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Halo Heaven: Chapter 2: The Story of the Surviving Spartan IIs
Posted By: Justin Harrison, Halo Heaven<mountain_biker28@mchsi.com>
Date: 30 March 2004, 2:08 AM
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Chapter 2
500 Hours
Sidewinder Base in the Azura Mountain Range
Briefing for the Next Mission
"We have been called upon to take a small rebellious covenant base that ONI recently found. They where the ones who assaulted us." Cortana explained.
Sir Cloud and Red have taken 20 marines and 4 pelicans to a Covenant base north of the planet. Marines were guarding the newly enforced sidewinder base with warthogs and scorpion tanks. The Spartan-II'S had three warthogs and one scorpion connected to the pelicans underbelly. They flew through space to the short journey to a neighboring Star System. To a planet called Arid.
In the far horizon they landed their Pelicans and unloaded the marines and vehicles. The Covenant base was a mile away and Master Chief 29 had joined the SPARTAN-II'S and marines for a battle with the covenant. Master Chief 29 had been awoken from being frozen after the battle at Sidewinder.
"Master chief 29, sir! Welcome to the party!" A marine shook his hand
"I'm ready for some damn action!" He replied.
"Let's go!" Sir Cloud said as they geared up on their vehicles and on foot to go to the Covenant fortress. As they got closer they could see the thousands of Covenant that lied ahead of them. The base was the biggest anyone had seen with their own eyes. Usually the UNSC marines were completely destroyed before they set eyes on the base.
There battle drew closer. The base grew bigger and taller as they got nearer. The base had to be 2 miles across and 3 miles in length, surrounded by a 20-foot shield wall around the base. It had a purple illumination to it like Covenant ships. Their was hundreds of building inside the base, some had to be 5000 feet into the air. There was troop movement everywhere. The base had plasma turrets everywhere overlooking the surrounding area. They where near now. The covenant base was had covenant drop ships and banshees hovering over the base.
They had 20 Sergeants and marines to stay back with Sniper rifles to help with supporting fire. Red stayed with the snipers. Sir Cloud got into a warthog's gunner seat. He geared up the LAAG gun. Marines took the other seats in the Warthog. They took the lead with 4 Warthogs behind them and 2 M808B Scorpion MBT tank behind that group. Those two tanks held 4 marines each with Rocket Launcher's since the Scorpion tank was susceptible to air-craft fire and fire from right next to it.
A banshee group spotted them rolling towards the base. Sir Cloud fired at the Banshees that were making an attack run at them.
"SCORPIONS FIRE AT THE BASE!" Yelled Sir Cloud. The scorpions aimed at the defense turrets and fired. Covenant grunts and Elites ran from the falling towers that once held the turrets. One of the defense turrets was hit and did 4 flips before hitting a grunt and smashing it. The turrets opened fire at the incoming Warthogs and Scorpions. A marine was hit and burned alive. Snipers targeted the leader Elites in gold and black and started firing. Skulls crushed to the ground spilling out guts and gore over the battlefield. Marines tackled the weaker forces, Grunts and Jackals. The Scorpion tanks blew at the defenses leaving them defenseless and the SPARTAN-II'S taking out Elites, Hunters, and Brutes. Master Chief 29 with his Battle Rifle ripped through a brute and landed a grenade onto a grunt.
"HELP ME!" Squeaked the Grunt before it blew up.
BLAM!
Sir Cloud was hit by plasma fire, but just gripped the LAAG gun harder and blew open an Elites stomach sending guts and gore flying. Cloud jumped off the Warthog and swiped his laser sword, tearing a Brute through his chest splitting him in half. A few marines had grouped up and where blown up by a plasma grenade. They went flying up on fire by the super-heated plasma. Red sniped like a true assassin. He was taking out the higher priority targets. He took down a Brute that was giving orders and had 5 bodyguards around him. Jackals at the top floors of the main base were guarding the elites with their shields.
M.c29 ran into the front of the base with his head up in hail of bullets into the Covenants fleshy skulls. It was a blood stained battlefield of Covenant and Marine bodies.
"Sir Cloud, I suggest that you help the tanks." Cortana said.
"Why Cortana?" Sir Cloud asked.
"Because the Covenant is hitting them hard with hunters."
Sir Cloud looked back from his position and saw that she was right. The tanks were getting bombarded with green plasma from the Hunters. He grabbed his modified S2 AM Sniper Rifle and spotted 4 Hunters that were on the ground. He scoped in 10x, aiming in one of the bastards back. He fired once with the satisfying sight or orange blood spaying out its back before the huge beast fell. The Hunters blood brother wailed at the site of him falling. Sir Cloud put him down in the same manor. The Scorpion tanks had time to regroup and fired into the last two sending them flying 5 feet and hitting the ground leaving a small crater.
M.C29 was helping the marines battle on foot. The Warthogs were doing there best against the larger Covenant. One Warthog was over turned, rusted, and burning, with its 3 man crew all crippled beside it. Blood was splattered on the ground and dripping of the warthog, which also had a long, black streak of a plasma impact deep in the vehicles structure. M.c29 and sir Cloud had their pistol and sniper rifle out killing more hunters.
Everything was going good. The battle in front of the place had moved forward, almost all the way to the plasma wall around it. M.c29 was sure that they would be inside the base within no time at all. All of a sudden doors in the plasma wall parted revealing 50 Brutes that ran into the battle with one intention: the destruction of the humans.
M.c29 got aboard a Ghost and dodged their plasma fire. He returned the favor to them using the Ghosts main cannon to send plasma at them, which made them scatter around. Sir Cloud with his modified laser sword charged in swiping and slashing at the Brutes leaving a purple blood trail in his wake. A bloody mess was everywhere;
bodies were mangled and chopped up by his gallant sword. M.c29 was fighting with a Brute when the spike of another Brutes gun hit him from behind and made his shields flare. He fell forwards and was knocked backwards by the Brute he was fighting. His shields were down now and he was vulnerable. The Brute that was behind him shot him with his arm mounted cannon. He was blown forwards and landed 10 meters from where he once was. Sir Cloud saw M.c29 land in a bloody heap. He felt something he didn't usually feel: HATRED for the Brutes.
Sir Cloud gripped his laser-sword harder and plunged it through a Brutes chest. It stuck out the back of the Brute, which wailed in aguish. He spun around to face the two Brutes, which had double-teamed M.c29. He came towards them with his laser-sword at the ready. They likewise came towards him. He broke into a run and slashed at ones throat. He gored the nearest one in the heart and twisted his laser-sword into its face. He then turned to the last Brute. He held his gun ready. In two quick strides he tackled the elite to the ground. He pulled his a SMG out and stuck it into its head and pulled the trigger.
He ran over to M.c29 and lifted his limp body up. He ran back to the Pelican and had a medic treat him for plasma burns. Sir cloud stood in the front medic room with him.
"You alright?" He asked.
"Umm, I think so. It's turning into a bloody battle out there." Cloud nodded to what he said. He took out his laser sword and activated it. He walked around the room swiping it around.
Red had killed the Jackals, their bodies falling from a great height off the base's high pillars. The marines where winning until a drop ship unloaded more Covenant. It was going to be a busy day for everyone, thought Red.
Forty-five minutes later M.c29 was ready for battle. Sir Cloud and Master chief 29 got aboard a warthog. The tanks had taken out many wraiths and ghosts but they had lost 5 tanks and only 3 were left. The banshees were taking out vulnerable warthogs and other vehicles with their main fuel rod cannon. Sir Cloud blew a Banshee's front hatch open with his rocket launcher. Its elite body was showing for a second before a sniper shot it and it fell with its banshee crashing to the ground.
It was a 50/50 chance of winning. The Covenant had lost nearly all their vehicles but the humans had lost a load of marines. The defenses where destroyed and Red was shooting Covenant making runs to plasma turrets. M.c29 and Sir Cloud doubled teamed some Spec-op elites and M.c29 was smashing there spines with the but of his assault rifle while Cloud was fighting them; shooting then mauling them with his gun.
The Scorpion tanks blew off chunks of the base and debris that crashed around the base, every now and then taking a couple of Covenant with them, while flames came from inside the base.
Sir cloud drove into the base through a hole that one of the tanks had made, while M.c29 was firing the LAAG on the warthog taking out most of the covenant around them. Blood covered the area splattering in multi-colored patterns. It was beginning to be a bloody war!
"Shit, we need more land troops." Shouted Sir Cloud.
"Hit the base, marines!!" M.c29 shouted.
Cloud pulled out a rocket launcher and blew a wraith to
wreckage. The elite inside blasted out in a purple bloody ray. There was only 13 snipers left, which were blasting at the spec-op Elites in their last fight. Blood splattered across the spec-ops position from the deadly snipers with 30x scope.
Sir Cloud and M.c29 were taking out the bigger threats; The Elites and Hunters. The marines took the Grunts and Jackals down.
"We need to take out the main force if we're going to succeed!" Cloud said.
"Ok, I will get a squad of marines together!" M.c29 shouted over the roaring gunfire. Sir Cloud and M.c29 moved closer in a Warthog. Three more Warthogs moved in behind them filled with marines. They were going to bring this fortress down or die trying. The marines were the best things they had, down from the Spartans. They moved in through the base heading for the main force.
The grunts were attacking the marines from all around. They were being attacked heavily by the Covenant's plasma fire. M.c29 was sniping the laser sword Elites. Sir Cloud was making quick work of the grunts, while Red was blowing the shit out of the Hunters with his Rocket Launcher. After the Spartan IIs cleared the area they jumped back into the Warthogs and moved on towards the base's interior.
They checked their ammo as Covenant drop ships landed dropping off more and more Covenant. They were proceeding in the battle with the new threat of Covenant nicely. They had the Scorpion Tanks firing at the oncoming Banshees and 5 Warthogs set up with each of their LAAG guns expending 500 bullets a minute. They all of the sudden, BOOM!
A massive explosion came from one of the Covenant drop ships and little spores flew through the air towards the marines and Covenant. The Flood dropped down and more Covenant ships exploded showering the area with shrapnel and debris along with the deadly infectious Food spores and the deadly Flood combat forms. The flood started to attack everything that got within range to be hit. Little spores, just bigger than a spider, crawled and jumped around onto Covenant and Humans. Their little legs going fast along the ground trying to get to a host so that they could use their needle-sharp penetrator and plunge it into the hosts cerebrum and turn them into a Flood form. Sir Cloud started firing his Battle Rifle at the oncoming Flood.
"What the hell? It's Flood. How did they get aboard the Covenant ship?" Sir Cloud pointed at the large explosions where flood forms were jumping out of high ships slapping with their long tentacle whips. M.c29 had two combat forms in front of him. They hit him, one after the other, making him fall backwards. He quickly regained his footing and shot the combat forms that had hit him.
"You're all going to die!" He shouted, firing his Battle Rifle, blowing one back. Its mangled body fell into a heap along with another 3 Flood forms. The Covenants base was smoldering and on fire with Flood forms everywhere fighting both, the Humans and the Covenant. The Flood doesn't take prisoners and they don't take sides. It was a huge brawl with no sides and no winners.
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