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An Even War: Part 1: Betrayal
Date: 17 December 2003, 11:03 PM
UNSC HQ Washington D.C
0700, Dec 25 2553
The Master Chief walked through the sterile corridor that led to the HighCom security council. Though he was 200 metres from the surface, he still felt resented to relax, adding to his nervous concince was the fact he was unarmed and only in his UNSC dress uniform, Campaign ribbons and medals adorned his chest. Two MP's saluted smartly as he approached the double doors leading the Security Council's room, he took a deep breath and entered.
He took the entire room in a glance, crescent table microphones hanging from the ceiling, he remembered a similar room on Reach, but instead this room was well illuminated.
"Welcome, Master Chief, Merry Christmas" the voice woke him from his reverie. "Sir! Master Chief Spartan-117 reporting as ordered" he said. "Indeed, you know why you are here right?" said Admiral Hood. "Sir, yes sir! I am here to give an after-action report of the operation commenced by: Spartan-104, Spartan-058, Spartan-087, Spartan-039, Spartan-029, Spartan-043, Lieutenant Elias Haverson ONI Section Three, Corporal Locklear, Warrant Officer Shelia Polaski, Dr.Cathrine Halsey, Sergeant Avery Johnson and Admiral Danforth Whitecomb" he said naming the names of by heart.
"Yes, very good" said Admiral Hood as he looked painstakingly at the empty seat of Admiral Whitecomb.
"Make your report, Chief" said Admiral Hood. And so the Master Chief retold his story of everything that had happened on the alien construct of Halo, the Flood and the events after that ending with the destruction of the Unyielding Hierophant. It took a mere two hours to recount all the events. His throat was gasping for water at the end of it. "Alright Chief given the data we have just recorded our spooks estimate we have 1-2 month window before the Covenant regroup and attack Earth, Colonel Ackerson will brief you on your next misson" said Admiral Hood.
"Alright Chief let's get down to nitty-gritty" said Ackerson doing his best to keep the pleasure off his face. "Your next mission is to scout out a unknown colony long ago abandoned, simply because it was a mere tourist attraction, ONI thinks they can use this colony to work on a project they've cooked up" said Ackerson. The Master Chief thought...he was a fighting machine not some worthless scout, but his training had told him never to disobey orders from a superior. "Sir, what support will have during the course of this operation" he said.
"One prowler, and a squad of 10 marines, including one of our spooks" said Ackerson. The Chief could not believe his ears! A prowler and 10 marines to scout out a whole colony. He clenched his teeth "Sir, yes sir!" he said and walked out of the chamber.
UNSC Prowler Gorgon
2554 Jan,17
The prowler Gorgon circled the ocean colony of Dwemer, "This doesn't look good" said Sergeant Johnson. The Master Chief insisted that Johnson be assigned to his squad for this scouting mission, he looked around at the rest of his squad. "Alright Marines move like you got a purpose!" said Sergeant Johnson. The Chief scowled at the planet before them, a single continent with ocean all around covering the rest of the planet. He still brought his MJOLNIR and without the presence of Cortana he felt empty. He grunted and pushed these thoughts aside, and assessed there situation. There arms consisted of 2 MA5B standard issue assault rifles, 1 M90 Shotgun and all the Marine's carried the standard issue M60 pistol not to mention the 50mm chaingun on the Gorgon's front. "Alright I'm bringing her down!" yelled Lieutenant Wagner.
" Roger that!" yelled the Chief
"Alright this is easy money marines! We take a look around and get our asses back home!" said Johnson.
The ramp to the surface opened and salty air floated into the Gorgon, the Chief frowned at the Sergeant, he hoped it would not put the Marine's at ease, they needed to be vigilant if they were going to get out alive.
Colony Dwemer
2554 Feb,15
"Dammit I sure as hell think that out search is over!" complained one of the Marines.
"Boy, shut your big trap before I TEAR THAT CORPRAL BADGE RIGHT OFF YA" yelled Johnson, the marine instantly shut up. The Chief look at the strange cave they were about to investigate, a radiant light had been coming out of the cave for the whole night, he wanted to investigate. According to Lieutenant Wagner there connection with ONI section three, the colony was completely abandoned after the War had started. Hermits perhaps? He wasn't sure but he was going to find out.
They entered the cave and the light turned out to be 5 UNSC flares packed together, this was strange to the Master Chief why would UNSC flares be on an abandoned colony....wait a minute they could be....
"Hello there Chief" said a familiar voice from behind him.
The Chief sprung into motion and had his pistol aiming at the entrance to the cave, at least 15 silhouettes were there all his Marine were shocked in wonder until one said "Oh no worries people there friendlies" he turned and smiled at the rest of the group, until at least 14 shotgun blast hit him in the head. His body, minus the head landed beside one of the other marines, he instantly bugged out. "WERE ALL GUNNA..AGHAHH" the marine was cut of abruptly as some shotgun shell's hit him to. The Chief didn't know what to do, here he was in an enclosed space shotguns almost at point-blank range and then these were friendlies.
Then Colonel Ackerson came out of the darkness "I'm surprised by how naïve you freaks are I never expected you to walk blindly into an ambush."
The Chief bristled Ackerson had just shot two of his men,
"Well Chief I don't have much else to say, maybe good bye" said Colonel Ackerson. As he left the Chief dove to the side and shot his pistol at the silhouettes. He heard a scream of pain and all of a sudden 14 shotgun blast came from the entrance, his men were instantly cut down, including Johnson, his shields took to much and overloaded as the rounds punched through his armor and penetrated his skin. He blacked out and knew it was the end and all he thought was..why...why...why.
An Even War: Part 2: Last Hope
Date: 18 December 2003, 9:04 PM
ONI Base Number 10231-20340
0500 2554 Mar, 19
Cortana was back to peak processing level; she could multi-task an approximant 20 million programs per minute. She had finally giving the Flood/Forerunner/Halo data to someone she could trust, and both of them and made the encryption for protecting the file, it was none other than Dr.Michale Haverson, proud father or Lieutenant Haverson, which Cortana herself had seen the death of. They were both in a secure ONI facility and she had heard that ONI was to be getting a new project/section going, let's figure out what these spooks are up to she thought, until ACESS DENIED flashed across her subroutines. She stood there thunderstruck, something kept me out? She grumbled and flashed onto the holo-projecter in Dr.Haverson's office.
"So what is this all about, this Section 4?" asked Cortana she processed that answer already. Dr.Haverson smiled, "You know that's a secret Cortana" he wagged his finger as one would to a bad child. "Basterd" wispered Cortana
"What was that?" asked Dr.Haverson "Oh nothing" she replied.
UNSC HQ Washington D.C
0600 2254 Mar, 20
Spartan-104 Fred's anger was rising steadily, anytime he asked to see HighCom security council he always got "The council is extremely busy at the moment, please wait" said the receptionist at the desk. A wait turned out to be 2 weeks until Fred was finally allowed to see the council. He got up and briskly strode to the double doors.
"Greetings, Spartan apparently you wanted to see me about something?" asked Ackerson. "Sir, with respect sir were are the other council members!" Fred asked.
"Admiral Hood has been organizing our fleet defense the Covenant assault force should be here soon" he replied
"The Generals are organizing our ground defense" said Ackerson. Now Fred was going to get to his original question.
"Sir, Spartan-117 Master Chief has not returned from his scouting misson, ordered to him 2 months ago, at 0700 hours on the 25th day, may I specualate the were abouts of the Chief" Fred asked, Ackerson shifted uncomfortably, even Section Two's propaganda could not completely cover the Chief's strange missing, Ackerson knew what happened he had been the cause of it.
"I'm sorry son, the UNSC has been conducting numorus search's for the Chief, and have had no success, I fear for the worst" replied Ackerson looking sincere. Fred bristled, and wanted to push the Colonel further, but he resigned himself, "Sir, I understand Sir!" he said straight-faced, Fred was sure he didn't understand.
"Which brings us to you, Spartan, You are probably the best unit in the entire UNSC military, which is why you should be preservered and not wasted." Said Ackerson
" Sir I understand sir!" said Fred.
"Here's what's going to go down, we cryogenically freeze 2 of the 3 Spartans, and put you on the planet the Chief went missing on, ONI has already established a base there, it is now a part of the Cole Protocol, because of the effects of cryo, you should be able to live until we wake you and when we need you again" said Ackerson.
"We were looking for voulenteer's" sighed Ackerson.
"Sir me and Spartan-058 will volulenteer for this operation!" said Fred trying to keep his face straight.
"And you know that by those orders you have send.....William is it? To his inevitable demise" growled Ackerson.
"Sir....Yes, Sir" said Fred.
"Excellent, let us proceed" said Ackerson.
14 years later......
UNSC Flagship-Covenant Death
O800 2568 Dec,5
Admiral William Gerard looked in despair at the planet they all had worked so hard to defend and had done so for the past 14 years, burned to a cinder.
Super MAC platform's drifted lifeless around the planet, burned hulks of UNSC and Covenant ships surrounded the planet.
"Lieutenant Grenier, take us into a slipspace secure ONI facility, relay orders to the remaning fleet ships and set randomized slipspace patteren" he pronounced, his thick Russian accent booming. Despite everything weapons upgrades, being accurate in slipspace and not to mention the new ground weapons and armor, it had all crumbled.
He sighed and rubbed his temples, time to tell you about the upgrades. Though ONI had not been able to reproduce the powerful plasma of the Covenant, they had been able to make CLB a concentrated laser beam, similar to what Sentinls on Halo used, except 10 times more powerful they were used on ships as point defense and in pistols, the pistols were not as powerful but could contain a stream of energy for about 50 seconds before they overloaded. And in lieu of Archer missiles, the fleet used plasma packed Orion missiles, which had been a huge success. By using the Covenants magnetic warping plasma ability, the missiles used this and warped drive plasma from the ships reactor, they stored it into Titanium-B class missile cases and fired them, they almost had the punch of a plasma torpedo but a little less. And then to replace the MAC cannon, MPL Magnetic Particle Launcher, by using the same ferrice-core projectile, they managed to coat them with plasma and launch them almost at the speed of light, these could be extreamly efficant in sniping Covenat craft that aproched there own fleet, they also took little time to recharge. This and countless, engine, reactor and sensor upgrades made the war tip in Humanity's favor, and only one class of ships sported all of these features, The Sun class ships.
Admiral Gerald looked at the rest of the Covenant fleet progressing toward them "Take us into slipspace Lieutenant Grenier and then we'll see if we can ambush them using the MPL's" he declared. The strange bubble of slipspace appered around all of the fleet's ships and they dove into the interdimension of slipspace.
An Even War:Part 3:Victory
Date: 19 December 2003, 9:41 PM
Colony Dwemer ONI Secure Facility:Section 4 HQ
0990 2568 Dec, 15
Fred awoke, in a shroud of mist and double-figures, as the form-fitting gel bed finally released his form. A figure in a white coat stood over him...."Dr.Halsey?" he croaked.
A brief laugh emmited from the figure, "No, Fred I am Dr.Michale Haverson" he said.
Haverson....Fred knew that man, he was the heroic Lieutenant that had stayed with Vice Admiral Whitecomb during the destruction of the Unyealding Hepyireon.
"Were am I?" Fred asked.
"ONI Section 4 HQ" replied Dr.Haverson, "You and I have been cryogenically frozen and awakened only.." He checked his wristwatch "2 hours ago" he said finally.
"Now come I have many things to show you, Spartan-058 will be awaken within the hour, but first we need to get you suited up" he proclaimed. Fred quickly went aft into the showers and washed, when he came out he put on a flight jumpsuit and followed the doctor down twisting corridors filled with people, it reminded him of ONI's CASTLE facility on Reach only that was destroyed. "Doctor, you said Section 4" asked Fred, being cautious. "No need to worry Section 4, is similar to Section 3 but is focused only on creating new equipment based on Covenant technologies" he said straight faced. "How long have I been in cryo for?" he asked. "14 years" the Dr. sighed, they passed a glass window, Fred looked inside, he saw a marine being fitted with an all black suit with spines coming out of the back of it, like a Covenant Hunter. Fred pointed to the man in the suit "What is that?" he asked as a puzzled expression flashed across his face, "We have been able to replicate the Covenant's Active-Camoflauge unit, that man is going to be the first of many stealth operatives being shipped out to make hit and run missions on Covenant worlds" he said with a grin on his face. Fred nodded enthusiastically. They finally stopped at a door that read ONI SECURE TEST FACILITY, the Dr. inputed a number of brainwave, x-ray and retinal scans before the bulkhead finally slid aside. Inside there was an obstacle course, target range and blast pit, numerous crates were laid out in around the area. "Come, Fred I have a lot to show you" he said picking up his pace, Fred bristled this man had called him by his first name twice and he barley knew the man. But Fred resigned his opinon for later, they stopped at a few crates in front of the obstacle course. "Put these on" said the Doctor, Fred opened the boxes to find a full set of MJOLINIR armor, he gasped at the different shapes of the pieces..they loked almost alien. The chest plate had 4 of the spines Fred had seen earlier, his helmet was elongated, the rest of the pieces were mostly the same. He quickly donned the armor and last put the helmet on his head. "Hello, Fred" said a female voice in his head. "Cortana!" exclaimed Fred, Cortana stifled a giggle "Yes it's me Fred no time for questions I've hacked into one of our long range probes and dectect multiple Covenant ships massing at....the Sol system" she said taking a brief pause at the end. "Listen Fred you and Linda are the only Spartans still alive, Earth has been glassed and the fleet is coming to this planet to protect it and hold them off for a little while" whispered Cortana. Fred balled his hand into a fist and smashed it against the wall, it cracked and dust spilled out of it. "Fred calm yourself!" screamed Dr.Haverson, "I know you have wanted Earth to remain as much as we did, and now we have to defend Dwemer, follow me the firing range" he said in his all to calm voice.
UNSC Flagship-Covenant Death
0100 2568 Dec 17
"Wait for it, wait Lieutenant Howard......NOW I want power back on now! Get our MPL's charged and get firing trajectories" barked Admiral Gerard. "Lieutenant Grenier, realy orders to the rest of the fleet, get power to there ships and fire MPL's at will!" he screamed at communications. "Sir message sent!" replied Lieutenant Grenier. On the view screen 50 UNSC ships lights winked on and a cherry red glowed on the bottom and top of the destroyers, and on the bottom of the frigates, the Covenant Death had four cherry red glows on the side and top/bottom of the ship.
The Covenant ships in system saw the Human ambush and struggled to get a good shot on the sneaky Humans, unfortunate for them, MPL shots flew through space, and before they knew what hit them half of the Covenant ships were either destroyed or disabled. "Howard! Get MPL's recharged, Lieutenant Winters! Shunt drive plasma and fill up our Orion missles!" He barked at the engineering officer
"Aye, sir plasma has be shunted, one salvo of missles ready to fire!" said Winters. "Howard fire those missiles, fire MPL's at will!" said Admiral Gerard at weapons. "Aye sir missiles away, MPL's have been fired" said Lieutenant Howard. On the view screen, red strobes flashed through space, and for every strobe a Covenant ship exploded or started spinning erratically. Orion missiles left red trails and impacted on the rest of the ships. Admiral Gerard sighed a victory, without one loss of a ship. "Leiuteant Grenier, set a course for slipspace, planet Dwemer" he barked, the treacherous humans fled into Slipspace again and left only the burned hulks of Coveanant space craft to show that they were there.
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