343 guilty spark

Links pov

Tetra, link and MC appeared in a swamp next to a downed pelican with the engines still hot, marines had been here recently.

Link searched the ship and found some shotguns and handed MC and tetra one each just in case and the trio continued towards the area that they last had contact with keys and Johnson.

"Ahhh!" a grunt ran out of a bush and right past the trio followed by 4 more and 2 jackals and they didn't even slow down.

"What was that about?" thought Link

The group soon came to the structure that they had last heard keys and more Covies even Elites were fleeing in terror and out of the building they could see and hear human weapons firing, MA5Bs to be exact.

"Wow" thought Tetra "those marines must shur be giving them hell"

MC ran down the side of the hill they were on and slaughtered the remaining Covenant, then signalling to the two ODSTs that it was clear.

"Watch your corners" ordered Chief

"Hey an elevator!" Said Tetra

"Get on"

"Yes sir"

Link got on the elevator and was staring at the top corner of a wall and could have sworn he saw a small pale thing no bigger than his head... but when the elevator got started he figured it was his imagination.

Tetra's POV

The trio steeped off the Elevator and looked around the room they were in, a simple hall with some sort of ramp in the middle.

Tetra checked her AR ammo level and ran up the ramp which stopped about part way up and looked over the edge ready to fire if anything was there but it was all clear and she signalled to move up with her hand signals. No sound yet just the occasional heavy Chiefly foot step but nothing hostile sounding... but that was the problem, with there being no sound, it always sounded hostile what with Tetra not knowing what lay around the next corner or door, but she was actually relived when they came across a small squad of covenant. But even they only put up a token of resistance, and there was no Elite leading them... odd. They passed thru a hallway with a fork in it and the group chose left but they ended up where they were heading in the first place as it was just a box type corridor but they noticed something strange. A dead grunt lay in a broken doorway which was blocked by some Covie weapon holders and the grunt had its blood painted all over the walls and its guts ripped out and strewn along the floor.

"Oh... god damn it!" Tetra swore and threw up, the stench it smelled like dead and decaying bodies and wet dog with saliva and barf, shit, some type of infection like a fungus with a hint of swamp and not normal swamp I mean like bogish or something.

The group had continued thru the door at the end of the hall and started getting shot at

"Stay back! Stay back! You're not turnin' me into one of those things! I'll blow your brains out- get away from me! *Screaming uncontrollably* don't touch me you freaks! I won't be like you, I'll die first! Find your own hiding place! The monsters are everywhere! Play dead, that's what I did, play dead. They took the live ones. Oh god; I can still hear them! Monsters! *Screaming again* Just leave me alone! Sarge, Mendoza, Versente- oh god the things took them! (Keeps saying away repeatedly). They're gone, get it, gone! They won't get me! Oh god, oh god! I don't wanna be like them. Please *begins to cry like a baby* please no, please no." Screamed a frightened marine (yeah, no shit really huh?).

"Should I put him out of his misery, sir?" Asked Tetra to Chief, cocking her pistol.

*Bang* "no..."

Tetra rolled her eyes.

The group continued thru the room, but found no way into the next as all the doors were locked down or blocked off.

"Up there!" said Link, and pointed to a broken wall that they could climb up.

The trio continued thru the complex without any more incidents... until

"Fucking door!" Chief swore and attempted to kick down a door.

"Uh... Chief?" Started Link

"WHAT!"

*beep, boop, BEEE* *shwoop*

The door opened "happy?"

"Thanks..."

"Phew! It reeks in her more than Chief's foot locker!" Commented Tetra

"Oh, shut up!" He came back "hey! What's this?" He picked up a helmet recorder and put in the uplink to watch it.

(After a very confusing video)

[General POV]

"We have to go! NOW!" Chief said quickly and worriedly

"Chief what is it...? Wait! What's that sound?" Asked Link

Tetra screamed "Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" And started blasting her rifle at the ground.

Link looked over "OH SHIT!" and he started firing.

And this was the first time Chief ever suggested the following... "RUN FOR IT!" and they all started towards the exit. Blasting any parasitic being that got in their way.

"AHHH!" Tetra screamed and let loose about a third of her clip into one of the... things and it fell dead. But a few seconds later...

"What the fuck! I could have sworn I just unloaded like 20-25... give or take 30 rounds into that thing and now it gets back up!"

"Another elevator! Get on quick!"

Everyone piled on and Chief hit the button and up they flew!

When the elevator stopped they found themselves surrounded by marine survivors.

"Chief! Good to see ya!" Said Sgt. Stacker. "We sure could use your help, sir; these creepy mutants won't know what hit 'em!"

A few minutes of wading thru Flood later...

*Zap* a red beam of energy came down and vaporized a flood combat form that was about to club M.C

"Hello, who are you?" asked a bubbly voice, and a small blue ball flew down from a tower just to the left.

"Spartan-117! We are human and we-"

"Ah! A re-claimer! At long last! I have been waiting for you! My sentinels will see your men out safely do not worry...! I am 343 guilty spark monitor of installation 04 how may I help you!" it said

"Ummm... Link! Tetra! You guys head back to base camp with the others I have solo work to do!"

"No, sir!"

"THAT WAS AN ORDER!"

*sigh* "sir yes sir"

And Chief vanished in a golden light while the survivors were escorted to a nearby pelican and they repaired it and got the hell out of there!

A few days later...

"Hey you ODSTs!" Called Stacker

"What?" asked Link and Tetra

"you guys got a requisitioned for some program they got running back on Earth! So we're sending you back to the mother planet."

"Ok"

"Alright take that longsword bomber in the hanger and head to Earth, here are the coordinates, just enter them in the control interface and let the ship do the rest."

"Thanks." Said Link, and he and Tetra got into the Longsword and took off for Earth.

WOW this one was short compared with the other ones! :( Kina sad about it...