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The Devil's Brigade prt VI
Posted By: Spinks<haloworldchampion@hotmail.com>
Date: 26 June 2003, 5:15 PM
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All of us landed on the cruiser and latched on, Rabbit went to work on the explosives. Condor made laps around us, keeping an eye out for covenant ships. Within the time it took Rabbit to plant the explosives, Condor had taken out three enemy ships.
"Ok," Rabbit said over the com channel, "Its fire time!"
We all crawled down the hull to a minimum safe distance, and rabbit blew the charges. However, Rabbit didn't get far enough away and was blown with the hull and launched into space screaming.
"Rabbit!" I yelled.
"There's nothing you can do now hawk." Cobra said.
We got inside of the ship and through the first airlock. Ronin opened a COM link and led us the loading bay. We fought off light resistance on the way, but were met with hordes of Covenant when we reached the loading bay. I clicked on the traction control for my boots and opened a door. Most of the Covenant was sucked out immediately and condor was in almost instantaneously. I closed the door and watched condor get out.
"Condor," Ronin said, "There is a door to your right, it leads to a ramp that will take you up here."
Almost as soon as condor opened the door he was met with a fuel rod round that blew a hole in his chest large enough for a frying pan to fit through.
"NO!" Ox yelled as he began firing his huge weapon at the Hunters that emerged from the door. Even with their thick armor, they were no match fro the huge bullets that Ox had at his disposal.
We passed through some resistance from Elites and Jackals as we approached the bridge, but nothing major, nothing like what we had expected. But when we got closer we found the rest of the bastards. Ox fired madly with his cannon and mowed down line after line of Grunts, Jackals, and Elites. But he met his demise when a Hunter got in the mix. Ox got cut in half by the monsters gigantic spines. We all fell back as ox used the last bit of his strength to fire a rocket right into the back of the beast, blowing both of them up.
Now all that was left was Cobra, Chameleon, Murphy, and me. After a short period of mourning we decided to charge in with guns blazing. As the airlock door opened the first thing that we saw was the second hunter prepared to fire. We all hit the deck and started to fire. Fortunately a grunt behind the hunter panicked and shot the hunter in the back with a fully charge plasma round, killing him instantly. I grabbed two of the grenades that I had off of my belt and lobbed them into the horde of Covenant. Almost all of them flew through the air as the explosives detonated.
The last of the defenses were mopped up by automatic fire from our MA5B rifles. From there we moved on to the bridge, as we opened the door, all we saw was on gold armored elite with a plasma blade. After taking him out Cobra stood up and started to walk forward. Out of nowhere he was struck by round after round of plasma.
"Shit!" I yelled, "They got camo."
"Don't worry," Ronin said as we fired mindlessly into the bridge. "Your masks have thermal sensors in them, just say the word thermal and they should come on."
As if cued by a director we all yelled "Thermal" at the same time and were rewarded with heat signatures. We Opened fire and cleaned up the rest of the Elites that were in the room.
Murphy walked over to the controls and plugged in Ronin. A samurai figure appeared by the control panels. "Ok," Ronin said, "I have acquired the target coordinates and am plotting a course. Done, now if you like I can open some doors for you guys to get out and then lock down this area so that no one can mess with me."
"Are you sure that it will work?" Murphy asked.
"Hey are you questioning me?" Ronin said.
"No, I just want you to be sure that no matter what the covenant do, they wont get in here and keep us from completing the mission." Murphy replied.
"Don't worry," Ronin said, "Right now there is absolutely no way that the covenant could change the course even if they wanted to. I have changed the security protocols for the ship, in order to change a course I have to approve it."
"Well then lets leave." I said.
"Yeah." Chameleon agreed.
"Before we go," Murphy said, "Lets see if we can take the covenant camouflage and slip through unnoticed for once."
It was a good idea, but unfortunately there was only on unit that worked, and none of us wanted to be the only one to use it. Ronin opened an airlock door and we began to move out. Still expecting covenant we never let our guard down, and kept our thermals running.
We made it back to the cargo bay without running into any resistance at all. We carried the remains of our fallen comrades, atleast, the ones that we could find, Rabbit and Ox were completely gone. Before we reached the cargo bay, I turned to Murphy.
"How will we know if Ronin succeeded or not?" I asked.
"Ronin is going to send the coordinates of the Covenant home world back to the Ticonderoga, and we are going to follow him. Then after we see whether or not we have succeeded in our mission, we will jump back out into space and pray that nothing follows us, or kills us while we wait for the ship to blow up." Murphy replied.
"Great." Chameleon said.
As we rounded the corner we came across a couple of elites with plasma swords. They had their backs to us though, which gave us the advantage. After a few short bursts from our rifles they were all dead.
As we reached the shuttle bay, we ran into more elites with plasma swords. We fought as hard as we could. Chameleon was the first to go. One of the elites stabbed him through the chest.
I ran for the door controls but lost my left hand in the process. I turned around to face the elite and unloaded a clip into his midsection. It cut through him like a hot knife through butter.
I looked over toward Murphy. He was leaning up against a wall, his right led was gone, I motioned for him to click on his boot traction. Right as I saw his hand hit the button I opened the door and watched as the last of the covenant defenses were sucked out.
I closed the door and walked over to Murphy. I helped him into one of the covenant drop ships and climbed aboard after retrieving Condor's body, which got caught on one of the Covenant supply crates. I radioed Ronin and he gave me a quick course on how to fly the ship, and then he opened a door and we were gone.
We docked with the Ticonderoga seconds later and were met by a medical team. Ronin sent the coordinates to us and we followed him straight to the covenant home world.
The trip took about a week, but we arrived just in time to see the fireworks. The large planet exploded in a big ball of fire. We watched from 5000 kilometers away as the planet swallowed up not only itself, but a large number of cruisers that tried to escape.
The war was almost over, all of the people who died for this to happen would not be forgotten. The Ticonderoga turned away from the exploding planet and raced away. A month later, after making numerous random stops and turns to elude anyone who was following us, we arrived back on Earth and received the biggest heroes welcome ever.
It was all over a year later, all traces of the covenant were wiped out. The Spartan and the rest of the fallen marines that we brought back were given proper burials in a private yard reserved for the best of the best. For Ox and Rabbit the coffins were empty, except for the medals that they had received for their duties.
I settled down and had a family. Murphy bought a farm in Ireland and spent the rest of his life there writing books about what had happened during the war. Murphy died in 2580, but his memory lived on forever.
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