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Alliance: chapters 2 and 3
Posted By: Jack Roads
Date: 18 October 2005, 10:28 pm
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Chapter 2
"There they are. Fifteen elites, ten hunters, and twenty five grunts are being held captive." Said Burn, an elite with orange and red armor. "Do you have a plan to free them, Blaine?" "Yeah." He replied. "We should take out the brute sentries as covertly as possible, then make a diversion to attract the drones and jackals. There are four posts with two brutes in each. I can do two and you can do two. My marines will make the diversion after the sentries are down. Got it? Good. Go." As Burn silently came up behind a brute in his active camo, he caught a glimpse of Blaine creeping headfirst down a near vertical face. Then Blaine jumped down the remaining thirty feet and landed silently and perfectly behind the brutes. Burn was amazed at Blaine's catlike agility and stealth… it was inhuman. Bringing his attention back to the two brutes, he came up behind one, snapped its neck, then turned with his energy sword and shoved it into the brute's throat. Having finished both brutes, he turned to look at Blaine's position. All he saw was a brute corpse being dragged into the underbrush. That was two posts down, two to go. As Blaine stole through the underbrush, he saw Burn sneak up behind two of the last four brutes. Blaine, silent as a shadow, came up behind the brutes, snapped one's neck and slid his combat knife into the nape of the other ones neck, severing the spinal cord. With all the brutes down, he signaled to his marines, and they opened fire on the twenty jackals and fifteen drones. The jackals quickly formed up in a wedge formation and began to move forward. Corporal Jacobs with her sniper rifle took out two drones with one shot. Blaine saw that the drones were dropping like flies, How very apt. He loaded his shotgun with twenty-six pellet shells, and opened fire, taking out three jackals, then a jackal and a drone, then two drones. Burn came up beside him and opened fire with a carbine. Caught in a crossfire, the jackals and drones were razed quickly.
With the enemies neutralized, they freed the prisoners and met with their leader, a gold armored elite. They assessed the situation. They had two phantoms, but needed a bigger ship to get to human controlled space to alert the UNSC of their new allies. They decided to try to take over the small Covenant carrier that had brought them to Halo. They assumed that it had few troops on it due to the parties that were sent out to investigate halo's ruins. So they crammed twenty-nine troops into each phantom, and set off for the covenant carrier. It was easily duped into thinking it was one of their ships. Outside of the phantom there were a few jackals and a brute waiting for the occupants to come out. What came out instead were a few grenades that killed all of the jackals, and the brute. The occupants piled out, half of them staying with the phantom in case of trouble, and the other half headed for the bridge, including Blaine, Burn, and the gold commander. In the hallway the strike team encountered 5 brutes and ten jackals. A marine delivered a rocket to a brute's face, killing it and three jackals. Two brutes threw a grenade each, killing bob, an elite, and three grunts. Blaine fired his shotgun, killing a jackal sniper and injuring a brute. Then the marine with the rocket launcher fired another rocket, killing off the remaining brutes and a jackal. The five remaining jackals formed a wedge formation, but they were simply overwhelmed by the remaining two dozen elites, humans, grunts, and hunters. It turned out there were ten grunts, five elites, and two hunters in the cells. They equipped the troops with weapons and sent them to patrol the ship for any more brutes, jackals, or drones in the ship. After around twenty minutes of skirmishes that felt more akin to twenty days, they reached the bridge with five grunts, three humans plus Blaine, five elites, and three hunters, equaling 17 troops, twelve lost. They radioed to the other team ordering them to look for any remaining enemy troops and eliminate them. Blaine gave the elite commander the coordinates for earth, and they went into slipspace.
Chapter 3
When they reached earth, it was under attack by the covenant. "Damn. Burn, get your best men together. We're gonna board a covenant capital ship." Blaine said. Then he radioed to the Cairo station to not fire on his ship. Then he headed for the armory to prepare. He met Burn afterwards at a phantom with his best marines. They had a team that consisted of Burn, Blaine, five gray elites, five black elites, five white elites, two hunters, and three of Blaine's best marines, including Corporal Jacobs, Corporal Watson, and Carlos Janson, an ODST. They piled into a phantom with a Shiva nuclear bomb and flew to the nearest covenant capital ship.
When they reached the hangar, the five gray elites came out first in their active camo, positioning themselves behind the greeting group of brutes and jackals, and waited for the rest to come out. Two flash grenades came out, temporarily blinding the brutes and jackals. Then the rest of the team came out, firing into the enemy group. Blinded and caught in a crossfire, the brutes and jackals were eradicated in a matter of seconds. They moved into a hallway. A brute came around the corner and was greeted with a barrage of bullets and plasma so thick it was dead instantly. Beyond dead. Unrecognizably mutilated. A jackal came around the corner, and upon seeing the brutes mangled remains, vomited. As it was vomiting it took a shotgun blast to the side of the head, compliments of Blaine, spraying vomit and brain tissue everywhere. Another jackal came around the corner and slipped on the blood-slicked floor, landing on its back. A grenade rolled in between its legs, detonating and sending it's charred remains skidding across the floor, leaving a streak of blood in it's wake. Blaine put away his shotgun and picked up a jackal shield and a plasma pistol. He rounded the bend and shot a brute in the face with his plasma pistol. The shots melted its face away and the small amount of brains that it had oozed out onto the floor. Turning around, he saw that he was cut off from his team, the door having closed and locked behind him. Blaine continued up the incline, and a brute rounded the bend in the hallway and fired at Blaine. He blocked its shots with his shield, overcharged the plasma pistol, and fired it at the brute. It hit it full in the chest, and it's torso melted, spilling what was left of the brutes internal organs onto the floor, and they slowly slid down the incline. He went through the door, meeting two jackals, which he dispatched with a stick of dynamite. He looked around, and realized it was the armory. He went over to a table where engineers were building a new weapon. It seemed to be a rifle. When it was done, he took it from the engineers. It was white, and was too big to dual-wield. He tested it out. It had an amazing rate of fire. He dropped his plasma pistol for the new rifle. He took it and left the armory.
Burn looked around and realized that Blaine was cut off from the rest of the group. He knew he could handle himself, the resistance on the ship was pathetic. As they turned the next corner, they saw two brutes coming their way. Suddenly the trailing brute collapsed as a barrage of white plasma vaporized the back of his head. Behind the brute, at the end of the hall Blaine was holding a strange plasma rifle. The remaining brute berserked, and charged straight at Blaine. Blaine sidestepped and tripped the brute as it went by. "Hold fire!" Blaine said to the rest of the strike team. "Get up." He said to the brute. It got up and threw a punch. Blaine jumped back so his back was against the wall. The brute snarled and threw another punch at Blaine's head. He moved his head and the brute's fist slammed against the wall, dislocating three fingers. Ignoring the pain, it threw another punch. Blaine sidestepped, twisted the brutes arm behind its back, and kneed it up as hard as he could. Everyone heard a pop and Burn realized its arm was dislocated. Having had his fun with the brute, Blaine slit its throat with his combat knife, leaving the brute to gasp out its last breaths in a pool of its own blood. "Impressive." Burn said. "Brutes may be strong, but they are incredibly incompetent." Blaine replied. They set the Shiva nuke in the fusion reactor for half an hour, then made their way back to the hangar. In it there were ten brutes and ten jackals. A huge firefight erupted. A brute berserked and charged at a hunter. Brutes are strong, but no match for hunters. The hunter smashed it with its shield, sending its broken body across the room. A gray elite, cornered, stuck two plasma grenades to itself, activated two frag grenades, and tackled a brute honor guard. The explosion killed five jackals and one brute, plus the honor guard and elite. Blaine mowed down three jackals with his new rifle, then used his shotgun and blew a couple brute faces off, littering the floor with skull fragments and brain tissue. The ODST sent a rocket streaking into a group, killing three brutes and the last two jackals. Burn threw a plasma grenade into a brute's mouth, which ironically, was open laughing. As for the last brute… you can do the math. They got out with only one elite lost, and one injured. They got in the phantom, watched the Shiva fireworks, and then went to earth's main base. When they got to the base, there was a troop of brutes and jackals outside. They used the phantom to mow them down like some sick nine-year-old with a magnifying glass and an ant farm.
They landed and Burn and Blaine struck out for the base. On the way they went over a small rickety bridge. As they neared the end, a jackal sniper shot the rope supports on it, and it collapsed, taking a bunch of rock and dirt with it. Blaine managed to jump to safety, but Burn fell with the bridge. "Damn!" Blaine exclaimed. He took a plasma grenade and hurled it across the expanse, and it latched onto the jackal. It panicked and jumped into the expanse. It detonated in midair and pieces of jackal plummeted down the gorge. Blaine looked down the gorge. He didn't see Burn. He sighed and headed for the base to report their new allies to Admiral Hood.
At the bottom of the gorge, Burn's hand, sticking out of the rubble, clenched into a fist.
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