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Alternate Realities - An Army of Two
Posted By: Guardian<thehawaiiandude01@yahoo.com>
Date: 1 July 2004, 10:41 PM
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Location Earth
April 16, 2662
Continent North America
Central Montana - Reactor Complex
A squad of marines moved up towards the looming fortress armed to the teeth with cannons, machine guns and missile batteries. Aprroximately a few hours ago, thanks to the unknown new ship known as the Remora, had detected Xantari Carriers that appeared to be dropping off ground forces. Marines on the planets were already ready, to repell them. Thanks to the Covenant/Human alliance all ground forces had gotten an upgrade. All soldiers carried battle armor each with a minimal defence of a shield system. Overshield charges were handed out to each soldier during the times of critical missions. Especially this one, the protection of the ground base fusion reactors powering up the Super-MAC orbital platforms and their shields. The Sargent took cover near some rocks and pulled out his sniper rifle and scanned the complex. Xantari forces stood outside patrolling the area. Each guarded was armed with a particle cannon, one shot was an instant vaporization ticket. "Shit, Lopez move up and into the tree's set up your sniping equipment, quickly and quitely as possible" replied Sargent Hayes in a calm voice.
Sweat trickled down his brow, and grasped his suit, the pirspiration absorbing fabric absorbed it. As he continued to look at the Xantari forces, Lopez moved into the three, as he climbed he made little sound as he stepped on the last branch to get up into the tree where he had set up his equipment, it snapped drawing the attention of the patrols. The guards turned their attention to the tree. Lopez scrambled up into it and stayed rigid without motion. After a few minutes of complete silence the guards went back to their duty. The Sarge's COM chirped inside his helmet, and it startled him. But he gained control of himself and answered it.
"This is the Covenant High Guard, we are currently 3 kilometers east of your position, we will arrive within 8 units or 8 of your human minutes" replied the Squad leader.
"Roger that, we will wait till you have neared the base and then open fire, snipers only" whispered the sargent.
As the time ticked on by the marines got their weapons ready, the sarge one last time looked east with his Sniper rifle, and saw a siloutte of camouflage figures moving across the field towards the unsuspecting Xantari forces. Three hollow figures moved behind the Xantari guards, and then three plasma swords ignited and they attacked digging into the Ablative armor dispersing some of the plasma, weapons fire ignited as well, most of them missing not able to clearly see the Elite warriors beside the Plasma swords. Then just as clearly, projectile weapons fire added to the comotion. The upgraded 14.2mm armor piercing rounds were now the 14.2mm, armor piercing, high-velocity, explosive rounds. Doing even more damage than before.
The rounds finally tore through the armor, entering the skulls and exploding through the back sending bits of blood, flesh, and brain spewing through the gaping hole. As the Xantari guards lay dead upon the ground rusted copper green blood escaped their mortal wounds. The Marines then moved up towards the Covenant keeping their weapons trained upon the entrance to the fusion reactor complex. As the combined group moved in they sensed terror as well as silence. They finall reached the Gate Room that controlled the action to the secondary three meter thick Titanium-A door that lead to the reactor core. Inside the control room lay bodies everywhere. A putrid smell hung around the stations and bodies. Most stations were covered in red blood, now coagulated. Through each of the marines eyes they could not believe what the saw. The bodies were not even bodies, most of them were disected corpses, some missing a heart a few missing other organs. As if this was not terrifying enough. The way they were dissected was even more gruesome. They were literally ripped open.
Private Herbert puked instantly as he had entered the room. Thankfully as the squad arrived near the reactor itself there was fresh air there to breath. But the trail of coagulated blood followed from the control room to the core. The Sarge and the Elite Juka Rulnamee assesed the situation and then split their squad. Half of the Jackals and a few of the Grunts would go with the human squad and The Sargent and the rest of the squad would go with two other Veteran Elites, a handful of Jackals and six other Grunts. As it turned out Private Herbert, Private Anderson, and Private Sullivan would go with the Grunts, the Jackals, and Juka Rulnamee. They were to go upstairs and check for survivors. The others were to search this reactor complex for any survivors and then find the control room for the reactors and hold it until the other squad arrived.
Pvt. Herbert unloaded a half spent clip and stored it, then reloaded a fresh clip and drove it home. After thumping the safety off and the hammer. He was ready for anything or atleast almost anything after what he had seen. The squad had moved upstairs and had found most of the turrets slagged or alot of them missing with radiational residue. Finally through all the search they found a survivor, but he was terrified and almost dead, most of his limbs were missing and he had lost a lot of blood. Private Herbert seeing such pain in the mans eyes, drew his pistol cocked back the hammer allowing a round to slide into the barrel. Then placing his hands over the man's chest he whispered a small prayer to god. Soon after he pointed the pistol to the man's head and pulled the trigger. He released the empty shell from the barrel and calmly placed the pistol back into his holster.
As the mercy killing passed away he the thoughts still resided within Sam's head, why would they do such a thing. What had we, or even the Covenant done to them for them to such gruesome acts. Why!, why why why!. Like a hammer hitting the gong it kept on banging in his head. Just as they were about to head downstairs their COM's chirped again "Sam!, this is Hayes, we came in contact with another Xantari force. But this one is ten times stronger, we've taken severe losses. Now its only me and the two Elites left. We are doing the best to hold them back, you need to get the fuck out of here now!" he said of the COM. It filled with static before it became clearer again "Oh shit what was...oh my god, fall back fall back....roaurrrrrr...oh no, no please no, get back ::brrrrt:: ::brrrt::...fuck no, no AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!" the COM died with that. The surving squad remained waiting for a response anything, their eyes were filled with fear.
The squad came over their fears and then Sam went over to the Gold Elite and started had a quick talk. Then came back, "as of now, i'm taking command of the remaining marine forces. All of you prepare yourselves for a fight of your lives. Prepare grenades and reload your weapons, we as of now have decided that whatever mission was at the begining has been scrapped. Our main priority is now to move out and get as safely possible away from this complex as possible, then call for Evac and go back to regroup and strike again" said Sam. The two other Marines and the rest of the Covenant forces prepared their gear as well.
The squad moved out and moved towards the exit, as they came near their motion tracker picked up many red blips. Enemy ahead prepare two fragmentation and two plasma grenades on the count of three throw them in the area ahead. 1...2...3...Now! Four grenades gracefully sailed through the air and landed a few feet from the emeny. Three seconds later they detonated in a flash of yellow and blue, 3600 rads of radiation eminated from the plasma grenades three of the Xantari forces dropped dead instantly their body unable to take a dosage of that amount. The fragmentation grenades however were the better part of the attack, not only did the explosion damage their weapons and armor, the shrapnel impaled many of them instantly also killing them. After the detonations only four remained, the squad moved up ahead quickly and opened fire. As a hail of plasma and projectiles impacted the Xantari, the intricate inter-phase particle weapons also fired. Four shots in total all succesful envoloped the remaining Jackals, one Marine, and two Grunts. The plasma melted through the remaining layers of armor and vaporized any amount of flesh it came in contact with.
Inconvceivable screams were heard from the dying Xantari. "Serves you right for killing my friends, you fucked up piece of shit" whispered Sam, so that no-one could hear but himself. Finally, he moved forward and picked up three Xantari weapons, he clipped one to his belt, threw the second to the Juka, and the third to Sullivan. They moved forward and noticed that the Grunt was missing, with the clatter of footsteps coming through the interior they decided to leave the Grunt, wherever he/she was. They ran, for cover and for their lives. A few minutes later they came to a stream, and took a minute to rest. They refreshed themselves with a little water and then looked over their byzantine weapon. Sullivan stood six meters from Sam and Juka, he scanned the area for anything they could use for shelter or a defensive area.
Sam watched as his friend turned every now and then to scan the region, just as he was about to call him back to talk over Juka's and his plan, his head exploded in a shower or skull fragments and blood mist. "Shit, sniper!" screamed Juka and Sam, they quickly made their way behind the rocks and held steady there. Sam drew out his M6D pistol with his custom made 8x scope, and looked through it. He saw the sniper stationed fifty meters north and twenty five meters high above their position in the Complex. He pulled the trigger twice and watched as the clips ammo counter dropped to nine bullets. Soon the rounds impacted squarely between the snipers eyes, and penetrating his skull. Green gore sprayed the wall. Finally satisfied that they were safe from the sniper, they slowly got up and ran away and as fast as their legs could carry them. They would not return to this place again untill they had better weapons and more forces.
Deep in the far reaches of Space, a new ship appeared with weird configurations. Shields highly regenerative and powerful weaponry. It slowly moved towards the SOL system. It prepared its engines, and then a slispace gateway opened up bluish energy flicked and dissipated as the light intesified. The ship warped into the gateway as it closed and disappeared from sight. Just as that had a occured a few minutes later a Xantari cruiser decloaked from its hollow field, and then jumped using their inter-phasic drive to their homeworld reporting with the data gathered on this new ship. As the data was transfered to the High council, they talked finally signifying that this ship was a high threat and would be a set back to their plans. The council gave the order to prepare six cruisers and attack and destroy this new ship. Even if it meant killing their own with stray weapons fire against this ship.
The elaborate ship reappeared at the edges of the SOL system and went into cloaking and then on normal power moved towards Earth, at the given speed it would take roughly a week to reach Earth. More than enough time to prepare its defenses and weaponry against the Xantari. As it passed a UNCS/Covenant probe before the cloak was fully formed around the ship the name read Remora
I was thinking about writing this one about the ODST, but i decided to change that thought for i'm not to familiar with the ODST and after reading a few of his fanfictions i couldn't still thoroughly grasp how to display an ODST. Anyways, i thank you all for reading this and the next part of the Story will be posted soon
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Alternate Realities - May the Force be with us....Please!
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