Fan-Fiction: The Human-Covenant War, Without The Great Schism. Story of how the war would have been if The Great Schism never happened.
I have been gone for quite a while, and my original Topic won't let me reply back on my story, so I guess I have to start a new one.
Here is the link to the story. http://www.bungie.net/forums/posts.aspx?postID=38091481&p ostRepeater1-p=1
Just a refresher, I will be continuing from where I left off, which is where High Charity is on it's way to Sangheilos, Masterchief is on the Dreadnought, and where the ODST's finally get their mission ready.
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Chapter 8 (Part 1): A new hope. Two days after the High Charity event.
Location: Area 51
Aaron looked at the big screen. "This isn't going to work."
Lord Hood put his hand on Aaron's shoulder. "Don't give up hope, we can still win this war."
Aaron sighed. "Nothing like this has ever been done.... and we only have a thousand ODST's."
Lord Hood walked to the T.V. "A thousand of the best, and that is all we need. We need everyone else here on Earth, in case they come back."
Aaron played the attack in his head. Him and his squad, which only consisted of him, Michelle, and Martin, and 997 other ODST's were to go aboard The Silent Message, which was a high class stealth ship just created, even better than the UNSC Point of No Return, which was supposedly the most advanced Stealth Prowler every created. The Silent Message was easily double it's size, had twice the Armour, twice the space. In other words, it was twice as better.
There was a Covenant super carrier hiding behind the moon. They can only see the hull of the ship, even with satellites. Their mission: To board the Hull, take control of the ship, and bring it back to Earth. This ship could be the key to the war. It could hold valuable information such as the Covenant worlds, battle tactics, technology, etc.
It was a highly dangerous mission. It was estimated that at least one to five ODST's would die in space on their way to the Covenant ship. The ODST's on this mission would be the first to try out the Stealth Pods, which are just as invisible as the ship itself. The Covenant won't know what hit them.
They were planned to start the mission in exactly two hours.
Aaron looked at Martin and Michelle, who were both practicing their sniping. He walked up to Martin, and noticed he kept missing the small two inch moving robot that was 75 meters away.
"Aim to where you think the robot will move to, not where it's at.", He said. Martin turned around, and saluted to Aaron, accidentally shooting a shot in midair. "Son, you better learn how to control that gun of yours."
Martin was embarrassed, but managed to talk back, which he wasn't supposed to unless ordered. "Sir, this isn't my gun, it's just here for pra----."
"Excuse me? ODST! you don't talk back to me unless ordered to!" Aaron then motioned to the ground. Martin shook his head, and did twenty push-ups.\
He didn't like to be mean, but he knew he had to release the anger inside Martin. He was becoming too dependent on Michelle.
"Now, are you going to hit that damn robot or not?!"
Martin nodded, replaced the ammo, and took aim. He shot, and the bullet trail signaled where the bullet was going. Aaron smiled. It was going to hit it.
A small red spark signaled he was right, and he patted Martin on the back, who returned to him a small smile. He was still pissed at being embarrassed.
Aaron checked his watch. 90 minutes till showtime.
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Location: Sangheilos, city of Vadam.
Mo'Taz looked at the beautiful city of Vadam. It was such a perfect scene. The sky was orange and purple, the lush grass swaying in the soft wind, and the large city beneath him. He was on his favorite cliff, which oversees most of the city. He could just barely see the skyline, which had a bluish color. He couldn't make out any of the features. The city housed more than twenty million Sangheilis.
Every part of this day he would take his banshee and fly over to the cliff to eat some meat from a Thorn Beast. He finished the last part of the leg he brought today, and stood up and just watched the city.
He noticed something though.
There was a large, brown spot in the sky, he couldn't tell what it was. He did notice something though.
He noticed a trail of smoke, and a small brown dot racing to his position. He sat there for minutes watching until it was near him. It was easily twenty feet in diameter. It finally crashed into the small forest on the cliff to his right, leveling most of the trees. The shock wave was strong enough to wobble him himself.
He walked over through the dust and smoke, and looked at the small crater, and what it held in it. He saw an irregular shaped brown and moldy rock, which had pieces of metal in it. It also smelled really bad. He noticed something moving from inside of it. Something wanted to come out, and it finally did.
A small piece of the rock fell off, and a small, brown blob with many tentacles popped out, and started looking around until it saw him. It started to move towards him.
He thought it was somewhat cute, and funny the way it walked around, even though it also smelled bad. The creature tried to jump on him, but he caught it with both hands. It was very slimy, and didn't bother to escape his grip. It was trying to move it's tentacles rapidly toward his chest.
Mo'Taz laughed, and set it down on the grass. "Let's play tag, I'm it." He motioned for the creature to run in the opposite direction. It just stood there for a few seconds, and started to run to him again. He let it crawl on his leg, but it tickled too much, and so he grabbed it. Maybe it wanted to tickle his chest?
He put it close enough to his chest so that the biggest tentacle could touch it. As soon as he did, a strong shock filled his whole body, and he instantly reacted by throwing the creature away from his body. The creature hit a pointy branch, and popped. He looked at his chest, and rubbed it. He was bleeding.
A very loud noise filled the space, and looked back at the city. The large brown spot he saw in the sky was a lot closer now. His mandibles dropped. High Charity?
With his mandibles still dropped, he saw in horror High Charity slowly fall in the center of the city. A bright light filled his vision. He went momentarily deaf and blind. When his vision and hearing finally cleared up, he almost felt like throwing up. The sky above the city of Vadam was now a mix of black,brown,red,orange, and purple.
He could see the shock wave flying in all directions, even towards him, at an alarming rate. He ran towards the steep hill, and ducked. A moment later, the shock wave came over the cliff. He could see the radioactive lines passing him. His bones rattled violently, and the hill tore apart. In a matter of seconds, the shock wave passed. The broken trees also flew far apart. He could now clearly see the object in the crater.
His eyes widened. He knew where he recognized the metal. It was from High Charity. He turned to the city, and felt tears forming. Large parts of the city was on fire. Most buildings were destroyed. In the center of the city was High Charity, now a large mass of broken metal and fire. He turned back to the object, and realized the creature he was playing with must have taken over High Charity. He took out his sword, and activated it. He was only a ranked a Minor, and he sighed at the Blue armor he was wearing. He wished it was yellow.
He heard noises near the object, and stepped closer to it. It was tipped on it's side from the shock wave, and it was cracking violently, until it finally split open. He nearly dropped his sword when he saw the mutated Sangheili warrior inside, along with dozens of the blob creatures, and a large bulbous form with legs of an Unggoy. They all looked at him, and started to charge at him. The Sangheili jumped high in the air, and landed on him. It quickly went to work.
It ripped of one of his mandibles, and started to punch him in the face. He screamed, and stabbed the creature in the chest with his sword. Brown melting flesh welcomed him as the creature fell over.
He got up, and the large bulbous form fell over, and exploded, sending him flying backwards. He tried to wipe away the flesh from his armor, but had no time. The large wave of blobs was coming towards him. He primed a plasna grenade, and threw it in the middle. To his surprise, a chain reaction occured. The blobs started to pop, and any blob near it popped as well. The grass under them was starting to turn a sickly brown color.
He thought of his options. To the left of him, was what was left of the city of Vadam. To the right was a large lake, and he didn't know how to swim. In front were the creatures, and behind him was a very steep mountain. He knew he couldn't climb it in time. He realized that if they were to get him, he would be one of them. He primed his last plasma grenade, and stuck it to himself. He then dove right in the middle of the wave of blobs, and only felt the intense heat for less than a second, where after, he entered the dark abyss.
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Working on Part 2 right now, will be uploaded in an hour or two. Hope you like it. Comments and advice are encouraged!!