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Cahpter 2: Gayap's Story
Posted By: HaloFREAK
Date: 27 April 2003, 4:57 PM
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June 23rd, 2552, UNSC Battleship CORUSCAN, 0607 hours
After being awoken from cryo-sleep, the marines of Fire Team November were given a freezing four minute shower, ten minutes to get dressed, and then breakfast, which consisted of something that looked like a Twinkie but was hard as rock and tasted like aspirin, a third of a tray of half liquefied mystery meat, another third of something that was claimed to be shredded spinach, and the rest being a mix of slimy potatoes and mashed peas. All referred to as being ''dog shit'' by Thompson.
" What the hell is this can of dog shit supposed to be?" Thompson asked, pulling his plastic fork out of the ''shredded spinach'' with something that looked like green hair attached.
" Diarrhea I think." Mendoza said.
"Eat it boy, it's good for you." Frost said. "You need to get big and strong so you can start beating on the little grunts."
" Shut up Sarge, at least I can take on one of those big blue bastards without taking cover." Said Thompson.
"That's because you're a damn retard. Nobody can take on those Elites alone, 'cept for the Master Chief. You lucky one of them hasn't blown your ass off yet."
Thompson continued to sit there, picking at his spinach while debating whether to eat it or not. After another 27 minutes of arguing, cracking, and remembering old battles, Sergeant Frost departed his squad to go to the bridge for briefing, but not before leaving a threat of " Don't you sorry sons of bitches cause any damn trouble or I'll kick all of your asses."
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The black armored grunt, Gagap, sat hiding in one of the air ducts of what the scattered Covenant forces believed was to be the main complex of the large human installation. He sat there, flashing back on how the few remaining Covenant forces aboard the Flood infested Covenant capitol ship, the Sovereign, had arrived on the human world after the ring world of Halo was destroyed.
May 28th, 2552, Covenant cruiser The Sovereign, 0233
It had only been a day after the flood were released, and already there had been 27 lost outposts, 84 lost dropships, and an unknown number of Covenant Cruisers invaded.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH! WE'RE GONNA DIE!" Gayap screamed as he ran down the halls of the ravaged Sovereign. Battle was ensuing all around him, with Elites, Jackals and Grunts desperately trying to hold off a Flood attack while a group of technicians tried to overwrite a security system in order to close a large muster bay door, with the hopes of sealing the Flood off into an abandoned portion of the ship.
"INFERIOR, HOLD THE LINE!" Gayap's CO yelled at him. "HOLD THE" but the black Elite was unable to finish his sentence as a swarm of infection forms penetrated the soldier's shields, burying the elite under a living blanket of flood. His screams of agony were muffled by the horde of Flood mutilating his body. A blue Elite, named Urka 'Usanee, then discovered that a fallen Flood mutant had dropped a belt of fragmentation grenades. The glory hungry Elite then lit a plasma grenade, stuck it to his chest, and then ran into the mass of flood mutants, allowing the beasts to swarm over him only to be destroyed from the kamikaze's grenade. The blast then triggered a chain reaction from the combat form's belt of grenades, splattering tentacles, heads, arms, legs, and other body parts all over the pinkish blue floor, and killing roughly 80% of the flood attackers, and then allowing the remaining Covenant to successfully seal the huge door. Suddenly, an elite's voice came over the remaining soldiers' radios.
"All of my soldiers, this is Ship Master Sumee 'Uyamee. I praise you for your brave and noble efforts to cleanse this ship of alien filth. We have been able to make the necessary repairs to the engines because of your heroic actions, and we are now beginning to leave this ring of Flood evil. All forces are ordered to continue with your current objectives and await additional orders. Good luck, Ship Master out!"
The last red armored Elite, Lothar "Lensumee, then began to position his remaining forces around the gore ridden storage bay.
" Jackals, I want you to get on the platforms up above and keep an eye on the unsealable doors on the right and front, and to fire on anything that has more than four limbs. 'Kusanee, 'Nansee, stay here and make sure the Jackals hold their position. The rest of you follow me, we have to secure and seal the last door leading to the quarantine. Technicians, stay behind us until we get to the target."
A minor Jackal then began to protest against his superior's orders.
" Field Master, why not let the gas suckers guard this clearly secured area while allowing us to go with you to secure the next door. Surely we will be more reliable and effective then them."
" Do not question my orders inferior. Need I remind you that the "gas suckers" are all part of a noble Special Forces unit while you are a lowly army grunt?" the Elite responded confidently. After not receiving a reply from the jackal, the Elite turned and walked down toward the best route to their objective. Gayap, who had considered deserting his unit countless times since the ship was infested, got a boost of morale from the Elite's confidence and followed him and the his squad through a hall littered with dead flood and Covenant troops.
After making their way down the hall and through a few doors, they came across a large group of flood dragging bodies towards the quarantine zone. 'Lensumee had barely yelled "fire!" when eight plasma pistols, two needlers, three fuel rod guns, and three plasma rifles tore an Elite combat form in half. The Flood responded by their normal patterns of suicide attacks. Gayap then fired blindly into the crowd of advancing Flood along with the other Grunts and Elites. A blue Elite panicked as a mass of infection forms exploded out of a nearby vent. The Elite then held down the trigger of his plasma rifle firing at the mass of squid creatures. Soon after, his rifle overheated and was left temporarily unarmed. The Elite was then about to flee when a Grunt was smashed in the face by a metal pipe wielding combat form. The Grunt had a charged up plasma pistol which released its powerful bolt into the Elite's stomach and disabled his shields.
"NO!" he screamed as a carrier form fell right in front of him and blew up. The soldier was hurled through the air and smashed onto the ground headfirst. He died almost instantly.
Although the Flood outnumbered the Covenant team, the three fuel rod gunners were still intact and were in a great vantage point. In unison they fired into the Flood position and after what seemed like ages, the entire Flood force lay charred and disabled, along with three Grunts and a blue Elite. After waiting a few moments with weapons at the ready, the area was declared momentarily secured, and the troops got busy treating the wounded and setting up temporary defenses. After about 15 minutes the techs finished locking down the door. Then after a few moments of awkward silence, the Sovereign began to lift off surprisingly smoothly. When the artificial gravity units began working the soldiers cheered with joy, as they knew they had made it to space. The FTL engines were then heard revving up, but were then drowned out by a thunderous roar as the Pillar of Autumn's engines went critical and exploded. The blast knocked out the engines and sent the Sovereign helplessly gliding through space. Gayap did not know what happened next because another explosion rocked the ship, throwing the grunt into a wall and knocking him unconscious.
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June 23rd, 2552, UNSC Battleship CORUSCAN, 0612
Sergeant Frost made his way to the outside of the bridge when he stopped to take the time to check his uniform. After everything was satisfactory, he continued into the bridge. The bridge was remarkably similar to those of the older Hayclon frigates were (which the Hyperion Is originated from) except that there was no wall between the main command screen and the weapons officer and ship control officer. As he walked in he saw the captain and 3 other sergeants. He was then sat down in one of the two vacant seats and waited for the last sergeant to make it to the bridge.
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May 31st, 2552, Covenant Cruiser The Sovereign, Unknown Space
Gayap's vision was hazy when he saw an odd blue triangle moving back and forth in front of his face. He thought he had died and was then punished by the Gods, but then discarded the idea because this was too lenient for him. He thought he saw something black behind the haze as well, so blinked a few times and his vision cleared, revealing another black armored Grunt. He recognized the Grunt as his friend Nagad whom he thought was killed in the storage bay. The blue triangle was actually Nagad's finger.
"Gayap? Wake up. Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up!" Nagad nagged, still moving his finger back and forth. Gayap pushed it away.
"What happened?" he asked.
"What happened? What happened was you went flying and smacked right into that wall back during the battle. It was pretty crazy!" Nagad said. " You've been out for about three days now."
Gayap then started to get up, but Nagad pushed him back down.
"The medic told me to keep everybody down. He said it could lead to some serious cerebral dysfunction or something." Nagad told him. Although he couldn't see much because of his angle, Gayap realized that he wasn't in the long hallway anymore.
" Anyway, the medic is gonna be over here in a while so you'll know what happened from him." Nagad said, then got up and walked into Gayap's field of vision. The grunt saw a jackal move then said.
"Hey, I'm in charge and medic says you aren't supposed to move." The jackal must have insulted Nagad because the grunt then looked around cautiously, then gave the Jackal a good kick in the side. He then scurried to his post. Gayap started to drift off to sleep with his last thoughts cursing himself for volunteering for the Holy Relic Archeological Expeditionary Force.
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