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Size Doesn't Matter by SpecOpsGt
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Size Doesn't Matter Chapter 1
Date: 22 November 2005, 1:13 am
I know most people did not enjoy my Halo: Delta Force story that much so I decided to focus on another topic a small group consisting of mainly Grunts. I hope you all like it. I know it will be harder for me to get respect for it for reasons unknown COUGH, UNGGOY LIFE, COUGH. Never cross Halo with Star Wars again. I don't think it could ever work.
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Chapter 1: A Little Guy With A Big Problem
It had been a dumb idea now that Gip had thought about it to join the Fight against the Flood. "Why oh why did I join up.""Don't worry it not so bad once you knee deep in Flood guts." said a very strange although higher ranked Unggoy by the name of Bolliwop."Uh thanks....I guess.""Don't mind him he new leader. He fight with humans before and now he big, scary mean guy.""Thanks friend. What your name.""Me Gewroo.""Me Gip" Gip, Gewroo, and Bolliwop were part of a sixteen Unggoy unit who's job was to go down onto the sixth of the Halo installations and march right into the quarintine zone and eradicate any Flood they encounter. "We are going to be landing any minute now" said a very aggitated sounding Sangheili over the comm."Hey Gewroo maybe we be in same squad!""Maybe!".
The team got off of the Phantom and headed straight for the base camp to get armed and ready for combat. Of the sixteen people in the squad Gewroo was part of the five SpecOps unit's in the group. Gip was just the, what the UNSC troops use to nickname "cannon fodder", part of the group. Along with his squad, five humans, two Sangheili, and two Lekgolo were to be going along with them. "Well troops let's move out" yelled Bolliwop. "I no like this leader""Yeah he meanie" said two Grunts that Gip had overheard. There names were Jubjub and Guapo. Jubjub was another SpecOps and Guapo was a Gunner, one of the two in his team.
After a very restless sleep Gip awoke to the sounds of Phantoms and Pelicans in the air, unloading their crew. He placed his rebreather mask on, seeing as how he and his kin slept in a tent filled with methane, and left for the Barracks to grab some food. Once he was there he sat with Gewroo, Guapo, Jubjub and one of the Spartan/Covenant crossbreed Grunts (Only 1 is known to be alive) Bannon. "Hi guys!" said Gip."Hey Gip! Guys meet Gip he new guy""Hey/What's up/Hey buddy". Gip grabbed his meal, a very sloppy gunk of some kind, and sat down."Guapo meantion before he found that there be no squads! We all go at same time and no split up""Yay! Me no get eaten then" Oddly enough an Elite by the name of Janaku sat by them. Shortly afterwards an Elite of a grayish color named Ubarah sat with them across from Janaku. "Hello my friends. We are to be going with you in your mission to eliminate the Flood. We figured that we would sit next to you so that we may get to know you." said Janaku."Thanks friend. It good to know we have big friends""Yeah it is.""Hahaha. Yes well it is quite nice to have such friendly friends in such an unfriendly place.""Same".
After this the group walked outside to go to the Armory and get suited up. First was Gip. He walked out in his brand new red armor and was equipped with a Plasma Pistol. Gewroo walked out wearing his black armor and carrying his Needler. Guapo came out of the armory with a plasma connon folded over his shoulder saying "Man why me sign up for this job". Jubjub came out with his Needler and a few Plasma Grenades and handing a few to everyone. Bannon came out with two Plasma Rifles in his hands with a mean look on his face. You could tell he was ready to blow something up or shoot it instead. Janaku came out with a large case in one hand, his new SpecOps armor on and a Plasma Rifle in it's holster on his waist. Ubarah walked out with a Covenant Carbine.
They got onto their Phantom along with two Hunter's and a Pelican with five ODST marines in the back followed along. The ride their wasn't so bad actually. "Hey Janaku""Yes Gip""Why you big guys come with us. I thought we just "cannon fodder" as humans call us""We are going along to ensure that you are not "cannon fodder" as you refer to it""me want to thank you very much. Me no like dying. It not fun.""Yes i'm sure we all feel that way." After a brief topic of discussion involving a grunt's personal hygiene and the introduction of a new and odd Grunt by the name of "Frank" the dropships unloaded their crews near an outpost which was supposed to be where they were to rest.
The humans led the covenant troops into the base only to find that it had been completely destroyed. The team instantly drew there weapons. Gip dropped his Pistol when he first tryed to draw it he was so scared. They heard nothing whatsoever. A human by the name of John led the team into the base-camp. "Hey you there Elite." He was refering to Ubarah. "Were gunna go check out the Armory and their Barracks. You take your guys with you over there and try askin' to see if the Hunter's will check out their Command Tent.""Alright. Sounds good."
The teams went in separate directions. Ubarah used his Active Camo along with Janaku and the SpecOps unit's from Gip's squad. "Ok men you hear Elite's, we move out. Gip, Gewroo and Frank you go that way.""Well guys I guess we have fight something sooner or later""Yeah" said Gip nervously. The little team went first into the lunch tent which was cleared out, and then they went into what looked like a smaller Armory but with fewer lockers in it."Well guys I think it safe. Maybe we go back now.""Wait I think Me hear something over here." said Frank. After a good five minutes everyone regrouped."Hey. Where's that here funky lookin Grunt at who went with you guys?" Shortly thereafter they saw Frank come running as fast as he could out of a nearby tent yelling. "BIG SCARY THING! RUN AWAY!" After that they saw a Flood Combat form come chasing after him. "BUAH!" they heard as Frank ran nearer and nearer to the group. Janaku dropped the silver mettalic case he was holding. It opened to reveal a Fuel Rod Cannon. Gip's eyes opened as wide as they could with amazement. "Eat this you unholy beast" yelled Janaku. And then he pulled the trigger. Frank shot straight down into the groud and the Flood had been blown back and into pieces."Me thought you were gonna shoot me with the big gun" said Frank after he had very slowly crawled back to where the rest of the group was. Gip had continued to stare at the large yellow Fuel Rod Cannon.
They had rebuilt some of the base camp back up and were in the middle of working when one of the soldiers Pvt.Matt Dixon and Gip were assigned to rebuilding the comm tower. They were at the base of it checking to make sure that it was working properly and could catch Command's signal. "Hey little guy your name's Gip right?""Yeah. Me Gip.""I saw you staring at that Fuel Rod Cannon that your Sangheili friend was using before""Oh yeah that. Me no know why me like it but it look cool and me wanna use it.""Hehe. You want me to teach you?""Me learn to use big gun? Me like! Me like!""Hehe. Ok Gip once you wake up tomorrow i'll teach you how to use it ok?""Yeah sure!"
After a restless sleep caused by both the fear of the nearby Flood and his anxiety over learning how to use the Fuel Rod Cannon he finally awoke to the sounds of everyone prepairing for something. He walked up to one of his squadmates named Loopa and asked "What be happening?""Everyone get ready to fight big meanie Flood in few hours." Gip nearly swallowed his rebreather mask when he heard the words. "We go fight Flood soon?""Yup" This time he nearly fainted. "Hey Gip." In an instant he shot back up eager to learn the use of the Fuel Rod Cannon. "Yeah Matt.""I talked to your commander and he and Janaku have both agreed to let you become the first Demolitions expert on your team.""Me use big gun?!" Again he nearly fainted."He. Ok buddy you ready to start learning?""Yeah! Me ready.""Ok come on then.""Ok" The two reached their target practice location. After a good two or three times Gip was able to balance the mighty Fuel Rod Cannon on him in the proper way. Matt then teached him to be able to fire it which only took two quick lessons and in only a good hour or so Gip had mastered the Fuel Rod Cannon. "Me can use big gun now!""Yeah you can! You learned in one hour which took me a good two years to learn.""Is that good?""Hell yeah!"
"All men report to the Barracks for immediate arming and armoring" said a very disgruntled human voice over the comm speakers. Every single person walked out of the barracks carrying weapons differing from the next generation Sniper Ridle, designated S3 AM Sniper Rifle, to SMG's, Plasma Pistol's and Plasma Rifle's. "Ok troops here's our mission! We are to march straight into the quarantine zone, regroup with Bravo squad and then start blasting the living hell out of every single Flood that get's in our way! DO YOU GET ME?!""Sir Yes Sir!!!""Move it out! Move it out! Move it out!" Gip walked up to Ubarah and asked "Who Bravo squad?""There a squad comprised of SpecOps Sangheili that are more specialized in killing Flood than even Janaku.""Wow""Yeah." After everyone loaded onto the Dropships Gip had finally realized he was no longer scared. He had friends now, he knew how to use a Fuel Rod Cannon, and had a squad comprised of sixteen Unggoy, two Sangheili, two Lekgolo, and five Humans. He was ready for anything now.
Size Doesn't Matter Chapter 2
Date: 24 November 2005, 11:53 pm
Chapter 2: Enter The SpecOps
"Guapo! Behind you!" yelled Wampa. Gip had turned his back to the almost endless onslaughts of Flood in order to help his friend. Gip pulled forth his Fuel Rod Cannon and let loose three shots with which sent the Flood scurrying back into the crowds of other Flood.
"Thanks Gip" "No Problem. Hurry we gotta beat meanie Flood". Bannon was letting loose torrents of plasma as the beasts surrounded them on top of a small mound in the middle of a canyon only a good three hundred or so meters away from their base camp.
Their dropships had been ambushed by a small group of Sentinal Majors. Their ships crashed down into the middle of an enormous battle. Although no one was hurt or killed there were plenty dead already. The stench of death filled the spore-filled air. They all traveled to a less enclosed area seeing as how they landed inside of a Sentinal complex.
The group was beggining to run desparately low on all of their ammo. Gip had already run out of Fuel Rod Cannon ammo seeing as how a small group had attempted to attack en masse. Gip emptied an entire clip of Fuel Rods into them. None returned to the rest of the Flood.
Guapo and the other gunner in their squad Oopa had engaged their turrets on one of the sides and with Ubarah's and Janaku's assistance they began to tear through the Flood. "Hey Matt!" yelled Guapo. "Yeah what's up!""Is it just me or are Flood retreating!?" "Yeah I think they are!". And after Matt had said that Gip pulled out two more clips for his Fuel Rod Cannon and loaded one into his weapon. "DIE FLOOD!" yelled Gip with as much ferocity as this squeaky voiced little Unggoy could muster.
With only three of his first clips shots he took out a good twenty or so Combat forms it appeared. Even John looked at him as if he was now almost scared of him. Gip emptied the remainder of his shots into the now retreating and very badly damaged Flood.
"Yeah guys we did it! We fought it off!" Just as everyone was cheering Frank looked down at his feet to see a almost demon looking shadow with it's mouth open and it's tail had a spear tipped end to it. He shakingly turned to see a large creature with glowing red eyes and a sinister look within them. "BIG SCARY THING! RUN AWAY!""Oh now what?" said Gannin.
Just as he had said that the rest of the team looked at the same time only to see a large glowing blue ball of Plasma gathering at the beast's mouth. "Oh son of a....." just as Ken had said that Gannin was blown backwards and nearly in half as the beast unleashed the energy it held. It let out a mechanical howl and ran down the silt covered hill. It was definitely Forerunner built. It seemed as if it were a fifteen foot tall metal wolf.
Just as Gip, along with the rest of the team, had thought they were done for they heard a sound. An Energy Sword had been activated. The two Sangheili had looked at each other and looked back at the beast only to see one floating above it's head. "Die you wicked demon!" yelled a angry sounding voice right before the Sword had went straight into the beast's head and back out. It let out an almost devilish screech as it's four legs were cut into half and three Plasma Grenades had landed on it's head. The creature had been completely destoyed as it's bady just slowly tilt over onto it's side. "I am sorry for not arriving sooner my friends. We have been hunting this devil for quite some time." said a white armored Sangheili who was deactivating his Energy Sword.
"Oh I am sorry. My name is Crietiz. I am the new SpecOps commander.""Good to meet you. I am Lt. John Spears. I am in charge of the human regime that you see behind me.""Good to meet you Lt. Ah. Ubarah it is good to meet you again.""Yes my friend it has been far too long"
The team's had walked into a small and very protected looking Sentinel complex. Crietiz had explained that he and a small band of Sangheili that he had grouped up with from Zulu squad had taken it earlier and that both the remainder of Zulu squad and all of Bravo squad had decided to meet up and ensure that the outpost was to remain secure.
"You and the rest of your team may help yourselves to our assortment's of ammo" Gip walked up to him and asked with almost kitten like eyes "Do you have any Fuel Rod's?""Yes my little friend they are with the demolition's ammunition.""Demo?! Hey Gip I'm commin' with ya" yelled Matt. As the two walked off John and his Cpl., Nick, went over to what appeared to be a cafeteria of sorts. Ubarah and Crietiz had walked to their ammo munitions and rearmed their weapons. The rest of the team had walked off to the barracks to catch some shut eye.
Later that night whilst the rest of the team slept Gip awoke to the sounds of Plasma Turrets firing in the distance. He did not know whether or not to feel glad or frightened. He did see that there were two Lekgolo standing guard and patrolling right outside of his door. This made him feel quite comforatable now. As he slowly fell into a finally restfull sleep he could not help but feel bad and sorrowfull for the loss of his friend Gannin. He shook his head and fell to sleep.
"Alright my friends we have to get a move on. We have a busy day. Our leaders have all agreed that we are to stay here and slowly advance our territory. We will be meeting together at around noon so be ready, armed, and prepared to be split into groups. Oh and by the way Gip I need you to come with me. There is an important matter that must be discussed." Gip took a deep gulp and followed the Major Sangheili.
They entered a circular room. "Do you know why you have been summoned before us?" said a mysterious voice. "N-no." answered Gip. "There is a special task that we have decided to assign to you. Your friend Janaku here has asked that you receive proper training for the mission and therefore be promoted." Janaku walked into the light with a small smile upon his face."Me be promoted?" said Gip as his face lighted up with glee. "Yes my friend. I have seen your potential and I beleive that you should be promoted to SpecOps in order to fill in the slot left by the loss of our friend Gannin.""We shall let you rest for now and you will be resummoned in about an hour." said the voice. Gip was escorted outside by the same Sangheili. He led him to a methane filled room so that Gip may relax.
"Wow. Me be SpecOps." Gip thought to himself. A Major Sangheili had appeared in the doorway. "It is time" The two walked back to the briefing room at a brisk pace. They arrived at the door. The Sanghelili opened the door for him and said "Good luck my friend". Gip walked in to the round room once again. "Well? Have you thought about it?""Yes sir. I will be a SpecOps.""Fine. Kepp in mind that your training will be long, difficult, and full of hardships. Are you prepared?""Yes"."Janaku. I will leave him under your command. Train him to the best of his abilities. After you are done training him, Crietiz will assume the role of being his mentor.""Yes sir."
It has been a good five or six weeks since training has begun for Gip."Command do you read!""Yes Bravo! What's your current position!""Sir! Were about twelve clicks south of Charlie's position" BOOM! A very large explosion happened just a few yards from Master Sgt of the Corps Rich Andress. "God damn it! Where's our backup at!" Just as he had said that a Combat form had smashed two of his Marines aside and was now going for Rich himself. "Come on you ugly S.O.B!" The beast swung but missed. Rich emptied about twelve shots from his BR55 Rifle into it's stomach area.
It just shook and again lifted it's fist. Just as the fist was above the Flood's head Rich saw an Energy Sword slash the creature in half. He saw Crietiz standing in, the now dead, Flood's spot. "Bout' time you and your boys made it.""He. Well when you have to carry a rather large number of troops with you it can be quite a long time to reach a location.""What I don't get is that we ordered for a dropship to send us some vehicles so we can get the hell outa here, and they haven't reached us yet!""Wait is that...............Haha. Hell yes it is!" Out of almost nowhere a Pelican Dropship unloaded a crew of ten ODST troops at their location along with a M10V Scorpion MBT (Main Battle Tank).
"Well? Who's coming!" After Rich had said that two marines jumped onto the tread's and a Sangheili had decided to come along too. "Ya' comin' Crietiz?""No my friend but I have someone else you may be interested in taking along with you""And who would that be?""Hehe. Gip! Front and center!" Gip had just finished unloading a full clip of Fuel Rod's into the enemy as he heard Crietiz call for him. He reloaded his weapon as he ran toward's his new commander. "Yes sir!""I want you to go along with my friend Rich here and use your Fuel Rod Cannon for support.""Yes sir!""Gewroo!""Yes sir!""Go with them and help em' out!""Yes sir!"
Their tank had practically steam rolled through each and every single Combat Form, Infection Form and some new looking ones as well. They had reached a very strange looking complex. They stopped to take a look at it but just as they thought of stopping thirty or so Combat Forms jumped from atop the almost volcanic looking hills and attacked. Rich tried to start up the tank but it wouldn't kick over. "Alright boys! Open Up!" As Rich gave the command everyone began firing at the Flood. They had jumped atop the tank after their two marines had been swept aside like a curtain and thrown into the rest of the Flood. "Men! Take cover in that complex! NOW!"
The team ran inside as Gip and Gewroo continued to fight. Through one of Gip's training regiments he became far more aggressive and now seemed almost kamikaze-like in his fighting methods. "Yeah! Eat it Flood!" He fired his weapon at the wall of Flood. They came towards him again as the Sangheili had grabbed him and threw him in the complex before they sealed the entrence with a rather large explosion. "Alright guys. Let's try to find out where the hell we are".
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