Halo: Chimera - 00

--The Covenant
--Unknown Facility
--0001:28 hours, June 17/2530 [UNSC Military Calendar]

    There was silence in the morgue. Darkness in the eeriness of death, but no pungent sent was released. The ghost tubes kept them preserved for investigation and autopsy, which kept the air clean. Every eye was closed, every skin tone white... but one remained warmer than the rest. The body belonged to a human woman with wild heaven white hair, who had been in ghost tube #245 for approximately ten years.
    One of the neurons in her brain began to acquire its transmissions.  Then more neurotic clusters began to function and soon, a signal from her brain fired an electrical impulse. Her heart, at first, beat ever so weakly and slowly, but soon its pace then began to quicken.
    In the tube, her toes and fingers twitched; creating a disturbance in the icy mists of the tube. A roseate hue flooded back into the skin of her naked as if death itself had fled the awakening corpse. As the last trace of white vanished, her body convulsed once and her chest began to heave. The breathing motion in her lungs soon became under control, and gas exchange soon occurred. Feeling began to return to her skin; the cold air bringing her back from her deathly slumber. Her eyes began to dart and roll beneath her closed eyelids, until finally... they snapped open.

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    Shababa checked the computer console three times, and the light of tube #245 continued to flash green. The grunt huffed in slight annoyance and plopped himself off the chair, equipping his plasma rifle in case there was an intruder.
    The metal doors slid open and Shababa stepped out of the morgue's control room. He sniffed the air a couple of times... no sent. He continued to patrol the area. Shababa had patrolled the area for approximately 28 minutes until he was finally satisfied that there was nobody there. He turned to leave...
    There was a loud shattering of glass and a rush of frozen air from a leaking tube blew against the grunts skin. Shababa spun around and quickly waddled to the sound. He spun around the corner and gasped.
    Ghost tube #245 was destroyed from the inside... and was empty.
    Shababa heard a tinkle of broken glass and spun around once more, only to have icy cold hands clutch his throat with a steel grip. Shababa gurgled and coughed as he was lifted into the air and was face to face with a nightmarish monster.
    It was a human woman, in her thirties by the looks of it. Her body was slim, yet, bulged with muscles; her fair skin scarred and freezer burned. Her hands and feet were strong and contained long sharp nails that reminded Shababa of claws from a wild beast. Dark red blood pooled beneath her feet due to standing on the broken glass. But what frightened Shababa the most was her eyes... her cold, unseeing eyes.
    Shababa struggled to aim his plasma rifle at the monsters stomach, and he fired a few rounds into her gut. Blood and bone fragments sprayed onto the ghost tube behind the girl, but to Shababa's amazement, she didn't even acknowledge that she had been fatally wounded.
    The woman scrunched her nose in disgust and threw Shababa with such force, many of his bones shattered when he hit the wall, leaving a large dent.
   The woman turned to a camera that was staring right at her and clenched her sharp teeth.
    The guards watching the scene through the screen activated the emergency alarms and the entire transportation ship was engulfed in the blare of loud sirens.   
    Elite squadrons flooded the room and halted at the eerie scene before them.
    The woman slowly turned her head towards them, her hair falling in front of her face and casting a dark shadow over her eyes. She licked her dry lips and in a raspy, unused voice, she said: "Join my army of the dead..."