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Capturing the Beast by JAfdifai'fih
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Part I Boarding
Date: 11 September 2003, 2:02 AM
UNSC Shipyard 11324B Expiremental Shipyard
Breif: Test new classified ship, the Gravity Cannon
Test nanodiamond hull
Test zero point reactor
10/2/2623
Military brass, corporate officials, and pyshicists lined up the metal conference room. On the veiw port they could see the scarred, battle-scorched Earth, now under rebuilding. Humanity had managed to drive out the Covenant, at a deadly cost. Now they would need to strike back. They were talking, pouring coffee from bland, metal containers when a top military researcher walked in. "Greetings, I an Dr. Kenley. As you know, we have need of better weaponry to fight the Covenant. We can beat the Covenant ship to ship, thanks to new particle weaponry, and bombarde planets with hell bore cannons, but they will always outnumber us, so we will need a ship capable of destroying multiply ships at a time, and a powerful ship, too. We have a solution", he said. A holopanel showed up in the middle of the desk, showing a large, hollowed out cylander, with a thick armor, and the front part opened up, the back part closed. It was a light blue, white shining color, and it showed it had a hull made out of nanodiamond, 30 solid meters of it. The nanodiamond was also laced with superconductors, to absorb Covenant plasma shots. It was gargantuan, dwarfing even the largest Covenant cruisers, only to be smaller than dreadnaughts. Next to the readouts it showed:
Armament: 1 Zero Point Disruptor
Power- 23^17 joules
6 Electropeizic Infinity Repeaters
Energy Source: 1 Zero Point Vortex Generator
Officers oohed and ahhed at the look of the ship.
"What is a zero point disruptor", asked a military official. "We have pioneered into the feild of Zero Pont Energy, which takes an enormous amount of energy from a small space in an infinite power cource, the vacuum itself, teeming with particles popping in and out. Our vortex generator creates a vortex and taps into the energy. The disruptor can disrupt and bend zero point energy feilds around target ships, literally crushing them from the energy and gravitametic fallout. It has a very wide firing range, so destroying a horde of ships wouldn't be that much of a problem. The Infinity Repeaters fire bolts of electricity at targets, firing at a very rapid rate and capable of taking seraphs in one shot. The ship also has 3 Heavy sheilds, each always regenerating, much more efficient than the Covenant's. The zero point disruptor is also not affected by sheilding", explained Kenley. "We already have a pilot, one is enough. He is connected to cybernetic implants, already on the ship. He will leave dock in five minutes", said another brass. "We have also installed a breaching pod on the bottom for a boarding party, so that we can board a Covenant ship and learn the location of their homeworld. Our team consists of only 2 Spartan IIIs", said another military official. "Two Spartan IIIs? What are Spartan III's? Will they be sufficient?", asked the many people. "The Spartan III is an enhanced Spartan II. They are protected by sheilding, as well as nanodiamond armor. They have cloaking feilds, cybernetic enhancement, and retain invisible to Covenant scanners. They are armed with the latest in ground weaponry", explained the military scientists. He came around another table and pointed to a short, black rifle like think with what it looked like a tesla coil at the end. "This is a lightning gun, capable of firing a 1.5 megawatt discharge, enough to do damage to Covenant ships. It is also powered by zero point energy feilds", he explained He pointed to another black rifle, except it was slightly longer and had three barrel like protrusions. "This is the reaper, capable of firing 600 shots for minute, much to a machine gun. It fires short pulse laser blasts, at a very rapid rate like a machine gun. It has infinite ammo from the zero point feild generators on the wepaon", he explained. "Sir, the Pheonix is ready", said the intercom. "That's the name of this new ship, the Pheonix", he said.
Human Cruiser Pheonix
Same date
Kristoff stopped the ship from hyperspace. The large cylander lunged itself out, its energy banks always recharging from the vast energy. The boarding craft read ready, and Kristoff scanned the area for where the Covenant were supposed to be. There was the assault group, of 5 assault carriers, 10 destroyers, and 20 heavy cruisers. They found him, and they slipstreamed to a closer spot. They came out, and began to charge their weapons. Fighters where beginning to launch. Kristoff charged his zero point disruptor. It took an aweful long time for it to charge, but his heavy sheilds were absorbing the damage, adding more energy to his vast pool. Sheilds went to 98%, all of the ships fired plasma torpedoes. 'They are no match', thought Kristoff. The assault carriers launched their hordes of Seraphs. Kristoff knew about the Seraphs, the tiny fighters that were so manuverable. Now they where nothing more than pests. The large, blue assault carriers began to fire their plasma torpedoes and pulse cannons, all of the energy absorbed. The hordes of tiny Seraphs fired their little green neutron cannons, to ne effect to the Pheonix. The Zero point energy disruptor was ready. He aimed the ship at a group of closely packed Covenant ships, and fired. There was no sound, no noise in the vast ship, just the large holopanel showing the group of 32 ships crushed by an unknown force. 32 explosions resulted from the compression of their fusion reactors, and debri flew everywhere. Now 2 ships remained, a lone assault carrier, a destroyer, and the hordes of Seraphs, 242 in all. His 8 infinite repeaters fired, raining white, blinding bolts upon the hordes, knocking them all out. The firing lasted for 13.23 seconds, and there were no more Seraphs. Since he couldn't fire his zero point energy cannon at the assault carrier for he would destroy the small destroyer they were going to capture, he fired his infinite repeaters. Bolt after bolt flew accross the stars, and struck the large, blue orb with effeciency. The ships sheilds, dimmered, then went out, and the white bolts kept raining down, melting the hull and causing small explosions accross the thick armor. It exploded into another plume of fire. The destroyer was about to turn away. He fired the bolts at the ship's sheilds and engines, tryng to prevent it from going away. The ship's sheilds went out faster, and it was dead in the water. He ordered the boarding ship away, and transmitted a message.
Covenant destroyer 'Talon of Fury'
Same Date
Kolor'Orroh was very, very irate. His entire protecting ships had been destroyed in one shot by one large ship, and a lone assault carrier and the numerous Seraphs blown by the little white electric bolts. He couldn't flee, but he surely couldn't fight the massive ship. "Sir, the ship is sending a smaller craft over", he said. "Fire weapons at the boarding craft", ordered Kolor'Orroh, a gold Elite with a shimmering plasma sword and two plasma rifles slung to his legs. Electric bolts rained from the ship, destroying all of the weapons in seconds. Now they were defensless. "Sir, weapons have been destroyed", said a red elite. Great. The energy from the weapons exploded in plumes over the ship, melting away some of the hull. The tiny ship loomed towards the defensless ship. "Sir, we are picking up a transmittion", said the red elite. "Where is it coming from?", asked Kolor'Orroh. "The ship. The signatures appear to be human", said the red elite. Human? They couldn't build a ship like that! But Kolor'Orroh remembered that the human ships could beat Covenant one on one. He remembered fighting one, it's green laser hell and large hellbore cannons tearing through his ship--. Kolor'Orroh snapped back. "On veiw screen", he said. A tan human in a blue diamond back round was sitting on a large, gell like couch, with computer implants on his skull. He looked solem. "I am Kristoff from the United Nations Space Command, representing humanity. Surrender your ship, or I will have to take it from force", he said. "Never", said Kolor'Orroh, in the deepest voice he could make. The transmittion ended. "Sir, the boarding ship is on our hull", said the red elite. "Prepare all crews for boarding parties. Put guards in this command center, they will definitelly attack here", said Kolor'Orroh.
Spartan III 'John'
John checked his weaponry. He had his lightning cannon, his repeater, and his sheilds where brimming on full. The other Spartan III, a stocky man sitting quietly, was ready. The tiny boarding ship hit the destoyer. John remembered the destroyer being the pinnacle of the Covenant fleet, nearly indestructable. Now the zero point ship destroyed 34 of those ships. The cutting laser drilled a hull into the hull and presurrized. The hatch opened, and John and Scott, the other Spartan III, slowly crept into the belly of the destroyer.
Part 2 Capture
Date: 12 September 2003, 1:06 AM
Covenant Destroyer
10/2/2623
John 117 knew why command chose a destroyer to capture. Not only was it the smallest Covenant capital ship, with a lower crew, but it has less of a fighting crew, and no armies on board, unlike frigates and cruisers which carry thousands of Covenant. The destroyer is solely ment for space fighting, and not for landing troops. A perfect target. The other Spartan III ran down the cooridor, going in a separate direction to kill the crew off while John would head to the bridge. John looked more of a Titan now, his shiny black armor and his lightning cannon, plus his reaper, capable of ripping apart lines of enemies. John silently walked through the cooridor. His footsteps didnt make a sound, and he was invisible from a claoking device on his Spartan III nanodiamond armor. A red elite, armed with a needler, was in a hub, standing in front of a holo panel. John read the map and it was the weapons consol. The red elite was mad. John had remembered red elites with needlers, shooting and shooting those plasma darts like a machine gun. The elite was unaware of him. He crept up slowly, and noticed it was alone. He walked up behind it. The elite may have noticed John standing behind him, but John grabbed the three massive jaws with his exoskeleton hand, and twisted it sharply, breaking it's neck. The elite fell to the ground, flopped around a bit, and blue ooze came out of its eyes. Dead before it knew it. A grunt peeked around the corner and saw the dead body, and picked up it's plasma pistol from its hoster. 4 more grunts and two jackals came out of the cooridor and picked up their weapons, looking for the target. John got his lightning cannon, aimed it at the center and fired. There was a loud boom, no recoil, and a blinding white light, as a bolt of electricity hit the group. There was a laoud explosion, and blue blood flew everywhere, spilling some on John's invisible suit. There was a large hole into the next deck where the Covenant stood. The gun was too powerful, so he got his much heavier reaper. He went down a few cooridors, and reached the hangar bay. Two massive doors opened, and it showed the dropships and seraph fighters being disengaged to fight the cylander behemoth, to get cut down by the infinity peisoelectric bolt repeaters on the cylander. He crept behind storage crates where two jackals were arguing, and proceeded to the next door, opened it, and slipped inside. After passing another cooridor, he reached the control center of the ship. It was smaller than the control center of the cruiser he was on, but not much of a difference. There was a purple deck above the room, with large holo panels. There were three gold elites on the bridge, 10 red elites armed with needlers and rifles, 7 cloaked elites with plasma swords, about 30 SpecOp grunts with fuel rods, 25 jackals in phalanx formation, 17 SpecOps Elites, and 4 hunters, waiting. John thanked whatever that there wheren't any of those Brutes. John stood in a dark cooridor, unnoticed. He contacted the other Spartan III. "Where are you?", asked John. "Below the bridge", he said in a husky voice. "Prepare to fire", he said. A few seconds slipped slowly by. "Use your lightning cannon", said John. "Fire!', he said again. John and the other Spartan III fired their lightning cannons. John's first bolt went into the grunts, an explosion deatomizing half and killing the others nearbye. The other Spartan's hit the red elites, killing them and some of the gold elites.John and the other fired two more bolts until what was left where the hunters, jackals, elites, and two gold elites. "Save one gold elite", said John. They took out their repeaters as the Covenant regrouped after the vicious attack. The repeaters fired bursts of short, red bolts, continuously. The red bolts ripped elites in half. A hunter charged John. John fired his reaper at the hunter, the bolts ripping the hunter into peices. The other hunter charged its fuel rod cannon, but red bolts cut him into orange blood. Jackals fired everywhere, some of the bolts hitting John, the sheilds absorbing all of the energy. He fired his reaper accross the Jackals, slicing their formations. The room was silent accept for two gold elites standing on the bridge with their plasma swords drawn. John fired a bolt at the head of one of the gold elites, killing it instantly. The other one tried to pounce John, but the other Spartan grabbed it and threw it onto the ground, not to hurt it. Jon injected it with a serum that knocked it out cold. John and the other Spartan decloaked, revealing night black suits. John looked around the control room for the computer hard drive. He linked up to his AI, old time Cortanna. "Find the computer hard drive", said John. Cortanna brimmed with computer cymbols, then an idea popped up. "Over in that cylander in the side", she said in her sassy voice. John opened a container in the far back, and there was a 3 inch in length crystalline cube. John put it in an armored compartment of his suit, and the two Spartan IIIs ran back to their boarding craft. As the boarding craft flew away, Cortanna said "Here's a little party favor" and the destroyer blue into blue flames. The Spartans took off the gold elites weapons and put him in a force field cell. The cylander opened a slipstream point, and went back to Earth with their new data and Prisoner of War.
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