DOOM - Doom Slayer's Awakening

Ch 9: Keyes

"The Covenant network is in absolute chaos! From whwt I've been able to piece together, their leadership ordered all ships to abandon Halo when they found the Flood, but they were too late. The Flood overwhelmed this cruiser and disabled it. The Covenant are terrified the Flood will repair the ship and use it to escape from Halo. They've sent in a strike team to neutralize the Flood and repair the ship for immediate departure. I've got a good lock on Captain Keyes' CNI transponder signal! He's alive and the implants are intact! There's some interference from the cruiser's damaged reactor. I'll bring us in as close as I can." Cortana explained as both the Chief and the Doom Slayer teleported into the end of a damaged corridor. Falling onto their heads as they were both teleported upside down.

"Ohh... I see, the coordinate data needs to be...*Crack* Right. Sorry."

"Where are the others?" The Chief asked as he turned his head, looking for the missing troopers.

"Analyzing... After we teleported here. I've noticed a large burst of energy located somewhere near the engineering bay. Unknown where, but at least they can cause some trouble for both the Covenant and the Flood while we find the Captain." Cortana replied.

"Sounds good for me. Let's move." The Chief said, loading a fresh clip into his Assault rifle.

The Chief and the Doom Slayer continued walking several meters down the long hallway till they heard the Captain's weak voice over the radio.

"Chief... Don't be a fool...leave me..."

"Captain? Captain?! I've lost him... The damage caused by the crash and the Flood have sealed off all nearby access to the control room. We should find another way in." Cortana explained to both the Doomguy and the Master Chief as they continued walking down the hall. Only to stumble upon a Unggoy being chased by an armless Flood combat form.

They quickly killed the Unggoy and the combat form before moving on to find three Grunts bunkered down behind a few crates and a portable shield. The Doom Slayer sprinted quietly over to the other side nearby a locked door. They both watched the Grunts become quickly overrun by a few well armed Flood combat forms, then hid back into cover to prevent being seen. The Master Chief primed and tossed a frag grenade down the hall before sprinting down while the Doomguy gave him cover fire. Shredding a Flood combat form with his heavy machine gun before it struck the Chief in the back of the head.

The Chief felt the ping of a wayward .50 caliber bullet amongst his shield, then looked back at the Doom Slayer with his arms up in a confused and angered expression.

"Chief. You may want to look down." Cortana suggested to him.

He dropped his eyes down to the floor to see a shredded corpse of a human flood combat form on the ground. Bleeding green blood out from it's holes mixing with the heavy purple floor.

They continued onward to find the same hangar bay they've remembered from before. Without looking, the Chief continued slowly walking before being yanked from behind by the Doomguy, preventing the Chief from falling towards his death down below.

"Analyzing damage... This hole was caused by some kind of explosive. Very powerful if it tore through the ship's hull. All I detect down there are pools of coolant. We should continue our search somewhere else." Cortana explained.

The Chief and the Doomguy continued back down the long hallway only to notice a very large number of Flood infection and combat forms blocking the hallway, cutting them off.

"Warning! Threat level increasing!" Cortana yelled.

The Doom Slayer pulled out his Chaingun and activated his turret function. Shredding the Flood into pieces as He and the Master Chief slowly pushed down the blocked hallway. The Flood continued to swarm from down the hall and the Doom Slayer's chaingun barrels began to overheat. Noticing the barrels overheating, he quickly changed over to his BFG-9000. Charging up a shot and fired at the oncoming Flood swarm, vaporising the Flood, drenching the hallway with green blood.