- Chewbaccawakka
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Man I'd love to fly a Longsword. But I'm inclined to agree with the general consensus it's unlikely it'll happen. But just imagine...
Breaking through the cloud cover a squadron of Longswords form up around a centered fighter-bomber. Cut to the Chief in the cockpit manipulating the control yoke "I've got lead" he says as he begins a dive towards the deck. Cut to a female UNSC pilot (WARHAMMERS DAUGHTER OMGLOLZ!) flipping switches behind the controls of another Longsword. "You heard the chief, keep an eye on your six, watch your wingman, and lets blow these Covie sonsa-blam-s off this rock!"
Back with the Chief you hear a bunch of "affirmatives, understoods, ect" and at least one war-whoop. Now the mission begins having you engage enemy seraphs in atmo. Lots of frantic
dogfighting through canyons and around mountains as you work your way to a primary objective, some Covenant facility or rather. You kill a bunch of enemy fighters as well as using some of your bombers payload destroying ground troops, wraiths and the like.
Cortana speaks over the com letting the squadron know "Primary objective coming into range." You see a large Covenant structure come into view. Right at that moment your Longsword gets hit by anti-air, klaxons begin blaring and lights flashing all around the interior of the cockpit. "We won't be able to keep her in the air much longer" Cortana warns you, "Maybe if we can land in the field around the facility-" The Master Chief cuts her off with a short "Can't" you see him pulling hard on the yoke and flipping switches on the console. "What do you mean can't?!" Cortana is incredulous "There's plenty of... Oh" at this time you see a Scarab climb over a hill and park directly in the field she was suggesting, right in front of the Covenant base.
Cut back to MC in the Longsword, "Stand by, I've got an idea" he says as he begins to undo his restraint harness. Cortana is curious "What are you... oh no. No, Chief this is a bad idea!" 117 responds with "What? I thought you liked crazy?" Close up of the control console, you see his gauntleted hand flip one last switch. The read-out shows 'ALL WEAPONS ARMED- SAFETY RELEASE OFF-'
Cut away to a wide shot (war-journalist style) of MC's smoking Longsword bank till it's on a collision course with the Scarab. Cut back to the cockpit, the Chief is now standing next to the command seat, he jams the throttle bar all the way open turns and makes a beeline for the cockpits airlock at the back of the command room. Slamming into the airlock door at full Spartan II sprint he smashes the door off of its railing and holds tight to it as both he and the door sail out into freefall.
Cut back to the wide shot right as the flying-bomb slams into the scarab.
stop.
-MASSIVE EXPLOSION- Cortana screams "JOHN!"
resume.
Still in the wide shot, you see a small speck fly out the back of the Longsword right before impact. Cut to a shot from the ground beneath the exploding Scarab. You hear Cortanas voice shouting "Locking armor!" right before impact. The Chief hits the ground at high speed and rolls until he slams into a piece of destroyed debris, kicking up dust and dirt the whole way. Cut to close up of the Chief as he gets to a knee, and then stands amid the burning wreckage of the Scarab and Longsword. Cortana holo-projects herself onto a piece of the wreckage and raises her hands, now balled into fists, to her head and lets out a roar of fear and frustration. "GAAAAGH!!" She visibly calms down as you see terror melt to nervousness melt to admiration all play across her face. She appears to look down towards Johns feet and asks "What is it with you and doors anyway?"
The Chief says nothing, he just turns from looking at her projection up to the Covenant Base before him. End scene as he's standing there with Pelicans landing behind him dropping off troops and vehicles.
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I think that would be fun.
[Edited on 06.19.2012 6:08 PM PDT]