Fan-Fiction: The Human-Covenant War, Without The Great Schism. Story of how the war would have been if The Great Schism never happened.
Chapter Five: Redemption (Part One.)
Location: Imperial District of High Charity
Time: One Hour after the MasterChief's release.
The Chief walked around the marble made streets, and looked on at the city before him. Every single Covenant being that saw the Chief stopped what they were doing, and stared at the Chief. Some looked at him in hatred, while others looked in curiosity. Some even looked in inspiration at the Chief. Whenever a Covenant being got close to the Chief, either a Brute War Chieftain or an Elite High Councilor growled and yelled at them to go away.
The Chief saw a Grunt running to him, waving his hand while doing so. The Grunt didn't even get within five feet of the Chief, because one of the Brutes stepped on him.
"Cool", thought the Chief. "My enemies are my bodyguards, how nice."
The Chief crossed a street, and looked up at a big tower. It was built strangely, half the building was on an angle, the other half was straight.
Then he noticed something out of the corner of his move on top of the flower shop he was standing by. His bodyguards saw it to.
One of the Elites threw a Plasma Grenade on top of the roof, and suddenly purple blood gushed from the top. Part of a Jackal's arm landed next to the Chief, still smoldering.
That's when all hell broke lose.
Two Chieftains next to the Chief had their heads explode. An Elite took out his Carbine, and shot a Jackal hiding behind what looked like a vending machine.
A flurry of Carbine ammo and Plasma Sniper ammo flew threw the air. The Chief saw an alleyway, and ran into it. Behind him, he heard footsteps chasing after him. The Chief looked behind him, only to see the three Elites chasing after him get shot in the back by a Plasma Sniper. They all fell down, dead.
The Chief saw some stairs, and ran up to it, quickly going up the stairs to the roof of a building.
On top of the building, the Chief saw a Jackal wearing a red robe shoot a bullet from it's sniper. The Jackal looked at his Sniper, growled, and threw it down the building. The Jackal turned around, and looked at the Chief, and smiled.
The Chief's saw the Jackal ready to speak, so the Chief listened.
"We your friends, we help you, come, follow." The Jackal said eagerly. By the way the Jackal tried to speak English, the Chief could tell he was new to it. The Jackal jumped off the roof of the building onto another building. The Chief followed.
The Jackal jumped off the roof of the building into the alley way, where he ran into what looked like a sewer hole. The Chief also jumped off the building, only to find three Jackals waiting.
"Go," One wearing a blue and white striped robe said. "We protect, you go."
The Jackal threw a Carbine at the Chief. The Chief looked at the Jackal, and nodded. So many thoughts were swimming in his head while he was following the Jackal with the red robe. The Jackal activated a Plasma Stick, and slowly walked through the sewers.
After about five minutes of walking, they arrived at a dead end. The Jackal put his hand in the middle of the wall, and suddenly the wall came to life. Instead of the stone and moss covered wall it once was, it slowly twisted and turned into a Plasma Barrier. The Jackal put his hand on what appeared to be a hand verification device. The Plasma shield lowered, and the Jackal walked in, motioning for the Chief to do so also.
The Chief flicked on his lights after the Plasma wall came back after the Three Jackals who protected him came back in. The Chief looked around, to find something he did not expect.
The Chief saw computers, Jackals working with chemicals, a weapon testing range.
"Come", The Jackal with the red robe ordered the Chief. "We much talk now." The Chief followed the Jackal to a small room, where there were two other Jackals waiting inside.
The Jackal in the blue,red, and white colored robe stood up from behind his desk, and raised his hand to the Chief."I am Hobatuka" The Master Chief shook it, and nodded at the Jackal, who motioned the Chief to sit.
"I know you have many questions", The Jackal started. "We don't have much time, soon they will be here, so only ask important questions."
The Chief thought for a second, and asked. "How do you know our language so well?"
The Jackal smiled. "The Library of Perpetuity, of course. We have studied you Humans for quite some time, we know a lot about your language."
The Chief suddenly felt a chill run across his back. "So..... Why did you want to save me? I though you hated my guts."
The Jackal smiled, and cleared his throats. "We do, not as much as we hate the Covenant though. We are the Dark Brotherhood, the Jackals who decided to break away from the Covenant. My tribe was the most populated tribe in Jackal History. Due to our way of life, the Covenant thought of it unholy, and decided to try and wipe my tribe out. And of all places! They tried to do it here! This was years ago, and we stayed hidden, slowly rebuilding our tribe for the Day of Revenge. This is where you come in."
The Jackal stopped, drank from his glass, and started again. "We knew you were a valuable asset to the Covenant. The reason they let you free was to study your behavior. Now if I were to choose between killing a Human, or a race from the Covenant, I would pick a race from the Covenant. In order to have our Day of Revenge be completed, we must have you out of here, alive, away from the Covenant. This will be the ultimate payback. Now, ask any questions you may have in store for us."
The Chief had to think. The Jackal just answered most of his questions in that little story. "Okay then, how many Jackals are still left in your tribe?"
The Jackal inhaled deeply. "I sent One-Hundred Jackals to go out there and save you, most were probably killed. I only seen three comeback. In total, we have about five-hundred Jackals left in our tribe. Most are sleeping right now in the corridors that go deep underground. The lab you've seen, is very important in our success. We have weapons the Covenant do not. We are testing ways to make ourselves stronger, kind of like how you have become."
The Chief shivered. The thought of Covenant Super soldiers freaked him out.
A Jackal came running into the room. "Hobatuka, I think they have arrived." The Jackal looked at the Chief. "Come, we have some weapons for you I think you will find very interesting."
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Thel walked down to the sewer, ready to break someones neck. Thel looked down at his shoulder, to make sure the bleeding stopped. During the assault, Thel was shot in the shoulder, causing one of his arteries to explode, causing massive bleeding. Thankfully, a medical Huragok was there to help him with his wound. The medical Huragok couldn't finish healing Thel's wound, as Thel couldn't wait any longer. He wanted to find the Demon, and silence him forever.
Tartarus was hit in the neck, and almost died. He was taken away by a group of Huragok. Last Thel heard, Tartarus was going to be ok.
Thel didn't care, all he cared about was finding the Demon.
Thel activated a Plasma Stick, and motioned for his Stealth Elites to go down the different paths.
After a few seconds, Thel heard a scream. Thel ran to the source, and looked down at the group of Stealth Elites who took the left path. They were on the flood, covered in a blanket of Plasma. They were slowly being cooked, and Thel couldn't do anything about it.
Thel looked up at the ceiling, which dropped the Plasma on the Elites, and shot it, although it did nothing to help.
"Fellow Brethern!" Thel yelled into his hand. "Get out of those corridors, they are traps!"
After a few seconds, groups of Stealth Elites appeared back to Thel.
"Good", Thel said to the Elites. "Now, we will stick together, no one move away, we shall kill the Demon together."
The Elites nodded, smiles creeping over their faces.
Thel and his group walked to a dead end. Thel looked closely, and put his hand in the middle of the wall. Suddenly, the wall turned red, and yelled something in the Jackal language. Thel couldn't understand what it said, but it didn't matter. Two Plasma turrets slid from the wall, and opened fire on the Elites.
An Elite next to Thel was hit in the chest, and it fell back, it's figure appearing from it's cloak, with a hole going through his chest.
"Retreat!" Thel yelled at the Elites, as a few more went down.
The Elites slowly made their way out of the sewer, where a group of pedestrians looked about. All the Elites were cloaked, but Thel could see purple blood floating in the air. The blood of his Brothers on cloaked Elites always freaked him out. It reminded him of bloody ghosts. Thel started out with thirty stealth Elites, there were only Eighteen left.
Thel looked around at one Elite who's cloaking failed. The Elite was a Zealot.
Thel walked up to the Elite. "What is your name brother?"
The Elite looked at Thel, and answered. "My name is Nifn sir, I come from the state of Vadam."
Thel was interested. "As do I brother."
Nifn smiled.
"Nifn," The Arbiter started, "I want you to go and get me some siege mortars, It's time that the Demon shall pay."