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Creative Arts and Media => Roleplay => Serious RP => Topic started by: Daemon on March 03, 2011, 04:37:56 AM
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NOTE: This RP is allowed to have up to PG-13 stuff in it, just like the books.
<Somewhere out of the gravity of Reach, UNSC; The Immovable Object, 21:09>
John, commonly referred to as Master Chief, strode to the bridge of the UNSC Brigade, the Immovable Object. 'So, you're telling me that there are alternate realities to the one we are currently in?' HE asked. Sergent Briggs, newly appointed, responded 'What you haven't heard of the Multiverse-Theory?' Master Chief sighed. These damn scientists, always thinking they are right and the rest of the universe is ignorant. 'Yes, I have heard of it.' Master Chief said. 'Then get your platinum-clad butt down here.' 'I'm on my way.'
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Sergeant Briggs, who was really a scientist, smiled. There really were multi-verses, and I have discovered them. He glanced through the list he had composed of as many universes as possible. He stopped, puzzled. 'Whats this?' he said aloud, to himself. He opened a memory bank on it. It wasn't there. This was an unregistered universe. 'What secrets do you hide?' He tried to open it with a passcode. UNSS SECURITY. TAMPERING WITH THE DATABASE WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE DESTRUCTION. Briggs sighed. They had found a direct match to hie universe. The sound of compressors caused him to jump. He turned, and there was Master Chief. 'There was something you wanted to show me?' Master Chief said. His boots made loud thumps on the metal-alloy of the floor. 'Not until now. Look at this.' Briggs excitedly said. 'Is that the list of universus?' Master Chief asked. 'You must really be Sherlock Holmes, John. Wow, didn't even take you half as long as any of the others.' Briggs chuckled. 'Be serious. Now, what is it.' It wasn't a question. It was a demand. 'Well, you see, its a parallel universe, coinciding with ours almost perfectly. Except one thing, or so I gather.' "and that is?' John said impatiently. 'Well, you see. They are animals. Or at least, animals with human DNA.' Briggs said. He was reaching the climax. 'How long.' John asked. 'What do you mean?' How long until I can head there.' Briggs laughed. 'Well, if you want to try that, then you'll have to wait about a month. That's when I'll have my soft- and hardware.' 'So we wait.'
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<Somewhere out of the gravity of Reach, UNSC; The Unstoppable Force, 21:10>
'Sir, the glassing of Reach is under way. The Covenant are destroying everything.' said a young Anthro. He was young, no way more than 19, and a squirrel, no less. 'Tell our troops to pull back then. Call for a total evac.' commanded Commander Marx, a wolf. 'Calling back all Spartans. Abort mission. I repeat, abort mission.' the squirrel said.
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<Reach, 21:12>
(and this is where you all begin. The first poster will be the first to receive the message, the second the second, and so on. Enjoy)
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"give me the ding" a loud ding like sound could be heard through the thick steel of the pod as twenty four red lights turned green and all twenty three drop pods fired towards the evac point for what was left of the unsc's stranded. inside the first pod max did a quick check and called in. "this is sierra three-zero-nine, AKA marko-three-nine calling in. i'm enroute to cheakpoint zolo with alpha-two-one and a squat of o.d.s.t's. we're anout thirty seconds out, over." "marko-three-nine your mission is to cover our retreat, no heroics." "wilco comand see you when we get back."
the pods landed in a row, firing of their doors in the covie's faces. max emerged in his black, mismatched armour, in the pod next to him was a spartan in white armour, a bettle rifle in one hand and a spartan lazer on the other. "jenny, it's been a while." a female voice returned his greeting "you to max, let's give them a run for their money." with that a warthog came into view, it was flying towards the hell jumpers while under fire. "fire team one, your with me, fire team your with alpha, cover them"
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A feline somewhere near the area was pinned down in a building with two other marines that were heavily injured, and close to death. The marine tapped his com as he continued to shoot at an onslaught of Covenant forces "This is Tango, requesting immediate assisstance! I repeat requesting immediant assitance!" He yelled over the com haveing to duck down the moment a blue ball of fire came flying into the window. Panicing he ran to a nearby counter and dove over it the moment the plasma grenade went off killing what remained of his allys "We could seriously use it PLEASE!" he screamed over the fire of his own assault rifle and grunts screaming. His ear flicked as he heard the familiar tone of an elite and swore at his dumb luck. "As if the banshee's wern't enough" he grumbled to himself.
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Spartan Zulu-14 rushed into the Pelican. He was heard that all Spartans on the ground were being pulled out. Two pilots scrambled into the pelican. "What the crap are you doing man?! Get outta there!" Zach, the Spartan, sealed the fuselage of the pelican and thrust it out of the ship. The pilots stood gobsmacked at what he did, until the main pilot walked forward and took the copilot seat. Zach flew the pelican down to Reach, and said to the pilots, "Been told to pull Spartans outta there. I'm doing that." His voice sounded slightly poisonous and angry, and the pilots winced at it. Zach did everything needed for re-entry, when a seraph came down on him. It shot out the engines on the Pelican, and it fell toward Reach, with a gaping hole in one of the wings. It fell to the battleground, and tumbled. Both pilots died, but the Spartan Shields flared, and he made it. Zach crawled out the half-gone rear of the Pelican, and grabbed the turret on it, taking his battle rifle with him.
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max heard a call for help through the static of his radio and saw a pelican get shot down i the other direction. "i'll take the call, you check up on that dropship." "yes sir. fireteam, with me!" with that jenny and her eleven O.D.S.T's got up and ran in the direction of the crashed ship. max looked over his team. "i know you guys don't like what i did, but that doesn't mater. we can settle this after we save reach." with that he and the fireteam started heading for the distres call.
moments later they were there, a good fifty grunts, jakles and elites were firing into the building, max saw some return fire but nothing promising. "ok team, you four flank left, you four right, you three re with me. move" the two smaller groups broke off and moved around to the sides unnoticed. max opened up the com chanel quickly "this is marko-three-nine, hold tight marines, we'll have you out of there in a sec." he gave the order and all three teams opened gire on the unsespecting covie's, killing most of the grunts in seconds.
jenny and her team made it to the sight in time to see a spartan climb out of the back. "are you alright? alpha-two-one, and you are?" the moment she finished her sentance a trail of purple light went threw her, the beam rifles round pearcing her helmate and splatering the man next to her with brain matter. the O.D.S.T's ran for cover, one of them even dragged (with great dificulty) jenny over and checked her over. there was nothing they could do, half her head was missing. "sir, it looks like your in charge." one of the soldiers called over to zach.
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"Take cover! I'll lay suppressive!" Zach pushed the ODST behind a rock while he grabbed his machine gun and let it roar to life. The trails gave away the position of the snipers easily. Lead flew everywhere in the snipers direction, as Zach walked over to the rock the ODST was behind, and finally he let go of the trigger waiting to see the snipers before he let into them with a full on barrage. "If one of ya's got a grenade, throw it!"
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The feline marines mental illness began to act up as he shook his head rather violently. He cursed as he heard and saw a small can being knocked towards him. He slowly turned his head to the side and yelped as a sword imediately energized and came at him from the side, he flinched the sword disappearing. He sighed for a minute and felt breathing on the back of his neck. The cat took a step forwards in a futile attempt to run as he was snatched up by his neck, by a white armored elite. As the alien energized a real sword this time the marine began kicking violently trying to break free from the aliens grasp. With that done, the elite through the poor antrho acrossed the room slaming him into a wall leaveing him stuned as the alien came running closer.
Quickly, the marine scrambled to his feet and ducked a what could have been a fatal kick to the head as he ran out the door snatching up his assault rifle as he passed by with the elite hot on his heels. "SOMEONE GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!" he yelled as he turned back unholstering his pistol and began to fire away at the astrodemon, proveing usless against the shields.
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The Sniper threat removed, Zach and the ODSTs pull back and engage the remaining grunt squads, easily shredding them. "Zulu-14 here! I took a Pelican to evac our ground troops and was shot down by Seraph. Send some Pelican's here!" Zach proceeds to give the coordinates for the Pelicans to come. "Ok ODSTs. We're gonna set up cover here until our pelican arrives... wish I was flying it. Two people go scout for some food. It may be all night we're here... and stay together! Never travel alone!"
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the last of the covi's outside downed max relaxed a bit along with the rest of his squad, the door flew open and a lone marine ran out screaming, max instantly took aim "light it up!" burst and automatic fire blasted the elite from twelve differant directions. with the elite shreaded max walked over to the traumatised marine "team, form up. cover the streets from inside. marine, you ok? no hits or anything?" he calmly asked not looking at the feline while the squad moved inside. the ocasional burst of gun fire came from the building bafore an ODST with red markings on his shoulders came to the door and called out to max and the surviver. "clear. we should move inside and call for pick up." "agreed corpral. are you coming with us?"
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Chris watched from The Unstoppable Force. 'Are you sure they can handle this?' He asked Commander Marx. 'Now? The moment the Covenent attacked Reach, I stopped being sure of anything.' Chris sighed. 'I'm going down there.' he said. He stepped into his glinting Blue Spartan MARKIII armour. 'When you jump into hell, make sure you dont miss.' Commander Marx said. 'Yessir.' With that, Chris got a pod and launched into Reach.
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Leo took a quick moment to let out a sigh of relief bending over slightly grabbing hold of his hip, before standing back up and reloading his handgun "Just a single burn, but I'm fine. Everyone else is dead sadly" he told the spartan."Yes, Im comeing with you, nothing here to see" he said following the others into the building. As he came up to the door he flinched recoiling back and raiseing his rifle then lowering it again distinguishing what he saw as fake and walked through the halucination causeing it to disappear.
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max watched the marine go inside and smiled under his helmate. "you seem a bit jumpy, just make sure you don't put one in one of ours could you?" he joked removing his helmate (not as easy as it sounds for a lizard) and patting the marine on the shoulder. some of the odst's fllowing suit and cheaking the KIA's tags before pulling out some body bags and rationing out ammo. "sir, we have a confermation from bravo team, the found a surviver, another spartan. but theres bad news, shortly after arival they took heavy fire one dead no wounded.....but sarge...it's worse.....alpha's KIA....beam round through her brain....she was killed instantly.......i'm sorry." the corpral walked back towards the other odst's, who had all fallen silent at the news. "jenny.....DAMN IT!!!" he punched the nearest wall, putting his fist through the brick. one of the odst's quickly grabbed the marine out of the way at max's spun around and hit the opposite wall before falling to his knees crying. "three more days....three more days and she would have been on maturnity leave.....my wife.....my son...." he looked over at the soldiers, a new vengense in his eyes. "i swear, on the blood of my wife and son i will kill every single one of those covie bas***ds and avenge them."
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Leo flinched hearing the wall nearly break as he turned around and slowly began to backup with the other ODST. He would nervously lean over to whisper into the ODST’s ear, or rather helmet, being sure to keep it only audible to him. “Did he just swear on his wife’s blood to kill the coves then avenge them?” he said glancing back to the Spartan. He just hoped that what he was about to say didn’t turn him into the wall. “Sir… can you calm down. This building isn’t stable… we have several busted tanks and warthogs piled on top as well as a few beams destroyed…. Don’t ask how they got there.”
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Tanks was all max heard and he looked up with an evil smile. “Did you say tanks?” ”oh boy, kid I think you just cancelled our pick up…” max jumped up and practically bolted to the roof and began rummaging through the wreckage, his enhanced strength enabling him to basically throw the broken vehicles off the building till he found it, a minorly damaged tank ready to use and a six man warthog with nothing but a broken windscreen. “every body on, new kid find a seat and stick to it, kill every thing that’s not ours.” With that he jumped in the tank and waited for the odst’s and the marine to jump on the outside, in the warthog and one in with him.
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The Covenant forces were pushing closer towards Zach and the ODST squad. Heavy weaponry was being fielded, as were heavy vehicles. Zach put his turret on the ground, and made sure it was barely visible. A ghost was coming quickly but hadn't noticed the squad. "Gimme a grenade..." Said Zach. One of the ODSTs handed him a fragmentation grenade, and with a skillful toss, a crater in the ground and the ghost had appeared. It drew the attention of many squads of elites and grunts. Zach quickly jumped up on the turret and gunned down many, but the arrival of a wraith prompted him to evacuate the area quickly. A blue glint caught his eye in the distance, and Zach decided that was where he and the ODSTs needed to get. They cut a swath through the covenant infantry, and smashed several ghosts with their weapons.
Zach ran up to one elite and snapped his neck. This elite had something he loved to have, and Zach gave his battle rifle ammo to the ODSTs, and gleefully switched the corpse for the needle rifle he was using.
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Leo grimaced as the Spartan went up “Right… first rule about Spartans… don’t mention anything near a Spartan.” He sighed as he followed the group. There was really no safe way to get either vehicle down, the roof of the building being badly damaged signaled that both vehicles were somehow launched onto it. Taking the driver seat of the warthog he carefully rolled it off the tank and repositioned it on the roof. “Again… don’t ask how we managed a tank on the roof… I was actually banned from driving an Elephant from my sergeant before he died… for somehow finding a way to flip it.” He said hopping out attaching and unhooking the warthog from the tank, before hopping back in the warthogs driver seat.
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realising the flaw in his plan max thought about another one. he swung the tanks barrel around and put a shell into the slightly taller builsing nextdoor "drive the warthog in there, all of you follow." once this was done he got out and looked at the roof under his feet. "see ya on the ground floor!" with that he jumped hevily on the tank causing the roof to crack, he jumped back in the tank just as it gave way dropping the tank through the five floors before he drove it through the front door. he poked his head out and looked ab the soldiers back up in the other building. "you coming or what?!"
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Leo gave the hole a nervous glace as it was just right next to the exit he wanted them to take. He would look around for a bit and sigh "Hey who ever you are on the turret... hold on tight" he said before turning the wheel all the way to the right and shifted the vehicule in reverse. He would quickly floor the pedal causeing the warthog to do a semi-circle before it launched off the roof and crashed into the ground with a flip then landing on all fours with all the passengers safe.
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Chris's pod crashed through the trees on Reach, right in front of a Scorpion, piloted by a lizard. 'You.' He said, pointing to the lizard. 'Why haven't you evac'd yet?' He glanced at the Warthog that had just landed. 'Nice driving.' he said. Behind him, over 1000 grunts had started a charge, 200 jackals behind them, and 50 elites, followed by innumerable banshees and wraiths. Without looking, he pointed behind him. 'They're coming for us. You ready?' He jumped out of his pod, and onto the tank, cracking the alloy. He climbed to the highest point and pulled out his sniper rifle. 'You all ready? If not, too bad, 'cuz we gotta get the hell out of here.'
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(Could you please set up a good entrance for me? Make things seem hopeless... well, more hopeless than it already is.)
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(this isn't hopeless, it's called a scorpian tank and I'M NOT A SNAKE!!! just make your entrance however you want, the elephant is not a tank its more of a moving comand center and i'm a lizard)
"i just got here about ten minutes ago! same way you did." max looked over at the onslaught of enemy forces on their way and smiled. "i'll do what i can but no promises." ODST's jumped on the tank and grabbed out their heavy weapons ready for a fight, the corpral moved over to the marine and smirked under his tinted helmat, kid, welcome to the hell jumpers." was all he said giving the marine an ODST helmate and patting him on the shulder. "if we get out of this, i'm getting you drafted to my squad, that sound good to you?"
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(Serpington, it's Reach. There is NO way to save the planet. That's the hopelessness.)
Meanwhile, somewhere near the two parties, a lone Spartan walked across the war-torn surface of Reach, sadness coursing through his mind.
Darn Covennant, he thought. Why must they take life and cut it shorter than it is to begin with?
The Spartan suddenly heard gunfire.
UNSC troops! he thought. I must help them!
Unslinging his rifle, he sped towards the sounds of the gunfire, with only one thing on his mind:
Keeping the Covenant from killing his allies.
Upon reaching the battle, he crouched down and surveyed the situation. Around 13 O.D.S.T.s and another of his Spartan bretheren were fighting off a bunch of Covenant.
Time to play interference, he thought, heating up his rifle.
The Spartan snuck from his hiding place around to the back of the Covenant lines, then jumped out, firing his rifle into the mass of ugly beasts.
"Suck lead, you attercops!" he screeched, pumping the trigger as he ran wildly back and forth, killing some Grunts and managing to make a few weapons malfuncion before the first round was out. Then, pulling out his magnum, he fired at them while he reloded his rifle. then, taking cover, he reloaded his magnum, picked up some discarded, empty, broken m7s, taped some sharp shards of shrapnel to them, and threw them at two different Elites, hitting each one in the chest. Picking up their needlers, he fell back and stated blasting at the Covenant with their own tech.
(I'm going to stop here for now.)
(How's THAT for a big entrance?!)
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The marine grinned at the corpral "Sounds good sir" he said before swapping his helmet out and shifting the warthogs gears once again to forward drive. He pulled out his assault rifle and quickly ran a check over it to make sure it wasn't jammed before turning the vehicule around pointing to the crowd. "Ah... well... this doesn't look to bad... at least their isn't a hunter." he commented before turning his head to the other spartan.
"Im going to grab the other bucket!" he yelled out before stomping on the gas pedel. The warthog plowed through several grunts sending them either up high into the air or underneath the warthog. Grunting, he made a sharp turn as an elite jumped onto the hood, throwing it off ballance. The cat made yet another turn in the opposite direction causeing the elite to hang off on the driver side where the alien was immediately slamed into a boulder.
He drove up a small hill and went flying into the air landing next to the spartan with a loud booming crash. "Your chariot of firecrackers awaits!"
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"hay kid, thats what this is for." max fired a round into the groud while the corpral jumped on the turrent "MARINES!! GIVE!! THEM!! HELL!!" at that moment the ODST's lined up firing squad style with rocket launchers, the corpral grabbing one himself, "3...2...1...FIRE!!!!" eleven rockets, a tank shell and machine gun fire hailed into the inconing army. the ODST's fired of their second shots and discarded the, now out of ammo, rocket launchers before falling back to the tank and worthog. max started moving the tant in reverse, unloading a shell everytime one finished loading, the corpral going through belt after belt of ammonition on the scorpians turrent and each of the ODST's continualy switching out a weapon for one they found on the ground because they ran out of ammo for the one in their hands.
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Meanwhile, Phantom had just taken cover and was about to begin another volley from the needlers when an elite jumped out from the other side and fired its needler right at him.
"AGH!"
The purple spike went right through his upper arm, causing him to drop his own needler. At the same time, the other needler started to malfunction. Phantom threw it into the Covenant forces, where it blew up, killing more Grunts. The elite looked away to view the destruction...
And was immediatly given a faceful of lead.
Phantom breathed heavily, his injured left arm out in front of him with his miniturized Lucifer arm-mounted gatling gun smoking from its nozzles. Sheathing it, Phantom carefully grabbed hold of the spike and wrenched it from his shoulder. Checking his wound, he found that the needle had given him a pretty bad gash, but that nothing was broken and that no vital arteries had been cut. But he did notice something rather strange on the Elite.
Its other sidearm.
Crawling over to the dead Elite, Phantom pulled the firearm out of its holster. It looked like a strange mixture of the Covenant energy pistol and the Green Hornet's gas gun.
Interesting, he thought as he shoved the gun in a pouch on his armor. I wonder what Cato will think of thisCRAP!
Two grunts were losing in on his position. Something popped up from behind cover. The grunts blasted it, then ran behind the barrier to find...
A melted Mark IV Spartan helmet.
Nearby close to the other Spartan and the O.D.S.T.s, the injured Spartan cat picked up an ownerless Hayabusa helmet and pulled it over head. That was close, Phantom thought, picking up a staff with a large blue light crystal attached to it (the standard-issue Covenant flashlight), a discarded MA5b rifle, 30 extra clps for the MA5B, and an extra combat knife. I hope there's a medic somewhere, he thought. *I won't be any use to UNSC if I bleed to dea... HEY!*
Phantom's hopes leaped as he noticed a discarded medical pack lying nearby. He quickly snatched it up and began to dress his wound.
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*Well, that was convenient,* Phantom thought after he patched himself up. He looked up at the sky.
*I guess my guardian angels are looking after me...*
(I had to switch my thought formatting because the italics were messing up my typing.)
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The air was cool against his face as Chino rode shotgun in a Warthog. There was a convoy of three of them, returning from a small skirmish so that the vehicles could be repaired, refuelled and restocked with ammunition. They traversed over the rocky terrain, not saying much as they were all exhausted from the fighting and just wanted a nice hot meal to ease the pain. The convoy rounded a corner and the men shouted their relief that they were nearly there. Nearly home. Then, everything took on an eerie silence as the warthogs slowed to cross a small bridge.
Chino thought he heard a small 'whoosh' of air whistle past his ear, louder than the wind from the warthogs speed. He was about to comment when it seemed like the world erupted around him, a flash of blue light was all he saw as he got thrown from the warthog, cracking his head on a rock, he slipped into unconsciousness. There he lay for minutes or hours, it didn't seem to matter to him. Eventually, consciousness returned to the marine, he sat-up and looked around, half expecting to be in his cot at the base.
Instead his eyes were met with the wreckage of the convoy he had been riding in. The flames rose high in the air as it burned through the compounds within it. He was kind of glad that they had used up their ammo and most of their fuel, otherwise he probably wouldn't have survived. Shaking his head, he felt a faint ringing in his ear that he couldn't get rid of. After a few moments, the medic stood up and looked around, he saw a few men sprawled near the wreckage. He checked the bodies to see if they were just knocked out. But they were not as lucky.
Chino decided he still had to make it to the base, maybe he could help hold off the covenant attack and help them escape with their lives. He looked at Echo ONI base and saw the plumes of black smoke coming from within. Mustering up some strength, he ran towards the base. Once he had gotten to the walls, he saw the plasma scoring and the blood, too much of it was human. Taking a few steps into the base, he looked up and super-heated plasma streaked past his head, leaving a bright purple after image burned into his pupils. Chino threw himself back behind a half melted crate of UNSC supplies and rubbed his eyes "Bloody covenant and their bright bullets. I swear they do that on purpose." The medic looked around, making sure his eyesight was back to normal before attempting the run again, only to return back a few milliseconds later, scrunching his eyes again, a few strands of his beard had been sizzled off too "Blast them! I swear bright bullets will be the death of me. right, new tactic." Once he had recovered, he looked at his surroundings and found a small opening in a vent.
A few minutes and a lot of curses later, Chino was on the other side of the wall and in the Non-military staff mess hall. Looking around he found the place deserted. "this is not a good sign...no alarms, no nothing". He swallowed his feeling of dread and opened the door at the far end of the mess. He checked and then checked again to make sure it was clear before making a bee line straight towards ops. Stopping just short of the corridor where ops was located, he checked around the corner and his heart sank as he saw two elite majors guarding the doors. He cursed silently as he thought his plan through. coming up with an idea, he kicked a crate over, sending it's contents all over the floor. Hoping this would grab the elites attention, he hid behind a table in the adjacent room and waited for the elite to pass before sneaking up behind him and slashing his throat, rendering him unable to scream. Chino let the elites limp body hit the floor in the hopes of getting the second one curious. Unfortunately for Chino the second one was more curious than he anticipated and rounded the corner before the medic could hide.
The Major elite expressed a small shout of surprise as he beheld the medic and then went for his plasma rifle. Seizing the opportunity, Chino stabbed the elite through the skull, retrieving it once the elite had fallen. The shaken, hungry and tired marine walked slowly towards the Ops centre ever cautious and alert, like a meerkat on the plains. Pushing the door to, he beheld a smaller than average jackal with a tool box of some description taking apart the comms system.
Chino let out a quick shout and whacked the jackal in the beak, he grabbed it while it was stunned and then twisted it's neck until he felt te satisfying snap under his hands.
Grabbing a radio he sent a broadcast:
This is Mike 87 requesting extraction or support, location is 187, 622 Echo ONI installation, Sit rep is FUBAR, I repeat this is Mike 87 requesting extraction or support, location is 187, 622 Echo ONI installation, Sit rep is FUBAR, can anybody hear me?
(sorry about long post, I got carried away :/)
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(Hope I can post I think this would be an interesting way to come in, if not I'll delete)
Tony (Skyman) had been launched towards the Echo ONI Installation, hearing of a covenant attack on the base. After Being dropped he woke up after a rougher than usual landing, but not to shaky to hear his comm, "This is Mike 87 requesting extraction or support, location is 187, 622 Echo ONI installation, Sit rep is FUBAR, I repeat this is Mike 87 requesting extraction or support, location is 187, 622 Echo ONI installation, Sit rep is FUBAR, can anybody hear me?" Came through statiky but he could make out the words. "Mike 87 this Gulf 53 I have landed," He checked his hud reveling he was about three klicks from the base, "Three klicks away, stay calm support is on the way." Skyman kicked open his pods door and walked out. He took a deep breath and anayzed for a good path to take. He saw a destroyed convo up the road a bit and decided to take his chances.
After running for an hour the ODST came across a horrific scene, "Must've been an ambush. Damn those alien freaks." He searched for some ammo but found nothing useful. Tony looked for a quick way to make it to the base quickly then he noticed a grunt ghost patrol. "Well this just got interesting." He said aloud. He grabbed hold of the SMG tighter and found a vantage point. He waited until the convo was in his LOS. He fired off a three round burst taking down the first grunt and then a second burst at the other before he realized what happened.
After familarizing himself witht the controls of the ghost he sped down the towards the base, only stopping as he was at the main gate.
"I have made here. To Echo ONI where are you located?"
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Chino was about to repeat his message again when he heard a response. it was faint and full of static, but he could make out the words. he gripped the receiver so hard his knuckles turned white "Roger, expect moderate resistance, I think most of them have moved out.". He set down the assault rifle on the table next to the radio "My position is the operation centre, North western quadrant. Out". He set down the receiver and grabbed his rifle. He propped open the doors to signal the ODSTs where he was and to provide some cover in case the Covenant decided to return. He looked back and the proceeded to the main computer where the jackal had been working. with a few keystrokes, he downloaded all of the relevant data they had acquired relating to defence programs on a small disk. after he had acquired it, he deleted all of the computer files. He already knew the base was lost and so didn't want to give them any useful information.
Sticking the disk in a pouch on his belt, he came out of the ops centre and waited in the hallway for his rescue.
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Chris heard a static coming from his comm. He pulled it out. 'You there still? Spartans and Marines at...' He checked his map, and saw a blue dot, roughly 6 clicks south of his location. '6 clicks north of you. Scorpion tank, routing to you. Hold tight.'
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"this is marco-three-nine, pop the doors and let us in. nine ODST's, two spartans, a scorpian and a warthog rolling your way, hope you don't mind but we're bringin' some resistance with us. do you copy mike87?" the scorpian rolled slowly backwards, the corpral layed out on the front, injered but still firing "we have two injered and three down, do you have a medic on site?"
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Chino heard the crackling response over on the radio, snatching up the receiver he replied "Copy that Command, We'll sit tight for you here. out. He set the receiver down only to pick it up again seconds later "Wilco, Marco three-niner, we have a med-bay here and I'm a medic myself, you just concentrate on getting here as soon as you can. out." Setting down the receiver, he walked out of the ops room and through the hallways, hoping to meet up with the ODST.
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Skyman had been able to sneak passed all the patrols and slipped into the base, he was met with a malovlient scene. Blood and Plasma burns everywhere, as he went throught the halls trying to find his lost Marine, until he found a women she looked no older than maybe 16, he knelt down and saw she had a huge hole going through her chest. He gagged a bit, and gave her a short prayer and closed her eyes and continued. He had almost made to a ops center when he heard footsteps, human like. He posted himself up against the wall and said, "Horray!" down the hallway. On the opposite side of the hallwy he saw three elites round the corner one holding a Plasma Sword. "I sure hoipe your a friendly." He yelled sprinting the way he yelled almost running into a marine he grabbed him and took cover behind a knocked over vending machine. "Are you Mike 87?" He asked letting off a round at the elite in the back.
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Being pushed into cover rapidly winded him so it took him a few moments to respond to the question, he coughed. "Yeah...yeah. Call me Chino...and for future reference, try not to hit me so hard when you save me, okay?" lifting his assault rifle over the felled vending machine, he fired a few bursts towards the group, conserving his ammunition as much as he could as he hadn't restocked since his last skirmish with the covenant "Listen, we have to get to the front gate, and then we can hold up in the armoury until the cavalry comes. Unless you want us to use all of our ammo on their shields? Come on I have an idea". Using some of the last few rounds he had, he punctured a fire extinguisher, causing it to spray compressed foam and gas in front of the elites, blocking their vision and stunting their progress towards them.
Using the time he was afforded, he grabbed a plasma rifle on the ground and a single plasma grenade before jumping over the Vending machine looking back he said "Lets go now while we have a chance, because I don't really fancy a sword in the gut. I'm sure it's not the best experience you can have."
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Skyman leapt over the vending machine following Chino, " We gotta hurry bud. No use getting caught here." He motioned to the vacant corridor. "I'm Tony, but you can call me Skyman. Always going feet first." He smiled as they ran towards the front gate passing the same girl again. "The armory is over there!." He yelled pointing down the hall. 'And there they are!." He confirmed as he saw a sprinting Elite with the sword. He took a grenade and held it. "Go on I'll catch up in a minute." Skyman pushed Chino down the hall. "Ok you piece of slime, lets do this." He pulled the pin and ran at the elite. He had gotten about 5 meters from it when he went into a base ball slide and dropping the grenade infront of the elite hearing it scream he turned to see the explosion and the elite fallen over. He strated to sprint back when he saw the elite get up again. "Yell this has gotten bad." He took out his pistol and fired everyshot he had and then as he got near he took a knife and cut open its neck. The body fell as the other two rounded the corner. "CHINO! I need cover!!!" He sprinted throwing his pistol at them.
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The elephant was pulling up next to the ONI base. It was surrounded by grunts, jackals, and elites. 'What the hell? You all ready?' Chris shouted. It wasn't a question. He pulled out a plasma and jumped down. He ran up to one of the Elites, surprising him. In a single deft movement, he stuck the Elite on the head and kicked him into a group of Jackals powering up their shields. 'Shields dont stop grenades.' Chris said. He pulled out another plasma and launched it into the crowd. He shouted over the comm, 'Scorpion outside of ONI facility. Get out here!' He set the Comm. down as a group of Spartans erupted from the trees to the left. Reinforcements. He wasn't happy for long. Behind them, they pulled an army of grunts. Chris bent down and picked up an Assault Rifle, and fired into the crowd. 'Help, now!'
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The marine turned around at the shout. He wasn't really thinking as a haze settled over his vision. Everything seemed a bit slower than normal as he pulled the trigger on the Covenant plasma rifle, the heated bolts seared through the air and struck the Elite's shields draining them in a few seconds, forcing them to take cover. Chino used this brief respite to his advantage as he pulled the plasma grenade from his side pack, activated it and threw it down the hallway. The medic watched and began to laugh as it clipped off the corner and landed in the hallway where they had taken cover. A short panicked roar from the sangheilli was cut short as the projectile exploded into super-heated plasma, burning them and practically cooking them in their armour. Chino was still laughing
The aftermath of the explosion and laughter left a dull silence, broken by chino
"Well, now can we go to the armoury?" He looked at the plasma rifle and then tossed it away for significance "I want a REAL weapon, with bullets." He started to walk and added, as though it was an afterthought "Mm, and I suppose we best go and open that door eh? Stop them from getting slaughtered." He chuckled slightly to himself as he walked down the hallway.
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Skyamn heard the laughter and thought it was time for him to get a new weapon, "Lets hurry up." He grabbed an Assault Rifle and a Sniper Rifle and opened the door sprinting out to where Chris was shooting. "Nice to meet you," he said shooting at some Grunts running up to the gate. "Need a hand?" He turned and shot at an Elite running to a wounded Marine. "Lets go!" he yelled throwing a grenade at a group of grunts.
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'Thanks. Lets push these Covenant back!' He ran up to one of the covenant and picked him up, just as a plasma grenade came flying at him. The plasma grenade hit the Grunt he was using as a meat-shield, and so he threw it back at the grenade thrower. In rapid succession, he popped 4 Jackals in the head. 'Out of ammo.' he said to himself. He put his rifle down, and grabbed out his magnum, resuming his firefight.
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Skyman saw Chris using a magnum so he ran and got him an SMG. As he rounded the corner he tripped on a dead marine looking at his face he noticed it was one of his friends from high school, "Ryan? What the hell!" He grabbed a belt of grendaes and threw them down the hallway at some Jackals and grunts, going on a rampage. He remembered what he had gone to do. I grabbed two SMG's and another clip for his Assault rifle. He ran to Chris and ave the two guns to him. "They work better on this f*ckers." He smiled and sprinted to Chino. "Hey thanks for the cover bud. Need any ammo?" He asked holding out the clip he got earlier.
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max saw a banshee in the background and lined it up, he was to far to see what it was attacking but he knew what side they would be on. the single shell flew hitting the banshee in the rear, senting it spinning to the ground. max then turned his attention back to the fight, he lined up a shot at a group hiding behind the carnage of three warthogs that has been hit by wrath fire. once that was taken care of he jumped out of the tank and scooped up as many wounded as posible and carried/draged them to cover. he jumped down next to a medic behind cover. "mike87? marko-three-nine, my squads over there. if i get you over there can you help them?"
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Chino ran into the armoury, slapping the button on the gate, causing the colossal steel doors to raise up from the ground. The damaged gears creaked and groaned as they were put under pressure and the door shook slightly as it came to a rest. During this time, Chino loaded himself up with a few more grenades, a shotgun and a DMR with 32 and 45 rounds respectively. He was about to set off back into the fighting to assist his allies when his eye caught something slick and shiny. The marine noticed it was human blood, and noticed that whoever it belonged to was definitely deceased. He got closer and noticed the signs of a body being dragged away.
"What would they want with dead marines? Alive ones maybe...but dead? It doesn't make any sense..."
He was shaken from his thoughts when he heard the turret of a scorpion fire "Right. Enough pondering, it's time to defend my home!" As he walked outside, the medic jumped behind a barricade and popped two skirmishers that were pinning down some marines. Looking at the scorpion outside the base, he called to a ODST
"What the hell is that tank doing outside?? Tell them to bring it in so we can close the god damn door and help the wounded!" as the ODST hesitated, Chino shouted "NOW!" The Shock trooper nodded and sprinted towards the tank, taking a few grunts out along the way.
Chino sat back down behind cover and breathed out. Calming himself as he felt the 'battlemist' falling across his mind again. Chino looked up as a familiar voice sounded
"Nah, keep it for yourself. I'm sure you'll put it to better use." He smiled at the ODST and then got serious as he spied a ODST running towards him "I cant see to your wounded until we get everyone inside and we can close the door. So if you want your men to survive, I suggest you help with getting everyone inside.
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(Playing as ODST briefly that chino told to get into the tank and move it)
Marc ran forward, his breathing sounded loud to him in his armour. Luckily the Marines, Spartans and ODSTs were keeping the covenant busy enough for them not to notice him sprinting towards the tank. His charcoal armour glinted in the sunlight as the sun caught a plate of his armour. The trooper clambered over the giant tracks of the tank and sat down in the canopy of the tank. taking a few seconds to familiarise himself with the controls, he slammed it into reverse, squishing a few unwary grunts and jackals. He finally brought the tank into the courtyard and powered it down, using the main turret to wipe out a squad of snipers on a hill overlooking the base before jumping on the .50 cal and opening up hell.
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"Sounds good he said patting Chino on the back." Skyman ran over to Chris, "Hey do you see this distress becon about 15 clicks south?" He asked shooting and a jackal. Before he heard an answer he saw a marine taking fire. Skyman sprinted from his cover drawing some fire from the marine. He had almost made it when he was hit by a needler in the leg. "GAH!!" He yelped as he fell to the ground. He turned around to see an Elite sprinting at him. "NO!!!" He yelled as the Elite knocked him out and drug his body towards their stronghold.
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Meanwhile, Phantom was just about to start walking again when a warthog pulled up beside him. Literally.
A marine leaned out of the vehicle and motioned for him to get in.
Giving him a thumbs-up to show that he understood, Phantom started to walk over to the back to hop on when he realized he had no ammunition for his Lucifer.
*Aw, man,* he thought. *What else am I supposed to use for...*
He noticed another of the strange new Covenant weapons lying broken on the ground, the cartridge ejected from the butt of the gun. Phantom picked it up and examined it. It was about the same size....
*What the heck,* he thought loading the freaky cartridge into the Lucifer and climbing on the back of the Warthog, which promptly took off.
"Where are we going, anyway?" Phantom asked the marine, who he now recognized as Leo.
Before Leo could answer, a burst of static came over the intercom.
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(@ riku, i'm a spartan, the rest of my squad are ODST's, and feel free to take over any of them other than the corpral.) "got it, that scorpian could be our ticket out of here if we can find some repairs, as for that signal i took down a banshee near there. with any luck they should be on their way here." with that max ran over to what was laft of his squad. "team, your tired and sore. we all lost something here today, for you it was a beloved comander...for me my beloved wife and unborn child...so today we fight, for reach, for UNSC, for the human race and for those we've had ripped from us. today we fight for us and everything we stand for!" all the ODST's shouted together "hoo-ra!!" "kill 'em all and let their god sort 'em out!!" shouted the corpral, the squad spilt up into smaller 'hit' teams and moved into position, the corpral manning an AA gun on the wall and 'modified' the mount with his pistol before opening up with large, explosive tiped rounds into the masses of covenant forces. "eat it!!!!"
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"We have to help them!" Phantom said, tightening his grip on his rifle. "Reach may be doomed... but WE aren't!" :D
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Leo nodded and practicaly stomped on the gas pedal, causeing the warthog to jump from its idle position to a ever increaseing volocity. He quickly cut the steering wheel in one direction to avoid nearly being decapitated by a plasma rifle's laser that tore through the windshield. "We are going to evacuate now hold on!" he shouted. He blinked as a blueball landed in front of them and immediately spun the wheel in an attempt to avoide it. However as he did so the back wheel ran over it causeing it to immediately detonate and send the warthog once again fliping into the air landing on all, or now only three wheels. "Uh..... I think this thing can still roll..." he commented as he stepped on the pedel once again. The warthog did infact move, however a bit akwardly and slightly slower "Yep.... Hey tinman! Get the turret. It has firecrackers!"
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Skyman awoke in a haze, "Wh-where am I?" He questioned looking around the room. He noticed a few Marines over in a corner and 5 in the middle of the room. "Hey guys, wake up.," he shook them, "Hey!" One woke up and looked at him. He had a scar forming from his left eye going down in an odd pattern "You are in the Covenants ship asshole." The marine turned back around and fell back asleep. "Wh-where?" He sat back not believing what he just heard. He reached for his COMM but noticed he didn't have his helmet. "No. not now." He saw a door but as he stood up he heard a loud yell and in broken English he heard an Elite speak, "Sit down human scum." pointing a needler at him. That's when he felt the pain again in his leg. He screamed in pain waking the 5 marines in the middle. "What are we here for!" He screamed some more. One marine looked at him and shook his head. "Are they gonna kill us! Or play games with us!" One marine pointed at the three laying on the ground. "Are they de-dead?" Skyman asked knowing the answer. The marine nodded his name tag read, "Shrinen". Skyman fell back on his back and grabbed his leg again, "So what are we here for?" The marine spoke again "To die, to survive, they put us into games and the loser is killed by the victor." He laid back down and didn't move again. Skyman blacked out from the pain.
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The sky darkened as Covenenant ships descended upon Reach, thir plasma cannons glowing green with power. Reach was out of time.
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BUGGER! Phantom thought. :'(
"We can't save Reach," he said to Leo.
He clenched his fists. >:(
"But we can still save whoever's left."
He picked up the turret.
"Now let's go help Frank and the others!" B)
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Chris snuck around teh corner of the Covenant stronghold, glad that his EMP feild was working. He had seen Skyman pulled away from the battle, and had made haste to rescue him. He picked a peice of broken glass up off the floor, and held it just around the corner. He saw an Elite. Alone, and vulnerable. Quickly, he threw the peice of glass, catching teh Elite unprepared, and charged. With the quiet efficiency of a Spartan, Chris grabbed the Elite's neck, and twisted. He felt biones give way as the Elite crumpled to the ground, shooting it in teh head once for good measure. He resumed his sneak through the base after shoving the Elits into a closet.
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Leo hopped out of the warthog and began runnign for the GPS marker shooting at several grunts. A jackle came running around the corner and threw its shield in the way. Leo quickly jumped up and dropped kick the shield knocking the alien on its back "JACKLE! ITS A JACKLE!" he yelled as he rolled ontop of it quickly slung his knife out across its throat, then ripping its shield off "OOOh~ Shield!" he said strapping it on his arm.
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the ODST kill teams saw to armoda of ships coming down at them and all made the same decision "get inside....NOW!!" called the corpral opening up on the ships untill his team mate pulled him out of the gun and practicly draged him inside, max on the other hand ran over and started covering the others so they could ge inside.
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Phantom and Leo had just reached the fallout shelter when Phantom noticed a Brute raising a laser sword to decapitate Max, who had his back turned.
"MAX!" Phantom yowled, pulling on the handle in his armguard that made his Lucifer pop out of his wrist armor and, aiming at the Brute, pulled the trigger.
A stream of white bolts rapidly ejected from the cannon, blasting through Max's assailant like a hot knife through butter.
Phantom let go of the trigger, shocked to the core. That is VERY powerful technology.
"Are you okay, sir?" he said, sheathing his Lucifer as he ran over to Max.
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Leo crouched down inside the base checking over the control panel of the shield. He would continuously look around as he fiddled with the controls and eventually learned how to turn it on and off. "This will come in handy." He comented to himself before peeking out the door way and fireing off a few rounds to give Phantom cover fire.
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"Scratch that," Phantom said. "Let's just get the heck out of here before WE get glassed too."
Phantom ran through the safehouse door, closely followed by Max, and then turned back, picked up another of the strange cartriges, loaded it into his magnum, and started shooting at the Covenant ground forces.
"I've got you covered, Leo!" Phantom said, blowing the head off a Grunt. He spotted a case of plasma grenades and decided to provide some- extra cover for his comrade.
In other words, a lot of Elites had become giant spatters of gore by the time that everyone else besides Leo had gotten inside.
(Why not add a few more allies?)
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"thanks for that, i think there should be a ship in the lower levels. if only we had a pilot." max sighed standing next to phantom firing a carbine he 'aquired' from a jackel on the way to the base. it rn out of ammo so he used it at a bat, breaking it almost in half on an aproaching elite before grabbing the elite's plasma rifle and opening up again.
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Leo blankly stared out of the door way after hearing the word pilot. His lips slowly curled into a smile as he turned to face Max "I am a more then capible Pilot!" he called out backing away from the door way.
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Phantom motioned to the rest of their allies.
"Get in!" he told them, still firing away at the Covenant with his Lucifer. How can this many shots come from one single cartridge? he thought as he backed into the ship, following everyone else. He pulled the turret from his back, fired the entire complement into the Covenant forces, then jumped in the ship after Leo, Max, Zach and the others.
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"Is everyone inside?" Phantom called to Leo, still firing the Lucifer. (sighs and drums fingers.) (What is IN that cartridge!)
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"We must save Frank!" Phantom said, holding onto a rail inside the ship while still firing the freaking Lucifer. (RUN OUT OF AMMO ALREADY!)
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max ran up into the cockpit and grabbed the main gun controles and waited for the pilot. in the meantime he powered up the systoms and linked up his hud to the main guns interface, a crossheir apeared in the center of his visor and he could hear the powerfull turrent moving as he looked around, synking up and following the aimer on his visor. "turrents ready, wheres that pilot?!"
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"LEO!" Phantom called out, signaling to his comrade. "It's time to get out of here!"
Phantom ejected the cartridge from his Lucifer to inspect it...
and found that it hadn't depleted whatsoever!
This is strange, he thought, shoving the cartridge back in his arm-mounted gatling gun.
"So is there anything I can do to help right now?" he asked.
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"yea, i got something for you to do, GET SOMEONE UP HERE WHO CAN FLY THIS HEAP OF SCRAP METAL! or out little escape is going to be the shortest in history." he said looking straight forward at a covenant cruzer slowly driffting towards them in the distance, it's glassing beam visibly anialating what ever was in its path.
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"Okay!"
Phantom sat down in the co-pilot's chair and stared at the controls for a second.
"I'm not familiar with a few of these switches," he said, " but I'm pretty sure that I can get us out of here!"
Leo strapped into pilot's chair a few second's later.