~Chapter 7: Prison Break~
Noble Six closed his eyes as the shipmaster Elite pulled his sword back to put as much force behind it's final blow. To Noble Six his life was about to end. He waited in the darkness that seemed to go on forever. Everything was silent. The next thing he felt wasn't the plasma charged blade entering him, but the ground. Noble Six opened his eyes to see Johnson on the ground with the shipmaster. Noble Six assumed that Johnson tackled the Elite and got pinned in the tumble.
"Hey You!" Johnson was looking at Noble Six while he strugled against the Elite. "A Little Help Would Be Appreciated!" The shipmaster had Johnson held down with one arm now and feeling around for his sword.
Noble Six got to his feet and grabbed the Energy Sword from the ground. The Elite looked up to Noble Six. "You should've killed me when you had the chance." The Elite's eyes widened when his saw the plasma blade extend. "Now it's your turn to perish with the rest of your friends." Noble Six swung the blade at the Elite's neck. Purple blood soaked Noble Six's armor as the shipmaster's head rolled into the Gravity Lift and flew up into the ship.
Johnson pushed the body off him and got to his feet. "I saved your ass, you saved mine, I guess we're even."
Noble Six looked around at the fact that the battle was over. "I guess we are, thanks." Noble Six looked up at the ship at two objects coming down. "Guess the head alerted them." Noble Six could make out blue and orange. "We've Got A Hunter Kill-Team!" Noble Six deactivated the Energy Sword and placed it at his side. He walked over to retrieve his knife from the corpse of the other Elite. Then the two Hunters touched the ground.
Every Marine in the area began to fire upon the two walkign tanks as they dodged the incoming barrage of green energy. Noble Six ran around unloading his own bullets at the Hunters. Nothing seemed to work. Noble Six knew that he had to get to their weak spots, the orange spot on their backs.
"Noble Six, I've got a plan!" Master Chief came over the radio.
"Alright, I'm listening."
"I have two shots remaining in my handgun. I need you to get them both to turn their backs to me."
"Wait a second, how am I suppose to do that, go up and say please?"
"Noble Six, you're a Spartan, figure it out and do it fast!"
"Alright then!" Noble Six ran towards one of the two Hunters. Once Noble Six was close enough, it tried to smack him with it's shield. Noble Six rolled under the swing and both Hunters turned to Noble Six. "Alright Chief! Now would be a good time!"
Two shots rang out and only one of the two Hunters fell to the ground. "Damn! I Missed A Shot! Noble Six Get Out Of There!"
It was to late, the second Hunter was already swinging on Noble Six. Noble Six did the only thing he could do, he kicked off the large shield and flipped over the Hunter. Before he touched the ground, Noble Six had his knife out running it into the orange spot on the Hunter's back. The Hunter let out a cry of pain and fell to the ground. Noble Six put his knife back into it's sheath. "Both Hunters are down, I repeat, both Hunters are down."
Johnson came up behind Noble Six and patted him on the back. "Nice kill, not many people can go hand-to-hand wit ha Hunter and win, actually there's only been one person." He nodded towards Master Chief.
"Johnson, why'd you put your life at risk to save mine?" Noble Six was looking back at when Johnson tackled the Elite to save him.
"Well, I've made some bad choices in the past, joined the army just to be a hero. Some of my men got killed because of that and well, I've been spending what's left of my life trying to atone. Maybe I won't be fully atoned until I'm dead myself."
"What is your reason for fighting?" Noble Six pondered his own reason to fight.
"I don't really know, maybe it's because I'm afraid."
"Afraid?"
"Of dying."
Noble Six looked at the ground. "My reason to fight . . ."
Johnson reloaded his weapons. "Why the silence? Do you have a reason?"
"No.
"Every man needs a reason to fight."
"Alright then, I'll fight until I find a reason to fight." Noble Six looked at the marines gathering in the Gravity Lift. "Well Johnson, the moment has just come to an end, back to the frey for us."
Johnson pulled his Assault Rifle over his shoulder. "Alright, let's do this."
Noble Six and Johnson walked over to the Gravity Lift when Foehammer came over the radio. "I don't have much fuel left, once you get inside you're going to have to kill everything in there and wait for me to come back or find another way out."
"Aknowledged Foehammer, you return to base and we'll find another way out." Master Chief stepped up onto the Gravity Lift. "Noble Six, once inside I want you to make you way to the hangar and find us a ride out of here. No doubt once we've sprung Keyes every Covenant in the ship will be after us, we'll need to get out fast."
"Not without me!" A familiar voice came from a Pelican arriving with additional troops.
"O'Reilly? It is you!" Noble Six was glad to see the ODST officer again.
"Master Chief, permission to go with Noble Six to the hanger." O'Reilly gave a salute to Master Chief.
"Permission granted, Noble Six could use some company." Master Chief cradled his Assault Rifle. "Alright, here we go."
Suddenly Noble Six felt lighter than normal. He began to float off the ground, up towards the ship. Faster and faster he was rising. Everything went purple and then they were all in the ship.
A Marine spoke up. "I can't believe it, there's no Covenant!"
"Noble Six, O'Reilly, now would be a good time to get to the hanger, I can handle what they throw at us here." Master Chief pointed towards the open door.
Noble Six nodded and walked over to the door. O'Reilly followed him. Once they were through, the door shut. Fire came from the other side.
"Sounds like they've started the party over there." O'Reilly refered to what was happening on the other side of the door.
"Maybe so, but don't worry, I'm sure we'll have just as much fun." Noble Six started down the hall. Around the first hall was one Elite and three Grunts. Noble Six came around the corner firing his Assault Rifle. All four of the enemy fell. Noble Six was reloading his gun when O'Reilly fired his Battle Rifle near Noble Six. "Hey, what's the big deal?"
"Sorry for the scare." O'Reilly pointed at Elite who was slowly appearing behind Noble Six. It was an invisible assasain. "Kind of tried to save your life, didn't mean to take years off your life."
"Don't worry, if you didn't that Elite would've taken the rest of my years." Noble Six continued down the hall.
Time seemed to go on forever. They havn't come across the hanger and been into countless skirmishes. Finally they made it to an area with one Covenant drop ship in it.
"I guess we've made it into the hanger." Noble Six reloaded his Assault Rifle.
Master Chief came over the radio. "Noble Six, we have keys and moving to the hanger, do you have a ride ready?"
"Sir, we just got here, we've still got to get a ride."
'Nevermind, being as you've managed to kill everything to the hanger . . ." Master Chief opened the door behind Noble Six. "we're getting out of here faster now, you've did good doing that."
Captain Keyes stepped forward. "We're getting on the ship and getting out of here."
Everyone ran for the lone drop ship that was in the hanger. Before they got to it, it left the hanger.
"Oh great, what do we do now?" O'Reilly looked over to Noble Six.
"I don't really know, we've got no way of escape now."
"Don't give up hope yet!" Foehammer came over the radio. Soon a Pelican came into the hanger.
"Foehammer! You're back!" O'Reilly was happy about Foehammer showing up.
Most of the marines were happy Foehammer was here.
"Alright, everyone on that Pelican, we're getting out of here." Captain Keyes was the first one to jump on.
O'Reilly jumped on next and made his way to the front with Foehammer. All the rest of the Marines jumped on and so did Master Chief.
"Noble Six get on!" Master Chief called out.
"I've got something to do, I'll meet you all back at base." Noble Six jumped down to the bottom level.
"Alright, I'll trust you on this one" Master Chief said.
The Pelican left Noble Six in the hanger alone. Foehammer came over the radio. "You better come back alive, or else I'll kill you!"
Next O'Reilly came on next. "Don't mind her, she won't do it . . . slowly."
"Well that's very assuring." Noble Six pulled pieces from a nearby Wraith. Slowly he created a makeshift bomb. "Alright time to get out here." Noble Six ran over to one of the parked Banshees and left. Behind him the hanger was engulfed in plasma fire. Noble Six was now on his way back to base.
A Note From Your Author: Hello all my devoted fans, it is me, your author speaking. Now I know that the last chapter was kind of short and all, so I decided to make this chapter special. I made it longer than most of my chapters. I hope you continue to read and enjoy this story, please leave a review, good or bad, if you have the time.