Halo: Heart of Darkness/Chapter 5

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Chapter 5: Fallback Plan
0906, Day 1 of Operation: NEW HOME LOST

Vladmire IV, Outside UNSC base, 25 clicks from Arguna

SPARTAN-003 turned and ran. He kept looking back every five seconds, whilst firing his battle rifle aimlessly at the huge machine. he looked forward and quickly ducked to avoid being hit by a rocket fired by a marine in the base. He watched as it impacted on the walker, hoping it would do some damage, but the only damage it did was leave a black mark, which hid a small dent. He carried on running towards the base doors, where he saw several marines fiddling with something. He carried on sprinting as he heard and explosion, and felt heat tingling his back.

He saw the marines move, and, to his suprise, were a pair of Missile launchers, manned by two marines. They began firing at the machine as it got closer to the base. The first missile deflected off the armor, but the second impacted in a gap between the blackened armor. The missile detonated and shrapnel flew in every direction. The marines moved the deadly missile pods out of the way so the fleeing marines on the grassy plain could get through. SPARTAN-003 dived through the doors as they closed and landed next to a sand bag. He stood up.

Sergeant Ryan Taylor heard the spartan shout and he ran to the wall. It was still coming, but it was slower, and there were exposed bits of armor. Ryan grabbed his a sniper rifle off a rack and took aim towards the mechanical walker. He took a look at the armor, and saw a small gap, which on the otherside had a blue Cylinder, possibly a power core. He kept his aim on it as best as he could and he was just about to pull on te trigger when a shiny, sliver alien, vaguely human, but much taller, stood in the way, his eyes meeting with Ryan's. Ryan pulled the trigger and the round flew down the barrel and supersonic speeds, and penatrated the aliens skull, tearing it open and continuing into the core cylinder.

A bright blue flash appeared from the walker as SPARTAN-003 looked over the wall. It stumbled, then tripped over its own legs, cata pulting it along the ground.

"Get down, its gonna hit us!" He shouted.

He jumped off the wall and landed in a forward role, then dived towards the weapons store. As he hit the ground, the huge silver walker plowed straight through the gates, mowing down a few unlucky marines. The hulk of silver wreckage took out part of the wall around the gates and skidded to a halt just a few meters away from the command building. As SPARTAN-003 rose from the ground, the dust began to settle, and a huge hulk of silver metal lay in the courtyard. Michael walked over to it and saw movement from underneath one of the legs. He walked over, but as he got close he noticed its abnormal height and size. He walked towards it, with his magnum drawn. He stopped next to it and it looked at him. It had bright orange eyes and black skin, with sliver armor over the top. It could he been two to three meters long, and it seemed to have a strange weapon looking thing, loosly held in its large hand. Michael loaded his magnum and aimed at the creature's head.

"What the hell are you?"

He pulled the trigger and it instantly released its grip on the rifle.


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Chapters Chapter 1  - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10 - Chapter 11 - Chapter 12 - Chapter 13 - Chapter 14 - Chapter 15 - Chapter 16 - Chapter 17 - Chapter 18 - Chapter 19 - Chapter 20 - Chapter 21 - Chapter 22 - Chapter 23 - Chapter 24 - Chapter 25 - Chapter 26 - Chapter 27 - Chapter 28 - Chapter 29 - Chapter 30 - Chapter 31 - Chapter 32 - Chapter 33 - Chapter 34 - Chapter 35 - Chapter 36 - Chapter 37 - Chapter 38 - Chapter 39 - Chapter 40


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