A bullet ejected from the case and landed on the roof of the brute encampment. Matt, Spartan 137, was that sniper, he had hit the brute chieftain dead square in the back of the spine, killing him instantly. He then shot the brute standing guard at the opposite end of the encampment, killing all that remained of the guarding brutes outside the brute building, after spending the last bullet on a drone that flew threw the encampment he discarded his rifle. He then jumped to the ground and collected the chieftains gravity hammer and a needler from the drone, he then ran to the other side of the encampment and started the infiltration part of his mission.
Matt ran towards the door at the back of the building and broke the door down with the gravity hammer and then climbed into the air vent at the end of the hallway. He swapped the hammer for the needler and began to crawl towards the end of the vent, and then turned a corner and crawled a little bit more till he found what he was looking for, the brutes weapon room. Matt jumped out and saw a myriad of covenant technology all evenly distributed on to several racks from the plasma pistol to the deadly fuel rod cannon. He began his first part of the operation, and took out a large clustered C-12 bomb and started rigging it to the weapons rack.
Loro Havana, a grunt major walked out of a room just done cleaning the fusion core of the building and then was about to go clean up the vehicles when he heard a very weird noise coming from the weapons room. He took out his needler and started towards the door finger clinging to the trigger, he peeked though the crack of the door and saw a large hulk of a man wearing purple armor rigging up what he called a heretic weapon to the weapons rack. He took one step backwards and tripped, the purple being was startled and drew Loro's own weapon out and aimed it at him, the purple being started to talk in a weird language that his translator translated into "If you want to live I would go tell your heathen friends to come out and fight." Loro then regained his balance and ran to get the other covenant troops.
Here I thought this wasn't going to be any fun Matt thought as he swapped his needler with a plasma pistol and a brute mauler, and also replaced his spent gravity hammer for a fuel rod gun on the weapons rack. He then exited the weapons room, welding the door shut as he went to face the oncoming covenant assault; the first was a group of three "shielded" jackals and a brute captain. Matt then shot an overcharged plasma shot at the first jackals shield and instantly shot it with a mauler round, he then swiftly activated the cloaking device he had at the start of the mission and smacked the two jackals with the pistol and the mauler. The brute shot at Matt with his spiker, but Matt was able to easily avoid it and shot it with a fuel rod missile, he then walked back to the end of the hallway and started towards the vehicles hangar marked on his HUD.
The resistance that Matt met on the way to the hangar was increasingly concentrating with grunts coming first until he was approached two "living tank" hunters. The first hunter had attempted to hit Matt with his large unbreakable shield, but was to quick on the preparation as Matt dodged it by strafing to the right and shooting it with his last fuel rod missile that immediately burned several layers of the eel like creatures that make up its body. Matt discarded the spent fuel rod gun and then upholstered his mauler and plasma pistol, the hunter screaming a loud harmonic screech while the other one attempted to shoot him with its assault cannon. Matt then, on instinct jumped up in the air as the beam tore a green light ray forward that would have cooked him alive. Matt then ran to the hunters unprotected torso and shot it with several rounds of his mauler making the eel colony lose it coherence and the hunter fell over and died just as the other one regained its composure. Angry with revenge it charged at Matt as he got up from the hunters body with only a limited plasma pistol battery and two mauler slugs left, he strafed to the left and punched the hunter in its exposed burnt torso making it weaken. The hunter on one knee took out his assault cannon and shot at Matt, the only thing that got hit was the opposite wall and Matt appeared behind it and shot it with the plasma pistol and mauler while hammering at the eel colony. The hunter fell over eels burnt and spilling orange blood out of opened wounds that Matt dealt, Matt then walked to the final door into the vehicle hangar. Time to go to work on these vehicles Matt thought as started taking out the LOTUS mines that he had been given for this part of the mission.
After 2 hours of rigging up the mines Matt then set the timer for 20 minutes and then looked for a suitable ride out of the hangar to the ALBATROSS drop ship that was sent to retrieve them. He was in the process of finding a vehicle when 35 covenant troops came into the hangar and they all looked at Matt and raised their weapons at him. Matt seeing the threat and he was all out of ammo he then jumped onto a brute chopper and started towards the troops firing the choppers auto cannons at ten brutes at the side of the group. He had taken out at least five brutes before they tried to fire on him from the choppers unprotected back, Matt then turned around, but got caught off guard and got hit with several plasma shots reducing his energy shield to about one-third. He then jumped off the chopper and jumped on the nearest brute and then started punching it until it was beaten to death, he then took the brutes spiker and started shooting at the other brutes in the face. He had taken down another 7 before the timer reached 15 minutes and time was of the essence. Matt then used a carbine that he had taken from a dead jackal and started sniping the covenant troops from afar, by the time the counter was at 10 minutes he had killed most of the covenant troop when he ran out of battery for the carbine, he then saw three brute chieftains, two of which hefted plasma turrets and one had a fuel rod gun. assessing the threat he then ran towards a nearby ghost and drove it around the hangar and then around shooting the rest of the covenant troops to smithereens, all that was left was a hunter and two brute chieftains who had severely reduced shields. Matt then drew a gravity hammer that one of the brutes left, and proceeded to rush the chieftains and hit them with the hammer that sent a shock wave at the chieftains and crushed them. Matt then discarded his spiker and traded it with the chieftains fuel rod gun and then shot the hunter twice with it in the unprotected abdomen, but the hunter still managed to hold together and tried to rush him. The hunters shield grazed Matt's shield and made it fall, Matt then rushed him with his hammer and made the eel colony completely crushed under the shock wave. Breathing heavily Matt was stuck as the timer went down to 5 minutes "Theres no more time, even if I could get a vehicle it would still take more then 5 minutes to get out of the blast radius" Matt talked to himself. As the timer was going a familiar red spartan appeared on a MONGOOSE-ATV "Get on, Matt," Spriggs said in a computer voice "We have to move!" Spriggs said as Matt got on and they started out of the hangar and full speed to where the drop ship was. The timer on Matt HUD was going down from 115 seconds and closing on exploding and they were still 5 miles inside the blast radius "We're not going to make it!!!" Matt yelled "Trust me boy I do this all the time" Spriggs said as they started to gain speed and were looking like they were going to make it. "I didn't know Mongooses had turbo" Matt said as he looked at the speed "They don't, but the laws of physics don't apply here, this isn't earth." Spriggs said as they made it to the Albatross. "So how did you get there Spriggs, I thought you went off in the other direction?" Matt asked "Well thats a story for another day. Hey do you know how much ammo you have left?" Spriggs said as they got off the mongoose. Matt looked down to check his ammo counter, but when he looked Spriggs hit him with the back of his hand sending him backwards into the Albatross.
"What was that about?" one of the soldiers that was standing guard asked "Only would have slowed me" Spriggs said as he exited the Albatross. "What do you mean?" the other soldier asked "The first part of the mission was completed when Matt destroyed the first building, but the second building needs to be specially infiltrated, that's where I come in you need to round up the others, I have another thing to do." Spriggs answered. "Where are you going?" The soldiers asked "The second base, kill everyone, get everybody back." Spriggs said as he got back on his mongooses and drove away.
