Chapter 5
Church noticed Sarge running towards them.
"What's wrong Sarge? It's like you saw a ghost or something." Church said. Sarah was standing next to Church, waiting for what Sarge had to say.
"Well, how can I put this?"
"Sarge, this is Simmons."
"Go ahead, Simmons."
"Put me on speaker." After Sarge did what Simmons said, he told them what showed up on the screen.
"What are they?" Sarah asked.
"Aw shit! Sir, we have Covenant phantoms inbound on our position!" Simmons said. They had all heard about the alien race. They just never thought they would fight them. "Sir, thirty seconds!" Simmons said over the COM finally. Church looked up and saw the squadron quickly closing in on them.
"Blue team, defensive formation around red base!" church said, leaving Sarah. Sarah looked at Sarge. Aw hell, he thought. What do I say now? Do I just tell her how I feel about her? No that would be stupid.
"I'll take gunner seat of the 'hog." Sarah said. Sarge nodded. But just before Sarah left to the 'hog, she said, "Hey Sarge, can I see your face?" Sarge took off his helmet.
Sarge's p.o.v.
I took my helmet off like she asked me to. Sarah put her hand on my face to feel the battle scars that I had on my face. Her skin is so fucking soft, I thought. I just wanted to hold her hand. But instead, I tried to keep my hand at my side.
"Yeah, you have a crush on me don't you?" Sarah asked.
"What, no. I don't have a crush on you," I said, hoping to convince her. It didn't work. "You do, don't you?"
"Uh….Yeah," looking way. Sarah put her hand on my shoulder.
"Hey," I looked her, "It's ok to have a crush on me."
"And what about Church? Will he know?"
"He won't know. I'll tell him later."
Right before she left, she said, "Here, just in case we don't see each other again," and with that she kissed me on the cheek
Normal p.o.v.
Church went to Tucker after leaving Sarah. "Get ready, both of you," he said, since Caboose was near Tucker when Church said that. They both got there assault rifle's ready.
"Here," Church said, tossing each one of them a Battle Rifle.
"How do I work this thing," Caboose asked. He pulled the trigger and shot Church, again. "What the fuck? Caboose be more careful. You're going to kill someone with that," Church said. Caboose pulled the trigger on accident again, getting Church with a head shot. Church's body fell to the ground. His spirit stood there.
"I hate you Caboose," he said, taking his body back again. Simmons, at the time, was trying to connect a rocket launcher to his arm.
"Now if I put that there....and this there," Simmons said with wires.
"Done," he said, right as the first phantom touched down an unloaded the first wave of troops. "Attack, and don't let them get Rebecca!" Church and Sarge said together. "Everyone, get down!" Simmons said from within the base. He fired his rocket arm at the phantom. The engines blew, taking the ship with it. The gang looked at Simmons, who just came out of the base. The smoking rocket was connected to his arm. He drew his right arm from behind his back with the Spartan Laser on his arm. He charged it, and fired taking a plasma turret, which one of the grunts salvaged from the fallen phantom.
"Open fire!" Simmons said, firing with the assault rifle he had. Within five minutes, the squadrons of phantoms were destroyed. A fifth phantom came and crashed into blue base. Blue base was gone. The blue team almost fell. There home was gone. What would they do? They would take their anger out on….. The gang, even Washington and California, gasp!
"No, I thought we left them on mars," Tucker said to no one in particular.
"Ok guys, get ready! We will not let the Flood get us this time!" church said. Jenny, Stacie, Sarah, and Sister were scared. The others were not scared, not so much. After dealing with the Flood the first time, they knew how to deal with them. They each pulled out two Energy Swords each. For the next ten minutes, all hell broke loose at the middle of the canyon. Every now and then, Caboose, Church, Simmons, Grif, or Sarge, would be covered in Flood infection pods. Their sister's were terrified. After Sarge was covered in Flood infection pods, the last Flood Combat form dropped dead. Sarge was on the ground.
"NO!" Sarah said, running towards Sarge and dropping her weapon at the same time. Church watches the scene and noticed that Sarge and Sarah had feelings for each other. He would talk to her later. There was one Flood infection pod at Sarge's neck. Sarah was too late. After she ripped it off, one of the tentacles's got into Sarge's neck. Sarah took her tweezers and took the tentacle out, but she was past the hope of saving Sarge. Sarah rolled over Sarge and noticed the changes were happening, but was going slowly. Simmons, Grif, and Tucker came over, picked Sarge up, took him into his room, and laid him on his bed. Meanwhile where the Flood battle was at, another vortex was appearing. This time three things came through. One of the items was a bubble shield. Sarge's life was on the line. Sarah was told to stay outside Sarge's room. Sarah only clung to Church, crying. Church hugged her, and then Sarah let go off Church and went over to Jenny, Stacie, and Sister, surrounded in a group hug. Donut apparently was in Sarge's room, feeling sad for him. Every now and then, the Flood side of Sarge would try to hit either try to hit Doc, Simmons, Grif, Caboose, or Donut. Then the Flood Sarge would stop due to the fact that the non-infected side of Sarge would fight back. Church heard a beeping from the COM computer in Sarge's room. He pushed the button that opened the COM channel.
"Hello, this is private Church speaking"
"Hello this is……"
Yes, this is another cliffhanger! Yes this is probably one of the shortest stories that I have ever written. Will Sarge survive the Flood, or turn against his team? Will he kill the one he loves? Next battle: South Dakota and Delta vs. the Meta! And will blue base ever be rebuilt? And outpost 17-A, which is Highground, is destroyed! Why would the Meta destroy outpost 17-A? The Meta is looking for more A.I.'s maybe? And Church gets a call from someone special to him before getting station to Blood Gulch. What will Church tell her? Will Church tell her about the Flood attack? Find out in the next few chapters! R&R plz! Guys if I don't get more reviews by June 10, I'm ending the story right was it's at. Plz tell your friends. I need to reviews really bad.
