The Admiral, Chapter 1, Part 2
Posted By: Dyn<ivlas1@chartermi.net>
Date: 9 November 2002, 9:44 pm
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He awoke to the sound of someone talking over the intercom: "-e need you on the bridge."
He looked at the clock. Not even an hour of sleep he thought, it better be good. He walked over to the intercom and pressed the talk button.
"What now?"asked the Admiral angrily
"Its Captain Burdou, sir" replied the communications officer.
"Put him through the intercom"
"Yes sir."
"Admiral?"asked Burdou.
"Yes, Captain?"
"We've found a hole in the radar web, sir"
"Where?"
"Its in the Covenant's orbit sir. They have a break in it.
If we match there speed we can pass through on the opposite side on the planet than them. Its risky but if the don't detect the Gatling breaking or entering orbit I think it'll work."
"Thank you Captain, can you inform the Gatling of this?"
"Yes sir."
"Thanks, Hanson out."
Perfect the Admiral thought, the Gatling might make it after all. One less score for the Covenant. Now for some more sleep.
It was the next day when Hanson finally woke up. He took a shower and had some breakfast before finally going to the bridge.
"Report."said the Admiral as he walked onto the bridge.
"The Gatling made it sir! Other than that, not much happened, sir."
"Great!"
A victory, he thought the humans needed that.
"Oh, I almost forgot" said communications officer (his name was Peter)"For some reason the Covies havent glassed earth, yet."
"Thats odd... Try to find out why." said Hanson thoughtfully.
"Have the covenant detected us yet?"
"No, I dont think so."
"Well keep scaning."
"Yes sir."
"How's earth coming."
"Beside the obvious, the covenant ground forces haven withdrawn yet so it doesn't seem the Covies will glass it any time soon."
OK, the Admiral thought, the covenant arent glassing earth any time soon so there must be a reason... Maybe they were searching for something, scanning the human databases for any useful information. Maybe not.
"Sir the rest of the fleet is repaired and ready to enter slipstream."said Peter
"Ok, enter slipstream on my mark."
"Yes sir."
"Now."
The space bubbled around the remainder of the UNSC fleet and then dissapeared. No one noticed the sleek dark silhouette that started to bubble too...
The trip through slipstream was a relatively short one, only two hours. They were going not actually to a star system but to a void in between two of them. And in that void was a secret military base disguised as a asteroid twenty miles long. It was the largest space base ever built. It housed most of the military's special forces and a barracks big enough to house fifteen million men. Hardly anyone in the fleet even knew of it. In fact he and only two other knew, exept of corse all the men on it knew as well.449
The Admiral's ship was the first to dock at the base bet Hanson stayed on the ship for a while longer. He had stayed in his quarters during slipstream then he went to the bridge to make sure everyone made it. Peter assured him all were accounted for. When Hanson was satisfied that everyone was there, he left the ship and entered the base.
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