Wither Away (Book One Of The Trilogy) Proudly 326th in adventure

Chapter 24: Are You Dead Man?

Just to clear things up, last chapter and this chapter explains how the Olympus Mons crashed were Jordan was. Please no hate.☹️

(Toast's POV)

Me, Ghost/Maxwell and Rico were now stuck on Jupiter and had no way of getting off it and Rico was leaking O2." Hey Rico?" Said Maxwell." Yeah?" Yah dead man?" Yeah man."

I chuckled a bit at there conversation. I sat there thinking for ages on how to get off this planet." Toast!" I looked at Maxwell/sir and he pointed at my wrist. I looked down to a small tear in my suit and O2 leaking out.

I lent back on a piece of rubble and looked up at the stars." Rico!" I said pointing to the sky." Isn't it beautiful. All those shooting stars." I watched the stars and soon I heard my mask bleeping saying I had no more O2 and I felt myself start to drift off.

(Ellie's POV)

I was sitting at the hanger bay waiting for Toast's return when I heard a ship fly in but it didn't land. It zoomed into the wall of the hanger bay a bit down from me and I see all the Jackals were destroyed and the blast was so powerful it knocked me out of my wheelchair and I was now lying on the floor trying to drag myself like a zombie to my wheel chair.

I felt someone grab me and flip me onto my back and it was a man with a mask on and he spoke in a raspy voice." Were do you think your going?" I lifted my handgun and shot him in the shoulder and he never even flinched and he knocked my gun out of my hand and he grabbed my arm and ripped it off.

I screamed in pain and started to kick him and he grabbed my leg and broke it and it was now facing backwards. I kicked him in the face and I regretted it as he grabbed my right leg and ripped it off and started beating me with it and he kept say.

"Whyareyoukickingyourself?(x10)"

I seen a man tackle him to the ground and they were now out in a full brawl. I felt myself starting to slip when I felt someone lift me up and then I felt nothing.

(???? POV two hours later)

I was thrown out of the air lock and so was my mate from the med bay and we watched as our ship and I watched as she started to dive bomb towards earth but it wasn't the one Retribution was on it was different." Here." I looked towards my friend who had a blue and red Spartan suit on." Do you think we will run out of O2 before we make it to Earth's gravitational pull?" Probably." Oh."

(Jordan's POV)

Me and Marcus grabbed our weapons and slowly made our way towards the Olympus Mons. I opened the hatch door and slowly opened it and I felt it being ripped open and I was tossed inside and I looked up and raised my weapon to see a Spartan with a white and neon blue suit and it lowered its weapon and helped me up.

"Sorry." Its fine. I'm Jordan." I said holding out my hand." Tanaka." She said shaking my hand." We have wounded and was wondering if you have any ships?" No. We have fuck all but we can help make a home out of this ship."

(Two hours later)

Me and Marcus have built forty eight homes and we were spent. I collapsed to the ground with the sweat pouring off of me and I watched the clouds. I was like that for fifteen minutes when I seen two fireballs come crashing down in the sand about ten clicks north-west.

I shot up and quickly grabbed my Spartan suit and my Eraser and R3K and made my way towards the crash site. I heard a noise behind me and looked up to see a HK chasing after me.

That's a HK☝️
I made a quick detour to my garage that I had stored a motorcycle in and waited for the HK to fly near.

I seen the HK fly over me and I made a break for it and I was being chased. As I raced across the dunes I heard another ship flying towards me and it was another two HK's coming to attack. I decided to make my way to the L.A branch but it was destroyed so I went to the sewers and I lost them. I stayed down there for half a hour and they gave up and flew away.

I made my way back to the crash site to see two Spartans lying there. I got out my tablet and de-activated there suits lock up systems and they woke up.

"Are you guys ok?" I asked." Yeah. Just got one hell of a back ache."

There voices sounded familiar but I don't know why. I shrugged it off and helped them up. I heard foot steps coming from the dune and I lifted my R3K and aimed it at the top of the sand dune. I seen five men walk over it.

"Seventy-two." I tilted my head." Of what?" I asked." Seventy-two hours of nothing but sand, more sand and even more sand. I need water." Ok. There is a camp just ten clicks south-east from here."

I watched as the men started to run and I noticed one of them as Preston. I got on my bike and started it. The other Spartans had jump packs and were going after the men while I raced and jumped across every sand dune. When I caught up to the men I stopped in front of them to stop them.

"You do know you will get shot if you ran anywhere near that bridge." I pointed to the L.A branch and they looked at it and there were HK patrolling it and T1s and T600s walking about.

"What the hell are those things?" They are Terminaters. Did you guys get caught in a rift?" Yeah. Why?" I got caught in one and I don't know why this is happening but it is and we need all the help we can get. Do you guys know how to aim and shoot a gun?"

"We know how to use Byrd guns." That'll do."