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Chapter 10
I was already out the door just as the others were realizing what was happening. I jumped over the escalator and almost literally flew to the other side of the room. I hit the wall. Hard. But I got back up. Nothing too major.
"Thank god for MJOLNIR amour." I muttered as I got up. Everyone in the room was hustling somewhere. Then a hatch opened up in the middle of the floor, and everyone jumped into it. I had no time to ask what it was as I was running outside again.
When I first got outside, I couldn't see anything through the smoke. Then I was knocked off my feet by another explosion. The covenant sure had some heavy fire power up their sleeves.
"Mother f'rs" I muttered under my breath again before hitting sprint and running through the smoke cloud in front of me. I came out onto a ramp that I followed up on before coming to some enemy forces. A group of ten grunts led by an Elite were firing down at some marines who were taking covering behind some barricades. I jumped over and fired three rounds, killing about four grunts and wounding another two. The Elite turned around and roared at me. I just smiled and pumped a round into his roaring mouth. It destroyed his shields, but this time he was too close for another shot as he tackled me. We rolled around as he tried to pull out his energy knife. I punched him in the face, then kicked him off me. We both rolled away from each other. My shotgun was on the ground ten feet away and I was taking fire from all the remaining grunts, so I took my gravity hammer and hit the ground in front of me.
It's funny how a gravity hammer works when your actually using it. The shockwave it produced took out all the remaining grunts and pushed the
Elite that was trying to charge me again back a few yards. Amazingly, the shockwave also went backwards, knocking the Jackal that was about to bash me in the head back off the balcony we were on. The shockwave hit me a little, but it had been made not to hurt the user. The Elite decided that it wasn't smart to charge again as I had shields and a big hammer while he had no shields and a knife, so he picked up his plasma repeater and started shooting me… until about a second later when he was mowed down by machine gun fire. I turned to see Mike coming up another ramp, his machine gun smoking a little. After him came Ellie, then Amanda, David, and finally Sophia, who held her plasma rifle up and ready to fire. I noticed it seemed to glow a little inside. Probably some modification she made.
"I remember this from the game. Noble team should be getting here soon…right?" David asked. We looked around.
"Crap," I said, smacking my head "This is the OTHER side of the main base. Noble team is probably fighting over on the entrance. However, we need to keep fighting here and help clear out the covenant. We're screwed if we can't get them out." Everyone nodded, and we set to work. Mike came with me. We charged down the ramp he had come up on and came to a few individual shields, behind which Elites, grunts, and jackals popped their heads around to fire at us. I dived for cover behind a large crate. Mike did the same, although behind a barricade some ten feet away. I opened a private channel with him.
"Use your grenade launcher and land some in-between the shields. We can probably take most of the grunts out and destroy the shields of the Elites, and possibly some of the shield wall." I said. Mike just gave the green light on my visor and set down his machine gun to grab his grenade launcher. I used the mean time to blast a couple rounds at the shields, forcing the enemy to keep their heads down. I even chucked my two grenades at the edges of the shields, forcing the enemy to group together. In about five seconds, Mike had his grenade launcher loaded and ready. He aimed down to sights and let loose the first grenade. It bounced of one of the shields and landed in front of it before exploded, weakening it. I heard Mike give a sigh of frustration before launching another one. This one shot between the cracks of the shields, bouncing off a crate behind it before landing next to an Elite. It looked down at the grenade and screamed before the grenade cut it off, killing it and about five other grunts and two jackals around it. The unexpected affect that the explosion caused was the fact that there was a small pile of explosives on a cart behind it, which had been stored top be used on a search-and-destroy mission later. The explosion caused the explosives to set off, destroying everything in the area, including the shields. The massive explosion forced Mike and I to dive behind our cover again to avoid the explosion. A moment later, I popped my head around the corner. The whole area was fried to a crisp, with the steel buildings on the side smoking a little. I stood up and checked for bodies. There were none. Just ashes.
"Wow," I said "That was… interesting." Mike laughed hard, but I could tell he was a little sad. I was good at telling how he was feeling.
"Don't worry." I said firmly "They're covenant. Do you know how many times they've done that to US?" Mike nodded, and I could see the sadness leave him to be replaced by the cold hard truth. A couple seconds later, everyone else came running up.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" David half yelled. Mike and I looked at each other, and started to laugh.
"Why, we were preparing a meal of fried alien!" I said, laughing. Soon, everyone joined in, and we were happy, because we had just cleared our part of Sword Base. Suddenly, however, a shot rang out, and David fell, down. Then another shot, and he screamed. I looked around for the source as he continued to scream. Then another shot came, and David was silent.
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Reader…(crying in the background)… I had to kill off my buddy! NOOOOOOOOOO!
David: I'm so going to kill you for this. (Chases Reader out of the room)