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ÝÝÝÝÝÝAs a lot of people knew the Human's position was bad... With inferior technology and lesser numbers, they had lots of problems. Sure the humans were doing fine before the fall of Reach, but things definitely went to hell after Reach was glassed. What the covenant also did was use a new plasma weapon that basically obliterated what was left of the planet, killing all survivors and any underground installations that would have survived the attack. The fleet then left looking for other colonies. However trouble was brewing at the Colony of Outreach, an outer fringe world that was missed.
It all started with the discovery of a Covenant outpost on the other side of the planet. The colonists only had a small defense force. However, most of the people who worked on the Spartan 2 project had started a new one, dubbed the Spartan 3. Its purpose was to build a soldier with capabilities of that of the Hunters. It was successful with a much better success rate of about 65 new Spartans out of the 75 candidates.
Their testing mission was to annihilate the Covenant outpost.
"This is Alpha-Sierra, what's the deal of the Covie defenses?"
A deep voice rumbled over the radio.
"About 4 shades strategically positioned around the Bunker entrance. Maybe about 10 grunts and 2 Elites, nothing major." Another voice went over the tactical com net.
"Although please do note that two banshees left about 2 minutes ago, I think the Warthogs got them." I replied as I checked the new MA5C Laser Rifle.
"That has been confirmed, start assault Alpha-Bravo"
The Squad of Alpha-Bravo consisted of 7 Marines, including me. There was Jansen, the Artillery specialist, Me, I was one of the Front-liners, There was Drago, another Front-liner, 2 new kids that I expected not to make it and some other Marine, I didn't get his name though. We busted out of bushes that were near one of the Shades and took out the gunner before he got a chance to react. Jansen popped off an Elite right off the bat. The other Elite turned around as was going to slam the alarm. He never got a chance, I burned a hole straight through him, also destroying the Alarm. The grunts immediately scattered as they picked off by assault rifle fire. The other Shades started opening up on us. I pulled a grenade out and rolled it under the Shade. I took a hit to the back and fired 4 times at the shade, one melting the grunts head off and the other three knocking out the legs. A few seconds later I saw pieces of grunt and shade fall around us. The last gunner jumped out of his and ran into the bush. I turned my attention to the door and covered it. I heard a "thump" and the fleeing grunt was sent into the door, missing a good deal of his insides. The door opened and an Elite came out wondering what was going on. I snuck up behind him and drove the spiked butt of the rifle into his back.
"Nice one, Reiyou!" Jansen said as he reloaded his grenade launcher. The door was still open and I discovered that the hard way as a wave of plasma fire slammed into my weaken back armor, I screamed as it melted my armor and continued to drive into me. I collapsed as I saw a grenade streak over me and body parts and death screams echoed throughout the area. My vision was starting to alternate from red to black and again before I was mercifully unconscious.
I revived in the Pelican and noticed I was strapped down to a stretcher.
"Huh...Where am I?" I asked groggily and I threw a glance at a medic.
"You're aboard the Pelican "Death Strike; I have never seen such stupidity by a marine in front of a door!" He said while glaring at me. I hope you don't fuck up as badly as you just did..." He said while unstrapping me from the stretcher. I want to know that you will never stand behind an open door not paying attention to what's inside." With that the Pelican landed at the Bunker, with 2 Huge Spartan 3's standing guard. Both were equipped with a Weapon I have never seen and a Shield that would rival any Hunter's shield. The medic handed me a new Breastplate of armor and gave me back my laser rifle.
"Thanks for the repairs, doc" I said sarcastically and looked at the door again.
"I suppose you want to know what's going on." One of the Spartans said quite suddenly. "Well, sure uh... Sir" I stammered. He looked at the other and they both exploded with laughter. "You could say we're on the same level, corporal." He said while still holding in laughter.
"Your squad is in there with another Spartan. You might want to watch your back next time. They both chuckled at his crack and I got pissed. I stormed in with my laser rifle ready and noticed that there was quite a mess, courtesy of Jansen, judging by the larger crater in the middle of the room. I kept storming and a lone grunt that had been knocked unconscious let out a shriek of terror and was about to run away before having a hole burned into his life support unit. He turned blue and suffocated. With that bit of mood improvement I continued on. I came to a T-section and noticed that the door on my left was locked. I looked to my right and saw more covenant bodies. I decided to go that way. I heard bursts of gunfire and I turned my radio on.
"Alpha-Bravo get the hell out of there! Pull out we will cover you---*khzzzzt* the radio burst into static and I hurried. I came to a single door and I opened it. The 4 Spartan 3's were firing with their cannons and a single mass. The mass scoped up one of the recruits and crushed him, blood splattered everywhere. It turned its attention to us and I saw my target: its single eye.
You shall all die. That is the will of the Gods. The voice was not voiced but it was in my head. That had me scared shitless. I never missed a beat and I fired once. The laser hit home and a splitting scream was emitted from the beast. It fell backwards. I charged up jumped on it and shoved a Frag grenade down the burned hole and jumped off. The blast blew me back to where I came in. I barrel rolled and came up, laser rifle at the ready.
"Holy shit! Corporal! That was crazy!" one of the Spartans looked at me and I could tell he was looking me with awe.
"All part of the job." I said as I smiled. Jansen and Drago came around the mass and were shocked.
"D-did you do that Sir?" Drago asked me with awe.
"Yep, now just to let you know, That is what gets you promoted." I said coolly.
"I hate to spoil your fun guys but my guess is that we're 50% of the way done." One of the Spartans said to me.
"Alright then, lets finish up and move out before that thing comes back from the dead." I shivered at the quivering form. I walked up and examined what I had done. I had mostly blown its head so that it was a quarter of its original mass. Another set of Marines had come in, Combat ready. They looked at me, and then at the form.
"Uh...Sir, what was that?" One of them cautiously asked.
"Dead, that's what it is." I said.
"Heads up, guys we're about to-" one of the Spartans was cut off as a small horde of Covenant forces poured out, completely ignoring us and running as if they were afraid.
"Get the hell out of here, we're all going to die!" one of the grunts screamed in their high-pitched voices.
"Save yourselves and forget about what's in that room!" An elite had stopped in front of us and actually said that. We were all shocked.
"We need to form an alliance at this rate because the flood has returned." The elite said and readied his plasma rifle and waited for us to do the same.
"I'm sorry, you mean those parasites?" I asked with a curious note.
"I'm afraid yes. Get more of your weapons because they are more effective then ours, I will tell you that. Look out!" A flood worker had come out of the door and leaped. I was his intended victim. He never got very far because I had also packed my shotgun. The blast had hit it full force and sent back to the abyss from whence it came. The cannons were quite effective, for they annihilated those that came through. The Spartans had started moving forward. A Flood escaped the fiery cloud of death and came down on a marine, from the crunch that I heard; he was as good as dead. I rammed it off the marine and saw that his rib-cage was collapsed. I looked up as the Flood came up. A hunter came out of nowhere and crushed the Flood. He looked at the Elite and said:
"You have all condemned us to a horrible death, Stroggos." The hunter said coldly and crushed another flood.
"Do what you have to do Hunter, and that is killing flood." He replied icily and took a shotgun from a dead marine and used it great effect. A few minutes later the weapons fire stopped and we looked at the charred door frame. There were body parts everywhere. I took the point and moved up to the door and scanned the room. Flood body parts were everywhere. Among the base color of dark green, there were shades of orange, blue and purple. I saw bodies of a sizable force.
"So, what did you guys fuck up on this time?" I asked Stroggos.
"We were digging a base to destroy your colony but we ran into this Forerunner installation and apparently, the flood had destroyed all the defenses. I looked at a hole in the wall cautiously and took up cover, watching any signs of movement.
More to come
Reiyou
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