Finally, I managed to get a new chapter done! Its really difficult as I am near the end, but I can't come up with more as fast as I would like. I decided to add a little something in order to change from the BL storyline a bit. This is the problem with RPG's, play them too much, and the story becomes dull. I made the error of playing too much the story since I maxed out my character. Anyways, I hope you enjoy or at least like this chapter while I try to get a great chapter to you as soon as I can.
"Ok, so we are doing what now?" Axton asked as they made their way up a rock structure.
Maya groaned, "Weren't you paying attention?"
"Kinda hard to do when-" Axton was interrupted as Gaige puked again, "Well...that."
"Ughhh...why are you better already and I'm not!?" Gaige whined.
"It's a little thing I like to call...karma." Axton replied happily.
"I'll show you karma," Gaige grumbled, "and shove it straight up your-"
"ANYWAYS!" Maya snapped, "We're going to get Claptrap an upgrade, which Mordecai quickly got his hands on, so we're going to meet up with him, and then we'll see what we can do from there about the voicing system and the bunker."
"Guys! Thank god you're here." Mordecai called out as they got to the top, "I had the upgrade you needed-"
"Had?" John asked.
"Well, it was on Bloodwing," Mordecai explained, "but she was captured and taken into that Hyperion Wildlife Preserve."
"You think she's ok?" Maya asked.
"I'm sure she is." Mordecai replied, "Blood's a strong girl, she can take care of herself. I've been looking around for a way in, but its locked up pretty tightly." Gaige took the pause time to let out her lunch. "She ok?"
"Stomach virus, still hasn't gone away." Axton replied, "Hey Gaige...uhh...maybe you should sit this one out."
"I can still hold a gun, I can still fight." Gaige replied tiredly.
"I believe her." Mordecai commented, "If you could get in, in the first place."
"We'll find a way in." John reassured before a static shriek came through the ECHO and John's communicator.
"OW! WHAT THE FUCK!?" Gaige shouted before the shriek died down and became simple static. A few short seconds later a voice could be heard through the static.
"-NS- nity- 1,7- opy?"
"What?" Gaige asked.
"Wait, I know that voice!" John said before lowering his head a bit, "Spartan 1,1,7 to Infinity, do you copy?" Static. "1,1,7 to Infinity." More static. "Cpt. Lasky!?" The radio fell silent and John shook his head.
"Who was that?" Maya asked.
"A friend, and comrade, Cpt. Lasky." John replied, "It seems the Infinity managed to track down the Pelican I came in." Gaige scratched her head.
"Infinity? Pelican?" she asked, "What are you talking about?"
"The Infinity is a giant ship we use to travel through space, about as large as the moon base over there." John explained as he pointed at the Hyperion Moon Base, "The Pelican is a much smaller ship used for travel on the planet, as well as from the ship to the ground and vice versa without having to land the ship."
"Well, we should try to find a way to get you in contact with them." Maya suggested.
"It can wait, first we need to get Bloodwing and the upgrade from that facility." John replied before a beep was heard. John made his way to the cliffside in time to see an object fall from the sky and impact at the entrance of the facility. "Gaige, sit this one out." John ordered before climbing down the mountain to the impact zone.
"You heard him. Now be a good girl while we're away." Axton teased.
"If I weren't sick, I'd-" Gaige quickly ran to a nearby cliff and puked again.
"Yo, I'm not responsible for anything that happens to her." Mordecai commented.
"Axton, stay with Gaige." Maya ordered.
"WHAT!?" Axton shouted, "WHY ME!?"
"Mordecai's got his hands full with Bloodwing being kidnapped, adding another worry will not help...and also because you teased her." Maya replied before climbing down the mountain.
"Ha! Karma motherfu-" Gaige once again was cut off by the insisting freedom of her lunch.
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John reached the impact zone to find the entrance wall broken down and a UNSC Ordinance drop at the center. Prying it open, he found a Battle Rifle, spare mags, and a monitor which flickered on.
"Chief," Lasky began, "I hope you're watching this, since this Ordinance drop is programmed to open only to you. We copied the last coordinates that was sent to us from your Pelican...I don't know how long it'll take this to arrive, but I've been given orders to maintain course. I'm trying to get a crew to go after you, but due to the fact that we lost contact about two seconds after your ship jumped, the higher ups have labeled the mission too risky to undertake without further info...or confirmation that you're not KIA. It's stupid, I know, but orders are orders. This doesn't mean I'm going to stop though, I'll keep trying for permission to bring the Infinity to these coordinates, or at the very least a Pelican to extract you and the scientists in. See you soon, Chief."
"Good thing you've got good friends." Maya commented.
"Strange..." John replied, "This message was recorded three years ago." The screen flicked and displayed the message, "SYSTEM PURGE ACTIVATED...COMPLETE" before going dark.
"Hey, what's in that thing?" Gaige asked through the ECHO, "I think I see grenades and something else!"
"A weapon." Maya replied as John retrieved the Battle Rifle and ammo, "Wait, how can you see it?"
"I'm using a telescope Mordecai had lying around." Gaige replied.
"Let's keep going." John commanded and Maya nodded.
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Traveling through the wildlife preserve facility yielded various battles and a few weapons chests that were carelessly left behind, though none of them had useful weapons in them. They had reached the holding cell for experiments when Mordecai contacted them.
"Alright, Blood's cell should be right around the corner." he informed and John swiftly made his way to the corner and peeked around with rifle at the ready, thankfully the room was empty save for the Skags and Stalkers in their cells. John swung his AR onto his shoulder as he pressed buttons on the keypad to Bloodwing's cell while Maya kept watch.
"Hey Axton." Maya called into the ECHO, "How's Gaige?"
"She's alright." Axton replied, "Fell asleep a few minutes ago."
"Good to hear, wouldn't want her to charge in if something happened while she's sick." Maya commented, "How about you?"
"Bored, hungry, but alright." Axton replied, "Thanks for asking, what about you? Get hurt?"
"Nope, I'm alright...thanks." Maya replied, "Chief took a few shots, but his shield is way tougher than ours."
"Its not." John replied as he punched in different codes being given to him by Mordecai."It's just that a lot of the soldiers are a bad shot so when I get hit there's usually enough time for my shields to recharge." The Key pad let out an error beep. "Mordecai none of the codes work."
"Damn it! I just got those fresh off their communications!" Mordecai exclaimed through the ECHO. John shook his head and smashed the back of his AR against the key pad and the door opened.
"...you could have done that earlier." Maya said as she and John went through the doors. The cell was a slightly maintained habitat with a single tree at the end that had blood and feathers at the base. John approached it and kneeled down and picked up one of the feathers to inspect it.
"She's not there?" Mordecai asked before another person's voice came through the ECHO.
"Oh yeah, we moved her." Jack mocked, "We had to run a few test on her."
"Damn it Jack!" Mordecai snapped.
"We'll find her Mordecai." Maya reassured before alarm went off.
"SUBJECT CONTAINMENT FIELDS REMOVED, HANDLE SPECIMENS WITH CARE." an automated voice announced.
"I am going to kill someone." Maya hissed.
"Better be those Skags and not me." Axton replied through the ECHO. Maya and John fought their way through hoards of Skags and Stalkers until they reached an area that appeared to be a large pen roof observation deck.
"Alright, you can have your bird back." Jack commented through the ECHO, "But just so you know, we had her undergo a few experiments." A floor blast door opened to reveal a purple bird at least three times as big as John.
"Bloodwing!" Mordecai exclaimed through the ECHO, but his cry was the last thing Maya and John had their attention on as loud band was heard and they turned to see a huge figure fall from the sky, headed for them. Bloodwing, oblivious to the immense object, took to the sky only to get hit by the giant object and was sent back onto the ground.
"HO-LY FU~CK!" Gaige exclaimed thought the ECHO as the object destroyed a wall nearby Maya and John before managing to stop just before it impacted against the ground. John's communicator crackled and came to life with a familiar voice.
"Enjoying your trip Chief?" the voice asked.
"Lasky?" John asked as he finally recognized the object as a Pelican as it hovered back to them and landed. Four marines piled out of the Pelican as Bloodwing finally shook off her daze from the impact with the pelican. The marines readied their weapons on her while signaling the Pelican to leave as Bloodwing began to claw at the ship.
"You could've told us the LZ was hot!" Lasky exclaimed through the communicator.
"You didn't give me time to." John joked as the Pelican made its escape.
"You think that just because you brought in a few more friends, you'll be able to defeat my new creation?" Jack asked through the ECHO, "She got every element on her side, like FIRE!" Bloodwing landed and a stream of fire was released on her before her body changed to camouflage with the fire before taking off again.
"What, the, fuck is that!?" one of the marines asked as they took cover while Maya and John did the same opposite of them.
"Marines," John called into his communicator, "I need you to distract the bird when she homes in on us."
"Wait! Don't hurt her!" Mordecai exclaimed, "I-I, maybe I can tranquilize her and we'll be able to cure her!"
"Corrosion!" Jack shouted as Bloodwing came down as a stream of corrosion fell onto her where she initially came in from before turning and clawing at one of the marines.
"Get her away from me!" the marine cried out as he fired his AR blindly into the bird. His fellow marines as well as John and Maya aided the cornered marine and managed to force Bloodwing away.
"Electricity!" Jack exclaimed as bolt of electricity landed on Bloodwing before she took to the sky.
"Look out, she's diving!" Mordecai shouted as Bloodwing came down beak first and his the ground, bouncing off, and causing a shockwave of electricity that narrowly missed the marines, though it was close enough to send a small shock through them.
"Let's see slag, corrosion, fire, electricity…" Jack thought out loud before Bloodwing took the time to hover.
"NOW!" John commanded and all of them opened fire on the bird, bringing it down in seconds. Bloodwing came crashing down and lay weakly on the ground. John and Maya slowly approached and noticed the upgrade they came for on a chain around Bloodwing's neck.
"Hey, there it is." She stated while Mordecai scrambled on the ECHO.
"Come on, help me find that tranq!" His voice exclaimed, "Easy Blood, everything's going to be alright."
"Lasky," John called into his communicator as Maya retrieved the upgrade, "do you see the lone mountain like structure nearby?"
"Yeah." Lasky replied.
"Head up there, there are some friends that'll need extraction and-"
"Oh yeah, now I remember." Jack's voice came over the ECHO, "EXPLOSIVE!" John quickly pulled Maya away as Bloodwing let out a pained cry before her head exploded with a pop.
"NOO!" Mordecai shouted.
"You see, this is what happens when you mess with me." Jack said with a voice that literally told you he was smiling, proud of his action.
"JACK, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" Mordecai shouted.
John examined the body before shaking his head and calling into his communicator, "Lasky, we're ready for evac…"
I'm holding a vote on how to continue or end this as it is very difficult to continue without your opinion and my brain's cooperation, so I have three choices:
1) End in the next chapter or so with and ending between happy and tragic.
2)Continue, but skip an area of your choice if you believe it must be skipped (if I am already not going to do so).
3) Suck it up and continue to the best of my abilities.
PLease inbox me your opinions (or if you're a guest, then place your opinion in the review), but if I happen to not get anything, then I'll have to go with 1 or 3.