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The Final War: Chapter Three: Getting real... Part Three: Awaiting a ride
Posted By: Awacar<t.alvner@swipnet.se>
Date: 16 November 2003, 8:40 PM
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"Reports?" Awacar gently asked Master Chief and Cortana.
"Very few losses, but many wounded. When we get to you, keep water, food, healthpacks and shield powerups ready." MC informated.
Awacar:
"Okay, our position is 470 meters up the mountain at half past twelve. You'll find us on a tiny hill. Do you copy?"
"Acknowledged, out." Chief said as he ended the conversation.
He leads the force to the tiny hill, and the supplies there are split up equaly.
Awacar:
"We'll need to get going soon."
"Target?" Cortana wondered.
"A plateau at the top of the mountain where the Forerunners have started to use Blood Faction equipment to locate the control room. They don't know that our scouts have allready located the control centre. Our job will be to destroy the equipment and take control of the area, before we defend the plateau until the drop ships pick us up." Awacar informed.
"But why doesn't Team Thunder take the Forerunners out?" Chief's AI friend wondered.
"Team Thunder do no longer exist. They fought the Forerunners in the air... and lost. Team Lightning is fighting them right now, beeing our only hope." a sad Awacar said.
Master Chief picks up a health pack and they get going afterwards.
The plateau is nearly reached, and they start to shape their tactics.
Awacar:
"I'll need the ghosts in front, Brutes and Master Chief following, Grunts and Jackals thereafter and the Elites before the Hunters. We'll have to give the Forerunners height advantage at first, but once we get over the edge, run quickly to the middle and expand the force slowly. Get going!"
The orders are followed, and the surprise attack against the Forerunners is initiated. The ghosts make way, while the Brutes backs them up greatly. An unknown threat is the Forerunner Snipers that have positioned themselves along the edge of the plateau. Master Chief decides to engage them in close combat. He fires the plasma rifle at the slow-moving creatures and he takes out one of them quite instantly. One down - six to go! Master Chief closes up to one of them and uses it as a shield for other Snipers. The encountered one doesn't have another weapon, and the plasma sniper isn't the easiest one to use at short-range. MC repositions himself frequently to get behind the Forerunner. He starts to lob grenades over it and after a while he just evades the purple ray of plasma that was shot into the creatures back, tearing shards of bone and black skin away from its belly. MC now reallizes that the Forerunners, if needed, will sacrifice their own without doubt in the amounts necessary to achieve their objective; be the one and only alliance at the top of the mountain.
Chief grabs the dead creature's weapon, and starts firing randomly at the Forerunners. He kills one, and wounds two. He felt tired and fell backwards, lied there and awaited his destiny. All of a sudden, Chief felt that something powerfull hitted the ground. He got on his legs and saw green smoke arise from the place where the Snipers had been located.
"We saw that you were in trouble, but you'll get into more if you don't get going soon." the leader of the Hunters told him.
"Ghosts, the equipment is yours to have, including the infantry that gets in your way. Brutes, Hunters, the Bio-tanks are yours, you need some challenges. For the rest, it is a bufé, your choice, in other words." Awacar ordered.
"I know that it's going to be more than "some challenge" but I appreciate the pep-talk!" the Hunter-leader replied before giving a Bio-tank a ton of dirt that he blasted away with his firearm.
MC takes a position a bit away from the battle, getting to use his sniper properly. He takes out three Engineers, some Snipers but no Bio-tank. He finds his selected weapon empty, and goes for an Engineer. He picks his sword out, heads for the Forerunner, makes a swing with the sword and misses. But yet the vehicle explodes.
"I didn't hit, did somebody else?" Chief wondered.
"No, but the magnetic fields created by your sword is apparently enough to disturb the electric functions in the Forerunners vehicles." Cortana said, with a sort of questioning thinking about the Forerunner way of making things.
"Cortana, you don't know where the grenade launcer landed?" asked MC.
"Ah, pick a new one, but keep your sword down, please." MC doesn't get near another Engineer for a while, but he takes out a few Snipers when waiting. After this, he gets to an Engineer. He closes up to his opponent, pulls out the plasma sniper and bashes it into the Forerunners forehead.
MC gets his grenade laucher, and now feels a lot more of freedom. He fires a grenade at a Bio-tank, hitting it in the side, taking it out. A group of Enginners have located themselves near a little rock, using it as an insurance for incoming fire. MC gets his eyes on them, and shoots three grenades that is very well placed, because they wound the most Forerunners in the group, and cause them to shatter a little, beeing easier to target. Thereafter he gets help from a crew of Elites that all have plasma rifles, and a blue stream of shots is fired, and is continued to be as long as there is resistance remaining in the specified area. Suddenly, a lot of larger-scale explosions is heard, and Awacar says:
"Primary objective achieved. Now the work begins. Spread out and guard the edge! We'll need to keep this position for some time."
"That's not a particularly good idea right now, we have a group of betrayers at four o' clock!" an Elite said.
"Keep it close, everybody, group of objects at eight, three... six, eleven, two, nine... twelve, lets just say that we are surrounded!" Awacar said, getting more and more desperate.
"Orders?" Cortana asked.
"Brutes, you'll go for the betrayer Hunters, ghosts for the Grunts and Jackals. Elites, Grunts, Jackals, we'll go for the rest. Hunters, their ghosts are yours! Chief, you will have the wraiths." ordered Awacar.
MC was thinking about his next action, to run out of the messy battlefield and give fire, or stay within the fight and take the wraiths out from there. He took the decision to stay. Before him was a battle between ghosts, but MC knew that he was ordered to do a special thing, and kept his focus to it. The wraiths started their massive attack on the forces, and Master Chief could, without getting much of attention, take the mortar tanks out, one by one. MC looked around, and didn't see any targets.
"Hey, lazy one, do your job, seven o' clock!" a Brute told MC, who looked at the location, and saw a couple of big, blue shots rise and slowly be affected by gravity, to turn and enclose him.
"Evacuate!" he said, before running away from the future dangerous area. The fight goes on, and MC finally takes the wraiths out. He picks a new target, two ghosts closing in at a few Hunters. He attaches a plasma grenade to one of the ghosts, and both drivers are killed.
"May I join?" MC asked the Hunters.
"You're very welcome." one of the Hunters replied. They took out a few other ghosts, a couple of Brutes and Elites, and three Hunters.
"Keep close, there will be more Forerunners soon." Awacar said, getting everyone to understand that they mustn't let their guard down.
The Forerunners get over the edge and storm forward to reclaim the piece of ground that they see as theirs. MC gets his chance to engage a Bio-tank at close range, and takes it. He has grabbed a plasma pistol, and uses its charged shots. They aren't very effective, because they just home in at the creatures shields. MC is therefore forced to use it without charging, just pushing the trigger frequently. This way of shooting works excellently, and the Forerunner is getting more and more damaged. But the batteries of the pistol is unloaded before the Bio-tank is dead, and MC goes for a plasma rifle. he finds one, and continues to battle his enemy, but even the rifle hasn't got enough of energy to kill the creature. MC is hit by a few of the targeting missiles, and can't engage te Forerunner for much longer. He gets a fuel rod gun, and fires it twice on the Bio-tank, putting it to its final sleep. Chief now sees four Engineers, and decides to attack them. He pulls the rod gun trigger three times, killing one of the Forerunners and damaging the others. They evade the green shots with great skill, and only one more faces his death.The rate of firing from the attacked Forerunners is increased and Master Chief puts a fragmentation grenade between the two remaining, blowing them to hell.
The drop ships from Team Lightning reach ground, and the forces are getting into them.
"Hey Chief, want to miss a ride? Hurry on, we can't wait for the next attack-wave!" Awacar said loudly, getting a ride for Master Chief.
To Be Continued...
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