Neverland: Plans for an assault
Posted By: SOS.Odin<kavika86@yahoo.com>
Date: 29 January 2004, 1:42 AM
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Neverland: Plans for an Assault
[authors note] I know this ones awful short folks, but im just tryin to get back in the groove. theyll get longer, i promise. -SoS.Odin-
John put the nocs up to his eyes and adjusted to the distance. The first thing he saw was a pair of Hunters. John scanned the area real quick and realized he was staring at a Covenant base. The base was positioned on top of a hill two hundred yards from the edge of the woods. There were just trenches and broken tree branches and trunks. The wood was made into barracades and shelters. John then looked at the area where Kelly was pointing. There didn't seem to be anything surprising, until he saw the cage. In the center of the base was a wooden cage with a dozen Elites and a platoon of Grunts guarding it. Inside five Humans stood. Three of them were ordinary looking men. They could have been Marines, or just ordinary civilians. One of them was a skinny pale old woman. Another was a rigid gray haired physically fit man. John recognized them as Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez.
John sat back against a nearby tree. Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez were like his father and mother. Seeing them in the hands of the Covenant pained him greatly. John had thought Mendez dead when Reach was taken. He had no idea what happened to Dr. Halsey after she left with Kelly. So he decided to find out.
"Kelly, what happened after Dr. Halsey ran off with you?"
Kelly had known this question was inevitable,"What happened isn't very important. All you need to know is that we got back to Earth. I don't know how she died, and I sure as hell ain't gonna let here stay pent up in that cage. The other Spartans.."
"About them. How are all of them here? I've only seen people who died on Earth here."
"Dead Earth people return in this sector only. There are six known sectors here. One for each of the galaxies we've traveled to. Any person with the potential to become a great warrior comes here after death."
"How the hell do you know this?"
"Prophets. We've captured a few and killed one. We interrogated the three we captured and apparently this is what they believe to be Heaven. Any Covenant warrior who has proven himself comes here. They think that since they've invaded our territory, humans from Covenant occupied land come here as well. Naturally, Spartans make the cut. The three "P's" on my back represent the three Prophets we've captured. The "K" reps a Knight."
"What the hell are Knights?"
"Not the Medieval knights we were taught about as kids, but Covenant Knights. They're twice as good as Brutes and, luckily, twice as rare as Spartans. They wear armor similar to a Hunters, and are about as big, but they're fast and strong like Brutes and smart as frick. We lost two Spartans killing the one. The six crosses on my back represent Spartans lost here."
"Who died?"
"David, James, Isaac, Chris, Erica, and..."
"And?"
"Sam."
John was motionless for ten minutes. Every name Kelly sounded off hit him like a charged up plasma pistol, but when she said Sam, it was like being crushed by that Hunter all over again. John, Kelly, and Sam were closer than brother and sister.
"When'd he die?" John finally worked up the guts to ask.
"A while ago. Six months maybe. He was runnin this show when I got here. Surprisingly, he was fully grown. He had already constructed a base, captured eight Prophets, killed two Knights, and was able to take full control of one of the galactic sectors. I was able to work with him for a month. We took another sector and still hold it. Sam found out about another Knight that had appeared, and decided to go take it out. When we ambushed it, it was asleep, so we thought. There were five cloaked Elites already there. They set up a trap and we walked right into it. During the fight the Knight got a hold of Sam, and without our armor or shields, it's not so easy to fight of a beast that strong. We killed the Knight before he could kill Sam, but Sam was too wounded to make it. Sam said he was glad he didn't see you here, but maybe he'll see you on the next level."
"What do you mean 'next level'?"
"After you die here, if you're worthy enough, you go on to the divine level. There the Gods make you into a Guardian. No dout Sam's there."
John and Kelly walked back to the base and decided to attack the Covenant base and rescue Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez. Before the sun breaks the horizon, John, Kelly, and ten other Spartan II's would sneak onto the Covenant base, take out the guards, and rescue the captives. Before the sun would hide back behind the horizon, they would return and wipe the base out of existence.
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