Authors note- The first version of this had some errors that I failed to see when I was typing this on my phone so I did it over. This chapter is short I just need to post it to get the story rolling. Thank you to those who have submitted characters, and for those of you who haven't but still want to, I encourage you to send them in.
Disclaimer- I do not own Halo. It belongs to Microsoft and 343 Industries.
Dull copper shells flew from the rifle, the bullets forced down the barrel toward the approaching Elite. The bullets bounced off its shields harmlessly. With a sickening click the gun declared its self to be empty. William Phönix threw the assault rifle to the side and reached for his pistol. It was to late, just as his fingers grazed the grip of the the Magnum the Elite was already sending him off his feet. Landing on the less than soft red dirt, William looked at the Elite. It pulled a grip off its thigh and an energy sword formed from it. The Elite gave a low growl as it approached William. William jumped to a crouch and pulled his knife out from its seath.
The thundering foot steps of the Elite, slightly shook the ground below. When it was only a meter away, William lanched himself off the ground toward the lumbering alien. His shoulder dug into the Elites gut throwing it of balance. William almost smiled behind his helmet as he felt the steel of his knife slide past the Elites shielding and cut into its soft neck. Almost. Just as the blade was buried to it's hilt in the Elites soft flesh and internal anatomy, William felt the cold heated burn of plasma cut throught his back. The Elite fell first dragging him with it, its hand released the hilt of the sword deactivating it. William rolled of the alien and landed on his back. As darkness enveloped his senses, Will numbly felt the rumble of a ships engines. The last thing he saw was a familiar female Spartan in sage GUNGNIR armor drop to her knees next to him.
Will opened his eyes but instantly closed them. The room he was in was a blinding bright white, a complete contrast to the pitch black darkness he was drifting through. He covered his face with a hand. He looked through the gaps between his fingers at the metal ceiling. 'So I'm back on the Infinity huh?'. His body protested as he tried to sit up. He put both his hand on either side of himself as he lifted himself and moved to lay his back against the cool metal wall. After a few moments of falling in and out of consensus, Will tried to stand. The muscles and bones in his legs ached, but he forced him self to stand. He stumbled towards the door and hit the control panel for it to the doors stood three doctors and the other five members of his team.
Carrington, being the first to see him, pushed past the smaller doctors and strode towards him.
"Will!" Carrington almost knocked him off balance as she grabbed him in a tight hug around the neck. She pulled back almost as fast. The other four standing with the doctors soon joined them, all of them wearing warm hearted smiles.
"Commander!" Que clapped Will on the shoulder lightly. "We all where worried about you, not many have survived and Energy Sword through the back."
"It will take more than a damn Covie to kill the Commander. Right sir?" Destiny stated more than she asked.
"Spartan Fireteam Impact." A voice chimed from behind Will. Will turned to face the projection of Roland, the ships A.I. "Captian Laskey wants you on the bridge."
"On our way Roland." The A.I. saluted them before disappearing. Will turned back to his team. "What are you all standing around for? The Captian wants us. Move!"
"Captain Laskey sir," William saluted follwed by the rest of the team, "Fireteam Impact reporting."
The captian returned the salute and looked back down at the projection on the table in front of him.
"Roland, pull up the data recovered by Impact." The projection changed to a list of repeating numbers and letters. "This is the translation of the information. It tells of a high ranking Elite that will be transported from one base to another. What it doesn't say is what bases are involved. We need you to go and find out."
"Yes Captian." Will saluted and walked out with the rest of Impact following.