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Beyond Halo: Trilogy Chronicles 2582 Part 4
Posted By: JCDenton<cornezweistra@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 October 2004, 1:23 PM
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Begin part 4
Close to Planet Novus
Covenant Mother Ship The Solar Tempest
Starboard Bridge Alpha
Astaroth, Prophet Of War hovered around by his half-round control panel, watching all communications and actions.
The Two Headmasters of the Solar Tempest, 'Daimonee and 'Samnamnamee, were working on their best, preparing for the assault on Planet Novus.
"All forces, advance to your battle stations. Prepare to assault the heathens! 'Samnamnamee said through their type of intercom, which we do not know the origin of at the moment.
"Targeting all blasphemous ships...I read three Cruisers, and seven wings of Longsword interceptors, each wing representing eight Interceptors. They do not stand a chance." 'Daimonee said.
A few seconds later, a grunt barged in, having a message in his hands. A Golden elite walked in with him.
"Lord Astaroth". The Golden Elite bowed, while Astaroth had his back turned. "My unworthy servant has a message for you to bear." He finished.
"A message? How welcome." Astaroth said, friendly.
The grunt quickly gave the message to Astaroth, and began to bow, as he was forced to learn by his master.
Astaroth opened the Covenant seal, probably made by another High Prophet.
He looked, and enjoyed what was said. "Good. Thank you, Payay. You may now leave." He said. And the Golden Elite and his Orange armoured Grunt, Payay, left the door, where two High Elites stood to guard the door.
"...long time since Master has pleasure..." 'Daimonee noticed.
"Lord Astaroth, targeting all Infidel Ships: Six Battle Cruisers and Twelve Interceptor Wings has been dispatched by the Infidels.
"Fire at your wills." Astaroth said to the other High Elites at the other ships.
32 high concentrated pulse beams were fired onto the unlucky humans, who were staggered.
In a few seconds, many Orbital guns, MAC Stations and a few space stations were destroyed, taking a cruiser with them. Five of six human ships were unscathed, and now overdriven forward, while behind them the Cruiser was furiously exploded into flames and debris, destroying anything in its area along.
Another array of pulse beams were fired, but luckily for the Humans, with bad aim.
They crept closer and closer, while the Covenant took action.
The 120 Human Longsword MK.2 Bombers were soon accompanied by hundreds of Seraph Heavy Bombers, who were emptied out of the arsenals of the sixteen Covenant ships.
A third attack was launched, and damaged a three of five cruisers, one heavily.
"They disrupted our aim or some sort!" 'Samnamnamee said.
"You are just not shooting well, 'Mashu." Astaroth called 'Samnamnamee by his first name.
"Enemies are getting ready to fire..." 'Daimonee said, getting a little nervous.
The human cruisers took advantage of the weak position the covenants were having, while Longsword interceptors were holding off the Seraphs from interfering.
"What is their plan anyway?" 'Daimonee said, getting frustrated, as he calculated information and looked at three monitors at the same time.
"Enemy reinforcements...four wings of eight Longswords and a Class 6 Battleship. We really caught them off-guard this time." 'Samnamnamee said.
"Wait a second..." 'Daimonee said, "They have caught us off guard!"
"What is it!" 'Samnamnamee said loud.
"Infidel Deathbringer rounds!" he yelled.
"Get the shields online, and tell the other ships to evade!" Astaroth said loud and clear as he stood up from his unhovering chair.
"Evade! The lights are Deathbringers! Evade!" 'Samnamnamee said to the other High Elites controlling the ships while trying to get low.
The two ships fired their Super MAC Rounds at the overcharged ships, who stood mightless at their attack.
With only secondary and tertiary weapons able to fire, they could not damage a lot.
The contant fire of the Super MAC Rounds were more deadly than ever.
On impact, they slashed through the hulls of the covenant armours, leaving a wretched hull whom was sizzling of the pierce, melting away as the SMAC Rounds Pierced through the whole of the ship, destroying walls als pillars as they crumbled down, taking the ceiling with them.
Internal explosions blew through multiple ships, as the Class 6 Human Battleship joined with his high concentrated lasers to pierce through the hulls, with success, dropping the hull integrity of the Daemon Exglorium, a Class 7 Covenant Battle Ship.
The shield integrity of the Class 9 Mothership dropped dramatically as a array of SMAC rounds and two high concentrated super lasers pierced through the heavy Class 9 Mothership like hot knife through butter. The shields fell out and another pulse blasted through the weakened hull.
The ground shook as internal explosions destroyed whole sections of the ship.
'Samnamnamee couldn't find a grip on himself as he tried to hold himself as good as possible, as he heard the sound of the computers falling out, and the rumble of another round of SMAC piercing through the main section of the ship.
"All power on shields now!" Astaroth yelled.
All the electricity fell out in a instance, and the shields were reactivated just in time. Only life support stood on, but for the rest, they were in darkness.
Elites quickly activated their swords for light. Their lights illuminating the place, whom became a frightening place to be, while from far, they heard the death shrieks, screams and yells of falling comrades, either Elites, Grunts or Jackals as small internal explosions blasted away squads.
Communications fell out with the heavily damaged Class 7 ship the Daemon Exglorium as round after round pierced through the fierce armor of the Covenant Fleet.
Electricity began to burst out of two disabled ships around the Solar Tempest, and two wings of Longswords were advancing to made a quick deal of the ship to the right of the Solar Tempest.
With great speed, they delivered their enormous payload to the heavily burning and exploding ship, until the payload made contact with the heavily damaged hull of the Daemon Exglorium, making it explode so wildly, that it took another ship with it, and damaged the Solar Tempest as well.
The ship rumbled even more, while the last explosion made a halo-arc explosion, delivering another hit to the surrounding ships, almost taking a class 4 ship with it.
Debris collided with the weakened hull, while the mothership tried anything to spare up power to survive the attack.
Seraphs Heavy Bombers came from far to chase the Longsword Wings who just bombarded another Covenant Class 4 ship, disabling it.
Fires started everywhere on the Solar Tempest, and Hunters were trying to clear up the mess by just blasting it away.
Astaroth became so furious of the destruction of so many of his brethren, that he yelled loud:
"Fire the Super Beam Cannon now!"
"We cannot! It has been disabled by these Deathbringer Rounds!" 'Daimonee said.
"They will pay for this! Tell all the ships to fire all their weapons on the Infidels, now!" Astaroth said, even more furious.
"Yes Sir!" 'Samnamnamee said back.
But another round of MAC fire started up, the last of the payload the two human ships had left, while they crept very close now.
The securdairy turrets were shooting furiously on the two smaller cruisers, that used their secondary weapondry and smaller lasers to damage the ships more and more.
"Hull integrity is on fourty percent... main weapons are disabled sir. The other ships reported that their main weaponry are almost depleted. It is not wise to fire on them with the main weaponry. Instead, let the Fighters to the job." 'Samnamnamee said to Astaroth, while he walked back to his station.
"We should now move on and bring death to them." 'Samnamnamee said to Astaroth, while getting his computer running again.
While on the background the last of the battle was fought out, The two and Astaroth looked forward.
"Only eight ships are left, sir, and I doubt that it will be enough. We lost many elite soldiers here already, and this blow was fatal to the morale. We lost Three High Prophets today, sir, and I doubt that the High Counsil will be happy about what happened, to be honest." He continued.
"Besiege the planet, and set out the Tümen." Astaroth said angry, but cooling down, while he sat back down at his hovering seat.
"This little victory for them is just the prologue of their defeat. It is not over." Astaroth finished.
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