1651: Love of a Spartan – Chapter Eighteen

Title: Love of a Spartan
Author:  AshleyBudrick
Media: Video Game
Topic: HALO
Genre:  Sci-Fi/Romance
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Critiqued by Admiral Sakai, Gul, and the Arbiter

Hello hello, all you patrons! I return with another scintillating chapter of Love of a Spartan. And, of course, by ‘scintillating’, I mean boring as all get out.

“Previously, the push to reclaim Lacerta’s capital of Zarunai ground to a halt when the Marines encountered a mass grave filled with civilians and then immediately fled as the Covenant glassed the city. Truly, this was a great day in the annals of military history.”

After that, well, a whole bunch of the usual shit went down. On the way back to the landing site for extraction Renee tripped and knocked herself unconscious… again… (seriously, this woman is awake less often than Kerian from MjoAWoF!), although this time it was Troy and not Edward-117 who got to administer first aid to her for some reason. That’s not a euphemism, by the way, iodine and gauze really is about as explicit as Love of a Spartan ever gets.

Back on board the Normandy, they pretty much spent an entire other chapter just dicking around- Renee went to the medical bay and then immediately left because X-rays are scary or something and the Chief refused any sort of professional treatment for what turned out to be two broken ribs, multiple unspecified broken bones in his feet, and a torn Achilles tendon. Amy freaked the fuck out over Renee providing first aid to the Chief in a way that really didn’t look inappropriate at all, and Troy Fisher was heartbroken to hear that his longtime friend and big-brother-figure, Lt. Redshirt, had been murdered by the Covenant thanks to the Chief’s poor tactical reasoning.

So, basically, it was just another day in the interplanetary soap opera that is the UNSC Marine Corps.

Terrible Troy Counter: 95

Mommy’s Little Marines (And Spartans) Counter: 77

Fucking Halight Counter: 38

All of that gets us to Chapter 18/Seventeen, the once again spoilerifically-titled ‘Promotions’.

“Or at least it would be a spoiler, if anyone actually cared.”

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