Flesh Wounds

Chapter Sixteen "New Weaponry"

Nick Pov

"Disgusting.." I sigh looking a dead skeleton of someone. And, in their hands they have something. Two things.

I take the thing out of their left hand: A magnum, with some sort of muzzle. A suppressor I think.

I check the opposite hand and the same weapon lies there too.

I check the mags to see if their loaded, one has a full mag and the other is just shy one bullet of being a full mag. The bullet cap seems to be 12 shots.

I turn around and continue back upstairs leaving the skeleton with the deactivated beacon. But not with the pistols..

34 Pov

"We must secure the head base up ahead a few clicks from here, but. Considering the resistance we had here, we'll have to go in at night. A stealth mission." I order everyone and I start over to a crate of some Covenant origin and sit down pulling out my tablet I use to keep track of my squadron.

I whisper to myself as I have to update Sandman's state, of death. "Oh well." I sigh and close the holographic tablet. 

I look around, Sparky is trying to scavenge parts from the destroyed ship, Yang is off checking to see if any Ghost's survived the explosion, Nick ran off in the building, and 5000 is, well listening to music.

Perfect time to check this sword out..

It's a normal handle, but two glowing bronze sangheili symbols are marked in it. I flash it on and the power is 300% in my HUD. The blade is a golden bronze itself and it looks the normal length.

Hmm.. worth keeping.

Back to Nick Pov Pov

I look around, the interior of this place is small but seemingly unorganized.

I pick up a weird purple object of theirs and set it on a table then I walk outside into the dimming light of dusk. Golden over the horizon.

Perfect time to take a break..

-Time skip to night time-
25 days left

Nick Pov (Still)

The soft crackling of the embers fills the empty night with sound.

We're all sitting next to a fire that 5000 made by throwing a stray Plasma Grenade.

"Everyone ready to go out?" 34 asks starting up at something in the dark sky.

"So no sleeping in huh?" 5000 asks comedically.

"Not tonight.." Yang whispers in the silence.

Sparky comes back with some bomb looking objects and then tells everybody that they are actually bombs. And then he hands everybody one. Great.

"And I can detonate them once their in place," 34 informs us referencing to his tablet/hologram device.

"Great, so we won't get exploded by accident," I say in relief.

"You'll instead get exploded on purpose," 34 continues and chuckles.

Everyone becomes silent as we all get ready to go out into the night, no transportation. No back up. And no fricken light!

"Alright, let's get moving," 34 and holsters his new sword then takes out his SAW.

Yang takes out her Beam Rifle, 5000 his shotguns, and Sparky his DMR.

"Well don't just stand there?" 34 says confused and he starts towards the higher ground 

I pull out my new magnums and keep my BR holstered and then I and others follow 34 towards whatever.

                                             -Skipping of time by the time of two hours-

34's Pov

"UGGGHHH, are we there yet?!"

"I'm actually going to punch you!" I yell at 5000 who has asked this about 30 times and I may or may not be getting really pissed!

"But we've been walking forever!" 5000 continues and turns his music back on.

Yang sighs and I start running up ahead to an upcoming cliff. I skid to a halt and look down at the pretty sizable resistance that has been stationed there, wait..

I kneel down and use my HUD's zoom to look farther into the base, is that, are those. Insurrectionists. Working with the Covenant.

"Those mother-"

"What is it?" Nick asks coming up next to me.

"Insurrectionists," I say standing up from my crouching position.

"What?" Nick asks looking at me clearly confused.

I sigh and look to him "You lived on Earth before this right?" I ask him.

"Y-yeah. I actually worked for the UEG before I came here," He starts to brag, but in a passive way, like a British person, maybe he's trying to beat me in British accent.

"Well then I'm surprised you don't know them. Um, you know, the one's in the red and pink,"

"OH!! The bad guys!" Nick exclaims in realization.

"Yeah basically," I say and look at the others. Their all just commuting with each other.

"Alright. Let's get moving."

"Let's get moving"

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