Halo: Captain Keyes Story Part 1
Posted By: monitor101<wasup1989@hotmail.com>
Date: 28 March 2003, 5:20 AM
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(UNSC Pillar of Autumn, In orbit around unknown Ringworld, August 30, 2552 0657 hours)
Captain Jacob Keyes (comanding officer UNSC Halcyon-class cruiser Pillar of Autumn) stood and watched as Master Chief petty officer Spartan John 117 turned and walked off the bridge. His irridescent green armor relfected a glimmer of light from the overhead into Keyes eyes, causing him to squint.
Keyes turned to the main view screen and surveyed the still photo of the strange ring shaped planet.
"Captain fireteam Zulu reports covenant bording party on the mess hall, thats right outside here sir," lieutenant Hall who manned the ops station, said.
"Thank you lieutenant," he said and keyed the intercom and spoke into it,"Fire team zulu hold the covenant at bay,units five through nine repel borders and fall back to secondary defensive positions, all ship crew report to your evac group and await to abandon ship," he said into the intercom.
"Lt. Hall seal off the bridge, Lt. Dominique tell Sergeant Holmes commander of fireteam alpha to guard the lifeboats.
Two "Aye Aye's" signified that they had already carryed out their orders.
"Ensign Lovell keep us on this heading and give me a proper approach vector coordinates -098 240 016 and level us out." Keyes figured out the best vector and heading for a soft landing, he got the geometry straight. Just before leaving Cortana did a geographic sweep of the ringworld and found a barren flat desert, the perfect LZ.
"Aye sir leveling us out... approach vector done," Lovell furiously typed in the commands.
The Autumn slowly turned to the left and came on a direct path for the ring.
"Lt. Hikowa how far are the two covenant cruiser from us?" Keyes asked.
"Umm about 50 million miles south of us, their just sitting there launching their fighters at us sir," she said.
"Right Lt. Hikowa transfer as much power as you can from the MAC gun generator to the main thruster then fire the rest of the archer missiles at the cruisers that should distract them on my mark, Lt. Hall give me a hundred and ten percent from the secondary reactor to the main reactor flood the emergency coolent tanks with the reserve coolent and transfer all of the fuel reserves to the starboard and port thrusters we'll need them on the final approach, Lovell on my mark comcentrate the engines power to the main thruster and take us in manually on the approach,Hall tell me when the last lifboat has left and all of you get your crash helmats on," Keyes sad calmly.
They Aye Ayed in unison, some of their voices were panic strikken. There were several clicks as each of the bridge crew snapped on their helmats.
"Sir the last lifeboat left five minutes ago," Hall said.
"Right mark," Keyes barked .
"Missiles away sir," Hikowa panickly said.
"All engines on the main thruster sir taking us in," Hall said without the slightest hint of emotion.
Keyes strapped himself into his chair and gripped the support rail that ran along the ceiling. The Autumn jerked violently as the two cruisers began to fire pulse lasers at it.
Keyes could hear the screams of Lt. Hikowa and hall. The entire ship felt as if it were going to fall apart.
The main view screen turned bright yellow as they entered the atmeshpere. Keyes felt as if he were in a sauna. Beads of sweat ran down his face. The view screen turned from yrllow to blue as they entered the planet.
"Sir we've entered the ring but we can't slow down we're traveling at a thousand miles an hour we're going in hard," Lovell yelled.
"Just keep us level," Keyes yelled back.
The turbulence was enourmous. The entire ship shook and rocked violently from side to side.
Keyes could barley hear Lovell's voice. "Sir...Cap...we're.....500...feet...100.50...10..impa..." The straps tore and Keyes was thrown from his seat and slammed into a bulkhead and all went black.
"Sir sir can you hear me we made it," Keyes heard Lovells deep voice boom into his ears.
"Huh...wha...we made it," he stuttered. He got up and shook his head. Keyes felt something trickle down his forehead. He felt around to feel a deep gash on his forehead.
"Sir Lt. Hikowa and Dominique are dead," Lovell said.
Keyes looked around to see Hikowa lying on the floor in a pool of blood and dominique sitting in his chair with blood pumping from a wound in his head.
"Sir we got to get moving several covenant dropships have landed and circled the entire crash site," Lovell said.
"Captain their coming on to the bridge."
To Be Continued...
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