Ch. 2
Locked Out
Disclaimer: I don't own Star Wars.
Time unknown/Date unknown/
Location unknown
Alex opened his eyes.
Where the hell was he?
He glanced around him and saw a blue 'beam' in the wall, leading down a small, circular hole in the floor, and two holes on either side of it, which were square. He also saw something familiar: a circle with an X in the middle. He turned to look at it properly, but it moved when his head moved, and then he realised, that he was in Halo.
The circle with the X was his radar, obviously disabled, and he saw an ammo counter for a Battle rifle in the top-left corner of his helmet. He saw that his shields were disabled, and he looked at the Battle rifle in his hand.
A lot of people would have freaked out at that point in time, including his brother, but Alex was a different case.
"Sweet!"
He stood up, grinning as he held his rifle across his chest, then, also, as he shouldered it and aimed it at the wall, mimicking voices.
"Ahh! Save me!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Don't worry!"
"He has a gun!"
"Bangbangbangbang!"
"Haw! Haw! Haw!"
"SWAT!"
He fell silent as the voice cut through his helmet's speakers, and someone appeared in front of him.
The person was a white Spartan, and he ran towards Alex, firing his gun in all different directions.
If a burst from the Spartan's Battle rifle hit Alex's head, he'd be dead.
Alex ducked, and a killing burst went over his head, then he kicked the legs out from underneath the Spartan. The other Spartan, Alex recognised him as Disturbed, fell and then hit the ground with a thud.
"I didn't know that you could kick people in Halo 2!" shouted Harry as his player got up, and then he moved him towards the blue player that was running away.
"Neither did I!" Andrew said in response, giving a head shot to Jonno.
Alex ran up the ramp, only then remembering the map's name: Lockout.
Bang!
A 3 shot burst from Disturbed's Battle rifle whizzed passed Alex's helmet, so he turned around and returned fire. One bullet from the first burst hit Disturbed's waist, and the second burst connected with the visor.
Disturbed dropped, dead, and Alex knew that he was probably arguing while he respawned. Alex turned around and came into a building with an exit on both sides. He turned right, going up another ramp, and finding himself on a small balcony. He picked up two plasma grenades from behind him, and then put them in separate pockets. He saw the centre square in front of him, and saw someone running over the top of the glass window in the middle. Alex raised the Battle rifle's scope to his visor, and peered through. He saw the person on the window run for the building across from him, and he pulled the trigger.
The Elite, most likely 1 ugly mofo, dropped as the 3 bullets entered the back of its head. Alex shifted his feet, and they knocked into something. He looked down and saw a sniper rifle lying on the ground.
"Oh, yes," he whispered.
He picked it up, slinging the Battle Rifle around his shoulder and onto his back.
Tink!
A small ball hit Alex's shoulder, and he flinched at the sight of it:
A fragmentation grenade.
His reflexes kicked in, and he caught the grenade before it landed, throwing it with his full strength, over to the building across from him. The grenade detonated halfway, and Alex ran through the explosion, knowing that the smoke had created a smokescreen, disabling any view of him from the direction that it was thrown. He ran inside the building, going left and heading up a ramp. At the top, someone was creeping up on another Spartan. Alex thought for a moment, then he punched the Elite in the back as hard as he could, which was very hard.
The spine of the Elite shattered, and it crumbled to the floor. He watched behind him for any more enemies, and then turned around to deal with the Spartan, who had turned around, seen the dead body, and fired at Alex.
Bang!
"Shit, that was an awesome shot!" exclaimed Jonno, watching Kiel's screen, seeing the dead body fall to the ground.
Alex gasped, and caught his breath.
He wasn't dead.
He had turned around, seen the Spartan, Kill Ferns, and fired his sniper rifle in an attempt to save his life.
It did.
The bullet smashed into Kill Ferns' visor, killing him instantly.
He ran down the ramp, unslinging his Battle rifle, and slinging his sniper rifle. He turned the corner and ran out onto the square in the middle, pulling the trigger twice, putting down the Spartan in front of him. He fired at the Elite next to the gravity lift, but it managed to escape the line of fire, hiding in the corner. Alex ran into the building that he had come into, where he got his sniper from, and dropped down a hole, coming to the spot where the glass window is above his head. He turned left and began to run down when he saw the Elite in front of him. 1 ugly mofo fired the Battle rifle, and Alex threw himself to the floor. He hit the ground, aiming at 1 ugly mofo's head, and pulled the trigger.
Click!
"Fuck!"
Alex rolled to the left and bullets chipped up the ground next to him. He leapt up and pulled out his pistol from its holster.
1 ugly mofo punched him in the helmet, and the shot went wide. Alex fell down the hole behind him, hitting the ground and feeling pain. The room was green, and Alex's vision was red. 1 ugly mofo jumped down after him, aimed at Alex's head, and received a kick to the stomach. Alex rolled and got up, turned around to face 1 ugly mofo, and saw the firing end of a shotgun barrel.
Shink-shink.
Alex ducked, the shot went high, and then he grabbed onto the barrel of the shotgun, wrenched it away from the Elite's hand, and aimed at 1 ugly mofo's head.
Click!
"Goddamn it!"
He leaped to the right, and a burst tore through his left shoulder, when it was intended for his head. He roared in pain, spun the shotgun down and towards himself with his right finger, which was still in the trigger guard, caught the pump in his armpit, and then pulled the shotgun back then forward.
Shink-shink!
He spun it back up, put it right up against 1 ugly mofo's face, and pulled the trigger.
Boom!
The shotgun fired, and 1 ugly mofo's head would have exploded, had they not been in a game. The shotgun kicked up from the recoil, and 1 ugly mofo went flying back, beating the enormous amount of blood to the wall.
Alex caught his breath, forgot the pain, ran up to the corpse while pumping the shotgun, fired again into the Elite's head, and screamed:
"HEAD SHOT!"
"HEAD SHOT!" The voice boomed through the T.V speakers.
"What the hell was that!" asked Harry.
Kiel shrugged.
"Hey," said Jonno.
"Where's Alex?"
They all looked outside to where he used to be standing.
"I don't know," said Andrew.
"But that bot is good."
Alex fired the sniper rifle at Kill Ferns, taking him down with a head shot, then turned around to be face-to-face with 1 ugly mofo, again.
Alex didn't fancy another toe-to-toe dance with the Elite, so he pulled out a frag grenade, hit the button on the top, and shoved it into the mouth of his brother's character. He leapt off the square platform, and down onto the ramp below, hearing the explosion of the grenade. He ran down the ramp and into the underground gravity lift area, putting down his sniper rifle and unslinging his Battle rifle. His shoulder still hurt from the shot, and he was extremely surprised to find a small spray bottle in one of his pouches. He had read the Halo novels, so he held it up to the three small bullet holes spread across his left shoulder, and sprayed. The foam went inside the wounds, and it felt like ants crawling through him. He realised that the foam was biofoam, and he looked in his other pouches. He found what he was looking for – bandages – and he put small ones on the bullet holes.
"Let's start a new game," said Andrew, pissed off because no one had killed the bot, but it had killed him twice.
"Yeah," agreed Kiel.
"Let's do Midship: I like that one."
"All right, but what with?"
They were silent for a moment, and then Jonno piped up.
"Shotguns and swords!"
Alex he held up his Battle rifle.
"Now," he said to himself.
"How do I reload this fucking thing?"
A/N: I hope you all liked this chapter, and they will keep coming, after the next chapter of The Front Lines 2's next chapter.