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The Last Forerunner by Sentinel
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The Last Forerunner Part 1:The Battle of Halo
Date: 28 November 2003, 8:37 AM
The Marines had spent the last two hours fightng the Covenant non-stop,and never stopping to rest.Their only help was SPARTAN-117,the Master Chief.
"I hope that's the last of them."Said Sergeant Rick Johnson as he spat on the corpse of an Elite. "I seriously doubt it,"remarked Private Smith.
"Shut yo' mouth boy!" yelled the sergeant. The Chief looked around,ignoring the bickering,exhasted soldiers.He was on Halo,Instillation 01;the original Halo.He could tell that they were going to have one helluva time on this ring.
"Enemy dropship sighted!" The Master Chief immediatly stood up,his tiredness forgotten."Let's get 'em Marines!"he yelled as charged into the open space where the dropship had landed.A Marine with a rocket launcher reached the spot before the Chief and the others,and steadied the launcher on his shoulder,aimed,and fired at the U-shaped dropship as it was unloading its troops. Every Elite,Grunt,and Jackal inside the dropship was blown into oblivion.The Covenant that had jumped out was a different story altogether.A Jackal that had escaped the explosion had hid behind a rock,over-charged hisplasma pistol,and lept out of cover to fire at the Marine with the launcher.
The Marine saw the Jackal and fired the second rocket,but the Jackal had also fired.The plasma and the rocket passed each other by mere millimeters.Both shots flew straight and true.The plasma hit the Marine in the face,melting the skin and killing him,but the rocket had a much bigger effect.The 102mm projectile hit the Jackal at the feet and blew it,and the rest of the Covenant troops,into oblivion.
The Master Chief had finally reached the area and saw the Marine's body.He knelt on one knee and took the leatherneck's dog tags.He looked around and saw the bodies.He didn't die in vain,the Chief thought.He turned around.SPARTAN-117 looked directly at the sergeant."We need to get to the control center ASAP."
"Roger that,"the sergeant replied,then yelled to his Marines."We've got to move now or we're all dead.You got me Marines!" Then came the half-weary reply."Sir yes sir!"
The Master Chief took point and ran ahead.He had to slow himself down considerably to let the Marines catch up.The Covenant had probably givin up,because the Covenant had been leaving them alone.He couldn't have been more wrong.
After an hour of running they had made it to the valley that held the control center.
"Oh my God."said a Marine in shock as he looked into the grass-filled,Covenant-filled valley.The swarm consisted of a few hundred Elites,thousands of Grunts and Jackals,and tens of Hunters.This was clearly an army.
Some were rushing into an open hatch while the rest where firing at an open crcle area.
"Let me see your sniper rifle,"the Master Chief said to a Marine next to him."Sure,"the Marine replied,handing the Chief his sniper rifle.Th Spartan set the rifle to 10x magnification.He focused on the group in the cicular break of the swarm of Covenant. Ten human-shaped things in chrome-colored armor weilding gold-colored plasma rifles were figting with amazing skill. They were about as tall as Elites, and wore nearly the same type of armor.The skill they fought with could not be matched.The Master Chief aimed at one of the things head,an pulled the trigger.
The bullet flew straight into the creature's head.There was a strange moment before its head exploded!So,these things can be killed by a sniper rifle,he thought.The Master Chief then began picking off the Hunters and Elites,one by one every few seconds.The rest of the Marines with sniper rifles joined him.It was a massive melee with plasma firing in every direction,and sniper fire from the valley hills.Eventually the Covenant started falling in tens at a time.
Then one Marine too eager to kill something,knelt down on one knee and fired his rocket launcher.The rocket hit an Elite and killed five others beside it."You idiot!"Sergeant Johnson yelled as he killed another Hunter.The careless Marine looked at his superior officer in disbelief.He realized what Sarge had ment when a fuel rod gun blast took his life.
The Master Chief watched the plasma rocket toward them,and knew the element of surprise was gone for good,this time anyway.He stood up and yelled."Fire at will!"
Every Marine with a rocket launcher fired simultaniously on the Covenant,and blastin' them to hell!.The Chief gave the sniper rifle back to the Marine that he barrowed it from.Then ran to grab a launcher.He picked up the nearest one and hoped that it was loaded.It was.He aimed the the rocket tube toward an army of Grunts and fired!The rocket hit a Grunt and sent twenty others with it!The blast must have triggered a hundred plasma gernades and blew about a thousand extra Grunts with it.
The Covenant had been clearly broken down to a more managable size. A Marine fired the last rocket in his launcher a blew about a hundred more Covenant "downstairs".This battle was over.
To be continued..
The Last Forerunner(before part 1): Toward Another Halo
Date: 30 November 2003, 12:00 AM
"-And that means that that a Covenant armada is approaching an area in space that recent scans have showed-" Admiral Stanforth paused for a moment."That another of these 'Halo worlds' are in this area."
A hand sprang from the crowd of people in the auditorium then fell."What is Halo?"
Lots of murmuring filled the room, many strange voices could be heard. Voices that said,"You mean you haven't heard of Halo", "What the hell are you talking about", and "Who are you?"
Admiral Stanforth spoke again."In case of those who haven't heard...Halo is an artificial world that has unimaginable power. It has enough power to wipe out everything in the galaxy; humans, Covenant, and just about everything else."
"How do you know about Halo?"
Admiral Stanforth hit a switch and turned on a projection of Halo. "We learned about this from the data that the Master Chief and the AI Cortana brought had with them when they were found." He then flicked another switch to show a picture of a "human" Flood combat form. "This is a Flood, notice how it resembles a human. That's because this creature was once a human." He then flicked another switch, and another picture of Flood appear. "The tall creature was once a Covenant Elite," he pointed to a carrier form. "And this was either a Jackal or Grunt." Another switch, another Flood shot. This one showed a small, circular thing with tentacles. "This is what they call an "infection" form. These are the things that turn something into a Flood. Only Hunters seem to not be able to be infcted."
The projection turned off. "Any questions?"
Nothing happened for the next five seconds. "Thank you." Admiral Stanforth stepped off the podium.
* * * *
The Laviathan sped through slipspace, heading toward another of the "who knows how many" Halo worlds. The bridge was a very quiet place. The only place in the entire crusier that had noise was the cryo bay...
"We're approaching the system with Halo. Hurry up and unfreeze him!" Cryo Tech Officer James Caraway shouted to the Junior Officer stationed in the observation theater.
"Yes sir," Kyle Polar said. He hit a controls, and steam started to come from the cryotube. "The ice is melting, he's hot." The Cryotube started to open, with steam billowing out.
* * * *
The Master Chief looked around. He could see strange things in the area around him, and they started to form into humans. The Chief had been put into the cryotube with his armor on. This had been done before, and no one seems to care. The disorientation had passed, and he reviewed his mission: 1. Locate the ring's control center, 2. Place a twenty tousand megaton nuke, 3. Get the hell out of there and send the signal to detonate it while in the Laviathan.
Things had become clear to the Master Chief. He stepped out of the cryotube and standing, looking down on the cryo tech standing near him. "Thanks," the Master Chief said.
"Your welcome."
Then the normal out-of-armor cryotube tests began, and ended. He then exited out of the cryo bay and walked down the corrider to the Marine's weapons locker.
The room was stuffed with every kind of human weapon;MA5B assault rifles, frag grenades, M6D pistols, ect. The Chief picked up a shotgun and MA5B, four fragmentation grenades, ten ammo clips for the assault rifle, and sixty extra shotgun shells.
Sergeant Rick Johnson walked up to him,"You ready Chief?"
"Yes." He slung the rifle up against his shoulder.
He fallowed the sergeant to the drop bay. The pelicans were stored in rows along the outer wall. The Marines were checking the equipment. There was about fifty of them, and only three pelicans available.
"Marines!" The Marines snapped to attention. "Now, we're ging down onto a Halo world hoping to these sons of bitches that the human race is the only thing they cannot destroy. We're going down there to destroy another thing that they thought was invincable. But they're wrong, very wrong."
He glanced at the Master Chief. "And we have to support the Master Chief. For he is our only help with this mission.
"This may be suicide. It could be. And now my little speech is over."
Sergeant Johnson stepped away from the Marines and the Master Chief. "Go back to what you were doing."
* * * *
"Get on the pelican, soldier!" Sergeant Johnson barked into a Marine's ears.
"Yes sir."
It had been two and a half hours since Johnson's little speech, and they were now being loaded onto the three pelicans. They had exited slipspace into this Halo system. Now had come the moment everyone was waiting for, to blow up Halo. Scans had shown that this was the oldest Halo(there was sensors in every star system). No Covenant ships were in-system(very surprising, isn't it?).
The pelicans left the Laviathan, and headed toward Halo. The Master Chief looked around at the grim faces in the pelican. He knew that most of these Marines didn't want to be here. Most of these Marines might die in this mission. And some always will.
The pelicans soared into the atmosphere. Covenant troops could be seen as the hatch opened, showing them the landscape. A Wraith hurled mortor bombs at the pelican behined the one with the Master Chief. After five consecutive hits, the dropship exploded!
Thank god that I wasn't in that one, the Master Chief thought. No way was that gonna be him. The Wraith then targeted the pelican that was behind the destroyed dropship. It was destroyed when the pelican landed.
"Let's go Marines!" Sergeant Johnson yelled. The Master Chief filed out with the Marines. The Wraith began to throw morter bombs at their position. "Someone take that out!"
Five rockets, from rocket launchers of course, flew toward the morter tank. It tied to dodge, but was too late. The Wraith blew up in a firery embrace(along with five Covenant soldiers).
The Master Chief looked down and sighed. This was gonna be a long day.
To be continued...
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