Chapter 6- The Library
Chief walks through this strange swamp, dead Covenant corpses floating in the water. He can hear Covenant screaming and shooting their plasma guns, but it is far away. He sees a broken pelican floating in the water. He gets close to it and does not find any dead human body. Chief says to himself:
-There is people in this place.
The Monitor sees that Chief is distracted with the pelican and say to him:
-Reclaimer, we must hurry! We must get this Index before the parasite find us.
-Just give me a minute.
-The parasite will not give us a minute.
Chief turns around, ready to argue with the Monitor, but he sees an infected Covenant right behind the Monitor. He immediately shoots it, killing it. The Monitor, angry, says to Chief:
-Let's go, Reclaimer! We don't have time!
Chief follows the Monitor as fast as he can, he can hear little-sized Flood coming over them. They run until they reach in a weird structure. They enter in it and Chief asks:
-What is this place?
-This is the Library entrance, the Index is in the level 07
-Who created this place?
-The Forerunners, they also created this ring.
-So this ring is not natural? It is artificial?
-Yes, this ring is artificial. The Forerunners created it only to kill the parasite.
They walk a little bit and find a room filled with Elite blood. In the middle of this room there is a human body. Chief goes near to it and sees that it is a Marine body. Suddenly, the Marine holds Chief hands and say:
-Help…me. Those things…they…just ignored me.
-The Flood might have thought that you were dead. What happened? Where are the others?
-We were…fighting two Elites…one of them shot me and I fell on the ground. Then, I heard…those things…walking through me. The others…went through that door.
The Marine dies in Chief's hands. He lays the Marine's head on the ground and close his eyes. Chief and the Monitor walk through the door that the Marine talked about. They see a giant open elevator. Chief looks to the Monitor and asks:
-How many floors did you say there were?
-Seven floors to reach the Index. But we need to go through all the floors, activating the levers that each floor has.
-Why did they do that?
-Prevention. They didn't wanted the Flood to steal the Index.
Chief activate the elevator and goes to the first floor. There he sees an enormous hall. He starts running through it and see dead Covenant bodies and dead human bodies. The Monitor says:
-The parasite didn't enter the Library yet, maybe the other life species outside attracted the parasite to themselves.
They reach the ending of the hall and see a strange lever. Chief pulls the lever down and hears an alarm noise. The next sound he hears after the alarm noise is the noise of a lot of little things moving to his way. In his way back to the elevator, a hand holds his leg, making him fall on the ground. An infected Elite climbs on top of Chief and starts strangling him. Suddenly, a different kind of flying robot appears and shoots the infected Elite with its laser. Chief asks:
-What is this?
-This is a Sentinel. He is designed to kill the parasite when he feels its presence.
They go as fast as they can to the elevator. They activate it again and they go to the second floor. There, they see two Marines fighting against the Flood. Those Marines see Chief and run next to it. They say:
-Sir! We need your help! The Flood…it's horrible, they killed our partners, help us, please.
-We apologize, but he cannot help you. He have an important mission that he cannot abandon. –says the Monitor
-Stay with me, Marines. After I finish what I've came for, I can take you to the nearest pelican.
-Thank you, Sir.
-With all due respect, but they cannot come with us, there can be only one Reclaimer, it is in my protocol. – say the Monitor
-Well, deal with it. They are coming with us and there's nothing you can do.
The Monitor's eye turn red and he prepares himself to shoot Chief with his laser, but he calms down and his eye turns blue. They start killing all the Flood on this hall, with the help of the Sentinel. They reach the end of the hall and Chief pulls the lever down. They look behind them and they see a different kind of infected. This one have a big head and is very slow. Chief shoots it, this thing fall on the ground and his head blows up. But from inside his head, comes a lot of little-sized Flood. They kill them all, but there are way too many infected Flood on their way back to the elevator. The Sentinels just disappear and the Marines are despaired:
-Sir, what are we going to do?
-I have an idea. Stay back.
Chief throws a grenade on the ground and run away. When the grenades blows up, they make a hole in the ground, Chief says:
-Jump in this hole, is the only way and we got to be quick.
Chief is the first to jump in the hole, he immediately pulls the lever of the third floor and go back to help the Marines to get down. When everyone is on the third floor, they run to the elevator area and call the elevator. They get on the elevator and go to the fourth floor. Chief says:
-Marines, stay on the elevator with the Monitor and wait for me.
-Sir, yes Sir!
Chief runs as quick as he can through the hall. When he reaches the end and pulls the lever, he looks back and see infected Flood coming for him. Chief sees that the infected Flood are holding guns now. There are infected Elite holding their plasma guns. Chief kills them all with what's left of his ammo and reach the elevator. In the elevator, one of the Marines is attacked by little-sized Flood, the climb his body. The Monitor shoots with his laser on the little-sized Flood, killing the Marine and the little-sized Flood. The other Marine shouts:
-DEREK! NO!
He runs to the dead Marine and cries on his body. Chief shoots the Monitor with his shotgun and say:
-Don't ever do this again.
-It's not my fault, it is my protocol.
-YOUR PROTOCOL KILLED MY FRIEND! –says the Marine
-I apologize, but I had to shoot him, I can't just ignore my protocols.
They reach the fifth floor and Chief says:
-Everyone is coming.
Chief, the Monitor and the Marine run through the hall and in the ending of it, they see a normal Hunter, next to the lever. They look behind and see lots of infected Flood. The Marine say:
-We're doomed! We're doomed!
Suddenly, the Sentinels appear and start helping them with the Flood. Chief say to the Marine:
-Do you have ammo?
-Yes, Sir!
-Distract the Hunter while I open our way out of here.
-Sir, yes Sir!
The Marine starts shooting the Hunter, making him pay attention on the Marine. Chief plants a grenade on the Hunter's back and throw him on the ground. The Hunter blows up, opening a hole in this floor. Chief and the Marine jump on this hole and get to the sixth floor. Chief pulls the lever of the sixth floor down and hears a noise. They both look back and they see a different kind of infected. Chief sees something on that infected form that scares him. He realizes that it is an infected Spartan. He sees Locki's helmet on this infected Flood. This infected Spartan jumps towards the Marine and it starts strangling the Marine. Chief shoots the infected Spartan, but its armor helps him to get protected from Chief's bullets. The infected Spartan kills the Marine and after killing him, the infected goes straight to Chief. Suddenly, the Sentinels starts shooting the infected Spartan, slowing him down. Chief runs to the elevator area in the sixth floor and ignore the infected Spartan, which is fighting the Sentinels. Chief goes to the seventh floor with the elevator and he sees the Index. The Index is floating on a big circle with a giant hole in it. Chief can't reach it. So he grabs a rope and throw on the Index. He pulls the Index to next to him. Chief grabs the Index, but he is attacked in the back by the infected Spartan. Chief almost falls in the giant hole where the Index was. Chief pokes the infected Spartan, which falls in the ground. He tries to run through the infected Spartan, but the Spartan grabs Chief's leg, making him fall. The infected Spartan climbs on top of Chief and starts struggling him. He quickly grabs the Index and stab the infected Spartan's head. The infected Spartans stops struggling him and fall in the ground, dead. Chief stands up see the Monitor and say:
-Get us out of here with you teleportation!
-I can't do it here. But I can do it outside the Library.
Waves of Flood starts coming all the way, Chief and the Monitor run to the elevator as fast as they can. They start going up. Suddenly, Chief is attacked by an infected Marine. He uses his last bullet to kill it. They go all the way up to the Library entrance. They get out of there and go back to the swamp. Chief says:
-Let's go, take us out of here!
Waves of infected Flood shows up and start running to kill Chief. The Monitor says:
-Wait a minute…
-We don't have a minute!
The Flood gets really close to Chief and they are about to attack him. The Monitor:
-Got it! Let's go!
The Monitor immediately teleports him and Chief out of that swamp.