Chapter 5 silent cartographer!

Disclaimer: I do not own halo or LOZ

Link's POV

As the pelican neared the island Cortana spoke up.

"The Covenant believe that what they call the Silent Cartographer is Somewhere under this island. The Cartographer is a map room that will lead us to Halo's control center. The Island has multiple structures and installations. One of them contains the map room." Cortana said to everyone.

"We're approaching the LZ, its gonna be hot. Get set to come out swingin'... Touchdown! Hit it, Marines!"

"GO, GO, GO"

Link and MC charged up the beach towards the Covenant guns ablaze, Link felled an Elite and 5 grunts while marines around him were getting shot and falling as well. The new difference between Link 'n Tetra and the other marines were that Link and Tetra are ODSTs with full black armour with a sort of shield capability (in halo 3 ODST they have some sort of shields) but now it struck Link "Only the strongest will survive!" Link thought. Right next to his ear a shard from a needle rifle hits the guy right behind him "shit... that could have been me!" a plasma grenade landed at his feet. "SON of a BITCH!"

*Ka-Boom*

*Thud*

Link looked up and felt himself, "all limbs, not missing anything?" his new shields took most of the damage but his back was hurting like hell!

*bang, bang, bang* he shot an elite in the stomach and bashed him in the face and continued up the beach. MC was up ahead in full swing killing dozens of grunts and jackals in single swings and Link ran up to join him...

Tetra's POV

Tetra was still in the ship above orbit and was not dropped in the first wave,

"Why did I not go in with the others?" she had asked

"Were ODSTs were shock troopers" said a senior ODST "we'll be going in SOEIVs"

"What's that" she asked soon later thinking about the ODST motto "Feet first into hell" was the motto, at the time she wondered what that meant, BOY did she find out!

10 minutes later

"FUCK!... Son of a bitch!"

"Calm down trooper!" said another ODST over the radio

Tetra was now falling from low orbit in a titanium case and was on fucking fire

"Um... is this supposed to happen!"

"HA!... you never get used to the crackling, adrenaline and shock of dropping from orbit, hell it is scary shocking and shit some of us don't make it!"

"Son of a bitch!"

*BANG* Tetra's pod hit the ground and all the other ODSTs kicked open their pod doors so she did the same with her M7 SMG SD firing silent but deadly AP rounds, their job was to help secure a beach head with the first wave by surrounding current enemy positions.

Tetra's team FT delta dropped out on the opposite side of the island and was engaged by Covies in the forest by a path that led into the center of the island

"Fire team delta I'm dropping of a warthog for ya, stand by" said Foehammer "here ya are"

Tetra jumped on the gun while the sergeant and private got on the driver and passenger seats.

"Corporal! Start shooting!"

"Yes sir!"

And she opened up ant the Covie forces in the forest

"Sir might I suggest we get moving"

"It's stuck... damn it!"

"Look out"

*Ka-Boom* the hog was hit by a shot from a fuel rod cannon and blew up.

"Fuck!" Tetra yelled as she dove off the hog

"Son of a bitch!" she swore as she was pinned down by the Covenant "IF I'M GOIN' DOWN! I'M TAKEIN' SOME OF YOU WITH ME!" She yelled as she ripped of the turret of the Warthog's ruins "YOU WANT SUM! COME GET IT!"

MC's POV

MC watched Link charge up the beach after bashing an Elite in the face and flipping a jackal and putting a bullet in its cranium "kid would make a good Spartan" he thought to himself and without looking ripped the head of two jackals and impaled an elite.

Three minutes later the beach head was secure, but still there was one problem fire team delta was MIA.

"Son of a bitch!" MC muttered "LINK! Get over here, Foehammer is dropping us off a warthog and we must go find fire team delta before doing anything. The only reason he worried was cuz the other kid tetra was in that team... otherwise it would be just a secondary, a "if we come across them" type thing. MC and Link went off to look while the rest of the marines stayed put for home base. Link and MC came across an old structure that Cortana said should lead to the map room.

"Look! In the cliff wall...I'll bet the Silent Cartographer is somewhere inside that facility. The Covenant are putting up a very good fight. The Cartographer must be here. My analysis indicates that the map room should be at the bottom floor of this facility." Informed Cortana

"Alright let's go in then" said MC

MC and Link fought their way into the structure and when they go to the bottom a golden Elite was standing by the door...

"Don't let them lock the doors!" Cortana exclaimed *sigh* "Interesting. I've underestimated the Covenant's understanding of Halo's subsystems. They've locked the doors and we don't have enough firepower to get through them... Cortana to keys!"

"Go ahead, Cortana, have you found the control center?" Keys said over the com

"Negative, Captain, the Covenant have impeded our progress. We can't proceed unless we can disable this installation's security system."

"Understood, were still in route to the objective. I may be out of contact when we get there. Here are your orders: I want you to use any means necessary to force your way in to the facility and find Halo's control center. We have to get to the center before the Covenant. Failure, people, is not an option."

"Echo 419 to ground teams: I'll stay on station and keep an eye out for Covenant, folks." Came Foehammer over the radio

"Second squad ready to roll as soon as everyone's topside. LZ looks secure, sir, nothing moving." said the sergeant of Bravo team

"Good luck, people. Keyes out."

"We need to find the security override to get this door open." Cortana said as they left the building.

Master Chief and Link headed down the shore of the island and soon heard the sound of gunfire...

Tetra's POV

"Shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit, shit!" Complained Tetra as she had taken (not that I was counting) about 12 shots from a T25 DEP (plasma pistol) and 15 from a T25 DER (plasma rifle) and 5 shots from a T33 (needler) and 2 close calls with T1 APGs (plasma grenades) and 1 more close shave with a shot from a T33 LAAW (fuel rod Gun) (notice: I am using the weapon names from the Reach manual so if some of the names don't match that is probably why!) and was near out of ammo, to top it off she figured if she took another hit she'd be done! "Maybe it would be better if I just rest for a while... get some sleep" she thought, but part of her knew what that really meant. The pain was just so strong... but then she heard it.

*Ratatatatatatatat*

*shrieks of grunts* "Leader dead! Run away! Ahaha!"

"Huh?" She figured she would look over the edge... "LINK... Master Chief!"

MC and Link were on a warthog gunning down the remaining grunts, with this relief only then could she account for the damage she had done. As just one ODST. She killed 3 blue Elites 2 Reds and 1 golden along with 22 grunts and 13 jackals!

"Holy crap!"

"Tetra!" Link yelled as he saw her "Holy shit!"

"What?" she asked

"Um... have you looked at yourself?"

So she did and what she saw was shock. Her armour partly melted, she had lost her helmet, her arm trigger finger arm was shredded and bleeding badly and her face was badly scarred.

"Shit, Tetra... hey Chief pass me a med kit!"

Link got to work treating Tetras wounds to the best of his abilities.

"Damn Tetra, at least don't lose your helmet next time" Link said after he had finished her head wounds and her face was almost like before with a scar running across her eyebrow to her cheek, just a reminder.

"And why's that?" she asked partly P.O'Ed

"Cuz" Link said matter of factly "so that pretty face STAYS pretty"

"Oh ha-ha! Please spare the pity!" she chuckled

"I was serious"

"Ok... whatever" but she was grateful for the concern

"come on you two let's not get all cheesy in front of any hard core halo fans save it for LOZ fanfic!" Said Cortana

"Wait... what?"

"Never mind" Cortana said quickly "let's just keep going!"

"Fine" said Tetra "It's time to kill things and chew bubble gum... AND IM ALL OUT OF GUM! FUCK!"

"Uh, Tetra" said Chief

"What" she said disappointed

"I has gum! O.O" LOL! "Bubble gum or Mint?"

Link's POV

Once they made it up the hill to the top of the island they had been pinned by two hunters and 7 grunts and 3 jackals.

"CRAP! Chief you got an idea?"

"Why are you asking me" Chief seemed to be getting feed up, OMG he showed Emotion! O.O (bout time!)

"Uh, cuz you've got the AI in your head"

"Oh, right!"

"We should have you two suppers fire on the hunters while Chief and I go around and flank them" Suggested Cortana

"Well what about the jackals and grunts?"

"What about them?"

"Well aren't they a problem"

Master Chief LAUGHED! And as did Cortana so hard he fell over!

"Grunts, a problem... ha-ha that's a good one!" said chief

"You know it was a grunt that started the human-covenant war with the battle of Harvest!"

"How do you know that?"

"I've been studying history... I also searched it up on Wikipedia!"

"Um... OK?"

"Whatever I bet the readers are getting bored lets just get this started!"

*BANG* Tetra shot a Hunter in the head and it fell dead

*Bang* she did the same with the other

"What the hell was that for why didn't you say you could do that?"

"You didn't ask"

"D'OH!"

After getting to the top and turning of the security they headed back to the Map building and killed the golden Elite.

6 hours later after finding the map room

(no one's POV)

"FUCK! We ARE LOST!" complained Link

"No were not! We just forgot where the exit is" Said chief

"Yeah LOST!" Exclaimed Tetra, Link and Cortana at the same time (notice: to all of you players that would get stuck on that part on legendary, Conrad's if you made it out...! I rage quit after about 3 hours of looking) sad :(.

"You know this reminds me of the time I went into the tower of the gods and I couldn't find the big key... then I couldn't find the boss room... so I went to walkthroughs on on my blackberry" Link brought up.

(From now on in long conversations I am going to do this)

Tetra: "wait... Link do you have your blackberry?"

Link: "no do you"

Tetra: "no... CHIEF!"

MC: "huh?"

Tetra "what are you doing?"

MC: "nothing"

Cortana: "Oh my god he is playing angry birds!"

Link: WTF u have an IPod?

Chief: no... I have an iPhone... an iPhone 4 to be exact with Wi-Fi

Link: damn it chief! Look up IGN walkthroughs

Chief: no! I'm on world 3 level 11 and almost have 3 stars

Tetra: Cortana, would you mind?

Cortana: of course not, you know what seems like hours for you has seemed like decades for me literally!

*woooo*

Chief: (whiny voice) what the hell was that for!

Cortana: I will give back you suits power if you promise to look up IGN walkthroughs first

Chief: (whiny voice) FINE!

*woooop*

Chief: Are you fucking serious!

Link, Tetra, Cortana: WHAT!

Chief: (points down the stairs)

Link: what could be down stairs we want to go up!

After walking back down to the map room

Tetra: OMG

Link: OMGWTF

Cortana: OMGWTFBBQ

Chief: that's what I thought

Link: oh magic exit how I've missed you! Ooh! A... WTF is this

Chief: Over shields!

Link: Coooool

Back at the top. Link quickly took his helmet off and threw up, as did Tetra, chief did to but didn't take his helmet off

"Crap" he said

"Oh magic exit... that never gets old!" Link said thinking about the past

"I would have thrown up if I wasn't an AI my circuits are still spinning!" Complained Cortana

"This is echo 419 do you need a lift into the center of the island?"

"Um yeah how did you know... wait IGN right!"

"Yep"

"Ah whatever!"

"...Chief get the fuck of your IPhone 4 damn it"

*smack*

"How the fuck can an AI smack you?"

To be continued

PS: I hope you liked the gag I put in there cuz I just put it in cuz I needed filler but I think it actually turned out fairly good and I intend to put more gags like that

Next chapter- Assault on the control room