Flesh Wounds

Chapter Eleven "Bloody Mess"

34 Pov

"What the hell." I jump off the ghost and look at the three other ghosts that have already been left behind here. I'm assuming they belong to enemies. I sprint with the repeater and sword at my sides. It looks like they only really just arrived here too. I've got to find the others. I keep silent in fear of contact.

Yup in fear! I slide to help slow down my acceleration as I hold the trigger on the repeater. As the barrel charges blue the first elite to notice is the first to get the sticky to the face. In four *Doof* sounding shots, I stick said elite in the face and crotch, then one in the tank of a grunt, the last missed cutting off their patrol. 

*Kaboom!* And a elite and two grunts were down. The remaining enemy, an elite, quickly opens up a white blade and turns to face me. I start another charge on the repeater as the elite-

*Swish* of a blade flows cleanly through my gun's barrel. The elite has evade! Crap!

"Shit!" I exclaim as I shove the remains of the gun into the elite's chest, knocking him back long enough for me to flip my sword into hand.

The elite steps back and starts to circle me while I keep my stance to him.

"Bring it on dead, 'man'," the elite taunts me while putting emphasis on the word man.

"Oh no I believe you will go first," I said starting to circle the opposite direction.

"Coward," they said as I stepped over a grunts corpse, picking up a 'interesting' weapon.

"Close enough!" I yelled lunging at the elite. He evades to the left and swings for my head. I duck, elbow him in the stomach and swing, but he evades backwards. "Oh that sucks," I say bluntly activating and throwing a plasma at him. Even under the helmet I can see his eyes widen in shock as the grenade sticks him in the chest.

"Fuuuuu-!"

Nick Pov

"I heard explosions. Hurry grab his gun and lets go," I say to 5000 while I crouch and look around for conflict. "5000?" I ask after he doesn't respond for a good ten seconds as I turn around to look at him. "Fuck HURRY!" I yell as I bring my hands under the wing of the pelican.

"This could end badly.." 5000 says sounding on the verge of emotion. We both start lifting up the wing off of Sparky's arm and in a moment everything happened in slow motion.

The second the wing became loose 5000 basically threw it off the ground a good ten feet, elite's came from the opposite side of the destruction, and a physical blur which I could only believe as one person, a piece of a building falling off in the distance followed by a scream, and Sparky, the small body in front of us with a elbow bent the wrong way.

"Hurry get him up!" I yelled aiming my pistols with careful aim and slowly stepping forward. 

I take a shot nailing down a grunt and second one kills a shield jackal. "What the hell-?" 34 turns around to look at us. 

"Don't look at me!" I yell over while switching aim to the nearest enemy coming for me and 5000.

I can see 34 slowly backing up to us while holding his sword in hand, "Where's Dillan?" He asked over his shoulder.

"No clue." 5000 says calmly as he sets Sparky against a piece of debris.

"Where were you?!" I clench my weapons firmly as I take repetitive shots at the elite who's sword glows bright red.

5000 stands up and passes in front of me towards the white and red zealot.

"I was sleeping!" 34 said jumping back to avoid being hit by a storm rifle.

"And you're armor?" I ask running past 5000 and to a air assault elite that barely see me coming before- "ach!" before slamming me in the neck with a well timed side kick.

"Gone! Useless," He said two handing a grunt and throwing it at the elite I'm fighting. Knocking him to the side but not before I could slam my fist into him causing their light shields to break.

He swings at me with his open hand but I catch it and twist it over my shoulder, which in turn I flip him over onto the ground. I quickly fire a bullet into his head and turn around to meet a new conflict. 

"They never stop coming!" 34 say- "Ah fuck!" I turn to 34 for a quick glance he's backing up with a needler and has his right hand to his side clutched into a fist. I refocus my vision on the two hunters that had come over from the dark side of the fire. 

"Can we just not?" 5000 asks standing a couple ten feet away from the hunters. One of them turns to him and starts charging a blast. 

"That's a no." 34 tells 5000 as he supercombines a jackal with the needles.

"Be that way then." 5000 threatens the bulky alien and starts bull rushing the two with only his sword out.

"Watch ou-!" I yell but its already to late as the hunter blasts 5000 with their arm cannon.

But totally unfazed besides no shields 5000 emerges from the green explosion and tanks into the hunter's large body. "I'm good, how about you now?!" He screams and rips the shield off of the hunter's arm which he uses to bash the hunter's 'head' in half.

"Don't abuse you power! Cade!" 34 yells at him concerned.

"I'll get your back!" I yell to 5000 as I step forward-

34 stops me, "No! Cover Sparky and get him to safety!" He orders me which I cannot deny considering both the reason of Sparky and him. "I'll help Cade." He says triumphantly and swings his sword on as he runs to 5000's position.

"Don't mind if I borrow this do yah?" I ask unconscious Sparky as I pick up his DMR.

34 Pov

I jump forward and slash at the back of the hunter Cade is not fighting. In a flash of light the damage I did was almost pointless, killing some of the worms was always good but not good enough.

"Get out of the way or you'll get hurt." Cade says deeply and wrestles with his hunter.

"Shut up!" I flip backwards dodging the shield that came from my hunter's swing. Somehow even without my armor I have the courage or stupidity to try to kill hunters.

"Blaaarg!" A dead elite falls on my back and I shove him off, at least Nick is still shooting. I recover and watch my death approach, the hunter charges a fuel rod shot.

"Fucking move!" Cade yells at me again and throws his hunter into mine. "You're gunna get yourself killed!" 

"I could say the same thing!" I shout over the fire, weapon's fire, and ground being smashed into from both parties as I jab into the chest of the hunter and twist the blade out, bringing guts of worms on the broken asphalt.

Nick appears in the corner of my vision as he carries Sparky over his back towards where the hunters came from.

Cade slams the hunter with his Spartan powered slash of a sword, denting it into the ground and leaving it dead. "That hurt did'n it?" He looks up to the one that freaks out and remarks with his normal voice, normal enough for once. Why does he do that stupid voice? To impress the lower ranks or intimidate the newbies?

"That was close," I remarked barely dodging the swing the hunter perused with as we bully it down, "Not close en-ough!" I grasp the hunter by the chest to steady myself as I pierce their exposed mass with the golden blade I wield. 

I pull the sword out and push the hunter back as it falls with a cloud of dust from the ground around it. "Go, follow Nick and Sparky, I'll be right behind you." I bluntly order and pick up a plasma pistol from underneath the hunter. 'I want it to be over'... I think in my head and run behind 5000 towards where the two disappeared.