UNSC Warlord Book 2 Chapter 1

[Fishy]

~Chapter 1: Elongation~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jackson finished off the Elite Zealot. “Junior, get over here!” Junior ran from the upper deck down to Jackson, who stood beside the lich controls. “We need to get off this lich, I managed to use the controls to EMP the Scarabs. That should provide enough time for the others to take out the power cores. As soon as we’re down, run back to the base. This explosion’s going to be massive and attract a lot of attention.” The shields started to glow a bright blue and then they began to spiral. “Let’s go!” Jackson ran over to the grav lift, it opened but the grav lift failed. They jumped.

 

Jackson landed softly on his feet, no thanks to his crouch stance. Junior fell and landed on a tree branch. Snap. He landed on another tree branch. Snap. He then landed on another tree branch. Snap. The cycle continued and continued. He eventually landed on the ground, belly first. “Junior, get up. Let’s go! You can play in the ugly tree another time, but not now!” Jackson took off in a sprint towards the base. Junior stumbled up and ran behind him. They noticed the other troops did the same.

 

Finally, they reached the base. A massive explosion shook the ground and lit up the sky. The Lich blew up first. The Scarabs went next.

 

“Glad that’s over with.” Paladin took a sip of his coffee.

 

“I don’t think so, none of you are no longer safe here. Or anywhere down here.” Someone said.

 

“Archangel! How did you get down here? And what are you talking about?” Bek asked the soldier, who turned out to be a guy named Archangel.

 

“Long story short, but we need to go.” He replied. A Covenant Cruiser came out of the middle of nowhere, it’s energy projector started to charge up.

 

“Sir, should we fall back into the cave? We haven’t been back very far. But now’s the the only chance we got!” Runner exclaimed.

 

“Roger that. We have no other choice. Everyone, go into the cave. We’ll make it through there.” Jackson sounded over confident, but he needed to reassure the squad they would be safe. Sanity was all they had at this point.

 

Everyone fell back into the cave, full sprint. The Cruiser was at a gain. It’s energy projector fired. Jackson caved the entrance in. He hoped it would give them a chance of survival or at least keep them alive a little longer from the heat.

 

It must have worked. Everyone was still at a sprint. The cave was dark. Only the Spartan’s had flashlights on their helmets, the others were forced to use the flashlights installed on their weapons. Which was everyone, except Junior. Who was stuck to rely on everyone else.

 

They continued further back.They’ve been at this for about sixteen hours. Everyone was tired and exhausted. Next up was fatigue. It began to lighten up. The ground and walls suddenly came up to a bronze metal interior.

 

“This is a little creepy, soothing, and confusing. All at the same time. What is this place?” Junior ran ahead, afraid of the darkness.

 

“If I knew, I’d tell you. Hehe.” Paladin answered.

 

“There’s yellow lights on the walls lighting up everything. We need to continue forward. There could be Covenant down here.” Michael said.

 

“Right. Let’s go.” Jackson continued over the metal floor, a clankity clank sound made from their steps. It was hard not to stay quiet and evade the Covenant with this much noise. Jackson kept his SMG’s up. Archangel prep’d the rocket launcher. For just in case reasons.

 

Bek looked over at Jackson, “Have you been here before that you know where you’re going? Because you look like you know which way we should go.”

 

“None of us have ever been down here before. This looks like a whole other world.” Heli spoke up. That was the first thing he’s actually said since he’s been here.

 

Jackson turned around the corner then stopped.

 

“What is it, Jackson?” Dexter walked up beside him. He was the engineer, he needed to know what was going on. His armor wasn't as strong as the others. It was durable, but that was only for a soldier of his class. He wasn't afraid of the Covenant, but if there was any. He would improvise a plan to stay alive and help out as much as he can.

 

Jackson said nothing.

 

“Jackson?” Junior said it this time, Jackson’s favorite member.

 

Nothing.

 

Junior walked up next to his commander. He stopped in shock as well.

 

“Everyone. Run.” Jackson ordered. He backed up behind the wall.

 

A giant rocket launched pass and slammed into the wall, it created a dead end. They couldn't head back, it was blocked. The only way through was to go where the rocket came from. Only Jackson knew what it was.

 

Michael noticed something else on the wall... It was some sort of... Writing?

 

 

~End of Chapter 1~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interactive story actions:

Jackson decided the team's fate.

Archangel decided to join the team on the ground.

[Yoshi1176]

I wonder what that was... hehe, I know....