DOOM - Doom Slayer's Awakening

Ch 10: The Maw

As the sun rose up in the east, illuminating the Pillar of Autumn which laid peacfully on a rocky and deserted plateau. With a ocean going on for miles in every direction. The Pillar of Autumn laid on top of the plateau with its nose hanging just slightly off a massive cliff and along with its antenna bent and torn away. The metal on the entire metal bow is scorched below, streching outward toward the other end of the plateau. The once powerful cruiser looks pitiful and it is clear its only purpose now is to destroy Halo. A smoking banshee dove downward from the clouds above toward the crashed UNSC ship, followed by one lone Spirit dropship. Both flying crafts dived down a little more, carefully flying by a few bumblebee escape pod ports.

"This thing is falling apart!"

"It'll hold."

"We're not going to make it!"

"We'll make it."

"Pull up! Pull up!" Cortana urgently yelled before the Chief crashed his damaged banshee into the side armored hull of the Autumn. "You did that on purpose, didn't you?" Cortana sarcastically questioned once the Master Chief managed to grab the side of the pod port. Pulling himself up as the Spirit dropship carefully flew to the side. Cortana and the Chief hearing thumping music as the dropship opened its door, letting the wind circulate the purple haze out the ship.

"Here's my communicator, Zuma. When we're done, we'll contact you." Jeff said, giving Zuma his Imperial communicator piece.

"Copy. I'll keep in touch and give you guys updates of anything out of the ordinary." Zuma replied before flying away.

"There he goes, so what now?" Jeff asked.

"We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the Captain's neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the ring." Cortana explained.

Doomguy and the Master Chief took point, making their way toward the bridge. Discovering Flood, Covenant, and Sentinels fighting each other along the way. Reaching the mess hall, the Chief fired his shotgun a few times while fighting a few combat and infection forms. The Chief heard a few squealing Grunts and one explosion as a green fuel rod struck the side wall. Carefully sneaking over to the door, he looked in to see a Covenant Spec ops squad inside. Then dodged back in after taking fire from the Covenant after being spotted by a grunt armed with a needler. He tossed in a frag grenade and heard the screams of Unggoy after a large explosion, then heard a few more as the fuel rod guns detonated nearby. The Chief managed to move up ahead in the mess hall. Killing the Spec Op Elites inside and fell back after his shields made an emergency ping.

The Chief ran back into cover, dodging more plasma fire along the way as some bolts wizzed by him. Then noticed the direction of fire changing over to the other side. Catching a glance of the Doom Slayer from the corner of his left eye. Watching his freind unleash hell upon the Covenant, ducking behind a table as few limbs were tossed towards his direction. The Chief peeked up from cover watching the Doom Slayer finish the last Spec op Elite with a glory kill. By ripping out the Elite's mouth before grabbing the head and smashing it into the Doom Slayer's knee. Continuing to hear screams of Covenant and echoing revs of a chainsaw from inside the bridge. The Chief could see a pile of slain covenant piled in the closed section to his left.

"The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work. I need you to upload me into the control systems. Terminal is located next to the main view screen." Cortana said once the Chief made it up to the front.

The Master Chief removes Cortana's chip from his helmet, inserting the chip into a cylindrical terminal nearby the computer screen. Watching Cortana's AI avatar rise up in front of him.