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Shadow Play Part Two
Posted By: Lance Johnson<jett_mann@msn.com>
Date: 1 May 2004, 12:31 AM
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Huri slammed a human marine off the bridge; he opened fire with his two rifles, hitting several marines who were trying to get through the opposite doorway. Huri fired on two other marines who were leveling a rocket launcher. Before long the covenant and the marines were fighting almost hand-to-hand, killing each other right and left.
Huri slammed another marine off the bridge, then fired the last of his batteries in his rifles. Pulling out his two swords he commenced to slash at other marines, but they had mostly fallen back so very few were left.
Huri saw it again, the human in green armor. He roared and charged, but the door closed and locked before he could reach it. Huri and the rest of the remaining covenant limped back to the encampment. Huri went over in his mind again and again.
"Okay, so the prophets are now capturing human kids, I have one in my home, they all have listening devices on them to search out for potential political traitors, and I have just witnessed a battle being lost, and to top it all off, I have a headache, what a day."
Huri couldn't understand it, the prophets had told him what they plan to do with the children, but it just didn't add up. Then it hit him.
"If human children are very important to humans, the prophets could use them to force the humans to surrender in battle! That means that the humans would be forced to fight on terms below us. This means, the prophets have no honor."
Huri took his helmet off, then went over the video recordings he had made. Of the covenant bodies, the dead marines. And also about the humans that just don't seem to die. He stopped the recording and rewound it and stopped it on the two humans. They wore strange, grayish clothing, but why did it seem familiar.
Huri racked his brain trying to remember where he had seen other clothes that resembled these strange markings on the clothes as well. He couldn't remember. He went over the feed from him running smack into the green armored human. It had markings on the helmet. He enhanced the image. It said.
"SPARTAN-JESSE-107"
"What a strange name" Huri thought aloud.
After memorizing the letters he walked up to the Field Marshal.
"Osoona, you have a message waiting for you."
Huri nodded and walked to the terminal. A message likely from the prophets wondering what he has acquired for them. But it was another mission.
"You are to infiltrate a human vessel, acquire any type of navigational data you can and escape without being detected or caught."
Huri remembered what happens to an Osoona if it gets caught. The prophets have absolutely no knowledge of your existence. He packed in all of his equipment for spy duty and trudged off towards the human city. He already knew that the cruiser Zayap, Aaron, and Larel were on was already on its way back to High Charity so he didn't have to tell anyone he had left.
Huri made it to the human city quickly, but was almost knocked off his feet when a human vehicle sped by him.
"What a strange vehicle?"
The car kept going, heading into the busy intersection of the city. Humans ran from here to there, carrying cases and other things. One even had a four legged creature that made barking noises at him, it sounded like a grunt's native language. Huri walked towards what he could surmise was a hanger. It was full of human aircraft and spacecraft. One of which was prepping for launch.
Huri launched himself into the doorway before it closed.
"I really hate these spy jobs."
Aaron stared out into the stars. The planet High Charity loomed from space, he was in the hanger, inside a Seraph fighter. An elite was beside him, its head twisted 180 degrees. He powered the fighter up and blasted off towards the planet. He knew that if supposedly under business from his so called "master" he would make it to the bio-scanner.
He requested clearance using the elite's voice, the one he killed earlier. He landed without any trouble, and was not stopped. But once he got to the bio-scanner the covenant stared at it. He heard them speaking in their native languages, so he activated his translator.
"This isn't human!?
"What is it?"
They didn't have time to say another word, the screen exploded as blue bolts of energy erupted from the scanner. Aaron fired his wrist guns, at anything that moved. He ran down the street, activating active assault mode. His programming took over as he raced towards the capital city. Then he remembered how far the capital was from his position. His nuke began to warm up; he fired at anything his targeting computers detected. His nuke began to buzz.
"So this is how it ends."
The cruiser Rising Star saw from space a massive explosion rock the planet, a shockwave, visible from its position spread across the city where it happened, in less than half a cycle, the city was nothing but radioactive ash.
Once on board the human ship, Huri ran along the hallways. He was being chased by the humans. They had some sort of goggles that let them see him even in his camo. He ran to and fro, but it was hopeless, inside their ship he was no match. It took two dozen marines to subdue him, and they finally knocked him out.
Huri was blinded by a bright light. He looked around; he was bound on his arms, legs, and waist to a metal chair. He squinted as his eyes adjusted to the brightness.
"What have we got" Huri heard voices say.
"An elite, one of those black armored ones too. He must have gotten on board from a longsword patrol.
"Well, looks like we have a prisoner."
Huri lowered his head, he had no way of returning to the covenant now, he would be publicly executed for failing the high prophets. A human came into his vision and punched him in the face. One of his mandibles snapped from the blow.
"Get a ONI spook up here, the best at interrogation, I don't know how to speak covenant."
"What about the colonel, he has a translator."
"Colonel Ackerson? I guess."
Soon enough a stocky man was standing in front of Huri, snickering.
"So, you thought we wouldn't find you, huh?"
A marine touched Huri with a silver rod, pain surged through his body.
"If you tell us what we want to know, you live, if you don't, you die. It's that simple."
A green armored human walked into the room.
"Spartan 107 reporting, sir."
Ackerson looked at the Spartan with disgust.
"Just sit down, I'm working here."
The Spartan took a chair.
The Colonel asked Huri many questions, which Huri didn't answer. He stared at 107, with a glint in his eyes. But before long he wasn't able to think straight from being electrocuted so many times.
A female human walked in, and stared at Huri.
"You had it beaten?"
"It would answer, so I thought it needed some convincing."
Dr. Halsey walked around the battered elite. Huri didn't really care what they did to him anymore. He had no more strength left to fight, and they had drugged him with something. He just wanted to die.
"I advise, colonel, that you allow me to ask this alien some questions."
"Fine, but it is still my prisoner, and it will be charged with war crimes, and executed."
"Not if I can help it."
The colonel stormed out of the room.
"Now, how did you get on board" Halsey asked firmly.
Huri didn't answer. His life was in shambles, what could he do now? Then it hit him.
"I came on board by one of you fighters."
Halsey was surprised, it spoke perfect English.
"Jesse, is this the elite you had a tangle with?"
The other human, the one in armor, walked up to Huri, and came within several inches of the elite's face.
"Yes doctor."
Halsey sighed, then looked at the elite.
"What were you doing here?"
"Searching for data on human navigational computers."
Halsey was surprised, this elite was being more helpful than she thought, possibly even becoming a fountain of information. She better not push it. But the elite spoke first.
"If I return to the covenant, I will be killed, if I stay, I will be killed. I have no wish to die. I will tell you as much as I know about the covenant to keep me alive. And I know quite a lot."
"What about your caste system, die before giving up information?"
Huri looked up.
"I no longer serve the covenant. Their corrupt political views disgust me. I was forced to serve, but no more."
Huri, in one simple movement, snapped the bindings hold his arms to the chair. Jesse snapped forward, ready to defend Halsey, but Huri didn't attack, he just sat there.
Another human walked in. It was identical to Aaron!
"How is this possible? Aaron was on board the cruiser when it left."
"Hello Huri" Aaron said.
Halsey spoke.
"Aaron's body was nothing more than an android we built for war. Before he detonated a powerful explosive on the covenant homeworld, he transferred his memory and thought matrix processors to us; he rebuilt him with a brand new body."
"So you were nothing more than a spy?"
"More or less, I was supposed to detonate right when I got to High Charity, but I overrode my programming. I missed the capital city though."
Huri now remembered that it was Aaron who had been wearing grey clothes when he had arrived at Huri's home.
"Dr. Halsey, this elite is a good person, no matter what Ackerson or any other ONI spook says, I won't let them kill him."
"Neither will I, he knows so much about the covenant. It is a very exciting thought of actually learning about the covenant caste system from one of their own."
Huri smiled, he knew quite a lot about the covenant, even enough, to free his people from the prophets.
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