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After two previous installments and one sick week, I finally bring the conclusion to my fantasy Master Chief vs Gordon Freeman debacle. Hit the jump and read on!

"Chief!" Cortana screamed in his ear. The man with the crowbar came down with another swing. Master Chief caught the crowbar in his hand and pushed upwards, sending the man and his weapon stumbling backwards. Chief got to his feet.

"I don't know who you are," Master Chief said, dazed, "but I'm not here to fight - " In his disoriented state, Chief wasn't ready for the attacker to come back so quickly. This time, his crowbar was in his off hand and he planted a punch right in the center of Master Chief's helmet, shattering it even more. The man stepped back, clutching his hand.

"That took guts, I'll give you that." Chief said. The man swung his crowbar at eye level but the Chief was ready this time. He stepped back, causing the crowbar to miss by a good distance with a loud "woosh" noise. Master Chief backed away and put his hands up.

"Listen, why don't you just tell me your name?" Master Chief asked. The man seemed to consider this, but instead opted to lunge again. The Chief planted a fist of his own in the middle of the man's chest, sending him barreling backwards. He rose to his knees slowly, breathing heavily.

"You don't speak much, do you?" said the Chief. The man reached into his belt and pulled out a grenade.

"Whoa."

The man pulled the pin and tossed it directly at Master Chief. He sidestepped and it went sailing by. He darted forward and dove as it exploded behind him, sending a shockwave through the hallway. Shaking it off, Master Chief rose to his feet just in time to be speared head on and smashed against a wall. The man brought his crowbar up like he was doing curls and smashed the Chief in the chin, causing him to feel the closest thing to pain that he could. He head butted the man, his helmet causing the man's forehead to crack open. The man stumbled backwards, his crowbar clanging on the ground. Master Chief walked forward, brought the man up to his knees and wrapped one hand around his throat.

"I'm not going to kill you," Master Chief said as the man clawed at the hand around his neck, "but this ends now."

"That's correct, John."

Master Chief looked up. Standing in front of him was a tall, thin man in a suit. He was carrying a briefcase in one hand and his skin was pale, almost like a ghost. And then he was gone, as was the man the Chief just had in his grip. Vanished in the blink of an eye.

"Chief?!" Cortana shouted. Master Chief looked around, trying to grasp what just happened.

"Chief, answer me!" Cortana said again.

"Cortana, what the hell just happened?"

"You tell me, you've been standing there silent for almost 5 minutes."

"What?" Master Chief couldn't believe what he had heard. "There was a man here - "

"I don't know what happened to him, but he's long gone and you need to be also. They've planted a nuclear device inside the facility."

"What?!" This just got better and better.

"We can talk about this later. We've got a Pelican waiting to pick you up. Go, now!

Master Chief broke into a sprint towards the doorway that he had come in. He hurdled over bodies and debris and exploded out into the open air. He could see the Pelican hovering in the distance. Helicopters were escaping overhead. He saw some mercenaries running to his right, but he ignored them and kept on going. He reached the Pelican. He turned around for one last look at the facility - and froze. There, standing behind a chain link fence and staring straight at him was the man who called him John.

"Damn it, Chief! Now!

Cortana's voice brought him out of his daze and he lifted himself into the Pelican. He sat back against the wall. They took off.

"What exactly happened in there?" Cortana asked.

"Cortana," the Chief replied, "I have no idea."

A blinding white light erupted as the Facility exploded in the distance, but John stared forward, not even turning to look.

Fin

Thanks to Jeff Morin at Inner Nut for the artwork!

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