The Lost Spartan (Chapter 6)
Posted By: Spartan415<superblahblah@bolt.com>
Date: 3 July 2002, 8:45 pm
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We reached Haven system 3 hours later and a war was already raging. The Covenant were already engaged with cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and even Longsword interceptors. I motioned over to Katina to go towards the planet. She saw a group of dropships heading towards an island. She followed into the planet and saw what looked more like a war than a mere battle. Tanks, jeeps, Longswords, and Marines were engaged with the enemy. Katina landed in a camp that had been set up. I told everyone to move out. Jorge went to the compartment under the ship and pressed a button. The compartment doors opened and Jorge drove the Spirit out. I took shotgun and Carlos took gunner this time. Katina stayed in the Seraph as the injured John got in the Banshee. Both took off while Jack sat under the plasma-gun and Kristin took a post with the other snipers. The engine roared to life and we took off into the enormous battle. I manned the passenger plasma gun while Carlos fired wildly into the fray. Jorge hit a bump that sent us flying over advancing grunts firing on us. "Bring it on!!!" Carlos screamed over the sound of the plasma-gun firing. Then the sound of two missiles flaring to life roared over everything. The missiles hit two dropships that hit two other dropships which slammed into a group of twenty Hunters pinned down by gunfire. Jake threw a pouch with four frag. grenades with one activated at a small group of Jackals creating a wall for the Elites with their shields. The Jackals were blown back and into the Elites. The Elites shimmered silver and the shield died. Carlos suddenly fell from a shot in the back but turned around, grabbed his MA7B-P, and pumped one of the AP clips into a Jackal. The Jackals shield turned red and went out. Carlos switched to a PX clip and tore through the Jackal. The Jackals head fell to the ground simultaneously. Carlos looked back and fired with the plasma-gun. Jorge drove back to the bunkers and let everyone off. I watched the Banshee and Seraph blowing apart Wraiths and Hunters. I looked behind the bunker and saw Kristin firing quick plasma charges in every direction and saw bodies fall to the ground when I looked back at the "war". I took out my MA7B-P and used some PX rounds to tear through oncoming Grunts. The soldiers around me started going down and a plasma bolt hit me in the stomach. My energy shield held but was a hairs breath away from dieing out. Suddenly the car barely missed a shot from a Hunters fuel rod cannon but that made him go in the direction of a group of Special Ops. Grunts charging fuel rod cannons. Jorge swerved to the side but one of the cannons hit the plasma-gun. I ran out from behind the bunker I was at and put in a fresh clip of EX rounds. I blew two Hunters orange spots and finished off the Grunts still charging at Jorge. I swung my assault rifle around my shoulder and grabbed Jorge from the ground. I swung him on top of my left shoulder and grabbed my pistol with my other hand. I fired at a few Jackals but the explosive rounds bounced off and blew up in mid-air. The Jackals retaliated and fired overcharged bolts. I jumped over a few and the last one hit me in the back. My shield had regenerated and took the full blast but I was blown forward. I dropped Jorge who started to wake up and I grabbed my assault rifle. I blew the Jackals into some red grunts coming to help. Jorge stood up and quickly got to his senses and fired at some Elites that had gotten through the barricade of some marines. I threw him a EX clip that he quickly changed and helped him out. The Elites flew over to some Hunters that were stupid enough to kill themselves by blasting their fuel-rod cannons at the Elites in front of them. I threw Jorge over the barricade and ran back to the Spirit. I loaded it up into the compartment under the Seraph the Katina had just landed in front of my and firing at the incoming Covenant group. I grabbed a seat in the back of the plane and got off after Katina landed the ship in the base. The car was dropped out and driven by a marine into the workshop. Someone dropped a nuke further along and left it there with the timer ticking away. I found Jack exhausted behind a bulkhead. He told me to yell for everyone to get in the base or behind a bulkhead. I yelled to the Captain yelling orders to marines. He then told everyone to get in the base and close the doors. The Longswords came into the hanger with the Banshee and Seraph. Tanks and Warthogs came into the lock-up bay. Then the nuke exploded and luckily everyone was in the bottom-most floors because the roof was blown off. Jake had come inside since no one stayed out and he would have had to fight off the Covenant all by himself. All that was heard for and hour was the sound of explosions. Luckily again the vehicles had been moved down also and no one dared go outside. Then a knocking sound on the main door and the sound of footsteps coming shocked everyone. I walked up with my assault rifle ready and carefully unlocked the doors. What came in next was unexpected to all.
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