Trouble in the Library (Halloween short story contest)

[Frankenzer]

Not even a minute has passed, Staff Sergeant Marvin Mobuto felt chills in his spine. Where was he? Why did a floating piece of **** call him reclaimer and just suddenly teleported him to this place? What were those sounds? This place is as creepy as shi- "Hello! I am 343 Guilty Spark. Apologies for the sudden teleportation, but immediate action is required. The flood has been released! We must retrieve the index! We must hurry! The flood must be stopped! Follow me."

 

The floating thing suddenly came out of the blue. Something inside him tells him not to trust the blue floating thing, but he has little choice but to trust it. "What is the flood?", he asked himself. Why does the alien floating thing or spark as he will call it from now on speak English? Marvin found himself asking a lot of questions while Spark kept babbling non-sense. Suddenly, he heard movement then weird noises came next. "Hurry reclaimer! The flood is close! Follow me!", Spark said. 

 

Marvin was terrified; his reflexes made him run very fast. Faster than he ever has before. He has no idea what the flood is, and something tells him he does not wanna find out. He just wants to get away from here and find the index so he can stop the flood.

 

The place was huge and awfully a bit dark. He swears that he saw a mangled human in the corner. What the hell has this Spark gotten him into? He no longer payed attention to his surroundings. He focused only at following Spark. He can hear a lot of things: weapon fire, which he recognizes some as human weapons and some as covenant weapons, unknown prolonged laser sounding blasts, alien doors shutting behind him as he passes and Spark still babbling things he didn't understand.

 

He saw floating weird things that seem to fire at something behind him. Just keep running... he told himself. "Reclaimer! Quick! I can teleport you directly to the index at this point, but I detect that the flood has broken a lot of equipment so we can only make one last teleportation!" 

 

Rings surrounded Marvin as he felt the same feeling he got when Spark came out of no where and teleported him. He was suddenly in a very large room. He assumed that the index was the thing in the middle of the room glowing blue.

 

Weird small things suddenly came out of everywhere then suddenly bigger weird things came out. He knew they were hostile and he readied his Assault Rifle. He suddenly realized that some of the big weird things were humans. Their faces seems like they are in agony. Their heads were inverted and their body was twisted beyond recognition. He however recognized one of them as Private Ryan. "Ryan....? What happened?", he asked. It responded by hitting him so hard in the stomach by a tentacle that he flew. 

 

"Reclaimer! Quick the index! We mus-", Spark was interrupted as more weird things that looked like mangled Elites came out. He realized they were Elites. it was also twisted beyond recognition. Marvin was cornered. The weird things and their mangled friends attacked.

 

He drew his rifle and began to shoot at the mangled Elites but cannot bring himself to shoot the mangled humans. Weird floating things came out. There were lots of them and he knew they were on his side, because they were firing at the weird things. what if these weird things are the flood? He thought to himself. 

 

The moment he ran out of bullets, he sprinted for the index. Alas, he was shot in the chest by a sniper rifle out of no where. Things went blurry....the last thing he saw was Spark firing lasers. As his body fell, multiple flood forms latched and attacked him. His body became so disfigured that the flood wasn't able to use his body. "Reclaimer! Reclaimer! Oh dear......"