The Flood: Exodus ( Part 1 )

If one were to look up at the sky from Destiny, Offtopic, or any other district on the blue planet, Bungie, they would see a long line of shuttles waiting to get to their destination. It wasn't that there was more traffic or construction, rather because no one knew where to go. Bungie Studios had yet again move everything to a new area on the planet with major changes than the last and even more confusion. While anyone could still travel to the old areas and get a dose of nostalgia, it was a restricted zone which makes sightseeing the only thing to do there.

A part of me miss the simplicity in the old times and would even sacrifice some of the improvements to travel back to the past. However the other part had gotten use to Bungie's new look and too lazy to switch back. The shuttle radio crackled to life as I entered the city limits.

"Welcome to Destiny fellow Guardian! The Beta will be offline on the 26th and 27th of this month. You'll have one day to enjoy the Beta."

Apparently Destiny will now be the first district people will see when landing on Bungie, I was not surprised. I opened up the Nav. and set a course for Offtopic, the shuttle accelerated and rose above the silver skyscrapers towards the inter-district lanes. The city began to change from silver to a spectacle of different colored lights and shapes as the sun set down on the horizon. Due to the planet's angled orbit, the sun always moved towards the South pole when setting, and to the North pole when rising. That wasn't the only interesting thing about Bungie, whenever the city is in the dark it is divided into eight different colors according to each district. Destiny has a silver hue, Community a blue-ish hue, and Offtopic usually have multicolored hues from different lighting just to name a few.

The shuttle was nearly approaching the Offtopic district and I could see Gaming's well kept district border a partly maintained district that was Offtopic. Many who associate with Bungie Studios tend to avoid the place as it was deemed the "ghetto of Bungie". Some areas in Offtopic were completely dark while others showed signs of cheap infrastructure. I could see a gathering in the district center, probably rants about the new city, as the shuttle landed on the nearest landing zone. I may have been a few blocks from the center but I didn't need to even step out of the shuttle to see action.

A poor, defenseless Desticle had wandered into the district out of curiosity and was being surrounded by several users. Desticles normally don't get hurt bad because even the most obnoxious Floodian, inhabitants of Offtopic, knows what DeeJ would do. I lowered my head and walked towards the city center and ignored every offer for a Beta code, knowing it was a trap. A person with wits and a single scrap of intelligence could survive here, sadly some leave the two very crucial things at another district. Though some have survive using wits and no intelligence.

The district center was packed with Floodians, both new and old, mainly discussing the new city. The noise level made any conversation difficult but I could hear a few comments here and there.

"The damn phones don't work, I can't get alerts or PMs."
"Yet another unnecessary update, why DeeJ?"
"Booty"

I was about to leave the district but something caught my eye. A crowd of old Floodians had gathered around with several of them running back to the shuttles. Curious, I moved through the crowd to find a single user giving out an address to a new planet. There wasn't anything said about the link and a few users were skeptical but I saw hope. I had long lost interest in this planet due almost deserted districts and little to do, but with an entire planet with only old Floodians could be my new home.

By now this has caught the attention of the district and many new Floodians were flaming the ones leaving but I didn't care. I was already in my shuttle by the time Offtopic went into a riot, and already leaving the district by the time Seventh Column, Bungie Police, marched to quell the riots. It is not every night that 200 shuttles fill the sky, much less 200 Floodian shuttles. Seventh Column armored shuttles flew along the fleet of shuttles in fear that a raid was in progress and was prepared to shoot us down had they not learn we were actually leaving. The escorts had stop and turned back towards the planet as we left the atmosphere and began docking with our ships.

There were various types of shuttles, some of them even custom built from scrap but there was only a few types of ships used. The most popular was Geonic Chrome and Fire Nebula with Galactic Explorer being the least favored but all served their purpose of traveling between planets. I put in a docking course for my Mobac Air shuttle and waited as my ship, a Geonic Chrome, loomed closer and closer.

The airlocks hissed as the shuttle finished docking procedures and sense of weightlessness as the shuttle powered off. The ship's artificial gravity kicked in as the engine powered on and I set a course for the new planet. Space suddenly became filled with white stripes as stars were warped and a horizontal black line began expanding until everything outside was black, then part of a planet appeared into view. It was best to exit out of FTL into empty space rather than heading directly towards a planet.  Sometimes the computer won't send you in same direction as the planet and you get in the way of a planet moving 60,000 kph.

This planet was very small with a greenish surface with large lakes dotted across the single continent. It may have once been a satellite of another planet long ago, or maybe the Flood ruin things quicker than I thought. The shuttle took me to a small town with standard interplanetary housing and vehicles, the first sign this planet is owned by a colonial organization, and landed near a registration office. There was no actual shuttle pads for landing zones, rather just a flat land of dirt surrounded by the planet's jungle and the arrivals weren't the only ones excited. Small lizard like creatures ran up to my shuttle by the dozens sniffing for food.

The registration office was just a steel, rectangular mobile office with a white interior. The staff wore a blue uniform with the company abbreviation, I.S.C.C. which stood for Inter-Stellar Colonial Corporation. They simply asked for ID and gave a form to be filled like most registrations upon first arrival of a planet. While waiting for papers to process, I was forced to take a Bio-Scan and answer simple questions to prove I was not a bot. Some planets vary in security but most have a Bi-Scanner to prevent bots from causing trouble on the surface. After all, why do criminal things yourself when you can just send a machine to do it for you?

A staff handed me a pass that allowed me to travel freely on the planet's surface, or wherever newcomers are allowed. Passes are different from planet to planet and this one just had a simple black background with a mugshot and basic info about me.

Now it was time to find out if this entire ordeal was worth it.

All those hues

Very well written though

I didn't expect this to be submitted and was gonna polish it up alittle before trying again. Oh well

I didn't expect this to be submitted and was gonna polish it up alittle before trying again. Oh well

I'll delete it for you if you'd like.

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I didn't expect this to be submitted and was gonna polish it up alittle before trying again. Oh well

I'll delete it for you if you'd like.

No need. I'll just edit it in since the stuff I wanted to change is at very end.

I didn't expect this to be submitted and was gonna polish it up alittle before trying again. Oh well

I'll delete it for you if you'd like.

No need. I'll just edit it in since the stuff I wanted to change is at very end.

K.

10/10.
Funny thing is when I was reading this Bittersweet Symphony started playing on my playlist randomly.

tldr

10/10

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Don't you mean.

"Can't read... Lol"

tldr

Don't you mean.

"Can't read... Lol"

lol

That was really good.

Spoiler

tldr

Then you missed an epic story.

tldr

Then you missed an epic story.

now i want to read it

10/10 10/10 best story best story!

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I read the entire thing and liked it. It's fairly original.

Awesome writing skills bro!