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After Reach Parts 2-5
Posted By: Foyez Khader
Date: 6 December 2002, 1:42 am
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WHAT EXLPOSION?
Back at the bridge of Captain Khaders ship, Lt Carsons been keeping himself occupied looking at reports and so forth when, Lt Hoshi got startled by something,
"Lt sir I picked up something big on my sensors sir", the Lt walked over to Lt Hoshi's to see what she was on about, " it's an explosion it's from the planet Threshold" Lt Hoshi replied, Lt Carson being slightly puzzled by this then replied " Threshold is gas planet they don't explode like that", now both the lieutenant were puzzled by the explosion, " ok Hoshi look into it a bit more I'm gonna call the commander" ordered Carsons, " commander did you get that that explosion also", to which the commander replied "yah some of the crew are puzzled we can't make out all of it the moon is covering some of the explosion, hey Carsons get the Captain, I'm gonna get crew to look into if I find anything I'll tell you ok", acknowledging what the commander
said he called the captain.
"Captain Sir we have something to show you sir, can you make it to the bridge sir"
The Lt sounded curious on the channel, so the captain got up put on a new uniform washed his face, and left the cabin heading towards the bridge.
"Ok then Lt what you got for me Hoshi", Lt Hoshi looked at him and then said
" here sir some explosion went off near the planet Threshold, but the weird thing is that the sensors is picking up odd thing", to which the captain replied "maybe something crashed there", Lt Hoshi then informed the captain that the explosion didn't come from the moon or the planet she said " sir something exploded between the planet and the moon sir, not sure what it is captain do we like have some sort of remote sensor outpost there", this piqued the captain interest in the explosion, " well no outpost there, is there any covenant activity",
"No sir nothing but I'm picking up a lot of debris sir, what the hell happened there",
The Lt sounding slightly concerned.
The captain then stared across to the glass cockpit of the ship, " Honey put everyone on yellow alert, and have all the Longsword squadrons on stand by", then a few seconds later everyone was on battle station, " Lt Creeks push the reactors to hundred percent", to which the Lt replied "reactors running hot sir",
"Salmons make a heading towards the planet, tell the commander to follow us"
Salmons understanding the orders he quickly typed in the commands, and slowly you could hear the engine roar into life and vibrating the whole deck, the captain then asked honey what the status of the marines, to which she said in her always cheerful sexy voice "all the marines are armed and ready, and I have point defence sir", the captain smiled and said "good girl",
"Lt Hoshi what the MACS like", then sounding confident and ready for whatever is facing on the other side, she replies "MACS armed and running hot sir and all ARCHER pods ready, all 3 SHIVA warheads ready safety locks removed sir",
The captain impressed by the lieutenant forward thinking " excellent work Lt".
With the captain finally sitting on the chair makes a simple nod at the pilot and slowly moved, armed and ready go to find out what happened at Threshold.
JUST DUST AND ECHOES
It's been an hour they have finally reached the gas giant Threshold, the whole crew at the bridge was stunned, the first person to say something was the pilots of the ships,
"What the fuck happened here" to which the second pilot said "holy fuck" looking stunned by the carnage saw several covenant ships, that looked like they were blown to pieces only a very few looked intact, but way to damaged to even be a threat.
Most of the crew at the bridge couldn't believe their eyes, a whole armada annihilated by something that not even the covenant could have survived; the captain couldn't believe it, then the commander of the frigate hailed,
"Captain! Jesus what happened here, my sensors are picking up covenant debris everywhere, and some huge pieces of some sort of structure, your sensors picking them up", the captain quickly replied "yeah I do, commander keep this line open whatever you do, don't close it keep your guard up captain out",
The captain looked at Carsons "give me something Lt" the captain ordered, to which the Lt then informed, " Sir this is getting weird I'm not just picking up covenant debris our lot was here UNSC forces here, sir something happened something unimaginable" Carson started to sound little unnerved by this, the captain was now even more surprised by the fact that UNSC forces were here among this graveyard of dead covenant forces, the captain called for Salmons " give me the commander", Salmons did exactly as ordered, then the captain ordered the commander, " Martins take your ship scout the areas ahead of me keep your guard up see if you can find any UNSC forces, don't salvage anything without my permission my orders clear commander", to which the commander acknowledged his order and replied " yes sir orders clear and understood, beginning reconnaissance work Martins out". And slowly the captain looked at the camera and saw the frigate Even After All, making its journey forward into this grave yard of ships and unanswered questions.
"Ok crew everyone start with scanning for any UNSC personnel, and intact UNSC ships." He ordered his bridge, the turn his attention to honey who was waiting for his orders, "Honey deploy all the Longswords, tell them to go to recon patrol and destroy any covenant probes that might have stayed intact after the explosion",
Once her orders where given few seconds later, "sir all Longswords have been deployed and on recon patrol, is there anything else I can do for you sir", The captain looked at honey and said "yes there is Honey shut down all unnecessary systems and divert the power to yourself for the mean time I need you to give me damage report on the covenant, and do scan on the moon to see if there is any covenant forces grounded then send in a squadron clean up what the explosion missed out ok",
"Ok sir will do buh bye" and then does a girly wave back at the captain and disappears, it's been an hour since they made it to Threshold, "Lt Carsons what of the UNSC", the Lt then reports back saying that no one survived, the blast killed both UNSC and Covenant forces,
"Salmons hail the commander please", the captain stood up, "commander anything on your side", the commander then reported back " no nothing here no one alive but I did come across these massive tiles we had a look I swear to god I saw a continent on there, captain I think these tiles make up something, some of crew think these objects might be what caused the explosion, and oh yeah nearly forgot sir while we was looking for survivors we came across these robots sir they look nothing that the covenant had sir, we did scan on them they are dead sir, sir can I have your permission to salvage a few of these robots sir ", the captain thought about it for a few seconds then gave the go ahead.
The captain was reading up on Honey's damage report on the covenant, while reading through the report, a huge scream came from Lt Hoshi,
"Captain sir I have detected a UNSC ship it's a Longsword fighter, it's soon as she said, everyone on the bridge was cheering and shouting, the captain then asked Hoshi to verify what she saw, " sir while you was reading the damage report I verified a million times, I even had honey take a look at it, sir it's a Longsword fighter intact", the captain now had smile on his face "what's the status of the fighter" the captain ordered, Hoshi now very excited "sir the engines are offline and communication is down", the captain asked Honey to send a squadron to investigate this drifting Longsword, and so Honey selected the most battle hardened Longsword squadron, the legendary Space Knights. And so when the captain looked at the top camera, as he saw his most hardened squad fly past them towards the drifting Longsword.
AND THE HORSE THE KNIGHTS RODE IN ON
"This is wing commander John Warken, how you girls and boys holding" saying it in his more comic voice, the rest of squadron all said "doing fine sir", "good good" was the answer the wing commander said, "ok then how far are we from this stray", then one of the female flight lieutenant said, exactly 500 metres and counting should make contact in 3 minutes", then the wing commander saw the drifting Longsword, and tried to communicate with it,
"This is wing commander John Warken of the Longsword squadron Space Knights do you copy over", John waited for a reply but didn't get one, and then the female flight lieutenant said "sir I think the comm. System on board the Longsword is down sir".
The commander decided to hail them one more time.
Back on the drifting Longsword, the Master Chief can see a squadron of Longsword he was happy to see them for minute he thought he would just drift,
"Cortana contact them tell them to pick us up", the master chief ordered to which, Cortana replied "well chief much as I would like to reply back the explosion, has knock down the comm. System," then a few seconds later they heard the wing commander hailing them, the master chief got of his seat and looked at the cockpit window, "Cortana can you make contact with them yet", Cortana in a frustrated mood says "I can't speak back the comm. System is screwed shit!"
Back at the squadron the wing commander decided to tow the Longsword,
"Ok then people release the tow line were taking this stray back home, then from the wing commander's fighter he shot two magnetic clamps at the Master Chief Longsword.
"Cortana what was that wait the fighter is reversing Master Chief" sounding little worried, the Master Chief looked at the cockpit window and assured that it was ok, the "fighter is just towing us back", "oh ok that was nice of them anyway they missed the fireworks", to which only Master Chief made a little smile, and sat back on the seat and strapped himself. And waited with each breath, as they got closer to the Captain Khaders ship.
AS A HALO FELL AND THE COVENANT NO MORE A SPARTAN ROSE
" Commander Martins make your way back to my co-ordinates ok" ordered the captain, few seconds later Martins acknowledged the order and turned his ship around and was heading back towards captain's ship, on the way back the commander asked why, "well commander we found a drifting Longsword were taking back to my ship",
"Holy you found a survivor yes we won we won" sounding all excited, then the commander ordered his lieutenant to move the ship faster,
Back at Captain's Khader ship everyone was feeling euphoria of finding this Longsword fighter, morale was pretty high, soon everyone is asking the captain if they could go with him to see this fighter, but the captain decided that they would be more useful if they stayed on the bridge,
" Carsons take the bridge I'm going to the flight deck, to see this, ok keep me updated if anything happens, ok''
"Understood oh and can you say hi for us if there is any survivor on board" And as the captain walked towards the lift to the flight deck he told them he would say hi for them,
He is now at the flight deck waiting with baited breath to see this ship; all the techies, engineers and the medics were waiting with excitement and nervousness.
The flight deck master clears the hangars, and decompresses the deck, 10 minutes later the Longsword squadron arrives with the drifting fighter, the captain could hear the hooting and cheering and the excitement, even he got caught by it, soon as the atmosphere was restored on the hangar the first people to arrive on the scene was the marines all surrounding the Longsword, then one of the engineers pushes a ladder towards the cockpit, and slowly the marine climbs up the ladder with his gun aimed at the cockpit window, the marine can't make out whose on the other side, he rubs the window and presses his face closer to see who it is, and the marines face goes from one of caution to one of sheer shock and delight,
"Holy fuck corporal it's its fucking Spartan sir we have a Spartan on board there is a Spartan"
The captain stood outside and immediately ordered the engineers to open the door, and as the door opened after a few minutes stood a behemoth of man he stood 8'' tall, and looked like a more like a machine, it struck that the captain that this man this legend that no one ever saw but heard of was standing right in front of him on his ship, and more amazing this was the UNSC at it's pinnacle, they were looking at a weapon, and then a burst pride flowed all over the captain, a Spartan stood in front of him, and what astounded him was that with an explosion like that, how did he survive, but then again that should be self explainable his a Spartan, they were built for war, they just survive. All the marines were stunned they all dropped their weapons and watched in awe of this warrior that the covenant feared the most, and now it was on their ship, the captain walked forward and saluted the Spartan,
" My name is Captain Foyez Khader of the UNSC destroyer Corner Of The Earth welcome aboard Spartan, it's good to see you",
The Master Chief in his usual tone then gives a crisp salute back at the captain,
"My name is Master Chief Petty Officer First Class John 117 sir"
The captain looked at the Spartan for few seconds and his suit looked all charred and dent's here and there, plasma scorches and funnily enough the suit still had it's ghostly iridescent green on the armour, the captain thought to himself must be good paint. "Well Master Chief first head towards medic, let my doctors take a look at you, I'll get the rest of the crewman to sort you out with a private quarter, I'll give you time to settle down then you can meet me back at the bridge ok." Said the captain saluting the Master Chief, the Master Chief understanding was then escorted to the medic bay by the nurses, just before the captain headed back towards the bridge, he looked at the all the crew still not over by the fact that they have Spartan on board,
"Ahem people we have a job to do so stop staring get back to duty, you can have your autograph signed later on",
Back at the bridge the whole crew were cheering and hooting, "ok people celebration time is over" ordered the captain, then Lt Hoshi asks "sir when will we get to see the Spartan sir", to which the captain answered "well right now he his being seen by the medic, then afterwards he will make his way to the bridge when he is ready, other then that Hoshi concentrate on the job, oh Hoshi leave a beacon behind, this stuff might be useful for the scientist, and Honey make an exit vector for this place, Salmons is the commander here", the Lt then said "yes the Even After All is here with us",
" ok then lets go people our job here is done" and then the captain sat down on his chair and felt the rumble of the reactors vibrating the deck, before the Shaw-Fujikawa drive ripped a hole in space, so that both the Destroyer Corner Of The Earth and the Frigate Even After All made there way towards slipstream space.
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