Author's note: Sorry I didn't upload last week... And maybe the week before. I took a break on thanksgiving. This chapter was longer and I had to do something, but I finally got this up and so enjoy this really long chapter!
Church led the way. Caboose was piggybacking on Freckles. Doc was holding his medical scanner. Tucker and Junior were looking at the map to something.
"So what exactly do we do when we get to the A.I?" Doc asked Church.
"We get as much info as we can."
"What if we don't?"
"We'll have you do it."
Doc's voice turned to O'Malley's voice.
"Yes, when we do it we will beat it while it screams. And we will continue until we get info. And we will go on and on until it dies from its screaming! Muhahahahaha!"
Doc's voice kicked in again.
"Oh O'Malley! That's mean."
O'Malley came back.
"Oh shut up. Hahahaha."
Tucker pointed at the map.
"That's where it is!"
Church looked at Tucker.
"Where what is?"
Tucker seemed confused.
"Junior says that…"
"Blargh honk honk blargh honk."
"He says that at the final point of the ancient prophecy he must claim a sword called… Uh."
"Honk."
"Prophets Bane."
"Blargh blargh honk."
"He says The Prophets' Bane is an ancient sword of the House of Vadam dating back before the ratification of the Writ of Union and the establishment of the Covenant. Formerly known as the "End of Night", the sword came to be recognized by its original user as more than a warrior's tool, but a weapon that possessed the warrior's heart. The blade was highly treasured and stored away to serve as a reservoir of glory and honor that can be redeemed in times of great need. Or at least that's what Junior got from the wikipedia. The sword gives us power like camouflage and a bigger lunge boost. So more power! That's something we need for the ladies. Bow chicka bow wow."
Church sighed.
"Whatever."
The group got to Zanzibar. There was the big windmill ahead. There was also the big shore line. The two bases and the gate! But on every rooftop there were jackals with beam rifles. There was an elite giving orders. He had the ancient Field Marshall armor. He had a carbine on his back. Church grabbed his sniper.
"I'm going to try and shoot him."
Tucker rolled his eyes.
"Seriously? You're going to kill us all!"
"What!? I will totally hit him!"
The Field Marshall started walking away. The elites walked inside of the building. Church aimed his sniper. Tucker snatched the rifle. Church took it back.
"So what do we do?" Tucker asked.
"We're going to charge in and try to kill everyone. Try was the keyword in the sentence."
"I know."
Freckles scanned the area.
"There are 28 hostiles."
Caboose jumped off of Freckles. He held a sombrero.
"When we go into battle, you're going to be SO CUTE!"
Caboose put the sombrero on Freckles. Church looked through his rifle.
"What's the plan to raise our chances of NOT being killed?" Doc asked in his voice.
Freckles crouched to listen and join the conversation. Junior and Tucker looked at their map and examined it more.
"Well, I can't kill ANYTHING using ANY guns, so I'll shoot that elite on the turret…" Church pointed to the tower to the right of the windmill from the beach's perspective.
"And then Freckles…" Church looked at Freckles.
"You will go out and just blow every elite and every bad bad guys up."
"What are bad bad guys?"
"Elites, hunters, brutes, you know. So then Doc here (and O'Malley) will blow up the minor people. Like grunts, jackals, and. And those other dehydrated jackals…"
"You mean skirmishers?"
"Yes! And then Tucker and Junior here will kill the elite leader…"
O'Malley's voice came from Doc.
"So how will we exactly do that?"
"What about Captain Caboose?"
Church looked at Caboose.
"Um. Cheer us on."
"Yay! This will be so much fun."
"And while Caboose cheers us on. O'Malley/Doc will defend Tucker and Junior. And Freckles will…"
Tucker and Junior came to the front and they drew their swords.
"Okay! Let's do this!"
Tucker and Junior ran out where the enemies could see them.
"LEEROOOOOOY JENKINS!"
Church was flabbergasted.
"Dangit Tucker! Stick to the plan!"
Church fired his sniper rifle at the elite at the turret. He missed of course. The jackals with the snipers aimed at Tucker and Junior. Caboose started to cheer them on.
"Go Church! Go my best friend! Go blue team! HOORAY!"
O'Malley went out with Freckles. Freckles fired his rockets and his gigantic guns at the elites. The elite leader poked his head out from his cover. Tucker and Junior sprinted towards him. The field marshall pointed at them and two elites with energy swords ran towards the Spartan and the Elite. O'Malley aimed at a cowering group of grunts. He fired his rockets and they all flew towards the sky with a big explosion shaped like a muffin rising up. A hunter came from behind the windmill. Freckles fired his rockets at it. The hunter fired the fuel rod cannon from his arm. It hit Freckles. Church ran behind the hunter and he chugged a grenade into its back.
"TAKE COVER!"
Church ran into the base beside Freckles and the hunter burst out with its worms. Caboose kept cheering. The elite ahead of Tucker leaped at him but Tucker slid under it. Tucker turned around and he pounced on the elite and he stabbed it from its back. Tucker grabbed its energy sword. The field marshall charged at Tucker with his red energy sword.
Tucker with his dual wielded energy swords threw the dead elite's sword at the field marshall. It turned to dodge it but then Tucker leaped behind the elite and he grabbed his knife. He turned the elite by its shoulder and Tucker stabbed its stomach and then he jumped and stabbed its neck and the field marshall went limp. Tucker looked at Junior. Junior threw his sword behind Tucker. Tucker looked behind him and he saw another elite on the ground. Junior grabbed his sword out of the elite.
"Booyah!" Tucker yelled.
O'Malley was surrounded by grunts. The grunts were leaping onto him. O'Malley ran onto the ramp onto the right base. He went up to the top of the tower. He grabbed and lined up the fusion coils. The grunts got to the top. O'Malley dropped his grenade and he ran onto the windmill. The fusion coils blew up with a loud, Boom! O'Malley grabbed his medical scanner from his leg. He scanned the grunts.
"I pick up no vital ratings. Wait!" Doc saw something.
He grabbed his rocket launcher. Suddenly a brute chieftain along with two brute majors and elite officers appeared.
"Uh-oh!" Doc yelled.
Caboose walked towards the base. They all heard a loud growl. Church looked at Caboose.
"Crap! Caboose!"
Tucker and Junior walked towards Caboose. Two hunters walked out from the base. One of them used their arm and they tried to slap Caboose. Instead Junior ran and caught the arm but struggling to hold it back. The hunter put the cannon onto Junior's chest.
"Blargh!"
Tucker ran and threw a frag grenade at the hunter.
"Duck!"
Junior leaped backwards and the grenade blew up in front of the hunter.
"Hostiles detected. Firing main cannon."
O'Malley walked backwards some. One of the elites drew a fuel rod gun.
"Crap!"
The elite fired but O'Malley jumped high but fell down low.
"Agh! What will we ever do!?" Doc yelled.
"Shut up. I'm working on it."
O'Malley fired a rocket but it only depleted the elite's shields. O'Malley jumped off of the tower to the ground below. The elite drew an energy sword and jumped down trying to land on O'Malley to stab him but he rolled over. The sword became stuck in the ground. O'Malley turned his body so his legs hit the elite's feet. The elite tripped and fell face first. O'Malley used full force and he punched the elite several times. The elite punched him back in the Adam's apple. Then he punched his stomach with full force.
"Ow!" Doc shrieked.
"Shut up you fool!"
O'Malley, on his right knee and holding himself up using his hands, forced himself up and he sucker punched the elite's chin than he jumped and he held both hands above his head together and he slammed them down on its head.
"Take that you fool!"
The brute chieftain jumped down. O'Malley reached for his rocket launcher on his back but it wasn't there.
"O'Malley! You lost it!"
"Oh shut up!"
O'Malley looked up. It was on the tower edge. The brutes and the other elite jumped down. One of the elites helped the hurt elite up. Before the brutes could smash him to a pulp, he ran up the ramp to the tower. An Elite used camo and he sneaked behind him. O'Malley grabbed his rocket launcher. The elite stabbed O'Malley with his sword and it went through him. The elite lifted his sword with him on it.
"You arrogant fool! YOU WILL TASTE OBLIVION!"
O'Malley aimed his rockets towards the floor and he fired. The elite flew off of the tower. Church tried to assist O'Malley by trying to shoot the brute chieftain with his sniper but fail miserably. The elites and brutes charged towards Church.
"Uh oh."
O'Malley sat up and the sword came out from him.
"I need a medic." Doc said.
"Shut up. We're wounded you fool! What do expect?"
Tucker and Junior charged towards the brute chieftain. Tucker stabbed the brute and its shields depleted. Junior grabbed his plasma rifle and fired it at its chest. Tucker grabbed his pistol from his hip and he fired three bullets at the brute.
"Hernknk, Bluogh!"
Tucker put his pistol back on his hip.
"Wow. Is that was the brutes say, hernkn and bluogh? Do you know their language Junior?
"Blargh."
"Oh."
O'Malley limped and sat down. Church put an ice pack on his chest and his back.
"Doc? You know if you're going to be ok?" Church asked.
"Well, an energy sword went through by torso on my right side and cracked a lung. So I think I might be."
"Good."
Church lifted up O'Malley and the six went to Gary's computer.
"We know who you are! You're an alien construct, isn't that right?" Church yelled.
An alien A.I appeared. It looked like Santa. But it had the officer armor and it was green.
"Hello. I am the alien construct, Crimson. Who are you?"
"You know. You crashed into our canyon and you pushed O'Malley out of Doc's head."
"Oh yes. I got files from him. But then I became trapped here."
"Why are you here?"
"Why should I tell you?"
"Our friend O'Malley could take care of you."
"Fine, I was being transported into the halo ring with the covenant fleet. I was going to the library. But the phantom flew and crashed in your canyon. But then I was trapped here."
Caboose and Freckles wandered off with no one noticing.
"Library?" Church asked.
Tucker remembered.
"Oh yeah! The aliens that built the rings put the keys there to activate them!"
"And I was getting the index. We need it to activate this ring. We will start our "Great Journey". But now I'm stuck here. O'Malley went into Gary's computer and he shut the A.I down.
"Why did you do that?" Church asked.
"It was going to jump into Tucker. We're safe now."
"Well, now we got that over with." Church said, relieved.
Tucker whispered something to Junior. Junior opened the map and he pointed at it.
"Hurnk! Blargh hurnk honk honk hurnk Blargh hurnk."
Tucker took an aquamarine marker and he wrote on the place that Junior pointed to. Church looked over to them.
"What?"
"Blargh hurnk."
"Junior says that the sword is here."
"What? How?"
"The Vadam family hid it because a bunch of covenant tried to steal it. But they hid it here I guess."
Junior drew his sword and he stabbed one of the walls. Suddenly the wall turned into a door and it opened.
"Yes! Woo!"
Tucker and Junior went inside the corridor. O'Malley got up.
"Ow." Doc said.
Inside the corridor there was a sword stand with the Prophet's Bane on it. Junior walked up to it.
"Junior, to claim it you must have a partner, like so, you then must defeat the guardians of the sword to prove yourself worthy then you must put your sword in the sword's place."
"Hurnk."
Tucker walked up next to Junior.
"So what are the guardians?"
"Blargh?"
Suddenly two robotic elites with 3 arms appeared.
"BLARGH HURNK HURNK BLARGH HONK."
"Church, we're going to have a fight over here. So be sure to send our victory video to the ladies back on earth."
"Blargh!"
"Oh, and on sanghelios."
"Ok! Sure thing." Church mumbled.
"Wait. Where's Caboose?"
Caboose was with Freckles in some kind of ancient artificial place.
"Wow. Freckles, isn't this cool!?"
"Affirmitave, captain Caboose."
The two walked further. Caboose saw a brownish deformed marine.
"Ooh! It's Grif at his finest! Hello Grif!"
"Captain Caboose, that's not captain Grif."
"Then who is it?"
"Scanning."
In front of them a big ball that looked exactly like Epsilon's first body appeared.
"Look Freckles! It's Epsilon's body!"
The ball spoke.
"Hello. I am the monitor of installation (data not found). Are you visitors?"
"Yes! I am Caboose! This is my friend Freckles! Say hi Freckles."
"Hello. What should we call you?"
"I am 343 Guilty Spark. You can just call me monitor."
"Acknowledged."
"Would you like a tour? Or are you wondering what this place is? Tell me your requests."
"What is the instaleeton not fond?" Caboose asked.
"The Installation (data not found) is a Halo ring. The halos are built to kill all life in a radius of 25,000 light years. Or at least this one is. They're built so the Flood will be contained so they can die out."
"Flood?"
"The flood, as you can see down there…" 343 looks at the deformed marine. "Are a combination of a virus and what the Shisnos, or humans would call "zombies". When a flood spore bites a life form, the life form is infected with the flood and becomes a "zombie", or a flood. But the flood survive only if they feast on other life beings. The halos can prevent that so the future life can live happier!"
"Acknowledged. What is the destination we are presently at?"
"We're at the Library. The Library contains the index (or the "key") to activate the halos. The indexes might look like their form but they might also contain the form of an energy sword. This halo's index has the form of a sword. It is called the Ravening silver. Would you like to have it to keep it away from antagonists?"
"Yes! Bad people will watch out for THE MIGHTY CABOOSE!"
"Well then! Let's go!"
Tucker and Junior stood in their fighting stance. One of the elite robots flanked the two with its partner. Tucker swung his sword then the robot swung his up and he tried to stab Tucker but then he dodged and he then he swung his sword and went for a stab. The robot grabbed Tucker's sword but Tucker then grabbed its head and he kicked it back and its head came off. The robot walked and swung.
"Ah! You double swinger!"
"You are neither a good fighter nor a good swordsman."
"I'm a lover, not a fighter!"
Tucker reached into the robot's neck and he pulled out the wires and the robot exploded. Junior then stuck a grenade onto the other robot and he leaped backwards and it blew up.
"Looks like the head isn't the more important part of their "body"! Bow chicka bow wow!"
Junior walked up towards the pedestal. The sword shimmered. Junior took it and he put his sword on the pedestal.
"Ooh! The sword is big! That's some real slice and dice! Bow chicka bow wow!
The two went outside of the corridor. Church and O'Malley walked over to them.
"So, I guess we have to find Caboose now!"
Tucker looked at the building.
"I think I know where to look."
The four went into the building that the Field Marshall came from. Where the generator was there was a big tunnel going down.
"Well, if we die. Caboose is going to be haunted." Church said.