User:Firepumper1071

The Breach

Nathan gasped as he tumbled out of his pod door. "God.." he thought as he stumbled to get up, "W...wait how long has it been since training?" He walked bleary-eyed and danced toward the automatic door (which he hated with his whole heart) and pressed one of the many buttons on the interface wall. Of course, the door wouldn't budge. This added to Nathan's already annoyed mind. He tapped at the interface again and again. AND again. Much to his chagrin, it didn't do anything at all, but gave a little "Bzzt" and went silent. "Great," Nathan thought "Another problem for me to scream at." He kicked the cybernetic door then yelped as his big toe throbbed. "Son of a...." he glared at the door but thought it would be silly for him to be mad at a non- living object. "Right," he said to himself, and looked around the room to make sure that there were not any more problems. His eyes widened a little as he saw a splotch of blood on one of the ration crates that were SUPPOSED to be docked in storage and not in the military barracks. He really just wanted to ignore that there were blood splotches on the crate. No, Nathan was not going to deal with someone else's blood, he was going to get the heck out of the room. Nathan's eyes traveled to a crowbar set onto one of the pods. "Finally, something useful." He picked up the crowbar with one hand, grasped it with the other, and moved back toward the stupid door and so he could smash the piece of robot crap door open. He struck, once, twice, and a third time. Then, he heard a satisfying "Crrrunch!" and the automatic door opened defiantly and creaked. Nathan squinted because the hallway lights were flickering. He shrugged it off and took a step into the hallway, and swiveled his head toward the left. He swore for a second that he saw a dark shadow of....something pass right before he turned his head. He shouted "HEY!!" waving his hands frantically "WHERE IS THE CREW?!" He said as he walked toward where thought he saw the shadow. There was no reply "Great.." he thought "my only hope of finding out what happened and it walked away." He was about to shout again but a loud "BANG!" came from where the shadowed figure went. Another loud "BANG!" erupted from the same hallway. Nathan went wide-eyed as he heard a sort of clicking sound come from the hallway In front of him. "Uhhh?" Nathan thought fast "If that was a crew member.... well I don't want to find out." He decided to walk a little faster toward the opposite hallway. Then he heard another clicking sound from the same direction! He hightailed it out of there and ran toward the opposite hallway. "Covenant attack?!" he thought frantically as three more "BANGS!" erupted behind him. "Engine failure?!" he thought again as he stumbled and ran faster and FURTHER away from the sounds behind him."AHA!" he spotted an open door! Nathan ran towards the door not caring what was inside. He then clicked a button and the door shut just before he heard the same clicking sound from right outside the door. He breathed hard and exhaled. Beads of sweat dripped off his face. He the turned and gasped. Directly in front of him was a mangled corpse of a dead man. " Could possibly be a marine?" he wondered. Nathan could not tell because the corpse of the person in question was UTTERLY mangled and torn in places too gruesome to look at. He shouted out loud as he saw a type of pungent smelling organism attached onto to the corpse's arms. Nathan looked away, and threw up onto the floor. He wiped his mouth and grabbed the dead marine's assault rifle. "Only 32 bullets left," he said, looking at the screen. He started toward the door opposite of him when he heard a female voice say, "Don't move." He could tell she had a gun pointed at him. "Look, Miss, if I could just...," he trailed off. "SHUT UP!" she said, but her voice sounded concerned.. "Turn around slowly," she said, her voice rigid. Nathan obliged. He looked at her face and gasped, "Doctor Halsey?" It was the Research Scientist from the ship. The one that always yelled at him to get out of her way. He smiled with relief: as long as she was a person alive and not dead, he could breathe easier. "Ma'am," he said, "It's me, Nathan Edwards, one of the crew." "SHUTUP!" she cut him off and the danger edged back into her voice. "Wh...where did you come from...?!" the doctor demanded. Nathan looked worriedly about the gun...and at the dead soldier, "My P.....Pod from, the B...Barracks, Ma'am!" Nathan said, his voice nervous. "Ma'am where are the others..." "DID THEY FOLLOW YOU?!" she said looking towards the window into the door nervously. "Who?" Nathan said remembering the bangs and the weird growth on the dead soldier. "THOSE THINGS!" she said, "THE THINGS THAT BREACHED OUR SHIP!" and lowered her gun. "My god, they...they came at us a...and we didn't have a chance to...do anything, Anything at all!" she said, sitting down on a crate of weapons. "What do you mean Ma'am? The covenant?" she shook her head "No, those things consumed, them as well."