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The Final War: Chapter Three: Getting real... Part Two: Hunting
Posted By: Awacar<t.alvner@swipnet.se>
Date: 13 November 2003, 4:00 PM
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Master Chief drives the warthog up on a dune to take the vehicle for a fly. He then sees another warthog that drives below him. The passenger gets his eyes on MC and says:
"Chief, stop and obey our orders, or we'll have to send you to heaven!" while the warthog takes ground.
MC:
"If you doesn't believe that I makes the right choises, and tries to change my mind with your firearms, I'll have to let you practice opening the gates for me."
Human:
"Sad Chief, but we have orders."
Awacar:
"Unfortunately, you won't live to follow them!"
Awacar fires off the last plasma grenade in his grenade launcher. The grenade fullfills its purpose and kills the Humans.
Awacar:
"Not too good!"
Shortly thereafter a forerunner Bio-tank fires off a first-barrel shot that lands and brutally detonates, tossing MC and his warthog away, spinning sideways in the air. When they stop, MC says:
"I agree!"
Awacar:
"Lets not cry for spilled blood, I'm going to end that smiling Bio-tanks life!"
MC:
"With what, your harsh language? You don't have any weapons, remember?"
Awacar:
"Hmpff! Very funny, but when I've digged myself out of here, you'll watch a mastermind in action."
They digs themselves out and takes cover with the warthog. The Bio-tank that got them in this situation gets closer with heavy, proud steps, holding his tail high. It looks pleased for having damaged the vehicle, and thinks that he has killed MC and Awacar. The creature walked as if it was a king, letting its shimmering, sapphire-blue shields dimly reflect the rays from two glassing suns.
Awacar leaves his cover, and you could see the joy in the Forerunners' eyes, getting a chance to chase a wounded prey. The Bio-tank fires something very similar to plasma rifle shots, but these explodes upon contact. Awacar succeeds to evade almost evey shot, but the ones that hits him makes serious damage. Eventually, his opponent switches to targeting fire in order to kill Awacar. The Bio-tank fires swarm after swarm of these shots that forms as a tail that follows Awacar. He is forced to make really evasive moves while approaching the Forerunner. He gets face to face, melee distance, and says:
"You have attacked a weaponless Elite, for that mistake you'll have to fall by your own weapon!"
The Forerunner tenses every last muscle in its body; tightening the yellow skin around it, raises his arm and prepares to give the Elite the punishment for, in his ears, insulting him. He makes the move, and Awacar uses his last powers to make a quick step to the left. The Forerunner melees nothing but air, and is united with the swarms of shots that he fired earlier. The rounds passes through him, and leaves a lifeless body, bleeding in the sand.
MC:
"I'm impressed!"
Awacar:
"We've got no time for such details, help me up!"
MC carries Awacar to a morgawr, where he picks out a health pack that he gives to Awacar.
Awacar:
"Thanks, I feel better now. Look, the Forerunners and Humans are dead, and the betrayers are fleeing into the mountains."
Awacar activates his com-channel:
"Team Lightning, the beach is cleared, awaiting reinforcement!"
Six drop ships, larger version, comes in and hover over the sand, let their floor hatches down, using them as ramps to land ghosts, wraiths and shades together with a lot of infantry. Twelve Hunters, thirty black Elites, the same amount of Brutes and a lot of Grunts.
Awacar:
"Wraiths, shades, your job will be to guard the bay, no hostile forces should be able of flanking us from here! The rest, follow me!" Awacar then runs into the forest with the rest of the troops following. They fight a few Elites and when the forces have got 500 meters into the forest, Cortana informates:
"I'm reading betrayer lifesigns 200 meters up the mountain, not sure how much longer some of them have got.
Awacar opens his com-channel:
"Team Thunder, at positions 250, 300 and 400 meters up the mountain, mow the grass, it's invaded by bugs!"
Leader of Team Thunder:
"Aye Awacar, just keep our infantry safe."
Awacar:
"You know I will, out. Every one that wants to live, take cover!"
All of the troops hide behind trees before three massive shockwaves passes.
Awacar:
"Get moving!" the force then starts to run, and when they've got 50 meters they are in a big frontier caused by the blasts. They walk through it, seeing bodies of betrayers lying dead on the ground. They've got to the other side of the frontier, and MC notices a plasma rifle shot, passing next to his head and he yells out:
"Ambush!"
Awacar turns his head and sees a great force of betrayers.
Awacar:
"How did they get here?"
Cortana:
"They must have been outside my scanning range."
MC:
"Do we have time to fight them?"
Awacar:
"Better spend the time on them than on death."
Awacar faces a sword-bearing Elite, knocks it out with his fist and takes his sword. While awacar does this, MC stabs a Hunter in the back with his sword and kills three Jackals.
Awacar:
"I'm picking up a message here, the Forerunners... are locating us right now. They landed the rest of their troops on the mountain, giving them time to group and attack us at an unexpected point of time. I estimate that we won't need to wait for them more than a minute, but until that, we'll need to keep the betrayers alive."
MC:
"No good news, but I suggest that the troops in the front backs off and leaves place for fresh fighters." As soon as MC has stopped talking the Grunts and Jackals leaves place for Hunters. A circle of the heavily shielded creatures surrounds the forces and creates a perfect barricade. Chief and Awacar takes the job of shooting down hostile greandes. This goes on for half a minute and then the Jackal Scicha'al gets a word with Master Chief:
"The hunters are exhausted, they won't hold out much longer!"
MC:
"They won't need to. Hunters, fall back and let the Brutes have their share of the battle! And you Brutes, if you want to live after this, use your fists. Sharp shooting is only allowed at the sight of Forerunners!"
The Brutes advances and the battle continues. Suddenly, the Brutes storm forwards and the fight with the Forerunners is on. The betrayer forces starts to focus on the Forerunner threat, and strangely, no Covenant shoot at each other any more.
MC:
"We can't go on like this forever, the Forerunners can just shoot through the trees and fighting them on an open battlefield isn't an option."
Awacar:
"Ghosts, give the Forerunners a close look at your wings! I want you to make it in flash attacks while we tries to pack them closer together. And if it gets dangerous, crash the ghosts and join the ground party!"
When the ghosts have formed, Awacar commands:
"Hunters, get into the forest and flank the Forerunners from the right side. Grunts, do the same but flank from the left. I want you to pack the forerunners closer by firing your fuel rods. The rest of the infantry will have to split up equaly on both sides, giving the necessary support!"
An enourmous regrouping is set in motion. Later, the massive bombardment of the Forerunners brings them closer together, becoming targets of ghosts.
Awacar:
"Its working! The forerunners are dead! Master Chief, I'll need you to lead the troop that will attack the betrayers when I lead the wounded to a quiet place in the woods for recovery."
MC:
"Those who feel that they can take another fight, join me! We're going to show the betrayers how to make war!"
The force moves into the frontier to engage the opposition. A betrayer Grunt, shield coded red, sees MC and yells:
"The devil, the devil! He's here!"
MC sticks a plasma greande to that grunt, who runs to his friends and takes them with him into death. The battle has begun. MC encounters two Hunters and gets a bit of trouble. For one of them, he uses his last SMG shots, and has to face the other one with a picked up needler. He fires tree magazines into the beast before getting a plasma grenade to end the poor creatures suffering with. After this, MC attacks an Elite, who starts to run towards him while he unleashes the rest of the needler rounds on it and activates his sword. The enemy gets closer, barely damaged by the few shots that hit him and the Chief turns him his back. The surprising action irritates the Elite, but it quickly gets out of astonishment. It roars, and raises its hand. MC hears when it has stopped to roar, jumps diagonally backwards at that point of time and swings his sword into the neck of the Elite, that a moment before meleed nothing but air.
A team of friendly Covenant comes by, and MC joins them. They encounter a few Brutes and Elites, protected by ten Jackals. The Chief uses two grenades to blow the Jackals away and gives the rest of the team an easy path into fight. The battle is short but intense and afterwards MC looks at his health-indicator, which flashes red. He lets his eyes spawn over the battlefield, seeing that the fight is over.
MC:
"Everybody, lets get to Awacar and have our piece of rest!"
To Be Continued...
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