Chapter #7: Betrayal
back at the control room heavy and engineer was surprised to see their fellow teammates along with Master Chief were teleported there among side an orb like robot.
Engineer rushed directly at 343 Guilty Spark grab them and looked at him with intriguement of scientificness.
343 Guilty Spark: reclaimer please let go of me..
Engineer: not so fast light bulb I'm so fascinated on how we were creating how are you able to be float..
343 Guilty Spark: of course it seems that you might have not even noticed about it.. but we have more urgent things to take care of..
Heavy: you care to explain about what exactly is going..
Scout: let's just say the captain and the rest of the crew mates.. are dead by some infected zombie alien plague..
Heavy and Engineer looked directly at Scout with worried.
Spy: yes it seems that this parasite had feeding on the body and turned them and mutated them... there was no sign of the captain..
Engineer: aw shucks..
343 Guilty Spark gotten out of Engineer's Grass and floated directly towards the control center.
343 Guilty Spark: anyway back on topic.. Protocol does not allow units with my classification to... perform a task as important as the reunification of the Index with the Core. That final step is reserved for you, Reclaimer.
Master Chief takes the Index, and puts it into a slot on the console. Lights and holograms appear, but then fade.
343 Guilty Spark: Odd. That wasn't supposed to happen.
Scout, Sniper, Spy, Pyro and Medic looked at each other which worried on what exactly what happened now.
Cortana: Oh, really!?
Scout, Sniper, Spy, Pyro, Medic Engineer and Heavy we're even jumped back by Cortana's outburst.
Master Chief: Cortana!
Scout: geez...
Sniper: bloody hell...
Cortana: I've spent the last 12 hours cooped up in here, watching you toady about, helping that thing get set to slit our throats!
Master Chief: Hold on now, he's a friend.
Cortana: (Sarcastically) Oh! I didn't realize. He's your pal, is he? Your chum? (angrily) Do you have any idea what that bastard almost made you do?!
Master Chief: Yes... Activate Halo's defenses and destroy the Flood, which is why we brought the Index to the Control Center.
Demoman and Soldier came in and date rolls a surprise as well and shocked to see their fellow Mercenaries came back among side Chief.
Demoman: what kind of witch craft is this..!?
Scout: we can explain later right now we have more things to be worried about..
Soldier: yeah I have to admit that you boys all right but who the hell is this floating bowling ball..
Spy: his name is 343 guilty spark.. and let's just say he's the monitor of installation 04 also known as Halo..
Soldier: well it seems so where to get some new information at least.. but where's the captain..
Scout: well you se-
Master Chief anger: ENOUGH!
All the mercenaries jumped back even Spy well by Master Chiefs outburst between both guilty spark and Cortana.
John-117: The Flood is spreading. If we activate Halo's defenses, we can wipe them out.
Cortana: You have no idea how this ring works, do you? Why the Forerunners built it? Halo doesn't kill Flood, it kills their food. Humans, Covenant, whatever. We're all equally edible! The only way to stop the Flood is to starve them to death. And that's exactly what Halo is designed to do: Wipe the galaxy clean of all sentient life.
What Carolina said shocked the nine Mercenaries committing genocide against every sentient life in the.
Scout shocked: you can't be.. serious..
Heavy shocked: oh my God..
Soldier shocked: dear God..
Spy: I should have known that Halo was actually not just a weapon but also with me to kill all sentient life in the galaxy..
Master Chief hesitates, and then turns to 343 Guilty Spark among side The Mercenaries also looking directly at the monitor.
Engineer: is that all true, bowling ball..
343 Guilty Spark: (pauses) More or less. Technically, this installation's pulse has a maximum effective radius of twenty-five thousand light years. But, once the others follow suit, this galaxy will be quite devoid of life, or at least any life with sufficient biomass to sustain the Flood. (Pause) But you already knew that... I mean, how couldn't you?
Soldier: so all this time you want us to commit Mass genocide to kill every single alien race especially humanity..
Spy: I have to admit your creators did built a massive weapon but there could have been an alternate way..
Medic: that is right, I still have the cure or vaccine you can say..
Heavy: well that is good to hear doctor..
343 Guilty Spark: even that little amount of vaccine that you have isn't enough to stop the flood from spreading...
Scout: we're not going to let you get away with this..
The Mercenaries pointed their weapons directly at the monitor.
Cortana: (alarmed) Chief, I'm picking up movement!
343 Guilty Spark: Why would you hesitate to do what you have already done?
Four Aggressor Sentinels float up behind 343 Guilty Spark, their beams aimed menacingly on the Chief and The Mercenaries.
Heavy: little robots are no match against us, men..
343 Guilty Spark: Last time, you asked me, if it were my choice, would I do it? Having had considerable time to ponder your query, my answer has not changed.
Scout: as if we're going to allow you to fire the ring!
343 Guilty Spark: save their heads dispose of their bodies later..
343 Guilty Spark teleports away. The Chief and The Mercenaries raise their weapons directly at the sentinels.
Chief and The Mercenaries we're able to dispose of the sentinels.
Engineer went to the control of the door to open it to see grunts and elites fight against the sentinels luckily for Demoman was able to put on a sticky sticky trap enough to destroy both the covenants and the sentinels.
Cortana: We can't let the Monitor activate Halo. We have to stop him - we have to destroy Halo. According to my analysis of the available data, I believe the best course of action is somewhat... risky. An explosion of sufficient size will help destabilize the ring, and will cut through a number of primary systems. We need to trigger a detonation on a large scale, however. A starship's fusion reactors going critical would do the job. I'm going to search what's left of the Covenant battlenet, and see if I can locate the Pillar of Autumn's crash site. If the ship's fusion reactors are still relatively intact, we can use them to destroy Halo.
Engineer: as if we're going to need a field to destroy this darn ring..
Soon the Master Chief along with The Mercenaries exits the structure into the snowy night sky.
Cortana: I haven't located the crash site yet but we need to buy some time, in case the Monitor or his Sentinels find a way to activate Halo's final weapon, without the Index. The machinery in these canyons are Halo's primary firing mechanisms. They consist of three phase pulse generators that amplify Halo's signal, and allow it to fire deep into space. The power levels are enormous. I can't even begin to calculate the pulse's range. So, if we damage or destroy these generators, the Monitor will need to repair them before Halo can be used. That should buy us some time. I'm marking the location of the nearest pulse generator with a nav point. We need to move in and neutralize the device.
The Spartan and The Mercenaries heads down the pyramid structure, eliminating more Covenant patrols.
Cortana: Wait. We should commandeer one of those Banshees; we'll need it to reach the pulse generator in time.
A Sangheili enters a Wraith Demoman used sticky bombs directly at Wraith enough for to be detonated and destroying the covenant vehicle.
Chief and the mercenaries commandeer two of the banshees to fly off to platform protruding from the cliff, clears a lance of Covenant guarding it, and enters the room containing the Phase Pulse Generator.
the chief among with the mercenaries continue making they're way to the first pulse generator.
however many infection combat forms also came as well.
however one of the parasites latched on to scouts right arm.
Scout in Pain: GGGGAAAAHHH!
Medic saw Scout getting almost turning into an infection combat form.
Medic ran towards Scout and injected the antidote directly into him making the cure work.
Scout to Medic: thanks Doc...
Medic to Scout: no problem!
The Chief among side The Mercenaries continued fighting against covenants and infection forms, they continued making their way out of the first floor back into the elevator we're more infection forms we're able to be shoot down by The Mercenaries and the Chief.
The Chief among side The Mercenaries continue running to make it to a lower level against covenant and infection forms we're getting slaughtered by the Spartan and The Mercenaries.
when the moment the Spartan among side The Mercenaries came out the structure a large Covenant force defends the area, including a Wraith tank, several Shades and numerous infantry. The Chief
among side The Mercenaries manages to kill them all and leaves the area. Proceeding past the area where a Warthog lies overturned, the Spartan of continues to the next area where he fights through another large contingent of Covenant forces, including another Wraith and two Mgalekgolo. Eventually the Chief among side The Mercenaries is able to defeat all hostiles present, allowing him to commandeer a Banshee. The Chief uses the fighter to wipe out several Unggoy operated Shade turrets as well as several fuel rod gun wielders and their Sangheili Zealot commander.
Soldier: well that take care of their defense!
Medic: let's move!
Scour: and it seems that we're near that pulse generator thing.
Heavy: yeah It certainly seems in there..
The Chief and The Mercenaries enters the second generator room. An intense fight between Flood combat forms against the sentinels.
Soldier: well this certainly seems to be a bit of a problem..
Scout: I agree.. seen at the flood combat forms fight against the sentinels to get to the generator..
Demoman: don't worry lads, I have the answer for the situation...
Demoman got out The Bad Trip and started firing multiple multiple sticky bombs directly between flood combat forms and sentinels for an explosion to destroy both of them into Oblivion.
the room itself was a mess with in flood body parts and sentinel machine parts scattered across the room.
Master Chief: good work with that plan of yours..
Sniper: hurry up and get to the generator while we cover your rear!
Scout: that's right, move it big guy!
Soldier: I'm ready for those mutated maggots to come at us!
the Chief steps into the generator and disables the generator.
Flood combat forms jumps out from from the from the holes however from being shooting down from The Mercenaries.
including several wielding heavy weapons, only for them to be shot down by the mercenaries and chief into scrap metal
Cortana: That did it! The pulse generator overloaded. One more to go.
After clearing the room, the Chief returns outside, Chief got on the first banshee while the mercenaries ride on the second banshee.
Cortana: I've located the Pillar of Autumn. She put down twelve-hundred kilometers up spin. Energy readings show her fusion reactors are still powered up. The systems on the Pillar of Autumn have fail safes that even I can't override, without authorization from the Captain. We'll need to find him or his neural implants, to start the fusion core detonation. One target remaining. Let's take care of the final pulse generator.
Scout: well since we finally got ourselves some good news..
Medic: but right now we need to get to the third and final pulse generator..
Soldier: don't worry man we will make it to the pillar of autumn..
Heavy: but first we have to take care of finding the captain!
Spy: seen that he's already been captured by the covenant already..
Sniper: so that means we'll have to go back into the ship..
Engineer: I agree, seen that we have no other choice but to get back there..
The Chief and the mercenary using the two banshees to fly down into the tunnel leading to the third pulse generator.
A large number of Covenant troops are embroiled in a struggle with yet more Flood forms in the tunnel. Eventually killing all combatants as well as several more rocket launcher wielding combat forms further down the passage, the Chief and The Mercenaries finds another closed door. The door malfunctions, however, forcing the Chief and The Mercenaries to leave whatever vehicle he was using. Fighting his way through more Flood forms, the Chief and The Mercenaries eventually manages to leave the tunnel and exits into the third canyon.
The Chief and The Mercenaries witnesses a group of Covenant led by two Sangheili Zealots making a stand on a hill against hugely overwhelming numbers of Flood. Eliminating the survivors, the Chief exits into another valley where yet another battle is taking place. A nearby cave opening hosts a large supply of abandoned UNSC weapons and ammunition, allowing the Spartan the opportunity to resupply.
Engineer used to dispenser to help their teammates to get fully on health and supplies for their weapons to be on 100%.
Heavy: engineers credit to team!
Scout: good job hard hat!
Engineer: that's nothing, boys..
Engineer packs up the toolbox to put it back for the rest of them to continue going.
allowing the Spartan and The Mercenaries opportunity to resupply. Eventually the Chief and The Mercenaries enters a final valley where a group of Flood throw themselves at a mass of Covenant defenses, including two Wraith tanks, several Shade turrets and a large number of assorted infantry being commanded by a Sangheili Zealot. Later in the battle, a squad of Stealth Sangheili as well as another Zealot, a Mgalekgolo pair and more infantry emerge. After a protracted battle, the Chief and The Mercenaries is able to kill all foes in the area and enter a Banshee fighter. He flies to the platform that leads to the third generator. Sentinel Aggressors appear and fire at him. As he arrives at the room containing the third generator, Aggressors with energy shielding appear. He eliminates the Aggressors and disables the final generator.
The Chief and The Mercenaries stares at the generator. After a while, he turns away.
John-117: Let's find a ride and get to the Captain.
Cortana: No, that'll take too long.
The Chief and The Mercenaries turns back.
John-117: You have a better idea?
Heavy: I agreed, I will take too long to get to the captain..
Scout: I wonder what her idea would be..?
Cortana: There's a teleportation grid that runs throughout Halo. That's how the Monitor moves about so quickly. I learned how to tap into the grid when I was in the Control Center. Unfortunately, each jump requires a rather...consequential expenditure of energy.
John-117: Something tells me I'm not gonna like this.
Heavy: I agree as well..
Soldier: well literally seems to be the first time using the teleporter grid.
Demoman: it's just like using the teleport in a different way..
Medic: well since we have no other options.
Cortana: But I'm pretty sure I can take the needed energy from your suit without permanently damaging your shields. Needless to say, I think we should only try this once.
John-117: Do it.
Master Chief and The Mercenaries is teleported away. Fades to black.
To Be Continued...