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Subject: USNC's final stand(a Reach fanfic)

"You are the last of your kind: bred for combat, built for war. You're the master of any weapon, pilot of any vehicle, and fear no enemy"

The synchronized sound of magazines attaching to weapons went unheard over the sound of pelicans soaring over alpha squad, an ODST unit that focused on saving super soldiers known as Spartans. A young Captain Moore led this group into battle 24 hours before the glassing of Reach. Extremely dangerous, but necessary to save armed forces that could possibly save the Human race from extinction. The sound of armor clattering against forged steel was heard about the fortress as the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers made their way towards the armory.

"Captain Moore!" A young Trooper named Regan shouted "Why are we trying to save these guys, we don't even know if they're alive?"
"We have to send a message to the Covenant those soldiers failed to. That's our mission. We leave no man behind, you know that." Moore said, trying hard to keep his voice from shaking to ensure his soldiers peace of mind.
Regan fell silent as the roaring engines gave a feeling of tranquility as the soldiers obtained their weapons from the brig.

The squad split up into 2 groups of 3 and entered a warthog and hornet. They traveled at similar speeds across the dry, hard terrain of Reach. The anticipation rose higher and higher as they got closer and closer to the battle. Cole was at turret as the warthog shook more and more after every crater they bounced over. The squad tried to remain at a low profile as Phantoms silently soared over to the left. No one spoke the whole outing to the sight. They hardly even breathed. Approximately 10 miles from the battle position, a needle struck Douglas, another Trooper, in the shoulder. He let out a loud yelp as the Driver named Alice took evasive maneuvers, flying the hornet sideways to ensure Douglas' safety.

"Prowler!" Alice exclaimed, breaking the long silence that followed the journey towards the downed Spartans.

The prowler clashed with great force against the side paneling of the rigged warthog as the gunner focused on the which left the Troopers no doubt that they were being attacked by the covenant. Cole tried eagerly to pull around the turret and get a clear shot on any of the passengers. Regan thought quickly and unhooked his safely harness, getting ready to jump from the two vehicles. Regan's feet dragged on the dry terrain as he struggled to keep hold on the Prowler. He grasped his hand around the Elite's upper armor, clenching it's neck as he pulled him from the driver's seat onto the earth. Regan hoisted himself up, armed with an S23 combat pistol, pulling the pin back and firing a bullet in between the mandibles of the Elite arming the plasma turret as Douglas removed the needle that was fired into his shoulder, and crushing it with rage. The fear from the battle was soon relived as the battle position grew nearer and nearer over the horizon. An illuminant light filled the partly night sky of Reach. Lead and plasma were traded between the two races as they fought. Douglas was lowered from the hornet, to the passenger seat of the Warthog. Douglas was angry. The Warthog broke to the left, the hornet to the right. Both exchanging bullets with covenant trying to provide as much covering fire for the Spartans.

"Delta base! We are taking heavy covenant fire, there are alot more Covenant here than we thought, send more troops!" Captain Moore said, over the radio, trying to multi-task while driving the warthog.

Base assured Sergeant Moore that soldiers were en-route to their location, but it was too late, two Covenant dropships were inbound, but oddly heading away from their position. Shivers were among the ODST squad as they struggled to hide their fear. Five phantoms were dropping covenant soldiers, the Spartans couldn't hold to much longer. Regan was again quite the quick thinker, pulling the prowler over to the Spartans location. There were only 3, one with a rocket launcher, and one with a large Spartan laser, larger than most others he had seen, while another took turret. Bullets and plasma flew across the battlefield while the Covenant yelped and groaned as they were slowly being defeated. However, as the fight seemed to close, to Elite drop pods emerged from the smoke infested sky and planted right through the hornet, severely scraping Alice's arm and taking down the hornet into the dirt as a ball of flames emerged and fell into a steady burn. Captain Moore saw what had happened and dramatically turned left towards the crash site as a great green ball of energy crashed into the side of the warthog, sending it across the dry terrain, he looked up and saw one of the dropships brigs was giving off an illuminant light and Moore knew then what was going to happen.
"Glassed"
The prowler shared a similar fate to the warthog, being thrashed around and lunged out of the drivers seat as the back side of the prowler came around and knocked him unconscious, the Spartans were fine, but Regan was in the line of fire, he would soon die afterward. The Spartans were also thrown from the prowler, one towards Moore. His unique Spartan laser glided over to the Captain, kicking up dust. He would have one chance. He groaned as he crawled his way over to it. He grasped it tightly and rolled over, exhausted on his back. His fellow Commerade rolled his experimental power core from his suit to Moore, dying soon after. Moore packed the core into the rear of the Laser, surprised to how it fit perfectly, it took several seconds for the laser to power up, he aimed it at the center of the dropship and fired as the laser kicked back away from Moore's grasp, several feet behind him. The ship dived quickly, catching itself, than imploding into a intense light that covered the sky. Just before Moore passed, he looked over at the other dropship, noticing that it's stored energy it was going to use to glass the planet soon faded.

A group of Spartans discovered Moore's dead body, sprawled out on his back, with his hands clenched together.

"Base, this is Noble Team, we have found Moore's squad to be terminated, the planet is going to be glassed any hour now you have to start evacuation." A spartan said, coming over the radio.
"Noble team this is Captain Jacob Keyes, requesting you boys find a way out of there yourselves, this base has been taken over, and only a few people are left. We are going to get as many people on The Pillar of Autumn as possible, your service will be honored."


Rumors say that Noble team found a crater and kept digging there way closer and closer to the core of Reach only to discover the Flood. After getting deep enough they discovered a forerunner teleporter that all but one of Noble team successfully escaped through. The other is said to of been captured by the Flood by hesitancy to enter the teleporter.


Note:I know that there is a HUGE lack of Dialogue. Please give me your honest opinion it, I already know how fail it is towards the end but hey, it's my first.

  • 08.02.2010 12:20 PM PDT