Fall into the flood

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Captain Myres had just called the team to the command center to give them a mission.

"Ok you 6 will be doing a recon mission into the jungle to find whatever caused the insurrectionists to come to us." Myres said sitting behind his desk like always.

"Yes sir, but what will we do when we come into contact with it?" John asked the Captain

"Well you can either try to confront them and try to eliminate them or report back here, I just want to make sure it wasn't any Covenant." the Captain said grabbing his data pad.

"Okay then, team get 2 hogs and let's move." John said as they walked out.

As they left Corvus appeared in front of Myres again.

"Do you think they have a chance at winning Corvus?" Myres asked the AI awaiting a response as he calculated the numbers.

"Well sir according to my analysis of the average ODST accuracy rating and death toll on mission records, there is a 31 percent chance that the whole team will live." Corvus explained then disappearing again.

WITH THE SQUAD

They had gotten two warthogs one with John driving, Greg riding shotgun and Mitch on the turret and the other with Andrea driving, Arthur ridding shotgun, and Drew on the turret.

"Okay Andrea follow me." John said over the comm as he started driving out of the base with her tailing him.

After driving for awhile they reached the edge if the jungle and got out of their vehicles.

"Okay everyone fallow me." John said leading them into the Jungle with everyone holding their close range weapons.

After walking through the jungle for about an hour they stopped near a small ravine.

"Boss over here I found something." Drew said waving for him to come closer and look into the ravine.

"What are those?" John said disgusted at 4 mutated flood innies.

(Innies= Insurrectionists)

"I don't know but I think we can pick them off from here." Drew says raising his DMR aiming it at one.

"I don't think that's a good idea." Arthur says tapping Drew's shoulder.

"And why not their is only four of them?" he asked Arthur thinking he was being stupid.

"Well those Innies that came to our base said that the monsters came in and took dozens of their men alive, and they or what is left of them are wearing their uniform so that means their are more around here." Arthur explained as Drew lowered his gun.

"Good deduction Art let's go back to the hogs and report this." John said motioning for them to go back.

As they got up Drew was still looking at them as the rest started to walk away.

"Drew come on." Greg says as they start moving.

On the inside of his helmet Drew starts to squint looking at the flood infected Innies.

'Screw that' he thought to himself as he raised his DMR again while the others were now about 30 feet away walking back into the trees. Drew then fired his gun echoing through the jungle also causing one of them to fall down from a bullet to the brain.

The other three then snapped their heads in Drew's direction as another one was shot the other two made a strange call causing 7 more to come out of the tree line where they were and started to run at him along with three parasites trailing them.

"Shit run now!" John yells over the comm as they start sprinting for the hogs.

They all started to run through the forest with the flood trailing behind them. As they started to near the hogs one of the parasites flung them self at Drew causing him to fall over.

"Shit!" Drew cursed as he fell to the ground.

The others stopped and whipped around aiming their guns at the oncoming threat that seemed to have increased as more of them joined.

John fired first with his DMR causing the parasite on Drew to practically explode. The rest then fired at the mass of flood stampeding toward them as Drew got to his feet and also began firing. As the fight went on the flood had began to push forward.

"Ok everyone retreat!" John shouted as they all turned around again and started sprinting again. As they were running a gun shot fired off and hit Drew in the back of the leg causing him to fall over.

John had turned back around as the rest continued to run and saw that one of the flood was holding a magnum and was firing at them. He raised his DMR again and shot the one holding the pistol in the head causing it to fall forward. but after it fell the flood had already swarmed over Drew and were now chasing him. He started running again and reached the hogs and jumped into the passenger seat of the one Greg was now driving.

"Everyone go now!" John shouted to them as he buckled.

They had started the hogs and began to drive away.

"What happened to Drew?" Andrea asked over the comm as they drove.

"One of them could somehow work a gun and shot that idiot." John said as they continued driving until they reached the base.

After they arrived they ran straight to the command center to report.

"Sir we encountered the enemy." John said exhausted after sprinting over.

"Well then Lieutenant was it the Covenant?" Myres asked him.

"No sir it was some kind if parasitic life form that took the bodies if the Innies." John said catching his breath.

"And what happened to Sergeant Mathews?" Myres asked leaning on his desk.

"He was taken by them sir." John said saddened by the loss.

"You all are dismissed then head back to the barracks and be prepared for any attack." Myres said to them as they all filtered out.

As they arrived back at the barracks John removed his helmet and threw it at the wall making a loud slam as it bounced off.

"That moron!" John yelled as he went to pick it back up.

He then sat down on one of the beds and began to think over what happened.