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Halo:The Sacrifice
Posted By: gr8ness<adam_mika@hotmail.com>
Date: 12 April 2004, 11:34 PM
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8:15 pm
A sharp fizz noise rang throughout my head. "Where am I?" I said faintly to myself. I opened my eyes, only to see a blurred, spackled wall of white and black. "What's going on?" I again said to myself. A sharper noise rang in my ears. It was as sharp as what I would imagine a dog whistle to be, if only my human ears could hear it. I felt a tingling sensation going down my spine and throughout my limbs. I gained the use of my hand, but the movement felt all too strange. I felt as if I was just born again.
I reached forward with my right hand, without full feeling yet, and I touched something. I couldn't see what it was, but I know it was there. I felt an urge to push the thing I had just touched to try to understand where I was, and what I was doing there. I pushed, and it easily swung out of my way. I opened my eyes again, but now I saw a world full of color with reds, greens, and blues that shot in from every direction. I rubbed my eyes with my limber hands, and my eyes began to focus. I saw a silhouette of a person standing in front of me. A rushing headache formed in my head. Everything seemed all too much for me. All of a sudden, my newly discovered world went black. My body went completely numb. I felt nothing.
10:45 pm
I awoke again, but this time, I felt as if I had just got up from a mild nap. I opened my eyes, hoping that the colorful world would come back to me. To my wonderful surprise, everything was clear to me. I saw my surroundings in full color and focus. I peered up and saw a light, but this wasn't any ordinary light. It burnt a reddish-blue color, hovering around the ceiling, bringing the whole room into the blossoming light. I realized that I had regained full feeling through out my previously numb body. I twisted my hand back and forth as if I had just received it as a Christmas present.
I then heard the words, "It's about time you woke up!" I sat up and turned toward the direction of the voice. I realized that the man in the room with me struck a resemblance to the silhouette of the person that I saw earlier. The man was balding and looked to be in his late forties. He had a wrinkled forehead that overlaid his pure blue eyes. His cheek bones were well defined, and he had a bulging chin. He wore a coat with badges lining down his left breast. His pants had a defined pleat in the fronts of both legs. Both his jacket and pants were gray.
"Who are you?" I said with a soft voice and a bare tone.
"That hibernation chamber must have really had an impact on your head," he said. He paused for a moment and said, "You have to remember me! Well it seems that you forgot, so I will have to remind you again. My name is Ca... Oh that's right!"
"What's right?" I said sternly. "I have many unanswered questions right now, and if you won't help me, I will find someone else who will."
I rose up and headed for the door, but the man stopped me from leaving by grabbing the back of my shirt. "You're not going anywhere," he said. "Just sit down and let me straighten out your problems." He then pulled out something from his pocket, but I couldn't see it at the time. He held it in front of my face.
"What is that?" I said.
"Your life," he whispered at me.
At that moment, he reached around my head and inserted the thing into my head. My vision went black and objects of my past flashed in front of my very own eyes. My life's most important moments were there in front of me in one giant blur. I remembered what each of those moments was.
I understood who I was again. I realized that I was aboard the mother ship that I was previously stationed at for military operations. I recalled that I had no family because my mother had died giving birth to me, and my father died shortly thereafter as a result of cancer. I was reminded that I was the valedictorian of the class of 2240 in my small Villanova School. I was grimly reminded that I had been a part of the ongoing war between the alien army, the Covenant, and the humans for five years now. I also remembered that I was acquired by the government fifteen years ago for a prototypical human super-fighting machine. They trained me for years, and tested out their newest ideas on me. I remembered that I belonged to the government for that very reason. I was quickly reminded that I was the ranking commander of the First Infantry Unit for the human race. I knew who I was all of the sudden, and I understood myself once again. I knew that I was what my Marines call "The Master Chief". I looked at the man that was in the room with me, and I knew him.
"Captain Keyes!" I exclaimed.
"Finally you recognize me," Keyes said. "I can't believe that you couldn't even remember your own military trainer. I thought you could at least remember that one thing without your memory chip."
"Well," I said, "I am sorry for that. I thought that you would have left the chip in my head during the hibernation period."
"You know as well as I do that the cold would have destroyed the chip."
"I guess your right. Well what about the..."
"Master Chief, we have taken you out of your hibernation period early for a very important reason. We have cornered the Covenant President, Nael Fanglethow, and his son, Bradbury Fanglethow on the remains of the planet Halo."
"Why is the President on the remains of Halo? Wouldn't he have just sent one of his normal goons out to do his dirty work?"
"He was on a personal savaging mission because he was on a search and rescue team for his son, who was on the planet when you detonated it before."
There is a brief moment of silence. It felt very awkward in that room at that time.
"What do you want from me?"
"Your job is to take your marine squad and kill the President and his son by all means possible. You know the planet better than anyone else around here because you were on it when it was in its entirety. This mission will be very dangerous to please take caution when you are down there."
"When will I depart?" I said with a whimpering voice.
"You and your squad will deploy in one hour. You would have had more time if you wouldn't have passed out after we thawed you out."
"Ok, I will get ready to go. Where's my stuff?"
"Your equipment as well as your battle armor is in room A2-10. We're counting on you Master Chief. Don't let us down."
11:45
I boarded the 512 Pelican Battalion Deployment unit with my squad of terrified marines. One, by the name of John Winters, puked in fear of his life right by the boarding door. I sensed a calm feeling within myself at the time. I guess I had been trained not to be scared of the missions I was sent on. It had become a second nature to me. The Pelican departed from the ground and entered space toward what remained of the Halo world. I saw it in the distance. I probably better bring you up to date while we wait to get there.
I landed on the world of Halo about ten years ago as a result of a freak accident. Our mother ship, the Maw, was under attack from alien Covenant forces. Me and my squad boarded the last escape pod to depart off of the ship before the whole thing went crashing down onto the Halo world. We were sucked into Halo's gravitational field when we were in the escape pod, causing us to crash on the world itself. My squad died in the entry into the field because of the extreme amount of "g's" we were going through, and I was the only one to survive. I journeyed around the unique world, looking for other human survivors, but I couldn't find any.
"Chief!" the captain yelled out from the cockpit of the Pelican. "We are going to arrive on the remains of Halo in one minute. Get ready to depart because I am going to drop you off right were they have the president and his son cornered. They want you there right away so I am going to bring you to them. It will save you a little time."
"Thanks," I replied, "I will be ready."
Well I guess I will have to come to a quick close of my story. It turned out that the Covenant were already there for unknown reasons and they were under attack by another alien race, called the Flood. I was ordered to attempt to destroy the Halo world. I had then found the crashed Maw, which had also been sucked into the Halo atmosphere, and detonated the engines in it, destroying Halo as I knew it. Turns out that the Covenant had survived, so the war continued between the humans and the Covenant.
"We have touched down!" screamed the captain. "Everyone off board! Fight for your lives!"
"You heard the man men!" I said. "Move, Move, Move!!!"
12:00 am
I arrived before the infantry fleet that had trapped the president and his son. I had killed five Covenant troopers on the way to them, with no thought of remorse in my mind because this was war. I came along side of a man by the name of Peter McAbeth, who was the man in charge of the infantry fleet that had the president cornered.
"About time you got here Chief," said Peter in a frantic tone. "We have Nael and Bradbury trapped in that house." He pointed the north-east.
"Well why haven't you killed him then?" I asked with a sarcastic gesture in my voice.
At that moment and enemy missile landed about 25 feet from me. The blast threw me back about a yard. As I looked up from the ground, I saw my whole squad in the air, falling back to the cold, cratered earth. I scrambled to find Peter for an explanation. I found him with his leg trapped under a tree that had fallen as a result of the blast, about 10 yards from were the blast had occurred.
"So why haven't you killed him yet?" I asked with impatience.
"He has the house rigged with dynamite." Peter gasped. "If a bullet is placed in there, this whole piece of Halo we are on will blow sky high."
I thought vigorously for ideas, but I couldn't find a rational plan. If we just waltzed in there, they would blow the house up themselves. Finally, I came to my conclusion.
"We need to get a Pelican to have your men evacuated off this place." I said. "I will stay here and deal with this myself."
Peter called for a Pelican through his comsat radio. I knew what my mission was, and I was not about to abort it because of some ingenious enemy plan. They had to be dead, and I didn't want to come home and forget my mission.
12:15 am
The Pelican had arrived and all the marines and commanders boarded it from my orders. As Peter was being carried by stretcher into the Pelican, he told me that I didn't deserve to go like this, but I knew that I had to do it. I felt as if this was my destiny all of the sudden. All of the men had got on, and the Pelican started to depart. All of a sudden, another enemy missile came from the sky, but this time, it center-punched the elevating Pelican. A roaring thunder-like noise ensued after the explosion.
This time, instead of having the fear of another missile, I felt a sense of anger. The Covenant forces had just destroyed the first three human infantry battalions that I had been watching. I knew that now I MUST kill that man in the building to ensure less fighting in the future. Without a ranking president, the Covenant would be unorganized and my human friends could easily destroy their chaotic forces. I knew it had to be done, I was the one appointed to do it.
I took a grenade from my belt. I stared at it for a moment, thinking of my vague past. Nothing, but serving the human race, seemed to by my goal in life. I quickly pulled the pin of the grenade, making a clicking noise much like a woodpecker's peck, and tossed it through the window of the house that held the President and his son. I stood up and said to myself, "This is all that I can do for mankind." Following those words, a gigantic explosion erupted from the house. I felt the fire tear through my armor and boil my skin. As this was happening, I realized, this is the ultimate sacrifice for my race. "I hope I have done my race proud!" I exclaimed. I fell to the ground, in a heap of flames as my breath was sucked out of my lungs. I had proudly finished my mission.
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