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Part 15. Take the Octopus and Run
Finn had grabbed the engineer as soon as Stiletto entered the room. He had activated his camo panels, making him almost disappear, before jumping off the catwalk he was on and grabbing on to an engineer. It squirmed in his arms, trying to break free, but as he hit the ground and rolled it realized it was endangering himself and the Spartan currently holding him like a football. Finn had then charged out the door, the engineer making squeals of protest. The squeals didn't matter, though; Finn was running, and wouldn't stop.
As soon as he entered the hallway, Finn deactivated his active camo. There was no need for it any more. He just needed to keep running. If he saw any Covenant, he would just keep running. He might even run through them, maybe test out how strong the engineer's shield was.
"Finn, where the hell did you go?" Dave's voice radiated from Finn's comm. into his ear. "And do you still have the engineer?"
"Yes. I think I'm by the lifepods, let me check," Finn replied, stopping in one of the frigates many corridors. Instead of using the map that had been downloaded into his helmet, however, Finn checked the mental map that he had made in his head. He trusted it more, "Yeah, definitely by the lifepods. But do we really need to take one? I mean, the hangars not that far, and we beat the Covenant on the ship-"
"Actually, that's wrong. We need to bail, and soon. The Covenant's ship is getting ready to blow this frigate to smithereens. They're warming up all of their plasma weaponry. War Dog's in posisition with the pelican. He's going to grab your life pod as soon as you eject. He'll pick us up later," Dave told Finn all this without even considering it. For Dave, it was business as usual. Easy for him to say; he was almost a decade older than Finn, he had done a lot more. Finn, on the other hand, wasn't old enough to drink. Still, Finn was a Spartan. He might as well earn himself an under age beer.
"Right. I'll take the engineer and grab a life pod, War Dog will pick me up, and we'll wait for you?"
"Affirmative. Just remember to stay out of combat. That engineer is important."
"Whatever you say, Dave," Finn replied, starting to sprint through the frigate's hallways once more. He wasn't stopping for anything.
*****
"Finn's on the move, Richard," Dave turned to his C.O., who was shorter than him by at least a foot.
"Good. Then it's time for us to move too," Richard turned away from the fusion reactors he had been staring at. "Fighting Spirit, I want you to sound an evacuation alarm. Tell everyone to abandon ship. Then set a course to ram the Covenant ship."
"That won't really put a dent in that cruiser," Fighting Spirit, the A.I. that Richard had picked up, replied.
"I know. That's why you're also going to detonate the reactor when it hits. We'll take out the Covenant ship and give us some time to escape." Richard started walking towards the door. The Spartans and ODSTs followed without hesitating. Fighting Spirit was a bit surprised by the order, but understood its necessity.
"One destroyed frigate coming up," Fighting Spirit replied, accessing the ship's controls.
*****
"You're a lot of trouble, you know that?" Finn pushed the engineer into the Bumblebee lifeboat and quickly sealed the door. Even more Covenant had boarded and were heading towards Finn's location. Moving towards the front of the cramped vehicle, Finn sat in the pilots seat with the engineer floating besides him. It hadn't been easy getting to the lifeboat. Finn had fought through small pockets of Covenant forces. Most he'd been able to kill quickly with jabs from his combat knife. There were two hunters who gave him the most trouble. Normally, he'd just jump over them and keep running, but the corridor he was in had been two tight. They had spotted him as he turned the corner, still holding the engineer tightly. So he had to slide between of the giant behemoth's metallic legs. As he slid, he took out his magnum and fired several shots into the monsters' backs, killing them both. However, there had been an entire squad of Brutes behind them and he had to fend them off. All while holding on to the engineer. Being the youngest and fastest sucked.
Still, Finn had made it, and he was ready to leave. He looked at the engineer who was floating contently next to him. "You ready?"
To reply, the engineer let out a high-pitched squeal.
"I'll take that as a yes," Finn said, and he released the small craft from the frigate.
*****
"This isn't good!" Dave had just emptied his entire magnum into the Elite zealot's armor and didn't even leave a mark. Cowboy and Ralph's shotgun rounds bounced off the ship's bulkheads because the elite was moving to fast to be hit. Skull and Bones had taken out their M7Ss for fear of killing their rest of their squad. However, they're efforts failed, and the zealot attacked Richard, kicking him across the corridor. Richard smashed against the other end of the bulkhead, a good five yards away. He started to drift into unconsciousness, but before he was out, he saw Red fire a sniper round into the elite's face, killing it.
*****
Richard's vision was blurry. It felt like he was in motion. He looked down to see heavy armor clad boots smashing down the corridor. He looked in front of him of him and realized that he was being carried by Dave.
"Dave?" Richard's head ached, and he was certain he felt blood dripping from the back of his skull.
"Hi Richard," Dave replied, turning his head quickly to look at Richard. "You're heads bleeding. That's the second concussion today, according to Red.
"She's right. Where are we going?" Richard tried to get his bearings, but he was afraid he'd vomit if he did, so he just closed his eyes and tried to stay awake.
"Airlock," Dave replied to Richard, looking forward again. "War Dog's gonna pick us up."
"Great," Richard said sarcastically, trying to keep the dizziness he was feeling from overwhelming him. "free floating in space is just what I need feeling like this."