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This is Aquatos, when we land on the planet, it will be on a manmade loading platform. Currently those platforms are occupied by enemy forces. The first thing that we do is rid the platforms of any hostilities.

(We have 4 days to save this planet, the Brutes seem to be in the facilities and thicker than and angry fire ant colony. They are the main enemies that we will face. There will be a few Jakals, Grunts, and Elites, but only on your side of the planet.)

The Corvette descended down into the facility, the Hunter clambering along side it. They reached the bottom of the slope withing a few minutes and turned a corner, but was immediately bombarded with spikes, spines, plasma balls, grenades, and giant plasma rockets. They Vette immediately backed up, but the Hunter remained, charging its cannon, protecting itself from behind its shield, then fired, taking out 10 Grunts, 1 Brute, and 4 Jakals. The Vette then charged forward and crushed every enemy in its way, with Tex and the Elite taking out anything the Vette or Hunter did not kill. The Hunter then charged in for close combat. It was a gore fest, the spines on the Hunter's back slicing enemies to shreds, and the shield crushing anything unfortunate enough to get under it whenever it was swung. With The Vette's and Tex's and the Elite's help, the Hunter managed to decimate every enemy in the welcoming party. The Elite got off of the top, Tex and Liz got out, all three of them carrying weapons lockers, and filled them to the top, and stuffed them in the back of the Vette. They then loaded back up, reloading their weapons and driving off to clear the facility of any more enemies.

*Shinta pulled out a scope and looked at platforms far away* "ahhh there they are, but I don't trust this water..." he said as he looked into the water. *As he turned and walked into the tunnel he heared a grunt, as he turned one of the apes on the ground fired at him. As the spike fle through the air Shinta tried to duck. The spike periced his shoulder armor* "ah s**t!" he shouted as blood oozed out from under the jaged weapon. *Shinta jumped on the brute and yanked out his wakazashi and jamed it through the creatures neck*

*Shinta turned the wakazashi and started sawing at the giant spike* "One two, one two, one tw...o," he screamed as the spike fragmented into smaller peices which cut deeply into his veins* "Oh god damn...." he breathed out as blood rushed faster out of his shoulder. *After several minutes he stood up and picked up the new gun and jamed it into a slot on his vest and continued on*

( Ah, but Brutes are stronger, not faster.)

The Hunter took watch position, the Vette was low on gas and Liz had to refill it. When she was done they when't back to going on and eventually came upon the Master Chief's group, but no Chief.They said that he went ahead to scout out the tunnels, but they think that he got lost, the lower you went, the more confusing it got. Liz thanked them for the information and continued on, searching for the Chief.


(g2g, guys, c'ya tomorrow. Hope we get to 150 posts on main forum soon!)

Further on in the tunnel, Liz's group found a disturbing image, several dead Brutes, their bodies riddled with bullets, Liz and Tex were sure that the Chief had come this way, so they continued on. A bit further and they could hear fire, bullets and spikes and even rockets being fired off. Liz stepped on it, the Vette racing toward the sound of the fire. When the Vette turned a corner, they saw 3 Spartans, and one of them was the Master Chief. "Cortana, I need help with this, are there any exits?" He was asking his A.I. "Sorry, Chief, all of the maps I have of this place are very outdated, but maybe you should ask your friends in that car over there." She said, and the Chief looked at the Vette. The Chief just nodded, enough of a signal that Liz shot the Vette toward the Brutes and others, with the Hunter providing covering fire. The blades on the Vette's wheels shredded any Grunts, Jakals, or Brutes the the Vette barely missed, while the Vette itself crushed more that its share of enemies under the large wheels or the massive front end.

A few seconds later, the enemy force was dead, and Tex and the Elite were gathering the weapons on the ground. Liz walked up to the Chief, and saluted, but was stopped. "I never wanted to be a higher rank than you. Than any of you. I only wanted to be friends, but I guess the chain of command stopped that a long time ago." The Chief said, lowering his head. "Chief, if you don't mind, we have more hostiles coming, Drones. And vehicles. The motorcycles we saw a few turns back. I think that the Brutes call them Choppers." Cortana said, her voice filled with anxiety. Liz turned to where the Chief was now looking, and pulled out her chain gun, already revving it for when the Drones and Brutes would pass into sight. A panel above the group burst open, and from it flew hundreds of giant flying insects, all shooting their weapons at once, taking out all of their shields, the Elite's, Tex's, Liz's, and the Chief's. They ducked for cover while the Hunter provided covering fire for them. The Choppers rounded the corner, just as Liz let loose with the Chain gun, shredding hundreds of Drones, and aimed it slowly downward, shooting at the Choppers, their explosive rounds blowing up around them. The Elite jumped up on the top of Liz's Vette and started shooting the Drones, giving the three Spartans the opening of shooting the Choppers, destroying one, and a lucky shot from Tex's sniper rifle taking out the Brute in the other. Then, the Spartans turned their attention to the Drones, eventually taking them all out, but with severe shortage on ammo, Tex had to rely on her Battle Rifle after using all of her ammo from her Assault Rifle and Shotgun.