Spartan 058 - The Tale of a Sniper
Posted By: Tyler McIntosh aka kokiri<tjm2008@hotmail.com>
Date: 4 July 2005, 1:35 am
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Spartan 058 - The Tale of a Sniper
Chapter 1 - Near Covenant battle station Unyielding Hierphant
Linda sat there in awe, after just infiltrating the Unyielding Hierophant and barely escaping just to find that their two highest ranking comrades were about to sacrifice their lives to take out a substantional chunck of the Covenant's fleet when the mobile station blew. A voice came through her speakers, " Linda, take the NAV station. Fred, you're on Ops. Will, give the Sergeant a hand at Weapons One." Linda snapped into attention and headed for her specified station. Will sat by the Sergeant stating that a COM patch had been established when Admiral Whitcomb appeared on one of the foward viewscreens standing on the bridge of Ascendant Justice, while Lieutenant Haverson sat in the background fiddling with the Covenant flagship's controls. Linda just sat at her stations checking her viewscreen every now and then while she listened to the Chief and Admiral's conversation. She gasped as the Admiral brought the artifact from Reach into the viewscreen, "How could this be possible?" she questioned to herself, "Locklear blew the artifact along with himself back at the pirate station!" A holographic stand was brought into view answering Linda's question quickly. She caught small parts of the converstation as she tried to focus on the NAV controls. Linda watched as the Clarion Spy Drone's image showed the Ascendant Justice slam into the station's central ring structure. Static filled the viewscreen until a bloodied image of the Admiral came back on, with Haverson in the background with a clearly broken arm. After sending a system wide transmission resulting in a wave of Elites surrounding the ship. The stations reactor meltdown could become visible on the outside as the station started to become a dull red color. "Move us back, Linda," John said. "Keep us in the moon's shadow. Use as much power as we can spare." She tapped the necissary controls as she gave the Chief a reply, "Aye, Chief," she replied. "Foward thrusters answering one third reverse power. Course one-eight-zero." On the screen Linda could see sparks coming from the sealed doors, meaning that the Covenant were coming. The Admiral gave last orders to the Chief and asked him something about some Alamo, which she could only guess at, just as the Elites bursting through the bulhead, the Admiral started to fire just as the viewscreen burst into static. After pulling back out from the moon the Spartan saw the remnants of the Covenant's once mighty fleet, maybe a dozen remained out of the round about guess of five hundred. "A brilliant strategic victory," John whispered. "Cortana, get us out of here."
She just sat there without her armor on, deep inside of the Gettysburg's decks summing up the past days events: her awakening from her painful surgery, the recovery, the pirate station, and the trip to the Unyielding Hierphant. Her recovery was still in effect, and she felt it with every movement of her body, but she really couldn't complain. After claimed dead she fought her way back into this all to real world, but it was a good world, and she was happy to be back in it alongside the remaining Spartans. But would they be any good now that the Covenant knew the location of Earth? She had just witnessed the true power of the Covenant, even though they destroyed that all powerful fleet, the Covenant would surely be back with another, and probably much faster than the last. Wherever the Covenant were though she knew that she would be there too fighting with a renewed vengance, they had killed her once but they'd something big to kill her again. she would make sure of it. "ETA to Earth in three hours," Cortana's voice announced through the ships COM speakers. Hopefully Earth's orbital MAC guns would be operational by the time the Covenant came knocking, she always knew that the Covenant would find Earth but she had never thought of it as a now factor, only something that would eventually happen. The Chief interupted her in mid thought, "Try to get some sleep, from all of the things you've been through you deserve it." She started to protest but the Chief's gaze changed her mind, "Ok Chief, but don't forget to wake me up when we reach Earth, or I'll be coming for you instead of the Covenant. The Chief let out a smile and a small laugh, which he quickly stopped as he remembered the consequences, "Roger that, now get some shut eye."
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