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The Raptros Saga: Ch.1: Awakening
Posted By: Raptros-v75<GekSliver@nyc.rr.com>
Date: 25 February 2004, 2:46 PM
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(note: this takes place a time after halo. im not going to spoil the tale, but you will like it}
For no reason in particular, a heart started pulsing. Electrical energy started to flow through the cortex. Nerve endings started sending signals through the spinal cord. The creature was coming to life, with no stimulus, except a completely un-alive flood spore, even that was no real reason. Still, the creature awoke, as if it had been alive the entire time. Its eyes opened. It looked at one arm, with an entirely new type of weapon starting from the creatures elbow. The other arm was a large shield-like device, with weapons and a circular piece of energy attached. It stood, and its armor, weapons system, shields, and HUD booted up. It noticed a red blip right behind the central point.
John (The Master Chief) watched the strange creature come to life. It appeared to be a dark blue elite, with a Hunter's shield arm with a jackal shield and a plasma rifle and pistol attached. But the other arm had a very strange weapon, like a shrunken, upside-down fuel rod gun crossed with an assault rifle, with a tube connecting the front and back half. The weapon encased the right arm from elbow to hand, and extended another foot. He watched the creature stand up, and he raised his rocket launcher.
The creature turned around, and said "Don't shoot!"
The MC lowered his rocket launcher, but made sure he could whack this new creature if necessary. "Follow me," he said, "and don't try to run away."
The creature followed. He was lost in thought, and so had no intention of running away. He had just realized how to use his weapons. Since he had nowhere else to go, he didn't use them. He might even get some food. He thought Food? And he answered himself Yes, Food. Now.
John noticed that the creature was very silent. He wasn't worried, he was just aware of this. He wondered what this creature would be called when they got back to base. They had been on this new planet for a while now. They had discovered it a few months ago. It had been created when a Covenant cruiser had engine problems in slip-space, and had imploded. The energy had pulled a large dust cloud into a large rock, which started pulling other stuff in also. Life started very quickly there, and Humans and Covenant decided to investigate it. Unfortunately, the Flood were curious about it also. And so a large battle had begun, ending with the humans misfiring MAC guns, and the Covies misglassing it, which destabilized the surface, and made it poisonous to any life on the planet. The one good thing was that the flood were killed instantly by the toxins. Something had lived through these toxins. This creature he was leading back to base. John thought this last one lazily, and tried to continue, and suddenly took a double-take. He looked behind him, and saw that the creature was even more lost in thought than he had been. He decided to ask the creature what his name was.
The creature suddenly came out of his deep thought. He searched frantically through his mind, and said the first thing that came to him. "Raptros-v75."
John was confused by this. He had expected a covenant name, some weird, unpronounceable garbage. But this was some kind of dinosaur name, combined with a computer kind of thing. He looked around, and said "We're here," and brought him into the airlock chambers of the base.
Raptros-v75 looked around. He saw humans coming toward him, and bared his teeth, and growled "WORT! WORT! WORT!"
One of the humans said "That's a Covenant, they're not allowed in here, especially when they have weapons."
John replied "That's no Covenant, it was dead."
The marine was confused "Dead? It's alive. Creatures don't just come to life like that."
"This one did," John answered, "I found some dead covenant, and saw this creature in the pile of bodies. I don't know how it formed, but I watched it come to life."
Raptros-v75 was getting annoyed. "Well?" he demanded, "Are you going to stand around all day, or are you going to argue whether or not I'm alive, when I'm obviously speaking to you!"
"What is his name?" one of the marines asked.
"He said Raptros-v75," the master chief replied, "But I don't know where he could have gotten a name like that."
Cortana appeared. "Bring him to the lab for study," she said, and then disappeared.
John said "Come with me."
Raptros-v75 blinked as he entered the room. He saw people walking around, looking at computer screens, samples in tubes, and other stuff.
A technician walked up to him with a device with wires coming out. "Please step onto this platform," he said, "and attach this to your armor." He waited until Raptros-v75 had figured out how to do this, and said "Thank you."
He felt a slight jolt as he was inserted into the virtual training center.
(2 days later)
John couldn't find Raptros-v75 anywhere. He had looked in several rooms that Raptros-75 had access to, the mess hall, the lab, and every hallway. He decided to look in the weapon storage area.
Raptros-v75 was very pleased with himself. He had not only upgraded his first weapon to fire small plasma bursts, exploding darts, and a energy missile, he built an assault weapon that had 25 bullet tubes, a sling of self propelled miniature fragmentation missiles, and an sweep-spread electro-blaster, he made an energy sword with an exploding-dart gun at the base, a sniper rifle that fired silent bullets packed with explosives, energy beams that would cause enemies to explode like a potato in a microwave, and missiles that went up, and dropped bombes into groups of enemies. His favorite new weapon was a device that fired out long sweeps of fire, much like a hose with a nozzle sprays jets of water. It also fired out flaming bullets that would spread flames for a few feet in several directions, and fired canisters of the fuel, with a shock-head that would send the fire in many directions. He also devised a special rocket launcher, auto weapons that would sit on his shoulder, and special grenades.
When the Master chief saw this, he was surprised. When the captain found out, he was annoyed. When the marines found this out, they complained. When the technicians found out, they did some more tests.
( a few weeks later)
Everyone was happy. They were leaving. Everything had been packed up, and they were on a warship, headed for Reach, to prepare for the next mission.
Raptros-v75 had fought many battles on the planet they left. He had gained everyone's respect, especially after he had saved the day at a battle that determined if they could be taken off the planet. He was something of a hero, he was an excellent fighter, and he was ready for anything. And, for the first time in his life, he was happy. But he had no idea of what was in store for him...
(to be continued...)
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