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Brotherhood: Part 2
Posted By: Dojorkan<Dojorkan@gmail.com>
Date: 20 May 2005, 5:09 PM
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Part 2: Friends, Familiar and New.
Herbie, Gawgap, and the jackal were scared to death, they peered around every possable place they thought the parasite could jump out from and held their guns tightly and closely. Even if they were afraid to advance, they knew staying here wasn't safe they had to at least TRY to get out of this grey, digusting hell. The remaining warriors made their way through the spore filled interior in which the freaks had been coming from. Flood odor and spores clogged the air, making even one as strong as the Arbiter gag. They activated their Active camo, which wasn't used as much as the Spec-Ops or Osoona's. As soon as they found another piston and went down it thier invisibility gave out making the party become visible.
There was more than enough sentinels and flood around to keep each other occupied enough to ignore the fleeing covenant soldiers. Weaponless flood tried despritaely to knock down the robots, but the setinals had a height advantage. not even the flood could jump too, there was a use for making the building so tall. Each time the covenant group came out a piston they activated the camo until the got to the next. Along the way The Arbiter picked up a Sword, Gawgap also picked one up, deactivated it and put in his pirated belt.Incase The Arbiter's sword gave out.
After one final slide down they made it out doors.Finally, the curse of the stench was gone, and replaced with snowflakes gentally raining down. There weren't many flood forms nearby so they were easy to take out.Post battle, Gawgap, looked overhead to see an incalcuable number of stars and the other part of the interior of the ring fit with clouds, water, and land. An extremly bright light from a structure ahead lit up a fraction of the sky looking like a sunset. Gawgap was amazed that he could see such a beautful site on the same place that carried the lifeform he hated most. Soon after his daydreaming, the grunt noticed what seemed like meteors raining from the sky. A few Elite HEVs fell from the sky, some landed across the bridge ahead.Two Sanghelli warriors unfolded themself from the pod. The pair of new guys took a look around holstered their plasma rifles by their side, so they could pick up a nearby plasma sword and rocket launcher from dead flood. Up ahead a two more Elites were being chased by a deprate balloon like creature. The flood carrier type detonated itself, blowing the behind elite and the infection forms off into the foggy abyss below.
"Curses, if only we landed over on this side...." said, Meso'lee, the sangheili that made it across the bridge.
Another group of flood were trying to cross the bridge, Meso'lee shot a stray frag grenade with his plasma rifle which detonated and blew the group of flood to the cliffs side like toys. Meso'lee sniped the few flood who remained on the other side, then took control of a plasma turret that was stationed infront of a tunnel, this allowed him to keep fire inside of the tunnel and wait for the mindless bastards to run through.
After a minute or two everyone pushed on through a covenant-held territory with a few plasma turrets and a sniping tower. The Arbiter, the jackal, and Gawgap kept an eye on where the flood came from so they could keep the snipers, rockets, and fuel rods from harming the turrets with its seemingly infinite ammunition. Gawgap's eyes widened, he recognized one of the elites on the stationary guns, it was Spec-Ops Commander! Battle was quite Easy as fire was kept on the wholes in the ground which flood climbed up. Spec-Ops commander proceeded to talk with the arbiter, prep up his warriors for another round of fighting, then noticed GawGap.
"GawGap, is that you?", the commander asked
"Yes, Excellency! I'm glad you recognize me!" replied GawGap.
"How could I forget such a grunt as brave and strong as you?You even managed to make it through all this! The Arbiter is rather pleased with you as I was long ago."
" Well if it weren't for The Arbiter and Ki-Az..."
"Ki-Az?", The commander asked.
"Yes, he was a jackal who saved me from a combat form that could have easily killed me, but Ki-Az died as soon as he saved me."
"I see... Well we spotted alot of vehicles and heavy fighting ahead, Gawgap, I want you to come with me than I will transfer you to a Safer Phantom, because I will be assisting The Arbiter. Bring that grunt and Jackal too." Commander replied.
"Thank you Excellency!" GawGap cheerfully replied.
GawGap's group gathered in the DropShip, leaving the elites to do the dirty vehicle work. He was surprised himself and the others managed to live through all this mess. It wasnt long until the "Safer Phantom" came to pick them up. With in a minute after departure a Human dropship was spotted.
"Enemy Pelican ahead, opening fire" The driver shouted.
Both Dropships were taking a good beating from plasma and lead.
"So much for Safe Phantom!" Gawgap's unggoy friend shouted.
" We need to flee, this is the human's higher class Pelican, this one has explosives equipped that will give them a upper hand in our weakened state." The copilot yelled.
The Phantom fled, but not fast enough. Gawgap looked through the display for the backside and saw the explosives tracking them.
"Damn"
What little lighting the Phantom had flashed on and off, The floor moved wildly, the ship was falling. Gawgap held onto a rail, watching everyone else's bodies being thrown wildly around like balls. When the ship stopped he could barely see anything, he asked if anyone was able to hear him but he received no reply. For a few minutes Gawgap was feeling around for bodies, what he did find, didn't move. Using a Charged plasma pistol, Gawgap got a little light to light the Dropship's interior up, the rest of the crew was dead. He picked up what weapons he saw, and exited the Phantom with them; 1 Fuel Rod Cannon with little ammo, 6 plasma pistols, 2 plasma rifles, 2 brute plasma rifles, 1 SMG, 3 magnums, 1 rocket launcher, and a plasma sword. In the distance Gawgap saw the Spectre his Phantom was carrying. He hoped to the forerunner that the vehicle was intact so he wouldn't have to walk and he could bring his mini-armory with him too. From what Gawgap inspected the turret was broken, there were scratches but the spectre ran as smooth as ice, thankfully the driver's hatch was able to close and open to provide cover from enemy fire. The sky above didnt look so beautiful anymore.
"Thank you forerunner, for getting me this far", said Gawgap while taking the Spectre to the Phantom wreckage.
Using an emergency rope from the phantom, Gawgap managed to secure the weapons and he went on his way into the the ruins of a some odd burning structure by exploring from the top of the cliff so he wouldn't have to deal with the flood. Two flood managed to be at top, and tried to hijack his vehicle, Gawgap boosted his vehicle away out of fear and landed inside the burning structure. Gawgap panicked, but found a odd hole overhead, big enough for a human to get in, it would make a great hiding spot since the end of the tunnel wasnt big enough to drive a spectre over. Quickly, Gawgap activated active camo, threw all his weapons into the hole, climbed uptop his spectre, and was able to catch the rim of the hole with his strong arm to pull himself up. The area was bright from the fire but it made it was rather hot. Sounds of lasers and gun fire was heard all around.
"I have got to be the luckiest and unluckiest grunt ever." GawGap though to himself as he watched the entrance to his spot.
Not too far from where Gawgap was the pelican that had attcked him was about to be toast. A young humorius ODST Marine name Devin was inside of the pelican watching a Warthog below try shooting them down. This warthog didn't have Humans in it , it was controlled by elites, not just any elites either. Down below Meso'lee was operating the LAAG while The Arbiter was driving, and the Spec-Ops Commander was holding a rocket launcher in the side seat.
"Careful! The white armored Bastard in the site seat has a rocket launcher.That thing could be the end of us with the damage the chain gun and the Phantom we met before gave us!" shouted Devin.
"Well why aint he using ......" Before the marine could finish the sentence the Pelican dropped down into a hill, like a rock to the bottom of the sea. Everyone in there banged their heads against the top and sides of the inner part of the pelican. Devin, being the only one with a helmet because of his ODST uniform survived the impact but got hit pretty badly in his head which knocked out the HUD. The inside of the pelican dropship was filled with blood from everyone else. Their bodies just laid there, dead. Red covered the cargo bay's metallic walls.
"Ha, these human weapons are not as bad as the Prophets say they are! Now lets make our way to that structure!" Spec-Ops commander shouted cheerfully. The Arbiter drove off into a big brown door and ignored the vehicleless flood that manned a quad of turrets.
Devin checked the equipment in the pelican which was knocked out, made his way out the Crashed Pelican and grabbed his sniper rifle, plasma pistol, magnum, and shotgun and sneaked his way to the burning structure. There was no way he could make it through the flood controlled turrets the arbiter had easily driven through with his shields, so he decided to find shelter the other way. Sniping wouldnt have helped either, he was too shaky to aim dead on. The flood turned their turrets to the pelican but assumed the human bodies would be usless after such a crash. A few minutes down the way the marine was being chased by three flood, he managed to kill them off by luring the idiots around a corner to meet the shotgun. He needed a hiding place he made it to around where GawGap was, saw more flood surrounding both ways in and out of the tunnel. Devin spotted the same hole Gawgap was in and tried to jump onto it, peaking his head into the whole he saw a red figure.
"Hey lil guy HELP! HELP!"
The figure quickly pulled the human up forgeting that it was, in ways, still an enemy. Gawgap picked up his fuel rod cannon and fired to the opening after Devin got out of the way. After 2 shots from the heavy weapon Devin peaked over and saw the group flood burned to death and the spectre rising in blue flames.
Devin then looked the small warrior in the eye. "I cant believe Im saying this, but....Thank you..."
"I cant believe me did that either. But Flood more heartless than humans." Gawgap said as he looked down.
"HEARTLESS?! You and your stupid alien allies GLASSED one of OUR PLANETS! And for what? A small CRYSTAL!" the ODST shouted with his fist balled up. "And weren't Your kind FORCED into the covenant?! "
Gawgap took a moment to think, "The Prophets said you all were evil because you try to keep covenant from getting Forerunner relic. Then you humans destroy other Holy Forerunner thing, Halo."
Devin took a deep breath. "We didn't know anything about you lousy crystal until much later and Halo was destroyed because of those fucking monsters that are making us hide up here! Imagine If That ring wasnt destroyed Earth and your stupid planets would be full of them flood. Anyways, we need to get out of here Fast, more of them may come."
The Grunt stood on his feet,"You make good point, me only know mostly what I was taught. And about going.... we should steal vehicle!"
The odd pair of fighters gathered their weapons and headed out. Thankfully, The Arbiter's group came through before Devin and GawGap got here, so alot of the flood were dead, but not all of them. Devin checked his surroundings and went deeper into the ruins.He and the grunt crept past setinals who flood who were busy destroying one another. Gawgap waved the human over and pointed at a odd warthog. Before Devin made his was to it he eyed Gawgap to ask him something, "How much of our kind of technology do you know how to use?"
"Human guns, rocket launcher, turrets, and warthog. Grunts only taught how to use human guns for emergency, and elite teach me how to drive warthog on Reach when we tried to escape the planet." Gawgap replied. he eyed the vehicle and tilted his head to the side, "Why does this one look so different?"
Devin set his hand on the hood, "This is a different varient of the warthog. Usually we use one kind, called the M12G1 LAAV warthog. But over the years more new ones have been developed. This warthog is mainly made to drive terrain like snow. Also the rocket turret is powerful. But takes a long time to load and has limited ammo."Devin put their weapons in the vehicle's side seat and, lowered the turret a bit.
"Which seat?"
The grunt hopped behind the drivers seat and lowered the hog's hatch.
"This one. Since I need better protection and I am to short for the turret."
The ODST solider signed as held the turret's handle to pull himself up. "Fine...."
"Its going to be a little hard to aim with out my HUD. Hey Grunt! You know how to use the motion tracker?!"
"Yeah, there is somethin on out left!" yelled the grunt.
Surely enough he was right. Devin swivled the turret around and shot a tight group of combat forms straight on. Gawgap put the vehicle in cruse control since pedals where out of his reach. He shifted his small eyes to the motion tracker and looked out the window from time to time.
"Youre pretty good with drving this." Devin shouted over the explosion of rocket that had killed a infested Ghost.
"Yes I know..... SCROPION! Ahead!" Gawgap cried out as he moved behind a cliffs corner. The tank fired its cannon at the cliff, large chuncks of rocks chipped off above the light vehicle's head.
"GAWGAP! MOVE! Devin yelled.
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