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The Gods of War:Spartan III's: His Return
Posted By: romac1991<bobbyhill@yahoo.com>
Date: 8 July 2004, 1:41 AM
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0445 Hours October 5, 2552 (Military Calendar)/
Aboard Pelican/ Unknown System
Covenant Homeworld's Moon
The Pelican slowly drifted towards the planet. As they were about to exit the dark side of the moon, something on the radar was picked up.
"Umm, I think we gots a lil' problem here. I think that theres a Destroyer right behind us." Lieutenant Scherrer said over the COM.
"Initiating evasive maneuvers," Scherrer said. The Pelican sprang to life. All of a sudden it shot forward and dove straight down as a Plasma Torpedo burnt through space directly over them. The Destroyer shot another torpedo that was evaded by the tiny ship.
The Destroyer stopped using its torpedoes, and switched to Plasma Lasers for point defense. Red-hot plasma shot from the Destroyer and burnt towards the Pelican. The bird did a quick barrel roll but the laser connected with its port engine. The Engine exploded as a hole was torn into the portside wing, crippling the bird.
The Pelican began to plummet towards the alien moon, spinning uncontrollably. Brian braced himself against the wall as his stomach was sent up to his throat, then his legs, then back again. The Pelican was falling to the surface at a few hundred meters per second. When the Pelican got within five hundred kilometers of the surface, the three gargantuan Plasma Cannons on the moon's surface stirred and came to life. They all swiveled slowly and aimed at the Pelican. The nearest turret, on the Pelicans starboard side, flashed a blinding blue white then the barrel exploded and it discharged a titanic plasma ball. As the fiery ball of plasma exited the huge barrel of the Turret, it soared towards the Pelican. Some dancing by the Pelican caused the plasma to soar past them and explode a few thousand kilometers away, setting off an alarm.
The Covenant Destroyer stopped trailing the Pelican, opened one of its launch bays and released a Dropship. The Destroyer turned around, then disappeared.
Lieutenant Scherrer was frightened as his bird dropped like an armored rock towards the moon. When the Pelican was one hundred meters from the ground the Pelican began to slow from the constant drag of the reverse thruster. The bird slowed dramatically within the last hundred meters but it wasn't enough. Brian kicked the metal rear hatch repeatedly then twenty meters before they hit the moon, the door gave out to Brian's repeated stomping and the Spartans were sucked out of the ship into the vacuum of space. All five Spartans fell the remaining twenty meters next to the flaming Pelican. The Pelican hit the ground seconds before the Spartans. Brian looked at his team around him falling, a second later Brian met the moon head on.
Brian slammed into the alien moon at an extreme velocity. He created a hole roughly the shape of a large human on the surface of the moon. Four other jolts in the ground told Brian that his Spartans had made it.
He could barely see, his vision was blurry and he had a huge headache. Brian slowly and painfully climbed out of his would be grave and looked around. He winced as he turned his hand, he had broken his wrist. His other Spartans were also climbing out of their holes and brushing dust off. Brian looked down and saw that his weapons were scattered across their drop zone along with everyone else's ammo and guns. After a quick sweep of the area, everyone got their weapons.
Brian looked at the Pelican, its nose was crumpled up like an accordian and Scherrer was thrown out of the cockpit. He was floating in front of the Pelican dead and bleeding. Brian took a closer look at the Pelican and peered inside the back. Thank God! All four of the NOVA bombs had not fallen from their tight harness, but the SUPERNOVA bomb was laying on the ground near the back of the Pelican.
Brian winced, if that had gone off him and his Spartans along with the moon would have been screwed.
Brian opened a COM channel to his team.
"Okay our objective and our Pelican got completely FUBARed, but we can use this to our advantage." Brian motioned to the kilometer high Plasma Cannons that stopped tracking them minutes ago.
"If we can get into one of those facility's, we can aim that big ass gun at the planet." Brian continued.
"But judging by the size and power of that thing, it's most likely heavily guarded."
"Jason and Joshua, I want you to bury the bombs. We'll come back for them later." Jason and Joshua grabbed the nukes carefully and buried them in the hole Brian made from falling. They covered it with gray alien dust and marked the holes with a piece of Pelican debris above each one. They then very carefully and slowly placed the SUPERNOVA bomb in a separate hole and filled it with dust.
The Spartans approached one of the massive Plasma Cannons. The Cannon was mostly all barrel. It had the familiar purple that the Covenant favored so much and it looked like some giant spider legs all curled up, because of its long skinny batteries and the not so skinny barrel.
As Brian and his team drew closer, they had to crane their heads up see the massive tip of the structure. The door was located at the bottom, with no guards nearby. As they approached the doors Brian started to take out some explosives to blow the door open. But Joshua tapped the panel on the left and the doors parted.
The air equalized as they stepped into the room. The door behind them closed and the door in front of them opened. They stepped into the door and were awestruck. The room was circular and colossal; it was a kilometer high, with at least a hundred different visible balconies rising up to the very top. Where there was a giant see through window that displayed the Covenant Planet in its view.
Brian looked around the circular room and saw a huge door. His team approached it. Inside the door was a small purple and square room, once his team was in, there was a vibration. The doors slammed together and the room jolted up extremely fast. This elevator would take them to their objective, good.
After about a minute, the elevator started to slow, and Brian and his team raised their weapons at the purple door.
Re'te'roo, raised his gargantuan weapon at the closed doors, any second now. Seven of his brethren stood faithfully behind him, weapons at the ready. There was a small hissing sound, as the large doors started to part.
Brian watched as the doors parted in the middle, and a room was revealed. Brian's heart jumped. There were eight Juggernauts, standing there. Before the creatures could act Brian jammed the trigger down on his Minigun, along with his team. The barrels rotated and hundreds of bullets were spit out at the Juggernauts. Plasma tanks were ripped open, and flesh sizzled. As the barrels overheated and came to a stop, the smoke cleared, revealing the almighty Juggernauts still standing. The barrels lit up and the small elevator was filled with the Hellfire. Brian yelled in pain as the fire enveloped him. His vision was filled with blue fire that was eating through his "invincible" armor. He dropped to his knees, unable to take the excruciating pain. Tears swelled in his eyes as his vision started to fade. A piece of his armor gave out in his arm and blue fire flew in and set his arm afire. He heard other cries of help in the elevator. He wouldn't accept his death, he got up, still afire, and ran towards the flames anger flashed through his eyes like a crazy man.
There was a deafening THUMP!, as the ground shook and the flames ceased. Brian couldn't take the pain, he closed his eyes.
Brian slowly regained consciousness, and he found himself at a very blurry purple ceiling. He heard a deep voice of a man, sounded familiar. He attempted to raise himself up, but he couldn't. Just then he heard footsteps, then a green armored passed over his head, then grabbed his hand and pulled Brian up with surprising force.
Brian's vision was filled with a blurry green shape, but it was too small to be one of his Spartans, so that means...
"Master...Chief?" Brian asked dumbfounded at the blurry shape.
"Affirmative," The shape answered back.
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