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Here is the second chapter, everyone! Note that things may still seem a little strange as you read, but thins will get a little less complicated soon...or perhaps not....Enjoy:
Chapter 2: Wakey Wakey!
With most of the Covenant forces already heading off into battle from within the cruiser of The Pillar of Autumn, The Grunt "sargeant" and his three Unggoy began pondering their location.
"But seriously, sarge, what did that guy tell you?", asked Hackle, as he and the other three Unggoy stood just outside of the pod-carrying station.
"Well, he said somethin' about 'humans' or somethin' like that. I couldn't really make out what the little guy was tellin' me.", answered the commander.
A few moments later, a Covenant Elite in gold armor called for everyone else's attention from the middle of the several dozen Elites that remained near the pod-carrying station.
"Attention, everyone! I will head towards the bridge of this cruiser. You dozen, come with me.", said the gold-armored Elite, pointing towards twelve Elites that stood near the right wall of the station. "As for the rest of you, head towards the Cryochamber, as I have given you coordinates before we arrived. That is where the demon himself rests. That includes you as well, Unggoy!", concluded the comander, pointing toward the puny squad of four. "Now, move out!"
With that, the golden-armored commander and his twelve soldiers headed out of the pod-carrying area of the cruiser, and down a long, narrow hallway with silver-coated walls. Due to their presence, alarms began going off througout the large cruiser. UNSC forces then began gathering their weapons througout the hallways of the Autumn.
"Come, Unggoy. We haven't much time to spare!", exclaimed the commander of the squad, with the rest of his men moving on. "Err...Could you explain to me what we're doin' here?", asked the Unggoy sargeant. "Were are here to weaken the human threat, of course. Now, enough with this nosense! We must move, quickly.", replied the commander, feeling quite annoyed by the Grunt sargeant's response.
Though he still did not understand what his commander was talking about, particularly his talk of 'humans', the Grunt sargeant and his three Unggoy followed the Elite's orders, and followed he and his squad.
It was not too long before, after traveling down the hallway, through several empty doorways, and finally into one last hallway, the squad (who were, on the way there, accompanied by several other Covenant forces, who had just launched their pods into the Autumn) reached the door to the Cryochamber
After the (fairly large) squad entered the Cryochamber, they quickly noticed a number of dead, UNSC forces lying on the ground. In the middle of the chamber, however, is where the squad focused most of their attention. In the center area of the chamber stood a mildly tall bed-like structure, lying back to another structure of the same design, with a large glass piece shielding it.
Unfortunately for the squad, however, the 'demon' that they were searching for was nowhere to be found within the chamber.
"Curses, we're out of time! The demon must've already gone into battle!", exclaimed the squad commander.
"Gee, ya' think?!", the Grunt sargeant said under his breath.
"Commander, above!", exclaimed one of the Elites in the lot, pointing upwards, where a glass window was built into the wall. Beyond the window, looking down at the Covenant forces, was the demon himself. The figure was built in green armor, and wore a helmet of the same color on his head. Sign of bare skin or eyes was nowhere to be found on the being.
"Demon!", growled the commander. As the figure looked down on them, he used the butt of his gun and broke the window to nothing but glass pieces, which fell to the floor of the chamber. The demon then took cover behind the other window to his right, and began shooting at the Covenant soldiers. five out of sixteen of them were already taken out with the being's assault rifle.
"Ah, what in blazes-", the Grunt sargeant said, but was interupted when the demon threw a fragmentation grenade threw the window and towards the position of the four Unggoy. Quickly, they ran backward, and took cover behind a nearby console the best that one Unggoy could do.
For atleast five minutes, the demon continued to fire at their location, and continued adding ammo to his rifle, firing random, useless potshots at the forces.
"Well, that guy's gotta run out of ammo sooner or later!", said Silco, who simply sat there with a quick sigh.