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Hunters vengenge: part 2
Posted By: FloodBane<floodbane@hotmail.com>
Date: 7 October 2007, 5:33 am
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Jasa lumbered with surprising speed towards the temple doors.
"Stop!" growled Htas over the comm. "Get back here!"
Jasa reluctantly stopped; he spun around to see if there was a good reason for Htas stopping him.
Htas was surrounded by five Brute minors who were unarmed but closing in fast. Jasa charged his fuel rod cannon and sent a green beam of destruction towards the Brutes. Two of the hairy aliens were vaporized immediately; the remaining three whirled around and charged towards Jasa.
Jasa reached out with one arm and wrapped his claws around the closet Brutes throat, a loud snap was heard; and then the Brute went limp. A plasma grenade came soaring towards Jasa' position, Jasa rolled to his right and the grenade detonated harmlessly.
The still remaining Brutes tried to overwhelm Jasa, pounding their fists upon his dark blue amour.
"Nice try." Jasa muttered, he swung his razor sharp back spines which cut the Brutes in two.
Once the Brutes were down he started towards the temple again. Htas and Lana stepped in front of Jasa, blocking his path.
"Out of the way Elites, I must avenge my brother." growled Jasa.
"We don't know what's in there," said Lana "And you want to just barge in and expect to win?"
Jasa merely emitted a long frustrated growl. He knew that Lana was right; he had wanted to avenge his bond brother so badly that he had almost run into enemy territory with no Intel.
"Then what do you suggest we do?" asked Jasa giving in.
"We go in," Lana replied, then chuckled "but we do it assassin style."
Three camouflaged figures crept through the front doors of the temple. The Brute guards were quickly disposed of; the bodies were shoved inside a weapons crate.
"Camo's about to wear off." whispered Jasa over the comm. with a little relief in his voice; he didn't like all this sneaking around.
"Okay, take cover." ordered Htas.
They hid behind a large ornate gravity pedestal. The active camo wore off and the three soldier's forms became visible.
"Where are the guards?" came a deep official voice from atop the pedestal. It was a Prophet.
"I do not know High Prophet of Power, but I shall find out." answered the screechy tone of Jackal.
Five Jackals leaped off of the gravity pedestal, they landed a meter in front of Jasa, Lana and Htas but didn't see them.
"Even so I'm calling for pickup, the Holy artifact cannot be kept her much longer." stated the Prophet.
The sound of the gravity lift activating filled the chamber as the Prophet rose up into a higher room. The Jackals began to walk forward in search of the Brute guards. Htas nodded to Jasa.
Jasa lifted his shield so he could crush the Jackal search party. One of the Jackals saw the hulky Hunters shadow and screeched; the other Jackals immediately turned around and fired clumsy shots.
Htas and Lana answered back with a salvo of plasma rifle fire; two of the five Jackals fell. The rest screamed and spun around to run away, they were instantly vaporized by a shot from Jasa.
"So now there's a Prophet here?" queried Htas "what's next, a Drinol?"
"We need to get up there and take him out before he can escape." suggested Jasa.
"Are you talking about the Prophet or Gazton?" asked Htas with a hint of suspicion in his tone.
"Either suits me." Jasa answered coldly.
Fleet Admiral Alicia looked out through the view port of her UNSC Flagship Thors' Hammer. Seven battle clusters of Super Orbital MAC guns orbited the planet below. Alicia had just received word that a small strike team had been sent to a likely enemy base down on the planet surface and was told to expect Covenant reinforcements to arrive to aid the planet side troops.
"Ma'am" said Admiral Jesse Hannam "a Covenant message has been intercepted from the planets surface, it asks for a Prophet to be picked up and for some 'Holy artifact' to be moved to a more secure location."
"Well then I suggest we get ready for a space battle," replied Alicia "Admiral, I want this ship ready to fight five minutes ago!"
"Yes ma'am!" Jesse saluted then ran to his station.
Jasa, Htas and Lana ascended into the higher chambers of the temple using the gravity pedestal. Some Brute guards awaited them but were easily gotten rid of. They made their way through cramped hallways and large chambers, encountering large resistance including twelve Brute Captains on shielded plasma turrets.
They approached a large metal door at the end of a long corridor. It automatically opened as they strode towards it.
Bright light shone through, but it wasn't natural light. The light was emitted from eight giant lamps suspended from the ceiling. In the center of the room sitting on his Imperial Throne was the High Prophet of Power.
"Intruder?" yelled the surprised Prophet "guards! Kill them immediately, I shall go to the platform and await pickup."
Twenty Brutes in Honor Guard uniforms immediately fired their weapons at the two Elites and their Hunter friend.
"Fire at will!" ordered Lana.
Htas and Jasa happily obliged.
Plasma fire echoed throughout the chamber, scorching the ground with hundreds of marks. Jasa fired another salvo of cannon fire straight at a Brutes head, the hairy alien fell headless to the ground.
Htas and Lana ducked and dodged incoming fire, and in return sent grenade after grenade into enemy lines. One particular grenade landed on the muzzle of a brute shot, the Brute roared with rage but was quickly silenced. The nineteenth Brute was killed by a crushing blow from Jasa' shield. The last Honor guard dropped its rifle, roared with rage and charged towards Htas in blind rage.
"Bring it on!" growled Htas.
At the last moment Htas rolled to his left. The charging Brute didn't stop and connected with the chamber wall, it crushed its own skull on the thick wall.
"Well well well, what have we here?" asked a deep, booming voice from the end of the chamber.
Jasa looked up and was instantly filled with rage. It was Gazton.
Htas looked up from the kamikaze Brute to see who had spoken. It was a Brute in shining gold armor and wielded a large gravity hammer.
"You look familiar," the Brute pointed to Jasa, and then laughed.
"What's so funny?" asked Jasa with malice in his voice.
"I remember you," The Brute answered "you're that Hunter that was on Harvest, the one that tried to avenge your pathetic bond brother."
Jasa flexed his back spines in obvious anger.
"I wouldn't say that if I were you." warned Htas "This Hunter has been waiting a long time to exact his revenge, don't push him.'
"Stay out of this Htas," roared Jasa "this is for you brother!!!"
Jasa lunged towards Gazton, the floor shook with each step. Gazton merely laughed and sidestepped out of the way, Jasa gave a roar of rage and began another charge.
"If your going to try and kill me," taunted Gazton "at least use more skill than your pathetic bond brother did!"
Htas thought that if Jasa' wasn't so angry he could easily take Gazton down, but he was to full of rage. Jasa jumped through the air and landed directly in front of Gazton, Gazton looked genuinely surprised because Hunters have never been known to take giant leaps through the air.
Jasa landed with a loud thump, the ground shook from Jasa' tremendous weight. He swung his shield but Gazton caught it with his mighty hand and threw Jasa across the chamber into a wall. The wall cracked.
Htas brought his rifle to bear.
"No!" screamed Jasa "he's mine!"
Htas reluctantly lowered his rifle and continued to watch the fight.
Gazton gave a roar and began to charge towards Jasa' prone form.
Jasa lifted his shield to defend himself; Gazton connected with the heavy alloy and was momentarily stunned.
Jasa saw his opening and opened fire on the stunned Brute Chieftain. The plasma beam ate straight through Gazton's armor and burned his lower torso off.
"Aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrgh!" he roared.
Jasa walked over to the dying alien and placed his boot upon the Brutes head.
"Victory is mine." Jasa whispered. He lifted his boot a centimeter up then brought it crashing down upon Gazton's head; the helmet held for a few seconds then turned to dust, as well as Gazton's skull.
Power floated through the temple halls towards the landing platform. He came upon the platform doors, they silently slid open. The platform was completely deserted aside from a few Engineers working on a damaged Banshee.
'Where is my ship?" he mused.
"Ma'am, multiple slipspace ruptures off our starboard side!" exclaimed Admiral Jesse Hannam.
Fleet Admiral Alicia turned towards the comm. officer.
"Bring the Ares and Athena around and have them fire their MAC rounds towards their lead Capitol ship." she ordered.
"Yes ma'am," the officer obeyed "Ares and Athena firing Mac rounds in ten."
Alicia looked out the view port and saw ten Covenant Loyalist Cruisers appear in orbit around the planet. Two immediately peeled off towards the surface, before Alicia could order an attack the rest of the Covenant fleet fired a salvo of plasma torpedoes.
The torpedoes struck the lower half of the Ares, however the shielding on the powerful UNSC ship held. Then both the Ares and Athena fired their MAC rounds at what appeared to be the lead ship. The huge heavy rounds connected with the Covenant ships bow, the shielding shimmed silver then faded. The rest of the rounds hit the bare metal of the ship and sent the ship spinning, dead in space.
"Fire all our Archer missile pods from our first and second cannons; I want those other Covvie ships shields gone before they can go planetside!" Alicia ordered.
"But ma'am," Jesse advised "that'll leave us with no ammo for at least five minutes."
Alicia shot him a piercing look.
"If you don't start the firing mechanism I'll personally replace your seat cushion with a Lotus Antitank mine," she threatened "besides the Orbital MAC guns will keep them busy until we can reload."
Jesse rapidly typed commands into his stations computer.
Muffled thumps came from outside Thors Hammer; the Archer missile pods firing. Leaving white trails of smoke behind them, the missiles flew in groups towards the enemy ships. Enemy Seraph fighters tried to defend their capitol ships by using themselves as shields, but the missiles had been programmed to evade anything smaller than a drop ship.
The missiles impacted on several Capitol ships. The sheer number of missiles forced all of the shields to disappear. The orbital MAC rounds fired their first salvo into the battle, five of the enemy ships were decimated instantly.
"Keep it up; I don't want a single ship getting through!" Alicia yelled.
"Too late," corrected one of the bridge crew "one just destroyed one of the orbital MAC guns and has made a landing in a small area on the planet."
Alicia cursed under her breath.
"When it gets back up here I want it given a one way ticket to Hell!"
Jasa wiped the bottom of his boot on the breastplate of Gaztons armor.
"Okay what now?" asked Lana.
"We need to find that Prophet and take him out." suggested Htas.
"Okay, let's move," commanded Lana "Jasa you take point and take out whatever gets in your way."
"With pleasure." answered Jasa already making his way towards the door.
The squad moved through the temple towards the platform as quickly as possible. Surprisingly the encountered only a few Jackal patrols and Engineers, the Jackals were easily dispatched.
They arrived at the platform doors. They carefully approached the metal doors, it opened.
They were immediately under attack from several Brute Minors, the group dove behind a recently fixed Banshee. Lana primed a grenade and threw it up and over the Banshee. It exploded, killing all seven Brutes in a blinding flash.
They came out form their cover just as the Prophet of Power was about to board the only docked Phantom which was about to take off and go to a Covenant cruiser a few miles away. Htas sprinted across the platform and blocked the Prophets path. He pulled out an energy sword and pointed it towards the Prophets throat.
"Care to give us a ride?" Htas asked with a grin.
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