Hey everyone! Listen, I'm SO SORRY for my horrendous grammar. Ironic, I've had poetry entered into nation-wide contests, my family is always saying that I am going to be an auther when I'm older, yet I suck at grammar worse than I suck at algebra (and let me tell you, I am BAD at algebra). Anyway, in response to a review submitted by Soul Reaper Vile, I'm sorry but yes Master Chief did have to die. Believe me, I didn't want to do it. But I just couldn't find a way to put him into the story and still have it be mainely a Zelda fic. And no, I've never read the Halo books before. And a reviewer by the name of ZombieDragon brought something to my attention, I do not have enough action in this fic. I admit, I was skimping on the action. Now, I'm not much of an action author, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Oh, and a free Scarab Gun will go to anyone who can find the Red vs. Blue cameo in this chapter.
CHAPTER 5: ASSAULT ON THE CONTROL ROOM
We begin this chapter in a large cylinder shaped room with a lot of sleeping Grunts. (aww there so cute... in a hideous alien kind of way.) One Grunt, however, was awake and standing guard. (one Grunt on guard, wow, nothing's getting through there.) The Grunt sniffed the air curiously, then the Pelican appeared in front of him. The Grunt screamed like a small girl and ran like a frightened Deku Scrub. "All right Cortana, this is as far as I can go." Echo 419 said. "Don't worry Foehammer, we can find the control room from here." Navi said. "We can?" Auru asked, he had been told that they would be takeing the Pelican the whole way. "Yes, we can." Navi said a little angrily.
"Sergeant, help me out here." Navi said to Vaati's apprentice. "Right, ok men, time to prove to me that you are more than just Dodongo bait. Now, who would like to go first?" V.A. asked. "Sir, I volunteere... Mikau to be the first one out." Zelda said. "Mikau, thank you for volunteering. Nayru be with you." V.A. said, grabbing Mikau by the collar and throwing him off the ship. The grunts gathered around the semi-uncontious Zora. Mikau painfully got to his feet, and he heard V.A. say "Mikau, use this." Immediately, he was hit in the back of the head with a Plasma Rifle. Knoking him out completely.
"Damn, he needs backup." V.A. said, grabbing Malon and throwing her into the mob. "Now that they are distracted, lets move out!" V.A. said, cocking his shotgun. He jumped out and blasted a Grunt. Link was the next to go, he used his energy sword to slice some Grunts in half. Everyone else followed. However, one of Auru's missles mis-fired and blew up near V.A. The good news is he blew up a Jakal (it wasn't the one he was aiming at, but a kill's a kill), the bad news is V.A. was blown about twenty feet backwards and slammed into a wall. And Auru knew that once he woke up he was going to be royally pissed. Provided, of course, that he didn't have a concution.
And this point the ground was drenched in blue and purple blood. "Cease fire! That looks like all of them." Link yelled, deactivateing his blood stained energy sword. "Well that was about all the explosions I need. Auru, you've just volunteered yourself to be Hunter bait." a voice from behind them said. They turned to see V.A. with a very angry look on his face. Though, that wasnt what they were concerned about. "Uh, V.A., are you all right?" Link asked. He was the only one who could ask since everyone else was too busy trying to hold down their lunch. "Well, as good as all right as a person can be after he's been thrown into a very hard steel wall." V.A. said while glareing at Auru.
"Doesn't it feel like something is missing?" Link asked. "Well, now that you mention it, it does feel like I don't have something that I really need." V.A. said. "Sarge, I really think that you should look at you'r arm, yeah." Ashei said, still with a look of horror on her face. V.A. would've looked at his arm, the problem is that he didn't have an arm to look at. "Oh, well would you look at that." he said, moveing the bloody stub that was where his arm used to be. "Sir, we need to get a medic down here." Zelda said. "Now why would I need a medic?" he asked. But before anyone could state the obvious V.A. appeared to struggling to do something. Then, another arm shot out of his shoulder. V.A. stretched out his new fingers to get a feel for it "Good as new." he said. "How did you do that?!" Tetra asked, more than a little freaked out. "Can't human's regenerate?" V.A. asked. "No!" Tetra responded.
"Uhh guys, where is Malon?" Ashei asked. At this point, Mikau got up very painfully. "Mikau, did you see what happened to Malon?" V.A. asked. "Uhhh, my head hurts." Mikau said. "I'll take that as a 'no'. Well, I guess we have no choice but to presume that Malon was dragged off and eaten." V.A. said. "Don't worry sir, I implanted a homeing chip inside Malon's armor. I wanted to be able to find her when it was time to work, yeah. I should log on to her location in just a few seconds." Ashei said. "A few seconds? That sounds entirely hopeless." V.A. said. "Got it." Ashei said. "She could be a million miles away by now." V.A. said, trying to get out of looking for Malon. "Actually, she's only a tenth of a mile away." Ashei said. "But who knows in what directon." V.A. said, giving it one last ditch effort. "That direction." Ashei said, pointing to a steel door. "Like I said, we tried our best. Well we'll miss you Malon, you were a good soldier. Using the broedest possible definition of good... and soldier. Well, I guess we have no choice but to move on withought her. Where's my shotgun?" V.A. said. "I guess they must have taken it when they took Malon, yeah." Ashei said. V.A. sighed and said "Wich way did you say?" "That way sir." "Come on, let's go." V.A. said, not happy at all.
"O.K., how do we open this?" Link said, inspecting the door. "Simple." Auru said, shoveing Link out of the way. He punched the control panel on the door several times. When it opened, Auru turned around to smirk at his comrads. "Uhh, Auru." Zelda said. "What, is there something behind me?" Auru said, glancing over his shoulder. "No, there's something in front of you." came a voice he didn't recognize. He looked in front of him to see a golden Elite with an energy sword. Everyone else unloaded a full clip of ammo before it's sheilds finally came down and Link was able to decapitate it. "Now, let's continue." V.A. said. He was in a particularly bad mood since he was left with a needler and a plasma pistol from the Grunts.
They went through a large corridor and out a large double door. On the other side was a large feild of snow, a battle was takeing place between the Humans and the Covenant. "All right, let's help 'em out!" Link said, activateing his energy sword. Mikau found a Warthog and got inside the gunners seat and started blating away at the Covenant. Ashei decided to take out the Grunts inside the turrets. Once they were dead, Tetra and Zelda took over the turrets. They were keeping track of their kills to decide who would marry Link when they got back to Hyrule. V.A. was sneaking up on an Elite that was fireing at the humans. V.A. hit him in the back of his head with his needler. "OW, WHAT THE (BLEEP) WAS THAT FOR?!!!" the Elite yelled. "Sorry, it usually works better if you die when I do that. Kind of like THIS!" V.A. said, hitting the Elite again. "PLEAS STOP DOING THAT!!!" the Elite screamed. "Ah, screw it." V.A. said. He signald to Ashei who then shot the Elite in the head. "V.A., take out that Wraith! I don't think Auru can handle it by himself!" Link yelled while blocking another Elite's energy sword.
"All right, nag nag nag." V.A. said. Sure enough, Auru was trying to blow up the Wraith with his rocket launcher. He was about to do so, but a Hunter rammed him with its shield and he flew across the field and into a rock. "I guess that makes up for what he did to me when we got here." V.A. said to himself. Zelda had abandoned her turret and came down to help. She sprayed the Hunter with a few bullets from her assault rifle to get it's attention. V.A. jumped on the Wraith and beat the hatch a bit, then tore it open and threw a plasma gernade inside.
The Hunter had set it's sights on Tetra. It raised it's shield to slam down on her. But Zelda jumped on it's back, unsheathed her Sheikah dagger and stabbed the Hunter in it's throught. The Hunter fell to the ground with an enormous thud wich made Tetra turn around in her turret. She stared in shock at Zelda. "That still only counts as one!" Tetra said, then resumed blasting the Covenant.
Link gave the sign to regroupe. V.A. had to drag Auru over to the rally point. "Hey look, there's my shotgun." V.A. said, dropping Auru. "Mission accomplished." he said cocking his shotgun. "Oh yeah, and Malon. Uhh, nice... work. Oh, why do I even bother?" he said to himself. Malon groaned a little and struggled to her feet. "Ug, what happened to me?" Malon asked. "You were knocked the (BLEEP) out." Tetra said.
"If you don't mind, we still need to find Halo's control room." Navi said. "Yeah, you never told us exacty how we are supposed to get there." Auru said, regaining most of his contiousness. "With that." Navi said, directing their attention to a Scorpion tank. "I call cannon!" V.A. said rushing towards the tank. When it comes to instruments of death and/or torture, you can count on V.A. to be as exited as Volvagia in a room full of newly born Gorons. "Mikau, you comeing?" Link asked Mikau, who was still in the Warthog. "Uhh, I think I should stay here. You know, in case the Covenant try anything sneaky." Mikau said. "Let me handle this." Tetra said. Tetra pulled out a fish and said "Hey Mikau, look what I have." she said. Mikau followed the fishes every move. "Go get it!" Tetra said, dropping the fish in the tank. Mikau jumped in after it, and Link got in and closed the hatch. "Why do you carry a rotting fish with you?" Zelda asked Tetra. "Just in case." was all that she would say.
Once everyone was onboard, Link drove the Scorpion down an ice path and through yet another steel door. They arrived in a room that not only was full of Covenant, but also had a bottomless gorge in it. (How or why do the Covenant put bottomless gorges in their buildings? I don't know.) The room became peppered with bullet holes almost immediately. V.A. was really the only one hitting anything. On the count of the fact that he had a 50mm cannon. Link also managed to run over some Grunts. After enough ruccus was made, another golden Elite came out with a plasma rifle. But this time, V.A. punched a round straight through him.
Once the room was clear and covered in blood, Link tried driveing the tank through another doorway. However, it wouldn't fit "I guess we need to leave and carry on on foot." Link said. Link opened the hatch so he Mikau and V.A. could get out. Everyone went through the door except V.A., he had stayed back to have a few parting words with the tank. "Well tank, I guess this is were we say goodbye. I don't want to leave you, but a Minish has to do what a Minish has to do." he said, and painfully went through the door with the others.
They came out onto a bridge high above a snow bank. "Everyone, grab a Banshee. Our target is that building." Link said, motioning to the large pyramid style building. Everyone got into a Banshee, and V.A. even got to blow a hole into an Elite with his shotgun when it tried to highjack him. The team was hit from behind by Elite controlled Banshees. "Link, you go on ahead. Ashei and I can hold off the Covenant. I'm long overdue for a killing spree." V.A. said over the com-link. He and Ashei swerved their Banshees around to intercept the Covenant.
The others were able to land safely on the pyramid. Well, Malon went into a nose dive and crashed. But she came out uninjured. After all, she hit her head and their isn't anything in there for her to hurt. Link opened the large double doors and a loud "HOLY (BLEEP)!!!" from the team followed. Their was an enormous amount of Covenant inside. Everyone picked up their guns and started fireing blindly into the room. Link engaged in another energy sword fight with a golden Elite. Link knocked the Elites sword out of its hand and stabbed it. When he looked to see how the battle was going, every Covenant was dead but Malon was still yelling and fireing her dual Magnums. "Malon, Malon, MALON STOP SHOOTING!!!" Link yelled at her. "Sorry." Malon said, holstering her weapons. "Now, Halos control room should be just behind this door." Navi said. Link opened the door and, thank Farore, it was Halos control center. It was a large spherical room with a panel in the center. Link inserted Navi inside and a giant hologram of her sprang up from the panel. "So how does it feel?" Link asked. "Fantastik! You can't imagine how much information is stored on the Covenant battle net." Navi said.
"Well I'm pretty sure I don't care." came a familiar voice from behind them. V.A. and Ashei were standing behind them covered in scars and bruises. "So, I'm guessing it went well?" Zelda asked, intentionally teasing them. "It could've gone better, yeah." Ashei said. "Navi, any clue how we can use Halo?" Link asked. "Just one second. Wait... the Covenant, they found something. They're afraid of it. Wait... no, it can't be." Navi said, apparently reading the data on the battle net. "Hold on, you're loseing me." Link said. "There's no time! We need to stop the spread of these creatures. Quik, have Foehammer take you to these coordinates! Move!" Navi yelled, feeding the coordinates into Links com-link. The team turned and exited the building, not aware of what horrors Navi had discovered.
END OF CHAPTER :5
Well, we have reached the half way point in my first ever fic. Now, I know that my action wasn't that good, but I'll try again in the remaining five chapters. Semper-fi, carry on.
