Chapter 11 - Spinning in the Air

Thinking about what's in the next area, I slowly make my way through the cave while putting away my grenade. I grab my backpack, and take out my plasma pistol, then quickly readjust my sniper sling as I put on my backpack. With pistol, and plasma pistol in hand, I exit the cave, and go up the path, but I curse with what I see.

15 flood creatures are shooting at the covenant, and most of the covenant are already dead. One of the elites throws a plasma grenade, but the monster runs at him, killing them both while the grunts flee for their lives. fearing the worst, I holster my pistol, and keep the plasma pistol to the side. I grab 4 of the regular grenades, pull their pins, and throw them all towards the flood. I quickly take my sniper and move forward, as I fire at the flood distant from the grenades. Wether I am getting used to the battles or used to my current body, I quickly manage to kill 3 of them. The grenades kill 7 more, and two of the flood come running towards me. I fire my sniper with it's last two bullets in it's magazine, killing one of them as I try to dodge the other one.

It's too quick, and it's arm glances my leg, sending me spinning in the air, while my backpack goes flying to the side. I hear it's growl, and grab my pistol from it's holster, while looking towards it. It's already run up to me again as I quickly roll out of the way of it's blow. I get lucky this time, and fire my pistol at it's chest point blank killing it. I hear grunts scream, and I turn around to see one of the creatures slam it's arm down on the gurnts head killing it. It quickly kill the other grunt as I start shooting my pistol at it, but I run out of ammo. I drop my pistol, and take out the second pistol as it starts running towards me, I fire a few more bullets and kill it, but I panic as I see the other one running towards me as well.

Too late to dodge, it slams it's arm into me, sending me flying. My breath escapes me, as I hear my ribs crack from the blow, ignoring the pain, I fire the rest of my bullets into the creature, killing it as it slams it's arm into me one last time. My arm catches most of the blow, it's painful, bug I look around in haste regardless, and see no one. The rest of the covenants dead as well from the battle, and the last of the flood creatures must of died to the covenant, I keep looking at the bodies Incase but nothing happens.

Regardless, even if its quiet now, I can't stop moving, I remember the elites with energy swords from earlier, and get up.

Pain course though my chest once again, as I struggle walking to my backpack. I open it, and use one of the injectors, leaving me with only one left. The cool sensation makes me feel nauseated, and I throw up. Feeling even more nauseous, I feel something dripping down my nose, thinking it snot I ignore it, but I see blood on the snow. Wiping my nose I see blood when I hear Sylvie's voice, "you need to hurry"

Sylvie pops up beside me, "you consumed too many injectors in one day, and your body can't take so much abuse, you need to hurry to the control center." I sigh, and look at her, "will I even be able to make it there?".

She looks at me for a bit before responding, "no, normally you shouldn't be able to handle this type of situation, the constant use of the injectors stimulant properties has exerted great amounts of stress unto your body. You should be dead at this point, and from the looks of it, your in the process of doing so already. As such we have even more reason to hurry, the fact your gears monitoring systems disabled means I can't get an overview of your health, so we need Cortana to take a look at you"

I grunt in pain again as I stand up, and go grab my backpack, I sigh, "I don't want to be here either when the other elites arrive, and I need to check for more ammo from the bodies, so like you said, I need to hurry." Sylvie looks at me sadly, and disappears from my sight as I move once again. I look through the bodies, and find 3 plasma grenades in total making for a total of 13 plasma grenades from what I had earlier, and 6 regular grenades remaining. I look around even more only finding needler guns, used up plasma pistols, and one elites plasma rifle. Disappointed I didn't find anything else, I sort my stuff to make more space.

Since most of it is useless to me, I toss most of it to the side, I already had two needler guns, so I only grabbed the plasma rifle. I go back, grab my sniper, reload it, and put the sling on. While doing the same for my pistols placing them back into their holsters. I quickly grab my plasma pistol last, and head inside, I listen in for activity, but I hear nothing. I move through but find no covenant which is surprising since they were fighting outside the entrance. I quickly make my way towards the elevator, and active the holographic console. Hopefully the rest of the day isn't as hectic, I move forward as that's the only thing I can do.

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A man smokes a cigarette as he laughs at a marine he had tied up. He and his men notice a pelican retreating from the combat zone, it was quickly heading towards them. So they quickly laid an ambush, since the area they came from was where the parasite was located.

He had waited for the pelican to get closer before he had two of his men shoot the pelican with rockets. The first one missed but it was meant to cause the pelican to evade, while the other one hit the pelican from the side, the pelicans sturdy, so it continued to push through in order to escape. Once more they shot rockets, the pelican evaded again, but one of the men inside the pelican fell out. They heard the Marines inside yell out for their friend, but the pilot kept pushing through as more rockets flew their way. The man who fell out of the pelican crashed unto the branches of a large tree as they broke, lessening his fall. When the Man went with his men to capture the soldier, he saw the pvt still alive, he grinned "hello, Jenkins"