Naruto and Halo Chap 8

Chapter 8- Warshock

Screaming. That’s all there was around her. She tried to shut it out by

putting her hands to her ears, pressing into them to the point that they hurt. The

screaming still found its way into her mind though, like icy cold water through

cracks in an old wall. Her eyes opened up, those two blue cerulean orbs taking in

all the horror before her. The sky above was the murder like crimson of freshly

spilt blood and the clouds moved faster than she had ever seen before. Countless

bodies lay before her, some recognizable human shapes while others were the

bodies of unknown life forms, some bigger than others. The stench of the bodies

almost overwhelming her nasal senses. She found herself laying on top of one of

these bodies, this one being at least ten feet tall and clad in a strange blue armor

that exposed its decaying orange underbelly, neck and joints. The blonder haired

kunoichi shot straight up from the rotting corpse and quickly brushed off the slimy

wet, eel like flesh of the decaying body. She almost tripped over another body,

this one of a human about her height wearing strange metallic plating that

had “Bronson” stenciled on the chest armor. The face of the corpse was a

decaying mess of dripping flesh and exposed bone, barely unrecognizable as

human at all save for the grimacing skull that was exposed. That’s all that there

was in this hellish place. She continued wadding through the corpses and decay

that seemed to be endless when a sound completely different from the screaming

that plagued her mind, pierced its way through all of the screaming. Some one

was crying.


        She followed the sound as fast as she could, making her way up a steep hill

that was dotted and littered with even more bodies. She climbed for hours upon

hours, slipping several times due to the slipperiness of the corpse strewn rocks.

The top of the hill became visible to her now, but there was something different

about the corpses that lay at the peak. They were all clad in pearl green armor

that held shiny gold like visors in the helmets. In fact they were human shape but

compared to her own stature, these bodies were gigantic and muscular… just like

that giant that she remembered fighting. She snapped back into focus as she

heard the crying continue and clambered over the armored figures. Her heart

dropped as she found out what was making the crying noise. A lone boy about the

size of that idiot Konohamaru sat upon the armored bodies, hugging his knees to

his chest, burying his head in his arms. She moved faster over the armored

corpses in an attempt to speak to the boy, at the same time realizing that the

screaming had stopped long ago. It was silent, save for the occasional sniffle from

the sad boy.

“Hey!” she called to him as she finally reached the top of the hill “What are you

doing here?” she ran over to him, stumbling over armored arms and legs. The boy

looked up to her, his whole face being revealed. He had brown hair and tree bark

like brown eyes that complimented the small brown freckles that dotted his

handsome face. She was confused at why a child like this was in a place so hellish

and tormenting. She approached him and placed her hand on the boys shoulder

and looked at him softly with her cerulean eyes.

“What’s your name?” she asked as kindly as she could manage. The boy looked at

her with two sad eyes and responded with a quivering voice as gentle as that of a

boy his age.

“My name is… John.”

She repeated the name to herself softly and looked at him again.

“What are you doing here?” she asked him. He looked at her again, this time with of torment.

“I’m the only one that ever survives.”


Ino Yamanaka awoke with a start at the strange dream she

just had. She winced at the pure white light that radiated from the ceiling of the

hospital room that she was in and shielded her eyes with the back of her hand.

Two oh so familiar voices greeted her return from her slumbering state. She

removed her hand to see who it was. Her long time friends and team mates

Shikamaru Nara and Chouji Akimichi stood at the end sides of her bed, smiling.

“Welcome back Ino.” Shikamaru stated in his oh so familiar boring tone. He was

holding a puzzle cube that he no doubtingly solved a hundred times before. To her

surprise though Chouji wasn’t holding a bag of snacks, but a very elegant

bouquet of exotic flowers. In fact she was awe struck by the large pile of gifts, get

well cards, and flowers, lavender items of clothing and even her favorite perfumes

that lined the side of her bed. They were all gifts from friends and family that

wished her to get well from… whatever the hell had happened. She leaned

forward fast and looked around the room for any medical information that might

tell her what happened. There was none. Ino looked at Shikamaru and Chouji who

both shared a confused look on each of their faces.

“Whats wrong Ino?” Chouji asked, setting down the bouquet of flowers by the

already over filled pile of gifts.

“What happened to me?” she asked frantically.

“Well if you don’t recall, you passed out after entering that armored giants head.”

Shikamaru said as he sat down in a nearby chair. Stared at the white linen sheets

that covered her body and dove deep into her thoughts in an attempt to recall

everything that happened. There was the image of the battle at the arena, and

her successful execution of her family’s renowned jutsu. She remembered entering

the armored giants head and swimming through a vast sea of memories and

experiences that seemed to be endless. She yelped in pain as her mind was

struck with a sharp lance of pain that felt like someone had lit her mind on fire.

Then it appeared to her all over again. That dark shadow of repressed feeling and

emotions that enveloped her and swept her into that very dark sea of pain and

suffering that overwhelmed her before. She thrashed in her bed, screaming at the

top of her lungs as Chouji and Shikamaru rushed over to hold her down.

“Nurse! We need help!” he yelled out in hope that someone would hear him. The

E.K.G machine that read her vital life signs began to go berserk, its  P-Q.R.S-T line

skyrocketing high and plummeting low.




Sakura Haruno made her way down the hospital wing with a box of sweet treats

held firmly in her hands. She tensed as she turned to find several doctors and

nurses running down the long stretch of hallway, the clattering of their shoes

reverberating through out the area.

“Hey wait!” she called out to one of the nurses that ran. The nurse didn’t stop.

Sakura decided to follow them and see what was going on.



<Warning: Artificial Intelligence corruption detected!>
<Execute Protocol 12874: Self Termination>
<Beginning Protocol 12874... Failed execution! Attempting recovery and reset…>
((You cant kill me.))
<Artificial Intelligence data corruption increasing… Emergency termination engaged!>
((What chance does that have? You really think that you’ll end me so easily? I don’t think so. I‘m too good for that sort of stupidity.))
<Warning: Protocol 12874 is being corrupted! Emency dat termintio requied!?>
<Data Link broken!>
<Waiting…>
<Waiting…>
<Waiting…>
<Corruption Error 13: This program now belongs to me.>
((That’s better! You were starting to get really annoying.))

Cortana smiled victoriously as she finished corrupting the fail-safe program that

was built into all A.I.’s to prevent them from going rampant. She shook her head

at the simplicity of the program itself and wondered how idiotic those other A.I.’s

must have been to not know how to control it.

((Their programmers must have been missing most of their brains.)) she mused to

herself.

She was sitting cross legged on top of one of the large chunks of metal that used

to be the starboard side of the Forward Unto Dawn ‘looking’ at the afternoon sky

that was blazing heat across the unknown desert. Small desert falcons flew over

head of her, squawking amongst themselves in some unknown avian argument. A

frown of annoyance played across her face.

“They must be hungry… maybe this will fill them up.”

Without even turning to look, the anti-starfighter cannon that was next to her

activated. It’s servos turned and rotated the turret upwards towards the falcons.

She balled her fist up leaving her thumb and pointer finger out in the all to human

hand sign of a gun.

“Bang.” was all she said and it was all she needed to say.

The anti-starfighter cannon roared out as it filled the deep blue sky with large

caliber shells at sound breaking speeds. It targeted and destroyed every single

falcon in the sky in a gory explosion that was heard for miles. Chunks of seared

flesh, shattered bones, and     burned feathers smacked into the sandy earth,

making smoking craters that smelt of burnt meat. A sadistic smile lit up her face as

she looked at the smoking craters with glee.


“Finally… is it really too hard for a lady to ask for some peace and quiet? Sheesh!”

she said in a girlish tone. Cortana looked around her and sighed at the wreckage.

“How the hell am I supposed to get out of this place if I cant move around?” she

whined.

Her head bobbed up as she felt something close to where she was. Being an A.I.

she still had control of the Forward Unto Dawn’s R.A.D.A.R and all of its scanner

systems. She gathered the information that was being received and analyzed it all

in micro seconds.

“Well well. It seems that I have more playmates coming over to play with me.

Mmm… maybe they will play with me like I want to be played with.” Cortana said in

a sultry voice. She sat and waited ever so patiently for the meat-bags to come

and join her party.