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Tales of Beta Squad Chapter 2 Part 1
Posted By: Dylan Monk<dylmonk@msn.com>
Date: 15 July 2005, 7:15 am
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Oddball stood on the windmill of Zanzibar observing the beach. There was a lot of activity. It was quite dangerous here. He was perfectly open to attack. He knew that he shouldn't be here. According to the team's rules, he wasn't meant to be in a game without them, especially when none of them knew about it. He thought he might get in a bit of training before they were all due to meet for a game of capture the flag on Curogulation with the team of pink Spartans they had defeated on their last venture into the game. He now had found out by talking to some of the people that he was a wanted man. There was a serious gamer on this map who wanted to capture Oddball, leader of Beta Squad, and parade him around before killing him. He went by the name of Dark Hawk of Dawn. One of the people Oddball had talked to had ran off, probably to in form this Dark Hawk of Dawn of his arrival on the map. He could just sign out of the game, but he had his reputation to think about. His whole team's reputation. They all took this game very seriously and would probably expel him from the team if he let them down.
A barrage of needles flew up to meet him, breaking his thought. The person who fired them was quite stupid, because they had fired them from such a distance that they exploded in the air before they could even reach Oddball. This was more than the warning he needed. He jumped down, and ran towards the beach, away from the needles. There he saw no salvation. There were three Elites, each with dual needlers. Two other Elites with shotguns came up behind him. Of course, he thought. Random weapons and vehicles. And one life Slayer. Two Scorpion tanks, a Ghost and a Gauss Warthog were there, piloted by more Elites. One stood on top of on of the Scorpion's turrets and said "Well, well, looky here boys. What have we here? The leader of the legendary Beta Squad, perhaps? I think so."
"Shut up, jerk."
"Ooooh, manners Oddball. I am Dark Hawk of Dawn. I am, how say, your worst nightmare."
"Drop the fancy act. It's really annoying me." Oddball surveyed his captor's armoury. "You've got yourself quite a bit of weaponry here. Needlers, shotguns, two tanks, a Gauss, and Ghost. Must've taken a lot of collecting. And I thought your men were stupid. A very well orchestrated trap. And done quickly and efficiently too."
"Yes, we did our job well. It was worth it. We have you!"
"I'm flattered."
"Ha ha. Now I will show them all that you are not invincible. You are just a good player, nothing more. I shall crush you. But not after I show them all how you can be defeated!"
"Monologging? In a game like Halo? God, you must be nuts. Listen, cyber-punk, I'm gonna kill you all and get going. Okay?"
Dark Hawk of Dawn Stood there. "Fine." Oddball whipped out his rocket launcher and fired it. The Elites all jumped right out of the way. These were skilled players. He ducked and spun around. The shotgun Elites behind him fired and missed, seemingly because he ducked. Oddball switched to a Brute plasma rifle on the ground and fried them both. The tanks fired and, for some reason, missed. The Ghost flew past him. Oddball started firing at it but it was too nimble, and dodged aside. He aimed his last rocket at one Ghost. He made sure it locked onto his target, and then fired. The Ghost's driver seemed prepared for this, and expertly dodged, and then boosted towards a little window in the hill. He quickly made a swerve into it and then curved back around, causing the rocket to hit the edge of the window in the rocks. At home, Oddball gawped at his computer screen. "That's impossible" he said.
"No, just improbable" replied Dark Hawk of Dawn. "Impossible for you to pull off, perhaps, but not us. We are more dedicated to this game then you could ever be."
The tanks took aim and fired. Once again they missed, the explosion only downing Oddball's shields. "Not to good at aiming" he snorted. He switched to his first weapon, a plasma pistol. Often over looked, when used properly they were quite amazing. He charged up a full plasma bolt. He aimed next to one Elite and fired. The Elite, almost instinctively, jumped to one side, right into the bolts actual path. Now that his enemy's shields were down, Oddball moved in for the kill. He rapidly shot small plasma bolts at him, circling him. The Elite fell to the ground, unmoving. The Ghost came back around, firing. It's shots all missed. Oddball charged up another full bolt and fired it at the Ghost. The Ghost was out of the way in no time.
"Fool" accused Dark Hawk of Dawn. "Your homing rocket couldn't even hit it. Why should that? How could that?!"
"I've had enough of this shit" said Oddball. He charged up his final bolt and fired it at Dark Hawk of Dawn. The tank Dark Hawk of Dawn was on moved out of the way enough for the plasma bolt to just miss.
"Did you not wonder why the tank did not hit you, or the Ghost, or the three men with needlers? Notice you have wasted all your ammo. You are defenceless and have no choice but to come with me and be paraded around for all on Zanzibar to see." Dark Hawk of Dawn paused. He seemed to be savouring the moment. Wow, he must be pretty obsessive, thought Oddball.
Oddball ran the situation over in his head. "No one will believe you if you don't show me around. So you can't kill me. I, on the other hand, have no problems with killing your men. And in order to achieve what you want to achieve, you can't kill me." Oddball could just imagine Dark Hawk of Dawn laughing evilly at his computer screen at home, even though no one could hear him. He seemed very much like that kind of bastard.
"Correction, what I would prefer to achieve. To kill you would be enough. I would know I have done it. If you struggle, I will kill you. You obviously won't believe this, but that is your mistake to make. Or, if you do believe it, you will undoubtedly play along thinking that you will wait until the perfect escape moment. Unfortunately for you, there will be none. You are mine."
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