Journal of Suno Happer (Days 1 and 2)
Posted By: Halo Fanatic 2005<christene46@ntlworld.com>
Date: 1 December 2005, 6:25 pm
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Day 1
Attack on Earth
Everything is quiet as we travel through space onboard the Pious Inquisiter. Nobody moves. There is no sound apart from the quiet shuffling of weapons and armour and the silent breaths of my numerous comrades.
There was stilence still as the Phantom we were onboard left the capital ship and set off into space. We all had an unusual feeling as we passed through gassy atmosphere of Earth, the silence was immediately broken as the sound of bullets flying through the air filled my ears. I turned and peered into the pilots' cockpit then a horror met my eyes. Destroyed Phantoms were falling from the sky. Bullets and guided rockets were cleaving through Banshees like hot knifes through butter. Ranger Sangheili and Yanme'es were jumping out of moving dropships only to be caught in the hell of human projectiles that covered the sky. I dare not look anymore.
As I felt the bump that the Phantom made when it landed, the grav-lift opened and Kig-yars and Unggoys streamed out infront of ous. Then, legion 7KO began to drop down one by one. I waited my turn until last and eventually I stepped down. As i decended slowly I gazed at New Mombasa. What a sight, especially for a human city. Towering skyscrapers dominated the landscape. I felt unhappy to be a part in destroying it.
The battle was a field of carnage and mayhem. Enemy vehicles acopaning heavily armoured tanks. The skies filled with banshees and dropships of both kind. Hundreds of troops, Covenant and UNSC (United Nations Space Core- if I am not mistaken). Banshees swooping low suddenly to fire their Fuel Rod Cannons at the tanks and then pulling up to avoid the driver being able to shoot them. I lifted the Beam Rifle up to my face, put eyes on the scope and pressed the switch twice. The Scope magnified to 10x. I moved the heavy gun around searching for a suitibale target. There. Next to a tank. Almost behind it. I aimed the crosshair over the head of thw opponent. My finger pulled the trigger. CHEEOO! The human fell flat on his face. Limp. Dead. I thought about what it would feel like. I didn't want to shoot anyone else. "I must be loyal to ther Covenant," I was thinking in my head, "I took an oath to the them, I must take part in this battle."
I carry on shooting and each human falls like the last. Then I saw it. Flying higher than the skyscrpers in the city was the Prophet of Regret's Carrier. It flew sfiftly over the battlefield and stopped just outside the city behind where the human line of defence was. Slowy eeveryone, old and young, Covenant and human, watched. the bottom of the carrier opened and an immense gravity lift formed. Shortly afterwards a metal ball floated down and landed with a small bumb on African sands. Every single being on the battlefield stared at the ball as legs unfolded from the shell and a small plasma turret unfolded. The metal monster stood up on four legs and a massive energy cannon unfolded. The Scarab had arrived. Before anyone knew what was happening the gigantic weapon began to build up power. In one killing blow, a light as powerful as twenty suns shot from the main cannon and ripped through the human line of millitary defense. It tore through at least ten Scorpions, Warthogs and turrets before stopping to recharge. Drips off plasma-like energy fell from The Scarab landing on the buildings below. The energy anihilated the homes sending shards of stone soaring through the air. After the UNSC were sent into dissary by Scarab, they fled into the outskirts of Old Mombasa. This battle was won for now...
End of Day 1
Day 2
Spying on The Demon
I woke up the next morning, still tired from the desvastating battle yesterday. We were sleeping on the outskirts of Old Mombasa because there was little human resistance here. Tired and exhausted, I crawled out of my sleeping pod which I was sharing with Fagina Grap and looked around. It was so quiet you could here an ammo magazine drop. The young and enphusiastic Special Operations Unggoy Korli was already up (as ususual). I walked over to him but he was as still as stone. I soon found out why. With one small flick of the arm he was holding his plasma pistol in, he pointed to a half destroy human van. Behind the van however was an enemy marine, crouching. He was holding his sniper rifle in one hand, radio in the other. he noticed us. He pulled the trigger.
I ducked just in time to dodge the high-velocity bullet that shattered the sleeping pod Fagina Grap was unfortunately still in. Korli immediately sprung his back up against the wall as I did so. Legion 7KO began emerging from their own pods and followed suit. Then as suddenly as the bullet had been fired from it's case, the sound of a plasma turret firing behind me echoed through the streets. Three pelicans were cruising down the street with stones scattering everywhere because of the wind power used in the engines. We could see the short encounteer from behind the wall and saw two pelicans being shot down. One flew over to a place known as "Hotel Zanzaibar." The other gave me a nasty suprise. The Demon was in it! It flipped, landed upside dowm on a building, then fell and exploded. I prayed the Demon was dead. I ran through streets and arches, through Sniper Alley and out through two double doors which two Lekgolo were trying to close.
I climbed to the rooftops and overlooked the crash site of the pelican. Only Korliwas still with me, because he was the only one who could be bothered to keep up. A Kig-yar sniper was also here, possibly stationed ontop of the houses on purpose. All three of us looked over th ledge and stared at the Demon. He was acompanied by the one they call "Johnson" and a few marines. "What ya thimk they doin' huh?" Korli asked suddenly. Upon reaction I went "Shhh." The group moved through a doorway and I heard the sound of bullets being fired, the squel of an Unggoy and roars of angry comrades. I had to intercept the Demon somehow.
I called for a Phantom. When it came I was already where I said I'd be, hiding. It dropped of troops, then it came to pick me and Korli up, the Kig-yar was dead due to it being to heroic and then being sniped by Johnson. I climbed aboard nd told the driver to go where the Demon would go, we flew over the camp, past Sniper Alley again and over Hotel Zanzibar to where one of the crashed pelicans were. I landed on a rooftops and found a dead Kig-yar so I took his beam rifle.
I waited for wait seemed like a human year, gazing at the stunning carrier that floated in the sky. At last I saw the other Sanheili and Unggoy walking ito the hotel. Bullets flyed. Plasma burned. Covenant died. Unggoy fled. The scared snorts were ended soon by battle rifle fire. I zoomed on my beam rifle there he was. I fired at the head. I missed. All of a sudden my holopack started beeping. I lowered the gun and took the holopack off my back. I switched it to messages and played back the most recent. It was Regret. "All Covenan except those protecting New Mombasa return to the carrier." Shortly afterwards a Phantom came to pick me up so I climbed aboard.
Once I was on the carrier a Sanheili came up to me and said, "Did you hear, the Demon destroyed the Scarab!"
"Blasted Demon," I replied in disgust. "Indeed," he answered, and began to walk away when we were pulled into slipspace. I noticed through the window that the human ship had followed...
End of Day 2
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