Alliance: chapter one
Posted By: Jack Roads
Date: 16 October 2005, 3:12 pm
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Rystanei was nervous. He had been called to the prophet's chambers, and he feared it was about a… incident involving a low ranked brute being insolent to him that had occurred the other day. They never found the brute's body. Rystanei detested brutes. Clumsy, arrogant, insolent… they were the epitome of everything that he hated. He did not know how the prophets would take this news. But to his surprise, when he arrived at the prophet's chamber, he received a mission briefing. "Greetings commander." Truth said cordially. "We have a mission for you." He said. "You are to journey to the surface of one of the remnants of the holy ring, and retrieve a forerunner artifact for us. We will send a hand-picked squad of brutes with you, as well as some jackals". Rystanei stiffened at this. He knew that brutes in general hated elites. He would have to keep on his toes-especially due to the fact that there would be no fellow elites. "Very well." Rystanei said. He went to the armory to prepare.
Major Blaine White was nervous. They had been sent to a remnant of "Halo" to retrieve an item that the covenant was also looking for. He ran his fingers through his mane of stark white hair. Currently he had eight men, plus himself. They needed to get into a building , but it was guarded by six brutes and eight jackals. He only had eight marines, and five were fresh recruits. He decided to go on diversionary tactics. Two marines would make a distraction, and the other six would assault from behind. Blaine would use the sniper rifle to pick off troops as the attack commenced. He got into position, and when his marines got into position, he gave the signal to begin. Two of his marines walked into the clearing in front of the building. A brute noticed and primed a plasma grenade. Major Blaine sighted on the brute's head and fired. The grenade fell to the ground as the brute's head detonated in a shower of bone fragments and brain tissue. The grenade exploded, killing a brute and two jackals in a plume of blue death. The two marines fired at the brutes and jackals to get their attention, and it worked. While the remaining brutes and jackals fired at the marines, two white streaks and a rocket streaked through the air, killing all of the remaining enemies, save one brute. It berserked and charged straight at Blaine. He took out his shotgun and shot it in the face as it charged. "I don't care how tough you are. You can't take an eight gauge slug to the face." He muttered to the brute's corpse. "Good job, marines." Blaine said. "Jackson, report." "Bob is wounded, and Bill is dead." stated Prvt. Jackson. Blaine sighed. He remembered how much Bill talked about his girlfriend… she wouldn't take the news well. "Grab his tags, and lets move on." Blaine said.
Rystanei heard some commotion outside. He turned around and started for the entrance, but a brute captain blocked his way. "The covenant has cast out the elites." The brute said. "Soon your incompetent race will be annihi-" The brute didn't finish the sentence due to the fact that an eight gauge slug blasted 70 percent of his head away. A human was in front of him. He had long, stark white hair and
Red-brown eyes. "I am not your enemy, human." He said. "I know. I heard your little chit-chat." Replied Blaine. Suddenly Blaine froze. He whirled around and fired his eight-gauge pump action shotgun. The slug blasted a hole 4 inches wide in the jackal sniper's torso. All of the marines, even Rystanei looked in awe at Blaine, for the jackal had been fifty feet away, and Blaine had used a shotgun to kill it. Even the best sniper of the group, Corporal Jacobs was impressed, and she had taken out 3 enemies once with a sniper round that over penetrated them all. "So." Said Blaine. "What is your name elite?" "Rystanei. Though I would rather not have it. It was bestowed by the Covenant, who have cast my brethren and I out." He replied. "Hey, your armor is orange and red, so we could call you burn. It would be very apt." Said Blaine. "Very well." Replied newly christened Burn. "We should meet up with my brothers." Stated Burn. Blaine turned to his troops. "Marines! Lets go make some friends."
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