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Subject: Enemies of Humanity [Story]
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Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

PROLOGUE: Angels of death

Lt. Jason Miller was finishing up his report. All around him Marines, and other ODST thrashed around in the swirling snow storm. There objective, to search the half standing structures for survivors or leads to what might have occurred here.

It seemed like a lifetime ago he laughed and played in a field not far from here. The sun shining in his face as he ran through the tall grasses that stretched for miles. The only refuge from the intense heat was the seldom breeze, or the occasional cloud. That was a lifetime, and a world away.

Now before him, the intense snow stung his skin through the thin areas of his insulated armor. The wind whip-lashed in his face, causing him to squint in the already poor visual conditions. The ground was cloaked in ash and snow and debris.

"Sir!", spoke his Sergeant, shocking Jason back to reality. "Pelican inbound to escort you to the Heracles, Captain wants to be briefed on ground operations."
He only nodded, nobody was in the mood for military regulations today. The temperature was dipping into the negatives, and the place stunk of pain, fear, and death. It was an odd feeling, he had never felt before. It didn't feel like innies, it didn't smell like it. It didn't feel right at all.

He felt his skin crawl, and it wasn't because of the cold.

His Pelican emerged from the storm clouds above, where growing electrical interference was causing lightning to streak across the sky. Before boarding, he turned around and surveyed the landscape once more. A once peaceful town was now a shell of what it once was. The ruined walls of major buildings was all that remained as evidence that there where people here. Farmers, workers, families...

Now all gone in a blink of an eye. An entire damn planet. His mission was to find out how.

He sat in the co-pilot seat, and the Pelican began ascending into the heavens.

"What have you got for me?" Jacob yelled through the noise of the engines and wind. "Patching you through to intel from the Vostok now sir, connections staticy though." The pilot replied curtly. His monitor sprung to life, showing a familiar face. "Well hello beautiful", he said.

"Charming" Spoke junior intel officer Kriste. "Where getting reports from other sections. There... well, Strange."
"Define strange"
"Well the entire planet is experiencing extremely abnormal weather conditions and electrical interference, as you probably noticed. Your section is the only one that looks relatively intact. Most of our other recon teams are reporting entire cities missing, and a strange find."
"Keep going" replied Jason.
"Well, underneath some of the snow is a hardened substance that there saying looks like glass."
"Glass?" he said.
"Glass", she confirmed. "Where receiving some samples now for identification."
Jason simply nodded slightly. What the hell was going on?
"Jason?" Kristie spoke softly. "You ok?, I mean its ok if you need to tell the Captain you can't-"

"Im fine" Jason spoke swiftly, his words cracking like a wip. He didn't mean for it to come out that way. "This is just another mission" he lied. It was anything but for several reasons.

Kristie paused for a second, as if thinking of what to say. Finally she whispered "I love you". Before he could reply there was a large shock of lightning, the cockpit was briefly illuminated, and the signal was lost.
"Sorry sir" spoke the pilot. "But we'll be at the Heracles in just a few minutes. This electrical storm is messing with my instruments."
Jason just stared at the screen, the words "me too" where still ready to spring forth from his lips. Yet he had no idea he would regret this moment for the rest of his life.

Suddenly they broke through the last of the clouds, and begun exiting the atmosphere. They zoomed by the Arabia, engaged in land operations.

Senior intel officer McCay on the Arabia hardly had time to yell "BRACE YOURSELVES" when four bogies emerged from nowhere off his screen and impacted the ship. He didn't feel a thing. And neither did most of the crew. Most.

Jason saw the rest of battle group 4. The Heracles, the command vessel. The Arabia behind them, holding most of the supplies and men for the mission. And the Vostok, which became the head intel. vessel due to its slightly newer, updated sensors. All was peaceful against the starry sky. The 2 ships up ahead where the size of golf balls. and growing larger. While the Arabia dissapeared from view behind them. Thats when all hell broke lose. Behind him was a flash of blue light, and the Arabia was cracked clean in half, slowly free-falling towards the planet.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!" Jason yelled.
"HELL IF I KNOW BUT WHERE GETTING OUT OF HERE" came the reply.

The Heracles now loomed just in front of them, and the pilot began circling to the hanger.
"Incoming emergency transmition from the surface sir" spoke the pilot.
"Patch it through."
The message was hardly discernible.
"This is - of the UNS- REQUESTING IMMEDIATE EVAC- dead- Over- THERE EVERYWHERE- Immediate E-."
"Land this damn thing already" Jason yelled as they pulled into the hanger.

He did't wait. 10 seconds later he jumped out of the Pelicans opening hatch, 15ft from the ground. Crew members where scattered chaotically as LongSword fighters began scrambling.

Kriste was immersed in her terminals, locating the source of the strange projectiles the ripped the Arabia apart mere seconds ago. They seemed to be some kind of missiles as they constantly adjusted there trajectory, which meant the analysis of it wouldn't lead them to the origin, and that was the problem. Its liked they appeared out of nowhere.
I've never seen anything like it, Kristie thought, and neither had any one else on board. She was running every kind of scan she could, then found something.

The missiles left a faint trail of radiation, gases, and electromagnetic interference. And it was disappearing fast. She ran the calculations in her head, it was faster than typing in the 3 keys necessary to pull up a visual representation. She got the coordinates, and scanned the region, alerting the other Officers and captain. A second later, she realized that was quite unnecessary. Because 2 more missiles suddenly escaped the confines of the cloud covered planet below.

From the bridge of the Heracles, it was almost a majestic scene. 2 blue white missiles raced from the planets atmosphere, directly at the Vostok, but they where ready for it. Captain Veredi could only watch in silence as the Vostok initiated dodging maneuvers. It spun towards the incoming projectiles at an angle, firing thrusters on its starboard side at the last instant. The brilliant points of blue white light flashed by, the invisible gases and radiation left behind made the starlight near it shimmer like heat waves.

Veredi released his held breath, he thought it was over. The 2 missiles steered to the right, and turned 180 degrees completely, still having the Vostok in its sights. They attempted to dodge the missiles once more, but this time they weren't so lucky. It was swift and brutal, the javelin like projectiles both hit the ships engines.

The explosion smashed the engines into pieces, which in a microsecond where flashed vaporized and reduced to its component atoms and molecules, along with a part of the ship. The excess heat rippled through the super structure of the frigate, threatening to rip it apart as it did the Arabia. The titanium and steel metal flexed and groaned, threatening to give way. After a few tense seconds to those on boards, it stopped. The ship held... for now. The super dense depleted uranium and other dense metals that made up sections of the engines had absorbed much of the blast, saving the rest of the ship.





[Edited on 01.08.2010 6:44 PM PST]

  • 01.05.2010 6:04 PM PDT
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Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Lt. Jason Miller burst into the bridge of the Heracles. "WHAT ARE THE CASUALTIES"?!

On board the Vostok, Kristie wiped tears from here eyes. The shock wave felt like it had almost collapsed her lungs, and she had lost her breath. But all systems where critical, and she had a job to do. She glanced at the screen that was locked onto the coordinates where the missiles originated. In a fraction of a second everything else seemed to become irrelevant. Everyone one the Bridge looked towards the main view screen, where the same image had been displayed. From the seemingly infinite depths of the storm cloud that shrouded the massive continent beneath it, rose a ship. Smooth, and almost organic. It wasn't human.

"Initiate communication protocols NOW" screamed Veredi. Most of the many view screens around him depicted the strange ship, drifting ever closer. Others showed feeds from drones just sent to the surface, which where displaying smaller ships hovering over the planet. Concentrated beams of light streamed down from them towards the chaotic mass of dots that where marines, Instantly vaporizing anything its graceful wisps of plasma touched.

Jason was helpless, and tormented. He was trapped inside the ship, unable to do anything. To help her. To him the next tense minutes past by in seconds. He had tried to convince somebody on the bridge to get him a ride to the Vostok, but nobody was listening. He dad made his way back to the Hanger, everyone moving around him like it was all a dream, slow moving, and insignificant. The Captains voice filled the huge room "BRACE FOR IMPACT" and the whole super structure shook. He didn't care. He walked up to one of the men stationed at the blast door control panel, who was to busy to notice him. He grabbed him swiftly from the back, simultaneously breaking his arm in three places and striking him in the voice box, so he couldn't scream. He used his identification key to unlock an idle Pelican, and let the man collapse on the floor in agony. Jason heard him remove his magnum, but knew he wouldn't shoot.

He climbed into the Pelican cockpit, Marines where already surrounding it. Hardly noticing them, he prepped the launch sequence, and suddenly everything froze up. A screen flashed "Remote Override reinstated". "DAMN IT!" he yelled, banging the terminal in frustration. The pelicans hatch began to open up, and Marines climbed inside. He stood there idle, his back facing the door to the cockpit as one, then 2 marines entered. His eyes had become fixated on a small screen. It was an Image of the Vostok, drifting, firing emergency thrusters. 1 pinpoint of light appeared on the screen, then 2, 4, 6. The Marines grabbed him by the arms, he broke ones wrist, and spun toward them long enough to break the others knee cap.

He quickly turned back around to view the screen. The Vostok evaded 2 missiles just as the Heracles shook once more from impacts.

More marines poured into the cockpit, stunning him with electricity tipped batons. He feel to his knees, hardly noting the pain coursing through his nervous system.

This couldn't be happening.

Kristie was standing at the huge blast window at the front of the Bridge, watching the pin points of light fly right at her. The blast doors where closing over the observation window, like a final act of defiance against the inevitable. She placed her hand on the glass, as if it could stop the beams of bluish light. The brilliance hardly gave way to there true nature, there true purpose. As if to deceive its prey into a false sense of security to draw closer, and strike. Like death itself they refused to be cheated, following the ship wherever it went. In the face of it all, Kristies, ironically, last thoughts where "They're so pretty, like angels".

Jason saw the miraculous explosion on the screen, as the Vostok was reduced to bits of molten metal. The Marines had successfully 'cuffed him. Tears streamed down his face.
"No. no... no." He swiftly stood up once more stunning his detainer's, he kicked one in between the legs, and head butted the other. Another walked in and slammed the butt of his rifle into his gut. He crumpled over on the floor next to the marines. Then he saw something fall from his pocket. A simple, unmagnificent gold ring, with a single diamond. He had refused to leave it out of his site. The marine slammed his rifle into him once again, this time into his head. His vision only dazed, as if his mind was trying to hang on for a bit longer. He reached out, grasping the ring. In the background he could barley make out the captains voice announcing to prepare for a jump.

It was like it was all a dream. Then everything went black.

In the Bridge, the final transmition before the jump played.


"Your destruction is the will of the gods. And we? we are there instruments!"

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Thank you for reading thus far. Please comment and save thread so you can keep track of further comments. I promise you the plot line for this Fan Fic will have your head spinning.




[Edited on 01.08.2010 2:55 PM PST]

  • 01.07.2010 4:04 PM PDT

That was pretty good, a bit confusing at points but still good none the less.

After a little while I lost track of all the names and places which meant that the main guy seemed to keep jumping around ships

[Edited on 01.13.2010 11:43 PM PST]

  • 01.08.2010 4:11 PM PDT
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Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Posted by: Alien Emperor
*reserved to read later*


Any time now...

That was pretty good, a bit confusing at points but still good none the less

Specifics?

[Edited on 01.13.2010 1:08 PM PST]

  • 01.09.2010 4:49 PM PDT

When are you going to do the next part?

  • 01.11.2010 11:56 PM PDT
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Some can come away from reading "War and Peace" thinking it a simple adventure story, while others can read the ingredients on a gum wrapper and unlock the secrets of the universe.

Posted by: Alien Emperor
When are you going to do the next part?


Today or tomorrow.

  • 01.13.2010 1:08 PM PDT