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After First Strike: part one
Posted By: Elliott2020
Date: 12 June 2004, 6:24 PM
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940 hours, September 15, 2552 (revised date, Military Calendar)/Aboard UNSC vessel Gettysburg, in Slipspace.
The Master Chief was walking back and forth on the Bridge of the Gettysburg waiting for Cortana to say something. They were now in Slipspace on there way to Earth. They have just performed operation First Strike against a Covenant armada on a rest stop to Earth, and caught them just in time. The only people who made it out alive were him, Fred, Linda, William and Sergeant Johnson. There were others alive before their first strike against the Covenant armada. Grace, a Spartan who fought next to him for so many years, and now she's dead. There are four other soldiers who died as well, Corporal Locklear, Warrant Officer Shiela Polaski, Lieutenant Elias Haverson and Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb. Grace died in the Covenant battle station Unyielding Hierophant in the first strike. The rest died before the operation. John remembered about the new species of alien that he encountered in the Covenant battle station...the Brute. They were stronger and taller than an average Elite, dark grey skin with some hair here and there. If it wasn't for his MJOLNIR armour, he would be dead by now.
It is to bad that slowly all his friends are dying, and soon, he will to. "We will be landing on Earth in three hours," Cortana explained "This ship is to crippled to land properly so be prepared for a rough landing. "Yes Cortana." John tried to use the COM channel to warn the others about the situation, nobody answered. The Spartans were in the bay trying to repair a longsword. John went quickly down to the bay of the Gettysburg, slowly but Shurly he eventually made it there. He needed to warn everybody about the rough ride on Earth, for some reason nobody was answering the COM channel. What the hell was going on. "Answer me Spartans, that's an order," he barked, no answer. He clicked a few buttons on the side of the entrance door, and the doors slowly opened. It was quiet, to quiet. He didn't go in, first he looked around. The first thing he saw was a brutally battered body lying in a pool of blood with melted pieces of the MJOLNIR armour around the body. He couldn't tell who it was. Next he saw Fred and Linda in a corner behind a warthog. He quickly whipped out his battle rifle expecting a camouflaged Elite. It must of escaped Ascendant Justice and came into the Gettysburg. He sprinted across the bay, bolts of plasma came racing from were he had just come from. He dodged the shots and fired were the bolts came from. He heard a moan and then a scream as he continued to fire. Soon the Elite became visible and fell dead onto the cold metallic floor. Fred and Linda came out of there corner and gave a satisfying sigh. He walked up to the dead alien and saw that he had shot him through the throat, he smiled until he looked at Will. ''You like looking at dead bodies, we need to focus on what the real problem is,'' John shouted in a cold and unsatisfying voice. ''There is nothing we can do, the Gettysburg will be landing in the...Pacific ocean of Earth. He wasn't to good in the Earth's geography. He remembers his teacher Déjà, those were the good old days, without the dying and the killing...the covenant. ''We will be having a rough landing into the ocean and possibly get destroyed, the ship is so crippled, the hull can't take it. We will rip open like the titanic, the armoury in the central-left quarter of the ship, in the emergency area near the airlocks is the safest place in the ship." They waited impatiently for the crash into the ocean of Earth, in the armoury. Moments later Sergeant Johnson met them in the armoury with Cortana. Johnson handed Cortana to John and he plopped her into his head. He felt the cool mercury feeling flow inside his skull and then it slowly faded.
Minutes before the fatal landing, John warned his team to hold on to something. ''Thirty seconds, '' Cortana announced. Shiela's scream was going threw his head over and over. ''Twenty seconds. '' Images of Grace's dead body. ''Ten seconds. '' And now, images of his fate in...The Spartans heard the hull explode and the sound of metal ripping apart. And heard water rushing through the sides of the Gettysburg. "Cortana, damage report," the Master Chief ordered. "You can call the Gettysburg the Titanic now," Cortana said in a worried voice, "If you don't get out now, you'll be dead just like the people on the Titanic." "Why couldn't you just land the ship gently in a docking bay," Linda asked. "The Covenant Slipspace was to powerful for a human engine, luckily I managed to stop Slipspace before we entered the atmosphere." Cortana said in a frustrated voice. "I had no way of stopping this."
The Gettysburg was rapidly sinking deep into the Pacific ocean of the Earth. John was trying to figure out a way to get out without dying. They all heard a big thump, the Gettysburg hit the bottom of the ocean. There was so much pressure, the Spartans had no problem with this but Johnson did. "Were in deep shit," Sergeant Johnson said, and fell unconscious.
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