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The assualt on earth by Vorengaffer
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The assualt on earth: Part One
Date: 17 September 2005, 11:49 am
Chapter one:
Orbital M.A.C. platform Malta in orbit around Earth,
October 20th, 1252, military calendar
1437 time
Will stood at attention saluting the captain of the Malta, then headed off to the transport ships so he could head over to the Cario and meet up with John-117 better known as the master chief. Just as he reached the doors to the ship a marine interrupted.
"Covenant warships, just off Mars." Yelled a marine standing at the navigation terminal, he hit a button and strobe red lights blinked on.
Then a voice came over speaker,
"This is fleet admiral Harper I am engaging the enemy." And the main view screen that had been until recently showing the U.N.S.C.D.F. logo switch to show an assortment of ships heading towards the convenent battle group.
"Negative Admiral pull back defend the orbital cannons" came an order from Admiral Hood on the M.A.C. station Cario 2000km distant.
The view screen changed once again to show the orbital weapons testing facility above mars, and a light flashing to indicate a incoming message.
"We intercepted a message it says…." The communication was cut, but the sound of air and metal exploding as boiling hot plasma burned it's way through the facility was still present until that washed into static. About twenty more reports just like this came unto screen and will saw one saying. Civilian ship hit, passengers equal 674 people.
"boarding craft inbound prelimery count 28 heading for us" yelled the navigation marine again.
"Will, Linda get a gun protects this cannon." Ordered the captain them moved onto another screen
"Linda you go down to firing control make sure they don't take that out, I'll stay here and protect the captain" said will while loading and prepping a battle rifle and two pistols which he put in his hip holsters.
She ran out the door leading towards firing control with 13 marines following her then Bang. Came the sound of a boarding craft hitting just out side the control room.
"Get Everone in here and shut that door count to four and vent the entire atmosphere in that room" ordered Will to no one in particular but was happy to see several people respond to his call. Soon the doors clanged shut and then Will heard the muffled hissing and gurgles of numerous elite dying without the oxygen. Just as the door was opening a corporal yelled out the obvious,
"The grunts will still be there so don't fill in your R'an'R sheets just yet." He looked particularly at a group of soldiers that were talking to them self ignorant to the desperateness of the situation.
The door hissed open and on the other side was smoke and it was apparent that at least two of the grunts or elites had let loose a plasma grenade and they had hit a fuel valve, so not only were the grunts scared of blowing themselves up a few weer also on fire.
"Fire, Fire Open Fire." Yelled Will and the soldiers happily obliged sending over 30 marines worth of metal and grenade into the fray. Needless to say the grunts were down on a matter of seconds, but the real threat came from the second and third wave of aliens that dropped out of the boarding craft. Though there wasn't many elites as most had died in there scramble to try and get the first kill.
A 50. cal opened up and blew an elite clean in half and also ignited a grunts methane tank and while it was running around in a panicked frenzy it sent intricate arcs and twirls in the smoke. Will chucked a fragmentation grenade into the group and when it exploded it blew three grunts to ribbons and took a leg of a nearby silver clad elite, but it limped back up and was finally killed under a hail of bullets form the marines that had been talking to them self.
And so it went for a full half hour a group of convenent would appear and the soldiers would chuck two or three grenades into them and finish them of with a curtain of lead from the guns, the only notable thing that happened was a sword bearing elite appeared and killed four marines before being killed.
Then a message appeared on Will's HUD,
"Their was too many of them they broke through our lines they've bought a bomb with them and armed it." Will stepped forward to head down to firing control when Linda said over the com. "no you get off this station I'll do what I can against the bomb. Will took the order and gathered as many people as he can and lead them to the escape pods they hopped in and took off.
Authors note: There will be more to this, I don't know how many chapters but I'm planning of adding two more characters and set it out similar to Halo: The flood (with a chapter or two each character)
The assualt on earth: Part two
Date: 21 September 2005, 4:26 am
Chapter two:
Orbital M.A.C. platform Malta in orbit around Earth,
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1443 time
Linda ran into the firing control room and quickly cleared the room of the three grunts in there. Advance scouting party the rest will be here soon she thought to herself.
"Set up those blockades and arm those motion sensor mines" she ordered to the group of ten marines coming in behind her, the rest had died on the way down when a group of Bugs ambushed them.
After about three minuets of waiting the door burned red hot then melted away at the core leaving a gaping hole big enough to fit three Elites side by side. Three shots rang out and three grunts fell holes spewing translucent blue blood onto the deck, then an Elite came and chucked a plasma grenade and it adjured it self to Linda's helmet blocking off her view. With her adrenalin pumping everything slowed down to snail pace while she unclasped her helmet and threw it back towards the door thumping the Elite in the head with a dull kwathump, the dazed Elite took a second to recover from the shock of 10 kilograms of solid metal hitting it on the head, but that was one second to slow and the grenade detonated enveloping the Elite in the blast and then there was nothing left. After the initial shock of losing the forward party the Covenant regrouped and sent in at least 20 drones to harass the marines while more slipped in under the cover. A look to her right made Linda see three marines fall in quick succession forcing Linda to call a retreat. She ran to the door and while see was waiting for the marine to catch up she saw the aliens pull in a purple spiky thing that with a quick search on the navy computers it turned out to be a bomb equivalent to a nuke, she shut the door and turned around formulating a plan in her head. She saw that there was only four more marine left.
"We can't wait out here because they have the bomb they know we will have to go back in there" said Linda to what passed for the marine leadership.
"Well we reload our guns and get the hell back in there" replied the Sergent.
"Just wait I have to send a message to Will." Said Linda accessing the com channels.
"Their was too many of them they broke through our lines they've bought a bomb with them and armed it." Then Linda thought that Will would proberly come down here and said "no you get off this station I'll do what I can against the bomb." Then turning to the Sergent, "Ok let's go"
Linda fired her sniper rifle removing the head of a veteran grunt, one of the rookies took one look at the decapitated corpse and ran away only to be killed by some marines hiding around the other corner. They moved into the firing control room and opened fire on the large collection of aliens there. They had dug in well, they even used there own dead as shields and blockades. And in the corner of her eye Linda saw a bright flash of light and realised that it was the Athens exploding, she went around the corner and silently grieved for her fellow Spartan Fred was onboard while his presence had faded from her systems, she turned that grief into cold hard hatred and a vow to get revenge on all her brothers and sisters in the Spartan program. She rounded the corner and fired two shots in quick succession from her sniper rifle and removed another Elite from the battle. A small check confirmed that she was out of ammo so she took a SMG from a dead O.D.S.T lying on the ground.
A scream from behind made her turn around and she saw that all four of her marines had been sliced and diced by the last Elite and it was wielding a glowing hot energy sword. Linda rushed forward which was the last thing the Elite expected and charged straight into it Linda then proceeded to apply pressure to the Elites had until it dropped the sword. The Elite kneed her in the gut forcing her of the ledge Linda grabbed the Elite as well and they both fell. By some measure of luck they had fallen down right next door to where the M.A.C. rounds loaded into the cannon and from there on in it was a violent struggle for each fighter to gain the upper hand. Then Linda got the Elite in the neck and squizzed hard till the Elites eyes nearly popped out and she heard a crunch as the soft bone surrounding its neck caved in. Before the Elite could die she chucked the Elite into the firing tube and before the Elite had time to react she had sealed it shut saying.
"Get the hell away from earth, you split jawed freak." She then hit the fire button and the Elite was blasted into space at over 300 thousand km per second.
Linda ran to the bomb and had one look at it and thought I'm not disarming this without help. She contacted Cortana and asked how to disarm the bomb, the reply was,
"Wait a bit I've got to adjust the carios firing angle. Now to the bomb place your hand on the glowing panel and push the centre sphere hard. Linda rushed to do it and just as her hand hit the bomb it grew extremely hot and then exploded in a magnificent flash of plasma blue and in the nano second that Linda was alive she thought…..
Dang it.
The Assualt on Earth: Parts Three and Four
Date: 28 September 2005, 2:58 am
Chapter three:
Orbital M.A.C. platform Malta in orbit around Earth,
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1521 hours
The escape pod disconnected from the Malta: on board the captain and eight marines plus the seven foot tall Spartan standing there so composed in side his amour it betrayed his inner thoughts. Will moved to the back of the escape pod were there was a large window mainly to see what was tailing you down and to see what happened to the object you were escaping from, he stared out of it searching for any hope of his fellow Spartan Linda getting out. Nothing happened for a full 20 seconds then there was a flash around the centre of the station then it grew larger engulfing the station in flame then it cleared leaving no trace if the most powerful weapon capable of defending Earth. Bye Linda, you are finally at peace Will sullenly thought to himself, he listed her as MIA according to the NavSpecWar regulations pertaining to the Spartan program and did a small double take noticing that Fred's name was listed under MIA and remembered that he was making a speech on the Athens only three of us left.
"Get set for evasive manoeuvres" yelled the pilot. The statement was followed by dull thumps on the outer hull of the ship and when a piece of concrete struck the window Will understood that it was parts of the Malta.
Now the Malta was gone he could see the full scope of the conflict raging behind it, he counted roughly 70 Human war ships currently engaged with the Covenant force of 15. Unfortunately the rest of the Fleet was denied battle for fear of these 15 being a diversion. The sister station to the Malta and Athens, the Cario, fired a slug from its huge barrel. It hit an alien ship tearing off the back of it; the rest of the hull succumbed to the pressure of all the air leakage and imploded on itself leaving only a glittering dust cloud in its wake. The Athens reloaded and sent another round straight through the nose of another ship obliterating it, regrettably it had already fired a salvo of plasma that burned its way through a Marathon class cruiser igniting it at its engine core leading to it exploding, now with a hole in the defence grid one of the two assault carriers went through. The Cario fired at the assault carrier, but the rapidly approaching ship was to close to aim at properly and the Cario missed sending a round deep into space.
"We have to get away from that hold on" said the pilot. The escape pod changed course to show a second Covenant assault carrier in view. It was in a fight with a Halcyon class cruiser, but Will's attention was more fixated on the seraph fighter heading straight for them.
"This is Spartan Will calling out to any fighters in the area we need immediate assistance, on the double"
"This is crow 12 and 13 we read you and are on the way." seconds later just when Will had lost all hope rage three missiles streaked across the escape pod's portside hitting the alien craft dead centre, the first two knocked out its shields and the third missed. Two more missiles were quickly fired past and turned the fighter into a firestorm which at the centre Will thought he could see the silhouette of a pilot then it was gone.
"Sorry we can't stay around but we got a battle to win" with that they zoomed off towards the assault carrier.
"hang on were beginning the decent" said the pilot and the escape pod dipped down towards earth.
Chapter four:
Above New Mombassa.
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1601 time
They had been slowly descending for half an hour when it all went wrong.
Will heard a bang and a scream followed by the sight of the front of the escape pod blowing apart. Alarms rang out and the emergency chutes deployed but the pod had gained too much speed and headed for a bridge in the distance.
"This is William calling immediate assistance we are hit and falling into a hot combat zone, I say again we need immediate assistance" Something blew up and the Escape pod flipped over exposing the sky above, seeing his chance Will sprang out of the hole bracing himself for any impact. In his peripheral vision Will saw the pod plough through the bridge and land in the water.
Will extending his arms to control and slow his decent, just noticed a building in his path. Quickly retracted his arms contorting his body into a sort of cube shape he redid himself for the impact,
oh yeah smashing through the scenery after escaping from a flying vehicle was so fun last time I just had to do it again, god I'm going to die.
He hit mach one and as expected a sonic boom rang out.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…." Will's scream was cut off by the rather loud sounds of him ploughing straight though the building. Exploding on the other side in a cloud of debris he proceeded to hit the reinforced hull of a wraith tank. Recovering faster than the startled Covenant, he took out his combat knife and shoved it with all his might into the base of the only Elite there ignoring the unbelievable pain all over his body. After 12 short seconds he dispatched of the enemy and a quick check confirmed his thoughts, most of his suite and him were damaged; he had two ribs broken both knees displaced and his suite had a totalled visor. Having assessed the damage Will grabbed his knees and popped them into place winching at the pain it caused, after a few seconds of jogging on the spot he stalked off into the conflicted city.
The Assualt on Earth: Part 5
Date: 16 October 2005, 9:19 am
Chapter five:
New Mombassa.
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1543 time.
"Blow the charges" ordered Warrant officer 1st class Heath Kalder, a Privet did so and an explosion echoed all over the market place, caving in one of the two entrances into the markets of New Mombassa. Being a five kilometre around square, situated right in the heart of the city it was first place the Covenant landed there Phantom dropships. The Armed forces had deployed 300 men and woman reinforcements into the area an hour ago to help the beleaguered marines in the area take back the Market.
A beam of energy came from no where and struck Heath in the gut, his armour took the brunt of the blast but it still heated up his skin 'till it burned.
"Second floor on the right" he said, looking up he saw the platoon's sniper, fire a shot then keel over with a smoking hole in his forehead. "I've got it" yelled Heath and ran over to the snipers body picked up the gun and fired another shot and through the scope saw a Jackal's head blow apart. He turned around and the full extensity of the battle, hit him; there was carnage all over the place, not 30 meters away a group of marines were pinned down away by a group of four Elites. He took his platoon of seven people to flank them. Running over the slightly spongy ground of the market he fired his rifle at the Elite and took down its shields in a matter of seconds. Then with a couple more shots began to reduce its head to pieces that is until his ammunition counter red Zero. Dropping his rifle he took out his two 9mm pistols and fired at an approaching grunt putting twin holes in its chest. He saw in the corner of his eye three soldiers disintegrate with a blue flash as a plasma grenade exploded in front of them and another soldier fall under a stream of plasma coming from a turret coming from an unknown source.
"Push them back out of this area." Came the order from who ever was now in charge, at that the soldiers regrouped and moved forward in a line, Heath was in the left side and they ran into four Hunters accompanied by a rabble of grunts. He ducked behind a concrete box full of flowers and the last two members of his unit did the same to the box to his left. Poking his head round the corner he fired his pistols at one of the Hunters and watched as the bullets just pinged off its armour.
The Hunter started to advance towards him, chilled to the core just by watching it walk through the wall of soldiers totally ignoring all but him. Seeing its arm mounted cannon glow a sickly green he knew he knew he was dead but when all he heard was a zapping sound followed by pop on his left he silently thanked what ever god was watching over him then realised what the pop was. Turning to look he saw the corner of a garden box melted away as well as two smouldering bodies and the still visible looks of pain on there faces, he let out a scream and fuelled by his fury ran at the Hunter. Thinking this was the stupidest thing he had and ever will do in his life but also knew his body was on some sort of auto pilot. Nimbly dodging the Hunters bone crunching mêlée attack he manoeuvred behind it, but the ODST behind him wasn't as lucky and was splattered over the surrounding area. Out of harms way he fired two shots at the soft, orange skin on the hunters back. Priming a grenade he thrust it into the now broken skin. Using the hunter as a launching pad Heath flew off it turning to look at the grenade in its back on the way, the hunter suddenly convulsed and all of its innards raced to find a way out of its encasing armour, leaving an empty shell coated with bits of the once mighty hunter and encircled by bits of smoking flesh. Heath heard an infuriated roar and remembered Hunters travelled in pairs. Doubting he would survive another encounter with a Hunter he faced a charged plasma cannon for the second time. Not even attempting to run he stood there praying any thing would happen. Then a message came on.
""This is William …..immediate assist….hit and falling……..hot combat zone, I….need immediate assistance." Followed by a bang far above him, Curious about the noise he looked up to see an object trailed by smoke streak across the sky, and also realising the hunter was looking up he ran away as fast as he could. From behind him he could hear some bangs and few screams then total silence, scared shitless and unaware of what happened, he poked his head out and saw the carnage beyond. Hundreds of bodies lay around many Covenant but a lot were still carbonised human skeletons burning in there glass encrusted holes or, was a moaning Marine or ODST being picked up and carted away to a corner of the markets. He stood up and looked around for the one in charge, not seeing anyone he took command himself and sent out a system wide massage. By that action he got every soldiers attention he figured they were waiting for him to say something, looking at the people in front of him he estimated around 70-80 people were uninjured. He found the right words after some searching in his heart.
"We all know some of us won't make it out of here but many more will die if we don't show the Covenant whose boss, for those of you that have lost friends and family, fight for them. Fight for Earth, Fight for your survival." He hoped he said the right thing but his worries were put to rest when the soldiers cheered for him. Jumping off the seat he was standing on he walked over to some ODST's talking among themselves and told them to head over to the crash site of the Escape pod and escort the Spartan known as William to the Market. Wanting to inspect the defences he walked over and was pleasantly surprised that the combat engineers had constructed six towers with a Chain gun on each backed up by a mine field in front of then. He was quite happy with the defences and told the troops so, somehow making them work harder. After that he jogged over to the command area and set the troops around in the best way so that they could fire at anything coming through the main entrance and still turn around to fire at incoming dropships. Now we wait. He thought.
The Assualt on Earth: Chapters 6 & 7
Date: 6 December 2005, 7:15 am
Chapter six:
Covenant holy city, High Charity
Ninth age of reclamation,
Three days until expedition to Holy Planet (Earth)
Seraph pilot Zee'Mosalee walked through the mausoleum of the arbiter having just arrived by Phantom to meet with the Prophet of Regret. He walked past innumerable guards on his way there; Many times he was stoped but his position as the Commander of the entire Covenant fleet let him through.
Kneeling before the figure in the centre of the room he whispered so only Regret could hear.
"I thank your graciousness for not punishing me for my part in the loss of the Unyielding Hierophant. You must understand I am not questioning your decision but why are you letting me live for my failure when others have died for pettier crimes." The prophet responded in the same tone.
"All will be explained in due time, but first come let me show you the first phase of my divine plan."
And with that they descended down into the bowls of High Charity.
Chapter seven:
Covenant holy city, High Charity
Ninth age of reclamation,
Two days until expedition to Holy Planet (Earth)
Zee'Mosalee knew that there was more to the plan he didn't know, but whole heartily trusted the Prophet of Regret. Knowing what he must do he set out.
"Fan out Elites, give him no options" said an anomalous voice over the communication system. Zee'Mosalee kneeled behind an ornate stone pillar with his carbine aimed between the gaps of the patterns, towards the door.
Hiss... Two high ranking honour guards walked out of the door followed by a councillor and two more guards.
"There he is. Move, Move, Move." Said the same voice over the system. Zee'Mosalee fired six shot's at the lead Elites head the shield dropped and an unseen Elite finished him off, Zee'Mosalee moved on to the next and repeated until only the councillor was left. Half of the team come out of there hiding place the others waiting encase of more resistance, Zee'Mosalee stood there for three cycles and promptly raised his carbine…
"Come on hurry up the next patrol will be around soon." Whinged the Grunt in charge, following this three Grunts quit what they were doing and moved onto removing the councillor's brain or what was left of it from the back wall, while two more dragged the bodies onto a phantom. Zee'Mosalee got on after them happy to smell blood after sitting in ships for so long.
The phantom took off and sent the elites to there next target, a known heretic living inside high charity. Within 14 cycles they touched down not far from his last seen location.
Hopping off the phantom Zee'Mosalee walked casually towards the building entrance and pushed the call button. As a testament to the teams ability they had already hidden them self. It didn't take long for three jackals to answer the call.
"What business do you have here commander." One snarled.
"I have learnt the truth and wish to help you lead a successful rebellion, with my ships I can get rid of the prophet filth." Zee'Mosalee prayed to himself that those words weren't going to come back on him.
the excuse seamed to satisfy the jackals that so desperately wanted some results they didn't notice the 11 cloaked figures walk in behind Zee'Mosalee. Soon after entering Zee'Mosalee stuck out his hand and grabbed a jackal's jaw yanking off its head. He then activated his plasma sword straight into the second jackal's chest, the armour plating around the wound sizzled as it melted away.
Zee'Mosalee didn't have to kill the last one as 11 shots were aimed directly for it. The door at the end of the hall opened out of it poured the security teams; Zee'Mosalee rushed forward arms out ready to slice what ever was in the way of his blade. He tripped on the dead jackal's foot and piled over, luckily this meant he avoided the hunters from instantly killing him. The gods have saved me. Zee'Mosalee thought. With renewed vigour the elites ploughed through the hastily erected defences.
Zee'Mosalee aimed a bead on a grunts head and fired, the opalescent blood spilled out making the ground slick. As was his aim the security teams rushing forward slipped over the blood in the narrow corridor.
"GREANADE" Yelled the 2nd in command, while hurling a grenade at the pile of wrangling bodies on the floor. The adhesive grenade stuck to an outstretched hand, with a reflex the hand disappeared in the pile of bodies so the elite could see what it was. Boom the 4 elites and 8 grunts were consumed in the plasma fire as one grenade exploded after the other, all that was left was scorch marks on the wall as well as a few chunks of flaming flesh.
With the way cleared the elites moved forward. In the brief respite Zee'Mosalee noted that all of his elites were still standing but isa'flokered was missing a finger on his right hand also there was a hole burned through his upper thigh.
"Get Isa'flokered back to the phantom, you to take him now." Ordered Zee'Mosalee, continuing "Okay Elites fix what you can but be quick we have a heretic to catch."
A couple of elites replaced valves on there suite and soon they were off.
Through the door they went, and dispatched of the few remaining guards, then Zee'Mosalee shot the leader totally ignoring his pleas of the truth.
Back on the Phantom, Zee'Mosalee regretted killing his brethren, but took solace in the fact that he would go on the great journey for his actions.
P.S. sorry it took so long to get this out but I've had things happening. And I got rid of my last story line and made a new one, most people have said they like the new one better. So well I'll try to be a little more consistent in my chapters.
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