(READ!! I was accidentally calling "Sam" Kurt. I had misremembered. I have since fixed it)
Blue team and my team got on a pelican to get into the Covenant ship.
"What's the plan?" Fred, a member of Blue team asked, "their shields may look impenetrable because they basically are, but, the shield has to open when they shoot their weapons, so, we're gonna wait till they fire, jump in, split into two teams and make our way to their reactor" I answered.
"Sounds simple. Who is gonna split?" John asked me, "Linda, Fred, Alice, Douglas, and Jerome will go together while the rest of us stick together" they all nodded at the plan.
"Get ready to jump!" Kelly, also a member of Blue team, yelled.
We all jumped out of the pelican, heading toward the Covenant ship.
"Right there and there!" Jerome said while pointing at two breaches in the shield, "we will take the opening made by the MAC" John said.
We broke off from each other and got into the breaches successfully.
"Move quietly. Kurt, you take point" John said. We started moving, we soon ran into a Grunt, a small, ugly, and cowardly creature.
*BANG* *BANG*
[Grunt killed]
[25exp acquired]
I had shot the Grunt with my magnum in the head twice, "get some samples for the lab then let's go" I said.
We grabbed some blue blood and a plasma pistol from the Grunt and kept moving. We walked around and entered a bigger room. I recognised it as the room Sam got shot.
"Arms up, somethings not right," I said to everyone while holding my shotgun. The others followed suit.
Out of nowhere, a plasma shot came from the darkness, but, because we were ready we managed to dodge it.
"Fire!" I yelled while shooting the Elite that came out with an energy sword. We took it down easily enough.
[Elite assist kill]
[75exp acquired]
Before we left the room, I made sure to grab the energy sword, "find a new toy?" Jorge asked me, "I did, José," I said with a smile under my helmet, "Hey, I told you that in confidence" I just laughed at his response.
we had entered the reactor room, "John, I'll set the bomb" I said. John gave me the nuke.
*SWOOSH*
We looked over and saw the other group coming towards us, "how's everything going?" Alice asked, "peachy" Kelly responded.
*SWOOSH*
A group of jackals came into the reactor room, "take cover!" I looked at the nuke, it was set for 20 minutes.
*BOOM*
John had thrown a grenade at the jackals, killing them, "how long should it take us to leave this ship?" I asked anyone, "if we face little resistance, it should take about 10 minutes" Kelly answered.
I thought for a while, "I'll give us 8. Move" we started running back where my group came from, killing things left and right.
we got back to the hole and waited for the cannon to fire. It took about 2 minutes before it shot again, at that moment we jumped out, heading to our pelican that was close by, thankfully.
We landed in the pelican and punched it in overdrive to get away from the giant bomb that was about to go off. The Commonwealth also started retreating.
Once we got a safe distance away, "how much time?" Sam asked.
*KABOOOOOOOOOM!*
Kelly looked at him, "zero seconds"
[Title "ship shield, ship smield" gained!]
[You and allies near you do more damage to shields on Covenant ships]
I stared at the message and smiled, 'first title of many'.
We got back to the Commonwealth. After dropping the samples and weapons, the energy sword excluded, we went back to our bunks. Everyone except me fell asleep.
[Mission "Save Sam!" complete!]
[Rewards being distributed]
[5000exp added]
[5 stat points added]
[Mission "Destroy that ship!" complete!]
[Rewards being distributed]
[Shop feature added]
[Shop uses exp as currency and you will now be asked if you want to level up or if you want to keep your exp]
[10'000exp added]
[15 stat points added]
'status'
[Status]
[Name:Russell Maxis]
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[exp-16'646/10'000]
[Would you like to level up? Y/N]
'Big shoot up from level 9 and level 10 in terms of exp'
'Open shop'
[Shop]
[UNSC frigate-1'000'000exp]
'Holy crap!'
[Filter by purchasable?]
'yes'
[Hydra-1000exp]
[Binary rifle-15'000exp]
[Active camo-500exp]
[Armour lock-2500exp, hatred]
[Scattershot-7500exp]
[Inventory system-16'000exp(limited time. originally 100'000exp)
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I without hesitation picked the inventory system, spending most of my exp, 'it can't be a coincidence that it was 16'000exp. almost the same amount I have' I thought about for a while, 'well, no use thinking about it, not gonna find the answer'
[You have 30 unused stat points]
'ah, right, thanks Helix. Open stats'
[Stats]
[Strength-30]
[Agility-30]
[Dexterity-30]
[Intelligence-35]
[Wisdom-30]
[Endurance-30]
[Vitality-30]
[Perception-35]
[Charisma-25]
[Willpower-35]
[Luck-10]
[Stat points-30]
'I tried investing into [Luck]'
[Luck cannot be changed with stat points]
I was annoyed but accepted it. I invested 15 stat points into [Strength] raising it to 45, and [Intelligence] by 15, raising it to 50.
I dropped to the ground. It felt like my muscles were being ripped and repaired thousands of times while my brain felt like it was being ripped apart while being filled with mathematical equations and scientific theories, knowledge on how to build a slipspace drive, etc.
After what felt like hours, the pain subsided to a bearable level, 'if I knew it would be like that, I would've added them one at a time. Thanks for the heads up, Helix'.
[You're welcome]
'I was being sarcastic' I yelled mentally.
[I know]
I drew a blank. Is it just me or is Helix getting more and more human?
(A/N: comment, review, add to library, etc)