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The Titan Chronichles
Posted By: jake meents<superman13032001@yahoo.com>
Date: 22 May 2006, 12:51 am
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Mission Clock, Wednesday, August 9th, 2595 0900 hours
On bored shuttle Peaceful Tranquility en. Route to, Trojan Class Destroyer
Pillar of Fury
The commander awoke with a start he'd been asleep for a very long time at least eight hours four hours to long for a titan his wounds had really taken a lot out of him. He donned his helmet, attached a side arm to its magnetic holster, and stepped out onto the bridge.
The shuttle and all the new military space going vessels had been redesigned like the old sea going vessels from the old world; with the officer's quarters built on or near the bridge in case some thing happened.
He strapped himself in to the command chair in case the gravity gave out again. "Sady bring up the tactical data relevant to Alpha Station. I want to know if there is any hope of infiltrating that installation with out tearing it to shreds with the projection beams."
"Aye sir I'm on it. According to my analysis and relevant data from the battle the threat of manual insertion is to dangerous even for a Titan. You will have to send in a special trained and further upgraded strike team of Titans, witch could take months, or your alternative is to use the projection beams to cut it apart reaching the package at the center."
"I like the projection beam idea when we reach the Fury I will dissect the station and retrieve our package." "So your taking the easy way out I always knew you were the lazy one." "Ahh very funny I recall your nuts for an A.I.?" "Uh huh touché you've got me pegged to the wall on that one I'm nuttier than squirrel shit!"
"Sir I'm sorry to interrupt your conversation but there's an S.O.S. call coming in from earth controlled space a Martian frigate is pinned down they are threatening to board." "Is it one of our's?" "Yes sir." "The Earth Government has gone to far this time tell the Titans to suit up were going in!"
"Aye sir but didn't the Naval Council Issue to avoid conflict at all costs our medaling could escalate the conflict to all out war!" "Thank you for your concern Jim but I am Equal rank to the whole Council I am the left branch of the government war is a risk I am willing to take if it gets our people out of there. Send a response to the frigate tell them were one our way. Tell the Titans that once we reach the Fury we will head for the stranded frigate so they need to get all the R&R that they can now." "Aye sir messages sent."
The shuttle docked in the expansive bay and 006 hopped on the lift and punched the holographic button for the bridge. 001 slipped in before the doors closed and pecked the commander on the cheek before they stepped off onto the bridge.
The crew strapped into their stations on the bridge, the reactor shake down sequence ended, and the deck vibrated as the massive vessel went under way. "I want engines at full power, power up the stealth generators I want the ship at fully cloaked when we arrive were going to use stealth to our advantage."
Fifty voices shouted, "Aye" in unison as they jumped to their tasks in the two hundred by on hundred fifty foot vault that served as the bridge. It took a massive crew to run a ship the size of the fury. She was fifteen Kilometers long four kilometers wide and easily another kilometer tall. Truly a remarkable feet of engineering she was the biggest vessel in her class and was built like a small city internally with parks, streams, hills, waterfalls, hiking paths, and even in some areas simulated weather where it could rain or snow.
She was the jewel of the Martian fleet and her crew was proud to show her off.
"Sir ETA to target ten minutes." "Thank you for the warning Jim charge shields and warm up the missile guidance system were not taking any chances." "With all do respect sir were not going to turn on anything more powerful we don't know what they're ships are armed with?"
"The commander turned to his weapons and communications ops officer and smiled, "I like the way you think go in silent but be ready to shoot big so we can cover our ass if things go wrong. Charge the broadside cannon batteries and the projection beams I don't think we'll need any thing more powerful; charge the Mega MAC Gun just incase."
The ops officer sent the commands to his area of the bridge via headset and checked to make sure the commands were done correctly on his monitor before reporting to the commander. "Sir weapons are hot and ready to fire I feel sorry for the poor bastards if they give us a reason to use theses weapons."
No one noticed the Falcon drop ship when it shot out of the launch bay at quarter the speed of light and headed for the earth destroyer that had the defenseless Martian frigate pinned down. "Alright Titans hard drop in five minutes from then on your on use any means necessary to neutralize that destroyer. Your goal is to kill as you crew as possible just cripple her engines and destroy the bridge and weapon systems. The UNSC will haul her to dry dock and we can escape with our frigate."
The drop ship slowed down to Mach ten the ramp lowered and fifteen Titans leaped from the screaming vessel, rolling for fifty meters before their magnetic boots and anti gravity thruster packs brought then to a stop. The drop ship accelerated to its tope speed of half the speed of light and disappeared in two seconds on its return trip to the Fury.
The Titans cut snuck on bored the Earth vessel via piggy backing on a pelican and made they're way to the center of the ship and the bridge. Captain Rogan's Heart beat sped up when the strange looking weapon materialized in his face followed by fourteen ,ore armored bodies all looking malevolent and dangerous more so than a Spartan. Rogan knew so because the Spartans and elites on his bridge crew froze and the grunts went hysterical.
An energy sword hissed to life 089 glanced over to the left it was a white clad elite typical elite bravado he thought always got to be the hero. Something was wrong the blade turned from a clear white to an acid green when it solidified.
The elite charged the blade struck 089 under the torso at and vertical angle his shield dropped to a quarter percent all the layers pf shielding almost gone. 089 lost his temper this was no typical elite and that was no typical energy sword he ignited his own dark matter combat blade it solidified and turned a smoky black the air around the blade crackled and burned. Leaving a trial of wispy black smoke traced the blades path through the air as it completed its arc and caught the elite's for arm.
Zorona writhed in agony as his shields failed and the blade cut into his arm. Thinking quickly Zorona flicked his sword to the left the blades connected the dark matter and free energy of Zorona's fusion blade combined and shorted out creating a catalystic explosion.
Both of the blades hilts exploded half the equipment on the bridge fried form the EMP bodies were thrown across the room the explosion was massive enough to blow out the 4/16 inch tritaniumplexi alloy view ports showing the corridors out side the bridge.
Every soldier stared in wonderment as the diagnostics flooded their HUD's, the Titan's armor being more sophisticated had more diagnostics on their screens and more electrical elements of their armor damaged. Zorona's and 089's armor was in terrible condition tattered and ruptured in areas energy shields down and reactor coolant dripping from their back packs onto the floor.
Rogan spoke up "What is the meaning of this another branch pf the military can't just bored another military ship with weapons and intent to cause harm. "We didn't come to cause harm we were sent to cripple your vessel so the Martian ship you've got pinned down can escape. Were tiered of the Earth branch of the Government causing trouble with the Martian branch just because you don't like us having equal power. If it keeps up it could lead to the Martian humans seceding from the planetary union and ultimately civil war."
Rogan raised his voice careful not to sound too angry failing miserably. "First off we are aware of the troubles of the UNSC expanding to Mars and teraforming it turning it into a plant habitable like earth but the members of the Earth branch causing trouble have been neutralized We do not want civil war The Right Branch needs to be more informed of the events. And secondly what in the bloody hell are you talking about that is not a Martian vessel any S.O.S. you got from that ship is a lie it is unidentified it is not an Earth vessel nor is it Martian or CovenantHuman cross over we don't know what it is.
A message blared over the bridge loud speakers in a raspy metallic voice "Your destruction is the will of the gods and we are their instruments!" Every on bored the ship froze. Zorona howled in rage "How dare they the war between covenant and humans was the Hierarchs mistake not ours, how dare some one bring that up and use that very line they will pay with blood.
Zorona flipped up a red cover and slammed his fist down on a button, several monitors and consoles on the bridge came to life warnings scrolled across the screens then mathematical symbols a message scrolled by followed by the voice of the A.I. "Target locked stand by to fire."
Rogan screamed at the top of his lungs, "Zorona you fool what have you done?" Zorona turned and curtly replied "When the Covenant first gave that message we fired on the humans shortly after. Those beings are waging a holy war using our same message so I simply fired first to tell them we shall show no mercy. They shall pay for messing with our glorious Union."
089 snorted with laughter "Typical elite bravado leave it to them to start a war" Zorona spun with anger and hit 0089 in the chest flinging him across the room and cracking the trtianium plating of his armor. 006 strode onto the bridge and stared fixedly at the downed titan then turned to Rogan and spoke, "I didn't know normal elites were capable of that.
"Ahh Commander nice to meat you again he is not normal meet the Spartan 3's the UNSC's answer to the UNMSC's Titan 1's as you can see they are the same strength and both can regenerate using nano technology."
The ships shook as it launched a smoky blue whit beam towards the strange vessel obliterating it completely but not before it returned fire launching a green beam back towards them. "And my good captain what was that?" "That was our answer to your Neutron cannon our fusion cannon."
"We just fired our neutron cannon it's going to connect with your fusion cannon and they returned fire." "Sir, shouted a young battle ops ensign, we have a collision warning there is some type of ionized beam of energy heading for us. The neutron and fusion beams combined with the ionized beam they shorted and a huge explosion ensued. Half of the UNSC destroyer was blown away the bridge turned red and the remaining peace of the ship fell through Earth's atmosphere. The UNSC Destroyer Alabama struck the Ocean at terminal velocity leaving a huge spray then disappeared under the waves, the crew blacked out. . .
089 awoke and struggled to his feet plopped into the command chair and refastened the crash harness. Ten minutes passed with accomplished rigorous hacking that rebooted the power to the bridge and brought up damage schematics. The ship's engines were mounted at the middle the blasted witch had destroyed a quarter of the aft sections of her port side.
The engines warmed with power now coming to them from the reactors also restarting several other systems on board, with the new found power special protocols restarted the hover plating on the Alabama's belly. If the Alabama hadn't entered partial slip space and fired her evasive thrusters several times in full reverse the part of the Atlantic Ocean shed touched down in would be a steaming crater.
089's fingers flew over the control consol shutting down the remaining shields and stealing power from every other unnecessary system. With twenty minutes until self-destruction, evasive chemical thrusters were fired along with hell fire missiles creating a rather nasty explosion that launched the Alabama above the gloomy depths of the Atlantic.
The hover plating was switched on automatically via emergency protocols, but only produced enough effect to slow down her descent back toward the murky and unforgiving waves. All the power was released from the reactors channeled towards the engines, the massive surged blew out magnetic coils, power conduits, as well as coolant piping, flooding the bridge with static and blowing 089 out of the command chair.
He sluggishly stood up and shut down the reactors at t minus two seconds until reactor overload. Fingers gracefully dancing across the key pad once more he pumped atmosphere into the ruptured chambers in the damaged area and brought the shields back online. As long as the shields held they would not be leaking any atmosphere.
The four kilometer long vessel ascended sluggishly through the atmosphere at Mach ten back towards the hellish sea of black emptiness from witch she had descended.
The crew shakily awoke forcing themselves groggily to stand up and almost feinted from shock realizing that the ship had held preserving their lives. 089 achieved the simple task of getting exterior visuals from the remaining forward cameras. The crew again almost feinted at the site of the inky blackness and stars on the mane screen.
006 turned to 89 and simply stated, "Explain!".
0089 hit the visual recall button and the video of his amazing feat played onscreen. "Sir we also have sever damages in some areas as fallows and minor in others, reactors 87% out put, life support 36%, shields 100%, engines 995%, all weapon systems 0% offline.
"We took that much damage!"
"Aye sir the Alabama is not in the best of shape."
"Get us back to the Fury those alien bastards have hell to pay. . ."
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