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5 Way War Part I
Date: 28 December 2002, 5:03 am

Waking up 30 years later

      Master Chief hopped into the water. He swam down into the mysteries of the deep. He was on a newly discovered habitable planet. He was with a team of Marines checking for any intelligent life. He decided to check the ocean. It's been two years since the Halo Incident. He got air from his environmental suit. He continued down. He could see something shining underwater. When he reached the bottom he found that the shiny things were crystals. "I'm going to begin searching the net for a match" said Cortana in his ear. Yes Cortana still lives in his ear. After the Halo Incident He had become attached to her. The Spartan project had begun being restarted. After what happened in Halo, they realized they needed more Spartans. " No match, it's a new kind of crystal." The crystals were hexagonal prism with pyramid shaped. Master Chief grabbed a couple. They were even heavy for him. He tried to break it. Nothing. He had been able to break a diamond once. Master chief looked around and noticed the whole ocean floor was shining with crystals. " Wow wait till Cap'n sees this!" Captain Locke was young but good at his Job. He was the replacement for Captain Keyes. Master Chief always liked to call him Cap'n because he was so young. Master Chief saw something move. It swam strait for him. It was huge, almost whale sized. It opened its gaping jaws, revealing monstrous fangs. Master Chief dodged it and hit it in the head. The whack cracked its skull. The tail struck his face, shattering the windshield on the helmet. Water filled his lungs. He began swimming upwards. He swam fast. His lungs felt like they were going to explode. The pain was overwhelming. He swam faster and faster. He was about fifty yards away from the top of the ocean when everything went black.

*      *      *

      A grunt walked up to the shore of the ocean. He set his plasma pistol down and sipped the water. " OH MY GOD!" He screamed. A Spartan's body lay on the ground. He kicked at it. It didn't move. " I GET HIS GUN!" " Wait, there are noone who has been able to stole his gun that's mine." " Wait, he has no gun." " Or is it a he?" He poked it face. He poked its eye. " OOO, squishy!" He continued to poke its eye. Suddenly his chest burst open. A few marines came out of the bushes. " YAA, WE GOT HIM!" they cried. Suddenly their spines shattered as a group of invisible Elites whacked them in the back " YAAA, WE GOT 'EM!" they cried. They saw the dead Spartan lying next to the dead grunt. One of the elites walked up to it and checked for A.I.s. He found Cortana in the helmet by the dead Spartans ear. He looked at it. " This is OLD!" he said. He handed it to one of they Elites. " Take this to the ship." He ordered. The Elite ran off.

*      *      *

      Cortana awoke in a strange looking ship. She had been shut off from the world while underwater. She checked the date. It's been 30 years! An elite looked at the human holographic image. It was a female that was purple and numbers all over her body. " Tell us what you know!" It ordered. " No." " TELL US NOW!" She refused. " TELL US OR ELSE." He raised a large plasma sword. Suddenly the door burst open and a group of Marines ran in. " Eat this you, big, evil, mean, uh, what's another synonym for mean?" The Covenant in the room was blasted to their doom by guns Cortana had never seen before. She checked the net. Rapid-fire shotgun/rifle. Two guns in one. AA batteries powered it. Amazing! " YAAA WE GOT 'EM!" they cried. " Help me!" she demanded. One of the marines walked up and grabbed her. He put her ship in his pocket. Suddenly Covenant and human weapons blasted the marines. "YAA, WE GOT 'EM!" cried the flood. Cortana's chip fell out of the pocket. Suddenly the flood fell over dead as burning hot laser beams shot through their chests. The sentinels would have cried "YAAA, WE GOT 'EM!" but they couldn't speak. The Sentinels blew to smithereens. Pieces of burning landed on the ground. A group of Elites cried " YAA, WE GOT 'EM" One of the Elites saw Cortana on the ground. He picked her up and ran off out of the room. The hall was on fire as humans, covenant, flood, and sentinels fought at the same time.
      Jimmy, a marine, fired at covenant elites with his firestarter. A firestarter is a weapon that sends a bullet with an oil on it. The bullet was built to penetrate shields. It would set the oils on the body on fire as it mixed with the oils on the bullet. He set a grunt on fire. " NOHOHO!!!!!!!" It screamed. There was constant confusion and chaos in the long hallway. He felt his body burn, but the pain was nothing. He had more to worry about than plasma burning his skin off. " Help me I'm on fire, I'm on a freckin' fi- UUHH!" Something suddenly Jimmy sight was blocked by blue plasma. " GRENADE!!!!!!!!!!" He screamed, and blew to smithereens. Rad, a marine, was knocked over as a marine fell on top of him. The marine screamed " GET IT OFF ME! GET IT OFF ME!" " WHY DON'T YOU GET OFF ME!" he said, and pushed the body off. A squid-like spore was sucking on the marines back. Rad was using a shield penetrater. It was still a prototype, but this attack was too risky to not use the best weapon they had. He blasted the elites easily with his new gun. A flood in a human body shot him with a plasma pistol. He looked at it to fire, but he froze up. The flood had the familiar face of his best friend Jacob. " NOOO!!!!" He screamed in agony, and blew away the zombie wannabe. He killed an elite. Suddenly, his vision went black, and he could feel his consciousness being sucked away.
      Redo, a Spartan, blasted enemies away with his pistol. He sensed something behind him, and dodged a sword coming down on him. He whacked it in the back. He noticed something on the ground next to it. A human A.I. He grabbed it and put it in his helmet. He was a low level Spartan, and hadn't gotten his own A.I. yet. "Hello I'm Cortana." Said a soothing female voice. " Redo," He grunted, too busy with the enemies. He dodged bullets. " Your not bad." Complimented Cortana. He tossed a plasma grenade on a nearby sentinel. It blew apart. Slabs of metal flew fast across the room, killing flood and covenant on the ground. " Did you plan on the happening, or did it surprise you?" She asked. " Shut up!" he yelled. It was a good tactic, using grenades to make a dying sentinel have even more good. Normally a sentinel sent metal slabs fast enough to kill other creatures below it. He did that more. Suddenly the wall was lit aflame, burning everything up. Fire surged towards him. He ran through a door. He was in the cargo bay. Too many sentinels. The room was filled with nothing but sentinels and dead bodies. " Uh-oh." He ran for a ship. He hopped in the drop ship as millions of laser melted the metal were he was just seconds ago. He flew out of the Covenant ship. There were about 10 Marines in the ship. They were huddled in the corner. " We came in this room, all fifty of us, and..." the marines voice trailed off. " we thought we'd be able to fly this but we didn't now how." Continued another marine. They flew down towards the human base on the planet. "Cortana, can you tell Captain Locke that I'm going to land a drop ship." He asked. Cortana did so. They landed and hopped out. They ran toward a mountain. At the bottom was a patch of grass slightly a different color than the rest of the grass. He lifted up the clump. A keyboard of button was under it. He typed in something. A large door opened. They walked in. The door closed behind them. Cortana checked the Net. Nothing on this base. He asked Redo. " What if a covenant sees you come in?" She asked. " It's hidden by a Hologram." He answered. They walked down a hallway. They continued down large corridors until they came to a door. He punched in a code on a keypad next to it. The door slid open. An old man sat in a chair staring at a large transparent computer screen. " Hello Cortana, Redo, long time no see?" He said. " Redo, why did you come here without permission?" He asked. " Sir, because I found this A.I. that a Covenant had stolen sir!" He answered. " Anyhow, where have you been all this time Cortana?" he asked. Cortana explained. " Marines, get your butt back in that ship, you now your not supposed to retreat without order. He commanded. " Sir yes sir!" they ran off. " Redo, why did you take them. " Well, I ran into the cargo bay and there were millions of sentinels that hadn't even really fought. I hopped in a drop ship a flew off before I realized that there were Marines sir." " Also I might suggest a retreat, there are flood, covenant, and sentinels in there. More sentinels than I've ever seen I might add." He said. " I agree." The old man pressed a button on the radio. " All units retreat, repeat, all units retreat." " Redo, you deserve a promotion. You can keep Cortana. That was a wise decision coming back."

*      *      *

      The Marines ran for the ships to escape. They flew off in different directions, to throw off enemies. The drop ship with the ten marines arrived at the ship. They got in and found no humans. " Uh-oh" they said in unison.

Planets End

      " Cortana I'm going to input all the new information from the time you disappeared to now." Said Captain Locke. He put her chip in a computer. " This will take a while, a lot has happened since you disappeared." Said Captian Locke. Cortana could feel tons of information surge through her. She learned that 343 Guilty Spark had escaped Halo. She learned how he brought a spore with him to earth. He learned how he rebuilt the sentinel army. How 343 Guilty Spark became a universal power. She learned how the Covenant found out about earth, and found it already destroyed. She found out that the humans escaped Earth and settled on many other planets. Redo saw her hologram with an amazed face. Suddenly an alarm went off. They were under attack. Locke opened a hidden drawer, which revealed prototype plasma weapons. He handed a large one to Redo, and grabbed one for himself. " This doo-hickey fires a large explosion about the size of a plasma grenade. This button puts it on rapid-fire mode, and this button-" He was cut-off as the door blasted open. Locke and Redo both fired a large ball of blue plasma at the doorway. Three brutes screamed as they were blown to bits. Brutes, if you didn't know already, were large hairy covenant beasts. They were as strong as hunters, but quicker. They heard explosion above and below them. " Redo, grab Cortana and follow me. I know a secret way out." Said Locke. Redo grabbed Cortana, disconnecting her from her download. " Damn it Redo, I was just learning about Flood anatomy!" She said. " Not now, we're under attack." Said Redo. " OK I guess that's important." He put her in his helmet. He followed Locke to a wall. He pushed on a poster taped to the wall. " Food is to be eaten, not hoarded." Read the poster. The whole wall slid over. The hole where the wall used to be led into a HUMONGOUS room. Inside was a large ship. It was about the size of the Pillar of Autumn. Thousands of humans were running into the room. All the rooms connected to the room with the large ship. " It's called the destroyer. It's the ultimate ship." Said Locke. They walked towards the front of the ship. The front had an opening. The ship alone was ten miles long and two miles wide at the widest. They walked through hallway after hallway. They finally came to the control room. Locke flipped on the main power switch. The computers turned on. He looked at the large, almost wall-to-wall transparent screen. " Computer, are all passengers loaded?" Cortana immediately started checking the cameras in the building. " Yes Locke." Said the computer. Cortana was amazed at the speed of the computer. "Computer, begin launch." The main engines started. They began moving forward. Covenant forces ran in the room just to be burnt to ashes by the huge engines.
      They were in space now. A covenant battle cruiser awaited in space. They opened fire. Large warthog sized plasma beams penetrated the covenant battle cruiser. " Computer activate ship destroyer beam." " Yes sir." Answered the computer voice. A large metal piece slid out of the bottom of the ship. Plasma began generating inside. It was like a giant plasma pistol. It got larger and larger. Finally it flew out. The covenant inside the ship began evacuating, but it was too late. The large plasma beam entered the ship, setting off a massive explosion, setting off a chain reaction. An explosion ring of plasma rocked the ship, but didn't damage it thanks to the largest shield in the universe. " I'm impressed." Said Cortana. Redo looked out the window at the planet. Huge explosions went off. Vast nuclear clouds could be seen. Locke put Cortana in the computer, and continued the download. It was the planets end.

Journey

      Locke sat at the chair staring at the computer screen. He was pondering how the Covenant had discovered their base. How was it possible! How could those covenant freaks find out about our base! How was it possible! Then he realized. Of course! Those marines I sent to the ship after they came back with Redo. They must have gotten there after everyone else retreated. They must have told!
      Cortana was sitting down, acting like she was meditating. The download was still going on. She blinked. The download was over. She got board fast and began searching the Net. She found 343 guilty spark. She tried to input a virus. A very, very, very, large virus. It would take months before it was finished. She began watching him. He was building something. It looked like a miniature version of him. Then she noticed there were lots of floating robots. They each looked a little different. She soon found out they were commanders for sentinel regiments. Locke better hear this!
      Redo was in the bunkroom for Spartans. " Hey Redo, what 'cha make o' that last battle?" said his friend, Sam" It was intense." He answered. He lied there on his bunk wondering the same thing Locke was wondering. He was in his Jumpsuit. His armor lie on the ground next to his bed. A woman walked up to him. It was his girlfriend, Senna. It was hard to love in the army, but it was possible. " What 'cha thinking?" She asked. She always seemed to know when he was thinking of something worth thinking of. " You." He answered. " C'mon, be serious." " Alright I was just wondering how the Covenant found out about the base." He answered. " My guess is they were in a battle and hit the base with something strong." Said she. "That could be true." He said. "Probably."
      Cortana focused her attention on something else. She found something that was heavily locked. She easily broke through the first lock. The second was just as easy. She realized these locks weren't human. They weren't covenant either. She checked 343 Guilty Spark's locks. Not the same. The flood could only make covenant or human locks based on the memory of their body. It had to be a different species. But who? She started working on the next locks. They were harder but not impossible. Towards the eighth lock she had a little more trouble hacking through. She made it through the eighth lock. The ninth lock was hard. She tried and tried but couldn't hack through the darnn lock. Finally after an hour he broke through. The tenth lock was virtually impossible.
      Alarms buzzed. Everyone knew to go immediately ran to the nearest escape pod and waited for orders. They saw on a camera what was happening. A large covenant battle cruiser was in view. They saw the many large plasma beams pierce the ship. Then the large plasma beam broke through the battle cruiser, blowing the ship to pieces. A couple escape pods managed to flee the ship. Little plasma cannons that lined the ship blew apart the escape pods. One of the escape pods managed to dodge, and, unknowingly to the humans, followed it.
      Redo headed back towards his bunkroom. He was annoyed. Running all the way out of the bunkroom for almost nothing. He pulled a computer from under his bunk. He began to play a game. Suddenly the meal call sounded. It was an old instrument. A bugle. It was being played across the intercom. The words to the bugle call would be "PIGGY PIGGY PIGGY COME AND GET YOUR SLOP" He closed the game and walked out to the hallway. Signs pointed to the mess hall. He came to the mess hall. He grabbed a tray and walked down the isle. Today's lunch was chicken and mashed potatoes with Dr. Pepper. He had a choice of sides. He chose a hard-boiled egg. He sat down next to Sam and Senna. They ate in silence. " Attention everyone, ATTENTION" They looked up at a commander. His name was Sheen. " Everyone, we're a day away." Everyone cheered. " Which is a month in the real world." They were traveling at relativity. Skipping across time at almost light speed. You can also call it hyperspace.
      The next day passed and Cortana was still unable to unlock the tenth lock. They arrived on the new planet, Bhor. It was very similar to earth but smaller. They unloaded and set up in the hidden base. Bhor had been colonized a long time ago, but was attacked. Now the empty planet is a secret military base.

Forerunner

      Redo spent the rest of the day exploring the empty planet. Senna, Sam, and four other Spartans came with him. He was walking around in a jungle when he saw something large move. He pulled out a pistol. He crept slowly towards it. He motioned for Senna to go around the other way. He commanded the others to do so too. They were coming from all sides. He looked at the strange being. It had yellowish skin that was transparent, revealing a skeleton and many organs. It wore pants that were held up by a rope. It was shirtless. They came in on it. He opened his mouth to say something, when he lost consciousness.
      Cortana finally managed to break through the hack through the lock. She found that the forerunner made this. She found out all the information there is to know about forerunner. She found out that they had a secret base on this planet.
      Redo awoke in a tube filled with liquid. He looked to his right and saw Senna, naked. He looked away. He wasn't a pervert. He looked to his left and saw Sam. Naked also. He noticed everyone in the tubes were naked. He saw covenant along with humans all in tubes naked. Also there were flood. Of course flood don't were clothes, so they were naked. A creature that looked like the one they found in the woods was working on a computer by his tube. Suddenly he fell unconscious again.
      He awoke strapped to a table. He looked to his left, and saw the creatures cutting Sam open, and pulling out organs. They were doing an autopsy. He saw one of the creatures place Senna on the table next to him. Two of them walked up to him with a scalpel-like blade in his hand. He used all of his genetically enhanced strength to break out of the strap. He hopped up and punched out all of the Forerunner. Senna broke her straps. They opened the door. They kicked open the metal door. They were in the tube room. They began breaking open the glass tubes with humans in them. The humans immediately awoke. They ran into the next room. It was filled with piles of clothes. Everyone grabbed his or her clothes. They opened the door to find a forerunner. WHACK! Redo punched him in the face, cracking its skull. The walls in the room were lined with weapons. They grabbed some needlers and pistols. They opened the door into the next room. Vehicles. They hopped in a couple warthogs and ghosts. They bashed through the next door. There were five forerunner with large weapons. The gunners and ghosts blasted them away. The next door was small, too small to fit the warthogs. The ghosts blasted through, only to be blown to bits by unknown weapons. The warthog drove up, and the gunner started blasting them with the gattling guns. A woman was in the gunner. Redo himself was driving. Suddenly a plasma grenade landed on the warthog. Everyone hopped out as soon as they could. Senna and him were unharmed, but the gunner was dead. The warthog flipped in the air. It landed on top of one of the other warthogs, killing one of the people inside it. The forerunner ran in the room, and shot everyone, knocking them out cold, but not killing.
      Cortana was looking on some of the most recent files. She found that they were experimenting on the species. She couldn't take it anymore. "Captain Locke" she said. " Yes Cortana, what is it." " I was just searching the net, and I found out the forerunner are on this planet." " They're experimenting on human and covenant, and flood." " Dear God"

      Redo awoke in his bunk. How did he get here? He sat up. Everything was normal. Maybe he dreamed it up. He looked for Sam. He found an empty bunk. Maybe he's in the bathroom, He thought. Hours passed and no Sam. Tears streamed down his eyes. Weeks went by and nothing happened out of the ordinary. Then Locke called up two teams of Spartans. Him, Senna, and Jason were his team. Sean, Jared, and Zach were the other team. His was blue, the other was red. Locke explained to them their mission. " Cortana has located the exact location of the Forerunner base. I want you to get in unseen and kill everyone of them you can." " Any questions?" " Sir, they have captured me before, and I must warn that they have cameras." " Taken care of. Cortana will be coming with you. She'll take out the power." " We'll have backup waiting for you. If anything goes wrong, Cortana will be able to tell me. We have another backup A.I. in case something goes wrong and Cortana is destroyed." " Get your weapons and anything else you'll need." " You'll be dispatched at dawn."

      Redo took a necklace of the cross out of his trunk in front of his bunk. Every bunk had a trunk for the Spartans. It had any personal belongings in it. Redo had never gone a battle without it. Maybe that's what's keeping me alive, thought Redo. He took a battle rifle and a pistol with him. Senna took a pistol and a battle rifle also. Jason took a shield penetrater and a battle rifle. Team blue was ready. They were going to take two ways in. Cortana had discovered an entrance that wasn't heavily guarded. It was only used for scouts bringing in things to study. The two teams would go in there and split up. They would go down two hallways. Blue team would go to a room with the weapons storage. Red team would go and save any human prisoners. Then Blue team would go into all the rooms in attached to that hallway and kill all of them. Red team would do the same. Red team would then take a prisoner. Blue team would rendezvous with red, and give the word to the army to come in and finish anything off.

            5:00A.M.: Dawn

      They dispatched and traveled through the forest. They traveled in warthogs. Redo kissed his cross necklace. They stopped at the entrance. It was hidden as a large rock. The base was underground. Cortana gave them word that the power was out. Cortana patched in their network and opened the door. Two forerunner waited inside. They aimed small rifles at them. They could tell it was plasma based. Redo and Jared smacked them in the head, killing them. They ran forward. A two hallways split off of the one they were just in. The forerunner dressed in foil-like clothing. They were like mirror. They had a horn-like crest on the back of their head. Their skin was yellow. Redo kicked open the door to the weapons storage. There were hundreds of weapons lined on the wall. Red team had followed them to take some of the forerunner weapons. They weren't supposed to. They took some small balls with them. One of the red team members took a Forerunner rifle. They separated.

      Red team turned the corner into the next corridor. They kicked the door open to the prison chambers. The A.I. with them opened the prison doors. Technically they were plasma shields. The prisoners ran out. They were dressed in the same foil clothing as the Forerunner. Some of the red team soldiers had taken Forerunner weapons with them. They handed some of the prisoners the Forerunner weapons. They left the room empty. They opened the door to the tube room. Forerunner guarding it fired their rifles at them. Jared took out one of the balls he had stolen from the forerunner and through it at them. Big mistake. It sent supersonic waves out. It shattered all glass. All the tubes opened. Flood, Covenant, and humans alike were awakened. The Spartans of red team were killed by the supersonic waves, which had knocked them into the walls. They smacked against the cold metal walls so hard they had been killed. The forerunners in the room were instantly killed also. All the beings in the tubes didn't die though, thanks to the tubes. An all out battle began. The elites in the tubes ran around whacking humans around. The flood overpowered the covenant. Carriers exploded. Spores infected and took the covenants and humans. The flood escaped the room and attacked the entire base.

      Blue team kicked the door open to a room. Ten forerunner were at computers, apparently trying to fix the power. " The Computers have backup batteries." Cortana said in his ear. They screamed for mercy as the Spartans took them out. They left the room to find flood running about. " What the?" The Flood that had taken forerunner as their host had the tip of the horn look like it was chipped off. Chunks were missing on their shoulders and legs. They looked vulgar. Some of them ran on to other rooms. Others stopped and opened fire on the Spartans. Redo pulled out his pistol. They were more effective against flood than Battle rifles. A large flood ran and up to them and whacked Jason away with a single blow. It roared. It was a brute that had been infected by a flood. There were a few patches of hair still on it, but otherwise bald. Redo tossed a grenade at it. It was a plasma grenade of course. It stuck to its head. A good way to kill any flood was to get rid of its head. Power came back on in the building. Forerunner turned the corner. They used Fuel-rod cannons. Huge green explosions went off. The Spartans ran the opposite direction the flood was running. They made for the door they came in on. Two forerunner with fuel-rod cannons stopped them. Redo and Senna tossed grenades at the two forerunner. They were dead before they could get a shot off. " Locke, abort mission. Repeat. Abort mission, the flood have escaped and have taken control of the base." Cortana told Locke. Redo and Senna found the door. Cortana opened it. They hopped in the warthog. They drove off. Part of the mountain opened up. Two cannons popped out. They lowered and aimed at them. Cortana tapped into the Forerunners computer. She stopped the cannons from firing. They headed for the base.

Virus

      A fleet of Covenant headed for the planet. The elite in the escape pod that had followed the humans was awarded one of the highest awards possible. Three battle cruisers and hundreds of little pods and other miscellaneous little ships headed towards it. They had but a few days till they made it to the planet. A covenant scientist was on a computer. He found himself in chatting with an unknown being. Suddenly his computer went crazy. VIRUS DETECTED! The computer warned. Uh-Oh. The entire battle cruiser messed up. It shifted, and then stopped entirely. The covenant in the other ship asked them what the heck was going on? They were about to answer, when the power went out. It went back on, and then went out again. The scientist looked back at the screen, and saw files being opened. The being that planted the virus was looking at their files. He tried to close them. It wouldn't close. He tried shutting it off. Nothing happened. Suddenly a face popped up on the screen. It was a pink bunny. HA HA HA HA HA HA!" It continued to laugh the monotonous laugh. The being was finding out everything about them. Their plans everything. It may be their end.

      Cortana laughed as she read their files. She saved them into the bases hard drive. " This is great!" she said. She found out all of their plans. Suddenly she read something that worried her. They had found out of their base on the planet. She had to tell Locke. She called him up. " Sir, I have implanted a virus into one of the covenant battle cruisers. I have some good news and some bad. The good news is we now know all their plans for the next year. The bad news is they found out about our base here on this planet. They've sent a vast fleet of ships here to destroy us." " We're going to have to flee the planet." He replied.

      Cortana was messing around on the net, looking at information not covered by the download. Suddenly she detected a virus. A forerunners face appeared on the screen. " F.Y.I.You broke into our files and the locks you broke had a virus implanted in them. Ha ha!" Her eyes would have widened. All the files not saved on the hard drive were destroyed. What a horrible coincidence. The power went out. She detected the hard drive being corrupted. Everything was changed. All the files were written in a different language. Suddenly her consciousness blacked out. All the A.I.s in the human computers went out.

      Weeks passed and the Captain Locke's face was red with anger. All the A.I.s were gone. The power was still out, so they couldn't sort out the files. The alternate power source was corrupted. They were completely vulnerable to enemy attacks. The flood were trapped in the forerunner base, and all the forerunner were dead. Suddenly Cortana was back. The virus was wearing out. No wonder it took so long to be downloaded to the computer. It was that powerful. She wondered how long it would take for the power to come back. She was in the net. The net was a psychic connection of all the computers in the universe. It was the most amazing discovery in the universe. There are a lot of strange things about it. It is very complex.

      The virus finally faded away. It had been a month. The covenant fleet was almost there. It would arrive by nightfall. She told Locke. He readied the army. They went into battle stations. Hundreds of cannons popped out of the ground. Ships flew up into space, and readied for battle. A fleet of ships and the Destroyer, plus another battle cruiser called the Bulldog was in space awaiting the arrival of the covenant fleet. A huge hole opened in the void of space. The covenant had been traveling using relativity. They opened fire. Ships exploded. The Destroyer began charging the battle cruiser destroying beam. Two battle cruisers popped out of the opening. Captain Locke fired. One of the Battle cruisers exploded. It set a chain reaction, which killed thousands of little pods. The little pods then raced forward. There was a huge battle going on. Pods zipped around blowing each other pods apart. The Bulldog was firing hundreds of little lasers at the covenant. The remaining battle cruiser clashed with the bulldog. The side of the bulldog exploded. People inside were sucked in the hole. A marine ran down the halls of the bulldog. Suddenly, the wall exploded. He was blown away and smacked the wall. He started getting sucked away. He grabbed the side of the wall. His lungs felt like they were going to explode. His fingers gave way, and he was sucked into the abyss.
      A hatch opened. Jacob, a marine, ran into the nearest escape pod. The door closed. He sat there shaking. Alarms buzzed in his ears. The seat started shaking. He kissed his cross necklace, and held it in his hand. He saw through the window the burning ship. It got smaller and smaller. A person in the center of the pod piloted the pod. Plasma zipped passed the window. His wavy brown hair was damp with sweat. Explosions went of on the Bulldog. He saw the Destroyer fire the largest plasma beam he'd ever seen. The entire covenant battle cruiser exploded. It set a chain-reaction, with destroyed half of what was left of the covenant fleet. The covenant pods fled. The Bulldog was done for. Its debris would float through space for the rest of eternity.

TO BE CONTINUED

5 Way War Part II: Stranded.
Date: 3 January 2003, 3:48 am

      343 Guilty Spark loomed over his army. They would attack the covenant home planet. Tens of thousands of Sentinels lie in front of him. This was a taste of his power. It was only one regiment. He would send half of his entire army to the covenant home planet. He imagined the surprised faces of the Covenant as his army flew out of the sky. He imagined the burning corpses after he was finished with them. He imagined himself ruler of the covenant. His next attack would be the human home planet Earth. He would use part of the covenant army he owned. He found himself laughing his head off, if he had a head. He ordered them to head towards the covenant home planet. They climbed in large, relativity enabled ships. They would arrive in two years.

Forerunner

      Salazar, a Forerunner captain, stared at the holographic image on the terminal. It was the base on the planet Cron. He was furious. First Halo, now this. He pressed a button on the computer board. <Yes Captain Salazar? > One of the Forerunner Shogun's head was on the holographic display at the terminal. <Sir, the base on Cron has been destroyed. The humans on the planet attacked and let the flood out> <Salazar, I will meditate on this> <I will meet with the other Shogun and we will make a decision> < A decision on what? > < To go to war. >

      Shniel, the forerunner shogun that had talked to Salazar, sat down in the Shogun meditating room. He crossed his legs. He closed his eyes and concentrated. Light blue energy surrounded his body. Shniel had heavy robes on, instead of the foil. He looked amazing in his robe. He had a gem placed in his head that gave him spiritual energy. It was purple and worth 500,000,000 Forerunner Fores. Fores were the main money in the forerunner culture. He passed into a black void. He could see two doors. War and not war. He chose not war, and found despair. He would choose to go to war.
      The next day the council of Forerunner met in a room. The walls were painted in an optical illusion. It looked like the roof stretched on forever. They each sat down legs crossed in a circle. Each Forerunner Shogun had a different colored gem. Shniel had a purple gem in his head. There were nine members in the council. Purple, green, red, orange, blue, yellow, gray, black, and white. White was the high Shogun, for white was all the colors mixed together. They were silent for a while. < Does anyone have a suggestion? > Asked Saurov the white. < We will not go to war! > Said Jaun, the green. < Why should we not go to war? > Asked Saurov. < Because of the death! > <We do not need any more death! > <I agree! > <Me too! > Said Arrav the red and Jark the yellow. < Does anyone disagree? > Said Saurov. < I do. > Said Shniel. < And why is that? > < I meditated and found despair behind the door of not going to war. > < Besides, we are a strong race, we can take them on! > <YA! > <I agree too! > < I too meditated and found despair under war > said Saurov. < Do you mean our race has no hope? Are you saying we do not have any future? > Protested Juan. < I'm afraid so. >

      The Forerunner spoke through telekinetic connections. The same thing the net is made up of. The Forerunner decided to go to war. They decided that maybe they stand a chance. They hoped they had made a wise decision. The forerunner have psychic powers beyond comprehension. The Forerunner lives for hundreds of years. They are children for fifty years. They reproduce through birth mothers. The birth mothers are mindless drones that drink the sweat of male forerunner to get the sperm. Then the babies grow inside and eat their way out. They were big and full of fat. They were like Big Macs. Full of fat and worth a buck. Also very tasty. The children are helpless grubs for ten years. All species have a helpless grub stage. The humans have babies. The Elites have babies also. The grunts are helpless grubs. The Jackals have a helpless grub stage similar to humans but shorter. I could go on and on.

      Redo walked through the halls of the base on Cron. People were decorating the halls with Christmas decorations. It was the best time of the year. The Soldiers would go and visit their families, but it would take years to get there. So the Marines talked with their families through computers. The Spartans had no families unfortunately. If you haven't read the Fall of Reach, the Spartans were kidnapped as children, and trained for the rest of their life. He walked to the Spartan bunkroom. Senna smiled at him. He sat down next to him. " I got you a gift." She said. She handed him a small gift wrapped in writing paper. He opened it. It was a new cross necklace, with a gem in the center. " Where the heck did you get that???" He asked. His old necklace was rusted. She kissed him on the cheek. " It was mine once, but then I got a new one. She showed him a cross necklace with four Gems on each end, and one in the middle. It was solid gold. "I couldn't get a gift," said Redo. She scowled. "Merry Christmas"

      <My fellow Forerunner! > Said Saurov. < We will not go to war just this yet! > <We have taken an idea from the humans. We will genetically enhance super soldiers! > The audience of forerunners cheered. < We will make them stronger, smarter, and grow faster. This will mean they will only live 100 or so years, but it is worth it to win this war! > Saurov did not tell anyone but the council members that they will despair either way. It was to be kept a secret. The Forerunner had been going through a lot of trouble in the last 100 years. First the Flood took over Halo. All five hundred thousand Forerunner on Halo died. The forerunner had to lock them up, which became a war. Then the humans destroyed Halo. All the 1932 years of work was destroyed. And now the base on Cron. It was a time of grief.

Covenant

Five years later.

      Xeno, a covenant elite, looked up at the sky. His eyes went wide. The sky turned black. Millions and Millions of tiny black dots came swarming towards them. Then it rained lasers. He felt his shield disappear instantly. The lasers heated his armor, and hot metal melted on his body. He screamed in pain. He ran for shelter. Another covenant elite was knocked down as an elite ran in, liquid metal dripping off his body. " What the-" The ceiling collapsed on him. Hundreds of little floating bots came swarming in, slaughtering everyone inside. The sentinels had found the covenant home planet. The covenant home planet wasn't really a planet at all. It was a large metal structure that was built as a home planet for all Covenant creatures, since there was many covenant planets to choose from, they decided to make an artificial one. 343 guilty spark didn't know it was artificial. Most of the covenant was inside the planet. There were at least 500 billion covenant beings inside the structure. 343 had only been able to monitor the outside of the planet, and guessed this many sentinels was enough. Covenant beings hopped into plasma cannons and stationary guns. They exchanged fire with the sentinels, who had superior shield technology. They came down hard. Shron, a covenant Jackal, fired at the nearest Sentinels. He was at a large cannon, so it took to shots to take one down. There were different types of sentinels nowadays. A bomber Sentinel flew right above his head. He hopped out, and made for any kind of escape. The plasma bomb hit the cannon he was just at, sending pieces through the air. He saw a shadow appear above him. He looked up to see a vast slab of metal flying towards him. He dove forward to dodge it, but it landed on his legs. He screamed in pain as his legs were crushed into nothing. His bones shattered inside his legs. Lasers rained down on him from there. His body oils boiled, and his skin peeled off from the 3rd degree burns. He screamed. His heart stopped. Everything went black.
      A covenant elite tossed plasma grenades in the air. They stuck to sentinels, blowing them up. He could feel the heat of the lasers, despite the shield. There was an explosion next to him, and covenant flew high into the air. A slab of metal sliced right through him. His torso fell off his legs. The plasma grenade he was going to throw was still in his hand. It exploded. A grunt was running when suddenly a body landed on top of him. "OOOF!" He was instantly killed.
      Grunts ran around screaming for mercy. Elites fought hard and Jackals flew through the air. Brutes sat at cannons and fired upon the onslaught of Sentinels. An elites was shooting a sentinel when his Shoulder burst open. Hot blood burned his face. He screamed. The pain seemed to disappear. Everything swirled around him. A grunt screamed as he was smashed by a falling sentinel.
      "We need backup!" called a covenant elite. Hundreds of covenant was coming out from the inside of the artificial planet. The sentinels began to retreat. The covenant cheered. Suddenly the sky turned dark. A shadow fell on the covenant planet. A large ship came out of the clouds. There was a large cannon on the bottom of the ship. The stared at the ominous onslaught about to kill them all. The cannon lowered towards them. It fired a large beam down on them. Eight square miles were erased of life. No buildings were left alive. The covenant launched a battle cruiser that was experimental. It flew to the place where the sentinel battle cruiser was. It fired hundreds a little lasers. Explosions went off on the sentinel ship. It turned around and exchanged lasers with the covenant ship. They both crashed down onto the covenant home planet. It set off a nuclear explosion, for both had nuclear fusion reactors. An entire side of the covenant home planet surface was lifeless.

      343 guilty spark got the news of the battle a few weeks later. He found out when the covenant sent him a message. A covenant elite stared him in the face. " You shall pay for this Guilty Spark. You shall pay." There was a video that followed of children covenant creatures playing catch and gravball with his body. Then the children beat him with large metal poles. 343 GuiltySpark laughed. He sent a video back. It was of the same elites head being slowly melted away, then of Grunts chewing the dead corpse, tossing organs away and eating only the flesh.
      A covenant elite checked the incoming messages. He saw the one from 343 GuiltySpark. He vomited all over the computer.

Humans

      Redo ran through the forest. Leaves scraped against his armor, causing a blood curdling sound. He saw a grunt's carrier rise above the tall grass. He fired his battle rifle into the grass. He heard a scream. Blood flew up out of the grass. He continued forward. Blue smoke suddenly blocked his vision. He screamed and through the rest of his grenades aimlessly, to make sure he did not go down hard.
      He took the helmet off. He unzipped the jumpsuit. He had just failed another virtual reality training drill. They seemed to get harder every day. The lunch bell sounded. He had finished right on time. He left the room, and joined the long line towards the mess hall. The base he was at hasn't been called to fight for a while, since the planet they were on was far from other planets. A week later he was called to arms. They had gotten word of the sentinel attack on the covenant home planet. They knew that the covenant was knocked off balance thanks to that. That's the thing with having multiple person wars. One person does a lot of damage; the other can finish them off. The Spartan team loaded up. They found a covenant base on the ice world Thor. Thor is where the grunts originally came from. They used the base on that planet because life would not likely be on a planet like that. They boarded a ship and readied to go to Thor. They got in the destroyer and found the bunkroom for Spartans. A month later they made it. Thor was the closest planet to Cron. They rested the rest of the day and prepared for the battle ahead of them.
      Redo lay in his bunk trying to get to sleep. He could not fall asleep. He did not know why he couldn't get to sleep. When he finally fell asleep, he had the strangest dream. He dreamt of ten strange creatures. The forerunner. Except they weren't in the normal foil clothing, but exquisite robes. They had beautiful gems in their foreheads. One with a white gem in his forehead said something to him. Except he didn't move his mouth, but he heard it. < You have been chosen as an experiment of ours. We have contact with you through a tiny chip we placed in your head. We can control your body if we have to. > < I hope this does not discomfort you. > < We have kept it a secret for five earth years. > < I see you have a good heart, so we will not use our control over you in vain. > Redo was confused. < In fact we'll use it for good. > They saw the look of confusion on the humans face. Saurov lowered his head. < He's not ready. > They each put their hands on his forehead, and erased the memory from his mind.

      A covenant Grunt looked up at the sky. It was all white. They were on Thor, the ice world. The grunt was smarter than most, by that I mean he talked correctly. He didn't talk like the grunt at the beginning of Part I. He walked towards the camp base. It was a metal dome building. He walked inside and sat down at the table. Mmmm he smiled. He drooled at the sight of his food. Literally. The slobber got on his plate and on his hand. He wiped the slobber off on the Elite next to him. The Elite immediately turned, veins popped out on his neck and head. He hit the Grunt in the head as hard as he could. The grunt flew into the wall. His head was shoved into his back. A bunch of grunts hoped out of their chairs. They were ready to avenge his friend. They all dove on the elite. He grabbed them one at a time tossing them off. They immediately jumped back on. One of the grunts was wrapped around the elites head. The grunt was suffocating him, and didn't even know! They elite moved his arm to grab the grunt, but they other five grunts were hanging on his arms. A brute stood up and knocked them away from each other. "Stop!" he yelled. He easily peeled the grunts off. The elite fell to the ground dead. The grunts cheered. The brute kicked them each in the head, knocking it off the torso. The heads bounced off the walls like soccer balls. The brute sat down, shaking the whole table. Elites Jackals and grunts got food splattered all over them. The stood up to fight. Suddenly the wall exploded open, and three Spartans stepped in the room. The brute stood up and ran at them. He raised a fist to punch. One of the Spartans tossed a plasma grenade on his arm. The Brute paused for a moment, allowing the Spartans to get out of the way. The grenade blew the Brute's arm off. They fired their weapons at the brute. The brute fell over dead. The Spartans opened fire on the rest of the creatures in the room. Before they could do anything, the elite jackals and grunts were dead.

      Redo fired upon the incoming grunts. They were in a grunt training facility. There were only a couple elites training the grunts, so they took them out easily. He used a weapon called a grunt slaughterer. It was a weapon built to kill large numbers of grunts fast. What it did was go right through the body and into the carrier on their back. It would make anything inside the carrier explode. So grunts were now flying everywhere, their backs on fire. Everywhere grunts exploded and screamed. Jake, another Spartan, tossed a grenade into the crowd of grunts. The grunts screamed and ran into each other. The grenade exploded, making a large hole in the center of the crowd of grunts. Sharon, another Spartan, used a hand held gattling gun. She turned it on and killed them all. They ran into the next room. Four covenant scientists were at computers. They were panicky and working speedily. Redo tossed a plasma grenade on one of the computers. The scientist screamed. The three Spartans dove into the grunt room. There was a large explosion, and the door flew over their head. Flames engulfed them.

      A covenant elite was fighting off a group of Spartans with his group of elites and Jackals. He was outside. He heard a large explosion behind him. He looked back. Flames burst out the windows of the Grunt training facility. Before he could turn around, he was dead.

      Redo awoke. The room he was in was filled with ashes. He looked at his armor. It was charred. He looked on the ground next to him. He saw a Spartan lying on his or her stomach. He turned the body around. The visor was shattered. The face was black. He took the helmet off. It was Sharon. Jake stood up next to him. " No, NO!" he screamed. Sharon was his sister. Tears welled in his eyes. Then he started sobbing. It sounded weird in Redo's helmet, since Spartans spoke through radios in their helmets. They had to yell for any sound to come out of the helmet, though sounds could go in easily. Redo turned his radio off, the sound of Jake's sobbing sounded like static, and he did not like the sound of static. He waited for Jake to stand up. When he finally did, Redo turned back on the radio. They went to explore the building. There were many bodies on the ground. Human and Covenant. They continued through the building. The walls were charred with grenades or plasma. Dried blood stained the walls. They finally found the way out. They went outside to find nothing. They had left without them. They were stranded.

To Be Continued.

5 Way War Part III: Covenant revenge.
Date: 8 January 2003, 11:36 pm

      Locke was holding a special celebration for eliminating the covenant base on Thor. Everyone was dancing and having fun. Everyone except Senna. Senna sat quietly at a table at the corner with noone. She was fighting back tears from the loss of Redo. She knew it would happen, but she didn't think so soon. Senna's long golden hair hid her face. Tears blocked her royal blue eyes. "May I have your attention please? I need a couple pilots to go back to Thor and recover two soldiers missing in action. We just got a radio message telling that two Spartans were left behind by the name of Redo and Jake." People cheered. Two pilot Spartans stood up, and saluted. " At ease men. Go get a pelican, and head for Thor." Said Locke. They ran off.

      A covenant prophet ordered a huge army to attack one of 343 Guilty Spark's bases. It had three monitor bots made by 343 Guilty Spark on the base. It would be pretty easy. They were plotting the ultimate revenge on 343 Guilty Spark. 343 had ten "sons" which were little floating balls like him that he made. Some say it's the only thing he really cares for. He treats them like real children actually. The covenant knew that the best way to get revenge on 343 Guilty Spark was to kill his prized "Sons" They were going to go one at a time from "Son to Son" and eliminate each of them. It would be the ultimate revenge.

      A forerunner battle cruiser floated graciously through space. The forerunner had decided to give the universe a taste of their power. Two forerunner soldiers walked up to the captain of the ship, Captain Shorn. The soldiers saluted.< Permission to speak sir! > Said one of the soldiers. < Speak freely soldier. > < Sir, we are nearing a desert planet sir! The flood occupies many parts of this planet. What should we do? > < We'll attack at dawn. > < Thank you sir, I'll ready the troops. > The Forerunner soldiers all wore the same foil as most, and two helmets with a pointy tip. The visor was a tented computer screen. The helmet itself was a computer. The foil was actually a plasma proof armor. The Forerunner soldiers also wore shoulder blades, with their ranks written on it. The soldiers ran off. Shorn sat down on a seat in the center of the control room. He sighed, pressed a button on the arm of the chair, and a drink popped out of the arm of the chair. He sipped it, then put it down. He stared into the deep void of space.

      Redo and Jake had been living in the covenant base for about a month, when they heard a loud sound. Redo had a beard growing on his chin, and his sideburns had connected to his beard. A space shuttle waited outside, but it was no human ship. It opened up, and flood ran out. " WHAT THE!" He yelled. He and Jake ran back inside, and grabbed a couple of weapons. Jake took Sharon' gattling gun, and Redo took a pistol. They ran outside and began attacking the flood. Two carriers blew up in front of them. Spores came flying out the top of its head. One of them landed on Redo. It exploded in his shield. He continued to fire. His hearing stated going out. Every sound seemed distant. It sounded like he was underwater. A flood jumped up, and landed on Jake. It knocked him to the ground. The flood began whacking him in the head over and over. Redo blasted it off of him. Jake's shield was out. A spore hopped on him, and began infecting him.

      Jake was in an infinite blue void. There were billions of bodies all over. Some of the people he recognized, others he didn't. All of the people he knew or had seen were all infected people. They moved and talked and could do anything normal people could, they just where trapped in this void. So this is what happens when you get infected. Jake then noticed his legs weren't in the void. He wasn't fully infected. He started getting sucked out of the void. " What the?" he thought. Then he was gone.

      Jake woke up back on the ice planet Thor. There were shreds of a spore on his armor. The one that had infected him. Redo had killed it before it had finished. He immediately stood up, grabbed his mini-gun, and stated blasting the flood. There was a huge explosion. Flood flew in all directions. A Pelican landed on the ground, and was shooting mini-guns, and rockets. They killed the remaining flood. Redo ran to see if there were any left in the ship. A creature that wasn't flood fired a plasma rifle at him. He dodged it, and shot him three times in the chest, and twice in the shoulders. He fired a few more shot at the legs, and the thing fell to the ground. He walked up to it. It lies on the ground, breathing heavily. " Who are you, where did you come from?" He asked. " I am frob of the Itinerants." " What is your business with the flood?" " We domesticate the flood and use them for our own purpose. We take them from planet to planet, killing everything there. I am but a scout, investigating this place." Redo saw the bullet wounds suddenly miraculously heal. The Itinerant jumped up and kicked Redo to the ground. He pulled to blades out of sheathes at his thighs. " Now you will die. I've dealt with your type before. Do you know how many of you have died at these blades?" he raised them high to kill, but was stopped as fifteen bullets flew into his chest and legs. They instantly healed. He threw a blade at Jake, who had shot him. It stabbed him in the chest. Jake fell over backwards. Redo took this chance to kick Frob. Frob fell over on his side. Redo kicked with all his strength. Frob flew through the ship, and out the windshield. Redo chased after him. He hopped out the window and landed on top of Frob. Frob screamed in pain. Redo grabbed him by the leg, witch had thumbs, like a monkey. He spun and tossed him as hard as he could into the ship. He smacked against the hard metal, denting it, and breaking Frob's backbone. Frob couldn't heal bones of course, and was paralyzed. Shards of glass were stuck in his skin. They popped out, and the wounds healed. Redo left Frob there and ran to Jake's help. One of the Pelican pilots was already helping Jake. They had removed the blade and were treating his wound. Jake was in a hover stretcher and was being carried into the ship. Redo ran back, and grabbed Frob. He took him into the ship, and locked him in a closet. The pilot started the ship, and blasted off.

      Redo reported back to Captain Locke. " So that's how the flood have been traveling through space, and to believe we thought they just floated through space until they landed on a planet." Said Locke. "Keep up the good work Redo." Redo went back to his bunkroom. He lay in the bed staring at the ceiling. He just started wondering if anything else would join this war. At least the Itinerants were on the side of the flood, and aren't starting a six-way war. He didn't know if the humans would survive this five-way war.

      The covenant armada arrived at the base. A hole opened on the meteor, and a cloud of gray popped out. " IT'S A CLOUD OF SENTINELS!" cried a grunt in a covenant battle cruiser. A hole opened out of the side of the covenant cruiser. A cloud of banshees popped out. It rained plasma and fuel rod cannons onto the sentinels. Hundreds of sentinels exploded. The sentinels fired their wave of lasers. Banshees exploded and fell onto the sentinels. Explosions occurred everywhere. A wave of covenant drop ships popped out of the hole in the ship. They landed and dropped hundreds of units onto the ground. The sentinels were busy with the banshees, and where slaughtered by the troops. Then, when all hope for the sentinel base was lost, hundreds of new sentinels popped out of the base. They fired huge beams. Banshees exploded, setting huge chain reactions. The wave of banshees didn't last much longer. The troops fired all of their weapons onto the new sentinels. Blue energy popped up around them. The shields were strong and protected them from the rain of lasers. They fired the huge red beams at the troops.

      A covenant grunt screamed as the onslaught of plasma rained on him. The plasma burned his skin. Before he died he looked at his comrades. They were all suffering the same fate as him.

      The troops were slaughtered. The covenant were left with one choice. The Covenant powered up a huge plasma beam. The red plasma got larger and larger. The shield went down. The beam fired down. At the same time the sentinels fired their new weapons. It hit the front of the ship. The covenant immediately moved. The beams hit the side of the ship. It shattered. The whole ship rocked under the feet of the covenant. At the same time the sentinels melted under the hot plasma. A side of the base was left wide open. Same with a side of the covenant ship. Banshees popped out of the ship and flew into the aperture. Drop ships also flew into the hole. Troops and banshees navigated through the halls of the sentinel base. They eliminated troops moving through the halls. They came to a locked door. The banshees fired fuel rod cannons at the door. It demolished open the door. Three monitors where in the room along with a lot of the new sentinels. They opened fire. The computers in the room exploded engulfing them in flame. The handful of covenant in the room died, along with the monitor robots. Five new sentinels came from behind the covenant. They opened fire upon the awaiting covenant. They all turned around and fired at them. Banshees flew forward, some unintentionally killing covenant grunts and jackals. They all continued to explode. The hallway was charred pitch black. The covenant managed to eliminate the sentinels attacking them. They escaped the base and back to the ship. The ship fired more plasma down onto the base. Half of the base was nearly dead. They covenant left, satisfied at the death of three of the Monitor robots.

      Locke and five other people were in a room. They could see through a window into an empty room. Frob, the itinerant, was strapped to a chair. There was a light cast on him. They could speak through radios in both rooms. The five people in the room were at computers with headphones on, some recording the conversation Locke was about to have with the Itinerant. " How do you know the human language?" He asked. Frob's head was held low. He lifted his head. He looked at the window, he couldn't see through it though; it was a mirror to him. He looked with tired, weary eyes. " We have been studying you humans, and covenant too, and now we can speak both languages fluently." He sighed. " Why do you take the flood from planet to planet, killing everything?" Locke asked. Frob just stared at the mirror-window. " I asked you a question now answer it!" He yelled, and then barked an order at one of the people in the room. He pushed a button. The Itinerant screamed, and he was shocked by something on the chair. "We kill all on the planet, then use up all the resources. The flood is just our instrument." " Where are your bases?" " I'll never tell the likes of you!" Frob yelled. ZAP! He was shocked. He just stared with his weary eyes. He was shocked again and again. He still said nothing. Frob started sweating. He breathed deep breaths. He started hyperventilating. " Kill him tomorrow. He can do an autopsy and learn more about them."

      The forerunner ship dispatched their troops on the flood planet. They hopped out and immediately fired. Hundreds of little ships came out. They looked like silver eggs with markings on them. They entered the atmosphere and immediately fired. Plasma rained down upon the flood. The ships flew low and arced upward. They turned around and rained plasma down again. Some ships fired missiles. Flood exploded everywhere. The flood began firing fuel rod cannons, and other weapons. The ships began exploding. When the ships swooped down low, the flood would jump and grab on or whack it. A forerunner in a ship was flying around, firing at flood on the ground. Suddenly a flood elite jumped on his ship, covering his vision. It whacked the windshield. It cracked. The forerunner cursed. The window shattered. The flood elite hopped in and whacked him in the head, twisting his head around and snapping his neck. The ship crashed into the ground. The forerunner continued with their swoop and arc technique. This was going to be easy. They continued on. A large vehicle marched into the battlefield. It had a large cannon on it's back. It aimed upward, and fired large rockets into the air. They followed the ships every move, until it exploded. It continued to fire the little rockets into the air. Now the forerunner were more worried about the rockets. They swarmed around. Ubiquitously ships exploded everywhere. The vehicle on the ground ran out of rockets and began firing large bursts of plasma. The forerunner battle cruiser dropped out huge amounts of drop ships. Captain Salazar opened fire on the incoming flood. He had two small plasma weapons. They were almost a mix of a plasma rifle and plasma pistol. There were to settings; rapid fire or power up. He had the setting on rapid fire. Carriers and spores popped all around him. Ships overhead continued fighting, though now there was no order to it. The troops ran toward the vehicle that was taking out the flood. A small squadron hopped inside. Captain Salazar was one of them. Inside were two creatures he'd never seen before. They each tossed blades at them, then pulled out two plasma rifles stolen from the covenant. They opened fire. He dodged the plasma, and powered up to blast. He fired. One of them he hit in the head. He fell over dead. The other fell on his back. The forerunner dove on it. They hopped out and opened fire on the flood. They ran back towards the ship. Already drop ships were coming out to pick them up. A spore jumped up on Salazar. It hooked on to his shoulder. He slowed. Another forerunner took it off and tossed it away. He continued on. They made it to the drop ships. He hopped in. He fell onto the seats. The drop ships looked like eggs also, but without the fin thing on the back. Only after they had left the ground did he notice the pain. He had a bullet wound in his side. He asked one of the medics next to him to help. There were five medics in the ship and twenty soldiers. The medic took out a tube. She injected a heeling liquid into the wound, then took another tube out and filled the wound with foam. The liquid was made of forerunner D.N.A., and could get into any wounds and seal them up. The foam was to stop any internal bleeding while the liquid took its effect. Suddenly the whole ship rocked. He fell forward out of his seat. The co-pilot checked the many screens on the window. The window was actually a computer screen that could put transparent images on it. One was an image of the ship. It was flashing red all over the bottom of the ship. The whole screen was suddenly filled with one message. WARNING! It flashed over and over. Smoke billowed out of the ship. Everyone inside grabbed a jetpack off the wall, and hopped out. Five wounded soldiers were left in the ship. The window popped out of the ship, and two seats with forerunner in them hopped flew out. The forerunner scattered. Salazar looked beside him. There was a medic right next to him. On the other side, his friend, Jaro. His hearing popped as something exploded right next to him. He looked where he had heard it. The medic was gone, and ashes floated in the air next to him. His hearing restored, and the cries of pain continued. He knew he wouldn't make it to the ship on the fuel jetpacks had, so he called to everyone remaining to follow him. The forerunner followed him. He soared downward, dodging incoming plasma bullets and lead bullets. He flew about a mile away from the battle, and found a small structure. The forerunner landed. Salazar tossed his Jetpack off, and collapsed. He stood back up. Everyone looked at him, waiting for an order. He motioned for them to follow him. He made for the structure, which was a small building. He knocked on the door. Suddenly he was knocked back, and the titanium steel door burst open. He stood up and immediately aimed at the doorway. His troops were already firing, and he started firing too. He heard screams, and his troops stopped. Two bodies that looked like the ones who had helped the flood lie on the ground. They ran inside. Five Itinerants waited inside. They immediately began firing pistols and plasma weapons. They fired back. He heard a scream next to him. Blue energy shields popped around the Itinerants. They tossed grenades. They hopped out of the room. They windows above them shattered, and supersonic waves flowed out. The titanium walls dented outward. They stood up and went inside. Everything was shattered or thrown against the walls. There was another door. A soldier kicked it open. A blade sliced through his armor, popping out of his back. He fell backward. They immediately fired inside. They ran inside. Blades flew through the air. Ten Itinerants were tossing blades and firing off weapons. The forerunner scattered, firing at the same time. Salazar pulled out an explosion grenade. He tossed it. It exploded, and killed three. He powered up two shots and blasted two Itinerants heads off. They finally finished them. Captain Salazar ran up to a computer. " Their called Itinerants, and they are using the flood for universal domination." He told the soldiers. Salazar turned on the radio in his helmet. " We need an evacuation at these coordinates: 32 degrees longitude, 102 degrees latitude." He said. " Okey-Dokey!" responded a forerunner. He flipped it off. Okey-Dokey, what the hell does that mean? He thought. A door opened. Two Itinerants popped in and began firing. He flipped one of the computer desks, and hid behind it. He popped up and fired a couple shots. He then powered up the two guns. He popped up and blasted them both to heck. He heard a loud sound outside. The soldiers ran outside. A drop ship waited outside. They ran inside. The ship rocketed off the air. They rendezvous with the battle cruiser.

To Be Continued

5 Way War Part IV: Super Soldiers
Date: 27 January 2003, 9:35 pm

      Sweat ran down Alvy's neck and horn. He was climbing a rope web. It was 500 feet tall. He was in a race to climb the net and reach the top. The last person to make it to the top was to loose his dinner. He was ahead of most of the other recruits. There were three forerunners in front of him. His fingers were cut and bleeding from the ropes. His grip loosened with every grab he made, for his hands were in burning pain. He reached for the next rung, and his hand slipped from the sweat. He fell back. A couple forerunners climbed ahead of him. His leg was stuck in the rung. He was dangling. He saw the ground 200 feet below him. A drop would be deadly. Everyone started climbing ahead of him. Two forerunners stopped. They helped him up. They were in last now. He continued ahead.
      <Thanks> He muttered.
      < No prob' > said one of them
      < Name's Kog, and that's Sheily. > He said. They continued. Alvy grabbed someone's leg. He held her so she couldn't move. He climbed ahead. The person he had grabbed cursed. She grabbed Alvy's leg, and pulled hard. He fell. Alvy screamed. He reached for the rope. He grabbed it, but the speed he was falling was so great, his arm was pulled out of the socket. He swiftly grabbed with the other hand before he fell. He couldn't climb with a broken arm. He was stuck there, dangling by one arm. He looked up, and saw everyone reaching the top, and sliding down a pole into the river. He dangled until the last person slid down the pole. He still dangled. The pole holding up the structure started going down into the ground. They were lowering him. He was saved. His legs touched solid ground, and the bad feeling in his throat was gone. Chief Petty Officer Shcunc glared at the girl who had thrown Alvy off. He pulled a large whip out. He hit her twice. He then hit Alvy once. He grimaced in pain. His shirt had a large tear in it where the whip had hit, and blood trickled down his back. The blood tickled his skin as it slowly dripped out. Shcunc sent him to the infirmary.
      His arm healed in a week. He was up and back on the training courses. Of course even though he was last he still got dinner. The girl who nearly killed him lost his dinner for cheating and trying to kill her fellow recruits. They all were working for the same goal after all. Defeating the enemies. He was now in a maze. It was pretty much the mouse and the cheese maze, except they were playing capture the flag with stun guns. They first team to retrieve the flag and return it to base wins. Alvy ran through the maze with five fellow teammates. Kog, Sheily, Legoliz, and Jimly. He turned a corner. Two red team members stood there. Red team was known as the Hellhounds. Blue team was known as the Ghosts. He fired two lasers. Blue energy surrounded them. They exchanged fire. The two Hellhounds froze. Kog, Sheily, Legoliz, Alvy, and Jimly outnumbered them. They stood frozen. One of them fell over. He grunted. They continued on. Another corner. Two more Hellhounds. They easily froze them. They turned two more corners. They were in the center of a huge opening. Five Hellhounds were at the other side of the room.
      < Attack, I'll get the flag! > Alvy screamed. They nodded and started firing. Alvy ran to the center. His legs ached. Sweat poured down his neck, soaking his shirt. A Hellhound did the exact same thing. They dove on the flag. They both grabbed it at the same time. The cold metal sent a chill down his spine. It hurt where the whip scar was. He pulled. They both jumped up, and tried to kick one another. There feet smacked each other. Luckily for Alvy, his team was smart enough to attack the Hellhound with the flag. The other team saw them do this, and did the same. The blue energy surrounded Alvy. The other guy let go as he froze. Alvy sprinted away. His partners followed him. Jimly suddenly froze. Alvy didn't look back, though he heard Jimly curse. He continued running. The ache in his legs got so bad it was unbearable.
      < Kog, take the flag, I'll stop them. > He said. Kog nodded. Kog took the flag, and sprinted. Alvy turned around. He dove into the group of Hellhounds. He twisted his body sideways, so he was horizontal. He knocked the whole group of them down. He grabbed their guns while they were still surprised, and tossed them over the wall as far as he could. He ran back toward his group. They made it back to their base, and stuffed the flag in the ground.

      Redo stood inside a covenant base. He was in a small hallway. He and his squad, Senna, Jake, Franklin, and Jonas, came to a corner. They flattened against the wall. He heard gunshots and explosions, covenant screams and strange demented screams. He turned the corner. The flood were locked in battle with the covenant.
      " Spartans, let's turn around, the flood were here first." He said.
      "Contact the others and tell them to turn around." He said. They turned around and started to leave. Five elites and seven grunts had just walked in corridor. They immediately opened fire. A grenade fell on Jonas's shoulder. He screamed. He ran and dove into the pile of covenant. It exploded, sending covenant everywhere. A couple elites hopped up. The Spartans ran forward. They dove on the elites. They started pounding the elites. Franklin and Senna grabbed them. Redo and Jake got behind them. Redo whacked the elite Senna had hold of. Jake was too late though, the elite whacked Franklin in the back. The elite fell on top of Franklin's body. They continued on through the building. Two flood Spartans (Spartans infected by flood) turned the corner. He and Jake jumped up and thrust their legs into the flood chest. They fell over on their backs. Senna threw two plasma grenades on them. They exploded. They ran to the exit.
      Outside there were three covenant tanks. Three other Spartans came out the exit next to them. Redo recognized them, Master chief (Not John 117, the master chief of the game, but the knew master chief. If you haven't read the fall of reach then you might not know that 'Master chief' is a rank.) Commodore Gary, and sergeant Shelly. Shelly pulled out a rocket launcher. She fired. The rocket zoomed toward the tank. The tank turned, and dodged it. It hit the tank behind it though. Pure plasma energy popped out of the tank. The plasma was headed straight for Shelly. She threw the rocket launcher away as she was engulfed in plasma. Redo headed straight for the other tank. It fired purple at him. He dove, and dodged it.
      " You suicidal maniac!" Master Chief muttered under his breath as he picked up the rocket launcher. He fired at the tank. It exploded. Redo hopped on top of the tank. He pulled out a grenade. Blue smoke billowed out of it. He stuffed it in the cockpit. The grenade went off. He could here the elite's muffled scream. He hopped in the tank. Flood and covenant come swarming out of the base. He fired two plasma balls. Master chief used up the last of his rockets; Senna began tossing grenades and running. Jake did the same. Commodore Gary fired his weapons while he ran. Redo glimpsed the silhouette of an invisible elite about to whack Master Chief. He fired the tank and said through the communicator " Master Chief, INVISIBLE ELITE BEHIND YOU!!" Master Chief spun around. He was knocked off balance slightly as the tanks weapon swept away the invisible elite. Senna, Jake, Commodore Gary, and Master Chief ran past him. Covenant and flood jumped on top of Redo's tank, and started hitting it. He turned around and followed them. Covenant and flood still clung to the tank. Redo fired the weapon. It knocked most of them off his tank.
      " Thanks back there Redo, you saved my life!" Master Chief said over the communicator.
      They were a couple hundred yards away from the battlefield. Redo looked back. He saw explosions, and blood flying in the air. He could still here the screams. Suddenly, Redo's tank went soaring through the air. He hopped out. The tank hit the ground and exploded. Redo landed on his feet. Excruciating pain ran up his legs. Three strange vehicles were parked at the top of a hill a couple hundred yards in front of them. The vehicles were of unknown origin. One of the vehicles fired at large beam at them. They dove out of the way. Commodore Gary screamed in pain. He clutched at the stumps where his legs once were. Redo tossed a couple of grenades at the vehicles. They landed on one of the vehicles. It exploded. All of the remaining Spartans tossed grenades at the remaining vehicles. They walked to the top of the hill. They looked down. In the distance they saw an army of flood and vehicles that looked like the ones they had just destroyed. Itinerants, thought Redo.

      Alvy grinned as he received his new badge. He was now a Lieutenant. He had finished training with his team early, he finished after three in a half or so years, and he's been out of training for two years now. He was advancing fast. He dreamed of one day being the highest rank. The forerunner used the human ranks of course. So he dreamed of becoming Master Chief. And now that was his life goal. The forerunner super soldiers, Legions, wore armor similar to that of the human super soldier.
      " Hey Lieutenant, did you not hear the bell? It's lunchtime. Quit looking at that darn badge and go." Said Sheily.
      " Are you mocking a higher rank? You better hope not." Said Alvy. She laughed "Hey you know me. C'mon I'll sit next to you." She grabbed his hand, and walked with him. Alvy had grown attached to her over the years. He grabbed a tray and went down the isle. He sat down at the table, after getting his food. He was about to stuff his mouth with a juice beetle, when the alarm sounded. " What the?" He stood up.
      " BATTLE STATIONS EVERYONE, BATTLE STATIONS!" Alvy pulled out his pistol. The pistol was silver and fired inch long bullets of syjin. Syjin was a rare type of crystal that was extremely sharp and harder than diamonds. It came from a planet that was once inhabited by humans, but was driven out by covenant. All life on the planet was destroyed. It was pretty much a dead planet. Anyhow, the pistol was curved and smooth. The handle held the bullet cartridges. It was almost the shape of a boomerang, but the handle flattened out. It also wasn't a thin as a boomerang.
      The door to the cafeteria exploded in a cloud of blue smoke. Grunts, Jackals and a few elites ran inside. He opened fire. Tables were flipped up and used as shields. Alvy flipped the table in front of him over and ducked down behind it. He popped back up and fired a couple of shots. Alvy popped back behind the table. He popped out the cartridge of bullets, and pulled another out of his pocket, and snapped it in his pistol. He looked to the right, and saw Sheily lying on the ground unmoving. He crawled over to her. He shook her.
      " Wake up, wake up!" He said. She didn't move. He checked for a pulse. She was still alive.
      " MEDIC! I NEED A MEDIC!" He yelled. A medic came crawling towards him. Alvy asked the medic what was wrong with her.
      " She's internally bleeding. I don't now whether she'll make it or not." He said. Alvy wasn't going to let his friend die.
      "Take her to the infirmary." He said.
       " You can't just walk all the way to the infirmary, this place is filled with covenant."
      " I'll escort you." Said Alvy.
       " Are you insane, or do you have a death wish?" Asked the Medic.
      "Just do it!" Alvy kicked the table with all of his genetically enhanced strength. In an instant the table had crushed seven covenant jackals and an elite. Others legions joined in and kicked tables. There was now a line of steel tables smashed up against the wall. Alvy ran out into the hallway, the medic with Sheily followed.
      " Hey Lieutenant, forget someone?" Kog came running up beside him. Alvy smiled thankfully, even though Kog couldn't see through his visor, he knew Kog could tell Alvy was smiling. They turned a corner. Two elites opened fire upon them. The medic fell to the ground. Alvy fired constantly at one of them in the head. It fell over dead before it could move to dodge. The other one curled into a ball and rolled towards them. He and Kog jumped to the side. The elite pummeled the already shot medic, and Sheily. Being that the elites were about eight feet tall, they weighed a lot. The pressure on Sheily's body would surely squirt blood out of the organ fast. The medic was long dead. Kog picked up Sheily.
      " I can take her. You just cover me." Kog held Sheily in one arm. He held his weapon, a pistol like his, in the other. They ran forward. They stampeded a group of grunts. They were squishy under his feet.
      "Squeak" It was his A.I., Elena. Yes the forerunner had their own versions of A.I.s. Elena sometimes got annoying. She always made funny comments. It was funny at first, but after living with her there all the time for three years it got really annoying.
       " That would be amusing if they squeaked every time you squeezed or stepped on them," said Alvy.
      He turned the handle, but the door to the infirmary wouldn't budge. They had sealed it so the enemy couldn't get in. Elena unlocked the door. He ran inside. A doctor ran up to them.
      "What's wrong with her?" asked the doctor.
      " She's bleeding eternally, but don't ask me what organ, the medic who knew died."
      " That's fine." An A.I. floated towards them.
      " I can find out." The A.I. held out is hand. The hologram of his hand formed into a box. He put it in front of her, revealing her insides. The entire inside of her was a mesh of goop at the bottom of her feet. Her bones were all misplaced. Then a fuzzy pink rabbit appeared.
      " Howdy."
      The doctor glared at the A.I.
      "I was joking!" Alvy attempted to push the A.I., but his hand went through the hologram.
      "AHHHHH!!! I'M MELTING!!! AAAAAHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!!!!" screamed the A.I. The A.I. hologram began melting, holographic steam rising above him. Alvy rolled his eyes. The doctor and Alvy put Sheily on the table. Tears began streaming down Alvy's eyes.

      Captain Salazar hopped into a hover gunner. A hover gunner was a small, tan floating vehicle with two chain guns attached at the front. He began blasting away covenant. Everywhere people where hopping in vehicles and obliterating covenant. Salazar led a long chain of hover gunners down the hallway. They neutralized every enemy in their path. Over the intercom, a voice said, "Abandon ship. Abandon Ship" He lead his group to the nearest lifeboat. They came into a room with four lifeboats and a large pack of covenant. They opened fire. Grenades rained on them. Another hover gunner knocked Salazar into a wall that had just exploded next to him. Everything went black.

      Admiral Laney stood in the control room. He had a major headache, and was not in the mood to go out and get in a lifeboat. The constant screaming and guns firing would be enough to kill him.
      " Sir we really should find a life boat." Said the ships A.I., Tyler.
      "Get me an aspirin and I'll go." Tyler grunted.
      " Sir! Section 105 has just been destroyed."
      "Ok, fine, I'll go." Said Laney.

      Admiral Laney stared out the window at the burning hunk of metal that was once his ship. He looked away in disgust.
      " I'm sorry." Said Tyler over the lifeboats computers. He and the other lifeboats were headed towards the nearest habitable planet. But unknown to him, it was the planet Redo lives on, in the human base.

To Be Continued

5 Way War Part V: The Trip
Date: 2 February 2003, 5:10 am

      Redo strained to lift the weights at six gees. He was tired. He walked out of the gym. He walked down the long familiar hallway. Posters were taped all over the walls. He walked past the cafeteria, turned the corner, past the armory, and came to his bunkroom. His wife, Senna, was waiting for him.
      " So, what's up hon'?" She asked. He sat down on his bunk. He sighed. He was tired and sweaty.
      " I'm going to sleep, that's what." He said, and closed his eyes. He fell back in the bed.
      "Spartan numbers 11012, please report to captain Locke ASAP". Said a woman's voice over the intercom. He growled. He stood up and walked out of the bunkroom.
      He stood in the bridge.
      " Spartan, I need you to rally a team of experts to go to planet Zaon. A base of ours is under stress. The planet isn't far from here. We'll use slipstream instead of relativity, even though relativity is cheaper."
      " Sir, first I'd like to say, why me? And second what will we be fighting?"
      " Covenant. You'll be briefed at 1500 hours."
      " Yes sir!"
      "But, you didn't answer my question." Redo said. Locke could see the weariness in his eyes, and knew he shouldn't lie when he's in a bad mood.
      " Because I want the best of the best. You may not be a high rank, but that doesn't make you good. If you succeed this mission I'll promote you." Redo turned around to leave.
      "And Redo, don't fail me. This trip is expensive, and I don't want that money, and lives, wasted." Locke said. Redo nodded. He wiped sweat off his forehead. The cold metal froze his skin, sending a shiver down his spine. How could his armor be so cold and he be so hot at the same time? Each of his steps sent a sharp pain up his ankle. His arms ached.
      " Cortana, what time is it?" Instead of answering him, she displayed it on his HUD. Two hours 'till he had to go to the briefing room. It was beginning to be a long day.

      The covenant priest, Azakuv, stretched his long neck until he was face to face with the Prophet. Azakuv opened his eyes.
      " The Gods have given word to me to destroy the new threat. According to the Gods, they built the ring we lost our entire armada at. They are called forerunner. They must be stopped at all costs, if not," The priest uttered a high note that sounded like an entire orchestra playing.
      The prophet puked. That was horrible. How could the Gods do such a thing?
      " Lets declare war. Send a ship to find and destroy them. We'll send the old recording we sent the humans."
      " I'm afraid you're a bit late. We kind of accidentally destroyed one of their ships already. We thought it was human." The priest said. The prophet glared.
      " You killed another sentient species ship that wasn't even our enemy yet. You IDIOT SON OF A" The prophet hollered another symphony.
      " I'm sorry, we didn't know." The priest whimpered. Veins popped out on the prophet's forehead. His face turned bright purple, since his blood was purple.
      " Hell yes you didn't know!" the prophet stormed off, yelling in the prophets orchestra of a language. Only priests and Prophets had the vocal cords to speak it.
      A grunt was sitting on the ground crying. The priest walked up to him.
      " Why are you crying little fella?" (Author's note: I just had to put this in.)
      " What you were saying was beautiful. I am crying from joy." The priest was disgusted, to think the bad things they said was beautiful, is just... Then he remembered the grunts don't know the prophet language. The sound must have been beautiful to him.
      He shuddered at the thought.

      Redo held a Fire starter II. The fire starter II did instead of burning the oils on the outside, it burned the blood. It literally set blood aflame.
      Redo's secondary weapon was a pistol. Redo put the fire starter down. He began waxing his armor.
      Senna, another member of his team, had a shotgun and a pistol. She also began waxing her armor.
      Jake, another member of his team, bore a pistol and a shield penetrater.
      Mike had a fire starter II and 2EM115.
      Winston had a 2EM115 and a battle rifle.
      Marge had a JN117. The JN117 was a rapid-fire plasma weapon with a plasma generator that was worn on the back. It was designed specifically for Spartans because it weighed a lot.
      They hopped in the back of the ship. It took off. Redo watched as Cron got farther and farther away. Then zap! They were in slipstream. He'd arrive in a minute. He tightened his grip on the rifle. The pilot said over the intercom.
      " Go into the cargo bay and get into the pelican inside. I know you Spartans can pilot them things." Redo stood up, as did the other Spartans. They walked into the cargo bay. Redo hopped up into the drop ship, and walked to the pilot seat. He strapped in.
      " Everybody ready?" said Redo.
      " Yes." They all said in unison. He started it, but did not turn the thrusters on. A big door opened, like a garage door, but huge. They were sucked into the vacuum that was space. They drifted for a second, and then he turned on the thrusters. He headed straight for the mostly green planet. The entered the atmosphere. They entire ship was rumbling as the atmosphere attempted to burn it up. The shaking stopped. Redo moving gracefully above the surface.
      " The base is at 45degrees Longitude 15degrees Latitude." Said Cortana. Redo turned autopilot on and set it for those coordinates. He leaned the seat back and sighed. Finally he could get some rest.
      " REDO, COVENANT SHIP 1:00" Cortana screamed in his ears. He growled. He fired the chain guns. The Banshee swerved out of the way, and fired a fuel-rod cannon. Redo shot downward. The fuel-rod cannon smacked the roof of the ship. Luckily the Pelican's were so strong the fuel rod cannon didn't heavily damage it. He locked-on the Banshee and fired a missile. A bit of blood from the pilot of the banshee spattered on the window as the Banshee exploded into a million pieces. He wiped it off with the wipers.
      He spotted the base, and headed for it. When he came close he rained missiles and bullets onto the armada. Redo landed the Pelican. The Spartans hopped out and immediately opened fire. Covenant began exploding in balls of flame. Two Goliaths fired at the Spartans. They dodged the rain of burning plasma. Redo tossed four grenades on one of the Goliaths. It exploded into smithereens. The blue shields popped up surrounding the elites as he fired his FS2. He popped a cartridge of ammo out and stuck another in. Marines started coming out of the base to help. A marine pilot hopped into the Pelican and started it up, firing the chain gun down onto the onslaught of covenant. Warthogs started coming out of the base. A few ATV's even popped out. Now they were putting up a fight. A few crewmen with pistols even joined in. Suddenly a huge explosion blasted out of the top of the roof. Redo motioned to the Spartans to follow him. A few Spartans that were at the base were fighting alongside the marines. Redo ran down the long hallways. He came across a few covenant. The group of Spartans easily neutralized them. They continued down the halls. The hall suddenly came to a halt. Piles of debris blocked their way through. He began grabbing pieces of debris and throwing them away. The others joined. The pile of debris collapsed and he hopped over it. The others followed. A group of marines were lying on the ground wounded.
      " Look, it's a Mach 5," said one.
      " We're saved!" Said another.
      " Winston, you stay here with the marines." Ordered Redo. Winston nodded. Redo continued forward. A large sign on the ground said "Bridge" and had an arrow pointing straight ahead. Redo headed there, hoping he'd find someone in charge.
       He kicked open the door to the bridge. The metal door smacked the ground. A group of covenant patrolling turned and aimed their weapons at him. They gargled something at him.
      

5 Way War Part VI: unwelcome neighbors
Date: 8 March 2003, 4:03 PM

5 WAY WAR PART VI: Unwelcome Neighbors


Corporal Smidt led a team of grunts, Jackals, and a few more elites through the jungle. They spotted four sentinels. Immediately his blue shield raised around him. He opened fire with his plasma rifle, immediately disarming and destroying the sentinel. The grunts and jackals took them down easily too. It was easy to take out a shield less Sentinel. Only as long as you used plasma. Plasma was the most effective weapon against the sentinels.
" Man down!" screamed a grunt. He ran towards the grunt, and spotted the four grunt corpses on the ground. He scowled and turned around. The grunts were dead and numerous enough. A few dead grunts were nothing. A Jackal or and Elite, that was something.
He continued through the foliage. He put his Plasma rifle away and pulled out a sword. Smidt held his hand up. The others halted. He bent low. So did the others. The soft hum of a sentinel could be heard. A grunt was whimpering. The elite looked at the grunt, and made an odd zip your mouth thing. The grunt took that the other way. He screamed and ran off. There was a bright light and a grunt screaming "UFF!" The sentinels then flew right into them. They immediately opened fire upon the oncoming sentinels. They exploded and fell to the ground. Three of the sentinels though survived due to shields. Smidt threw a grenade on one of the sentinels. It exploded. Grunts were screaming and running around. Jackals began running as the burning laser from the sentinels de-powered their shields. Smidt growled and jumped on one of the sentinels. He began tearing at it, smashing his fists into the metal. He punched so hard his hand went through the metal and into the weapon generator. His hand disintegrated. He screamed at the top of his lungs. His blood mixed with the hot laser generator. The sentinel lurched and exploded. Pieces of the corporal began flying everywhere, a few landing on grunts. Their team was eliminated.

The alarm sounded within the building. Redo stood up from a game of checkers and grabbed his pistol.
"This is no freckin drill, battle stations everyone!" screamed a crewmen over the intercom. A few Spartans began getting help getting their armor on from others with theirs already on. Redo ran into the halls, and ran for the nearest battle zone, which according to Cortana, was in the cafeteria. He ran inside, and flipped up a table. Plasma and crystal bullets zipped overhead. Redo popped up from the table and fired at a forerunner soldier. A blue shield popped up around them. They fired back crystal bullets at him. He ducked down under the table. He popped up a tossed a grenade. It bounced, and then exploded, killing two forerunner soldiers. A forerunner Legion tossed a grenade at him. It exploded in front of the table, sending him and the table back into the wall. He smashed into the wall, and lost consciousness.

Senna tossed a grenade on a Legion. He screamed and started running towards her, but exploded before he got even close. She heard a gunshot behind her and saw her shield go down a little. She turned around to see a Legion. The Legion fired a few more shots. Senna tossed a grenade and dove to the right. The legion dodged it a fired a few more shots. Senna's shield was out. She ran over to the left, firing as she went. A few crystal bullets smacked into her left shoulder, disabling her left arm. She was behind a pillar. A grenade landed next to her, sending her into the wall, knocking her unconscious.

Alvy fired at a couple of Spartans, then dove to the left behind a pillar. He popped out from behind it a fired a few more shots. A Spartan that he had just killed, or so he thought, stood up. She fired a few shots at him knocking his pistol away. He ran at her. She continued firing, knocking down Alvy's shield. He grabbed her pistol and smashed it under his fist. She swung a weak punch with her weak arm at Alvy. He ducked under it, put his arm between her legs, and threw her over his shoulder. She smashed into the wall, breaking one of her vertebrae, and tearing her spinal cord. She fell to the ground dead.

Redo woke up and readied himself to fight. There was no one left in the cafeteria. He walked out into the hall to see a Forerunner Legion pick up Senna and throw her into the pillar, killing her. He screamed and ran at the forerunner Legion. He dove on him, sending them into a door. They smashed through the door and ended in a storage room. He swung a fist into the Forerunner soldier, smashing his iron fist into the helmet. The legion rolled under, getting Redo pinned. Alvy smashed a fist into Redo's face. Alvy grabbed Redo's throat. Redo kicked a leg up, shoving Alvy off of him. Alvy popped up off the ground, as did Redo. Redo and Alvy ran at each other. Redo jumped up, sending his legs into Alvy's chest. Alvy flew ten or so feet backwards. Alvy stood up. Redo was already running at him. Redo smacked his fist into Alvy's helmet, shattering the HUD and denting the metal. Alvy tossed the helmet off, as another fist entered his face. Alvy felt his nose break. Alvy grabbed Redo's waist, and threw him into the air. Redo fell; and hit the ground on his legs. Alvy thrust his leg into Redo gut. Redo flew back. Alvy ran towards him. Redo grabbed Alvy's fist in mid-punch, turned behind Alvy, and thrust Alvy's arm up. Alvy's arm popped out of the socket. Redo lifted his leg, bent it towards him, then thrust it straight outward into Alvy's back. Alvy flew forward and smashed into the wall, breaking a few ribs. He fell to the ground. Suddenly Redo couldn't move. He fell to his knees and grabbed his head as a group of forerunners invaded his mind. Redo tossed his helmet off and grabbed his head.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" he screamed. One of the exquisitely robed forerunners said to him suddenly the memory of Redo's dream from years before popped into his mind.
" GET OUT!!" Redo screamed.
" GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!!!" He screamed. Said Shniel. Alvy stood up and started walking towards Redo, ready to kill. said Juan in his COM channel. said Alvy, confused. answered Alvy, still confused. Alvy ran and did as he was told, while Redo still screamed at the Shoguns. He walked outside, and began checking all of the human Spartan corpses. He found the one of Senna and carried it back into the room. Redo was still on his knees, no longer screaming, just weeping. Redo looked up at Alvy
" No, don't take her, her body is all I have left" Redo said weakly. Alvy saw the anguish in Redo's face. His cheeks were red from the tears that had streamed down his face. All around his eyes were bright red and swollen from Redo trying to wipe the tears out of his eyes. Redo feebly looked at Alvy, staring pleadingly into his eyes.
"Please..." said Redo. Alvy choked. Alvy began to walk away.
" No, please, let me just see her face once more..." He said, holding out his hand. Alvy placed Senna's body in front of Redo.
"Senna, my love, why'd you have to go... why couldn't you have stayed, then when our time in the UNSC ended we could have started a family, raised children and grow old together," Redo's voice trailed off. Tears of loss fell onto Senna's sweet face. Redo didn't even realize his hands were balled in fists. said Saurov in Redo's head.
"Shut the hell up" Redo said. Alvy picked up Senna's body and began to walk away. Alvy looked back at the human. Redo stared pleadingly at Alvy. Alvy felt a lump in his throat. I don't want to fight anymore. He thought. I never want to see that face again. I never want to hurt someone so much ever again.

Redo wept there for hours. He never moved. Jake and a few other Spartans came running in the room
" WE WON!" Jake said. He looked at Redo, seeing the pain and anguish in his face.
"No, we did not win, that was the greatest loss of this entire war," said Redo. Jake looked confused.
" Hey where's, oh, oh! Redo, I'm... I'm sorry," Tears welled up in Jake's eyes. He wept too.

5 Way War Part VII: Redo's new life
Date: 8 March 2003, 4:08 PM

5 Way War Part VII: Redo's new life




FOUR YEARS LATER...

Being that Redo had lost the most important thing of his entire existence, the only thing left to do was to dedicate himself to the UNSC. He focused only on his job at saving the world. Soon he was advancing in rank and gaining medals and awards. He won great battles for the human race. His enthusiasm increased with every battle, for every battle was sending his mind away from the thought of Senna. He did not get any new relationships with women, nor did he want to. His only friend was Jake. He cared for nothing but the fate of the human race.
"Sarge, two bugs at 12:00,"screamed a Spartan. They dove down as two Itinerant flyers passed overhead. Redo stood up. He looked around himself. He saw some leafless trees. He also saw other trees with lots of leaves.
"Cortana, give me some info on those trees." He said.
"The leafless one is the Sapamaxous Lefiless."
" The other is Lefilous lottomous" "The leafless one has tons of sap in it, if you were to break it in half, it will spray sap out like a shower. And the other one just has tons of loose leaves." Redo thought about it for a moment. He stepped up to one of the leafless trees and knocked it down. Sap began spraying out.
" Bathe yourselves in this sap." Said Redo.
" Sir, why?" asked a marine in full armor. Redo, rubbing the sap all over himself, said, "Just do it, and make sure it's ALL over you, and no part, except your face, is not covered in it." The marines and two other Spartans began bathing themselves in the thick, sticky sap.
" Now that we are as sticky as possible, cover yourselves in these leaves." Redo walked up to the tree with tons of leaves, and shook it hard. Leaves began raining down upon them. They were now covered in leaves. It was the perfect camouflage.
" Team Green, move out" They began running through the trees. Red dots appeared on Redo's motion detector. Redo made a hand signal, and the Green team dropped to the ground. Redo pulled out a sniper rifle. He ordered a few others to get out their sniper rifles. They aimed past the shrubbery. There was a patrol of about nine Itinerants and spores inside a large cage. Redo made another hand signal. The soldiers opened fire with their sniper rifles. The nine Itinerants fell to the ground. Redo signaled for them to get up. They stood up. They walked out, and continued in the direction of the Itinerant base. The NAV points on his helmet got large. He stopped. He signaled for his team to drop to the ground. They began crawling forward. They spotted the base. Hundreds of Flood were guarding the base. Redo called for air support. Two jet fighters flew overhead and dropped a couple of bombs on the base. Two anti-air turrets popped out of the base, and fired upon the fighters. One of the fighters swooped upwards. The missiles of course followed it. The other fighter was hit. The blue shield appeared around it. The other dove for the base, and then arced upwards. The missile, lagging a bit, slammed into the shield surrounding the base. Redo waited for blue team and red team.
" This is Red Leader, repeat Red team is at the base and ready for combat. Over"
"Roger, this is Blue team leader, I read you loud and clear. We have also just arrived. Over"
"Roger, this is Green team leader. Seems we're all ready, lets go!" They ran towards the base. Jerry, green team's demolitions expert, placed a bomb right in front of the door. They ran back into the bushes. Jerry pulled out a remote, and pressed a button. The bomb went off, wiping out the door. They ran into the base. They all pulled out shotguns. They turned a corner, and five covie-floods were standing there. They turned around and immediately attacked. They three teams opened fire, and easily killed them all. Redo pointed upwards. There was a vent shaft. Redo ordered Jerry to go up there. He followed.
" The rest of you stay here. If we need backup, we'll call you. I don't think the vent shaft could hold anymore weight." Redo led Jerry silently through the vent shaft. Redo was careful not to let his armor scratch the vent. They came to a fork. Redo silently asked Cortana which way to go.
"Right." Redo moved to the right. They continued moving through the vents.
The rest of green team, red team, and blue team sat in the hall. They waited for orders. One of the soldiers looked up and sighed, then spotted something. A camera.
"OH SHIZER!" He yelled.
" What is it?" Asked his team leader. The soldier pointed up. A camera was watching them. The team leader grabbed the camera and crushed it.
" Green team leader, we have a problem." Said blue team leader.
"What is it?" asked Redo.
"You're going to have to get out of there, they had cameras and spotted you climb the vent"
"CRAP!" Redo banged his fist on the vent. The vent lurched.
" Crap." It lurched again.
"Go, GO, GO!" Redo yelled at Jerry. Jerry nodded, turned around, and crawled backwards. The piece of vent behind them fell, setting a chain reaction. They crawled as fast as possible. Vent pieces fell right where they were just a second ago. Bullets then began to spray up into the vent.
"Crapcrapcrap!" Muttered Redo. His shield deflected bullets. Spores hopped up into the vent.
"Cortana, display vent map on HUD" requested Redo. Cortana did so. He was close to the entrance to the base. A covie-flood whacked the piece of vent Jerry was on. Jerry fell through. Spores engulfed him on the ground below. Redo hopped across the vent, just as the one he was on collapsed. He landed on the other vent. It collapsed. He fell to the ground. Redo landed on his feet, like a cat, and took off. He began running at full speed. To the floods, he was a blur. He was at about 50 miles per hour. He pumped his muscles. Sweat began dripping down his neck. He burst through a door. The others were under attack.
"RETREAT!" Redo screamed. The others ran outside. Bullets and plasma alike rained on them from vehicles and turrets. Redo called for air support, and a drop ship. Three fighters came in and fired their chain guns. A pelican landed on the ground in front of them. They hopped inside. The pelican took off. Three Itinerant fighters followed them, firing plasma at them. One of the human fighters took them out. Anti-air missiles began filling the sky. The fighters exploded, but the pelican managed to escape.

THE END

To be continued in 6 Way War

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