All's fair in Love and War (A Halo, Metroid story)

Encounter

"Only one was to find out" Chief said as he brought out his shot gun. He fired a single shot at its torso. The sound echoed through the empty hallways accompanied by a cracking noise. The bullets went through the shell just fine. "If you ever find yourself out of ammo, go for the stomach area. There seems to be no armor and it's looks very vulnerable." Athena analyzed.

"Again, only one way to find out." Chief drove his fist through the general stomach area of the creature, specifically where the glowing spot was. Predictably it went through without a problem. Chief shook his hand to shake away the, what he assumed was, blood from the creature.

"At least we know it isn't a friendly. Be on alert, we don't know how many of these things are there." Athena said.

"Don't tell me how to do my job." Chief said rather rudely in her opinion. She just replied with a humph.

"Maybe this'll help." Athena said. Chief's shield began to deplete instantly as a pink glowing ball of light emerged from his chest, like a Promethean sentry. The blue orb merged with the closest wall which was to his right.

"Downloading schematics and blueprints of the building now. Scanning... Scanning... Aaaand done. The power source we're looking for is just up ahead. Up three sets of ramps on the left and you should be there." Athena said. A mini-map of the tower and a way-point appeared on his visor. Chief didn't question how she did that (and neither should you) and continued on, shotgun in hand.

He went up the aforementioned ramp and came up to a door at the end. He opened it to find a room of those creatures lying dead on the floor. Chief turned one over to inspect it. No bullet holes, just a black mark, usually left by plasma burns. Which meant a plasma based weapon, like the Covenant's.

Someone or something has already been here. No marking, other than plasma burns, to indicate any use of blades. There was clearly a struggle in this room. There was a glowing orb in the middle of the room. "That's a Covenant power core. What's it doing all the way out here?" Athena said. There was a console with unknown markings on it.

"Don't know, but we can find out. See if you can hack into this console." Chief said walking closer to it. 'What have the Covenant gotten themselves into now?' Chief thought.

"Dunno, but whatever it is, it can't be good, especially if it's the Covenant." Athena replied. He forgot she can read his mind.

Chief hovered his hand over the console and Athena transferred over to it. She appeared, hovering, over the console as she brought up what looked like documents in an unknown language.

"It'll take me a while to decipher all of this so go do something." Athena dismissed. As she finished her sentence rhythmical clanking of metal on metal could be heard getting louder and louder. Chief retrieved his shotgun and place himself flat against the side of the door. Athena didn't bother to hide herself as she continued to search through the files, learning and deciphering the text.

A humanoid figure with gold looking armor emerged from the door. It had a blue green-ish thing on its right arm, which, chief guessed, was its main source of fire power. A green visor shielded it's face from Chief. It made its way slowly over to the console where Athena was at. It stopped short of her.

"I thought I told you not to bother me Chief!" Athena yelled turning around. "Uh, your not Chief." She said looking slightly nervous. She looked at Chief's general direction to see him creeping towards the assailant. He put his pointer finger in the middle of his helmet where his mouth should be, forming the universal sign for 'be quiet.'

"Wh-who are you? State your business!" Athena said trying to stall the assailant. She had to buy time for Chief to sneak up on it. The Assailant tilted its head to the right. Chief tried his very best to sneak up on the assailant. He didn't want to risk anything like last time.