The air snapped and flashed, three times. Banning closed his left eye reflexively. When he opened it again, there were six pock marks all along the metallic walls. Wilder grinned, holstered, walked up, and gave the door a kick.

Vector40 sends the next part of his Hawk Chronicles. Find out more of what really happened on that fateful day.

I was hollow in my dream, a ring, yearning to be satisfied enough to live in peace. I think that is a brillant metaphor for who I am now isn’t it? Hollow, a hole in my soul that I can’t quite fill. I wonder if they did this to me when they made me a cyborg, or if I was like this to begin with.

The adventures of Virgil the despondent cyborg continue in Mad Dog – CFH‘s Beginning of the End: Avatar

ÊŠÊŠ I feel something is here waiting for me, guiding me, telling me something. But I want nothing to do with some kind of higher power, or intelligence. I never was a religious man, perhaps that was half the reason why I became a mech in the first place.

From Mad Dog – CFH comes Beginning of the End, the dark tale of an unwilling soldier.

It’s just a tagline, not part of the title (i.e. the game is still named “Halo” not “Halo: Combat Evolved”).

The Group on Elites were walking along the hillside, headed due east.There were about five of them, maybe 6. It was hard to tell from 1300 meters.

Koontzy sends in a short, action-packed story entitled “Silent Assasians”.

“Hang on, sir, I’m moving a little closer,” said another voice. Louis heard the rustle of leaves and sticks cracking on the radio. Thirty seconds later, the voice returned. “Affirmative. Repeat, affirmative contact. I think it is the clearing, sir.”

The crew of the Alcatraz investigates mysterious goings-on as Omniscient sends in another chapter of ‘Sea of Steel’.