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BrotherHood: Part 5 and 6
Posted By: Dojorkan<dojorkan@gmail.com>
Date: 7 November 2005, 8:34 pm
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BrotherHood: Part 5, Brothers in Arms.
"We band of brothers: for he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother;"
Plasma beams, lasers, missles, and MAC rounds worked together like a Dual Wielded plasma pistol and SMG destroying Brute controlled ships in a matter of seconds.
"Damn!" thought the bridge crew among various ships. Watching bursts of flames come from big vessels, even Seraph fighters, drophips, and boarding crafts had been blown to bits in shorter amounts of time.
The battle seemed to had finally ended. Elite and Human ships had weapons prepared, ready to attack one another. Arbiter wiped sweat off his head and stood at the view screens with various smaller windows with the faces of human and elites looking back, staring right into his eyes.
"My brothers, my ex-covenant brothers, think of what we have done to the humans and their planets. Realize the false goal we have been fighting for. We must accept that we were wrong and pay the humans back for the destruction caused by us. Spread the truth to the Brutes, Drones, and Jackals, they too are innocent pawns in the Prophet's plans for the destruction of all."
"Why that explains everything!" 343 Guilty Spark said as he rushed to the Arbiter's side. "My, how sad. That is why you all had released the parasite. If the other races will only beleave me then allowing me to tell them and come along with you is a must! Purposeful releasing of the flood and selfish activation of the other rings would be most unacceptable!"
The Arbiter turned to 343 and nodded then shifted his face back to the view screen. "Humans, may we ask for forgiveness?"
Half-Jaw placed one hand on the Arbiter and signaled Sarge up to the viewscreens and placed his other hand on Jhonson's sholder, "Let these proud races form a brotherhood and make peace by destroying the harmful parasites, TOGETHER!"
Cheering and yelling was heard from the bridge crew of every ship. Fists, hats and helmets were thrown into the air. Miranda called Devin up to the view screens with GawGap at his side. "Tell them boys the name of our new allience!" Jhonson said as he put his hand over their heads.
"THE BROTHERHOOD!" GawGap and Devin shouted as they heard the elites, grunts, and humans; in unison, repeatedly shout the name out like they were rooting for their favorite football team.
The cheering paused. "We got a new contact, unknown classification." One of Cario's bridge officers, Hampton, reported.
Lord Hood turned to Hampton,"It isnt one of ours, take it out."
"This is Spartan-117, anybody read me? Over." A familiar voice spoke over the COM.
The Admiral looked up at the ship through the view screen. "Master Chief, you mind telling me what you're doing on that ship?"
"Sir, finishing this fight".
"Well, I got a surprise for you. Why don't you look outside and see."
"Negitive, there are no windows....."
Admiral Hood put his hand over his forehead and shook it. "Fine, I'll tell you,The Elites, Grunts and Hunters are willing to fight by our side. Finally they have realized the truth. What those god damned rings are all about. They also plan to convince the other races to join the cause."
"We got trouble,at least 24 more crusiers, heading right into earth. They came from an ungaurded part. And most of the MAC stations all around the earth are down." Said Hampton.
Hood held his chin, " Alright get some troops ground side, on the double. Make sure our allience has been told to every single soldier on the ground. Master Chief, can you control that ship?
"Negitive sir, its being controlled by a Prophet, Truth. Im sure he has lots of back up too. This ship is many times bigger than the size of any of their Sky Scrapers. Although I saw a very long gravity connecting the lower and higher portions of the ship." Answerd the Chief.
Truth's voice was heard in Master Chief's helmet "Fool, you have been detected. Today you will die, demon. We have you outnumbered and have no where to go until this ship lands!" said Truth. "And don't expect to be chatting with the rest of your filthy race ever again."
"Lost connection with the Master Chief, sir!" Hampton told the Admiral as he slamed his fist on the console.
"We are going to need to board that ship, capture Truth, and save the Master Chief. Any takers?" Hood asked over the COM channels.
"Me" A strong woman's voice answered from behind the admiral.
[B]Brotherhood: Part 5, Saviors need saving too.[/B]
Admiral Hood's eyes froze as he turned around, his eyes focused on a Spartan as she took her helmet off and straghtened her blue hair with one hand and other holding the helmet. "My God…"
"Spartan-087, Kelly. Permission to engage?" A Dozen more Spartans appeared behind her.
"Green light, green light to engage!" Shouted Lord Hood at the top of his voice.
"I think those 'Spartans' are needed more groundside, I see they've been on a full scale invasion. My crew and I will save the…… Master Chief."The Arbiter demanded. " I also know my way through that vessel."
"That's not a bad idea, But Im going anyways. I havent seen him in years." Kelly replied.
The arbiter nodded and turned to his soldiers. "Who wishes to come?" said the ariter as he whipped out his Plasma Sword. As soon as they heard the words, Devin and Gawgap had volunteered. Soma lifted up his fuel rod cannon.
Sarge took his cigar out his mouth, "As much as I'd love to come along I gotta stay here and help watch over this ship."
"To the Phantom!" ordered the Arbiter. They all ran towards the hangar bay and boarded the dropship that had a Ghost and Spectre.
Kelly ran towards one of the longswords docked on the Cario, as the dropship she came in on was for the other new spartans. Her fingers brushed over the controls, the aircraft sped out the station in a blur, like she would on the ground.
Camui-157 looked over to the other eleven spartans he was left in charge of. He pointed towards the emblem on his sholder armor that had the Japanese charcter for 'power'. "This is what we are, the ultimate power, lets show those ground troops what were made of. Also, remember the elites, grunts, and hunters are supposed to be on our side." Camui waved his soldiers in and took place on the co-pilots seat. Spartan-172, Dante took the controls, he was an awesome driver with any vehicle. He pushed the controls forward as the hangar opened and Airlocks closed. Blueish fire bursted through the Pelican's jet engines, it made way towards the Earth's atmosphere. Camui slid in a CD to the media player, he smiled as J-rock music played through the dropship's speakers. Music often helped him do twice as better in battle, he would shoot or attack an enemy along with the beat of the music.
The Arbiter sent coordnates to Kelly's Longsword for where to meet up and enter the Foreunner Space Craft. He looked to see her aready flying beside the ship waiting for them. The Phantom Boosted past her position shooting at the entrance to burn a hole through. Kelly launched a pack of missles, shut off the longsword and strapped on a jet pack to make way to board the phantom. Soma steered the vehicle inside the hole they blasted through and landed it on the dark and pink interior.
The Arbiter turned to the unngoy and spartan. "Gawgap and Kelly you two are the only ones capable of breathing a short time with out atmosphere. I need you two to close the Airlock behind where we came through, We will be going through corridors to big for a phantom but just big enough for a Spectre and Ghost."
Soma pulled released the Ghost and spectre with the pull of a handle which controlled gravity on the ship's underside. Then he brought the vehicle to a rounded spot to land the Phantom. Since Gawgap was able to read the writings on the Airlock's control panel he had to type in the commands as Kelly watched his back with a pair of magnums. The lock sealed and vents opened allowing air to pass through. Everyone boarded the vehicles; The Arbiter took control of the ghost, Gawgap piloted the Spectre, the spartan took the turret,Devin took the left seat with a brute plasma rifle Soma on the right carrying a Fuel Rod Cannon. Bright blue light followed in their trails lighting the dark interior of this huge Forerunner artifact. Dozens of spiral ramps were needed to drive up to reach the bridge.
Master Chief saw a flash of blue light reflect off the wall, he took off from his hiding spot to Notice a Familiar Elite, a Spartan, and an Helmetless ODST. He yanked his plasma pistol from off his belt, let off a few single shots and charged it, holding it over his head so they could see who it was.
"Well, any room for me?" Chief asked.
Everyone looked back and forth to each other, not wanting to give up their seats. They all then turned to look at Devin.
"What?! What did I do?!"
"Get up, thats the chief's spot now." Everyone answered.
"But…"
"NOW" They all said.
Devin climbed up the Spectre he was ontop of it inbetween every seat on the vehicle. It was uncompfortable, he could barely hold his weapon correctly either. Kelly was careful not to smack Devin with the turret when she aimed forward.
Finally there was a room with lighting, which meant they were getting close, and someone else had to be there. A trio of brutes come from behind cover firing a hail of grenades their way. The Arbiter covered the spectre, his ghost flipped wildy in the air while he jumped out and rolled unharmed on the ground. He ignited his plasma sword, the brute froze, shocked by the sanghelli's manuvers. The Arbiter cut through the brute from sholder to waist, it screamed and fell forward. Anoter brute decided to go staright for the elite. Spartan-087 let out a stream of turret fire burn through the thick skin of the beast. Master Chief and Devin shot a barrage of plasma pistol and brute plasma rifle fire on the third brute. All three of the dirty apes died. "You really need a better weapon then that Chief!". Devin chuckled.
Master Chief turned to Devin, "Then give me yours."
"No, you aready took my seat! With the position Im in now, I wont be able to walk or stand correctly for days! I dont even know if I can use the bathroom if I needed to."
"Thank you for getting that beast off of my back, Kelly." Said the Arbiter as he bowed his head.
"Anytime." She replied.
The Arbiter examined his ghost, a few sparks jumping and scratched paint but it still worked fine. Chief put the plasma pistol back by his side and pirated a bruteshot along with grenades for it. He dropped in four nades pulled the handle and kept a finger on the trigger. The party made way up the next circular tunnel like ramp. As soon as the next room was visable they boosted as fast as possible out into the open. Gawgap sharply turned the spectre towards a pack of jackals. The aliens body flew over the divers seat and into Devins face. He growled and shoved the corpse off with his gun. Gawgap laughed and handed him his Jackal Shield. A dozen drones appeared from above, spraying needler and plasma pistol fire all over the place. Devin's shield activated on its own once again protecting Devin from the threat. Kelly hailed them with streams of plasma from the turret. Meanwhile, the Arbiter grabbed a drone from off his ghost's hood and choked it to death.
"In the center, there seems to be a grav lift!" exclamied Soma.
The vehicles drove into the bright green area and were lifted up to the a smaller corridor. They abandoned the vehicles and silently creeped to the sliding doors, which was bad as the doors opening notified whoever was in the room that someone was there.
"Well, that must be them." Truth said. "Get them, now!"
Soma motined everyone to get behind him, he nodded to Master Chief and pointed to the other door. They raised their heavy weapons and fired as the doors slid open. Noise from the explosons rumbled through the hallways. Bodies of the Honor Gaurd Brutes flew into the walls, along with a trio of Major Jackals.
"Now show them our surprise!" thr Prophet ordered.
Land'Somalee looked to Chief and shrugged. Arbiter moved up closer behind Soma, while Kelly did crept closer to chief. The arbiter dual wilded a brute plasma rifle and a plasma pistol that had been thrown to their direction from the explosion. Kelly slid over one of her magnums towards him and he traded his plasma pistol for it. Devin pulled Gawgap behind him with the jackal shield activated, he brought up his brute plasma weapon, ready to fire at either left or right position. The doors slid open, a trio of brutes rushed out from each side. Gawgap watched the spartans and elites fire like mad, but something wasn't right about those brutes, they had shields, even worse, OverShields.
"FRAG OUT!" yelled Gawgap, he threw a frag grenade at each wall behind the new enimies, and let them bounce back right behind the brutes. The nade ate up a lot of their shields making it much easier for his friends.
"Fools, you will not kill me" Truth's voice echoed through the hall.
The party came in through each door and learned that this room was the bridge. Inside was a single brute,Tandrom, smiling while looking out to space. In the view screen they saw hundreds of damaged human and elite ships littering the space around earth. Some burned in half, other burned in random spots.
"It took a while for the ship to transfer its power from being a power plant and going through slipspace to create this. The only reason you all made it here is because the Ship's OverShields couldn't charge right after the jump, allowing you to blow a hole in. Your allies tried to keep from shooting because they worried so much about you." The brute explaned as he turned to them. "Now I will destroy you, then they would have wasted their lives trying to save the ones that would die anyways!" A purple aura formed around him.
"This looks awfully familiar, doesn't it Arbiter?" Some said as he was shaking his head.
"Yes, but this time we are without a beam rifle." He replied.
The Master Chief looked at them awkwardly."I think our current weapons will do enough…"
"No, that special shield of his can only be put down by beam rifle fire, three shots to be exact."arbiter interupted.
"I see. Devin, Gawgap search for a beam rifle. We will keep him busy as long as we can since we have shields."
Devin clapped his hands together, "There should be one in the Phantom, Gawgap."
"True, but it will take to long to get down there!" cried the grunt.
"What about the grav lift?"
The grunt examined the control panel next to the lift and grinned. The two entered the spectre and rode down the lift.
Devin swung the turret around,"Thank god I don't have to sit in that other place again! "
The arbiter rolled back into the wall."The Prophet of Truth, where is he?"
"You really think Im going to tell you? Even if I did, you would be dead before you could do anything about it!" The brute laughed as he swung his Gravity Hammer at the Arbiter.
Kelly jumped at him and knocked the hammer out of his hand. The brute tried desprately to capure the fast spartan but failed. His shield disappeared. She dropped her pistols and picked up his hammer, the aura formed around her. She pointed the weapon towards Tandrum, "Tell us where he is!"
Tandrum looked out the view screen, they where in earth's atmosphere about to land in a big city. He laughed, took out a plasma grenade and detonated it on himself. Master Chief heard Devin's voice over his COM.
"Truth! Hes down here! Escaping in OUR Phantom!"Devin yelled as loud as he could.
"This is Spartan-087, Kelly. Truth is escaping on a phantom from this ship, keep track of him at all costs! "
Below was a large area of desert, in the distance, the city of New Mombasa. Unless someone did something fast, they would be going "nose" first into the ground. If the shields on the ship where strong enough they might get out alive. The Arbiter looked to one of the consoles, thankfully that meter, which was for shielding, read fully charged. Gawgap leapt out the spectre followed by Devin. "about 25 seconds till we land, hang on tight." Kelly anounced.
The lights, viewscreens, and other machines immediately turned out fowllowing her words.
"They have shut it down on us to avoid giving us a safe landing." Announced the arbiter
Everyone in the ship was left in pitch black darkness, they held on to the nearest object built into the ship they could find. The ship rumbled violently, echos of it could be heard hitting different parts of the ship. Devin closed his eyes and felt himself nearly throw-up, he was expecting more pain from the impact. He opened his eyes when everything went still, a purple aura surounded him. Something was in his other hand, it was the Gravity Hammer. Kelly sat beside him, the spartans turned the lights on in their helmet.
"Are you ok?" Kelly asked.
Devin looked around franticly, "Yeah, Im fine. Where the heck is Gawgap?" The spartans brushed the darkness with their lights. Gawgap was laying on his side, looking weak. Quickly he ran to Gawgap, he saw the grunt blink and a odd hissing sound from his backpack. Devin put his hand on the unggoy's sholder. "Are you ok?"
"Yes," he replied softly. "I think there is a small leak in my methane pack, and Im aready starting to run low…."
"Don't say another word brother, you need to do nothing that will make you need to brethe more." Devin balled up his fist, " Don't you die on me, we are going to win this war. Here get on my back."
"This is Spartan-117, any body read me, over?"
"Yes, are you ok in there Master Chief? You've created a crater down there!" a female bridge officer replied.
"Im fine, tell our new friends weve got a grunt in need of a new methane tank. His old one is getting low and its leaking." The COM clicked.
"Roger that, anything else?"
" I need you to punch a hole through this ship. We are deep in the ground, and need a way out. "
"Help is on the way. And Sir, if you don't mind me asking, how are you able to communicate with me from so deep underground?"
"I don't know."
Devin carried Gawgap on his back and went around to check the gravity lift, in hopes that they could go to the part of the ship that's closer to the surface. Instead, when the doors slid open a mound of dirt poored out. He remebered the gravity lift went from the long spiraling decks to the bridge with nothing much to protect them in between besides the overshields. Slowly more dirt started coming in, Arbiter used the controls to make the doors shut again. It made all kinds of noises and struggled to shut itself against the weight. Both the spartans and elites brabbed each side and forced it shut. Thankfully those things could take a lot of punishment before breaking.
On the other side of the room was another pair of doors, Truth had most likely exited through. But it too would probably be filled with dirt since he could reach the gravity lift from there. Supposedly it was like a Long "Y" that had to entrances and one exit or the other way around depending what part of the ship you were on.
" Chief, blowing a hole through this thing wont help get you out, it will just get more dirt clogged in. We are going to literally pull this contraption out of the ground. So hang on really tight." Said the voice of an old man.
Over head where dozens of different classes of covenant and human spacecraft. All working together to save the lives of some legendary heros. Each ship had some kind of powerful teahters attached to it that were usually used to tow one other ship of its size or smaller to a repair station or even the through the atmosphere. Devin held Gawgap tightly and put the grunt's hands around the Gravity Hammer. Although still invincible to hits to the body, his methane pack still leaked.
"Where are you guys going to land this thing?" Kelly asked.
"Right back where it was, it will make a great monument of our allience." replied the old man. He chuckled, "Don't worry miss, we got a experienced pelican driver coming in while this thing is in the air. Well I'll be darned, here he is now!"
Dante steadied the pelican, the large Forerunner craft was still moving very slowly as the ships which were toweing couldn't keep it perfectly still. He drove towards a hole in which the broken gravirty lift sent objects bridge side, it was a good fit. Around the area he landed were piles of sand, most had fallen out once they gone airborne. Inside the pelican's cargo area he reached for shovel and made way towards the sliding doors.
"This is Spartan-172, Dante, anyone home?"
The doors slid open and dirt rushed through to the feet Soma, whom opened it. Soma growled and shook all the sand off. He helped carry the large hammer Devin and Gawgap held onto towards the pelican.
"So, this would be the legendary 117?" Dante said, as he looked towards the Master Chief.
"Correct, the introductions will have to wait, this grunt needs medical attention quickly. Hes much more stronger and intellegant than any grunts Ive ever seen before." Chief replied.
Dante ran for the control compartment of the Pelican. He took Gawgap and laid him on the co-pilot's seat, he sealed the air lock between the passenger and cockpit, and turned on his air recycling system.
"This should keep you alive a bit longer, and we will need every second we can get. Oh yeah, just chill, don't say a word or move a muscle."
The pelican dived out from the hole towards one of the covenant ships. Behind them the other vessels slowly began to lay the Forerunner craft towards its crash site. Once they reached the docking bay they were gretted by Half-Jaw. He quickly snatched Gawgap off his chair and rushed him onto a grav-cart, and pushed as fast as he could to the medical room. Gawgap was then put through an airlock to what was called the "Methane Zone". Quickly, Gawgap took his armor off and took deep breathes. Spec-ops Commander took another methane tank from a closet, this wasn't an ordinary one either, it was gold and red with a helmet like that of an Honor Guard's.
"That idea was put away long ago, to think we even have one!" Soma said, shocked by the sight of the armor.
"It was put away by the Prophets, and us back when we were blind. I could find no greater use then being a measuem piece besides what I am to do with it now." Spec-Ops commander cheerfully replied.
The Arbiter Nodded, "I too agree."
Spec-Ops Commander knocked on the window of the Methane Area. Gawgap turned around, his eyes widened at the sight of what he saw. He headed towards the airlock and fitted the armor to his body.
Gawgap turned to the Elite which presented this gift to him,"So what rank…"
"Surpreme Military Leader. Gawgap, you're a very gifted Unggoy. Statistically speaking you're the strongest grunt in terms of intelegence and physical strength. You have saved the lives of many, and have killed hundreds of different enimies on your own, while most grunts other than yourself would have died in a pack. " said Half-Jaw as he looked the grunt directly to his eyes.
"I'll have to agree, Ive never seen a grunt who could lift me up with one arm, drive a warthog, and use his surroundings wisely. Back when we were in that big vehicle war with the flood, big snowy cliffs surrounded us. He used the wraiths and made them into ramps. Also that encounter with a Scropion, he used the tunnels around us for great cover." Devin added in. "Congratulations."
Spec-Ops Commander took out a plasma rifle and fired at the unggoy. Gawgap quickly rolled to his side. Inside his helmet he noticed a HUD with a shield indicator.
"Nice touch!" Gawgap commented
Dante clapped his hands together,"Lets get ground side, theres a lot of trouble brewing. Plus, we can test out that new armor."
"We have got two chaingun warthogs, one snow warthog, four ghosts, a wraith, and three dropships. I want the pelican to take a warthog and ghost, the apparation should have the other warthog and two ghosts while the second apparation has the wraith and a single ghost. Brutes have been coming in fast since most, if not all, of the MAC stations are down. Anyone up for a fight board the dropships now.Dont forget to pick up weapons from the Armory" Ordered the Arbiter.
Troops from all around the hangar bay rushed into the dropships, ready to go into a battle they had a great advatage over. They pushed each other and tried to fit as many as they could on board the aircrafts. Some were dissapointed they had to get out to make room for the Arbiter's party consisting of three spartans, Devin, Gawgap, Half-Jaw, Johnson, and Soma. Everyone had hated ship to ship space battles; they wanted to be on the ground, with guns, vehicles, and true action. Those who had been unable to board a dropship had to stay behind; some took their anger out on a wall and a few took place in side the vehicles the dropships held.
Dante had once again took the pelican's main controls. Gawgap and a jackal who made it on board the pelican watched the spartan pilot the craft as he explained how to drive and operate it. Master Chief watched behind the pelican in the turret, except this turret had been replaced with a modified plasma weapon it shot exactly like the old Shade stationary gun model that he had seen alot before the covenant found earth. He preffered those comapred to the 'new' models which fired slower.
"Lets get ready for some more hardcore action!" Dante yelled over the comm, happy to not have to hear Camui's Japanese music.
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