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The Devil's Brigade Prt V
Posted By: Spinks<haloworldchampion@hotmail.com>
Date: 26 June 2003, 6:48 AM
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The trip to where the last signal from the Master Chief was registered took 3 days. I had to take tranquilizers so that I could get to sleep. The nightmares from the last mission were still haunting me. So many bodies, so many faces staring at nothing, with looks on their faces of pure fear.
When we arrived near the planet, I ran through the armory grabbing everything I could carry. My pack was filled with explosives and extra rounds. I had 6 grenades on my belt and even more in the pack.
The briefing was fast, go in, kill everything that moves, and retrieve the master chief. It seemed simple until we got ready to move. Murphy was in the hanger when we got there.
"Well I have some bad news for everybody, the Spartan is dead, his body was jettisoned out into space by a Covenant cruiser, it was picked up on our radar 30 minutes ago and a team just recovered it.
"This means that there is no longer a rescue mission," Murphy continued. "It is now an attack on a covenant ship."
"What the hell do you mean?" Cobra asked.
"Yeah," Rabbit said, "Why are we attacking a covenant ship?"
"Because we are going to fly it straight to where it came from, and blow the hell out of it," I said.
"Very god Hawk," Murphy replied. "As you know, the grunts wear those stupid suits because they need methane to breathe, now we discovered some time ago that all of the other races besides the Grunts were, in fact, oxygen tolerant, which is why they don't need the special suits. But in the rock that Ox found, we discovered high traces of Methane.
"Now what were going to do is take the cruiser, and fly it straight into these ass holes shitty planet, and blow the hell out of it."
"By dropping a single nuke, and letting the methane rich atmosphere do the rest." I added.
"Exactly," Murphy replied. "Now there is a very good chance that none of you are going to be coming back, but, for those of you who do, you will be rewarded better than anyone who has ever walked on the face of the earth."
I went back to the armory after Murphy finished his speech. Taking control of a covenant cruiser was going to be nearly impossible. But I made sure that I had the right equipment. I ditched my sniper rifle for a pistol, and grabbed an assault rifle as well. The sniper clips in my pack got tossed as well as some of the explosives that I had. After about five minutes of grabbing and packing supplies I returned to the hanger.
Everyone else grabbed pretty much the same stuff, except for Ox, he had grabbed a rocket launcher, and even tried to take the LAAG gun off of a warthog, but decided that it would be too much to carry. Instead he grabbed a 30mm cannon that was on one of the smaller LRVs that were used for recon missions. Ox also had about 1000 rounds in his pack for the gun. All on one chain that fed directly from his pack into the gun, eliminating the need to reload.
I had a bad feeling about this mission, but there was nothing that I could do about it, no matter what I thought, the ends of succeeding in this mission far outweighed what would happen if we failed.
When we all got to the hanger, Murphy showed us what we would be using as transportation on this mission, the Helljumpers HEVs, which would be fired like torpedoes at the covenant cruiser.
Fortunately, the MAC gun would be fired before us, so the shields should be down, allowing us to get onto the hull, but even from there it was tricky. Each one of us was given a special suit that fit over our armor, it wasn't much, but it gave us 30 minutes of air to work with. Murphy was wearing the same suit as we were, which only ment one thing, he was going, too.
"Ok," Murphy said as he showed us our transportation, "Here is the plan. We will all launch at the same time, as soon as we get within ten meters of the ship, we blow the hatch on our HEVs and latch ourselves to the cruiser. Rabbit will then place as many explosives as she can on the hull, and blow a hole in it big enough for all of us to fit through.
"We will then proceed directly to the bridge where Ronin, the AI that we are taking with us, will use the controls to find the covenant home world and fly us straight into it. Are there any questions?"
"Yeah," Condor asked, "What the hell am I doing?"
"You," Murphy replied, "Are going to make sure that none of the covenant planes try to take out Rabbit and the rest of us while were on the hull of the ship."
"Then what?" Condor asked.
"Then you can either fly back to the Ticonderoga and Watch and listen, or fly into the loading bay and join us."
Murphy replied. "We will open up one of the cargo bay doors so that you can fly in, this will also suck out the opposition in the cargo bay. We will then close the doors, and you can get up and join us."
"I have a question sir," Chameleon said.
"Yes," Murphy replied.
"How do we keep fro getting sucked out too?" Chameleon asked.
"Your shoes are designed to latch on to the ground when you press that little button on the top of your foot, that should keep you from joining the Covies in their space walk." Murphy replied.
"Anything else?" Murphy asked.
"Yeah," I replied. "How do we get back home?"
"Well, if there are any of you left after we take the cruiser, and you don't want to go with the ship to the Covie home world, then you can take one of the aircrafts that are still intact."
We climbed into our HEVs and got loaded into some makeshift torpedo tubes. The nuke that we were going to plant on the cruiser was tiny, about the size of a deck of cards, but it packed enough punch to take out the Covenant home world.
Murphy carried Ronin with him, I only prayed that I would make it aboard the Covenant ship alive, leaving wasn't something I thought that I would be doing.
Minutes after we got into our HEVs and were loaded, Murphy came over the COM channel and said that we would be getting launched shortly.
I could feel the MAC gun fire, and then seconds later I felt my HEV launch. I read the monitors carefully, and as soon as they read ten meters, I blew the hatch and landed on the cruiser, it worked perfectly.
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