Halo from the Flood's Point of View: The Encounter (Part 2)
Posted By: Simpsons Rule
Date: 26 May 2003, 1:19 AM
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The rest of the Flood made their way through the vents into another structure. Suddenly, the Flood sensed a lot of food nearby. They all swarmed to the location of the food and burst in to see many Covenant within. These Covenant, just like the first group, were in search of more weapons. The Flood attacked and devoured the Flood. It was a brutal battle between the Covenant who fought a never before seen enemy and between the Flood, who were in search of food for survival. The Flood overwhelmed the Covenant and soon the Flood added many more Combat Forms and Carrier Forms to their ever-growing army. The interior of the structure was splattered with Covenant blood and dead bodies. The Flood needed the host to remain alive for it to take it over for if it died, the host was useless. So, with all the Covenant either infected or dead, the Flood moved on back inside the vents searching for a way off Halo.
When word came that they had lost contact with most of the search teams, the Covenant knew it couldn't be the humans. The Prophets were the Covenant's spiritual leaders. All other members of the caste had to listen for it was said that they knew everything and spoke the word of god. It was true that the Prophets knew more than the rest of the Covenant because of where their race developed. The Prophets evolved from the planets that the Forerunners had abandoned. Although the planets were unsuitable for the Forerunners, the species that could adapt to their environments did and eventually the Prophets came to exist. They had learned all about the Flood from records they found. They knew that these installations existed but could never comprehend the significance to them. They instantly understood that the search groups of Covenant must have run into the Flood and so a Special Ops task force was deployed. They would seal any doors that might've contained the Flood to prevent them from spreading.
As the Covenant searched, they locked any doors they thought the Flood might have come from, as ordered. They fought the Flood along the way but for once, the Covenant won. It wasn't long before they returned to the Covenant master ship and told the high Prophets that they had neutralized the threat. Getting reports that the Flood had been spotted on the surface, the Prophets scolded their failure and punished the Elite who had been in charge of neutralizing the threat, Soha 'Rolamee. With any chance of containing the Flood now gone, the high Prophets ordered every ship to abandon Halo. Unfortunately for them, it was too late.
All of a sudden, a new food source arrived for the Flood. Not one but two groups of humans lay in a close radius to the group of Flood. Since the Covenant had locked all the doors, the Flood had been searching for a new way to escape. The Infectious Forms needed a host to be of any real help to the Flood, so they split into two groups and went after the humans.
Captain Jacob Keyes was leading a group of marines to uncover a supposed weapons cache. Unfortunately, the humans were about to uncover a greater threat than they could ever imagine. They searched the interior of the structure, saw the carnage that was left behind, and could only imagine what had taken place. They eventually emptied into a room that they had found locked. No sooner had they entered the room than the other team of marines, set to guard the entrance of the structure, radioed in. Something was attacking them and they needed help but before they could give specifics, the signal stopped. Just as the sergeant had told a marine to check it out, they heard this liquidy slithering sound. All of a sudden, these half-meter long creatures began to attack the team.
Although they were weaker than the Elites, food was food and the little Infectious Forms began to infect the nearest human they saw. The humans acted more quickly than the Flood had. Right away they tried to fight back with shotguns and assault rifles. Shells carpeted the floor but there were too many Infectious Forms around for the humans to destroy. Eventually, all the humans had been infected, although two of the humans varied in their infections than the rest.
One human, Private Wallace A. Jenkins, had been infected by an Infectious Form that had been severely weakened by the hibernation inducing gases. Thus, this human had more control of his body and regained more of an understanding to what was happening to him than the others did. The other human, Captain Jacob Keyes, was infected just like the others. When this particular Infectious Form began to sift through his memories, he soon found much data on navigation. Although, amazingly to the Infectious Form, the human was still managing to hold back some memory, the Infectious Form had learned much information on the location of other worlds. These other worlds contained a buffet of creatures just like him. The Infectious Form decided the human was too valuable to be turned into a Combat Form and instead turned him into an Assimilation Form. This form was reserved for creatures that were thought to be too important to turn into any other form. The Assimilation Form looked like a giant blob when it was resting. If it desired to move, however, it would freely take the host's limbs and protrude them out into the environment and use them. Too important to stay, the Flood decided to go to a safer place until it was time to use this newly acquired information.
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