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Halo: The Return Part 7
Posted By: NeoX<TheMasterda@aol.com>
Date: 21 August 2002, 3:42 am
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Enco:
Would you like to tell me why we are in the fall out tunnel?
John turns towards Enco with a slight smirk still on his face.
MC:
It's a surprise. Oh, CJ I hope you locked down the system.
CJ:
I will.
MC:
To late time to go.
CJ:
Rat pass me the Global Communicator.
Rat hands CJ a small screen. He begins to punch on some buttons, and soon he is finished. The Spartans move on and make their way to the outside. A rusted gate blocks the end of the tunnel; Enco puts on his spy scope and pulls out the cord from his wrist. He checks to see if there are any Covenant forces. He sees nothing, he calls for an all clear, and they bust down the gate. The Spartans file out and make their way towards the thick brush. John asks them how long it would take for the Covenant to burn through the metal doors. One of the Spartans replies that it would take about an hour. As John looks back he sees hundreds of Covenant making their way into the east wing.
Cortona:
John your plan is working, all Covenant in the area have mostly entered the east wing. I suggest running.
MC:
Troops, double time. It's going to be big.
CJ:
What is?
MC:
The explosion, I put about three level five red nukes in there.
All the Spartans stop at once, and look at John. "Three?" One of the Spartans asks. "That would level ten miles." John looks back at them and simply replies, "We better keep running then."
CJ:
We have half an hour to cover ten miles of Covenant loaded fields.
MC:
Like I said, we better keep running.
John takes off soon followed by the rest of the Spartans. John knows he needs to keep running. No matter what Covenant forces he sees he needs to keep going.
MC:
Rat, give me a place to jump off of, a cliff maybe.
Rat:
Closest cliff is about five miles.
Cortona:
John you got a close Covenant base.
MC:
How close?
Cortona:
Two hundred yards.
MC:
How many are there?
Cortona:
About a hundred.
MC:
Spartans, in a hundred and fifty yards we got a Covenant base of about one hundred. They shouldn't be a problem.
The Spartans ready their guns, and continue to run. The covenant base comes into view.
MC:
NO STOPING! JUST RUN RIGHT THROUGH THE BASE. FIRE AT ANYTHING THAT GETS IN YOUR WAY.
John takes off through the base. Kicking Covenant, and shooting everywhere. He forces his way through Covenant forces. He knows that they still have a while but ten miles isn't something he wants to stop for; he knows that he better keep going. John is almost through all of it when he hears someone yell. He turns and sees a Spartan that had been tackled by a Hunter. It was trying to crush him. John turns and sprints for the Hunter. He sees that the armor on the Hunter is up some. As he comes in, John takes a grenade and shoves it up the back of the Hunter. John grabs the Spartan, throws him over his shoulder and carries him. The other Spartans are watching his back, taking out anything that gets close to them. The Hunter explodes taking the last few Covenant with it.
CJ:
Twenty minutes.
MC:
Everyone, grab a Ghost or Banshee and get out of here.
All of the Spartans look at each other. None know why Master chief is saying this. They know they can make it to the cliff. But John insists on everyone getting out of there. They all take a Ghost, except for the Arc's. They grab a pair of Banshee's and take off. They have always wanted to fly a Banshee but never could get the Elites out of them. As the Spartans blazed through the forest John grab the hurt Spartan and threw him over a Ghost. John took off hoping to get to the cliff in time. He knows he will but something isn't right to him. He takes off in the Ghost, flying over branches and bouncing off of rocks. The cliff is soon in sight. He can see the other Spartans waiting for him, he yells over the COM link.
MC:
JUMP! TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
The Spartans have no clue if John has snapped our not. John tells them again just as he comes to the cliffs edge. He goes flying over the edge, sailing through the air. He leans back trying to stabilize the Ghost. The ground is flying at him, and with all of his force he reeves the Ghosts engine. Dust kicks as the Ghost lands hard. It can still move but just barley. As John looks back he sees the rest of the Spartans flying down the one hundred foot cliff. As they all land John hears Cortona tell him that the bomb is about to explode. Just as the rest of the Spartans land John hears a distant boom. He knows the bombs have exploded, and that the shockwave should hit at any minute. Before John can think he is sees tree trunks flying over the edge, rocks and boulders soon follow. John yells for the Spartans to run to avoid the falling rocks. As the Spartans make their way to a safe point John sees that there is nothing left. The bombs destroyed everything in the ten-mile radius. The cliff saved John and the other Spartans. Enco turns to John, with an enraged look.
Enco:
Why did you blow up our HQ?
MC:
We lost that base when the Covenant landed. If we let them keep it they would know everything about us. Blowing it up destroyed all the data. All the data for the entire Earth UNSC was linked there. The Covenant will leave now. They all ready killed all the civilians and most if not all of the UNSC forces. They have no reason to be here. Neither do we. Rat, CJ, find me the emergency launch pads.
Rat & CJ:
On it sir.
MC:
Everyone scan the area, and make sure we don't have any Covenant forces in the area.
Spartan Group:
Sir! Yes Sir!
Cortona:
John, I think I found out what the Forerunner are, or I should say were.
MC:
Go ahead Cortona.
Cortona:
It seems that the Forerunner were a race that lived on the planet that neighbored Halo. They were about five feet in average height. They were incredibly smart and strong. They were called planet hopers. That means they went from planet to planet, taking over and adapting others technologies. They became extremely strong, and powerful. Think of them as the Rome of Universe. But there was one thing that they found, that they could fight. A race in which they couldn't beat, that race was the Flood. Once the Forerunners had lost at the Floods home planet they went home to try and build up. But what they didn't know it that the Flood had attached themselves to some of the Forerunners ships. And when they landed they attacked. First the Flood brought back all of Forerunners dead to use as an army. Once the Forerunner knew they were going to lose they built Halo. After they finished they fled they planet and split onto different planets. The major problem was that they used Slipstream. It was new to them and they messed up. When they landed they had to adapt to their environments. Now get this, The Covenant are distant relatives of the Forerunner. When they landed they all had to evolve and after thousands of years they found each other and the Covenant were formed. They went back to their planet hoping ways. They found us and that's where the war started. When they returned to their home planet they found that Sigma Omega IV was their information home. They knew that Halo was something but its true meaning was lost in the annals of time. Some said that Halo was good other said Halo was a bad thing. They really should have listened to the ones that said it was bad. This is only the beginning it seems that the monitor has been around for millennia. He knew more than I think anyone could have every imagined.
MC:
Good Job Cortona, keep that decoding going.
CJ:
John, we found a base.
Rat:
It is right over those mountains. Well I guess it is in those mountains.
MC:
Good Job CJ, and Rat. Spartans fall in!
The Spartans make their way through the thick forest as they line-up.
MC:
We have some new orders; we are going to leave Earth. But before we do that we are going to load up with everything we will need.
Spartan:
Need for what?
MC:
What we need to survive. So we are going to go to the base in the mountains over there.
John points to the mountains in the distant.
MC:
But before that, we are going to rest. We have been through a lot. Enco, you are two other Spartans are on hunt. You two, you are on water. You what is your name?
Spartan:
Mike Sir!
MC:
Mike you lead water team. Rat you are on fire, try and find a cave. CJ, come with me. We will be taking the left over duties. I want a COM link check in every thirty minutes. Enco, when you find an animal call it in. I want everyone to check in back here at nightfall. Fall OUT!
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