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The monitor's contest by Guy French
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The monitor's contest, part 1
Date: 13 June 2002, 10:22 pm
The Master Chief had just said:"No, I think we're just getting started", that Cortana had said "Wait Chief, I'm receiving a detress call from the moon of Halo.Analyzing.its a message from marines who had escaped but their lifeboat had been damaged and...No, that's impossible!
-What is impossible?
-I thought you were the last but... there is a Spartan with them!
-So maybe we should get them with us." The Cheif couldn't believe it. Another Spartan, another one who had survived from the assault on Reach. He was sure that he could find this other Spartan to fight the Flood.
But a strange surprise was waiting for him. Dropships. Human, Covenant and a kind of giant Flood carrier. "What are they doing here?,said the Chief.
-we'll find out when we will land."
On the surface, there were Flood, Covenant, Sentinels and, like the message had said, human and spartans but there was almost thousands of each, not fighting for their lives but by seeing the chief, all seemed happier.
"thank you to have come, said an Elite. I'm Strato, from the Alpha crew. I know that you are the Master Chief.
-That's right, but what is going on?
-A contest sir, said the Elite, or if you prefer, a 3 on 1.
-What?
-that's right. Human, Covenant and Flood are going to face the prototypes created by the monitor. The last surviving species will win the ships of his choice. That means if the Flood win, they will get our ship to invade and mutate more worlds. If you are the winner, you will be able to board our ships and continue your mission to find our homeworld.
-that is what I would do. And how about you?
-Well, same as you but looking for Earth instead of Omega.
-Thank you to have come to the party sir, said a marine. I'm pvt. Johnson and it seems that you now know why we're all here.
-Welcome, said a Flood. I'm swinglas, from the third growing den.
-Well, said the Chief, I hope I will not have to heard all the presentations. I just need to know 1 more thing.
-I'm sure I already know what you need as information, said the monitor himself. To see my prototypes, you have to go to the first cave on your right."
When the Chief got there, he didn't saw 1 or 2 sentinels, but about 20000, waiting on a construction tower. They were constructing 20 hypersoldiers of 1000 sentinels each. They were constructed by other sentinels and were about 15 meters tall.
"What's that? asked the Chief for himself.
-I introduce you the SpartansXII, but I think I already spoke to you about them."
The Chief wasn't knowing first, but he suddenly remembered of the time he was on Halo, at the Library and in the control center.:"you are only second generation-class cyborg. You could easily be a twelveth generation-class."
"You took unuseful weapons to combat the Flood. You should have been also made stronger, Retreiver."
"If you are unready to help, I will simply find another one. Since then, we must activate the Ring. There is no choice."
"Now I know who were the 'other ones' said the Chief.
-Of course with your Construct, you felt more intelligent.
-What do you have against me now, said Cortana, Halo has been destroyed!
-You know everything now. You should get to the camps now, because the battle will start in 10 human hours."
The Chief hurried to the camps and there were already people around a table.
"You now know what's gonna happen Chief.
-There is no time to loose, he replied. And" He looked at a flood"And we should get all of the dead humans and covenant near the Flood camp
-What? said Cortana.
-Yes, to get all chances on our side, the smallest Flood will stay near their camp to create more warriors. And don't be afraid to transform me after my death. Now, let's begin the battle!
-We're going to follow your plan carfully, said Strato, and we will die for the God's will!"
They were ready to fight.
To be continued
The monitor's contest, part 2
Date: 17 September 2002, 1:44 am
When the chief got in the hangar, he couldn' t believe the number of vehicles that were there. Wraiths, banshees, ghosts, shades, human and covenant dropships, warthogs, scorpions, longsword fighters, human and covenant battle cruisers, a kind of ghost-shade and a million of different kind of strange weapons. A carrier came in has MC tooks a sword and a fuel rod gun in each hands. "The ISCW, or InterSpicies Council of War is waiting for the representant of human kind, and you have been choose as it." he said.
"Looks like this is the time for the battleplan, isn't it?. Cortana, please show them the plan we thought about." he claimed. "Good. Now listen carefully. The grunts, marines and small and carrier will be on the first row. Then comes the bigger flood, jackals, elites and shotgun armed marines. Last row will be for the hunters and SPARTANs. At their left and right will be the special operation group who is cloaked. sword people in front and armed ones in the back. The Wraits and scorpions will come first, the Banshees and the Black Clouds seconds, the Ghosts and Warthogs third and the dropships and Major Carrier will fly over the zone to take care of the wounded. Finnally, all the bigger ships will gets as high as they can in the atmosphere to be ready to fire at their guns and, if it becomes really important, we'll evacuate everyone in the camps and we'll shoot all of our nuclear missiles and...", he stared at the elite"do you have enough fire power to glass this planet?" "Sure, tought it will be tight. It could even be possible that the monitor escape from our vigilence. If he does, he will escape into space and will be able to eliminate every planets, every sentience every life." "hem, sir I...I have got an idea".
The little flood who said that had got all the attention now."W...Well if we call some ships out of the atmosphere, we could be able to create an overshield thick enough to get him trapped like he did with us when we were on halo." The Chief exclamed "that's such a good idea that if I die, I hope you will give to the body that'll come after me your brightness and your kind." The shy Flood didn't replied as he was overwhelmed by the emotion.
" Attention, you people out there, if you want a ' winner ', it always needs a contest, and it just needs to be working." "Looks like he wants us out there, going and running to fight. Ok, Cortana, you tell the humans, illlessness, you get for the Covenants, and so on. Don't forget to make the 'distant call' for all the ships everywhere in the Universe and tell them to stay about 500 000 kms from this planet until they receive the signal I'll send to them so they can come into their position of shielding. Let's get this over as fast as we can. " After that, everyone got to his own camp. They were ready to die for it.
The monitor's contest, part 3 or the end of the reign of the monitor
Date: 14 March 2003, 9:30 PM
Sigmael, a hunter, asked to an elite:«I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand the rules of this game, if we can call this a game.
-Well, it's very simple to understand. Each time the humans -for example- destroy one of those robots, they get one point. There is about a hundred of robots. The group who has got the highest number of points will have a map to the motherplanet of any group of their choice. Plus, they'll receive a strategy to board the planet they've chosen. Is that clear ?
-I think I'll deal with the flow of information you've given
-Good, and now may you please get with the rest of the group of hunters please?
-Why should I do that?
-Oh, just because... THE FIGHT HAS ALREADY STARTED!!!
-Ok, ok, calm down, calm down, I'm going.»
But the elite was right, because the orders were flowing from everywhere.
«Grenades away! shouted the master chief, and a flow of grenades flown to the robots, killing 10 of them.
-get the ghosts and the warthog's out, said Cortana to all of the garages, and free 11 of them of their drivers, and the master chief and all the spartans got into them, destroying about 20 of them.
-get us banshees, said the master chief in his helmet, and right after, he was in the air, evading lasers and firing plasma bolts and plasma rifle, destroying 17 others.
-Everybody must get in the fight now, said the master chief when he was suddenly hit by a laser. I'm hit! I'm gonna touch down and--!! he hasn't finished his phrase that he touched down into a group of robots. he jumed and fired with his plasma rifle and killed 3 of them before he could escape from them. and he took a rocket launcher and fired it on the last of them.
-I have now gotten the number of points in each team, said the monitor. in 3rd place, the floods with 15 points. The 2nd with 42 points are...the covenant so that means that the humans win with 43 points!!!!!!
-Yes, I knew we would win, said cortana with a sound that looked like laughing, but she then suddenly said call everyone back to his own ship, you don't remember about the plan we made before the competition?
-ah, yes, the plan, EVERYONE BACK TO HIS RESPECTIVE SHIP, AND NO DISSCUSION!, he souted to everyone who could hear it and he added to the monitor: I'm sorry but I'll have to go, I hope you don't mind ?
-not at all and take this map, which was the convinced prize I think?
-Yes it was and then he run away at full speed in his fighter and while he was going, he said :glass the planet.
And the ships started to glass before the monitor knew what was happenning to this place and he was already immobile. but when the master chief opened the map he found a small chip of recording that he pluged in his helmet. An then, he saw the monitor saying:«Ah, congratulations for your victory. By the way this was a test, an experimentation of teammates between multiple species, and everyone past it successfully by cooperating together. So, you see, my friend, I wasn't as crasy as you were thinking, and that everyone can be in peace in the universe. End of recording, EXPECTED HALT X(3AF2/E68T/DF10).»when the master chief saw this, he said to Cortana, with a sobbing voice:«Cortana, please send this recording to the other ships before they pass to light speed and also send it with this message to earth and to the motherplanet of the covenant.
And when all the humans and the covenant saw the message, they called back their ships to their planet and created a civilisation together on Reach, which was almost entierly deglassed. A civilisation of peace. And the message was saying:«Today, we were able to destroy a menace for humankind with the help of our old enemies. This means that peace is possible when another new enemy gets in the way. And I hope that someday, all the representative of all the worlds in the universe will shake the hands of everyone else in the universe, and that peace will remain as long as possible for all the years to come. At least, this his my greatest hope.And my second greatest is that the monitor will not escape, or at least that he'll stop tring to destroy all species.
end of transmission».
The end
Anthony French
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