed his things, "I wish we had met earlier though, on different circumstances that is. Instead of fighting for our lives and the lives of the universe, we could be having a burger or something. Heh, that'd be nice."

"Let's get going." The Chief said getting all the things he needed.

"Right." Samus replied and they headed for the basement.

"This is outrageous!" Zuka 'Zamamee yelled slamming his fist onto the table. The whole table shook, and the glop that Yayap ate, fell to the ground.

"There goes my lunch." Yayap said sadly,

"How can you think of food at a time like this!" 'Zamamee asked him,

"Easily, just think about a type of food and presto! You're thinking about food."

'Zamamee sighed and sat down, "You can have my lunch Yayap, I'm not hungry."

"Oh boy!" Yayap cried with joy and began to fill his face with the brown, sticky slop.

"You must be the infamous Zuka 'Zamamee." A voice said,

"Who's there?" 'Zamamee asked looking around him, weapon drawn.

"Oh, you don't know me yet?" The voice said, "I'm the man, or I should say alien, who is taking your spot in killing the human with special armor, as your Prophets call him."

"Have you come to mock me?" The Elite said, lowering his weapon.

"Actually, I have something else in mind really."

The Chief and Samus ran down into the secret passageway, the monitors told them to go through and found themselves in the second chamber. They fought their way though the crowd of monsters and made their way to the activation switch.

"That was easier then I thought." The Master Chief said, but he had spoken too soon. For a large being stepped up from behind them. They were large with blue, what looked like, bubbles on them everywhere and inside the bubbles were dark blue liquid. They were Phazon Space Pirates, (Only seen in Metroid Prime I think, and maybe Metroid Prime two.) except they were Combat Forms, stretching skin and their massive weight and tallness, made them look like giants. One arm was large and had large fingers, while the other was, as usual, a mixture of short and long tentacles.

"Holy shit." The Chief said, "Friend's of yours Samus?"

"No, but I've met some cousins." The bounty hunter replied,

"Nice…." The Combat Forms roared and charged forward. The two warriors rolled in opposite directions and began to fire. The Master Chief lobbed a grenade at the monsters but they were didn't stop. They continued to charge at the two. Samus fired endless amounts of charge beams at them. The Phazon Pirates finally reached the Master Chief and Samus and began their attack. The first pirate swung his tentacle infested arm at the Master Chief, who dodged it and emptied another clip into the monster.

"Damn, these things won't die!" The Chief yelled,

"Try fighting them alive!" Samus yelled back and jumped forward rolling into her power ball rolling through its legs.

Finally, after a long battle, the two Combat Forms went down.

"Get up so I can kill you again!" The Master Chief yelled and laughed.

"Oh there you two are!" 434 Justice Spark said floating above the two warriors. "We must continue on!"

"We're coming." Samus said and they sprinted to the second activation switch.

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