Game Set Match

Pawns was sitting on the edge of the camp, whistling and trying everything he could to forget what he heard last night. Rook just insisted on leaving the camp multiple times, but every time he returned, he swore Bishop's moans got louder. Queen was stuck with a massive amount of red on her face, her cheeks very hot. Suddenly, the tent flaps parted and Bishop trotted out, stumbling a bit, and smiling dazedly, her mane tussled and her face damp from sweat, her face red as fire.

"G-good morning guys." She stuttered as the unicorn lay down, trying to regain her composure. Rook nodded, and looked in the tent. Knight was laying on his back, legs sprawled out and his wings twitching.

"Well, when you were busy getting it on with Knight, we found something out." Pawns said triumphantly, for he had discovered this all on his own." I snuck out last night and got some info on where the Covenant went." Everyone leaned forward slightly, and even knight seemed to stir in his sleep." The covies are all dead." Queen tilted her head, and Rook just shook his.

"Impossible, there is no other ODST squad to do that." Pawns stamped his hoof down.

"That's the point. It wasn't UNSC personnel who did that. I saw a bunch of dead bodies, but the wounds.... They weren't inflicted by bullets or blades. They were organic, showed signs of infection. They were killed and infected by a parasite."

"You mean like zombies?" Rook asked quizzically. Pawns nodded.

"Yeah, and we gotta get the buck out of this city. Gimme a sec I'll call King for EVAC." A pinging noise was heard as Pawns used his helmets com link to contact the squads Overlord. The three others just sat around." Ok good news and bad news. We got a pelican dropship inbound. Bad news, it picked up so much civilians it can hold all of us. Except one." The camp suddenly went dead quiet. Even Knight's snoring stopped.

"We'll cross that bridge when it comes. Until then, we wait." Queen stated, and pulled up her spartan laser, her helmet having detected something." Chess squad enemy inbound!" The troops got into a defensive position, and waited. To their surprise and fear, a pair of hunters stomped around the corner. They had massive bulky shields and armour, and a high powered fuel rod gun mounted on their shoulder. The first hunter gave a grunt of surprise, and pointed at the ODST's." Someone wake Knight up! We gotta hold this position!" Rook yelled and opened fire. The billets harmlessly bounced off the hunter's shields, and the trudged forward slowly. Bishop's sniper jolted, and the high powered rounds barley scratched the armour.

"These things shrug off bullets like nothing!" Queen yelled, and tossed a frag at the two enemies. They just pulled up their shields, the explosion bouncing harmlessly off them. Pawns ran off and woke knight up, handing him his shotgun." No time to explain just fight!" He yelled, and ran back out. The hunters had now flanked the camp, firing their file rods and causing massive craters to form around the stranded ODST's." Pawns the hay is that EVAC?!?!" Queen shouted and fired her laser at a hunter, the scorching heat of the laser inflicting minimal damage on it. As it reared up to shoot her, the sound of shells hitting the ground was heard as the hunter was torn to bloody ribbons. A pelican dropship had came around, and used its minigun to destroy one of them.

"This is Dragon 1-1, we have room for four of you, get one." Rook hopped on first, along with knight and Bishop. Queen stated behind, along with Pawns." Pawns get on that dropship!" She yelled and tried to fire her laser, but it didn't work."it's jammed? Dragon 1-1 fire support!" The pelican just levitated instead.

"Bingo ammo, get on or get left behind." The pilot said. The second hunter suddenly went ballistic, seeing its brother killed. It beat Queen to the floor, and raised its massive shield. Chess Squad watched, frozen in fear. Queen closed her eyes, but instead of feeling it crush her, she felt something warm drip on her. She looked up, and saw pawns had taken the hit, the jagged shield having torn his chest and back, blood dripping off him.

"Oh my god..... P-pawns?" Queen stuttered weakly, as Pawns grinned, and pushed the hunter off, and picked Queen up, tossing her onto the ship, using his last bit of energy to do so.

"Guys hold her down ok?" He mumbled, as Knight and Rook held the screaming mare back. The hunter growled again, and kicked pawns down, planting a massive hoof on his head. Through tears, Queen thought she saw Pawns mouth the words I love you.

"PAWNS NO! DONT DIE PAWNS! I LOVE YOU!" She sobbed and yelled, struggling against her teammates. Pawns smiled, and saluted her, as the hunter brought down its hoof.

The dropship flew off, leaving the hunter victoriously roaring and hoisting up Pawns broken body. Queen lay in the dropship, curled up and sobbing.

"W-why not me? Why him...." She cried and lamented loudly, Chess Squad watching sadly, Knight crying a bit.

"He sacrificed his life for you Queen. He must've loved you a lot." Rook said, and patted her back. Queen looked up with tear stained eyes and blinked.

"W-w-why d-didn't he tell me earlier? I always did kinda like him...." She moaned and went back to her quiet crying. Suddenly an alarm went off, and all the ponies heads went up, looking at the red light.

"D-dragon 1-1 is losing altitude, reason unknown, brace for impact!" The civilians crouched down, and Chess Squad put on their armour, and opened the door of the dropship.

"EVERYONE JUMP NOW! YOU HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF SURVIVING  THE FALL!" Knight yelled, and hurried the people out, some more reluctant then others. As the last one got out, Knight grabbed his shotgun, and flicked his head.

"Hey, are we going or wh-" his words where cut off as the pelican spun wildly by a broken building, a rebar that was jutting out had impaled Knight and sucked him out of the dropship. Bishop just stared blankly, and stumbled forward, as the ship slammed into the ground...