Halo:CIS(it was not my idea!) Ch.2
Posted By: INDUSTRIAL_aVATAR<INDUSTRIAL_aVATAR@yahoo.com>
Date: 17 June 2004, 1:54 AM
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Note: this series was ENTIRELY my 9 year old cousin's idea. I had no part in creating this (I never should have let him borrow First Strike-it gave him too many ideas)
Chapter 2: the battle of the school
Mac was stressed. He had to lead 400 SPARTAN kids against 3 Covie cruisers and their crews. On top of that, there were 30 dropships inbound from Martin's last scan of the area. "Kevin, do we have any vehicles?" "No Sir, except for a few motorbikes and a warthog, we got nothing." "Aw shit!" yelled Sam, sitting in the ops seat in the cruiser "WE GOT 75 DROPSHIPS INBOUND!!!!"
"GET UP YOU GREEN HORNS, THE COVIES ARE BRINGING YOU YOUR MORNING POP-TART!!!" hollered Danny over the COM. Throughout the cruiser, everybody was getting ready. The 'Birds got into their cockpits and waited for the signal to launch and try and take out as many dropships as possible, while the rest of the kids prepared defenses with textbooks (hey, its better than nothing) and they just waited.
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"GRENADE!!" screamed Mac into his COM as a plasma grenade flew over the fence and blew, creating a 2 foot deep crater in the weak concrete. Then he sprinted toward the jackal that pinned him and his teammates down and smacked him with the butt of his shotgun. Then he tossed a plasma grenade into a pack of golden elites that were charging at him, plasma swords at the ready. It was love at first sight as the blue ball stuck to the lead elite's breastplate, causing him to stop in confusion while the others circled around him. The grenade blew, and bits of golden armor, depleted plasma swords and elite flesh hurled at Mac, who was already drenched in jackal blood. He watched as Kevin hijacked a Ghost piloted by a Brute. He jumped at just the right time, and stuck frag grenade into the brute's mouth, then kicked him off into a pack of grunts hiding behind a piece of armor from a downed dropship. The brute's head exploded, but the shards also impacted into the grunts methane breathers, causing them to blow and burn everything in a 1 foot radius.
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Inside the school building, it wasn't pretty. Sam was leading the Backstabbers in room clearing, and the tight space meant that every square inch was covered in covenant and/or human blood. "Goddammit, toss a freakin' grenade into that room" screamed Sam. A moment later, after the frag grenade had detonated, Sam swept the room with a pair of SMGs. When the dust cleared, Sam's visor was smudged with residue from the grunts' methane breathers and purple blood from a red elite.
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In the air, the Birds were busy taking out the Seraphs that were trying to blast all of the ground troops to hell. Kelly did a double barrel roll and fired 15 110mm rounds into the cockpit of a Seraph shooting at another Longsword. The first 10 rounds punctured the cockpit's strange transparent metal covering and the rest were all essentially headshots into the silver- armored elite. The Seraph almost crashed into a pair of SPARTANs pinning down 5 elites. "Sorry." Kelly pinged over the COM. 2 blue acknowledgement lights winked on, while Kelly fired 1 Shiva nuclear missiles into an incoming phantom. It as a brilliant display of plasma and dead bodies, but Kelly didn't stay to watch the fireworks.
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Back at ground level, the kids were mopping up the rest of the covies. Kevin and Mac captured 2 grunts, an elite, and a jackal. "Report" Mac said to Kevin "We have 30 wounded, nothing serious. No deaths ("Whew" Mac replied) and we have, fortunately, no lost pilots, but 4 fighters were shot down. We managed to take a dropship, and Tom's repaired 2 Seraphs. A couple of Ghosts were hijacked, and that's it." "Send the wounded into the cruiser for treatment-and pull 30 from the 7th to the 2nd."
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Group Master Ika' Nouromee was perplexed-he was engaging an Infidel battle group with his own. Apparently, the disturbance caused buy the Holy Light remains must have tore the fabric of space time, and sent them back to the past, near what he perceived as the Infidels' homeworld. "Send in all the troops we have" he ordered his first officer "and destroy all that is on that world-I want to kill them all before we destroy their planet altogether. And bring me my weapons-I want to have a little fun." As his First Officer left, Ika ordered the engineers to find a way back to the proper time, so that he could be promoted to the High Prophet's bodyguard.
To be continued if my nerdy cousin comes up with any more stupid ideas! !
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