The Assualt on Earth: Parts Three and Four
Posted By: vorengaffer<korbat68@hotmail.com>
Date: 28 September 2005, 2:58 am
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Chapter three:
Orbital M.A.C. platform Malta in orbit around Earth,
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1521 hours
The escape pod disconnected from the Malta: on board the captain and eight marines plus the seven foot tall Spartan standing there so composed in side his amour it betrayed his inner thoughts. Will moved to the back of the escape pod were there was a large window mainly to see what was tailing you down and to see what happened to the object you were escaping from, he stared out of it searching for any hope of his fellow Spartan Linda getting out. Nothing happened for a full 20 seconds then there was a flash around the centre of the station then it grew larger engulfing the station in flame then it cleared leaving no trace if the most powerful weapon capable of defending Earth. Bye Linda, you are finally at peace Will sullenly thought to himself, he listed her as MIA according to the NavSpecWar regulations pertaining to the Spartan program and did a small double take noticing that Fred's name was listed under MIA and remembered that he was making a speech on the Athens only three of us left.
"Get set for evasive manoeuvres" yelled the pilot. The statement was followed by dull thumps on the outer hull of the ship and when a piece of concrete struck the window Will understood that it was parts of the Malta.
Now the Malta was gone he could see the full scope of the conflict raging behind it, he counted roughly 70 Human war ships currently engaged with the Covenant force of 15. Unfortunately the rest of the Fleet was denied battle for fear of these 15 being a diversion. The sister station to the Malta and Athens, the Cario, fired a slug from its huge barrel. It hit an alien ship tearing off the back of it; the rest of the hull succumbed to the pressure of all the air leakage and imploded on itself leaving only a glittering dust cloud in its wake. The Athens reloaded and sent another round straight through the nose of another ship obliterating it, regrettably it had already fired a salvo of plasma that burned its way through a Marathon class cruiser igniting it at its engine core leading to it exploding, now with a hole in the defence grid one of the two assault carriers went through. The Cario fired at the assault carrier, but the rapidly approaching ship was to close to aim at properly and the Cario missed sending a round deep into space.
"We have to get away from that hold on" said the pilot. The escape pod changed course to show a second Covenant assault carrier in view. It was in a fight with a Halcyon class cruiser, but Will's attention was more fixated on the seraph fighter heading straight for them.
"This is Spartan Will calling out to any fighters in the area we need immediate assistance, on the double"
"This is crow 12 and 13 we read you and are on the way." seconds later just when Will had lost all hope rage three missiles streaked across the escape pod's portside hitting the alien craft dead centre, the first two knocked out its shields and the third missed. Two more missiles were quickly fired past and turned the fighter into a firestorm which at the centre Will thought he could see the silhouette of a pilot then it was gone.
"Sorry we can't stay around but we got a battle to win" with that they zoomed off towards the assault carrier.
"hang on were beginning the decent" said the pilot and the escape pod dipped down towards earth.
Chapter four:
Above New Mombassa.
October 20th, 2252, military calendar
1601 time
They had been slowly descending for half an hour when it all went wrong.
Will heard a bang and a scream followed by the sight of the front of the escape pod blowing apart. Alarms rang out and the emergency chutes deployed but the pod had gained too much speed and headed for a bridge in the distance.
"This is William calling immediate assistance we are hit and falling into a hot combat zone, I say again we need immediate assistance" Something blew up and the Escape pod flipped over exposing the sky above, seeing his chance Will sprang out of the hole bracing himself for any impact. In his peripheral vision Will saw the pod plough through the bridge and land in the water.
Will extending his arms to control and slow his decent, just noticed a building in his path. Quickly retracted his arms contorting his body into a sort of cube shape he redid himself for the impact,
oh yeah smashing through the scenery after escaping from a flying vehicle was so fun last time I just had to do it again, god I'm going to die.
He hit mach one and as expected a sonic boom rang out.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH…." Will's scream was cut off by the rather loud sounds of him ploughing straight though the building. Exploding on the other side in a cloud of debris he proceeded to hit the reinforced hull of a wraith tank. Recovering faster than the startled Covenant, he took out his combat knife and shoved it with all his might into the base of the only Elite there ignoring the unbelievable pain all over his body. After 12 short seconds he dispatched of the enemy and a quick check confirmed his thoughts, most of his suite and him were damaged; he had two ribs broken both knees displaced and his suite had a totalled visor. Having assessed the damage Will grabbed his knees and popped them into place winching at the pain it caused, after a few seconds of jogging on the spot he stalked off into the conflicted city.
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