Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 4
Posted By: monitor101<wasup1989@hotmail.com>
Date: 10 April 2003, 10:50 PM
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(Covenant cruiser Truth and Reconciliation Brig,Time unknown)
Keyes sat down, wiry and tired from the crash. He closed his eyes and tried to sleep but it never came. His mind ran with scattered thoughts. He tried to sort them out but couldn't. He forced himself not to worry and listened to the Grunt guards talk in english.
"Did you hear the control room?" the first one asked.
"Yes the exellency has sent a search- the second Grunt stopped in the middle of its sentence, it started to talk in its own language.
"Whoever controls Halo controls universe," a third one said.
"Who ever controls Halo controls universe," another one repeated it.
They all began to say it as if chanting it. The Elite guards were saying it.
"Shut the hell up you basterds!" a marine shouted over the noise.
A gold Elite aimed its plasma rifle at the marine's cell and shot. The plasma bolt slammed into the energy field and disentigrated.
The marine backed away from the field and sat down. He curled into a ball and began mumbling something.
Keyes guessed that the Elite and shot at the marine as if demanding silence. He dismissed the thought and began to piece together what they ment by whoever controls Halo controls the universe. What is Halo? What is the control room? Why do they say that whoever controls Halo controls the universe? He thought to himself.
The gold Elite walked up to his cell and keyed something on its belt. "Silnece next one to talk dies painful death," it barked.
"Look hear I'm talking now lets see what your going to do ya' dumbass," a marine yelled.
"Shut up!" Keyes yelled
The Elite's face wrinkled in anger. It turned around and barked and growled something at a blue Elite. The blue Elite touched a holopanel and the energy fields materialized and the Elite walked over to the marines cell.
The Elite fired a salvo of plasma at the marine. He screamed and was thrown backwards and hit against a wall. he slid to the ground, blood flowing from his chest.
The Elite went from cell to cell shooting plasma at the walls, scaring the hell out of the four remaining marines.
He came to Keyes cell and fired two plamsa bolts at him. Keyes ducked just in time. He felt the air crackle above as the plasma sizzled past and smacked into the wall.
Keyes got to his feet and watched as the energy field reappeared. He sat down in the corner of the cell and thought to himself. Slowly he drifted off to sleep.
keyes jumped back to reality at a shooting sound coming from the hall. It sounded like an MA5B assault rifle. Suddenly the doors opened and the Master Chief came running in.
The little Grunts who had been sleeping, jumped up but they quickly fell to the ground in pools of flouresent blood.
Keyes watched as the Chief lobbed a frag grenade at the gold Elite who was going to be a problem. The Elite and two others were blown skyward as the grenade exploded. Smoke, fire, and purple-black blood filled the room.
Keyes looked up as the gold Elite was propelled into the air and slammed into the force field of his cell. The Elite slid down the field leaving a trail of blood that ran down after it. Keyes looked away to see plasma bolts hit the Chief, that seemed to come out of no where.
"Its the Chief lemme out chief," one marine said.
The Chief fired and a gray Elite materialized out of thin air and fell to the blood sliken floor.
Keyes sat there and looked down at the ground as the energy field disappered and the Chief hovered over him and offered his hand.
"Coming here was reckless you two know better," Keyes snapped as he took the Chief's hand and got tp his feet. A wave of relief and grattitude washed over him. "Thanks."
"Any time sir," the Spartan said smoothely.
"Can you find your way out these corridors and hallways are like mazes they all look the same?" Keyes asked with an expression full of doubt and the slightest trace of worry.
"It shouldn't be too difficult all we have to do is follow the bodies," the Chief said.
"Right one more thing while the covenant had us locked up in here I over heard the guards talking about this ring world they call it...Halo," Keyes said.
"One moment sir accesing covenant battle net...according to the data in their networks, the ring has some kind of deep religious significince. It I'm analyzing this correctly they believe that Halo is some kind of weapon. One with vast unimaginable power," Cortana said.
"Well thats true... they kept saying that whoever controls halo controls the fate of the universe," Keyes stated.
"Now I see...i have intercepted a number of messages about a covenant search team, scouting for a control room. I thought they were looking for a bridge of a cruiser that I damaged in the battle above the ring but they must be searching for Halo's control room," Cortana said.
"Thats bad news, if Halo is a weapon then they'll use it to wipe out the human race. Chief, Cortana! I have a new mission for you. We need to beat the covenant to halo's control room.
Marines! Lock and load your weapons let's move,"
"Yes sir," one marine said as he picked up a plasma rifle.
"Okay sir," another said, he picked up a needler.
"sir with all do respect we should focus on completing current mission before we tackle another one let's move," the Chief said.
"Right Chief you have the point," Keyes said as he picked up a needler. He watched as the doors opened and knew more trouble lay ahead.
To Be Continued...
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