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On A Pale Horse: The Reverence
Posted By: Silent Hunter<SilentHunter18509@yahoo.com>
Date: 10 June 2003, 2:02 AM
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-The Reverence-
1734 Hours, September 17, 2552 (Military Calendar) /
UNSC Spoke, Earth Solar System, in orbit around Earth
"...What if we miss?"
"I won't."
With that, the Chief opened the shuttle bay doors. Immediately, the atmosphere began flowing out into the vacuum of space, carrying with it any unsecured object. The Chief waited a moment, behind a pillar to keep him from flying out of the ship, then hurled himself from the ship, into space…
A Covenant Cruiser, The Reverence, had just exited the slipstream. It has lost all power, having used it all making a pinpoint jump. John decided to try to get on the ship, before they had a chance to charge their shields. He landed hard on the hull of the orbiting ship. He immediately grabbed on to a protruding piece of metal, to keep him from flying away from the cruiser. He then got out a large piece of C-12, and placed the charge on the hull of the ship. He then slowly backed away from the charge, making sure he had a firm grip on the hull. He then pulled out a remote detonator, and activated it. The C-12 exploded with an awesome force, and a 3-meter wide hole was punched in the hull of the ship. Atmosphere began leaking out, and he saw several grunts pulled from the hole, and explode from the extreme change in pressure.
When the atmosphere stopped leaking out of the hole, John entered the ship, and felt the force of gravity pull him to the floor. He landed on his back. He stood up, and surveyed his surroundings. He was in a hallway, with doors to either end. "OK, the bridge should be…here." Cortana said, and then a nav point appeared on the HUD in John's helmet.
"right" responded John.
"hurry, It doesn't look too good for the fleet…"
And John started down the hall to the door. When it didn't open, he decided to blow it open with his remaining C-12. He ran down to the opposite end of the hall, and detonated it, blowing the doors off, and depressurizing the hall beyond the door. Several grunts and an elite were pulled out of the hall, and out the hole in the ships hull. John ran in, and a door was almost closed, except it was jammed open by a grunt's breathing pack. The gap was just wide enough for john to squeeze through. He tried to continue, but the flowing air was slowing him down, so he kicked the grunt out of door, and the door slammed shut, and the atmosphere returned to the hall. John rounded a corner, and a door opened, and he was greeted by several grunts, who were stunned by what they saw. John quickly reached for his Battle Rifle, and fired half the clip into them. Blue blood sprayed out of the exit-wounds, and when he was sure they all died, he continued towards the nav point.
The next door opened, and John saw 6 orange Jackals, 4 red grunts, and a Golden elite. The Jackal's created a wall of shield, protecting the grunts, and the elite. The 2 jackals on the end fired plasma pistols, one grunt had a needler, and the rest had plasma pistol. The Gold elite had a plasma rifle. All of them had very little room to move (there was only about 4 meters behind the jackals before a door) Immediately plasma began flying everywhere. John ducked behind a covenant communications uplink. His shields were down to 1/2, and he began to feel the heat rising, and then cooling in his armor. He leaned out from the box-like object, and fired his Battle Rifle at the grunts. The jackals' shields made it hard to get a good shot, and it was hard trying to dodge the plasma. A fully charged shot hit him square in the chest, and he quickly ducked back behind the uplink, and waited for his shield to recharge.
The elite started shouting orders. Then a grunt's head peeked around the corner of the uplink. John shot a single bullet that tore its head off, spraying blood all over the walls. He pulled a grenade off of his belt, pulled the pin, and threw it into the whole mess of the Covenant. He leaned back behind the uplink. An explosion rocked the hallway, and screams followed. He looked back, blood was smeared all over the hallway, and parts of the grunts and the jackals were stuck onto the walls and ceiling. The elite was still alive, but it looked very injured. It picked up a jackal's arm, took a deactivated shield from it, put it on its arm, and activated the shield, along with a plasma sword. It was glaring at John…
The Elite charged, and swung its sword at The chief. He ducked it, and slammed the butt of his weapon against its leg, but it had very little effect. He dodged the sword as it came down, picked up a plasma pistol as he rolled out of the way, and aimed it at the elite. He charged it, just as the elite lowered his hand shield to swing his sword again, and shot. The elite's body shield flashed, and died. John kicked it to the ground, and put the barrel of his rifle on the elite's neck, and pulled the trigger.
John walked up to the door, and it opened, revealing nothing behind it. After walking through it, he thought he heard something. He turned around, took 2 bottles of bio-foam, and threw them at the ground down the hallway. The bottles exploded, covering an invisible elite with the foam. John zoomed in on the mass of foam, now beginning to charge at him, and began shooting. After expending the whole clip, the elite slumped on the ground, laying in a pool of dark blood.
"nice one!" said a surprised Cortana. John reloaded the clip in his rifle, and walked up to another door. "The Bridge should be just beyond this door…be careful, the whole ship knows you're here…"
"what are you talking about? You know me!" Joked the Chief
"yeah, that's what I'm talking about…" The door opened, and there were 2 blue elites, a red elite, several jackals, and a dozen grunts, all looking at him. John started chucking grenades in the bridge. Explosion after explosion rocked the ship. The red elite was dead, all the grunts were either dead, dying, or running. The jackals were all lying on the ground. The two remaining elites aimed their plasma rifles at John. John tried to dodge the fire, but some of the rounds hit him, and his shield flashed. John aimed his plasma pistol at an elite, and sent a hail of plasma at it, using the semi-automatic. The plasma stunned the elite, and John rushed up to it, and punched it in the face, knocking it out. His shield was down to 1/4 from the other elite. John fully charged his plasma pistol, and shot. The elite's shield died, and john pulled out his Battle Rifle, and shot 10 rounds into its chest before it fell over.
John walked up a ramp onto a circular platform. "There…" Said Cortana as a nav point appeared on John's HUD. John Pulled Cortana's AI cube out of his helmet, and put it into what looked like terminal in a holo-panel. Cortana's image appeared jut above the Holo-panel
"So," asked the chief, "Find anything?"
"Yes…those idiots actually kept the navigation data after we boarded…The Covenant…have a vast area of colony worlds…some of which are in the Andromeda galaxy!
"so, do you know how to operate the controls of this thing?"
"…yes, actually…hold on…" Cortana opened a comm-channel to the UNSC Cruiser Ticonderoga "This is Cortana to Admiral Freemont"
"Cortana? All due respect, what the hell do you want now?
"The Master Chief and I have taken over the covenant Cruiser Reverence, and we need some men over here with heavy weapons ASAP."
"…I see…I'll see what I can do Freemont out."
Then all of a sudden there was a loud banging on the door the Chief went through earlier. "Covenant! They're trying to break in!" shouted Cortana. The Chief picked up 5 plasma grenades, and activated one. The door blasted open, and 3 brutes, flanked by Hunters, followed by 5 black elites walked into the room, sights set on the chief…
TO BE CONTINUED
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