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infestation chapter 5
Posted By: Shadow hunter<Shadowhunter483@yahoo.com>
Date: 11 December 2005, 7:48 pm
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Chapter 5
Charles felt the Phantom lurch as it went in for a touch down. He felt it stop and he saw the grav lift activate. He walked towards it and step out. The blue light slowed his decent as he fell. He walked out and saw a huge amount of people and buildings. There were Pelicans and Phantoms landing all around him. They were letting people off, taking soldiers in, or loading ammunition.
“ Where are we?” he asked Cpl Davis
“ Were at Proximal intergalactic airport,” said Davis
“ Why are we here,” said Charlie
“ When the base fell,” said Davis “ the surviving forces came to the airport. It’s now where we’re the command and control is for the defense.”
“ But why here?”
“ Well the river is behind us and the Flood can’t cross it, in front of us is open plain great for mines and defensive positions, and they’ve started a defensive line in the city.”
They continued into the base. There was a soldier with a megaphone talking to the crowd.
“ Attention,” he said “ If you just exited a transport and you are not military or law enforcement, we ask that you go over to that table and surrender any and all weapons. If they are yours, we will return them when you leave the base. If you are military or law enforcement, please see Captain Brooks over at hanger 12.”
Charlie, Chris, Spencer, Tim, Steven, and Dan all headed for the table while the members of the 32nd combined and a large number of other military and police forces went to a large hanger marked 12.
“ Please place all weapons and ammunition on the table,” said the soldier at the table
Charlie took the battle rifle off of his shoulder and put it on the table. He then took the Plasma Rifle off of his belt and set it down as well. He then pulled his pistol out of his waistband (he had lost his holster when he was fighting in the station) and set it down as well. He then deposited the ammunition and grenades on an ammunition belt he had salvaged from a dead Flood Marine.
“ Any of these yours?” asked the soldier
“ Just the pistol,” said Charles
“ Name,” said the soldier
“ Charles Roten,”
“ Can I see your ID,” he asked
Charles dug out his wallet and handed the soldier his ID. The soldier wrote his name on a card and attached it to the pistol. He then punched his name into a computer system.
“ You can pick this up when you leave the base,” said the soldier
“ When are we leaving the base?” asked Charles
“ When pickup comes,” said the soldier
“ When’s that?” asked Charles
“ Don’t know,” the soldier replied
Charles turned and walked down the flight line. He met up with Tim and the rest and they toured the base. They soon began to smell something cooking. They hadn’t eaten all day and hunger gnawed at them. They followed it and found a large hanger that had been renovated and turned into a kitchen. They got into the huge line. When they reached the front they were handed a tray, a bowl, a small knife, a fork, and a spoon. The soldier said that this was theirs and that they should not lose it because they were not getting a new one. They walked towards the food. There a soldier filled their bowls with a gray soup that smelled of chicken. Charles put the bowl onto one of the five sections of the tray. Another soldier handed him a soda. A large cook placed a slab of what appeared to be beef onto his tray and another dumped on some vegetables. At least he thought they were vegetables (they were green and slightly blue). At the end of the hanger, a soldier was handing out a packaged brownie. Or at least it looked like a brownie (it had a shade of green in it). They then waked over and sat down on the cold floor and ate. Everything tasted like it should, even if it looked weird. When they were finished, they cleaned their trays and walked towards the inner areas of the airport. They then collapsed on several unoccupied cots and slept since they had been awake since almost four in the morning firing at the Flood.
The next morning, they woke up and continued to tour the base. They stopped for breakfast at the mess hanger. As they sat down to eat, they saw a transport land and several troops rush on. Charles saw that they were a mix of UNSC Special Forces, Covenant special operations, and several humans with a weird design on their backs. The logo was a shield, two crossed swords and a skull that was half human, and half elite. It was strange and somewhat alien to Charles.
“ Hey Steven,” said Charles
“ Yea,”
“ Whom are those troops getting on to the transport?”
“ What the ones with the weird logo?” said Chris
“ Yea those,” said Charles
“ Those are UDA mercenaries,”
“ What?” said Charles?
“ The UDA has its own private defense force,” explained Chris “ I guess they must have deployed them in order to help stem the flood,”
“ I still don’t get why the UDA is helping the Covenant,” said Charles
“ Well its kind of an even trade between the two sides,” said Chris
“ And what kind of a trade is that,” said Charles
“ We needed ship technology and they needed a place to build ships,” explained Chris “ so we traded AIs for their ship technology and we helped build their ships,”
“ So is that why the UNSC is so friendly with the COS,” asked Charles
“ Yea. The UDA helped organize this alliance and the only reason its been holding up is because of them,”
“ Well…” as Charles started to speak, a soldier with a megaphone appeared.
“ Attention,” he said, “ We are asking for any volunteers to help defend the city against the Flood. We need more people to help if we are to keep the Flood from taking the city. If you are interested in volunteering, than head over to hanger 12 and speak to captain brooks.”
Charles and the rest stood and headed over there with a group of people. They arrived at hanger twelve and were told to stand in a line. They were handed weapons. They were then told to go to a table to pick up ammunition and any other supplies. Chris managed to get his shotgun back and Charles got his pistol and a weird alien-human hybrid weapon. It was shaped like an assault rifle, but the handgrips and the triggers were at the front. There were also several attachments he recognized as a flashlight and a scope, but there were others that he didn’t. To top it all off, it was only a few inches longer than an SMG. He walked over to the table where he was supposed to get ammunition.
“ What is this?” he asked the soldier at the table showing him his weapon
“ That is a S.T.A.R,” he replied
“ What,” asked Charles
“ A S.T.A.R, a Special operations Tactical Assault Rifle it’s a new weapon,”
“ How do you load it?”
“ You load it from the side like an SMG,” he said demonstrating “ It’ll use any clip that has 9.5 mm rounds,”
“ Ok,” said Charles
“ This weapon has six rails on it,” said the soldier
“ Rails?” said Charlie
“ Those are places where you can attach devices,” said the soldier “ This one has a flashlight on the left, a 1-5 power scope on top, a grappling line on the bottom, data jack on the right, and a plasma cannon on the second weapons mount,”
“ Plasma cannon, data jack, what are those,”
“ The plasma cannon is controlled with the forward trigger and the rifle is controlled with the other. The plasma gun is used for neutralizing shields; it’s an automatic plasma pistol. The data jack is used for tapping in to certain systems. It has a keyboard attached to it. You can use it to hack into computers. It also acts as a neural interface for vehicles. Your helmet will scan your brain and function as a neural lace,”
“ Ok” said Charles
“ Here’s your ammunition now get to a transport,”
Charlie went out with the others and picked up some plasma armor and a helmet. The plasma armor was an armor system similar to the Mark 5 armor system. It did not cover the entire body, but it created a pretty strong energy shield that protected the soldier fairly well from bullets. It also had armor beneath the shield designed to protect the soldier from energy weapons.
Spencer had gotten a Covenant Carbine for his weapon. Tim managed to get his hands on two SMGs and two holsters. Steven and Dan both got MA5C assault rifles. The group boarded a Shadow transport and headed out into the city.
Charles tensed himself. It had only been two days since he had left the city, which had become hell, and now he was going back.
To be continued.
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