For Fun Battle Royale (Huka and I)

[Spartan 999]

(Arena appearance)

The sun was finally setting on the distant horizon, though the landscape was still smoking from the powerful star's energy. The streams of molten rock began to cool as a bright green moon gradually moved overhead.

The ambiance was shattered by what seemed to be a meteor. It streaked across the sky, orange flamed engulfing the object. It finally smashed through a needle outcropping and into a small gully, where it skidded to a halt. When the smoke cleared, a black-armored humanoid was standing tall in the center of the crater. He stepped out, his MJOLNIR Mark-IX's energy shielding flickering slightly as they regenerated from the impact.

[Huka]

Streaking through the landscape, a massive orbital drop pod slammed into the cracked landscape after leaving the belly of a supercarrier hovering in the planet's atmosphere.

Popping in half, a figure stepped out of his modified pod, putting a taloned boot on the ground. A purple cloak hanging off large broad shoulders and a crested mask looking around at its surroundings.

In the hierarchy of the Covenant military, this powerful being was a Field Marshal. Confirmed by his decorated helmet, the Field Marshal looked around, a red eye peering through the mask's shadowy visor.

Growling in his throat, the easily 10' foot warrior walked to scour for his target.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan activated his improved active camouflage, then willed the small orbs circling his forearms to morph into a pulse rifle. Satisfied for the moment, he moved out, booted legs barely making any sound on the rocky terrain.

Within a few minutes he had found his opponent's orbital drop pod. He looked around, but couldn't find Huka anywhere. So, it was basically a game of cat and mouse where both could be the cat or mouse.

Spartan slid into a niche near the pod, then pulled a flare out of his micro-fabricator. He set it on a small rock, then moved away. When he was about 100 meters away and perched atop a rocky spire, he activated it.

The bottle rocket-like flare screamed into the sky, then detonated. Bright multicolored sparks lit up the clouds, the smoke trail leading to the point of origin easy to trace.

Spartan settled down and waited for his opponent, who would invariably come to investigate...

[Huka]

Walking casually through the terrain, Huka remained cautious, using his helmet's advanced sensors and his own senses to keep track of the enemy.

This Demon he have heard so much about, he have hunted it for a cycle, and finally, destroyed its ship, and forced it here. There was no escape.

Just then he saw a flare streaking up into the sky and exploded.

There it is.

Clicking his upper mandibles, he grabbed a sphere from his belt, and kept it in hand as he walks toward the obvious trap.

[Spartan 999]

Finally! Spartan spied his foe stalking through the crags with ease some distance away. He thought for a moment, then pulled a small drone with attached anti-matter mine out of the fabricator. Camouflage shrouded it while antigravity generators allowed it to fly quickly.

The drone was directed to behind Huka with barely a whisper. Then, Spartan activated the mine.

[Huka]

Huka made a gesture of pain as the mine exploded and he seemed to vanish in a flicker, allowing pieces of a holo-drone to bounce on the ground.

Elsewhere, the real Huka watched under his advanced camouflage, and scanned the area for the telltale signs of a active camouflage, well versed in assassins. Then he caught something.

[Spartan 999]

That something Huka spotted was in fact a camouflaged rocket hurtling towards his position. Just after it detonated, Spartan vaulted over a nearby jutting formation, pulse chainguns roaring as they poured round after round at Huka.

[Huka]

Swatting the rocket aside with his arm-mounted energy shield, Huka sighted the Demon at last as a barrage of bullets shot at him.

Taking a few hits to his shields as his helmet's interface locked on and recognized Spartan's signatures, Huka snarled as his alarms rang that his shields were close to depleted.

With his heightened agility, he moved down his perch, barely evading the shots, and dived off, vanishing behind a gust of hot steam.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan rolled to a halt, weapons returned to their orb state. He started to walk slowly to where Huka had gone, eye narrowed as he looked around. He knew Huka wouldn't stay in one place.

With a barely audible hum, his orbs morphed into the Blades of Exile. He started to swing them in small circles as he approached the slowly fading pillar of steam.

[Huka]

Reappearing a meter off from his escape site, Huka pulled his cape back to aim his personally-modified assault cannon and fired a powerful stream of fuel rod energy.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan spun around and brought the flat of the Blades up to block the stream of radioactive gel. When it ended, he lashed out at Huka with one of the Blades of Exile with a horizontal side slash while using the other to whip out from above in an attempt to impale Huka.

[Huka]

Snarling, the Field Marshal retracted his cannon back to its inactive mode, and with his wrist, flared one of the golden Swords of the Forerunner to deflect the first blade and use it to block the impaling blade.

Seeing the moment of chance, Huka lunged to strike.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan vaulted at Huka, but suddenly there were nine of him, all whirling Blades of Exile. The sounds of footsteps and collateral damage from the weapons' slashes on the terrain indicated each was more than capable of killing Huka in an instant.

In concert, they attacked from all sides.

[Huka]

Barely missing Spartan in his slash, Huka turned to see nine of him, twirling their blades at once before swinging at once in every direction.

Unable to escape, Huka opened his arms, activating his armor's Forerunner shields, bringing a moment of invincibility in the appearance of a shroud of golden energy, enough to block all of the blades.

The moment they left him be, Huka pounced with both his Forerunner blade and arm cannon active.

[Spartan 999]

When Huka slashed through the first Spartan's throat, the hardlight hologram subsequently disintegrated in a flare of white. Another hologram fell from the arm canon's stream, quickly followed by a third when Huka impaled it. The remaining six moved farther away, using their Blades' attached chains to lengthen their reach. Again in concert, they attacked in a flurry of slashes.

[Huka]

Striking down three of the holograms, Huka turned to the remaining six, and defending himself with flawless skill. Spinning, Flipping, and Twirling, the Swordmaster used his blade to swat enough of the blades aside to find a opening to all of them.

Smirking, he aimed his cannon, and fired a overcharged blast at the group.

[Spartan 999]

All but two were destroyed, but they kept on attacking from opposite sides. Up on a bluff some distance away, the real Spartan was aiming at Huka through the scope of a superpowered pulse sniper grasped in his hands. When he saw Huka take down 4 of the holograms, he squeezed the trigger and held it. He grunted as round after round poured at Huka, the recoil actually draining Spartan's shields.

[Huka]

Snarling, Huka rolled as a blade struck where he was, and shot at that Spartan with a short burst. Suddenly he saw incoming pulse projectiles.

A few struck him hard, taking most of his shields out. Realizing that the sniper was real one, he turned to the other Spartan, who was lashed at him with both blades.

Sliding to the side, Huka fired again at that Spartan, and with a pump of his arm, activated his cannon's heavy mode.

The barrel of his cannon spun rapidly before he aimed it with both hands. His helmet calculating and finally found the clever Demon, Huka fired a massive blast at the bluff.

[Spartan 999]

The bluff detonated in a bright green explosion. Dust billowed out and fragments of rock fell from the sky. Silence reigned for several seconds. Then... Spartan landed not three meters in front of Huka, the rock beneath his feet cracking. He slowly rose from his kneeling position, then started dancing the can-can with accompanying music from his helmet's external speakers.

[Huka]

Huka looked at the human with a expression of disdain and disbelief.

Does these things get more defective by the encounter?

Retracting his cannon back as it cooled, the Field Marshal unclipped his torn cape, and pulled the heavy material off his shoulders, hearing the thud over the human's distasteful music.

Flicking his wrists once more, he summoned both of his Forerunner blades, and kept a curious eye on the Demon.

[Spartan 999]

As the music ended, Spartan finished with an insane laugh before yelling a single word at Huka: "Psyche!"

The three antimatter mines placed behind and beside Huka while he was distracted detonated, which was followed by a volley of pulse missiles fired from an improved missile pod held by the real Spartan about twenty meters behind Huka.

[Huka]

There was a howl of pain and surprise over the explosions and a billow of smoke and dirt rose and fell.

Silence for a good moment.

Suddenly a lance of golden energy shot out of the smoke.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan formed a shield which blocked the lance just in time, but he still slid back a few feet from the force. He grinned as he stepped forward, orbs shifting into two black katanas.

((Cue epic music: )

[Huka]

The smoke cleared out immediately from the flap of golden holographic wings and Huka stepped out of the crate, his body clad in golden armor that could be best described as a elegant mix of Mgalekgolo armor and Arbiter armor.

"No more games, Demon." A powerful voice echoed before he dashed forward with his Forerunner Swords flared.

He swung both swords in a X-shaped fashion.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan used his left blade to parry the dual strikes while strafing to the side, right katana slashing horizontally at knee level. He then swiftly whipped around, left and right swords lashing out at Huka's chest rapidly.

[Huka]

The moment his swords were parried, Huka strafting himself to avoid the inevitable counterattack.

Spotting his foe, Huka's wings spread and spun fast towards the Spartan into a living buzzsaw, the wings slicing the ground like hot sun, providing to be as fatal as his blades.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan rolled back, leaving a primed, camouflaged flashbang in Huka's path. Just before the wings cut into it, the flashbang detonated. The its wake Spartan charged, feinting left before stabbing right and cutting at the face with either blade.

[Huka]

The flash could do nothing to stop Huka's onslaught, bringing himself upright and using one wing to block the supposed left attack before finding it to be a feint, brought his left blade to protect his face, and thrusted his right towards Spartan's stomach.

[Spartan 999]

Spartan hopped over Huka's strike, katanas stabbing down at the Sangheili's head almost as fast as a pulse rifle on full auto. When Spartan landed, he backpedaled quickly while moving his swords in complex movements to deflect any attacks.

[Huka]

Huka bent his wings into a makeshift shield to protect himself against the katanas and landed away from Spartan after trying to cut him down before the complex defense was good enough to survive the attack.

Opening his wings wide, the Field Marshall's helmet crest burned bright before unleashing a beam of sun-hot energy at Spartan again.