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Chapter 3

1050 Hours (Standard Military Time)
Covenant Base
Flood forms, Covenant, and Humans fighting

      The huge vessel poured out with millions of spores and flood.
"Wasn't the flood killed back on the battle of Halo?" Said M.c29
"Maybe 343 Guilty Spark gave the disease again?" Replied Cortana. But at the moment all forces were attacked; the Covenant, Marines, and the SPARTAN-II'S.
      M.c29, Sir Cloud, and Red blew the Flood back with their Battle Rifles and shot the Flood spores. A couple of spores got onto a Marine and shot their penetrators down his spinal cord. He fell to the ground clutching at his throat. A fellow Marine went to him and shot the spores then shot him. There was no saving the infected from the disease.
      They got back into a Warthog with M.c29 as the passenger, Sir Cloud manning the LAAG gun, and Red as driver. Red swung the Warthog into the Flood taking them to a green mush and leaving their mangled bodies behind them. Sir Cloud used his LAAG gun to mow down a few Elites. Their shields quickly blazing in a white flash, until the guns powerful bullets punched through the Elites armor taking it to a bloody, messy death. Flood spores got onto a group of Covenant Grunts leaving them running in circles shooting at each other. Methane came from their suites where the spores penetrated them.
"Get it off me! Get it off me!" Yelled a Grunt.
      It was a twist in the battle; the Covenant couldn't handle both enemies much longer.
"I know this base had more Covenant than this! Why are their no more reinforcements?" Yelled Barrat over the COM channel.
"Sir! Earth is being attacked by the Covenant!" A Marine shouted down
the COM-link.
"Shit!" Sir Cloud shouted. "Marines, we'll finish this base off and then go back to save Earth! The Flood has been released again so it won't be long before they want a piece of OUR base. Lets go!"
Sir Cloud had realized this wasn't the Covenant's main base. The
Covenant where fighting Earth and in some way the flood where helping
kill of the Covenant bastards, but after the SPARTAN-II'S had finished off the Covenant the flood would come for them.
The flood attacked the Covenant base and the Covenant was losing horribly. The Marines fired at the Covenant as the Flood distracted them. The snipers lined up blowing the elites a foot backwards with blood splattering the dead bodies and the Flood bleeding green bloody paste.
"We can't hold on much longer. The Covenant is overpowering us!" Yelled a Marine from Earth.
"We'll be there soon." Sir Cloud replied.

"M.c29 you snipe them while I go up front." Sir Cloud ordered and
got out his Assault Rifle He blew the Flood spores apart as marines were dying from them.
"Arrrgg! The burn!" A marine fell dead. The covenant base was on flames as it was blowing up and debris and rubble were falling around through the air. Loads of dead lumps of guts and gore from the Covenant lie about. The Covenant had lost and now the Flood turned on the Marines and SPARTAN-II'S.
      Marines were being wiped out. Longswords bombed the ground where the Flood was. They were crushed to a runny green pulp. The SPARTAN-II'S and the rest of the Marines mopped up the last of the Flood around the base with Battle Rifle fire and then headed back to the Pelican Drop ships for the ride back to Earth. They planned to save it from the Covenant. They flew in the drop ships to Earth as the marines there were waiting for them in dire need of help.

Chapter 4

1500 hours (Military Standard Time)
Earth
Covenant at Earth and Spartan IIs coming in

      On Earth M.c29, Sir Cloud, and Red were trying to save earth.
"Sir Cloud they're dropping off more Covenant troops!" Shouted red.
"Shit!" Shouted Sir Cloud.
"Do we have any more ammo, we better have. We have a long battle ahead of us and I would like to be as prepared as possible." Said Red.
"MARINES, Get over here! How many we got, only 10?............ O, well get over here!"
"Spartans, Marines, check your weapons and get more grenades. Sergeant Johnson if you have to take 3 marines and take as much ammo as you need and blow the shit out of any Covenant that comes within 50 foot of you and your men." Sir Cloud said.
"Sir, yes sir!"
"We WILL save earth from the Covenant! Do this for Earth, do this for yourself!" Sir Cloud shouted.
"SIR, YES SIR!!" The Marines shouted! The Sergeant ran off with his
marines to the top of a building.
      A Pelican dropped a few off for Sir Cloud, M.c29 and Red. They also got more ammo from the pelican that would last them for a while.
"Right; Red and M.c29, you get in a warthog with one Marine and go
around the city securing the outer parameter, killing every Covenant bastard that you see. A few Marines and I will take out the ones that don't feel like coming out from the building to play!" Sir Cloud ordered.
"Sir, yes sir," Red replied. A Warthog pulled up with a Marine as the driver. Red reloaded and checked his rifle and hopped into the passenger seat with M.c29 manning the LAAG gun on the back. Sir Cloud ran off while Red and M.c29 drove off in the Warthog, with dirt kicking up behind the wheels, getting ready to kick some Covenant ass.
      Sir cloud ran past an infirmary with tents propped up and dying marines being treated. The surgery tent was the biggest tent of them all, standing at 20 feet tall and 70 feet wide. It had 4 big red crosses on it with openings in the front, rear, and sides. There were people running in and out of it, Marines being carried on stretchers bleeding everywhere, doctors screaming orders, and shouts of dying victims. Sir Cloud found the scene depressing in a way. He had seen more Marines die on the battlefield than he could remember. It hadn't hardened him over the year, it had hardened them all.
"Come on Marines!" A doctor shouted. A group of 10 Marines ran past them carrying 2 wounded officers. He heard screaming and cries for reinforcements with firing in the background when the groups radio COM Marine ran past.
"Sir Cloud up there, Sergeant Banks is."
"I'll help." Sir Cloud's Marines stayed down on the ground and helped secure the area. Sir Cloud ran up and saw the Sergeant. The area was swarming with Covenant and plasma fire. The Sergeant and his men were pinned down under crates.
"I asked for reinforcements but I didn't expect a SPARTAN-II! Watch out, COVER ME!" He yelled. A strange looking Covenant came out of the lines of Covenant. The Covenant was much smaller with an ornamental crown on his head, which was 2 feet tall, with what looked like strange crystals that emitted a faint glow. It was also suspended in the air by, what appeared to Sir Cloud, to be a floating device. The Covenant took a defensive position and fired a plasma missile towards the Marines position. The missile impacted on the balcony causing a part of it to collapse along with the 2 unfortunate Marines that were ducked behind it.
      The Sergeant ran across the balcony and ducked down as Sir Cloud took up the LAAG gun connected to the side and blasted the retreating Jackals and Grunts. He blew down a wall making it blow into dust as 4 Grunts got pinned under it. They were smashed under the debris and their blood seeped out from under the rubble. The Covenant Prophet came towards him after seeing an Elite get pummeled with lead. He came flying towards Sir Cloud. He moved the gun and fired at the new threat. The bullets chinked off the Prophets armor as it kept coming. A Marine stepped out from his cover and started unloading rounds from his Assault Rifle in the Prophet. The Prophet slashed into his chest making him fall off the balcony. Sir Cloud threw a grenade that blew up under the Covenant. He was sent tumbling into the wall, his hover seat was wrecked and smoldering. Sir Cloud shot the Prophet in the head leaving the Prophet there bleeding. Just before he died, the Prophet said something in their language.
"I believe that the Prophet just said, from my Covenant language database, 'we shall Conqueror the Forerunner brothers. None shall live under Hierophant,' Said Cortana.
"That was weird. That didn't make much sense. The Forerunner are the Ring world builders that the original Master Chief and you discovered after the fall of Reach. How could they be our 'brothers'"?
"I am not sure, maybe the Covenant know more about them than we think!"
      Sir Cloud was ripping up the covenant, but most of his marines were dead. The remaining force had been scattered. Four Elites emerged from their cover and ran at the base,
"Feed through more ammo Sergeant Banks!" He shouted over the roaring gun fire.
"There's no more, ARRGH!!" He jumped back behind the chief, bleeding from his shoulder.
"Damn!" Sir Cloud was pummeled with plasma fire. He ducked down and took the Sergeant's two SMG's. He charged into battle with the Elites. The 3 remaining marines took point behind him with Battle rifles.
"CHARGE!" He pushed forward and fired, blasting down the Covenant shield's making them glow white then blink out. Grunts exploded from the powerful Battle Rifle rounds showering blood and gore over the ground and their bodies landing in mangled positions. Purple blood splattered the floor. M.c29 drove up and Sir Cloud got in.
      M.c29 was in the driver seat of the warthog and had picked up Sir
Cloud. Sir Cloud got into the gunner stand on the back of the Warthog with a marine in the passenger seat with two SMG's.
"Lets run the bastards over! Come on!" Yelled the Private in the passenger seat. M.c29 drove around the streets immediately around the base parameter, shooting the Covenant that was running towards the base. Sir Cloud blasted the shit out of all Covenant until they got to where Red was.
"Let em' have it marines!" Yelled Red as a Covenant drop ship landed 500 meters from the base and unloaded 50 spec-op laser-sword Elites and a squad of 20 Grunts.
"We're trapped, man. We're screwed," Yelled a crewman.
"Get a hold of yourself, Crewman. We will make it though this!" Said Sir Cloud, reassuring the frightened Crewman.
Sir M.c29, Sir Cloud, and Red jumped into the warthog and made a run for hills behind their position.
"Lets get to those hills and get sniping!" Shouted Sir Cloud.
"Aye, aye Sir." Red and Master chief 29 took positions at the end of the town on top of a hill. They could see the Covenant miles away as they grouped up into a tight formation. The Covenant had phantoms unloading brutes and Covenant buses that hovered along with jackals on the sides.
      Sir Cloud and M.c29 skidded to a halt left of Red's and M.c29's positions. They unloaded a LAAG support cannon and Sir Cloud sat on it and gripped the handles.
"COME ON YOU COVIE BASTARDS!" He fired into the open spec-op
Elites. The LAAG chain gun was rattling, with thousands of empty shells falling to the floor every minute. The Covenant was mowed down one-by-one with blood spraying the street ground. M.c29 fired casually with his BR while the remaining grunts fled.
"ARRR, THE BRUTES ARE HERE!" M.c29 ran into one and meleed its back pushing the armored spikes into the Brutes chest. Blood was dripping from the spikes when it fell into the ground, breaking the pavement into pieces under it. After M.C29 killed the Brute he, Sir Cloud, Red and Master Chief 29 moved closer to the Covenant's position. The Covenant spotted them and sent Reinforcements their direction. They slowly killed the Covenant with a bombardment of grenades and rifle fire. The big problem lie ahead of them all that would decide the fate of the battle. They had reports from orbital satellite imagery showing a mass of Covenant slowly making its way toward their position. The problem was that it was a desert between them and the Covenant that was open. The other problem was that the there was at least 2000 Covenant in the group with 20 Ghost's and a back line of 15 Wraiths.
"The Covenant are at the other side of town, deploying troops.
I'll call for marine reinforcements. Let's set up camp, then head there with the reinforcements in the early morning." Sir Cloud explained to the SPARTAN-II'S.
A scout ran up to them.
"SIR!" He saluted, "Covenant forces are proceeding further to our position."
"Shit!" He said!

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