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"Whisper/Internal communications in MJOLNIR/Thoughts and contemplations."
"Actions/Movements"
Chapter 3
The behemoth of a human began approaching them as they could only stand there and marvel at the being and his weaponry, especially with how it literally fried "them" as it made contact and how accurate it was, evident by all the shots hitting "them" in the head, their weakpoint.
The Spartan walking towards them, staring at them and sizing them up as he did so.
It was a tense moment as for the survivors as the Spartan approached them cradling the Storm Rifle.
"Wow..." Kohta was jaw-dropping at the firepower of the Covenant-made weapon, not caring too much for the 7 foot twelve supersoldier carrying said weapon.
"Who... or what are you?" Saeko asks as she slightly tenses up, cautious of the Spartan.
"John, just tell them your usual codename, get to a safer location and talk to them there." The Chief silently acknowledges.
"Call me Master Chief, Do you know of a secure location in the vicinity?" the armored soldier responds with an undeniable tone of military discipline and authority.
"W-we're heading towards the house of a friend of mine." One of the group, a blonde woman replies, slightly startled by the Spartan's abnormal dimensions.
Suddenly, another one of the group, clearly younger and had unusual pink hair pulled the woman over and whispered to her.
Not that it would matter as the Spartan could hear them clearly anyway.
"Miss Shizuka, are you sure that it's a good idea to tell this man where we are headed?"
Chief didn't listen to the rest of the conversations as another wave of the undead had begun approaching them, snapping everyone out of their trance.
Before they could even raise their weapons, the Spartan dashed through the things as he took out his combat knife sliced, stabbed and decapitated "them" so fast that the survivors could not follow his movements, not that they had a chance to try in the very short amount of time that the zombies were eliminated..
After stopping at the last undead, the Spartan calmly walked back to the group in a dramatic scene as the undead around him fell down one by one with holes the size of a fist in their heads or just missing their heads.
"Amazing..." Takashi muttered.
For the next few minutes, the Spartan tackled an interview from the survivors, in which he covered himself up as a normal soldier that only happened to be in VERY tall armor, promting some curiousities to pop up from the group, mostly regarding his accuracy, weapon and his superhumans speeds. But a few undead coming out of nowhere made the group realize that time was not on their side and they could always ask questions later, for now, they had to get to their destination fast as the Sun was beginning to set.
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A few hours later in a balcony overlooking the city under the blanket of darkness...
"What's on your mind John? I can tell something is bothering you, and there is a lot to be bothered by in this situation." Cortana said to John as he remained silent, scanning the surrounding area through his visor's magnification.
As the veil of night fell, the group of survivors along with the Spartan fought through the undead crowds to their current location, which also happened to be infested with the undead, with the Chief head-shooting all of the undead with plasma and killing them with his combat knife, prompting the one identified as Kohta to ask a mountain of questions that he hadn't asked earlier about the weapon so fast that the Chief could barely catch up as he only learned a basic amount of Japanese during his Spartan training, fortunately the pink-haired girl who identified herself as Saya while they were taking a break in which John was formally introduced to the members of the group, hit Kohta's head and basically told him to back off and focus on the task at hand, saving the Chief from coming up with an explanation for the moment.
They got to the apartment and began clearing the immediate area as he eventually convinced the group to pile up all the headless zombies in one giant pile, he then gave them duties such as watching guard, cleaning the area and setting up barricades in case the undead breakthrough.
Surprisingly enough for the Spartan and the A.I. the group followed his orders and went their separate ways, giving him enough time to turn the pile of bodies into a pile of data and hide the weapon that caused it.
They were currently inside the apartment with the boys of the group looking for weaponry while the girls and the nurse were currently in the bath while the Master Chief was on the rooftop scouring for any threats.
"Provident Guardian was able to send a message to us in this dimension, but it took the power of an entire planet to do it, so unless he somehow manages to acquire more power, we will remain stranded here." The Master Chief replied as he finished his observation in the area, taking notice of the immediate area being silent, and the far-away areas, which were visible because of the high ground that the apartment provided, were also clear albeit signs of chaos around the city, there were also survivors on a nearby bridge but it was blocked by law enforcemnt officers, presumably to prevent the spread of the pandemic, but this was an issue to be touched upon in another time.
"You're actually using your brain? At this rate I could be out of a job very soon." Cortana exclaimed in mock surprise before continuing. "Though you are right, we won't be seeing the UNSC anytime soon, and it will also be a while before Provident gives us an update on what to do, we may as well make the most of our time here."
"Right." The Master Chief proceeded to go look for the boys of the group as they were tasked to find any usable weaponry as he was not looking forward to break his cover by giving them the weapons from his Interspace inventory.
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One...two...three!
Was what the Spartan heard before a sound associated to breaking open a locker, two bodies hitting the ground, and groaning from two certain boys filled the room.
He spotted Kohta on the ground and Takashi proceeding to sit up and stare at locker at his right and muttered something, prompting Kohta to shove him away as he stood up and chuckled evilly before yelling "I just knew it!" and clenching a fist in front of the locker with a few bullets on the floor and another locker beside them.
"What's going on here?" The Spartan showed himself and helped Takashi up before turning towards the contents of the two lockers that Kohta was apparently obsessed with.
"Good work, but what are these weapons doing here?" The Chief picked up one of the weapons before Kohta could react.
"Hey gimme that!" Kohta shouted as he tried to grab the weapon from the arms of the easily taller Spartan. The keyword here is TRIED as he couldn't jump high enough to grab the weapon from the soldier as he shouldered the weapon.
"M1A1 Springfield Super Match, a variant of the M14 series built to be semi-automatic, it relies more on it's accuracy then full-out stopping power as the full-automatic fire of the M14 tends to be inaccurate and spreads bullets downrange in the walls instead of the big target board on the otherside." The Chief thought aloud as he proceeded to inspect the weapon.
"Modified with a couple of external parts." Kohta stopped reaching for the gun at this point and just settled to listening to the Spartan. "M900 Suefire vertical foregrip, Aimpoint M2 RDS, an M14 cheekrest and finally Magpul magazine loops... wait, a flash supressor? That must mean this was either manufactured pre-1994 in America and maintained very well or the user has access to military-grade parts... all in all, this is supposed to be illegal in no small part due to the Magpul magazine." The Chief finished, leaving Kohta in a daze. Even though he expected the soldier to know something about the weapon, he didn't expect that the man they know as Master Chief has a deeper understanding of weapons than Kohta.
"Impressive big guy, I didn't know that they thought you about 19th century weaponry." Cortana commented, which Chief ignored as he took another weapon from the rack.
"SR-25, these are supposed to be illegal in Japan... I'm guessing someone took an AR-10 and added the upper and lower recievers, the hammer, the bolt carrier group and barrel assembly to create this since the weapons are built with the same parts albeit the aforementioned parts." The Spartan proceeded to inspect the another weapon in the rack which happened to be a crossbow.
"A Barnette Wildcat C5... the only gun that happens to be perfectly legal here, this weapon sold... sells for about 250 creds... or dollars in e-Bay."
"Sweeeet! You really do know your weaponry," Kohta exclaimed as his view of the Spartan became more positive.
"Well, that is kind of his job isn't it?' Takashi said as he scratched the back of his head.
"Oh and I almost forgot to ask you.." Kohta stared straight into the visor of the Spartan.
"I have a feeling that you're not gonna like what this kid's gonna say next Chief."
"What was that weapon you had earlier? It was definitely not any gun that I know of, I mean, what kind of superheated substance did it fire earlier that took out all those zombies?" Kohta ironically interrogated the veteran supersoldier towering over him.
"At least he isn't asking about the suit right?" Cortana joked.
"My weapon actually fires a special form of napalm that annihialates flesh on contact and can burn through most conventional body armor, I can't tell you the rest as it is classified." The Spartan thought of an excuse as best he could and gave his sentence a tone that it was final.
"Ok..." Kohta gave up as he knew what the Spartan was capable of if he pressed the issue further.
Takashi found the last remaining weapon inside the locker and pulled out an Ithaca M37.
This time, the Master Chief gave the spotlight to Kohta.
"Quick, deep gasping of air"
"That's an Ithaca M37 riot shotgun! It's a super six shotgun made by Americans, it played a big part in the Vietnam war too!" Kohta exclaimed as he pointed at the weapon.
"I see." Takashi says as he begins point the weapon to Kohta, only to be snatched by the Master Chief.
"How did he snatch it out of my hand so fast?" Kohta froze as he realized that the weapon had been taking by the Spartan before his hand even registered that it had left his grip.
The Chief then hit Takashi with a very-well controlled smack prompting him to hold his head in pain from the armored gauntlet.
"What was that for?" Takashi muttered as he was snapped out of his thoughts.
"Never aim a gun, whether loaded or unloaded, at someone you do not want to harm or kill. The same applies vice-versa." The Chief explained as he inspected the weapon.
He then instructed them to carry the weapons and bullets to another room so as to be able to get a better look at their current inventory. He did not want to have to explain himself and reveal his Interspace system unless it was absolutely necessary.
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After taking a good look at their current inventory that lay upon the floor infront of the couch, the Master Chief along with Kotha and Takashi went back to the balcony to get an update on the situation on the areas around them.
He was quick to take notice that the situation on the bridge earlier had changed and he could see that the survivors were getting agitated and the law enforcement officers were pressed to stand their ground.
"There." Master Chief pointed to the bridge.
Kohta looked at the direction and told Takashi to turn the TV on.
They saw a news report regarding a man who was more or less insane saying that the outbreak was caused by some kind of biological weapon like in the movies and some games and put the blame on the government.
The person was beginning to convince the people to stand up to the "tyranny" of the police department when he was approached by a policeman and told to backdown, unexpectedly, he did not and it led to a standoff between the two, resulting in the conspiracy theorist's death.
The TV revealed the dead man and the ensuing panic of his followers then turned to static.
"Things are takinga turn for the worse Chief, you may want to get these kids to go somewhere safer."
The exact same thought came to Takashi and Kohta.
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End of Chapter.
I suffered a major case of Writer's block not 300 words into the story so sorry this had to take so darn long!
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