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Alien Brethren: Chapter 3 Life Debt
Posted By: Alex L (Greek Elite)<yoshi64y@aol.com>
Date: 25 September 2005, 8:44 pm
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I apologize for the last 2 chapters not having paragraphing except for scene changes. Hope you enjoy Chapter 3 and keep interest in Alien Brethren!
PS: This Chapter may not have as much action as the last two but wait for Chapter 4, it's filled with things that go BOOM!
Chapter 3: Life Debt
Alei 'Limoto's mind cleared up now and he began to recover his vision. Everything was blurry yet he was thankful he could see. He heard the sound of the wind blowing through the breeze, the tide washing up against the beach, different alien types of machinery at work, and human noises.
He shook his head and discovered his legs were tied together with a restraint, as were his hands behind his back. He felt something hard behind him, a wall. He looked around and saw that there was some sort of entry off to his left to a facility and to his left there was a narrow pathway. He struggled to gain his freedom but his attempts were futile. He then heard the sudden roaring of a human vehicle's motor. It was familiar and it grew louder. Suddenly around the corner a four-wheel human vehicle came spinning around the corner. Alei 'Limoto glared at the vehicle and the humans inside.
"Look what we got here fella's," said a deluded marine whom got out of the driver seat and walked towards Alei crookedly.
"We got ourselves a hog tied red bastard!" Spat the human in the Alei's face.
The two other marine's laughed at the elite as he growled and struggled to slay the filthy aliens.
"Look at him he's trying to get you, Schafer," snickered another human.
"How do you think such a worthless sack of scum got here?" Asked another human.
"Who cares, let's have fun with him," the human named Schafer said.
The humans grabbed the elite and dragged him feet first through the sand on the beach and Alei grunted as he was being dragged and tried to gain back his freedom and dignity. They stopped dragging him and left him in the sand as the two marines went back to the vehicle and one other marine set up a box right next to the Alei.
"Don't flinch, or you might get splattered," warned the human as he slapped him in the back of the head.
Alei would have done anything to acquire four plasma grenades, a fuel rod cannon, and five minutes with the humans to teach them a lesson at that time. Once the third human hopped into the vehicle the motor roared and the driver honked some sort of irritating horn that made Alei wince. Then he heard the human vehicle drive straight at him and he closed his eyes not wanting to witness his own fate.
Then just when Alei though he would be put out of his misery and prepare for the great journey the vehicle had drove over the box that acted like a ramp and went airborne right over him. It landed in the tide and splashed Alei. He growled and shook himself off as best as he could from being splashed. Then the humans let out an annoying torturous laugh as they drove back onto the beach and then all surrounded him.
"It's scared out of his mind, look at it!" One human said pointing and laughing at Alei.
"Hey let's get practice on our Warthog killing skills!" Schafer suggested.
"How so?"
"We untie him, let him run around and we mess around with him in the hog," Schafer said.
The rest of the humans cheered in glee at the idea and untied the Alei. Once Alei was untied he jumped to his feet and went to strike the closest human but he was knocked to his feet by another marine and they all laughed at him. As Alei 'Limoto got to his feet again they were already in the vehicle known as the 'warthog' and it came charging at Alei. Alei quickly jumped out of the way of the rampaging vehicle, his head covered in sand from diving head first into it.
The warthog turned to face the poor elite and Schafer ordered the human with the mounted turret, "This time try shooting at him a little bit just to rattle him up."
Then the warthog came charging at Alei 'Limoto again and he jumped out of the way, barely making it in time as he felt sharp human projectiles pierce into his back. He roared in pain and heard the cackling of the humans once more. Alei 'Limoto returned to his feet again and then was knocked off his feet by the passenger of the warthog whom shot him with a human rifle. They began to laugh harder in a very deluded way and Alei 'Limoto found himself lying in his own puddle of blood.
He got to his feet again, never giving up. The warthog game rampaging toward him again, this time the large mounted gun on the human vehicle came firing at him before the vehicle passed him, which made it harder to jump out of the way. The warthog hit him hard in the leg and he was thrown into the tide by the vehicle's impact. Alei 'Limoto felt weak now but as he got to his feet he realized that vengeance is what kept him getting back up on his feet. Though he was unarmed he'd have to try something crafty, something the deluded humans wouldn't expect.
The vehicle came rampaging forward at him and as the mounted gun began pelting projectiles at him he leapt into the air and landed on top of the mounted gun. He knocked the human off the turret and then proceeded to scooping the driver out of his seat. With the driver and the gunner off the evil human vehicle he was free to take care of the rest by his own strength. He kicked the passenger out leaving nobody let inside the vehicle and leapt on top of Schafer.
Alei 'Limoto glared into his scared, pathetic eyes and picked him up by the scruff of his uniform and raised him to Alei's eye level.
"You will bow to me human," snarled Alei 'Limoto.
Alei then smashed his skull into Schafer's doing more damage to Schafer then himself. Alei would have proceeded to attacking Schafer some more but he felt a burst of bullets piece into his back. He roared in pain and fell to the ground in immense pain.
Alei didn't know how much more of this he could take. The human's surrounded him and Schafer took one of the other's humans' guns.
"Say good night you son of a…" but Schafer was cut off by a echoing BANG through the air. The humans and Alei turned to see whom it was. It was Sergeant Baxter, sniper rifle in hand. He had shot his rifle into the air to get their attention.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Baxter scolded.
"We're teaching this piece of sack of crap a lesson," Schafer replied simply.
"He's my hostage Schafer. Don't think I can't have you demoted to private along with your friends," Baxter threatened right in Schafer's face.
"Lighten up Baxter will ya?"
"That's Sergeant John Baxter to you Corporal," he replied with a very grim face.
John examined Schafer's eyes and saw that they were very shaky, glassy, and drunk.
"Have you and your friends been drinking again Corporal?" Baxter asked.
Schafer merely belched in Baxter's face as a reply and in a split second Baxter took Schafer down with the stock of his sniper rifle to Schafer's face, shattering his nose. Blood poured from Schafer's nostrils.
Baxter gave the other marines a quick glance and they hurried off cowardly. Baxter stepped on Schafer's chest to walk over to his hostage elite, Alei 'Limoto. Alei looked up at Baxter wondering what to make of this human. John extended his hand towards the elite. He cocked his head wondering what the human was doing and assumed that Baxter was trying to help him up. Alei welcomed this and he put his four-gingered hand into Baxter's pale five-fingered hand as he helped him up to his feet.
Baxter examined the bullet holes in Alei 'Limoto and knew instantly that they were from Schafer and his posse.
"I apologize for the hostility that one of my fellow marines treated you with," Baxter said.
"You are lucky you already punished him or he would have already been drowned by my hands," Alei 'Limoto replied.
Baxter decided to laugh at the elite's remark to show peace towards him.
"Follow me," Baxter said as they headed toward a large facility near an even larger windmill.
"I am in your debt human," Alei said.
"Excuse me?" Baxter asked confused.
"They surely would have killed me had you not come along. I am grateful. Perhaps you are not like the other filthy humans," Alei 'Limoto replied.
Baxter decided not to take offense against Alei's remark about 'filthy humans' so that everybody was happy. "There are a few pig heads out there I admit," Baxter said.
They had just turned the corner of the windmill when Alei saw many warthogs parked everywhere and many humans looking at him strangely. Alei decided to ignore their staring and murmuring and continued onto another subject, "You are very good with that weapon that you wield."
"What, this?" John asked pulling out his Sniper Rifle.
"Yes. What is it called?"
"It's a SRS9…um…let's just call it a Sniper Rifle," Baxter said, stopping himself from introducing it by it's proper, longer name.
"And what is it that they call you, human?" Alei asked as they entered the facility.
"Baxter…Sergeant John Baxter. Sergeant is just my rank though, John is my first name. What about you?"
"My name is Alei 'Limoto," Alei said proudly.
"That's a…erm…unique name," John said trying to find the right words so that he wouldn't offend the alien.
"And…Surgeent John Bastard is also a unique name," Alei replied, trying his best to pronounce Baxter's name.
"It's Baxter! Sergeant Baxter. Not bastard, Baxter!" John corrected.
"Baxter…" Alei said to himself, pronouncing it a lot better then before. Once inside Alei looked around amazed at the human facility finding much interest in it's structure. Many marines gave weird, confused glances at the unarmed elite and he felt very out of place.
A question aroused, "Sergeant Baxter, why is it you kept me alive?"
"Two reasons. The main reason is because you seemed like a good ally and I was hoping to convince you somehow to join human forces. The way you slain your enemies was incredible but at the same time you showed mercy to my fellow marines. You seemed like the perfect elite to try and convince to join me," Baxter explained.
"And the other reason?"
Baxter let out a sigh as Alei's curiosity for the other reason arose. "Because few marines have ever captured a elite. I thought if I captured you and you refused to join I'd still have a hefty reward, no offense to you," Baxter explained. Alei just looked at him.
"So why exactly does the Covenant hate us?" Baxter asked trying to be more formal and social with his new alien friend.
"Because you oppose the Covenant goal," Alei said simply.
"And what is that exactly?"
"The Great Journey," Alei Limoto said with great pride.
"Great Journey…never heard of it, but how have we been opposing it," Baxter asked.
"The Prophets believe that you humans are too intelligent and too risky for the Covenant and would oppose our beliefs in the Great Journey. Not only that but you have destroyed our sacred ring."
"Sacred ring? You mean Halo?" Baxter asked, "So let me get this straight, you're upset that we blew up your ring even though that ring could destroy multiple galaxies? Don't you know that Halo is a weapon?"
"It is not a weapon," Alei snarled, "It is an artifact built by the Forerunners used so that every member of the Covenant shall achieve peace and glory on the Great Journey."
"You and your Prophets are wrong," Baxter said. Alei took a few steps toward Sergeant Baxter and was now face to face with him and looked at him in a threatening way.
"What do you think you're doing?" Baxter asked. Then before any more could be said a marine came running inside the facility looking frantic, "Sir there's two enemy Phantom on the other side of the coastline wall. They're sending Covenant troops!"
Baxter looked at the other marine and ordered, "Tell everyone to assume defensive positions around this facility."
The marine gave a curt nod and headed off to give the other marines their orders. Baxter looked back at Alei whom was still glaring at him. "I'm going to need your help," Baxter said.
"You want me to help kill off my brothers, even after how you insulted my people and my beliefs?" Alei asked as though Baxter were mad.
"I'm not apologizing for what I said, your so called Great Journey is a lie. I can prove it to you as well," Baxter said.
"How?"
Baxter sighed and retrieved something sitting on a table in a corner that lay with ammunition and broken devices. He held a spherical device that had a large light in the center. The light was damaged and its framework was in bad conditioning.
Immediately Alei recognized what it was, "The oracle!"
"If that's what you call them yes, but we call them monitors. These monitors are said to watch over Halo and supposedly contain much information on your so-called 'sacred ring'. One of our expedition teams found it on a planet called Threshold and brought it back to us. However it's broken and we don't know how to fix it. It'll tell you the truth about Halo," Baxter explained.
"I may know someone who knows how to fix it," Alei said thinking about his Covenant brothers that he missed.
"So once you get it fixed, and you hear what it has to say do you promise to fight along the human cause and ditch your Prophets?" Alei thought about this and nodded. "Good," Baxter said and he handed Alei his energy sword that he had confiscated from the alien, "Now will you help us out with our problem at hand?"
Alei took his energy sword and examined it. "I will do what I can," Alei replied.
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