- Wolverfrog
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Ok, here is part 6, it is the longest part to date, but it features spaces now, so should be much easier to read. As always, please leave feedback.
PART 6- Sabotage
As quietly as possible, we silently brought the Longsword stealth ship down in a corner of the massive docking station. I was about to exit through the main hatch, hand on button, but a sharp shoulder yank from Blade stopped me.
“Are you trying to get us killed Farm boy? If we open that hatch, the stealth systems will disengage. From now on, follow our lead.”
I cursed silently, 1 minute in and I already got us nearly detected.
I followed Blade, Switch, and the others through a secret trapdoor in the floor, and we dropped onto the alien surface. There was what looked like a Comm. Box in the corner, occasionally breaking the eerie silence with incomprehensible words.
“Switch, we've got a locked door to our left, can you do anything about it?” Blade spoke through his helm, which had technology that could even pick up a whisper and transmit it loud as day across the laser created channel.
“I'll try boss” Switch didn't sound too sure as he crept over to the nearby terminal.
Minutes went by, and I started to think we'd be stuck here forever.
“Got it!” Even Switch sounded surprised by his own achievement “They use the same numbers as us, so it was possible to crack.”
Olivia's voice sounded over the channel.
“Uploading information to my database, will now attempt to crack Ships main computer using uploaded Intel.
There was a slight whooshing noise as the Blast doors slid weightlessly across the floor.
“Excellent, now move out” Blade drew out his Silenced Battle rifle, and slowly crept up the hallway, the rest of us followed suit.
As we rounded the corner, Blade quickly held up his hand in a fist, a sign which Switch said meant hold steady. He motioned for us to quickly follow him, and we took cover behind a glowing pillar.
Just as I ducked behind it, we heard footsteps echo in the hallway we had resided in just moments ago.
“Heat vision on” Blade said over the undetectable channel. I did so. Luckily, on the way to the docking bay, Switch managed to 'borrow' a marines helmet, kitted out with comm. Channels, heat vision, and other standard equipment. I was wearing it now.
As I turned it on, I had to stifle a gasp.
Walking across the hallway was a triangular shaped, 5 foot creature with thick legs and arms. We were pretty confident we could kill it, judging by it's size, and were about to shoot it in the head with our silenced guns. We slowly lowered our guns as another figure ambled into the heat visors range.
This creature was huge, almost 8 feet tall, and carried a strange powerful heat source in his hand, shaped like a sword. Through our visors, we saw him sniff, take a look around, then move on.
Everyone, even Blade sighed in relief.
“What the hell was that?” One of the ODST's whom I didn't know the name of asked.
“I'm not sure Det, but whatever it was I wouldn't like to meet it face to face.”Blade quickly assimilated the essence of command again.
“Now, unless you've forgotten, we have a job to do, now, follow me, and be careful”.
We followed Blade down the hallway into a smaller room than the docking bay, but still quite large. 3 of the 5 foot creatures we had seen before stood talking on the other side of the room.
“Line 'em up in your sites, and fire” growled Blade between his scope.
One second later, and 3 inaudible whispers exited the barrels of the modified rifles. On the other side of the room, the creatures collapsed, a small hole embedded in the side of their heads.
Blade motioned for us to follow once more, and we went across the other side of the room to the dead aliens bodies.
Bending down, I picked up one of their weapons. It was small and curvaceous, built for alien hands, and had a dormant green bulb on where a barrel should be.
“Better give that to me, ONI will want to take a look at it once we get to Reach” Blade held out his hand, and I passed him the pistol.
Olivia's voice sounded across the Comm. Channel.
“I've managed to crack some of the basic aspects of the ship, such as schematics and blueprints, but still have a long wait to go before I'm close to finding out more about these enemies. I'll upload the layout of the ship to your HUD, plus a ideal spot to put the bomb.”
A split second later, a map appeared in the left of my visor, with one room glowing red. This was supposedly where we put the bomb.
“Thanks Olivia, keep trying on those codes” replied Blade.
“Over and out”
“Well,” Blade said, “What are we waiting for? Lets get to that room.”
The detonation spot was approximately 150m away, which meant stealth was needed.
We traversed through the next room without any resistance, and in the next, but one of those small aliens resided, which were took out with ease. As we entered the glowing room however, we spotted one of the taller, more ferocious looking creatures, and quickly ducked for cover.
“Right, they can't be invincible, if we all fire at once at it's head, it's bound to go down” Blade surmised.
“OK, on the count of three then. 1......2......3, NOW!”
We dashed out of cover, simultaneously firing at the tall aliens head. It grunted in surprise, yet the bullets seemed to bounce of it. Dismayed, we carried on firing, suddenly, the mysterious resistance vanished, and the Alien toppled to the floor, dead.
“What happened then?” Blade asked Switch
“It looks like some sort of shielding mechanism was in place around it, sort of like the basic ones we have around bases; but to create such a field around a single body, scientifically speaking, it should be impossible” Switch replied.
Blade strode towards the centre of the room.
“Yeah, well, we'll report this to ONI when we get back, but first, lets detonate that nuke. Det, get over here.”
The ODST named Det strode forward
“How long do we need to get of the ship sir?” He asked
Blade mulled this over.
“About 10 minutes”
“Ten minutes it is then”
Det gingerly took the bag from Blade, and removed the nuke from the bag.
“Don't know why I treat this so delicately, without the activation codes, this thing ps as harmless as a rubber duck; I'm just use to standard bombs, that's all.”
Blade gave Det a stare.
“Just shut up and arm it Det”
Det did so.
“OK, we have exactly 10 minutes to evacuate this ship, we should be able to make it.”
As if on cue, as he said this, seven Aliens rounded the corner.
“Oh crap” swore Blade...........
[Edited on 01.26.2009 12:27 AM PST]