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"Corpses, sir. They're dead, alright. You saw that. But they don't all look Covenant. I definitely saw a human in there, and something else; I'm not sure what it was. I had Angel lock the doors behind me, just as a precaution. There was one other way out from down there, and that was to go deeper into the structure, sir. But we'd have to basically go knocking on their front door to get down there to seal it off." Dansmith stood up to his full height, and gave himself a quick stem of simple sugars and nutrients, to make up for the brutal sprint up.

"Damnit! My readings of the squad list Master Sergeant Henry's vitals as if the man were in a coma. Where the hell was he last, sir?!" Dansmith did not want anything bad to happen to Henry, but there was no Nav marker anywhere that indicated the Master Sergeant's position. Dammit!

Warren pulled himself off the floor and took his helmet off and threw it to the ground. It hit the ground and rolled across the hallway about a meter away from him. He forced himself to sit down and lean his back against the wall of the metal hallway he was in. He sat there in thought of what he saw, and knew he had to check out that hut, now. He grabbed his helmet and put it on, and saw there was a video up link waiting for him, he played it.

After the video was finished, he stood himself up using his right arm to keep him standing. "Ashton what's your status, over?" He got nothing but static back. Warren frowned in his helmet."Mendez, can you hear me, check on Ashton. Your closer to his location, over" He got nothing but static back again. He turned on open com" Anyone out there?" Nothing but static. "The fall must have damaged my helmet" he complained.

He walked out of the building, without communication. He shouldn't be in there he told himself. He walked outside and looked at marines who set them selves up in defensive positions around the building. He walked outside in a trance and found himself heading in the direction of the hut. He reached the hut and it was outside of the marines controlled area and he tried to push the door open, It wouldn't open.

He examined the area around the door and found a little device right beside the door and he waved his hand over it and the door opened. Humans always had a knack for being able to use Forerunner technology without knowing why. He entered and saw all the computer's from his earlier vision was full of dust and cobwebs. All except the one terminal, he touched it with the palm of his right hand and it opened and Warren felt like he was sucked into it.

Words in a alien language rolled across the screen he figured and they then translated instantly. He didn't even have a second to read them before the page turned again. It turned just as fast every time, he didn't have time to read them, but for some reason he already knew what they said. Like they were being installed into his brain. This information was overwhelming and at this point all he wanted to do was get away.

His eye's rolled back into his skull and he Squeezed his hand so tight his fingernails broke threw the leather and started cutting into his skin. His knee's shook violently wanting to give out, but some force kept him standing. Warren had no idea for what his body was doing, for his mind was some where else.

Seth opened an open com and began speaking, "You heard the Doc Marines, we've got a man down, Warren Henry, ODST we need to find him and we need to find him now. Don't bother calling doc says he's in a Coma."

Rushing to search inside one of the buildings Seth continued, "I Want Marines in pairs of threes searching every last inch of this place, don't touch any switches don't pull any levers, we need to find Henry before he becomes KIA. Now Marines!"

As he kept moving from building to building peeking in -- and being joined by two other Marines, Seth added, "Anyone who may know where he is, say it now and get his location to Dansmith ASAP. If you find him, don't touch him or move him, we're not 100% on his condition."

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Receiving a transmission from a Marine Seth felt a cold rush and a sinking feeling, "You heard him Dansmith we need you--and a demo crew, there now. Anyone in the area get your asses over there. We don't know what got him."
Seth began to run over to the area the Marine indicated.

Lee had been preoccupied with moving the ten cryogenic tubes his squads had found on the second story of the small building, the identities of the tubes' inhabitants coming as nothing but the most complete of surprises. Lost in thought, Ashton's declaration of an alien presence and Warren's sudden change in condition could not have come at a worse time. The Captain, now sure that whatever had targeted Warren from the beginning was dangerous, had no choice but to pull back the entire company before anyone else fell to the lethal "frequency" the Sergeant had succumbed to. The residents of the tubes would have to wait for return to the Monterey before they would awake.

Running down the staircase two steps at a time, Lee leapt onto the pavement at the small building's entrance and dashed out into the streets of the small village. Passing Ashton and the crew that had been moving the third cryo-tube on a hover-sled, the Captain raced forwards and quickly arrived near Seth, who had arrived at the entrance to the hut Warren was drawn to at the edges of the village. A demolitions team was approaching quickly from another secured building down the dirt path.
"Lieutenant, give me a rundown of the situation here.
Everybody else not taking care of the cryo-tubes or Warren's situation, go and double-time those tubes back to the pelicans ASAP."

The shed door opened and Warren walked out, his ODST armor was ripped from the inside out and the visor on his helmet had seemed to of blown up on the inside, leaving a giant hole in the helmet, all you could see thou was Warren''s bloody face. Blood was dripping from the gashes in his armor and he took 2 more steps and the door closed behind him.

Even thou no one could see it, his eye's were blood shot red. He took several painful steps past the Marines surrounding the hut, most of them to shocked and stunned to even re-act. He turned around and looked at them. "He.....he....help" Warren coughed up blood onto the ground and fell on his knee's and elbows. He puked up blood a few more times and then fell on the ground Unconsienece, lying in a puddle of his own vomit.

Henry came out and fell hard, blood was everywhere. "Dansmith!" Seth shouted, as if he needed any prompting.

For the most part Seth watched the Captain, waiting on edge for him to give word. There wasn't anything he could do for Henry that Dansmith couldn't.

Opening a private channel Seth contacted Mendez, "What the hell was that?" He asked quietly.

"There's a large amount of radiation coming from inside, sir. Looks like it's coming from a terminal of sorts. Be advised, entering could be lethal."

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"Sir, looks like we've got one contact moving in to intercept our boys with the cryopods; it's not a Sentinel."