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6 Way War by Demosthenes



6 Way War CH.1: The Pahc.
Date: 2 February 2003, 5:10 am



      The nameless Pahc ran swifly through the woods. Leaves and twigs scraped against his face and tore at his fur. He suddenly came to a halt. He raised his head up and sniffed the air. He ran towards the farming village. He exited the woods. He hopped over a fence into a herd of cattle. He jumped on a cow, tearing his claws into it's flesh. It's flat head opened wide, wide enough to swallow something larger than it's head. It's jaw was built like a snake. There was no bone where the chin was, therefore it had two bottom jaw bones, that way his mouth could open as wide as the skin could stretch. It tore an entire leg off. The other cows began mooing very loudly. The farmer burst out the door with a shotgun. The Pahc froze. The farmer cocked the shotgun.
      " Who's stealin' ma cattle?" He asked. The Pahc began digging a hole in the gound. It tunneled under the ground. The Farmer stepped on the ground. The Pahc could here his vibrations. He dug until he was right under the farmer. The farmer continued to babble threats at whoever was "Stealting his cattle" The Pahc dug right up until the farmer fell through the ground.
      " What the?" He yelled as dirt spilled all over him. The farmer spat dirt out. The Pahc pounced him. He tore at the man's flesh. The man screamed, reaching for his shotgun. The man fell limp. The Pahc, satisfied, hopped back to the surface and grabbed an alive cow and dragged it into the woods. His teeth, clenched onto the cows ankle, dug into the flesh. Blood stained the white grass of the alien planet. He dragged it until he reached a hole. It pulled the cow into the hole.
      After dragging the cow through the underground city, he finally reached the queen's lair. The queens lair was a large opening with a stolen throne and a large egg in it. The throne was actually a La-Z-Boy.
      He set the cow in front of the throne. There were lots of cows in the room. The cows were for when the new queen hatches. Suddenly the egg's shell cracked. The nameless Pahc ran off. Noone was allowed to witness a queen's birth. She popped out of the egg, and immediately began feasting on the cows.

200 years ago...

      The queen ran through the forests, trying to escape the onslaught on her species. The sprinted as fast as she could. A grunt came into view. She dove on it, and tore it's head off. She continued forward. Two elites came into view. She stood up on her hind legs and pulled a large pistol-like weapon out. She jumped out from behind the tree and fired the weapons. The blue shields popped up around them.
      " WHAT THE??" She screamed. The elites returned fire. She dove out of the way, and dug speedily into the ground. She'd have to make a new kingdom underground. She dug deeper and deeper. Suddenly blue smoke fill the tunnel. She hopped up and clenched the side of the wall, dirt being shoved under her claws. It exploded. She hopped back down and began digging more.
      " That should take care of her" said one of the elites. She dug further down. Then at about five hundred feet down she dug straight ahead. She did this for hours, until she was satisfied. Then she made a large room. She began layed and egg. The small egg would expand as the Pahc inside it grew larger. She began laying more eggs. She layed millions of eggs. She rested with her rump in the air, due to the pain.

      She woke up. The eggs were now twice as large. She flipped her secondary eyelids so she could see in the dark. The secondary eyelids are like on beavers, but on beavers they act as goggles, not night vision. She walked into her hallway and began digging more tunnels, so she could make it into a city.
      After hours of working she made herself a throne room. She made a chair out of dirt and mud. She sat in it, and fell asleep, tired from her days work.

One Month Later...

      The first batch of eggs hatched. The little Pahcs began running around and playing with each other. Her city was now a honeycomb of tunnels. She decided she'd surface today. The queen hopped out of the only tunnel connected to the surface. It was daytime, and the light stung her eyes, due to her weeks in darkness. She began searching for any remnents from her old kingdom. She began collecting metals and computers and a few covenant stuff. She took them to her kingdom and began building stuff from scratch. In a few hundred years she'd get back at the covenant, or at least, her daughter would.
      She now had a birthmaker. She had ten tubes and one extracter. She let the extracter stab into her arm and pulled the baby genes from her. It then put them into the tubes. Little furless Pahcs seemed to appear from nowhere. They would be strong enough to come out in half the time of the old way. The tubes were filled with liquid that was really all the nutrients an egg give the thing inside, but the liquid had even more nutrients, therefore they grow faster. She smiled and sat in her newly made thrown, witch was what was left of her old one. It was only a few hundred years untill she'd have an army. She'd search for space travelling ships. She planned to send the daughters ( when their fully grown) to other planets so they could make their own armies. She destroy anything in her way.

Present Time...

      The queen of the colony Har mutated to the second form. She was a new queen and was on a small human agricultural planet.
      Spikes popped out on her back and she grew to twice the size of a normal Pahc. She grinned as her strength was doubled. A Pahc stepped in the room.
      " OH NO!" He screamed. No Pahc was allowed to witness their transformation, due to their religion. The queen barked and a robot popped out from behind her. The throne room guard. All Pahc queens had at least one in their throne.
      The robot was a ball with four legs and an arm on the top with a drill attached to it. The robot hopped on it's back two legs and lifted the other two like arms. It began firing plasma out of the arms.
      " NOOOO!!!" screamed the Pahc. The plasma hit him hard, setting his fur aflame.
      The robot ran forward on all fours. It hopped on the Pahc and clung on with the sharp claws. The desperate burning Pahc attempted to throw int off, but was unsuccessful. The robot drove the drill into the Pahc's head, killing it. The burning body fell forward. The queen called for someone to come clean it up. The queen looked ugly in its second form. It had only patches of the original fur left, and it would take some time for it to grow its fur back.
      Two Pahcs ran into the room and cleaned up the body. A screen connected to a robotic arm popped out of the ceiling.
      " The new batch of Pahc has been released." Said a Pahc on the screen.
      " Good, I can't come now because I need 72 hours of rest since I just transformed."
      " I know ma'am I've got a college degree in Pahc anatomy, witch included queen Pahc." Said the Pahc on the screen.
      " Okay Charl, I'll see you in 72 hours." She said, and laid back in the chair, and fell asleep.



6 Way War: Ch.2 Mechanical Humanoid Robot Suit?
Date: 9 March 2003, 4:20 PM

6 Way War
Demosthenes
CH. 2: Mechanical Humanoid Robot Suit?
WARNING: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ 5 WAY WAR, GO READ IT NOW!!!! OR ELSE YOU WILL BE ENTIRELY CONFUSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Inside the Forerunner committee of shogun's meeting place...

"At last we've found someone." Said Saurov. The forerunner shoguns put one of their hands on the dying person. Then, they put their other hand on Senna's body. The dying forerunner's energy was transferred through the shoguns, and into Senna's body. Senna coughed. Her eyes fluttered. She tried to sit up, but did not have the strength to. She doze off.
" She will be weak like this until we find the another person to give his or her energy to Senna."

Inside the human research facility "Hope" 0700 hours...

" So, how far are you on project Robo-doom?" Asked Admiral Commonhiemer.
"We've finished the prototype, but we haven't built any weapons that aren't built in. We're trying to build rocket launchers and sub-machine guns." Replyed Proffesser Sarmt. Admiral Commonhiemer nodded, and lit a cigar.
"Well, let's see it." Asked Admiral Commonhiemer. The proffesser nodded, and pushed a button on the cold metal wall. Spotlights in the garage flashed, and from the balcony above, was a giant humanoid robot.
"As you can see, we haven't painted the MHRS, Codenamed: Metal Death."
"Couldn't you at least think of a better name than that?" Asked Admiral Commonhiemer, looking off the balcony at the metal robot. It glistened in the large spotlights. Admiral Commonhiemer grinned.
" What's that big black thing on the right arm?" asked Commonhiemer. The Proffesser pressed his glasses up on his nose.
"That's a built in submachine gun. Actually it's four submachine guns.They're hidden underneath that black bump" Answered Proffesser Sarmt.
"Well, let's take it for a test drive." Said Commonhiemer.

Human research facility "Hope" 0800 hours...

The human pilot opened the door to the MHRS. He stepped inside. The door closed behind. He was in a room that look like he were outisde. It was as if he were the robot. If he looked up he could see the roof. If he looked down he saw the floor. Suddenly, holes opened up around the walls. Wires with pads attached at the end popped out and stuck themselves all over the pilots body.
"The computer now can read his brain waves, and however he moves, the robot moves the same way. I'm quite impressed myself, actually." Said Sarmt. Commonhiemer nodded, looking at the video screen of the inside of the MHRS. Commonhiemer tossed his cigar on the ground and stomped on it, crushing the ashes and what little tabacco left into the cold, metal ground.
" Um, you know your going to have to clean that up, sir." Said Sarmt. Commonhiemer looked at Sarmt like Sarmt was an idiot.
" Of course I could do that for you, if you want, sir" Said Sarmt weakly. Commonhiemer nodded, and looked back at the screen. The pilot moved his arm, and the robot moved it's arm in the exact same way. Commonhiemer grinned at his wonderful creation.

Battle field outside "Hope" 1200 hours...

Humans and covenant were engaged in battle. Suddenly, they stopped as a shadow fell upon the battle field. They looked up at a giant robot. Over the speaker it yelled, "ALL UNSC FORCES GET OUT OF THE BATTLE FIELD PRONTO" The marines obeyed and began running behind the robot, and away from the battle field. Covenant began to follow the humans, but the robot lowered it's arm and fired hundreds of large bullets onto them. The robot began stomping the defensless covenant soldiers. They screamed for help, tried firing back with fuel rod cannons and tank fire, but only succeeded in staining it with black burn marks. The robot began firing vulcan cannons from it's head, and bullets rained upon the covenant soldiers. The covenant soldiers began retreating and flyers began circling the robot. There were three bombers among the cloud of flyers circling the MHRS. The began firing missiles at it. A large hole appeared in the chest. Suddenly, on all of the marines COM channels said, "Give me some backup" The marines began firing at the banshees and bombers. The robot swatted his arm right through the cloud of flyers. The banshees exploded on his arm, slightly damaging it. The vulcan cannons on it's head opened, blowing a few flyers to smithereens. Anti air missiles began destroying the covenant flyers. Finally, the covenant flyers were all dead. What was a long harsh battle had ended in a few minutes by the MHRS. Rockets in the MHRS's feet and back flared, and it jetted into the sky. The marines stared in awe at the remnants of what was once an entire covenant regiment. Someone began clapping, and they all cheered, screaming, "IN YOUR FACE YOU BASTARDS!!!"

TO BE CONTINUED



6 Way War Ch. 3: Bloodshed continues...
Date: 11 March 2003, 2:28 AM

6 Way War
Demosthenes
Ch. 3: Bloodshed continues...
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ 5 WAY WAR, GO READ IT NOW!!!!!! OTHERWISE YOU WILL NOT UNDERSTAND A THING ABOUT THIS STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Blue plasma burst the stainless steel door open. A floating monitor, one of 343's "children" barked orders at the sentinels. They opened fire upon the covenant forces. The monitor robot turned around and retreated. He floated through battle-scarred hallways. The stench of rotting corpses would have filled his nose, if he weren't a robot. He opened one of the doors that had been closed due to lockdown procedures. A team of jackals and one elite stood on the other side.
"CRAP!" yelled the monitor robot, and flew past them at top speed. They covenant squad fired blue and green plasma at him. He fell to the ground. The plasma had heated him so much that his hover engine over heated.
"C'mon, c'mon" he chanted, frantically trying to get up. The elite ordered the jackals to cease fire, and the elite walked up to the monitor robot. He picked it up, and fired multiple plasma bullets up the hover engine. Suddenly, the blue light that was the monitor robot's inside turned off. The elite thought he could take out the hover engine. He stuck his hand inside the robot, and grabbed the monitor's hover engine. The lights flicked back on, and the hover engine started again. The elite screamed, and so did the monitor robot. The elites hand melted off by the hover engine, and the monitor robot screamed because the hover engine was malfunctioning, due to the elite's hand. The monitor robot exploded. Blue flame balls rained on the jackals, burning them to crisps.

Inside an Itinerant base 1400 hours...

"So, if you..." said an Itinerant soldier to his friend, when suddenly a bomb exploded, and forerunners came running in, firing crystalline bullets and plasma. The Itinerant forces ran and covered, and fired back. Suddenly, a Forerunner supersonic grenade went off, and all the forces in the room were smacked up against the wall, dead. More Forerunners ran into the room, and continued into the next room. They walked around in the halls while alarms buzzed in their ears. Itinerants came out of rooms just to be blasted by plasma and crystalline bullets. The team of Forerunner legions busted open the door to the central power core. Hundreds of flood creatures began attacking. All formation they had had was broken up. One soldier tossed a couple of timed bombs on the core. The bomb stuck to the shield. He tossed a few more, and then was killed by the constant waves of spores and bullets. Almost all of the soldiers were dead, and one of the few remaining soldiers tossed a supersonic grenade. It exploded, killing everything inside the room. One of the timed bombs went off. It set off the shield, and the other bombs, destroying a large section of the base, and the core.

Outside an Itinerant base 1405 hours...

Captain Salazar looked through his electronic binoculars. He watched the base explode, and looked for a team of Legions to come out of the base. He watched for a few minutes, and then gave up. He radioed for his bombers to go in there and destroy the rest of the base. Four bombers flew out from behind the trees. They began dropping bombs all over the base. The anti-air turrets, and any turret, were unable to fire due to the destruction of the core. They dropped hundreds of bombs right on the base. The bombers, finished with the base, turned around and headed back towards the transport ship.


The marines waited at point red hill for the evac ship. Corporal Rain looked at her watch. They had been waiting for about 20 minutes. The covenant team would be catch up with them soon and slaughter them all if the evac ship didn't hurry. The marines were assembled in a circle at the bottom of the hill. She and a few others were at the top, and some snipers were located in the bushes, ready to take out scouts or anything like that.
"There!" called one of the marines up on top of the hill. He pointed up at a pelican with smoke billowing out of the engines. She frowned.
"Hey, at least it's here in one piece, a little smoke couldn't be that bad." Said a marine. Suddenly, the engines exploded, and the pelican became a giant fireball.
"It's headed straight for us!" yelled someone. Everyone began getting out of the way as the pelican smashed into the ground. It erupted in a huge explosion.

A large ball of fire erupted not far in the distance. The elite spotted it, and ordered his men to head towards it. Three wraiths, four ghosts, and 50 grunts and jackals headed towards the fireball where the humans were.

" All right, is everyone alive?" Yelled Corporal Rain sarcastically. Most people just moaned back.
"Corporal Rain, we got some covenant scouts headin' our way." Someone said over Rain's COM channel. A sniper began knocking out targets. The other snipers joined in.
"Ghosts!" yelled someone else on Rain's COM channel.
"Tanks!" screamed another. Tank fire began raining on them.
"Scatter!" called a marine. Marines began dodging hot balls of plasma. Plasma bullets began flying out of the trees. Grunts and jackals hopped out of the bushes. Marines returned fire. Rain ducked behind a piece of burning wreckage left from the Pelican. She spotted a marine on the ground with a huge hole in his gut. He was holding his gut shaking. Rain bent down and began tending his wound with the few things she had in he pockets. He began muttering something with his blood stained lips. She heard something about momma and bright lights. She shook her head. Suddenly, the soldier's eyes went dull; he loosened his grip on his gut, and fell back. She stopped, frustrated, and went back to killing things. Suddenly, a plasma bullet smacked into her shoulder. Blood squirted out. She screamed in pain. She fell back behind the piece of wreckage, and opened her pockets to get out a med kit. Dangit! She thought, I wasted my med kit on him! Suddenly, her life was taken away as a large ball of hot tank fire landed right on her.
The elite ordered some jackals to check for survivors. They walked around looking at the human bodies. After a while, the elite called his men back. His gold armor shined from the suns rays. He grinned with satisfaction at another mission complete.

The sword elites ran into the crowd of frantic covenant soldiers and the strange newcomers. They began slashing these strange beasts with their swords. One of the sword elites, Shar, tripped over a grunt that had run in his path. One of the beasts jumped on him and bit into the back of his neck. He screamed. Blood streamed down his neck and stained his armor.
Cro, a golden sword elite, sliced another of the new creatures heads off. Blood sprayed in his face. He severed another beast's arms off its torso. Plasma bullets smashed into his shield. Suddenly, he was knocked to the ground by one of them. It bit his arm. He screamed as the metal armor on his arm was crushed, and purple blood spewed out. The sword went out. Cro lifted his legs, and kicked upwards. The Pahc flew off of him. Another Pahc began firing plasma at him. His shield's power went out. Cro dodged out of the way of the bullets, and bumped into a grunt's body. A Pahc lifted it's head after chewing the grunt's body. The elite, worried, swung his leg into the Pahc's face. The Pahc flew away form the body. Plasma smashed into his back, bending the armor. Blood poured all over himself. The Pahc jumped at him. Cro closed his eyes and waited. A body knocked him over. He opened his eyes to see blood pouring all over his body. He pushed the body off of him. The half body plopped onto the ground. One of his friends, another sword elite, stood there. He held out his hand. The elite took it, and his friend pulled him off the ground.
" You look like crap, you better go find a medic." Said Cro's friend. Cro nodded. Suddenly, blood started pouring out of Cro's friend's neck. Cro's friend's eyes went wide, and he fell to the ground. Cro screamed, and smacked a fist into the Pahc that killed his friend in the face. The Pahc fell to the ground, dead.
A few hours later the battle was over, and the covenant came back from battle with victory.
TO BE CONTINUED





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