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Halo:The Fate of Earth by MetalGhost
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Halo:The Fate of Earth, Prologue
Date: 28 February 2004, 9:57 PM
Prologue:
Following the destruction of the unyielding hierophant. The Master Chief, his team, Cortana and Sgt Johnson made their way to earth in the UNSC frigate, the Gettysburg. The ship had been through a lot in the past 2 weeks and might as well have imploded in orbit around earth, for all the good it did when the engines failed on re-entry...
"EVERYBODY GET TO THE DOCKING BAY NOW!" ordered the Master Chief. He also told the real Cortana to copy herself again, so she could help the ship in any way she could from the bridge, and be safely inside the Chief's armour at the same time. Yet more bad news awaited them in the docking bay, not only was the room breached, with vacuum filling up all available air space, but there was U-shaped covenant drop ship parked next to the pelican and was thought to be a pile of junk, until the side doors opened and 20 grunts emerged. Linda whipped out her S2 AM sniper rifle and took about 5 grunts down before diving for cover, pink crystalline needles filled the space where she had stood. The Master Chief pulled out 2 sub-machine guns and sprayed the floor with shredder rounds. These rounds penetrated none of the grunts armour, but did sever the connection between their methane tanks and there mouth pieces. The remaining 3 were easily dispatched thanks to the rest of the team. Sgt Johnson was given breathing apparatus and the team entered the pelican, all except John, who paused to activate the frigates self-destruct mechanism. He cycled through the emergency airlock and told Fred, who was piloting, to get them out of that hunk of junk before the fail-safe's kicked in and the Gettysburg became nothing more than billions or fragments of metal. He couldn't risk letting the ship burn up on re-entry, it might not completely disintegrate and damage the cities that lay below them...
The pelican landed in New Zealand, the biggest military HQ on Earth, inside the office of naval intelligence. The team told the commander of everything new they had learnt about the covenant and the flood, and gave him detailed descriptions of everything each of them had been through in the last 2 weeks. Everyone was given 2 days full bed rest and after that, given permission to test the even newer weapons and accessories. The MA9B assault rifle had a permanent 2x scope mounted on top, a 70 round magazine that delivers 20 rounds per second, a sound and flash suppressor and boasted 8mm slugs, with the proper rate of fire, the rounds set the air behind them ablaze. The new warthog had undergone a total revamp, instead of high power halogen headlights; it sported 6-night vision, heat activated cameras, which fed back what they saw onto 6 mini monitors, each no bigger than the size of the average man's palm. The chain gun now had 6 barrels and 4 additional mortar cannons, 2 on the rear, 2 on the front. The man-riding shotgun no longer had to kneel on his seat, for now it was specially shaped, to reduce discomfort for whoever sat there. The driving was made easier and the overall colour and design was smaller, more efficient, and looked better.
The Master was then assigned to busting the lowlifes who committed crime in New Zealand, although it was a rubbish job, he liked the fact that crime in the small country and been halved, he was every criminals worse nightmare, not because he was almost undefeatable, but because there were rumours that many criminals had been killed when the Master Chief caught them, he just didn't know how much he hurt the common man. Occasionally he had to do some real work, eliminating a black market bazaar, putting down rebel rebellions and in one case, weeding out and eliminating a traitor inside fleetcom. After his most recent mission, the Spartans were taken to a secret testing facility in the Fragrants system, as soon as he came here, he saw 5 MJOLNIR suits on the wall, "The mark VI armour" he whispered. The armour had also had a total revamp; it looked nothing like his original suit, it appeared to have more refractive alloy layers, a slightly bigger fusion pack, and what appeared to be a more powerful shield mechanism, along with heat and night vision goggles. He stared in awe at it; it was, in a word, beautiful. The Spartans put on the armour and tested with it for about an hour. They took their new UNSC destroyer, the Vulture, got them back to earth in 3 hours flat, they all returned to HQ and spent another day or 2 deciding their next course of action.
There was suddenly a massive BANG! And everybody ran outside, parts of orbital MAC guns lay smoking in the street, with unmistakable plasma burns all over them. The silhouette of a covenant cruiser hovered overhead; visible through the thin cloud...The Master Chief uttered 1 word, "bollocks"...
Halo:The fate of earth Chapter 1 The beginning
Date: 3 March 2004, 9:46 AM
MC ran back inside, faster than he thought he could ever move to find his weapons and hog' he quickly found them, emerged from the building and proceeded to all the barracks, gathering all marines he could and sent radio transmissions all over the planet, telling them to expect invasion. Sure enough, 2 minutes later, over 200 enemy drop ships were visible descending into New Zealand...
The third of many drop ships to be dealt with that day was felled, as 6 jackhammer launchers targeted them then fired, the phantom became a million tiny pieces of alien metal and dust. However, there were reports that over 5 of the drop ships had landed near the office of naval intelligence, all carrying Brutes. The chief remembered these creatures from the Unyielding Hierophant, and wished his rifle had 10x scope, so he could take them out from a distance for all his other weapons were inside. Thankfully, there was a skilled ODST behind the wheel, because he flattened 4 of the 25 brutes before they knew what was going on. However, once they did know, the warthog was pelted with 20 or so grenades, and it exploded, MC's shielding took the force of the explosion, but they dropped just before the explosion had finished, leaving him burnt and crawling for his life. He dropped into the sewer shortly after and emerged 20 streets away, 2 ghosts immediately spotted him and they charged toward him...
The brute named Oktamee fired his last grenade at the reinforced doors of the base, they crumpled, and the warriors charged in, Oktamee at the rear, before he charged in however, he saw a ghost speeding towards him, "some backup" he muttered, before the ghosts plasma fire froze him in his tracks, and ate away at his armour. Finally he died a very painful death. And an unknown figure sped over his crumpled body into the building.
It was a deadly game of hide and seek inside, for if you were spotted, it wasn't very likely you would live. But MC was a pro, he took the maintenance tunnels to the armoury and picked up 2 SMG's and a Jackhammer launcher, nothing would get past him. He fired 2 rockets at the brutes that were hammering on the cafeteria door, one survived, until the plasma grenade on his head detonated. MC moved down the corridor, thanking the spider like adhesive pads on his feet and hands that he had noticed after he jumped into a wall to dodge a grenade, and stayed on the wall. Being on the ceiling was a tremendous advantage; because the enemy never looked there, he had killed several brutes while clinging for his life. Finally he rendezvoused with the rest of his team and they made their way through the building in Beta formation on the ceiling. Thankfully, there were only 2 brutes left, though their position was unknown. The Spartans finally made it to the buildings core. Gave their superior all the Intel they had, and were just about to request permission to evacuate him and his soldiers to a safely guarded stealth ship, when his head snapped back and he fell to the floor. The Spartans levelled their rifles at the air behind him, and saw a shimmer. Shit, they've got active camo he thought. He fired once, and the bullet ricocheted of the brute's helmet and into the ceiling, everybody acted at once, MC, Linda and Fred jumped to the ceiling and fired at thin air, an officer ran to a switch and turned the gravity off. Everybody floated around, except the Spartans who were stuck there by their own free will. 1 brute was easily dispatched as he killed an officer, it gave away his position to the Spartans and everyone fired. Another brute latched onto John and brought him crashing to the floor, not again he thought, but again it gave away the brutes position and he floated in the air, riddled with bullet holes. The Spartans were now in charge and they made everyone calm down, then they ran to the stealth ship. This ship wasn't a spaceship; it was designed for water, which according to the reports, the covenant had not taken. "Maybe we have an advantage on the water" he shouted, "we can reach almost any country and land almost anywhere, we have the element of surprise". Sure enough, the water was free from the alien scourge, but not for long, once they were spotted. The covies would either launch water attack craft of design some, and then unleash them. But earth would not fall, He would see to that...
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