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Defeat at Central Command
Posted By: The Scribe<nero@cinci.rr.com>
Date: 28 June 2003, 10:26 PM
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The Master Chief surveyed the peaceful looking wooded area below the Pelican. It was a regular looking forest. Huge pine trees towered and loomed up into the sky, some of them so high that the Chief worried about the Pelican scraping some of them.
"ETA now five minutes," the Pelican pilot reported. "From what I'm seeing on the horizon, there appears to be small amounts of resistance occurring, Chief. There are stray bullets and plasma bolts flying into the sky everywhere."
From atop the observation tower, Hanamee spotted the human drop ship nearing above the forest. With an angry snarl he began to fire his gun in its direction.
"Somebody knows we're here," the Chief said, watching an Elite's plasma bolts pass the back of the troop compartment.
The pilot's intercom let out a short blurt of static.
"Okay, Master Chief, I'm dropping you in. Give em' hell, sir."
The Spartan jumped off the ship and felt the grassy ground hit his feet.
The central command was nestled in a small basin covered in evergreens, not to far from the colony's Berlin city, where most of the heavy fighting had taken place.
Hanamee instantly knew who the green figure was when he jumped from the ship. This particular human had been responsible for countless covenant deaths and had destroyed the ring world that had housed the terrible infection forms.
Hanamee ran to the nearest squad of Elites standing nearby.
"Radio in for reinforcements immediately," he ordered.
One of them straightened up his neck in surprise.
"More troops are needed? Your Excellency, we have taken the post, why call for more soldiers?" a cobalt-colored Elite questioned.
"Because the green soldier has come," Hanamee replied. "This human has killed thousands of covenant and was the one responsible for destroying our ring world. Not to mention that he has a shield just like yours or mine."
"I'll radio for more troops right away, your Excellency," the now nervous rookie responded.
The Chief spotted two Jackals standing, each behind their own tree. It was an easy task.
He tossed a fragmentation grenade between the two.
One of the aliens cried out in shock right before the explosive went off, turning the two covenant to purple mush.
An Elite named Guka Tranamee heard and saw the blast occur. He quickly hollered to his four partners to follow him.
"We will eliminate this green human and become famous," he told them. "Now let us move out and impress Hanamee!"
"Four Elites approaching from the left!" Cortana alerted.
The covenant Elites moved in and out of the tree gaps like water through a wheat field. One of them let out a threatening battle cry and barked what sounded like an order in its strange language. They all opened fire at once.
The Chief hit the ground and rolled on his sides till he was behind a fallen evergreen. Charred bits of bark and burnt twigs rained on his helmet, as blue, white-hot streaks flew past overhead. The Spartan tossed a grenade over the log and was pleased to see a blue-armored leg go flying over the log and land behind him, smoke drifting off of it.
The little green ball let out an extremely loud bang and Guka Tranamee fell down to the forest ground. He immediately noticed his right leg was missing and let out an extremely loud moan when he saw this. His four partners lie around him. They were missing their arms and legs as well. One Elite didn't even possess a head anymore.
I have not lost, Tranamee thought.
The Master Chief, seeing that his grenade had done him some good, made his way to the group of fallen Elites. He entered the blast area and looked around at the dead bodies. One of the menaces had been thrown into a tree, headless. The Chief felt no sympathy for the downed troops.
Suddenly, a strong blow hit his ankle. He fell to the ground and ended up looking at the half legless Elite. It let out a growl and waved its plasma rifle in the Spartan's face. The gun went off and the Chief saw stars as a small little alarm started going off, alerting him that his shields were fully down.
He swung his left arm down onto the alien's neck, choking it. With the other hand, he grasped the gun from the creature. The Elite began to bang his arms on the ground as his body went into a seizure-like state. Soon, the dying creature quit pounding as purple blood drizzled from its mouth.
The Spartan got up and began making his way for the command post, hiding behind trees as he went.
"Warning, Phantoms deploying troops," Cortana warned.
The purple drop ship roared overhead, as five Hunters unloaded from it.
"Damn," the Master Chief said, "this aught to be fun."
Piraku, Firaku, Eiraku, and Wiraku hunched over, covering all exposed areas of their bodies. Not spotting the green human anywhere, they quickly turned around for fear that he was behind them. When nothing happened, the four began to move towards the post, thinking that maybe the scum ball was battling the others defending it. Suddenly, the shot of a human pistol rang out.
Wiraku gasped and shuttered as he fell over forward, a hole in the exposed orange area on his back. The three remaining giants turned around just in time to see the pest go behind a large tree. Piraku fired his fuel rod canon, blowing the tree's base to bits. The giant arbor crashed to the ground, exposing the green soldier.
The Chief tossed a grenade to the left of the three Hunters. It detonated, distracting them. They all raised their heads a bit to look over, exposing just a slit of orange, where their necks were. The Chief took the chance. He fired a bullet at the Hunter on the right end of the line. His prayers were answered when the beast grunted and fell over sideways, orange blood squirting from it. He then ran up a small slope and hid behind a very large Evergreen.
Firaku and Eiraku ran after the human and stopped at the base of the small hill. The stupid human had hid behind another tree.
Firaku fired his canon at the base. It blew into smithereens, but gravity got the best of it. The tree fell forward, downhill, and smashed the Hunter.
Only one left.
"What the hell are you doing?" Cortana shouted as the Master Chief ran full speed at the last behemoth, dodging its projectiles.
"You'll see," he responded calmly.
The Spartan was about three feet from the covenant troop when it raised its huge, alloy-coated shield, ready to bring it down on him. Instead, the Chief ran right by as he jammed a grenade in the Hunter's cannon barrel.
Eiraku screamed as the grenade and the cannon blew, sending orange gore all over the place.
Hanamee cursed as he watched the last Hunter exploded into an orange mess. This human had an excellent chance at taking the post back over, and he wasn't going to stick around when it happened. To the left of the observation tower, two drop ships cruised in unloading Grunts, Elites and Jackals.
"Hold your position, drop ships," Hanamee radioed.
The Elite sprinted down the stairs past his personal guards and out and onto the grass. He made his way to one of the two transporters and jumped in.
"Take me to the nearest ship," he ordered.
"Yes, your Excellency," the pilot answered.
Hanamee watched the mini-battle scene shrink as the engines roared, taking him up farther and farther. Soon, nothing could be seen when, finally, the troop bay doors closed.
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