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If Dave were delusional, he'd have said he saw a giant metal fist hit the Batterwitch.
And to be honest, it's not too far off from the truth.
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"Holy shit, you two just do not give UP!" The Condesce shouted, spinning her trident in hand. "I thought you'd be easier to take down but for a couple of messed up fucks, you hold a pretty damn good bargain!" She'd grin, turning to Rose who was charging at her, and kick her down, holding the trident to the Lalonde's neck. "Bye, bitch!"
Dave watched in horror, sword tossed to the side and potentially shattered to fifty-million damn pieces, as Rose was all but dead in the Batterwitch's grasp, with Rose staring back at him with a mixed expression of pain, hurt, and sadness. Before anything could change, however, the Condesce heard a sound to her right, and her eyes widened as she was, for lack of a better term, tackled off of the prone woman.
Rose scattered up, regrouping with Dave as they watched the new interaction. As the dust cleared, they saw a figure in green armor stand tall over the Condesce, launching punch after punch into her face. "What the actual shit..?" Dave muttered, adjusting his shades. "You seein this?"
"I assure you, Dave, I am "seein this", as you say.." Rose was just as shocked, holding her needles a bit less tight as she watched the figure leap off of the troll.
"Who the fuck are you, bitch?" The Condesce stumbled up, feeling blood coat her face and clothing. She looked up at her attacker, eyes narrowing in the reflection of his visor. "HEY! I'M TALKIN TO YOU, BIG GREEN!"
"..." The figure approached the Condesce, grabbing a rifle from his back. "Surrender." He muttered, voice deep. "Or I'll make sure Crockercorp crumbles."
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"Never took you for the dramatic type.." Cortana practically rolled her eyes as she watched the interaction through Chief's visor. "Make sure to ACTUALLY fight this time, John. No more Warthog incidents." Cortana fizzled back into the armor systems.
John began to open fire, watching as the Batterwitch leaped up. "What the hell!" He heard her yell, brow furrowing under his visor as he rolled to the side. His eyes fell on the two humans there with him- Civilians, he'd assume. "Get out of here." He'd say, leaning over to fire again at the Condesce. "Now!" He shouted.
"No damn way, dude." The male grabbed his sword, or whatever was left of it.
John grunted as he turned his attention back to the Condesce, watching as she charged up her eyebeams. Eyes widening behind his visor, John ran infront of the two, his shield taking the brunt as he lightly kicked the two down into cover. John kept pressing through the eyebeams, before ducking and firing shots into the Condesce's legs, causing her to stumble and fall back. "What!?" She'd shout, and John took the chance to discard his assault rifle and bash the Condesce's face in.
"Ooh, she's gonna feel that in the morning." Cortana chuckled to herself, before straightening up. "Chief, I think she's trying something, I'm noticing a lack of control of your armor's lower mobility.."
Cortana was right, it seems, as the Condesce grabbed John with her telekinesis, and tossed him slightly back. "Glubbin damn, might wanna cut back on the weight!" She grinned.
As John got back up, more spots appeared on his visor. "Chief, we've got Covenant!" Cortana warned, as a Phantom began to descend. From inside, Grunts, some Elites, and a Jackal or two leaped down from the inside.
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As the alien ship landed, Rose watched as the armored man quickly sprinted to deal with the new threat. Ducking behind a rock with Dave, the two watched in shock, curiosity, and maybe a bit of awe as the man took care of the oncoming aliens with ease. She watched as he landed a solid right hook on a taller one, with four mandibles (and now, 3 of them completely shattered.) and an armored physique, causing it to stumble back before it ate a bullet breakfast, sending it to the ground in a cloud of dust and splatters of purple blood.
The two's eyes drifted over as they watched him kick in the face of a smaller one, running like crazy with two shining orbs in its hands, which quickly blew the corpse apart. Looking back, the two watched as the Condesce locked eyes with them, and they grabbed their weapons. "Dave, go!" Rose yelled, and she watched as Dave charged the Batterwitch, managing to stab her in the arm. Rose quickly joined him, managing to jab her needles in the Condesce's back, before the two were pushed back by her telekinesis.
Before they could regroup, they watched as the armored man leaped over the rock, firing multiple shots from a purple blaster into the Condesce, knocking her back with a quick punch to match. Tackling her down to the ground, they watched as he grabbed her horns and pulled, snapping them off. "AAAUGH!" The Batterwitch screeched at the pain of having her horns practically ripped off by the force of a thousand suns, and even as she tried to recuperate, she felt the panging force of her head meeting concrete as the armored man bashed her into the ground.
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John leaped off of the Condesce, and went back to deal with the Covenant, who were beginning to ramp up their fight as their numbers dwindled. As he emptied his magnum into a Jackal, he watched as the two other humans- Rose and Dave, as he had heard in their conversations, leaped into the fight with the Covenant. John particularly found interest in Dave, who rammed his sword up and through an Elite's head. "For a human, he's got good fighting skill.." Cortana thought, humming.
"Could be a thing on this colony." John replied, elbowing an oncoming Elite with enough force to lurch it back and onto a sharp piece of rebar. He then watched as Rose took her needles, which baffled both the Spartan AND the AI, and shoved them into a Jackal's throat, killing the thing almost instantly as it tumbled off a steep drop.
Eventually, through the collaborative efforts of the humans and the Spartan, the Covenant squad sent to kill them were all but dealt with. John grabbed a discarded plasma rifle, and turned slowly to the Condesce, who was staggering her way up, clutching her head and shattered horns. "You know.. what..? Fuck you! I ain't gotta deal with this! I'm Betty Crocker, bitch!" The Condesce yelled, her broken grin saying everything else as she charged the trio, only to get a shot to the stomach by the plasma rifle John grabbed.
"Stay down."
Rose and Dave watched as the Spartan simply dropped the plasma rifle, and began to walk off. "Wait a minute, you don't get to do that." Dave called, causing the Spartan to stop.
"Do what?" He asked, turning to the duo.
"I dunno, just fuckin' leave after beating the shit out of the Batterwitch herself?" Dave sputtered, watching as the Spartan simply stared.
"What makes her different from the Covenant?" He said, and it caused Dave to pause. "Exactly."
"Wait, at least.. stay with us, won't you? We want to know who you are." Rose said, pushing Dave behind her.
The Spartan paused, thinking over his choices. He could tell them who he was, truthfully, and he could lie and leave, or simply just.. walk away. But, Cortana's disapproving stare as she popped up on his HUD told him exactly what choice to make.
"...UNSC. Master Chief Petty Officer, John-117."
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Once the trio had walked away, the Condesce peeled herself off the floor, clutching her injured stomach as she stumbled her way to the parked alien ship. Spotting the dead pilot inside, she tore his hand off and used it to activate the ship's controls, causing it to start flying away, it's destination unknown.