Size Doesn't Matter Chapter 2
Posted By: SpecOpsGt<TWSTLTTLFRK@aol.com>
Date: 24 November 2005, 11:53 pm
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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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