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BrotherHood: Part 3
Posted By: Dojorkan<dojorkan@gmail.com>
Date: 12 June 2005, 7:00 PM
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Part 3: Relief.
"GAWGAP! MOVE!" Devin yelled.
The large rock missed the vehicle's bumper by a foot. If it were to hit Devin it could make him loose cautiousness.
"Lets wait for it to come to us. These small tunnels can give us some good cover. When I shoot make sure this thing is behind the rocks. Im going to need to shoot dead on the cantapede." said the human.
"Got it." said Gawgap as he pulled the vehicle up to a small tunnel.
The tank came around the corner to find them, it had it's turret looking in the opposite directionm to the small vehicle, scanning for them well hidden vehicle. Hastely the cannon turned around, the ODST fired a rocket as it hit one of the treads. A large projectile came for the warthog as it counter attacked. The unggoy sped up the vehicle up and flew by the tank, another rocket fired and hit the tank away from the cockpit but set the tank a flame with a satisfing explosion. Gawgap cheered and checked the radar... it was clear.
Devin sighed, "Feels like we beat all the damned creatures, but these cliffs are a bit to steep too get up. Theses no working banshees or dropships either."
"I agree! Oh! Wait! Me got idea to get out of here! We use other vehicles as ramp and drive over them!" GawGap replied.
"Geez, didnt know you grunts could be that smart!" Devin laughed.
Gawgap rolled his eyes, and started looking for wraith. Its smooth, round, front and body would be easy to drive over.
Luckly, there was two wraiths that were still in working condition, Gawgap drove them ontop of each other. It was quite a task to drive one over another, he had to adjust the anti-gravity pods on the wraith until he could get it on the other vehicle.
"Get back on little guy, same plan as last time." the marine ordered.
The top of the flat cliffs seemed to go on for a while. In the middle of nowhere the two fighters were tired, they slept in the vehicle's leathery seats which surprisingly the flood didnt touch. After long sleep, they woke up to see grass and lakes ahead. Devin opened the hatch, "Alright my turn to drive."
It started to get warmer as they moved onward, Devin reconized this place.. It was close to where he heard the Master Chief had vanished from. That didnt help any, he was still stuck alone with a grunt. He was thankful that this unggoy was above average.
"I think we are going to die here on this ring... in the middle of no where." the human spoke with a panicked tone of voice.
"Well if we don't give up we will more than likely die. If we can find a radio..." Gawgap was interrupted by the human.
"If I find my kind of radio...which is rare to be just laying around... my friends would probably kill ya. If we find your kind your buddies would probably kill me..."
Devin paused and looked over head to see a trio of phantoms flew over head. But something wasnt right, two of the covenant dropships were shooting at one .
"Ahh! I don't know which one to shoot at!" Gawgap shouted.
One of the phantoms fired a single turret at the small white vehicle.
"Well me know now!"
He returned fire as Devin drove in circles to avoid getting hit. The Grunt's jackal shield, from which he gotten along time ago, activated it self which withstood a single plasma bolt that could have connected with Gawgap's arm.. Within a few more hits the light vehicle's treads were ruined. Five more rockets were nessesary to take down both phantoms. The "good" Phantom let out some troops, one white elite with a large headress along with two blue elites. Before they examined the vehicle Gawgap shouted, "Please! Don't kill the human! He's my friend!"
The elites paused and looked at the grunt.
"Theres A Human here?" The elite asked.
"Yes, we were stranded where the flood were, between the sentinal wall and library."
The elite rubbed his neck, "So there were still parasites there with various vehicles right?"
"Why Yes Excellency...." Gawgap answered.
The elite continued his gesture and asked another question, "So you know nothing of the brutes betrayal?."
"Heres the short story, we are in a hurry."
"Those foolish brutes, Jackals, and Drones are the only
ones that are still 'Covenant'. The Prophets have
betrayed us,thus, we quit. The Arbiter learned of Halo's true purpose from many sources. Truth is, Halo is a weapon not something that will send us on any 'Great Journey'. They are capable of destroying us all. Two humans have allied with us, one being former Zealot of "In Amber Clad" and another named Sargent Johnson."
"Get in the phantom, I shall explain the rest"
One of the other elites went to check out the hog, peered into the vehicle to find a human trying to hide behind the door.
"Human, surely you heard our talk?"
Devin, brought himself up quickly and answered, "Yes."
The elite laughed, "Do not fear human, we wont hurt you, just get in our phantom."
The White elite who spoke to Gawgap ordered the dropship's driver to let them in and to pick up the vehicle just incase they needed it.
Devin eyed the inside of the ship. "Uhh, may I ask your name?" the HellJumper asked nervously.There was really no choice, he thought to himself, might as well act friendly if they are.
" Land'Somalee,.... Just call me Soma." The white elite replied proudly. "Whats are your two names?" Soma asked as he eyed the two new recruits.
Devin seemed to trust him enough, "Devin".
The small one smiled inside his mask, "And I would be GawGap."
Soma, turned to the human, "Devin, Your Ship has vanished. According to what information we could get it was took over by flood and it crashed into our old home 'High Charity', So we are planning on stealing a Brute controled crusier. Our mission is to assist the Arbiter, Spec-Ops Commander, and a few humans in taking over the ship to get off this ring. Devin, until you meet with your human leaders, You are under MY Command. Understood?"
"Well its not like I have much of a choice...."
"GOOD!" Devin was interupted by the Proud elite leader.
"All right, lets go!" Soma ordered!
"There aready?And wouldnt the vehicle be blocking the lift?" the human asked.
"We DO have back doors you know!" Soma said as he opened it and pushed the human out along with himself, Gawgap, and the pilots.
"Gawgap and I loaded a bunch of weapons into the side seat..." As soon as Devin finished his sentence Soma rushed to the vehicle and took the Brute plasma rifles and fuel rod cannon.
The newly formed party made their way through the halls of the ship following the corpes, they came to meet up with 4 Hunters, a elite similar looking to Soma, 3 grunts, The Arbiter, Sgt. Johnson, Commander Keyes, and a blue elite with dual needlers. Gawgap took out the sword he took long ago but never used and put the handle in Devin's hand.
"Take it."
Devin accepted, nodded, and activated the blade while he swung it diagnolly from his left knee until his arm could go back as far back as possable.
" Stay behind, let ME lead the way! The Bridge is up ahead!" Spec-ops commander ordered.
Spec-Ops commander charged through the door to find a large group of brutes guarding the area. He slashed through as many brutes that were within his range. They didnt die instantly but were injured badly, The Arbiter, Meso, and DEvin joined in the sword fight. Kepping their distance from each other.
"Hold your fire, fall back behind me if you dont have a sword and keep backing up." Sarge ordered. He led the brutes into the tight corridors. So only two brute could come in beside each other at a time. He kept his beam rifle at head level to pick them off as they came. Some brutes backed up into the hall way as they were avoiding being slashed by sword users. This allowed a rather easy flank. Johnson pulled the trigger only to hear a clicking noise. "Damn It! Im out of ammo!" Johnson shouted. The two hunters took place infront of Sarge and opened fire on the brutes, aiming at their stomach so it would not likely hit the elites and marine behind them.
After a few minutes of fighting the assault was victorious. Corpeses were stripped of brute shot ammo and discarded from the vessel.
"Do you all know anything about how to control or Ships?" Soma asked the trio of Humans.
"Yes, I do, and So does this here Lady!" Johnson prously answerd for himself and commander Keyes.
Soma Nodded, "And Im curious, how do you know? We have only had one report of a single flag ship being stolen and I dont see how you all managed to control that or even our Scrab."
"Well I escaped the explosion of the first halo in a dropship, along with a few other soldiers, we then met up with The Master Chief or who you guys call, "The Deemon!". Most of the time Chief is with a highly intelegent and beatiful A.I. named Cortana. She got lots of information from Halo and that ship we took over.
About your big spider... I really dont know how I knew what to do, it just seemed natural. how about you bastards? How much you know about our gadgets?".
Soma cleared his throat,"Although we were against using your weapons at first, we under estimated your technology. We captured much of youe guns, tanks, warthogs, Pelicans, and even a vessel. We Made simulations of your weapons and vehicles and taught each member of the covenant how to use them, except very few are able to use your ships."
"This is intesting and all but we have soldiers fighting in the control room waiting for pick up. Lets bring this thing closer so we can keep an eye on it. I'll try to see if I can set up a COM channel with them."
Devin, stared at everyone else working with the ship. He was the only one who had no idea how to operate anything besides the automatic doors, and weapons on the ship yes even the hunters and Gawgap could operate things.
"So is there anyway I can make myself useful?" Devin nerviously asked.
"Yes, I have cleaning supplies in the other end of the ship." Soma jokingly answered.
The whole crew laughed in response, Devin couldnt help but to join in. It idnt take long to move such a big ship a mile to the control room.
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