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Human Elite Ch. 2
Posted By: Tinmad!<Tinmad773@hotmail.com>
Date: 18 September 2003, 12:51 AM
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Human Elite- Chapter 2
The elites were not happy with Knap the grunt to say the least. An elite in gold armor threw Knap into a wall because of his lost teammates which were, "Blown to smithereens when one of his squads' plasma grenades blew up accidentally." He was then tried for treason but found innocent by lack of evidence and the fact that his death would be a waste since the Covenant army would need all it could get for the assault on Earth. He was informed however that he would have to go to a week of rehabilitation or in other words…he was to be tossed in a cell to serve the sort sentence. But that did not make him feel any less about betraying the Covenant. And as luck, or unluck, would have it he had a minor jackal as a cellmate.
"So…what are you in here for?" Knap immediately inquired.
"None of your f***ing business…" the jackal responded and moved yo the farthest corner from Knap.
"Well I'm in here cause' my entire squad was killed and I didn't bring back enough Intel back to HQ so the tossed me in here!" Knap announced proudly.
"And why aren't you dead?" the Jackal replied.
"Sorry but that's none of your business!" Knap laughed.
"Touché… Fine I'm in here because I got caught talking treason."
"About what?"
"What do you mean about what? It doesn't matter I'm dead in a week anyway…"
Knap turned around for a minute and started to mutter to himself. I can't believe it! Someone else who wants to leave! "Hahahaha."
The jackal looked up and said, "What the f*** are you laughing at?"
Knap jumped around and squealed, "That I found another person like me!"
The jackal squinted a little and said, "How do you mean?"
"I'm leaving the first chance I get! I know a human who's looking for deserters!"
The jackal's mouth dropped open a little then he shouted, "Do you want everyone to hear!?"
Knap sat down and whispered, "Oh yeah…"
"About this human…?"
"Oh yeah he told me he let me survive so I can join with him with as many deserters as I can get!"
"Did he kill your squad or whatever?"
"Yeah!"
"Humans can't be trusted," the jackal stated flatly.
"Maybe not most but there is always an exception!"
The jackal sat quitley for a minute then responded, "Find the hunter brothers Q'uai and Q'wan. They despise the prophets and all of their ideals… Find my second in command of my old squad called Juk, he knows all the jackals who want out. There is only one elite I know who despises the whole Covenant ideals, he is Wakl'."
Knap sat quietly for a second then with a stunned expression said, "Holy shit dude."
* * *
The boy explored the deeper depths of the sewers even farther below than the original meeting point. He was stunned when he found an almost empty prison complex. All save a few skeletons abandoned it. The musty and dark halls echoed with every step and the boy was so ecstatic he could hardly contain himself when he found a generator that supplied the whole complex with power that still worked!
"Huhuhaahaa! I've just found home base!"
Now instead of see rows of cells he saw ammunition and weapon storages, a barracks, and so much more. The boy basked in the expectations of the future. Oh what a bright and violent future it would be! But then he realized that although he had known earlier he had hated traitors of any army he now realized his prejudices would have to go if he were to fight alongside the coming Covenant allies. An army of his own…
* * *
After Knap was disciplined and released he immediately started his search. He found Wakl' easy enough in a relaxing room. The red armored elite was lying on a bed of purple fibers that contoured his body and injected a weak, numbing, poison. Above Wakl' a chrome robotic arm with a blue pulsing screen at the tip of it was shining into the closed elite's eyes.
"Excuse me…" Knap whispered into the elite's ear.
"…" No response, not even a twitch.
"Excuse me," Knap whispered a little louder and poked Wakl's arm.
"I'm gonna get you you little runt! Steal MY food nipple will yah?" The elite muttered and quivered a little.
"Hehehehe… I got you food nipple right here!" Knap yelled.
The elite screamed and swatted the little grunt away and bolted on his feet. "Who's there!?"
Knap was still giggling as he got up and said, "Snorkledork."
The elite just stood and looked at the grunt.
"Oh yeah, ummm, I'm Knap."
"Why are you here?" Wakl' asked.
"Well Wakl' I know about some of your treasonous thoughts…"
"Why do you want to blackmail me?"
Knap laughed and stated, "Well because I want to gather a few rebels and start our own faction!" The grunt was smart enough not to mention the human.
"I'm not making any move until I have someone backing me up. And so far the members of your club are…?"
"Well so far me and a jackal who's on death row right now but he never mentioned his name."
"Well he's smart and I know who your talking about."
"So will you join?"
"Not until you get… oh say two hunters to join then maybe I'll consider it… Now get the hell out of here!"
And so Knap left the main building to the world outside. Sure the buildings were as impressive as the Covenant's but what did he really care? What he needed was a good bog. He followed the directions a fellow grunt gave to him to a heavily fortified skyscraper after hitching a ride on a drop ship, which was transporting some munitions to his destination. There he found the hunter brothers Q'uai and Q'wan guarding huge glass doors leading into the building. There wasn't much of a flow of Covenant soldiers going in and out of the building so Knap wasn't abused too much pushing through it.
Knap walked up to the hunter on the left side of the door and asked, "Are you Q'uai?"
The hunter looked down at the diminutive grunt than yelled over to his partner, "Brother! Do you know a grunt?"
The hunter on the other side replied, "Why!?"
"Well there's one right here looking for you!"
"Tell him to go away!"
"Okay!" Q'wan looked back down and said, "He says go away."
The grunt tilted his head and asked, "So are you Q'wan?"
"Unnn yes."
"Great!" Knap jumped. "A jackal who's on death row told me to find you!"
The hunter stood quietly for a second then yelled back to his brother, "He knows Grog!"
Q'uai roared back, "Really!? Isn't he supposed to die?"
"Yeah! This grunt knows im'!"
"Well what's his name!?"
Q'wan leaned down to the grunt and asked, "What's your name?"
"Knap," he stated.
Q'wan stood back up and yelled, "Knap!"
"Hey Knap!!!" Q'uai yelled back.
Q'wan leaned back down and whispered, "So what you want?"
Knap sniffled and told his story of the boy who wanted any rebel Covenant.
"You… You serious?"
"Yup!"
"Yeah we'll join… Just come to us when your leaving and we'll follow."
"What about your brother?"
"Don't worry he'll come now get out of here we look suspicious… oh and we'll be guarding this building for the next week or so… go!"
Knap scurried away giggling to himself all the way back to the grunt barracks.
* * *
Back at the barracks he got twenty grunts to join! With eight more saying they would stay with the Covenant to recruit more. Knap was amazed at the number he recruited. He knew that none would betray him on purpose. A good 90% of all the grunts wanted to leave. The only way they were kept under control was through fear. And any creature will only take so much before retaliating. He also gathered some information about Juk the jackal who wouldn't be in the area until the next day. So Knap took this as a blessing and slept the rest of the Earth day.
The next morning the search for Juk began. It was horrible. He followed tip after tip after tip. Each leading to a place Juk had been moments before. He got beat up twice, thrown into the wall once, and had his mask ripped off for a second. When the world outside started to grow dark the city lit up with the same majesty as the day he literally bumped into Juk on a sidewalk.
Surprisingly enough Juk helped him up with a, "Sorry… I didn't see you."
Knap immediately inquired, "Are you Juk?"
"Yes… are you Knap?"
"Yes! How do you know?"
"I got a message from Grog about you!"
"You know I'm planning to leave right?"
"Yessss!"
"Do you know anyone else who wants to go?"
"My squad of seven men has been waiting for a moment like this!"
"Great! When can you come!?"
"We'll go when you say so."
"Great… Meet me at the transport center two days from now at this same time."
"Roger that. See you."
* * *
Knap was now heading straight for the relaxing center where he found the elite Wakl'. Sure enough after being directed by one of the grunt guards he found the elite. After telling Wakl' of all the volunteers he finally agreed.
Just as Knap was leaving the elite said, "I can get Grog out…"
Immediately the grunt jumped around and spit out, "How?"
"Well on the night we leave I've been scheduled to go on the suicide watch. Grog's been moved to a human building. I kill any threats and Grog and I will slip out through the sewers and meet you outside at the transport center."
The grunt smiled behind his mask, "Perfect…"
Back at the barracks he sent a message to the hunter brothers reading, "T Center- Midnight sharp! Bring supplies! Elite's bringing a friend." And told all of the grunts that were going with him about the plan.
* * *
10:45 pm. East Coast Standard Earth Time…
Wakl' in his new red major armor stood guarding the door to Grog's cell along with another major elite. He was thinking about if what he was doing was right. How they were praised by the other Covenant. But that was mostly out of fear. And then he remembered how the prophets weren't so hyped up about the humans until spies found something on Earth. He had no idea what it was but for some reason he knew it wasn't good news to the Prophets.
"So what do you think of the system Ylga'?" Wakl' asked.
"You mean our system?"
"Yeah… how we are and the prophets and everything?"
"Yeah its awesome being worshipped isn't it?"
"So you believe everything they tell you?"
"Why you don't?"
"Yeah I just wanted to start a conversation," Wakl' grunted. Suddenly he didn't mind killing Ylga'.
"I know. I'm bored too."
"Hey want to get me a drink?"
"You want it hard?"
"Yeah…"
"Sure I'm thirsty myself I mean guh!" Ylga' let out as the butt of Wakl's plasma rifle cracked his skull.
"Hehehe…" Wakl's chuckled to himself as he unlocked the thick metal door of Grog's cell.
Grog just sat there stunned. When Wakl' busted in.
"Grog come on!"
Grog jumped up and laughed, "Wakl' is that you? What are you doing?"
"The alarms are going to go off come on!"
Grog and Wakl' bolted down the hall full of doors with similar cells and emerged onto a dimly lit stairway leading down. They took two steps at a time and leaped the last ones onto the platforms. Seven stories later on a platform below them three grunts and a jackal bursted through a door and were cut down in milliseconds by Wakl's plasma rifle. Grog stopped for a second to pick up a plasma pistol and rip off the shield generator attached to the dead jackal's arm.
Much deeper down they reached solid cement with no more steps. There was only a rusted metal door in the slime-covered wall. Once through it they were in a pipe tunnel that was very similar to the one that Knap met the boy in. They ran straight for a few minutes with the only sound of their own footsteps and the sound of dripping.
Finally Grog gasped, "Do you know where we are even going!?"
Wakl' said nothing but turned at a juncture of tunnels to end up at a ladder leading a few hundred feet up. The climb was the most difficult for the jackal for his body was not really designed for a climb like it. Wakl' punched the manhole cover they came up to out of its position and onto the street. They scrambled out and looked around. The street they were on was deserted but Wakl' stood mumbling to himself until Grog punched him in the arm.
"The transport center is this way come on!" Grog yelled and sprinted down the road with Wakl' following close behind.
They area that the transport center was on used to be a park but was now brown, matted, and dead from the chemicals and marching that had occurred on it. There were only three drop-ships actually parked there. And one was the field version U shaped one. There was a good amount of fighting going on. Two hunters, a squad of jackals with their shields up were forming a barrier for the hunters and the twenty grunts around them, were blasting away at the few guards who were guarding the field. From what they could tell it was an overwhelming victory for the side with the hunters. Not one member of their side had fallen.
After the battle the soldiers formed a perimeter around the drop-ships and waited. Until Wakl' and Grog ran to them. As soon as they were in sight Knap ran out and yelled for them to hurry up. As the elite and jackal neared the two phantoms and the U shaped ship were being loaded with the soldiers, equipment, food, supplies, and ammo. Juk ran to Grog when he saw him and gave each other hugs while shouting, "Holy shit man!"
The two hunters ran up the ramp into one phantom while the jackals and a few grunts loaded into the other one, and all the remaining soldiers getting into the U shaped ship. The three ships lifted off and immediately tuned into the radio and heard that four banshee's were on they're way to the group's position. Seconds later the back phantom was being fired upon. Cleverly they phantom's cargo doors swung open revealing the hunters inside. The elites piloting the banshee's scattered after two of their own were ripped open by the hunters's fuel rod cannons. Then the phantom and U shaped ship rose up a little and drifted apart to fire on the banshee's taking down one more and leaving the last which was slowing turning left and down unable to stop.
The ships touched down on a large platform jutting out from a skyscraper. The rebel Covenant quickly relieved the ships of their cargo and moving it to a, equally large, maintenance elevator. After which they switched on each ships self-destruct program before finally activating the lift and slowly plunging into the bowels of the city.
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My God…Finally I finish this chapter. Been working on it all day since all my friends left me to go on vacation…bastards. Anyways If you like this story and are expecting another chapter you may have to wait a week or two. High school sucks that way. Anyone here who goes to Coyle and Cassidy High? No? Didn't think so. Oh yeah the random quote of the chapter is… "When I feel like sleeping I sleep. When I feel like working I work. And if I feel like making popcorn at 1 am. Well, God damn it! I'm gonna make popcorn at 1 am.!" See ya…
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