After Halo Chapter 9
Posted By: Ethan<BaldEagles7@earthlink.net>
Date: 27 December 2005, 8:13 pm
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Chapter 9
Halo 4, West Mountain Valley
7:30 A.M.
"Freeze!" the scared Marine yelled from behind Erik.
"I'm a Spartan, I'm not going to hurt you," Erik said as he turned around to face the Marine. The Marine was shivering furiously. The Marine was about to fire his plasma pistol when Erik grabbed his arm and broke it. The Marine yelled in pain and fell to the ground holding his broken hand tight. Erik turned around only to see seven more Marines.
"He gets a little nervous sometimes," what looked like to be the Commander said. "I can't believe they sent a Spartan to look for us." Erik broke the Commander's and his squad's hopes.
"I'm not the rescue squad they sent. I don't even know if there is a rescue squad coming." Erik said and put his head down.
"Well we still got a Spartan, so that's good," the Commander joyfully.
"Actually we have four more Spartans and two Marines waiting for me up more on the mountain," Erik said. The Marines were really happy; they got a really good defense, Spartans, even though it wasn't a rescue squad.
"I'm Commander Preston," he said. "Glad to meet you?"
"Erik," he said. "I'm going to get you guys to my crew."
"It would be nice if we could stay ground level," Commander Preston said. "I mean the mountain just goes up, and there's really no point to that. We should get some shelter on the ground so we can move from place to place."
"Erik come in!!!" Alex yelled through her COM link.
"Oh sorry Alex, I'm here." Erik said through his COM link.
"What happened, who's there?" Alex asked nervously through the link.
"I'm fine, come down on my position with everybody" Erik said through his link. Alex went over to tell Youl the situation and all of them showed up about five minutes later because they need rope and such for coming down on the ledge. Alex ran over to Erik as soon as she got down. Erik was practically squeezed to death because Alex hugged him so hard.
"I'm fine Alex," Erik said calmly as he hugged her.
[indent}"Ok everyone, I'll call the shots from here on out," Youl said. "If your Commander has a problem with that, I suggest he speak now!"
"I don't have anything against it," Commander Preston said. "But come on in." There was a hole right in back of them going into the mountain and it came out the other side. "We need to go over there and stay on the ground."
"Then everybody lets move out!" Youl yelled and ordered everybody to the other side of the hole. "Spartans turn your light on now," Youl commanded and everybody did as ordered. The space in the mountain was dark and small. Erik was a little claustrophobic and started to panic a little. Alex held his hand as they walked through the area. They walked across which took all of two minutes.
"Now we need to slowly make our way down," Youl said. "Does your squad have any rope?"
Commander Preston thought, "Actually we do." "Gonzales get the rope out." Gonzales did as commanded, got the rope out and handed it to Youl.
"Everybody down the mountain one at a time," Youl commanded. One of Commander Preston's Marines rappelled down the mountainside first just incase anything was down there. It took the Marine all of about twenty seconds to get down.
The Marine yelled up to them, "All clear sir."
"Ok, thanks Limbreck," Preston said. The rest of the crew rappelled down one at a time.
"This whole area is nothing but woodland," Erik exclaimed. "How the hell are we going to find the Covenant's base?"
"That's not our objective Erik," Youl said. "We need to keep the men we have here safe, and then get the hell off this planet."
"How the hell do you suppose we fight the Covenant?" Erik asked in anger. "We don't," Youl said. "Now lets move out to a safe area." Youl started walking ahead of everybody else, the woodland was quiet and the trees stood still. Erik looked ahead and shots rang out, he saw Youl fall to the ground.
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