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Sons of Sparta VI
Posted By: SOS.Odin<kavika86@yahoo.com>
Date: 31 October 2003, 3:03 AM
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PLANET EMOS, MORF SYSTEM
LZ DELTA, WARRENSBURG
WARRENSBURG HIGH SCHOOL
GSgt. Odin busted open the door of the principal's office, exposing the main office of Warrensburg High School to the onslaught of Squad Three, Platoon One, SOS. Company, 523rd Marines. LCpl.s Scott, Croxley, and Mack, fireteam one, moved in and strafed left searching for targets. Right behind them was LCpl. Weise, Pvts Ladd and Bruce of fireteam two moving to the right scanning for Covies. Corporal Higgins, Private James and Petty Officer Staten, the platoon's corpman, moved in right behind Gunnery Sergeant Odin.
Just as Pvt. James was crossing the threshold of the office, a plasma bolt shot out from behind a desk and decimated the protective platings on his left thigh.
A horrible scream of pain rang from the doorway. PO Staten quickly grabbed hold of the wounded Marine and dragged him back in to the office. There was a rather large hole in his leg. PO Staten hastily filled it with some biofome and injected the wounded Marine with some morphine. He quickly made sure Pvt.James was positioned properly and posted himself up at the doorway to see if he could help any.
Fireteams one, two, and three scanned what they could see for an enemy presence. Motion sensors were blank. GSgt. Odin moved forward to investigate the origin of the dispersed plasma bolt. He motioned FTs one and two to move forward and clear the area. The main office of the high school was mostly open space. A few chairs blocked the doors, from the inside. That meant someone was trying to keep something out. There was a large desk that took up half of the room. The desk curved from the opposite wall to the right wall. It was from behind there that the discharge came from.
GSgt. Odin slowly crept toward the massive desk. His Battle Rifle was leveled, ready decapitate anything that decided to pop it's head up. About one and a half meters away from the desk, Odin waved for a flash. LCpl. Trevor Scott placed his X28 autoshotty on the ground and primed a flash grenade. All the other members of third squad turned their head and closed their eyes. A bright flash eluminated the room through the eyelids of the Marines.
Strangely, the wails of pain could be heard. Usually, it wouldn't be strange, because flashes hurt like hell, but these screams were coming from humans. GSgt. Odin rushed up to the desk and looked over, sweeping the area with his rifle at the same time. On the other side of the desk were three high school students equipped with plasma weapons. They were holding their eyes, cringeing in pain.
Ten minutes after Odin's discovery, Firebase Delta was up and operational. The rest of the building was empty, spare a few more survivors. Autocannons were brought down from the Whiteman, still orbiting the planet. Warthogs were also retrieved to be sent on patrols. After making sure everything was good to go, Odin went to the new MedCenter, the closest classroom to the main office. It was fairly big and it quite good condition. Most of the school was charred with plasma scoring. The MedCenter was emptied of desks and chairs. It was now filled with rows of tables from science classrooms. Upon these tables were the few survivors of Warrensburg High School. On four of the tables were bodies of unfortunate students who couldn't hold on long enough for help. There were six other living people in the room, besides the Gunny. There was PO Staten, who was working on one of the students. Another face was that of Pvt. James, the Marine who was injured in the taking of the building. He was talking with the only female in the room. The other three were the students who were behind the desk in the new HQ.
Odin walked up to Pvt. James and asked of his condition. James was going to be fine he just needed a day or so to fully recover. Odin then turned to the young lady, who was standing speechless. She then let out a loud scream. The three boys turned to see what the matter was. They all saw the Spartan is his MJOLNIR armor towering above one of their classmates. They all lept at Odin, yelling obsene phrases. One of the boys tryed to punch Odin in the face. His assault was deflected by an invisible force field surrounding the green behemoth. The other two picked up some nearby operating utensils. One student swung a scalpel at the Spartan. It was also deflected by the super soldiers shields. The other student, holding a small drill, dropped it and picked up the wounded Marine's MA8B machine gun. The Spartan, realizing the crazed student's new accessory, moved with lightning speed and snatched the weapon from the child's hands.
Odin grabbed the boys arm, breaking the bones in seven different places, and forced him back on a table. The other two students tried to run but were abruptly stopped by PO Staten. Staten dumbfounded at what had just happened demanded answers. "What the hell do you guys think your doing?"
The boys, seeming equally confused responded with anger, "That Covenant bastard's gonna kill us all."
PO Staten looked at what the student was pointing at. It just so happened he was pointing at Odin. PO Staten started busting up laughing. The students looked at him with great puzzlement. The kid made sure he was pointing at the right figure and then went hysterical.
"What the hell are you laughing for?"
"That ain't no Covenant you moron. That's a Spartan II." Staten could barely reply between gasps for air.
The students stared at the Spartan for a good two minutes. They heard of Spartans, but never saw one, not even on t.v. Odin made sure the injured student was being properly treated before aproaching the two speechless students. Upon his approach Odin removed his helmet. He had a short Marine Corps style hair cut with brown hair. His eyes were brown and he had a rather wide nose. He had a tatoo across the left side of his face. It was a tatoo placed on him as a child. It was a beautiful island tribal tatoo. His skin was very light brown from lack of light. He towered a good foot and a half over the two students. Even without his enhancements Odin would have develeped into a rather large man.
Odin stopped before the kids to speak to them. "Could you kids tell me what happened here?"
The children couldnt talk. The prowess of the Spartan ripped the toungues out of the students.
Odin turned to Pvt. James, "Could you question these boys and tell me everything when i get back?"
"No problem sir. I'll get all I can from these guys."
With that Odin left the room.
Odin went down the hall a few dozen feet to where the new firebase HQ was located. The main office was cleaned up and redecorated. Right as you enter there are sandbag bunkers to either side of you with MA8B machine guns stationed at each. Ahead was the main office desk, refitted to fit the needs of the communication teams. The door to the principal's office was replaced and welded shut. Odin walked up to the comm techs, who were looking at him with surprise. Just then Odin realized he still had his hand. He cared not to put it back on. He stopped at the desk and placed his helmet down. Then he asked for a status check.
"Sir, platoon two's LZ was overrun before arrival. New LZ, charlie point. Platoon three is currently engaged in combat sir. Firebase delta is running perfect. Destroyer Whiteman is still in orbit sir."
"Good"
"Sir, the Whiteman has discovered a Covenant vessel on the opposite side of the planet. It's a cruiser sir. Engaging now."
Odin was startled by this information. He didn't expect any sort of space battles. "Inform me when it's over." Odin was not worried for the Destroyer. Cruisers were nothing to them. Odin was still worried about other ships that might be in the vecinity. " Have the Whiteman call for some backup just in case."
When Odin got back to the MedCenter the students were all asleep. Pvt. James walked to Odin to start his report.
"Sir, these kids have been through a lot. It seems the Covenant attacked out of nowhere. They just busted in and killed most of the faculty and student body before anybody could do anything. These guys were in gymeclasswhen it started. An announcement went over the speakers that the Covenant were attacking. They all hid in th locker room. A patrol of Grunts came by and a few of the boys jumped 'em and beat them to death. Then they took their weapons and hid. The girl was in her history class. She says that the Covenant took her teacher and all the other history and physics professors. She's got no idea why. Anyways...the boys came out after the bulk of the Covenant left. They ran into some more Grunts and an Elite on patrol. They were pushed back into the main office and were there for a few hours before we came. They thought you were an Elite, so they fired. When they heard me scream, which wasn't actually all that loud, they didn't know what to do. They said that there were no threat of Covenant being here at all before two days ago."
Odin pondered on the information, then a comm tech busted in the room.
"Sir, the Whiteman's on the horn. They can't reach the Master Chief. They need to talk to one you guys."
Odin went to set his comm frequency, but his helmet was gone, back at the HQ. He dashed out the door and down the hall to the main office of the school. Odin slammed his helmet on and accessed the Captain's comm frequency.
"What's going on Captain?"
"Odin, four more Covenant ships just entered from slip space. All battlecruisers. We got no chance. We're gonna hafta fall back until that backup comes. A platoon of Warthogs and a five Scorpions have been dispatched to firebase Charlie to help you on the ground....Good luck."
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