The Lost Spartan (Chapter 5)
Posted By: Spartan415<superblahblah@bolt.com>
Date: 13 June 2002, 3:51 am
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Chapter 5
Pluto
We were starting to get pushed back by the now counting three hundred forty of the CIF. Jorge was smart enough to take us back over the barricade. We then saw grenades explode in a trail behind us. Everyone threw a Frag. Grenade in unison. The CIF were severely decreased so I told Jorge to drive me over to the Leader of the City. I met up with him and I devised a plan. "We should call a Pelican to come holding Nukes. Four to Five no less. We would start retreating and leave twenty soldiers with two Pelicans. The men would retreat, the Covies come in, and boom. They get a surprise." The Leader was sorry about his doomed city but he agreed none the less. We called in a Pelican and it got here in ten minutes with five nukes. We gathered twenty strong men. They would place the nukes in each corner and in the middle of the city. They would also stay fighting off the covenant. As soon as they placed the nukes and came back some people gave them clips and grenades. Everyone retreaded. Most left in Pelicans as they came down and some in the ones already here. My team left in the Seraph fighter after putting in the wounded John, a Banshee, and the Spirit on the bottom. We took off last leaving only the twenty men.
The twenty men pulled back into the pelicans and took off firing their auto-cannon. We used a satallite in orbit over the city and saw all the Covenant barging in. Some grunts ate some dead people, a disturbing sight, and the last ones came in. The Leader called the detonations and walked away. The city must have ment a lot to him. The city was now nothing more than a crater. I rounded up my team and left towards a UNSC stronghold on Pluto.
As we landed in a hanger the coldness that had seeped into the ship was warmed. We all came out freezing our butts off and were handed fur coats. I told my team to stay here or go to the mess hall. I headed for General Mansons office. I found him working on a new weapon called a MA7B-P. The new assault rifle contained a double clip insert, plasma battery insert, and all three rounds with a new PX. The rounds were the usual explosive, armor-peircing, and shredder but a new round had been made. The PX, a plasma tipped round, tears through skin and tissue, does not make the target bleed in the wound, and does more damage to the armor of a Covenant soldier. The gun was a prototype and General Manson had to choose someone to test it. I saluted and he did the same.
"At ease Spartan." he said wearily. I sat down in a leather chair and relaxed. "I hear that you had to blow up a city on Saturn. "Yes, sir," I replied and explained, "The covenant were decreasing in numbers but when the dropships and the Carrier came we were doomed and we would have lost the city anyways if we didn't act." "We also destroyed the Covenant Invasion Force from moving onto another city." "So what are you here for Samual?" the General replied. "I know cordinates to a Covenant stronghold. It is the same as the ring I have heard of that an old friend of mine died on." I told him. General Manson walked around and sighed. "I'm sorry son, the strongholds are not needed anymore," he replied walking to a computer, "All UNSC soldiers have been sent to Earth or to fight in the Haven system.
"Sir, I would like to have my team assigned to this battle for support." I asked him. "I was about to tell you that you may go and I also was gonna give you this MA7B-P for testing." he replied. I headed back out of the room with the MA7B-P and seven clips of each round. I headed towards the infirmatory and showed John the new rifle. He was impressed and the burn in his side didn't have any bleeding. He was fine except that his right shoulder was a bit burned. We walked down the hall after being handed a med kit and ten packs of biofoam. The rest of the team was munching on some grub. I grabbed a drink of Cola as John went to sit. I had gotten close to my team since our battles. After filling ourselves I took them to a debriefing room. I told them that we were headed towards the Haven system and were gonna fight off some Covenant forces ground-side trying to destroy the main strongholds in Haven. After I showed them the rifle and told them to get one in a weapons room. They found the guns which had been placed there for them and we headed towards the ship. We were refitted with twelve Anvil II missiles in place of the missing plasma torpedoes and we took off after the mechanics fixed a extra sheet of metal on the Banshee. The Banshee looked remarkable and amazing in it's shining coat of armor. We took off towards the Haven system.
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