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The second genocide (Halo 2: Chapter 9)
Posted By: Shadowrunner<mortenthenerd@hotmail.com>
Date: 26 July 2003, 11:43 AM
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I'm back!
As Master Chief woke up, he already knew where he was. He could feel it. The 'Excalibur' slowly ventured through space, patrolling Earth, along with the Gridi'n ships. 2 wings of Gridi'n heavy recon fighters and a single ray cruiser followed it.
Chief immidiately felt a surge from outside, as a second covenant battle group with 4 assault carriers and 12 cruisers, plus other assorted ships, jumped in through subspace. The Gridi'n single ray cruiser let off a devastating beam of collapsing nucleons, wich litterally teared a small corvette in 2 pieces. The heavy recon fighters were incredibly fast and maneuverable, but had very weak armor. Their weaponry was even more impressive than the one of Master Chief's 3-in-1 fighter: Small subspace holes warped space and twisted the armor of the cruisers, making large holes in them. The 'Excalibur' human cruiser fired a huge explosive warhead, gutting a quarter of a covenant recon cruiser. The rest of the covenant cruisers immidiately turned towards the human and Gridi'n army, as soon as the subspace effect had dissapated.
Master Chief knew what time it was; he saddled up in an armored recon fighter, the same as the heavy recons, but the weaponry was replaced by armor. Just as he flew out the hangar he saw a covenant assault carrier let loose a swarm of fighters. The Gridi'ns had serious trouble dealing with them, but the 'Excalibur' cut them to shreds. A purple line went towards the 'Excalibur's main hangar, and vaporized it. The captain managed to still keep fighting, but a third of the cruiser was stripped from air, and killed every person unlucky to be there. The ray cruiser shot again; with surgeonic precision it cut out the bridge of a cruiser.
Chief headed towards the largest covenant assault carrier. Elceelar shot out the hangar doors and Chief flew inside. Just as he flew inside he saw an absolutely massive ball of fire engulf a covenant cruiser. After that it was just... Gone. The reason was the 'Mammoth'. It was not called a large cannon cruiser for nothing. The warhead was nuclear and had an impressive diameter of 20 meters. The resulting shockwave disabled all covenant fighters, and even the massive assault carrier shook and rumbled. Most cruisers were pushed out of formation and dispersed in a large portion of space. Chief went towards the door that lead to the fastest route onto the bridge. It was locked. "This figures" Cortana said and started to hack the door. Chief didn't wait; he pulled out his swords and plunged them into the door. They went right through. He then cut the door open by pulling the swords downwards, wich made a cirular hole he crawled through. The covenant were aware of his presence and weren't slow to act.
A large Gridi'n corvette with the shape of a blunt projectile and a huge engine array flew towards one of the more sturdy covenant cruisers. Approximately 500 meters out it activated a massive afterburner. As it neared 50 kilometers a second, it hit the cruiser. The purple armor was no match for the self-propelling corvette-sized bullet. The corvette wasn't even hurt, and raced out the other side of the cruiser. Only to be hit right in the engines and blow up in a ball of plasma fire. But the cruiser was damaged beyond repair.
Master Chief felt an ambush around the next corner. His trip back to Earth gave him the opportunity to once again acquire the M4 SPARTAN. And so he did. This time he used 20mm frag grenades for the launcher. Chief ran the fastest he could through an intersection, and was fired at from both sides. They were all at higher levels, so they didn't hurt eachother. Chief loaded a 20mm grenade and fired at the left position. They were confused, providing him with time to shoot the covenants to the right. He crouched and zoomed in on a Blue Elite's head. Two 3-round bursts rapidly left the gun. The first 4 shots cut down the shield, and the 5th grinded a hole in the skull. Chief shifted to semi-auto, and shot down 4 Grunts and 3 Jackals before the fireteam hit by a grenade recovered and started shooting again. Chief noticed how little impact the shots had on his shields. He assumed the shield was at least twice the strength of his old armor. He went into cover and was amazed by the rate this shield recharged. As he holstered his M4 he took out both 'Purifying Flame' and 'Truth's avenger' He ran towards the covenant group he had already gutted with his M4, and when he arrived it was as if his body took control of his mind. He was never in doubt about how to move and swing. With acrobatic fluidity he dispatched of the remaining covenant here. The other fireteam saw the easiness with wich Chief dispatched of their buddies, and they fled. Closer to the control room, he saw a hall filled with Hunters... At least 6 of them. He took out the swords and raced towards them. He got close to the first one and sliced off it's armored arm, after that he stuck the other sword through it's stomach, and hit the killzone on the other side. Like a cat he danced around the second and drilled both swords into it's orange flesh. One of the Hunters shot at him, he evaded by jumping all he could... He was amazed that he jumped almost 3 times the height of his normal capabilities. The 5 remaining Hunters posed no threat at all. And Chief headed closer to the bridge.
At the bridge he saw a Prophet guarded by 3 Gold Elites with swords, and 4 Grey Elites with Plasma Rifles... He took the M4 and shot a 20mm grenade at the formation of Grey Elites, 2 of them died and the 2 remaining had their shields drained. Now they were warned; the Gold Elites started clearing the area and the Grey Elites covered them. The Prophet yelled out something and organized their searching. He took out a GLOCK 88 with extended magazine and switched to full auto, in his left hand he took 'Purifying flame'. He jumped out of hiding towards the Grey Elites, the GLOCK roared as he pulled the trigger. One of them had the the shields consumed by the barrage. He then swung his left hand with the sword and dispatched of the one with shields. The other Grey Elite taunted him, and he answered it by cutting off it's head. He then turned towards the Gold Elites, wich were pretty close by now. He jumped backwards, took out the M4, and gunned at full-auto. The resulting barrage led to one of the Gold Elites dead. Chief grabbed a hole in the roof, and swung himself back to the platform of the bridge, here he took out both swords and killed the first Gold Elite right away. The other one tried to hit his head, but Master Chief blocked the blow with 'Truth's Avenger'. He looked at the Elite wich had eyes of terrifying fear, And then he cut right through the stomach, leaving it in 2 pieces. The Prophet looked at him. Chief recognized it from Berlin, it was the one Ji'Shuu had scared to hell. Now it looked at him, and said: "P-p-please... Don't hurt me! I can talk to the leaders! Even to the high council if you spare me!"
Chief heard none of it, he knew it was begging for it's own life with lies. He took out the GLOCK 88 and placed a single bullet right in it's forehead. He went up to the control panel and activated it with a strange sound. Cortana infiltrated the systems: "Hmm.... I've located a record containing description of the original Ji'Shuu... It was called Na'Shuu, wich means 'True Guide'... Looks like the covenant corrupted it to use it for their own ends..."
"So the reason it scared that prophet was a remnant from Na'Shuu?"
"I'm pretty sure that's the case... And--"
As silence filled his helmet, Master Chief's first thought was 'here we go again'. Cortana came back to his ears: "Oh my god... How many civilizations have they wiped out by now???"
Master Chief's head felt weird, but in a different way... This time it was like a calming feeling. He stood a moment with closed eyes and when he opened them again Cortana was all over it: "Welcome to the true world, Korrhra. I will activate the self-destruct in a few seconds, we should get out of here."
Master Chief felt as Cortana grew out of the suit and used every human, covenant and Gridi'n computer to power her vastly grown complexity and knowledge. He knew without a doubt that she just became the universe's most powerful AI construct. And he wondered why...
—To be continued
By: Shadowrunner
"My name may be Shadow... But I'm far deadlier than such a thing"
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