Hello everyone, Stevie here I just wanted to make a small author' note here answering a review by Aggiefan. There will be more Brandy especially in future chapters but right now Karl is nowhere near Brandy so he can't really get in contact with her, and mayyyybeee . :P\
Karl sat there for a while before Soya turned to him, "Karl I must go I have duties I must tend to." Soya said and Karl just got up and helped her up as well. They shared a short hug before she walked away out of the gardens. Karl just sighed and decided to take a walk around the gardens and see all the exotic plants it held. He saw many ones with strange shapes and colors. He had no idea what to call any of them except a bright red and orange one which he named a 'Dragon Flower'.
He continued to explore with his hands close to the weapons he had with him, he didn't want a repeat of two days ago. Karl sighed as he walked towards the exit of the keep, he wanted to actually explore anywhere else and see what this planet had in terms of pretty much anything. But he would make sure to keep discreet and not stand out as much as possible.
He would have thought that word had gone around that a human was here from the, at least what he thought, merchants that came and left the keep with goods. He had tried some sangheili food while he was here and it was not that bad, at least the meat was he didn't enjoy the stuff he couldn't identify. He was not very hungry now since he usually only ate once a day but usually a big meal.
He left the keep and was walking down a dirt road towards what he assumed was a town or city. He was not wearing his armor which he just realized and he couldn't walk around in the open as much as he would like to. Karl made it to the outskirts and noticed many Sangheili out working and he even spotted a couple of kids running around. He glared at any Sangheili that looked his way for too long and they would usually look away and go among their business.
Karl was enjoying this small walk until he spotted someone following him, another human, that appeared to be female and wearing all black armor similar to an ODSTs and she stood out very badly. Karl let out a small chuckle and turned around. "Could you be more discrete please? I am trying to enjoy a walk." Karl said as he made sure to keep a hand very close to his magnum. She walked close enough to hit him with a punch, and grabbed his arm. Karl didn't flinch, "Karl Kuhn you are under arrest you are coming with me!" She shouted at him and several others dressed similar to her came out of the shadows and all had Assault Rifles pointed at him. 'Oh it can't be this bitch again' Karl thought.
Karl quickly grabbed his magnum and spun behind her quickly putting an arm around her throat and holding her tightly to himself. She didn't expect it and neither did any of the possibly ONI agents. He held the magnum to her head, "If anyone even moves a finger or a muscle twitches this 50 caliber round is going right through this helmet and into her head and out the other side." Karl said seriously as he clicked off the safety on his magnum and put pressure on the trigger, but not enough.
One of the agents spoke up, "Kuhn if you pull that trigger that is just another murder added to your record." The agent said in a very serious voice. "What the fuck did I just say!" Karl said, "I guess she didn't tell you new guys on her team why exactly I was about to be detained?" Karl said, none of them moved so he spoke on, "Well she wanted to take me and my mission to god knows where to probably start another war, I wouldn't know the details but that's how ONI works." Karl said.
He then felt a barrel touch the back of his head, "Drop the gun Kuhn." He heard a rough voice say, he knew who it was immediately. "Captain Shale?" Karl said as he didn't even turn his head. "Yes sir." Karl said as he let go of the agent and threw the gun to the ground. He turned around and saw the man he recognized wearing ODST body armor but proper armor with all the markings. Karl instantly shot up a salute, them not being in a combat zone and all. "At ease Sergeant Major." Shale said and he nodded to the agent behind him.
Karl felt his arms being pulled behind him and into zip ties, but Karl didn't resist. "Looks like we know your weakness Kuhn." The agent said behind him. Karl fumed, his weakness was loyalty to the UNSC. "Don't worry Kuhn you are going into UNSC custody not ONI. Orders from Hood himself." Shale said as he took off his helmet, "Man it is hot as hell here." Karl looked at the man in front of him, "Sir, I was performing my duty to the UNSC when I did what I did, I know first hand the shit they pull." Karl said in almost a whisper to Shale. Shale got closer, "I know kid, that is why ONI isn't taking you and the UNSC is." Shale said quietly to Karl. Karl nodded and felt himself being pulled. He was poked in the back several times and he got the clue and started walking forward. He was quickly surrounded by the ONI agents and Shale.
After a few minutes of walking Karl had been rubbing his zipties off his hands slowly but surely as he used his own sweat to finally get them off but pretended to still have them on.
After a few more blocks of walking he reached for his knife which they lacked to grab, but before he could he felt a hand clench his, "No you don't" He heard an agent say. "Captain the SOB went for his kn-" He was cut off when Karl slammed his fist into the Agents throat and then stabbed his shoulder, with his other arm he grabbed his AR and then pulled out the knife, flinging the agent into another one, they both tumbled to the ground and Karl quickly unloaded into two more of them, making sure to not shoot lethally, he shot to wound. After shooting both agents in the arms and legs several times he aimed the gun at Shale, but Shale was faster and shot Karl in the stomach with his own magnum. Karl felt the impact but his advanced vest caught the bullet.
Karl fell to the ground though and with a large loss of air. He was breathing heavily when Shale put a foot onto Karl's chest to hold him down. Karl simply got his knife again and stabbed it into Shale's leg making him stumble back and Karl was able to regain his footing. "Kuhn you idiot! I can't believe you think humanity can actually have peace with these beasts." Shale said as he got out his own combat knife and had all of his focus on Karl. "You have seen what they have done first hand, yet you still think they are able to repay what they have done." Shale said.
Karl just rolled his eyes, "Sir I don't think you understand that another war would just mean more human lives lost, and they were lied to, used as pawns." Karl said in retaliation. "Yes, but we have the advantage now, they don't have their production capabilities anymore, once we destroy their navy they can't rebuild it, once we capture their weapons they can't remake them." Shale said with venom on his tongue. Karl just growled and stared harshly at his once in the past commander. Karl didn't want to waste anymore time so he quickly grabbed the knife by the blade and threw it with every bit of force he could muster in his body. Throwing it has hard and far as he would a grenade to hit an enemy position.
Karl watched in disbelief as his knife shattered Shale's bullet proof glass visor and went straight into the flesh behind it. Karl let out a small cheer and ran to his body, kneeling down next to it and he took Shale's dog tags. After that he pulled the knife out of Shale's head and flicked off the blood and brains from his knife. He went over to the injured ONI agents and dragged them all to the side of a building.
"If any of you try to come for me again, unless you can get Hood himself to come here so I can talk to him personally I will not hesitate to kill every one of you assholes. Got me?" Karl said angrily as he pointed at all of them. One of them responded weakly, "Yeah we got it..." He said. Karl nodded and began to walk away, "Call your buddies to come pick you up, i'll be long gone by the time they get here." Karl said and as soon as he turned the corner he sprinted off back towards the keep.
He just killed a UNSC officer, but an obviously corrupt one, poisoned by ONI's propaganda and lies.
A short chapter but one that I hope you guys enjoyed, if you couldn't tell already Karl hates ONI and ONI hates Karl, so they are fighting a very discrete war. The reason this chapter is so short is because soon I will began a work on a story based in the Call of Duty universe however with my own OCs and plot. It will be an interesting one in the sense that it will be very different from a single character to a group of characters that share a close bond from fighting a war together.
Anyways I hope you all enjoyed this chapter and expect the new one up this weekend except it will be much longer :)
Love,
Stevie