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Chapter 647: Fanboy

John-117, the Master Chief allows the magnetized straps on the back of his armour to grip the SRS99-AM sniper rifle, and MA5C assault rifle, electing to utilise a M90 assault shotgun for the time being.

He'd only recently learned of the Halo's true objective, and had managed to sabotage it with Cortana's help... Not that it'd matter much, his Comms were being blocked by the Covenant making it all but impossible to inform Alpha Base of the situation. If matters weren't bad enough, a previously alien organism called the Flood had been freed by the Covenant and was currently tearing apart any resistance it encountered.

John himself had already battled through tens of thousands of the creatures, and even with his abilities, an abundance of weaponry, and highly advanced armour, he'd barely made it out alive. Anyone without an air filter and shield would succumb to the infection in a matter of seconds, as he'd observed numerous times among the Covenant.

"Cortana, our objective?" he quietly asks, aware that anyone or anything could be listening in on his temporary 'hiding place'.

"Saving the universe, through any means necessary. We can't let the monitor activate the Halo, and neither can we let the Flood escape... The only way I can think of is to blow up the Pillar of Autumn's reactor core, but for that, we'd either need Captain Keyes to use his Command Neural Interface or his confirmed death... Wait, the Covenant blocks are down, the Flood is attacking Alpha Base!"

Master Chief gets up to try and go support them, but Cortana's voice cuts off his exit, "No, we need to find Captain Keyes, his vitals are active but he seems to be moving back towards the Covenant Battle-Cruiser!"

"I'm on it." John neutrally reports as he begins making his way back to the Truth and Reconciliation... He'd already rescued Captain Keyes from there once, so what was a second time?

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*BAANG!*

*CHCHIK!*

*BBAAANG!*

The Master Chief blows to pieces a number of Flood Infection Forms with his shotgun, slamming his elbow into the chest of an Elite Combat Form, instantly destroying its shield and cutting it in half with the sheer force of his attack. Not to much was required to destroy the fleshy material that comprised most Flood.

He'd been caught up in a battle between the Flood and Covenant and was trying to stay on the outskirts of it, despite the enemy's best efforts otherwise... Was it surprising that the Covenant would rather try and kill him instead of the flesh-eating monsters swarming them?

"Chief, the Captain's vital are dimming, we need to hurry!" Cortana urges and Master Chief just lets out a grunt of acknowledgement, unable to voice it with all the destruction happening around him.

An infected Jackle runs up and tries to bite his knee and explodes when it receives a kick to the face, he kills a dozen more Infection and Combat Forms but pauses in confusion when he's greeted by what looked like a typical UNSC firing-line tactic... The Flood had lined themselves up with a variety of weapons, all aimed at him.

"Oh no, they're learning! Get down Chief!" Cortana shouts in his head, and John listens, ducking under the barrage of gunfire and resting his back against a heavily damaged Ghost.

"We won't make it like this! We need a proper pla-" Cortana starts but Chief interrupts by activating the Ghost and jamming its control handles forwards after breaking its boost button with a punch, causing the vehicle to launch off at quick speeds into the Flood firing line.

*BOOOOOOOM!*

The thing explodes into beautiful blue and purple flames, incinerating the nearby Flood and granting the Super-Soldier a pathway forwards.

"Huh, nice job."

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"Do you guys see how fucking cool he is?" Michael asks the duo next to him with a huge grin on his face.

"We both could do that too though..." Saeko mutters, while Master Chief's feats were impressive when compared to regular humans or aliens, to them it was pretty basic stuff.

"Oh yeah? You know how to pilot a self-destructing Ghost into a group of Flood?"

"No, but you do, or could if you touched it once... Actually, couldn't you pilot that entire Battleship?" she asks, remembering the scene of Saito piloting an aircraft with his Gandalfr runes.

...

"I mean, yeah, but that's totally different... Look, he just tore off a Flood's claw and used it to kill four others! How is that not super cool to you two!?"

"Can we do something? Sitting around and watching that guy got boring two hours ago..." Megumin grumbles.

Michael shakes his head, "You two are going home while I clean up this last stretch-"

"I'm immune to diseases remember? Werewolf." Saeko buts in.

"Huh, right..."

"And I can blow everythi-"

"Nope, Saeko and I will deal with this." Michael states.

"We'll see you later Megumin." Saeko smugly offers.

...

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"That's it Chief, the Gravity Lift is still operational!... Wait, what's that?"

Near to the Gravity Lift Flood were streaming into a single area but didn't seem to be doing very well against their enemy. Both thought it might've been a Hunter squad, and so were incredibly surprised when they spotted two seemingly regular, if strangely-dressed, humans battling them.

"Who is that?" Master Chief questions but Cortana had no idea herself.

"No idea, ignore them and reach Keyes, they can handle themselves!"

He nods and uses their distraction, sprinting into the Gravity Lift and boarding the Battleship... Only to land and confusedly look to the side where the two humans now stood... What?

"How're you doing...? Strange to be seeing you here, on this zombie-filled ship... Hey, do you think I could get you to sign this?" the male stutters out while eagerly holding out a blood-soaked assault rifle and an old-fashioned marker pen.


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Chapter 648: Flooding in

John looks down at the assault rifle in complete confusion, even the usually talkative Cortana having nothing to say about the bazaar happenings...

"Chief, do you see what I'm seeing? Because I might be going rampant..."

"Affirmative..."

He turns his head as the woman blurs into movement and kills any Flood that enters within a few meter-circle around them. She had no visible armour, no filtration system, and was tearing apart the biologically advanced parasites with what seemed to be a mundane sword on her own...

"Chief, get away from these people, if they're this strong now think about the Infection Forms that will be born from them." Cortana cautions.

The man seems to realise his 'mistake' due to the extended silence and pulls back his offered items, "My bad, it's just really cool to meet you... I'm Michael, that's Saeko, I might be your biggest fan?"

Chief holds out his hand and allows a holographic Cortana to appear, "What is your designation?" she asks.

"I don't have one?"

"Then head back to a UNSC fortification, Civilian." she orders.

"I'll just stick with you two for now, I think." Michael states.

"No, you-"

"Cortana, we don't have time." Chief cuts them off and starts walking down the purple hallway, not wanting to get caught up in an argument between the annoying civilian and an annoying AI...

"Hey, what about my autograph!?" Michael complains as he follows after the Super-Soldier and doesn't get any response.

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The trio are stopped when they encounter a makeshift blockade created by some surviving Covenant soldiers to try and hold off the Flood. While Master Chief was thinking up a plan Michael steps forwards and pokes his head into a gap-

*PEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEWPEW!*

A torrent of Plasma shots hit him in the face but do no perceivable damage aside from a slight sunburn that fades extremely quickly. "Ouch... Alright, have some back." he says as he thrusts his hand through the gap, fire exploding outwards and incinerating everything caught in it. The blockade melts into slag, revealing a scorched yet clear pathway.

"Chief-"

"Ignore them, Cortana..." he states, still unsure if he and Cortana were infected by some mental affliction. There was no way what they were seeing now was real... If it weren't for the incredibly dire situation he'd have checked them both in for numerous tests already...

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*RRRRROOAAAR!*

Chief rapidly turns and points his weapon at Saeko, who'd just turned into some kind of huge purple-furred wolf. Michael pushes his gun downwards, however, causing the shot to hit the floor.

In response to this, the Master Chief throws a skull-shattering haymaker at him, only to have Michael easily catch his fist... "Chill out, Saeko's just getting into it..."

"She's clearly infected by the Flood! What are you even talking about!?" Cortana's voice shouts from Chief's helmet loud enough for Michael to hear.

He shrugs, "Does she look like the Flood? Clearly, she's a Werewolf."

...

"Werewolves, also known as lycanthropes, mythological creatures dating back to the ancient greeks..." Cortana parrots as she erratically skims her database, "Werewolves don't exist!"

"Oh yeah? What's that then?" he points at Sakeo who was tearing apart the Flood with claws and teeth, any wounds she receives almost instantly healing.

"But... But..."

"Face it, I know a lot more about this shit than you do..."

"I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE THE ENTIRETY OF HUMANITIES COLLECTIVE KNOWLEDGE AT MY DISPOSAL!"

"And yet you don't know Werewolves exist... Funny that."

"YOU-"

"Cortana!" Chief growls.

"Right, right, ignore the possible hallucinations and get on with the mission... Keyes should be two floors above our current position. Find a way-"

*RRRRREEEEEEEEEE!*

Michael had just jumped up and torn open the metal separating the floors, all as the dumbfounded duo watched...

"Are you two coming?"

...

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What should have been a heroic battle of a lone Spartan fighting his way through hordes of horrific creatures turned into a cakewalk with the presence of the two 'civilians'. They reached Captain Keyes' location and the two natives were horrified at his state, his body was infected and melded into a mass of Flood material in preparation for the birth of a higher Flood-being.

"No human life-signs detected... He's one of them. You know what he'd expect... What he'd want us to do..." Cortana mournfully reports.

Chief nods before punching a hole through the infected Captain's face, destroying his brain and gripping the Neural Interface as he extracts his hand.

"So... About that autograph?" Michael interrupts the sombre moment by holding out his bloodied assault rifle once more.

"Look-, just..." Cortana sighs, "Just sign it for him, Chief..." she relents, having enough of this already.

"Fuck yeah... This is going on my wall. Hey, what would it take for you to give me your helmet?"

...

"Cortana, what's next." Chief asks, ignoring Michael entirely.

A now human-form Saeko walks over to Michael, clothes pristine after a few cleansing spells, "So, are we leaving yet or...?"

Michael shakes his head, "No, the Flood are worth almost nothing but there's no point wasting it. This place is gonna explode anyway..."

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Michael sends Saeko home as he prepares to extract any worthwhile value from the Ring. The plot goes mostly the same for Cortana and Chief, with the exception of his sabotaging the Pillar of Autumn's reactor, making it unable to self-destruct... They only realised this as they were fleeing the place in a Longsword however.

Fortunately for them and the rest of the galaxy, Michael wasn't planning on letting the Ring activate either. He flies up high, into the center of the huge planet-sized ring and activates an ability... [Supernova].

Needless to say, all Flood, unfortunate humans and Covenant were turned to ash, with only Chief, Cortana, and the few marines with Avery Johnson who'd fled in a Pelican managing to survive the cataclysmic explosion.

Michael was forced to lower the power of the nova due to Chief being too near to the Ring, but it didn't matter all that much...

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!*


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