Ten was still running, he could hear 116's rifle blazing away from behind. In the distance he saw a lone Spartan holding his own against a mass of the little freaks, some popped on his shields. Skidding to a hald beside him, and with Dennis still over one shoulder, he raised teh shot gun and fired once, jerking it to pump it, he shot again. "OK, run. Lets go, 116 abandon your post, just high tail it out of here."
[Oh ok thanks.]
Kiyo sat in the dark corner of the compound awaiting Rae and the others, He hoped they were all right. Especially Raevynn, he cared about her more then anyone or anything in the world. She was his only friend. Kiyo wouldn't know what to do if he lost her, she was the only one that knew how to nag him, make him laugh, and get in touch with his softer, more gentle side.
Raevynn heard a number of clicks as she held the trigger to her MA5B. "Shit..." She grumbled, clipping it to her side and reaching for her side arm. A flood leapt at her face, its tendril ready to dive into her flesh. She stepped back and fired the gun in front of her eyes, causing the infectious form to pop. She heard the other spartan tell her to run. She had been doing too much of that lately, but it was better than dieing at the hands of these parasites.
Ten turned to the Spartan, "Number and rank." The Spartan answered by punching him in the face. "What the hell." he said staggering backwards. He raised the Shotgun and blew its head off. He saw the beginnings of an infestation in its gore. Grimly he realized the Spartan was losing control even as he had been firing into the flood mass, completely losing it when he'd hit him. He unloaded another round into its chest and started running again.
"Kiyo, get an automatic weapon and get to the entrance. Its on a ledge about 50 feet in the air, two curved ramps on either side." [Ledge is like silent cartographer, except the ramps]"We need covering fire and we need it five minutes ago." He switched the comm off. He spun to check up on the other Spartan. The third generation model.
Raevynn ran after the other spartan, covering his back. She stopped and looked down at the dead spartan. Yet another one lossed. She kneeled next to his bloodied corpse and sighed as she reached for a set of dog tags around his neck. "Spartan065 part of the SPARTANII program... He was already listed as KIA." The AI said softly in her ear.
Raevynn closed her eyes and stood back up, putting the blood soaked dog tags around her own neck. An infectious form latched onto her leg, causing her sheilds to flare. Inraged she picked a stick off the ground and threw it into the thing like a spear.
Raevynn shook her head off, bringing her back to reality. THe spartan was way ahead of her now. She quickly sprinted off to catch up.
"Thats because there massing." He turned back towards her. "Here." He said handing over Dennis, "I'm going to recon their position to find out what they're up to. We have to know excatly whats going on." He sighed, "Those dog tags belonged to one of my people. I didn't know he was here. I guess im the only one left asside from the crippled ones at Reach. Yeah, some of them are still alive. Alright, get going. I'll be along as soon as I find out what these freaks are up to."
Tekka walked out still cloaked. He watched the men, that had grabbed panic and he saw the demon walk away. He slowly followed her on a distance. This would probably lead him to the camp, which he probably would find on his own but this became alot faster if he followed.. HER? he looked at her. A female demon.. He got abit confused but kept focused. He followed her and slowly walked over all dead corpes. He walked around a tree and walked straight into one of the marines. "Oh ****" he said as his camo became deactivated by the crash.
He waited, crouched behind some bushes. His motion tracker red a solid wall of enemies. Slowly and carefully he looked over the edge. He stared in horror, he couldn't even see the ground or most of the tree trunks. All the aliens abruptly stopped moving, Ten tensed just as they washed over him knocking him onto his back. His shields flared as they exploded over them trying to penetrate to get at his flesh. Scrambling backwards he unloaded more shotgun blasts into the swarm, *click* it was out of ammo. He battered the ones on top of him, dropped a grenade and ran. He switched in his comm, "Spartan ten to base camp, fortify positions, relocate your automatic weapons, I have about ten thousand contacts here." His comm hissed and he got static. "This is ten, you read? GODAMNED, THIS IS TEN ANYONE READING ME?" His comm was out.