Before Jun jumped over the railing Spartan grinned slightly
"we don't have to worry about the deck catching on fire...." he said as he looked as a scan of the hovercraft, there was damage to the air bag of the hovercraft, to much to be repaired with the limited supplies they had
"the hovercraft is already totaled...." he stated to Jun before she went out of sight, Spartan then walked over to another marine and grabbed the marines dog tags, just after he grabbed them he heard two gun shots, he turned to the direction of them and looked over the railing to see Nao dead, he then heard Jun's excuse, Spartan looked around, he didn't see any hostile's around or sign of movement to show a retreat, and a Sniper round sounds different, that when he looked to Jun's gun, with smoke slightly rising from the barrel, Spartan closed his eye's and slowly shook his head with a slightly angered look
"next time a "trap" is sprung on us... make sure to check your aim...." he said in an angered and disappointed tone as he turned to collect more dog tags
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Eve was slightly startled by the sound of gunfire, expecting the fighting to be over with for now at least, she turned around only to here Juns voice and Spartans, she listened to it for a bit but didn't want to eavesdrop on their conversation and continued on her way, hoping to find Spartan when he wasn't busy to ask him about the prisoner
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Amber made her way outside and her eye's opened wide for a few seconds
"the hell happened here?...." she asked as she nudged a dead marine with her foot before she looked to Spartan gathering tags, she seen the look on his face, it was.... saddened, Amber looked down to the marine at her feat, with a light sign she got down on one knee and grabbed the marines tags and pulled them off the marine, she walked over to Spartan, he turned to face her when she held out the tags to him
"looks like we're walking the rest of the way aren't we?...." she asked with a slight look of boredom
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"you can fly if you want, but yeah, the hovercraft is damaged beyond repair... I'm just gathering the dog tags of out fallen marines to send them home to there families" he said as he grabbed another pair of dog tags, Amber looked around and sighed again
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"well I've got nothing better to do so.... the hell.... I'll help" she said as she began walking around and helped collecting dog tags with Spartan
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some time had past and Eve had eventually found Spartan, he walked over to a fallen Marine and pulled off her tags, Spartan then brought up his H.U.D and looked through a list of all the crew members, he had all the tags of the fallen, then Amber walked up to him and gave him the tags she had collected, Spartan then looked to Eve
"hey Eve, you alright?" he asked in a caring tone with a light smile
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"yeah, I'm fine..." she said as she looked down to a fallen marine before she looked back to Spartan
"Ivory wanted me to inform you that we've captured a prisoner, she suggested that we interrogate it to try and get any info from it that we can" Eve said as she held her left arm, Spartan looked down slightly as he thought to himself, after a few seconds he looked to Eve
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"we will interrogate the prisoner, but after we deal with our fallen marines...." he said as he picked up four bodies, he activated his jets and flew them off the hovercraft, and landed on dry land that was close to the hovercraft, he lined up the bodies and flew back to get more, Eve and Amber helped him with this, even Magnus helped out... a little, Buster, not having hand just watched them as he waited by the bodies being lined up, about an hour passed by, all the bodies of the fallen were lined up on the ground near the hovercraft, Spartan had gathered up everything that would be useful to the group and placed them in boxes and bags which were tied down to Magnus's back, the remainder of the crew had been gathered outside the hovercraft near the lined up bodies, Spartan took a step forward
"these marines gave there lives fighting for a cause... a cause that will determine the future of our planet's safety, and our very universe's safety... everyone of them fought to their last breath, and we will not let their deaths be in vain... we go forward with them in our hearts, to fight for that same cause, to finish what we all started together, may they rest in peace..." Spartan said respectfully as he stepped back from the line of dead marines, Magnus then stepped forward, he inhaled deeply and let out a gentle breath of flames, setting the bodies on fire to cremate them, Magnus them stepped back and lowered his head, a few minutes had gone by, the flames had died out, and the bodies were gone, Spartan breathed in as he looked to the prisoner that they had locked up in heavy chains, Spartan slowly walked over to the prisoner, his hands behind back and he looked to it
"now that the formalities are out they way... your going to tell us what we want to know..." Spartan said in a stern and commanding tone with a deadly glare