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Halo: The Final Fight Chapter 3
Posted By: Daniel Luiken<masterchief15@juno.com>
Date: 2 December 2002, 11:29 pm
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0400 Hours September 9, 2552 (Military Calendar) /
UNSC Abraham Lincoln Around Destroyed Halo
The Bridge was almost the same as the Pillar of Autumn's except it was twice as big. He was looking for the Commander when a voice behind him said. "Hello Chief, glad you could make it, how was your vacation"? Commander Hubbell asked.
"Well, let's just say I won't be getting my next couple of paychecks." The Chief said turning around looking for the voices owner.
It turned out to belong to a man 6 foot 5 inches weighing around 145 pounds as the Chief thought it looked like.
"After you got on we decided to search the wreckage and see if there are any survivors." Commander Hubbell Explained. "Oh! My name is Commander Michael Hubbell, and this is," He said as he walked to the chair to the right of the large screen "Lieutenant David Jacobson, our communications officer, the officer, to his right is our ship statician and also she uses sensors to tell us how the other and enemy ships are doing. In front of the view screen on the right is Lt. Paton he is our weapon master, the one on his left is Lt. Kinyo our engine and navigation officer." Suddendly Hamel interrupted him.
"Sir, we found an escape pod."
"Ok, Chief, we going to need Cortana, can you put her in the holotank?" Commander Hubbell said.
The Chief pulled Cortana out of his helmet and put her in the holotank. Her hologram appeared above the cylinder drum, symbols appeared all over her body. "Wow, this ship is amazing."
"Glad you like it Cortana." Hubbell asked.
"Where are they Kinyo?" Hubbell demanded. "Paton, arm 15 Archer Missile pods and charge a MAC gun with three light rounds. After we find them, fire the missiles, after the missiles impact into the metal fire the MAC gun so they don't see them coming.
"Found you." Hamel said. "There in the wreckage of the Destroyer."
"Missiles away, impact in 30 seconds!" Yelled Lt. Paton.
There was a 20 second pause where nobody seemed to breath, they just stared at the view screen as the Missiles lazily moved toward there target.
"Missile impact in 10 seconds." Cortana reported.
"Fire the MAC guns in the 3 seconds, 2, 1 Fire!" Cortana yelled.
There was a rumble of thunder throughout the ship and then 3 white hot blobs of metal streaked toward the target.
"They are preparing to enter slipspace, the Missiles are impacting... Now!" Yelled Cortana.
All of the Archer missiles impacted into the layer of metal that surrounded the Covenant ship then right through the fire and smoke came a MAC round that barely hit the back end of the ship taking out the engines, then in turn sent it into a clockwise spin then the second Mac round hit the front end ripping off the nose spinning it the other way then the final round went clean through the middle wiping out the rest.
"Good job people." Complimented Commander Hubbell "Kinyo set us on a course for..."
He paused and looked at the Master Chief silently asking him where he thinks they should go.
"Earth." They both said in unison.
1500 Hours September 10, 2552 (Military Calendar) /
UNSC Abraham Lincoln around Earth
"This is Commander Michael Hubbell requesting to speak with the leader of the Covenant space defense."
"Why do you want to speak with Admiral Cole?" Came the reply over the speaker.
"It is of extreme importance that the Master Chief and I speak to him immediately in private."
"All right I'll get him on the phone with you." The voice said.
"No, I must speak to him personally, it's to important to say over a radio." Argued Commander Hubbell.
"But- oh all right, you can meet him at the United Nations Space Command station." The voice answered.
"All right we're on our way." Commander Hubbell responded.
It took them about 30 minutes to get to a Pelican and get to the station. On the flight down to the station the Chief was looking out of the pelican hatch, watching the pelican fly through the clouds when a large city came into view. If he remembered correctly it was Washington D.C., there were jet's flying around and following the Pelican. He was talking to his pilot and found out his name was Sledge, biological brother to Foe Hammer. Sledge believed that he was a better pilot then Foe Hammer and he said that he was the Chief's personal pilot.
They came through the clouds over the command center and landed right next to the front door of the building instead of on the helipad on top of the building. The Chief and Commander Hubbell hoped out of the Pelican and ran into the building while Sledge lifted off to go to a better, more appropriate landing spot. When they got into the building they were ushered into a room where Admiral Cole and Stanforth were sitting around a long table with all sorts of people, including the Marine Chief and several commander's of powerful UNSC vessels.
"Well," The Chief said "I say we get started right away, from the beginning."
With that he began to tell them about Halo and how he defeated the Flood and the Covenant. He told them of how he destroyed Halo and all about the Monitor and how he said there were more Halo's. He explained what the Halo's could do if they were activated. He said how the Covenant found out about Earth. When he finished about Earth the group got all mad and started asking him all kinds of things about how the Monitor found out and why he didn't stop him. The Chief tried to calm them down and propose a counter action to defend Earth.
"I suggest that we call back 90% of all the current human vessels that are made, UNSC, black-market trade ships, even pirate ships." The Chief said.
"That is nonsense the UNSC vessels can take care of several Covenant armada's." Admiral Stanforth argued.
"I am most sure that the Covenant won't attack with just a hundred or even two or three hundred ships." Commander Hubbell protested. "I think they will attack with so many ships that if we had every UNSC ship ever made we wouldn't be able to stop them, so we need help from others, enemies even."
"No I refuse to call on my enemies to defend a planet that we can do ourselves." Admiral Stanforth said back.
"I strongly suggest that you do as we ask." The Chief argued. "Or else if we lose, you will be banished."
"Fine I will compose the message." Stanforth said.
"Only if we can see it before you send it." The Chief said.
"Deal." Stanforth said.
United Nations Space Command ALPHA PRIORITY TRANSMISSION 04683Z-95
Encryption Code: None
Public Key: None
From: Admiral Stanforth and Admiral Cole Commanding Officer of the Earth Space Defense
To: Every Human Ship Ever Of Any Origin
Subject: IMMEDIATE RECALL
Classification: None
/Start file/
The Covenant have found out where Earth is and we need any ship that can fight to come and help us defend Earth. If you have any type of weapon on your ship along with a slipspace engine we need you to meet us at Mars for a briefing and strategy planning. Please, humanity depends on you. If you want to help us meet us 150 kilometers on the sun side of Mars at 1200 hours standerd time on September 15, 2552. Thank you.
/End file/
"There, that wasn't to bad was it now you guys." Commander Hubbell taunted.
"You had better hope that the black-marketers don't turn on us or the pirates try to help the Covenant. Because if they do you won't have to worry about the Covenant war any more." Admiral Stanforth warned.
"You would be surprised what people can do when something important is on the line, like there planet or there lives." The Master Chief said.
The Chief gave commander Hubbell a reassuring glance.
He returned it with a slight nod and a wink.
The Abraham Lincoln was waiting around Mars with fifty to seventy-five other ships for the rest of the two hundred-fifty other ships which responded to the message. After 3 days all the ships that said they would be there, got there and they started making a strategy to defend Earth.
They were on the Abraham Lincoln in a large briefing room with Admiral Cole when the Chief said.
"Sir, I say that we talk to the Covenant and challenge them to a final ground fight on one of the Halo's. That way the Marines and civilians don't have to get hurt."
"That is a suicidal suggestion Chief you can't take on every single Covenant ground troop and win." Stanforth argued in an apparent bad mood.
"Yes, I know. But I don't see a better way." The Chief said. "I stand a better chance against them on the ground then you do in space."
"He's right Stanforth you have to give credit for that." Cole agreed. "But still, we can't send you in there alone that is suicide."
"That is exactly the reason why we aren't going to send him in alone." A voice said from the darkness.
Out of the darkness came an old gray headed woman which must have been in her sixties or seventies. She got closer and the Chief wondered why he hadn't noticed the voice earlier, it was Doctor Halsey.
"Doctor Halsey, what are you doing here, I thought you were on reach when the Covenant glassed it." The Chief said happily.
"No, I managed to escape with a few of you're friends." Doctor Halsey said.
Behind doctor Halsey were two familiar bodies, along with what looked like 80 more people.
"Chief, as you can see behind me there are you're two team members Fred and Kelly along with 75 new Spartans II and 2 Spartan III. They are going to help the Chief win the war." Doctor Hasley explained.
"Fine," Admiral Stanforth said "We will attempt to make contact with the Covenant so we can have an all out ground war."
"Good, we will use that as a backup plan, we will first try to destroy the Covenant, if that doesn't work we will go with this plan." Doctor Hasley commented.
1200 Hours September 20, 2552 (Military Calendar) /
Super MAC Control Station In Orbit Around Jupiter
It had taken UNSC scientists over 100 years to find a way to harness Jupiter's gravity and IOs volcanic reactions and heat to charge a MAC gun, but they finally did and we have 20 Super MACs around Jupiter feeding off its gravity and another 15 around IO feeding off of the volcanoes. So there was a total of 35 Super MAC guns around. We hoped the Covenant would come by Jupiter so the MAC guns can fire on them first so no human lives can be risked and give us an extreme advantage.
The Covenant exited slipspace near Jupiter, that could be the worst mistake they could have ever made. There were hundreds of them Cruisers, Destroyers, even Flagships. It was amazing how many ships the Covenant had after losing nearly 200 at Reach.
After being out of slipspace all the Super MACs turned and faced the Covenant ships that were still coming out of slipspace. Twenty-five MAC guns fired and 35 white hot streaks of metal sped towards the covenant ships, because their shields were still down nearly 50 Covenant ships were destroyed in one salvo. Half of the Covenant ships were still recharging while the second salvo of MAC rounds streaked toward them. One MAC round streaked toward a flagship that barely avoided the round and the round struck a Cruiser went right through and hit a Destroyer obliterating both ships. A different round was fired at a recharging Flagship but a Destroyer and a Cruiser moved in front of the ship to take the blow. The Covenant were willing to risk two ships to save one Flagship. In the second salvo 24 Covenant ships were destroyed.
Suddenly 7 nuclear mines exploded in the middle of all the ships knocking off there shields then the MAC rounds fired and destroyed 40 more Covenant ships including 5 Flagships. We were winning. Suddenly the Covenant got smart and fired there own salvo of Plasma Torpedoes and Pulse Lasers, luckily the MAC guns had shield so we only lost 5 MAC guns, and we still have 30 Super MAC guns. By now the Human ships had gotten within range so they fired there own salvo of nearly 200 heavy MAC rounds. After nearly half an hour of fighting the Humans reduced the Covenant to 6 ships, 2 Destroyers, 3 Cruisers, and a Flagship. These remaining ships would be what we would negotiate with.
"This is Admiral Stanforth leader of the human space defense and we have a proposal for you."
"Tell me why we should listen to you a human." An Elite asked.
"Because by now you have at least 25 Super MAC guns and 150 of our vessels within firing range of you. You wouldn't be able to destroy even 10 of us before you would burn and die!" Admiral Stanforth yelled in anger.
"What is your proposal?" The Elite demanded.
The Chief was in a training room with the new recruits talking to Doctor Hasley during the fight near Jupiter.
"So how did you, Fred and Kelly get off Reach?" The Chief asked.
"I was near reactor 4 when the Covenant attack. There were thousands of them Wraiths, Banshees, Ghosts, Elites, Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters. The attacked En Masse and over whelmed us killing almost all of the Marines and Spartans." Doctor Hasley was telling the Chief all of this nearly in tears. "Fred ordered everybody to fall back after less then half an hour of fighting. He picked me up and tossed me into the side seat of a Warthog, Kelly hopped in the gunner seat, and Fred jumped in the driver seat. We we're driving full speed to a Pelican to get off of Reach when 5 Banshees started chasing us, Kelly was firing full auto at them but they kept avoiding the shots while returning fire. Fred told me to duck so I wouldn't get hit. We went over a hill and Kelly brought down the last Banshee when we noticed that there was a Covenant dropship next to the Pelican. There were 5 Elites and 2 Hunters destroying the Pelican. Fred then hopped out of the Warthog and started throwing grenades, he must have thrown ten grenades in five seconds, while Kelly opened fire with the LAAG gun. When they were almost all dead Kelly hopped out of the back and ran full speed towards the dropship while Fred picked me up and carried me towards the dropship, when we got near the dropship I heard Kelly opening fire on the dropships pilot then the agonizing scream of a dying Elite." By now she was crying completely and couldn't finish. She leaned her head on his shoulder and just cried for everything she had seen and been through that the Spartans saw every day.
He let Doctor Hasley sit down while he talked to the other Spartans.
"So you guys are the new Spartans, where is Mendoza?" The Chief asked.
"Mendoza died in one of our first battles against the Covenant, we couldn't save him." A Spartan in a silver suit said with a alight tone of grief. "On a lighter note I'm Chief Petty Officer Daniel 175 leader of the Spartan IIs. Everyone calls me CPO kinda like how everyone calls you the Master Chief."
Before the Chief could respond someone over the intercom yelled that the Covenant had exited slipspace near Jupiter. The Chief and CPO ran over to a television that dominated the left wall that showed the Covenant being destroyed by the MAC guns.
The Covenant eventually agreed and the UNSC let them escape to there homeworld. They both agreed on a time to fight. When the time came the Covenant would then move in the system and they would begin. They could then send the ground troops to Halo and the would fight to the death on the ground and in the air. The last person or ship standing would win, the loser would be totally killed, there would be no draw, stalemate or surrender.
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