A plasma bolt hit the Master Chief in the back, draining his shields. A low beeping noise echoed through his head. The Chief opened fire with his Assault Rifle blindly into the dust. Somewhere, a grenade detonated. Chief's motion tracker tracked lots of movement around him.
The Chief got far away from the firefight and tossed a few grenades. Chief didn't know if all the marines were dead. Chief confirmed that with his motion tracker. Chief ran away from the battle. He might as well radio in a dropship to pick him up. He clicked on a COM channel. All he heard was static. During the firefight, plasma might have broken his COM. Chief decided to look for some communication device tomorrow. Chief took off all his armor. Luckily, it wasn't summer in this unknown planet. Chief went to sleep by the sound of a nearby brook.
The next morning, the Master Chief woke to a crunching sound. Chief turned around to see a grunt going through his food supplies. Chief was furious. His natural reaction was to shoot that thing point-blank in the head, but then he realized that grunt was unarmed.
Chief firmly pulled the Grunt away form his food, and pointed his pistol at his head.
"Oh god! Run! Run Run!"
The Chief held the Grunt still.
"What is it do you want?" The Chief said. The Grunt continued screaming. Chief clicked the pistol's safety off.
"I'm hungry", said the Grunt.
"Go eat somewhere else. This stuff doesn't taste good anyway".
"I'd eat crap before I'd starve to death".
"You're calling my food crap?" The Chief was about to shoot the pistol, when the Grunt pulled out a small purple mechanism.
"I heard that your communication device is down".
Wow, thought Chief. That Grunt has really good hearing.
"So, what is it for?"
"It's my communication device".
The Chief yanked it out of the Grunt's hand. The Chief then radioed in to the main base.
"Zulu base. This is the Master Chief. I'm currently in coordinates 4-20. I request extraction
"Roger Chief", Sergeant Johnson's voice came over the COM channel. "I'm getting a reading from a Covenant communication device. Is everything all right?"
"Affirmative I've got a captured Grunt here. I was using his communication device. Mine broke in a plasma firefight".
That Grunt must be really smart, thought Chief as the Pelican dropship approached him.
***
The Chief paced back and forth, wondering what to do next.
"Chief". He heard as Sergeant Johnson walked up to him. "If you want an alive grunt you better refill his methane tank".
"How do I do that?" asked Chief.
"Hell, I don't know!"
"Then why did you ask me?"
"Because I don't know how to do it, so I figure someone lower then me should do it PETTY OFICER".
With a loud groan, Chief pulled the Grunt towards the bathroom.
***
Guanyap, being pulled by the armored human, began to worry. Where was this cyborg taking him? Guanyap also began to notice that his methane supply was low.
Guanyap was dragged into a small white room. In it were these small brown stalls. On the other side of the room were smaller bowls but with a fountain over them and 2 levers on each side. Guanyap saw the cyborg pinch his nose.
"What's this room for?" asked Guanyap
"This is the methane supply room" said the cyborg.
Thank Forerunnner, thought Guanyap.
"Now all you have to do is refill your mask right now and I'll be going. Bye." The cyborg ran out of the room.
Guanyap took of his mask and took a sniff. To his surprise, he could breathe! But it had a slightly tangy smell to it, and there wasn't that much. Guanyap quickly refilled his mask, put it back on, and ran out.
***
Chief laughed and laughed. That was his best joke ever. But then Chief stopped laughing. When he thought about it, it was kind of mean. He thought he should apologize to the Grunt. After all, the Grunt did help him.
Chief went up to the Grunt and said, "What's your name?"
"Guanyap", said Guanyap. "What's yours?"
"Master Chief Spartan-117"
"Spartan-117? Man, humans have such weird names.
"Guanyap, I want to tell you something. The room you went into wasn't the methane supply room. It was....."
"Chief!" Yelled the sarge. "Chief! Covenant sighted! Suit up for battle!"
"Just a minute sir, I'm not finished talking to this grunt...."
"That's an order soldier! Suit up!"
***
The Master Chief raised his sniper rifle to shoot the approaching Covenant. He was split up with Guanyap. If he wasn't split up, he'd apologize to him.
When the Covenant got close Chief fired his sniper rifle at the first approaching ghost, knocking the Elite driver off of it.
***
The Chief looked around himself. Everywhere there was dead marines and Covenant. The Chief decided to go back into the wrecked base and report. Chief walked back into the base, taking most of his time to grab dog tags.
When he got inside, he took of his helmet and handed his dog tags to the sarge.
When Chief started thinking clearly, he asked the sarge, "Where is the grunt? I need to talk to him."
"That Grunt is no more chief. I saw him die fighting his own people. He tried to kill every Covenant he saw except the Grunt", said Sarge.
Chief with a startled look on his face went to his unit and took out of his bag, a small purple communication device.
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