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The Rebel: Just One of Those Days
Posted By: Elfster<briane@teleport.com>
Date: 5 December 2003, 6:17 AM
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Her vision blurred and she became nauscious as she was swept through the strange oceanic world. Her skin became cold like ice and she felt like she was flying in water somehow. Slowly, she became less nauscious, her skin became less cold, and the ocean world she had been flying through only seconds ago seemed to slow and become a blue hazy mist until it all fell away and she found herself laying on hard metal, in a small box canyon, with birds chipring and warm air on her face as the sun beat down on her back.
She started to get up, but all of the sudden fell onto the ground again and crawled over to the skylight on the roof and vomited into it.
Kate hated going into the simulator, but it was better than going out. As she got up she found herself stiff but it wore off soon after. She quickly took in the surroundings of Red base, and the small box canyon known only as Blood Gluch. Knowing she didn't have much time to get ready before the test started and she would be faced with the task of destroying Blue team, which consisted of about 50 enemy units and a massive mechanized force for such a small base. She estimated two Scorpian BMT's, two Warthogs (or M12 LRVs), and two Ghosts.
Jumping down into Red base, she suited up into her advanced MJOLNIR armor, jumped back up onto the top of the base and equipped herself with an M6D Pistol and S2 AM Sniper Rifle. Getting into position, she surveyed the canyon with her Sniper Rifle.
All seemed calm, birds were fluttering about and a small breeze made the few live plants sway back and forth. Blue team composed of 50 units, but they were all un-armored marines, except for their leader who she presumed was another Spartan. She found that her assumptions were correct as a sniper bullet whizzed only a milimeter above her head. Quickly tracing the bullet to a Spartan in blue armor who quickly backed away and faded into the shadows.
She had been stupid, she had been sitting still the whole time right out in the open the whole time, any idiot with a rifle could have hit her dead on, especially a Spartan. There were few people who would purposely give her warning shots and she had a pretty good idea from that who the leader of blue team was.
As she got up and half crouched half jogged off of Red base to get a better vantage point she head a distant roar of engines along with a steady grinding noise and somewhere in the middle a whining noise.
Turning around, she noticed a rather large mechanized force coming towards the base. A Scorpian tank loaded to the brim with fully armed passengers was grinding along with a full Warthog and a single Covenant ghost. A large tank shell slamming into the side of the base, blasting apart the strange Forerunner teleportation device was all the warning she needed.
Heading up a hill that lead to the canyon wall, she got as far as she could and got her sniper rifle back out. The tank adjusted its massive cannon to it's targets high vantage point, greatly exposing it's driver. Before it could fire she lined the driver's head up with her targeting reticule and pulled the triger. Their head exploded as crimson blood spattered all over the tank and it grinded to a halt. Quickly, she lined up the two passengers on the right and decapitated each with a single shot, doing the same to the other side. With her remaining bullet she hasitly shot at the oncoming Warthog. However the bullet barely nicked the windshield, and made a small crack in it and aside from that did no damage.
Ripping out the old clip and quickly shoving in a new one, she once again put the Warthog in her sights. As it sped towards her she quickly shot the gunner between the eyes. As the dead body fell out the back of the Warthog the driver barely seemed to notice until their passenger met a similar fate.
Frantically trying to drive away, it collided with the tank and sent the driver soaring into the air, but before he hit the ground, he had a hole the size of a ping pong ball in his chest, cutting straight through part of his spinal cord. The driver of the Ghost quickly manuevered into a position where they were completely shielded by the front of the ghost and began a barrage of plasma fire on the small hill. With one bullet left she pulled the pin on a plasma grenade and lobbed it towards the lone Ghost. The driver ripped the controls to the side as hard as he could, leaning out the side of the Ghost.
Seeing her opportunity, she made good use of her last bullet, but it was only a glancing blow to the helmet. Still, it was enough to knock them out of the Ghost. As the driver toppled out sideways, the Ghost crashed to the ground ontop of their legs and they screamed out in agony as the vehicle crushed everything beneath it. As she put her last clip into the rifle she looked at the score:
Red team: 9
Blue team: 0
Time: 1:00
Three more assualted her position on foot. Quickly taking out the two nearest to her, she noticed her mistake as the third, farthest away, that she had assumed to be the least of her worries, also had a sniper rifle. Frantically targeting the sniper, she pulled the trigger only a second too late as a 14.5mm armor-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot round slammed into her chest. She tried to scream but couldn't as she tumbled down the hill, gaining speed until she hit rather flat ground and rolled to a stop infront of the backdoor to Red base.
She tried desperately, mustering all her strength to crawl into Red base when a Warthog with only a driver and gunner came around the corner and sped straight towards her. She managed to get up and noticed a crater on the hill where she had recently been from the rocket launcher on the back of the Warthog. She also noticed that she had lost her Sniper Rifle in the tumble and fumbled for her pistol while lobbing a plasma grenade at the Warthog. It stuck right onto the driver's chest as she jumped out of the way of the oncoming warthog, firing her pistol at the gunner as she did. One bullet hit the shoulder, the second hit the lower right chest and the last slammed into the bridge of the gunner's nose as he toppled out and the Warthog was nearly vaporized by the explosion of the plasma grenade.
She breathed a great sigh of relief as she crawled into Red base and began dressing her wounds and once again looked at the score in her HUD:
Red team: 14
Blue team: 0
Time: 1:30
She laughed at the insanity of the idea that she alone might even stand a chance at destroying so many marines. Then, after patching the wound up, she grabbed another sniper rifle and found a perch ontop of the base as she noticed four squads of four incoming. Each squad was going after one of the downed vehicles in an attempt to salvage them.
Unfortunetly it worked. With so many of them scurrying around it was like kicking an ant hill and then trying to kill every single ant that came out. She threw down the empty Sniper Rifle in anger as the remaining squad managed to salvage the vehicles and were driving off. She fired a few pistol shots but it was in vein. 11 more bodies littered the ground after the attack.
She was significantly weakened from the previous fight and now that they had their full arsenal back they would come back in full force. Red base was no longer safe. She slung her Sniper Rifle, and scrounged up as much ammo as she could, and was about to leave when she decided that she needed something heavier to fight off the rest of Blue team. Looking around, and knowing she would be fighting in close-quarters, she grabbed an M7057 Defoliant Projector flamethrower and headed off to a small cave she saw to the far right in the canyon wall. Jogging, she made it there in a minute and a half flat, and began to settle in a room in the middle of the cave. Once again she checked the score:
Red team: 29
Blue team: 0
Time: 3:30
Only a small corridor of cave was left between her and the outside, and Blue base.
Along with 20 marines and a Spartan with a staring problem She thought to herself as her radio crackled and a voice came through saying:
"Rockets in first!"
She noticed that it had to be someone on the wrong frequency because it couldn't be anyone on her team, because she was the ONLY one on her team... That meant it had to be...
She didn't have enough time to get up before an explosion rocked the cave and rocks crumbled and fell from the ceiling. No more than a second later another rocket slammed in and the only thing keeping it from soaring straight into her torso and blowing her clean inhalf was a rock pillar that connected the ceiling of the cave with the floor. The pillar was blasted apart and the force slammed her into the cave wall as a last rocket hit a yard or so above her head and rocks toppled ontop of her and harmlessly rolled off the strong MJOLNIR armor like rain dripping off a slanted metal roof.
There was a pause and she tried to jump out of the way of the next incoming rocket but it collided with the space she had so recently occupied, and the force slammed her forward into the opposite wall, and the rest of the second salvo of rockets slammed into various places in the cave.
"Hah, we got 'er now!" Came a voice as the passengers of the Warthog parked outside the cave stormed in. Whipping up her flamethrower, she pulled the trigger and flame vomitted out of the gun and the three marines were promptly roasted and screamed in agony as they fell to the ground and perished in the flame.
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He heard screams from inside the cave and muttered a few rather nasty words before motioning for his squad to move in. As he walked in he tried to peer through the heavy smoke and dust as they walked over their comrades' bodies that were now completely devoid of life.
His eyes shifted around the cave and found nothing in the dark expanse.
"Come on... She's not here." He sighed as he turned to leave just in time to see a 12.7mm bullet hit one of his squad mate's right between the eyes.
"Shit! FALL BACK! I repeat, FALL BACK!" He screamed as he and his remaining team mate tried to run back to the exit, when a steady stream of fire shot past them and ignited a neat row of dead bodies. It was a trap. He turned around and fired blindly into the dark as flames engulfed him and his existance on this plane was no longer.
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Satisfied with the thump of bodies hitting the ground in flame, she waited for the dust to clear and rolled a fragmentation grenade out the exit and was happy with the result as it rolled underneath a fully-manned Warthog, destroying the vehicle and it's occupants.
Red team: 38
Blue team: 0
Time: 5:00
She walked outside the cave and gathered herself as she got into position and once again got out her Sniper Rifle. She noticed two guards on patrol on the base, and set one in her sights.
"Say goodnight..."
She was about to pull the trigger when the guard went out of sight. She swore under her breath and waited for the guards to come around again, and when they did, one noticed her.
"Hey! Look! It's that girl!-" He was cut short by his head exploding in a gush of blood, followed by his partner,
"Damn right!" She yelled, "How's it feel to get beaten by a girl!" she yelled.
Red team: 40
Blue team: 0
Time: 6:30
Unfortunetly this drew the attention of all of remaining Blue base, and they lashed out in full force. They scrambled 3 tanks, with no passengers, two Warthogs with just drivers and gunners, and two Ghosts.
How the hell did they get another tank? She pondered, but was cut short as a tank shell slammed into the canyon wall near her and plasma melted the ground infront of her. Using her last clip, she quickly decapitated the tanks' drivers as she once again had the vantage point. She quickly adjusted to take out a Ghost and then threw down her empty rifle. Getting up and strafing, she pulled out her pistol and gunned down the other Ghost and chucked a grenade at the Warthog. The grenade exploded and flipped the Warthog, showering shrapnel everywhere.
Quickly running over to the downed Warthog, she flipped it and jumped into the gunner's seat quickly enough to destroy the one Warthog left. She then quickly hopped into the driver's seat and drove towards Blue base, then noticed a little too late, a lone Spartan with a rocket launcher directly in her path.
The rocket fired, and exploded infront of the Warthog. It was launched into the air and began to flip and Kate was thrown free. She hit the ground hard and it winded her, and she could have sworn something was broken. But for the first time since this started, it was strangely quiet. It was then that she noticed the score:
Red team: 49
Blue team: 0
Time: 9:30
She struggled to get up and investigate the crashed Warthog. She crept silently around it and almost jumped when she saw half of a Spartan sticking out from under it. Colt turned his head and slowly took off his helmet. His face was covered in bruises, cuts and deep gauges. He smiled weakly. She noticed his life signs were fading.
"Well," She said, having a cocky attitude for single-handedly defeating 50 marines and a Spartan. "How's it goin'?"
"Oh, you know..." He said, a hair's width away from DEAD on her HUD. "Just one of those days.." Then his eyes closed and he ceased moving. She looked into the corner of her HUD.
Red team: 50
Blue team: 0
Time: 10:00
Then she began to get nauscious as a strange blue mist began to form, which quickly turned into an ocean that seemed to flood the world, and she was whisked away as her skin began to numb and turn icy cold.
-Kate's tactics inspired by GLADIATRRR300's tight Halo skills =) Also, next chapter hopefully won't be pure combat like most of them.
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