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Post by Danny on Aug 15, 2010 0:52:49 GMT -5
"As soon as this is over, we'll be going home," Anau told her, "And it will be over soon."
Lachlan looked over at the couple and sighed, "It's a shame really, to get news like that in a situation like this," Jack stood beside him and nodded, "Indeed, but it certainly makes this whole situation a little brighter." He and Lachlan both gazed at the smiling couple for a few seconds before looking away.
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Post by Ares on Aug 15, 2010 22:38:19 GMT -5
The diminutive Unggoy's eyes practically shone like strobe lights when Lachlan, too, agreed to be his friend. So far, he had encountered three people other than Zaku who didn't ignore him, much less were actually friendly... and had agreed to be friends! The green-armored Grunt had the urge to do a dance... but instead he proceeded to encompass Lachlan's neck in a bear hug before jumping back and sitting cross-legged on the floor. After a few seconds, Rakka asked, "Humans always this nice, Lokelan?"
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Zaku grunted, lifting a human shotgun... and placing it down while touching it as little as possible. It was primitive, inefficient, and was more of a burden than an aid. Zaku inspected an SMG, Assault Rifle, and Grenade Launcher with similar distaste, and finally turned away from the weapon... but something caught his eyes. The hulking Zealot's eyes softened at the beauty of what lay in the cabinet before him. A pair of sleek, shining cylinders were attached to a beautifully crafted main handhold and ammo loading opening. Two smaller steel cylinders protruded from the back to dispose of used shells. It was all jet-black steel. A shining.... rocket launcher. He reached out, his hands shaking from sheer awe of the awe-inspiring efficiency and military beauty, and humbly pulled it from the locker.
Zaku thought he was in love.
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Alastair gasped as he awoke.
It was... cold. At least, in the pod. Icy vapor swirled down the sides of the Cryo Pod, but above it, the air was a moistly humid temperature. The Spartan-III slowly sat up, feeling the disturbing temperature difference. All of a sudden, he noticed who- and what- was in the room. Alastair saw his C.O., Spartan-II Otto, alongside... an Elite Councilor? And a monster! It was clad in hideously gold armor that wouldn't have looked out of place at a Hot Chocolate Love bar on earth. But the creature wearing it made it look like a samurai's armor... but flashy. Then, it clicked. Elites. And Otto. And Lucy, James, and Honshu dead on the floor, covered in green pulp... and being incinerated by the white-armored Elite with the ugly metal hat.
But the Spartan noticed the green 'ick' being destroyed with his friends' corpses. Good god... he had read about the Flood, but... it's so much different when your friends are on the floor, dead because of it, and being cremated by some alien politician. The Spartan put his hands over his mouth, horrified. Several seconds later, he had to lean over the side of the cryo pod to vomit noisily. That was embarrassing.
The Spartan-III slowly pulled himself from his cryogenic module, hobbling out. His dark green irises simply couldn't move from the dead friends in front of him. Alastair lifted his hand to his head, rubbing it through his close-cropped red hair unconsciously. After a few moments, the pale young man finally managed to tear his eyes from the ash piles, formerly Honshu, Lucy, and James. He smartly saluted, albeit with a little wobble in his saluting arm, and spoke.
"SPARTAN-D629 Alastair, sir. W-what is the situation, sir?"
The ginger-haired Spartan looked down with his eyes, noting that his armored foot was placed in the puddle of vomit from earlier. He quickly yanked his foot away, causing a huge noise when putting his foot back on the deck. Alastair attempted to cover it up by straightening his back and making it look like a new form of military greeting.
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Aug 15, 2010 23:00:23 GMT -5
Spartan-O1772 awoke from the strangness of this "cyro" sleep. He shook his head and tested everything out to make sure he was in the real world not the dream world he would would have to tell the Council this when he returned home to Iroquois. Once he made sure everything was working he zoned back into reality and noticed that three bodies of his fellow warriors were slowly burning and they looked highly distorted. He then quickly remembered he had to go into the UNSC formality of stating his name and rank to his superior officer.
" Spartan-W1772 Waanaki Ohkwari of the Mohawk tribe and representaive of The Iroquois League but you may call me Peace Making Bear " said Peace Making Bear bowing to his superior officer and the important looking alien with the metal hat. *** " At ease soliders...1772, 629 your with me and the elites...the rest of you I need you to go to the armory and plant these charges and blow it up we don't want the Flood to gain any more access to our weaponry once your done there head to the garage and hanger and do the same to the vehicles and ships...once your done meet us back here " said Otto as he threw a bag of explosives onto the table. *** Once the superior officer had finished he walked up to the creature with the metal hat and said "We never saw lizards like you in our lands... at least not ones with metal hats."
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Post by Danny on Aug 16, 2010 1:05:21 GMT -5
Lachlan sat and crossed his legs too, "Yeah, I guess," he smiled, "Are all Grunts this cute?" Jack shook his head with a grin and then relayed Darmans question, "Lachlan, is there a way to de-pressurise this hanger?" "Maybe, but you'd probably need the ships AI to open the doors, so we don't have to, and Otto to tell the AI to do it despite all the Human and Sangheili IFF transponders in the hangar. Stupid Flood," replied Lachlan. Jack turned to Darman and nodded.
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Post by Spartan-777 on Aug 16, 2010 16:06:56 GMT -5
Darman chewed the previous statement over in his head. "We get those doors open, we can suck these things off the deck. As long as we get it repressurized before the other team gets back, we should be ok."
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Post by Sparty McFly on Aug 16, 2010 18:41:00 GMT -5
Russ could barely tell what was happening. One second he was on the Ring, the next second he was gripping his MBR tightly as the Flood were outside and he just found out that Zarra was pregnant.
Now he was second-guessing himself. And Jacobs was second-guessing him as well. "So you're telling me that Zarra is pregnant?"
"Believe me, that's the truth," came the reply. Jacobs didn't look that nice. "At this time? Of all the god damn times in the world, why would anyone wanna f-"
At that point, Russ had had enough and muted Jacobs output.
For now, he walked over to Zarra and simply said, "Congratulations. But we aren't out of the woods yet."
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Post by IndigoWolf on Aug 16, 2010 21:18:15 GMT -5
Zarra chuckled. "I know, believe me, I know. Thank you," she replied. "And tell your construct that I didn't get this way right here on the Phantom," she laughed.
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Post by Sparty McFly on Aug 16, 2010 21:27:13 GMT -5
At that, Jacobs appeared on Russ' shoulder.
"You heard me? Oh my god..."
Russ immediately said, "Jacobs, would you kindly have a nice hot cup of shut the f*ck up? It'd do wonders."
Jacobs frowned, crossed his arms, and disappeared.
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Post by Oru-Hime on Aug 17, 2010 11:15:30 GMT -5
Lyra frowned at the two arguing Spartans. She was resisting the urge to giggle madly. She utterly failed and almost fell over with laughter. "You can only get it hot?" she muttered in between giggles.
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Post by Danny on Aug 18, 2010 15:23:06 GMT -5
Anau laughed as well and shook his head at the Spartans AIs remarks. He looked back to Zarra and smiled, placing his hand on her stomach, "This is..." he shook his head and chuckled, "I still can't believe this/ is happening," He kissed her on the forehead and took his hand away, "I'll stop talking about it now, until we're off this ship." He laughed.
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Aug 18, 2010 21:22:38 GMT -5
" So...uh where do elite babies come from....eggs, pouches full of alien goo...or what and how does...you know work in the "bedroom" if you catch my drift" said Elias wanting to know more about elite reproduction seeing and had the balls to actually ask such a question. (OOC Any women feel free to slap Elias sorry guys but if you slap then your Hot Chocolate Love and I think Elias and Anau need to have a man to man talk and good luck explaining this )
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Post by Oru-Hime on Aug 18, 2010 21:47:10 GMT -5
Lyra smacked the back of Elias's head. "Hush, let them have a moment."
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Aug 18, 2010 22:00:05 GMT -5
" Ouch...I was merely asking a question they can answer then they are done biting their faces " said Elias rubbing his head.
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Post by Ares on Aug 18, 2010 22:22:49 GMT -5
Rakka grunted (pun fully intended =D) "Rakka cute? Unggoy cute? When this happen?" the alien was truly baffled. What did the human mean? He hadn't heard cute often.. what did it mean again? Wasn't something cute when it was at an angle or something? The Grunt looked at himself. He didn't look angular...
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Justin had gotten up and was standing near Elias. Lyra slapped him for a truly tasteless question... and he continued to be obnoxious. After then referring to a Sangheili's kiss as 'face biting' Justin turned to Elias... and slapped him in the face. "Tasteless," he snapped. "There's definitely a reason you're single."
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Alastair nodded to Otto. "Roger that, sir!" He then proceeded to place the MP helmet on his head, and rushed over to the weapon lockers. Finding his own, the redheaded Spartan removed his grenade launcher, his close-range shock stick, and... his SPARTAN Laser. Galilean Nonlinear rifle. Very useful... but not in close quarters. If they were abandoning the ship, he had to take it, though. After hurriedly prepping and loading his equipment, he placed several grenades on his armor, and attached three C4s to his torso. If he was gonna go, he was going to go out with a bang.
Spartan-III D269 turned back to Otto, smartly saluting. He spoke in his precise British accent, "Ready, sir. Shall we move out?"
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Zaku growled to Katar and the human Ship Master, "I concur with the little, pale... firehead... thingy..." He accentuated this by loading the Rocket Launcher on his shoulder, and aiming it at the doorway to test. "I am ready to take back your machine."
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Post by Spec-Opp Spartan on Aug 18, 2010 22:45:03 GMT -5
Peacing Making Bear grabbed his helmet and his rifles from his locker. He loaded a fresh clip into both and then returned to his CO. *** " yes lets go; Beta move out and go as quickly as we can the more time we waste the more time the flood get smart enough to start using the more heavy armorments stored here against us " said Otto pointing to the doorway. The Spartan-III's piled out. " Alright lets move we need to be quick as well as again the more time we waste the more time the flood gains control of the ship...god knows how much of it they have full control over " said Otto as he reentered the hallway. It was quiet...too quiet. *** " what I was only asking what everyone was probally was thinking in the back of their mind" said Elias. "Oh and comrade a real man punches" said Elias punching Justin in the face. *** "Machine what is keeping you from unlocking the armory....I am fully aware that you have full access to the every door on this ship....a pity the crew here was smart enough to lockdown the armory as soon as they heard word of infection" "Done happy now" "No...let me see what you see" " excuse me " "The security cameras I know that you enjoy spying on crewmembers....and you have been caught being a peeping tom by your master....if I recall he shut you down for a week and he forced the crew to run everything by hand for that week" "How do you know all of this....you just got hear" "I know everything your crew knew...now then open the remaining unopened access panels it is getting a little cramped in this vessel and we must spread"
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