Sean turned on his night vision, the darkness pressed in around him like a blanket. He slowly moved forward. There was a small buzzing sound, almost like the flapping of a bug's wings but he pressed on. As he walked down the dark tunnel, he stopped at a weapons shelf with some assault rifles and magnums. He ejected the clips from two assault rifles and two magnums.
The tunnel ended and opened into a control room, there was a control console and a marine lay on the ground next to it, or what was left of him. His upper torso lay on the ground and everything below his midriff was gone, it looked like he had been pulled apart, the blood had dried on the floor.
The buzzing noise suddenly intensified and grew louder. Sean whirled round to find the source of it. A wave of drones was flying down the passage towards him. He let loose a full clip of assault rifle with little effect. He then sprinted to the door and hit the deadlock button. The huge titanium door slid across and slammed into the wall, it's huge bolts turning to lock it. There were several thuds as the drones collided with the door as well as the sound of plasma fire on the other side.
Sean turned back to the room; he walked over to the command console and brought up the schematic of the base. There were several large tunnel networks and two Spartan signatures, probably Niall and David. Meanwhile, at the bottom of the base the were fifty shiva warheads, enough to destroy the planet and EMP everything in low orbit. Sean clicked his COM on but only got static. Covenant were jamming the signals.
Sean headed down a sloping tunnel, keeping his ma5b levelled. He turned left down another narrow tunnel, then he heard an explosion which he recognised immediately, then three DMR shots rang out and that confirmed his suspicion. He edged round a corner. A group of elites had pinned down Niall and David at a tunnel intersection.
David fired a grenade into the middle of the group, but the elites rolled out of the way. Niall fired a steady string of DMR fire but could only get a few shots on one before another would roll in front.
Sean crouched and snuck up behind an elite, then jumped on it and stabbed it in the neck with his knife. The other elites turned to see him. Sean rolled back as David fired a rocket into the middle of the group. The explosion sent four elites flying, Niall carefully eliminated two and Sean finished the last.
Sean walked over to his squadmates.
"You're late" Niall said
"Sorry" Sean replied "you know the traffic at these times is just the worst"
The three of them chuckled.
"Anyway" Sean said "we need to get here" he gestured to a waypoint which he set on their HUDs, "we find this, set off the nukes and get the hell outta here before it all goes up". The other two nodded, "right then" Sean said "let's rock and roll".
The three of them set off at a sprint, they encountered very little Covenant, but where they did, they used a separate junction. They had to get to the nukes as stealthily as possible. It took them fifteen minutes to reach the nukes as escape room.
The doors slid open, and two hunters stood on the other side. Sean rolled backwards, Niall and David dove to either side as the hunters fired their fuel rods. The blob of green energy soared over Sean's head, only just missing him. Sean primed to frags, threw them, then ran in, Niall and David followed closely behind.
David let loose two rockets that hit one hunter, it turned and Niall fired a barrage of DMR into it's back. Sean slid between the legs of the other hunter, then jumped onto it's back. It straightened out it's spines and one nearly skewered Sean. He primed another fragmention grenade and punched through the soft flesh of the hunter's back, he then released the grenade and jumped back as the grenade exploded. Bits of hunter flew around the room as the other hunter also hit the floor.
"Sean" Niall said "we may have a problem"
"What is it?" Sean asked
"The nukes are here but there's only one pod and it doesn't look like a normal pod"
Sean looked. The pod was placed in a tube that looked like a cannon, it was sleek and black.
"It's a slipspace pod, they were probably testing it here" Sean said, he walked to it "there's only one seat". Niall and David looked at each other, then rushed Sean, they grabbed him, threw him in the pod and deadlocked it. "What the hell are you doin?" he said "you're gonna get yourselves killed"
The was a huge noise like a stampede of feet, a tide of enemies coming towards them.
David put two fingers across his visor as the Spartan smile. Niall looked at him and said "Spartans never die", then he hit the button on the control panel.
A black sheet of glass folded down over the pod, the pod shifted and turned, then it shot out of the tube, on Sean's HUD a set of co-ordinates came up. He accepted them. The pod flew threw the sky as it's rocket kicked in, it flew into space. Sean looked back towards the planet, it looked almost peacefull, then there was a flash of white light, the groud began to crack, lava came from it's surface, then space around him turned white.