Fighting Chance

Here we go folks another chapter, sorry posting has been slow but I'll try to do it a bit more frequently :) Just keep reviewin and I'll keep writing! No Halo rights

The world around me was dark as I tried to see through the fog, but it was as barren as a wasteland...maybe even worse. My hands automatically reached for my weapons but there were none there, "What the?" I got confused as I found that I had no weapons, grenades, or knives on me, had I been knocked out and taken somewhere? I shook my head at the ridiculousness of the question, it was impossible for a room to be this dark and let alone have weird fog in it. Trying not to think about what was going on I began to walk in any direction, hoping to find a door of some sort or maybe even a gun...I felt to vulnerable without one. As I walked I put my face mask up deciding that I didn't need to have it on at the moment, but all of a sudden a whispering sounded out around me, making my mask go back into place within a fraction of a second. "Hello?" My call echoed out around the space but I heard no reply, just the silence of the darkness.

I narrowed my eyes in suspicion and activated my suits sensors, but they picked up no other sign of life other than my own, odd. Again I started to walk, my slim boots making the slightest of noises as they hit the floor, and when I had walked for no more than a minute the whispering began once again, except this time, it did not stop when I turned around. "You struggle on the inside...I feel it." I tried to keep my calm composure as I was trained to do and I replied back in a neutral tone, "Who, what, are you? And what do you mean?" The voice sounded again, louder this time, and it had a growling under tone that enhanced the voice. "I, I am the air you breath. The life around...but you need no name. Tell me child, why do you struggle to see what's right?" "I don't know what you mean, I do what I must. Whether it is good or bad, I do not hesitate." It chuckled, the noise sending chills down my spine as it echoed around me closely, "Ahhh, but is it what you think is right? Or what you have been programed to think is right? So many questions waiting for answers..." I clenched my hands into fists as I heard the reasoning in its voice, but I didn't want to believe that this thing knew me.

"Your wrong, I wouldn't do something I didn't think was right..." "You sound unsure...is there a part of you that agrees with me? Tell me, do you wish you would have listened to your mind over your heart all those years ago?" My breathing nearly stopped as I heard those words and I was glad my mask was in place to hide my reaction as my eyes widened, "You can't know...what the hell are you and where am I?! Tell me now!" But he never answered for the smoke began to swirl around me and cloud my vision, making me close my eyes and wrap my arms around my shoulders, waiting for it to go away along with the voice. When I reopened my eyes I was once again the the covenant cell on their ship, Keys looking at me with a stern tone as he spoke, "Something wrong Agent? You were muttering and thrashing as if you were possessed." I took a breath to steady myself and nodded my helmeted head, "Yes sir, just a dream..." He nodded and looked as if he wanted to say more but held his tongue, "They've just taken a few of the soldiers from the cell beside us, we may be next." I cursed under my breath and stood tall as I looked around for something, anything, that could help me defend myself in some way. They had taken all of my weapons when they took me in...all except one. I reached down into my boot and pulled out a thin yet razor sharp 4 inch knife, silently cheering in my head at their fatal slip up. But I quickly put it back as I heard a few elites jabbering as they began to near our cell, grunting and growling every few words.

I stepped back and stood slightly in front of the captain as they deactivated the shield on our cell and advanced forward, a pair of odd looking restraints in hand and sneers on their faces. "Ee mok na vas. Take the female." The golden armored elite nodded to his comrade and growled as he moved towards me with the restraints, my body willed me to react but for the sake of the captain I didn't resist as I was restrained and lead out of the room. As we left the cell room I looked around and tried to memorize the halls we took, hopefully if I escaped I could make it back to keys and the others and find a way out of here...the problem was escaping. After another few twists and turns we came up to a larger door, the bright red lights signifying that it was locked at the moment. The golden elite passed me off to his silver armored friend and placed his three fingered hand on a pad like device beside it, making the red lights flash light blue and the door opened up with an odd pinging noise.

I was led past a few rows od pedastels and up a ramp to a large metal circle with 4 shackle holders, two up top for my hands and two down bottom for my feet. I knew that they were not going to be gentle so it was either now or never. I waited until they took off the shackles to hook me up and I whipped out my knife from one of my thigh compartments, slicing one of the elites in the face as I came back up and spun away from them. He roared in anger and pulled out an energy sword while the other pulled out a plasma rifle, this was a bit worse than I thought. I held the knife in a defensive position ready to strike out as they advanced, but I now knew that I was not going to be a match for the two larger aliens. I rolled to the side as the one shot at me and I held up the knife to try and block the slashes from the energy sword, but since my knife was not near anywhere long enough the sword managed to cut through part of my gauntlet and sear my skin.

I grunted in pain and tried to dodge towards the door to no avail, and I was caught as the golden elite slammed into me and pushed my head roughly into the ground before hoisting me up. Then I was once again dragged over to the holding device and this time successfully hooked in, the clamps snapping around my hands and feet a bit painfully. They then proceeded to hit me in the gut and knocked the wind out of me, making me groan in pain and my body went slack, only being held up by the weird restraints. They continued to talk to one another but I was no longer paying attention, I just let my body go slack and I closed my eyes, not wanting to see what they were going to do to me. They seemed to walk away, their footsteps echoing around the room, but I didn't hear the ping of the door opening...they must be getting their instruments. But all of a sudden my head was yanked upwards and my helmet was torn from my head, revealing my scratched and bruised face and hating expression. The silver elite gave me a menacing grin and tossed my helmet away before taking my gauntlets off, what the hell were they doing. I thought he was going to take the rest of my armor away but then he just turned and stalked off. I watched him go over to where there was a control panel, the gold elite standing off to the side, and he began to slide his hands over the panel, making it light up and bleep.

I began to wonder if he was even doing anything but all of a sudden my body tensed and convulsed as waves of high electricity were sent through it without warning. When it finally stopped I felt the sweat drip from my brow and I was breathing heavily, my muscles still twitching from the abrupt shocking. It was only another moment or two before I was hit with another jolt and I cried out in pain, my teeth grinding together to try and hold back my cries. I don't know what they were doing to me but this wasn't any type of regular electricity, I could see the currents originating from the clamps and the static coming from them was a red in color. The pain made me shut my eyes tightly and my body convulsed as it increased, I just wanted the pain to stop. But just when I thought I couldn't take anymore it did stop, and I looked up to see the elites typing something in to their odd computer like screen, then they nodded to one another and left the room. Making sure to lock the door behind them. My breathing was slow and I felt my eyelids grow heavy as my body started to shut down, it had been pushed to the point of exhaustion and beyond, and it couldn't take much more...I hoped help arrived soon.

(Narrative PoV) Plasmas flew after the group of marines as they ran after the Master Chief, trying to keep up with the spartans large strides. They had managed to get aboard the covenant aircraft where the Captain was being held, now all they had to do was get to where he and the others were being held. "Look out Chief, hunters up ahead." Cortana alerted the rest of the marines as well and told them to take cover, hunters were a dangerous and lethal opponent and she had only seen and heard of a few that managed to take two down on their own. The hunters could be heard lumbering around just on the other side of the wraith they were hiding behind, their heavily armored arms dragging slightly on the ground. The Chief looked over to Johnson and signaled for him to give him cover fire when he ran out, Johnson nodded and loaded his weapon along with the rest of the squad, all ready to get through the hunters and to their Captain. "Now!" The spartan sprang over the side of the wraith and let loose a barrage of bullets along with the marines, most of them ricocheting off of the armor but a few pierced through their soft middle, making them grunt and ready their cannons. Master Chief dodged one of the shots but he heard the cry of a marine who wasn't so luck, he needed to take them out before he killed the rest of the squad. He ducked behind a crate and pulled out his pistol, knowing that if he could get behind them it would only take one shot to their weak spot and they would be down for good, the only problem was getting behind them without being noticed.

But at that exact moment it was if Johnson had read his mind, and suddenly he and his marines sprang from cover and took the attention off of the spartan, leaving him a perfect opportunity to get in his shots. "Now your chance Chief, go!" He nodded as Cortana let him know he was clear and he rolled out from cover before taking aim at the hulking aliens, taking them both down in a matter of seconds with two precise shots. As they feel the marines cheered and proceeded to move towards the door that Cortana had opened for them, they were almost to the holding rooms. They proceeded down a narrow corridor, taking out a few small groups of grunts along the way, and they were about to move through but they stopped as they saw into the large room...it was filled with sleeping covenant. All of the grunts were asleep but there were at least 3 elites patrolling around room, not including the golden armored one at the top of some ramp with an energy sword in hand...this room would prove to be challenging indeed...

(1st person PoV) Why can I not close my eyes without fearing the outcome? I was once again in the dark foggy abyss that may be my mind, but I wasn't sure. The air was still and I could feel that looming presence...I was not alone. "Ahhh, I see you have returned. How are you fairing?" I crossed my arms and shifted my weight to my left side, feeling my composure slip a bit. "You would know wouldn't you? I bet your probably behind what's happening to me." The voice chuckled deeply and I felt it talk close to my ear, "Now how could that be? I can only communicate with you through your mind, and I have no pact with the covenant what so ever." I didn't want to listen to him but I knew he was right, why did he have to always be right? "I...how do you know all this stuff about me?" "I know much about many, but only about those who try to deny themselves." "But I don't deny anything about myself..." His voice took on a condescending tone as he replied, "Do you truly believe that? Are you that naive to think that you are truly what you seem to be? You hide what you are most ashamed of, trying to mask it with coldness and anger." I felt my eyes narrow and my frustration turned to irritation as I listened to this...thing...tell me what I hid and how I felt. "Who the fuck are you to tell me what I feel and who I am? I think your just a big mind fuck trying to push me over the edge, and I'm not going to listen to another damn thing!" And just as I yelled that a ear splitting siren went off all around me, making me put my hands to my ears and my vision went white.

After a minute or two my vision came back and I found myself in the room where I was being held once again, red flashing lights going off around me. "What..." But my words were drowned out by the alarm, then all of a sudden I heard an explosion somewhere down the hallway, several of the covenant screaming in response. "Looks like my rides here..."

Once again I apologize that this is so late, I've just been doing school stuff lol But I finally finished. Please leave your reviews!