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Subject: NEW HALO BOOK
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Poll: Do you think Bungie will approve my halo book?  [closed]
Yes:  13%
(3 Votes)
No:  17%
(4 Votes)
Maybe:  30%
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Who gives a crap:  17%
(4 Votes)
Not sure:  22%
(5 Votes)
Total Votes: 23

do you think bungie will approve my book

  • 10.03.2004 5:21 AM PDT
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I don't know, as I've never read it, I can't be sure.

Good luck,

ben

  • 10.03.2004 7:51 AM PDT
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it will be really good if they allow me to publish it

  • 10.03.2004 3:16 PM PDT
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Isn't it just fan fiction though?

  • 10.03.2004 7:51 PM PDT
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maybe if you gave us more info than "im writing a book" the we could have na opinion. I think bungie would only approve you if you were an established author ina similar genre to halo (action/scifi)

  • 10.03.2004 7:54 PM PDT
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here is the second chapter:
Chapter Two

0800hours
November 30, 2552
Spartan-III Training Center, Tampa, Florida USA
Earth

“Fred, Linda protect the SPITs at all costs do it with your life.” Master Chief yells over the roaring sound of the Pelican’s engines, which he was about to enter. It was filled with the ODST’s going to New Mombasa East African Protectorate to fight the Covenant that just landed there, the Marines there needed reinforcements.
“OK sir, we will, they won’t even have a scratch.” Linda says.
He heads on as the Pelican races away at top speed to help the pinned Marines.
“Linda, come on let’s move to the safe zone I’m starting to see the Covenant dropships in the sky.” Joshua says.
“Ok, you heard your leader, let’s go.” Fred butts in before Linda can speak. They start to head out, all of them, Dr. Griffin, the SPITs, Linda, Fred and the Marines. “Come on Marines it looks like there is going to be two dropships up ahead. Let’s go.” Fred at point with his Marines clear the way for the rest of them by taking out the Covenant in the ships. Fred edges ahead of his Marines and throws a fragmentation grenade; it blows up killing the bird-like Jackals and five foot tall Grunts on his side of the U-shaped dropship. This blew out a blue elites shield leaving him defenseless against the shrapnel and the assault of the mighty Spartan’s Battle Rifle. Fred hides behind a car in the still intact area of the State of Florida all the buildings standing without battle damage or anything until the two dropships aim for the nearby building destroying it with their plasma weapons and try to crush Fred under the weight of the concrete. He manages to dodge by rolling to his right and still keeping his cover, the car. He then levels his Battle Rifle looks in the scope shoots at the elongated forehead of a Maroon Elite concealed behind another car. The Grunts and Jackals go to assault the Marines. He changes direction of his aim after blowing the elites brains out the back of its ugly skull, and shoots the shooting arm of a Jackal. The Jackal stumbles back and gives the Marines a clear shot at him, the rest line up there energy shields and have the Grunts behind them throw Plasma Grenades at the Marines, the Marines retreat from the storm of grenades, and they miss. One does stick to the hand of Sergeant Mendez he quickly without panicking rips of his glove and throws it at the Covenant, a Jackal squaks and the Grunt’s yell ‘Grenade’! in their high pitch voices, the grenade detonates killing the rest of the Covenant there. “Good job Serge, you taught the Jackals how to fly.” Fred commented.
“Looks like you made a mess. Doesn’t matter the really only good Covenant is a dead one.” Linda commented.
“My gosh, that was amazing at what they did.” Josh exclaims.
“Yes, I go in accordance in what you declare.” The genius Israel says.
“Ok, let’s move they cleared the way we should be there soon.

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1017 hours
November 30, 2552
Over New Mombasa East African Protectorate
Earth

The Pelican dropship carrying the reinforcements for the Marines, roars over New Mombasa.
“They took two in the nose and then headed back.” Cortana said.
Master Chief replies, “Who was first contact?”
“4 O 5th out of Diego Garcia, but don’t expect a big welcome the Covenant wiped most of them out before they hit the ground.” Sergeant Johnson speaks to the reinforcements as the Pelican starts to slow down to cruising speed.
“Immediate, Kilo 2 3 is hot. Recommend mission abort.” A Marine spotter reports to the pilots of the Pelican.
“Roger, recon.” The pilot replies.
The Pelican goes over the recons as they watch it soar overhead.
“Its your call Serge.” The pilot exclaims.
“We’re going in.” Johnson replies to his question. “Get tactical Marines.”
“Covenant ground forces own this city, we’re going to need to deal with them before we can kill that Cruiser.” Cortana informs the Marines.
An ODST puts on his helmet as the Pelican is being shot at by plasma, but easily dodges left to right and avoiding the buildings close by. Then it slows down and lands on a landing pad. “Fall out, go, go, go.” Johnson commands as they get out of the dropship. “I’ll bring back the wounded keep me posted Cortana.”
“Of course Sergeant.” Cortana replies.
Master Chief walks up to a Marine covering his eyes from the blown up dust. “Sir, Corporal Perez, A company, CP’s this way.” Perez speaks and darts away Master Chief following him. They go down a moderately steep ramp and pass a Marine helping another and goes in between two orange semicircular casavacs.
“Come on, come on, come on, stay with me Marine.” A medic says to an injured Marine on a stretcher.
He then sees more Marines on the standard orange stretchers ahead past the casavacs on the opposite side of the road. “The Lieutenant got hit as soon as he dropped in.” Perez says. He looks at the dead Marine on the orange stretcher.
“Who’s in charge now Corporal.” Cortana says.
“Sergeant Banks, he’s pinned down out front. Come on I’ll show you.”
He darts into a dark building and up some stairs to his left, Master Chief following him. He hears the thunder of shooting Battle Rifles as he passes a dead Marine on the steps. He then sees a turret manned by a Marine firing at the Covenant on the lower level. “No, no behind that ST.” He hears a Marine command to another. “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Three more coming left.”
The Marine at the turret exclaims. “I’m running low, man.”
Mater Chief, now to the right of the turret, waits as Corporal Perez speaks, “Oyea, Carson, is it clear?” Perez asks. There is a giant explosion outside in between Carson and Perez.
“You tell me.” Carson replies.
“Conyo, fellas moving out covering fire.”
Master Chief follows Perez as he goes out. Perez shoots at Covenant as a Wraith tank builds up plasma to the right with Master Chief watching. He also looks at the destruction that has been caused by fighting the buildings have sever battle scars and so do abandoned cars on the road. He stops looking at the Wraith and uses his scope to shoot down Grunts below him on the street. He follows three Marines that are giving him cover fire. “Grunts bellow.” A Marine says. Master Chief then throws a grenade in a pit to his right where three Grunts are, they try to dodge but it was futile. He zooms in again and shoots four more Grunts on a further level and reloads as he goes down a ramp to the level below him. He takes out the used clip and slaps in a new one. He crouches and heads for Sergeant Banks.
“I asked for reinforcements I didn’t think they’d send a Spartan.” The slightly injured Banks says. Master Chief then sees the Wraith build up plasma again; it discharges it and hits a building making it crumble. “We got to take that thing out, cover me!” He points to the Wraith. Master Chief takes out Grunts and Jackals and watches them tumble to the ground dead and inert as Banks calls in an air strike to destroy the Wraith. He gets to a turret and starts shooting the Covenant on the ground below. “Hostiles right.” Banks says. The Master Chief turns the turret towards the Jackals and Grunts to his right as they get filled up with lead. He then turns to where he was shooting before and tries to take out more Jackals. It didn’t work; he took out his Battle Rifle and zoomed in to finally kill the Covenant ‘birds’, with their extraordinary shields. “Damnit HQ isn’t there any one else on this freq’!”
“Sergeant, this is Major Easilie hang tight we’re inbound.”
Master Chief hears screeching overhead. He looks up and sees Longsword Bombers going to take out the Wraith. The bombs rain over it and sure as heck it was taken out, the purple mortar tank blows as plasma spews from it. He then resumes killing the Jackals and Grunts he turns to Banks, “Take my weapon you’ll need it.” Master Chief takes his SMG’s and heads down another ramp to his left with his newly acquired SMGs.

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He sprints down and starts shooting the pellet sounding SMGs killing Grunts, Marines are ahead of him. He keeps running across the street passing two wrecked cars and shoots blue-purple blood out of some idiotic Jackals who got in his and the Marine’s way. He then goes into of a building’s ruins and kills even more Grunts as they come around the corner. He hides behind and peeks around it, he sees more shooting at him with their plasma pistols, suddenly he sees an explosion it stunned the Covenant and the Marines and Master Chief killed them. He takes a right and then a left onto a ramp made from a ruined wall of the building and sees five Jackals close together. He takes his Battle Rifle and zooms in, but the Jackals make their line formation so its no use the Jackals just shoot back at him with support from a hovering Covenant Transport Bus. The bus starts going away and at that moment he sees two Warthogs come and crush the Jackals. He jumps down the ramp and gets in the back of a Warthog with a gauss rifle as its mounted weapon. He shoots down another bus as it comes from the left shooting three slugs into it and the Warthog turns to the left with a building right next to them and in front the other warthog. The ‘hog’ goes over a slight man-made hill and sees the bus that escaped them and another in the man-made ditch to the left, he shoots the back one missing with two slugs and hitting with three and watches it burst into blue plasma-like flames. The ‘hog’ continues forward and he destroys a Ghost piloted by a Grunt to his left before it activated the anti-gravity pads. As the hog then turns left going into a street with a wall on his right and a battered building to his left. He then sees the transport bus that had escaped them and takes it out with three slugs as well. It takes yet another left and meets up with the other ‘hog’ that had went a different route as it crushed some Grunts. He then encounters four Ghosts, which he takes out with ease with the gauss rifle making it one flip in the air with one slug and killing it in the air with another. The ‘hog’ takes a right down two blocks, then left and takes down more Ghosts making them ram and flip into each other.
“A Phantom!” Cortana cries. Master Chief shoots at the purple flying behemoth as it shoots back with plasma. Then they turn right in between two buildings and another Phantom appears ahead. They follow; it gets close to the ground and departs Covenant.
“Brutes!” Cortana cries again. He tries shooting at them with the gauss rifle, but misses. A Brute that was still in the Phantom jumped down on to the Warthog and knocked out the passenger with a slap with its left and the driver with its right now that there was no driver the ‘hog swerve to the right into a wall. Master Chief jumped out of the gunner seat, as did the Brute. He hit the Brute in the gut with the butt of the gun and then in the head with the barrel knocking it to the ground as he shot it in the gut four times to make sure he is dead. He then changed direction to back down the road and sniped out two Brutes. It failed so he aimed at something better, he shot at a car nearby them making it explode killing the two nearby Brutes and finished sniping out a third farther down the road.
“Ghosts to your right.” He pulls out his SMGs as a Ghost passes him on the left and another comes at him.
“Wait for it.” Cortana says. He jumps on the left wing of the Ghost; he launches forward and swings horizontally to kick out the Brute in the driver seat. He turns the Ghost around and shoots more Brutes.
“Marines don’t stand a chance if those Phantoms double back!” He starts leading the Phantoms away, he turns right on to a highway and looks back to see the two Phantoms following him. He keeps dodging the redish-purple plasma shots from the Phantoms and Ghosts. A Phantom shoots a billboard attached to a building and tries to go under it. It falls on it the Phantom, flips on its back and blows up when the Chief passes it. The Ghosts and the remaining Phantom continue to follow him. Master Chief saw a sign up ahead on a black board in red lights HIGHWAY ACCESS DENIED, AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SHUTDOWN.
“Chief.” Cortana says.
“Hang on.”
He takes the Ghost to the closing door and slides in the seat to the right so he is parallel to the ground. He makes it through, but the Ghost doesn’t he slides across the street on his green Mark VI armor’s stomach as the Brute in a Ghost smashes into the closed door. He comes to a stop and gets up while Cortana speaks, “Bingo there’s the cruiser.” The Chief stands up. “Now all we need to do is.” She sounds disheartened as they both see bright blue lights dropping from the sky. He looks up and seven Covenant Drop pods drop around him. He sees black Elites come out. They had plasma swords that they show as they turn to face him. The Chief hears the starting of the Elite’s blblue swords and he looks around at each of them SMG’s extended. He puts an SMG away and takes out a plasma grenade. “Bet you can’t stick it.” He switches the grenade on.
“Your on.” As he replies to the challenge.
One charges at him from his left, he dodges forward and throws it on his leg it blows up and kills that Elite and another with it, as blue flames fly up into the air. Then two more charge at him he rolls in between them then takes out another plasma grenade and throws it on the gut of the Elite in front of him, the soon to be dead Elite charged at him, the Chief grabbed the right arm of the Elite and threw him into the other two as the grenade detonated and the three died.
“Two left.” Cortana exclaimed. He took out his Battle Rifle and shot the Elite in the head and he flinched and kept one SMG out and pointed it to the other head as it flinched aswell. One charged with its shield down and Master Chief quickly aimed both of his weapons to his left and shot with them at its head. He grabs a plasma sword after killing that Elite and puts away the Battle Rifle. The last Elite ran right at him. The Black Elite was really close to Master Chief and swiped with its plasma sword. The Chief blocked with his plasma sword and shot with the SMG. The Elite stumbled back as Master Chief lunge attacks the off balance Elite.
“OK, good job, now lets head to that cruiser.”

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O823hours
November 30, 2552
En-Route to Safe Zone by SPARTAN-III Training Center
Earth

They all quickly run pass the corpses of dead Covenant and the blood-splattered street. Fred commands, “Linda go back with the SPITs and the doc.” She slows down and runs along side them. “You,” he points to twelve of the twenty-four Marines. “go back with her.”
Jack interrupts Fred’s thinking, “A phantom is going to flank us we have to do something quick!”
“Linda you heard that.”
“Affirmative Fred.”
“What’s wrong?” Joshua asks curiously.
“It’s a Phantom coming quick and most likely coming with many Brutes.”
The group takes a left on to a war stricken street while Joshua thinks. “Ahah!” he exclaims while trying to snap his fingers.
“What you got an idea?” Linda asks.
“Yes, I will use this” he looks into his pack and grabs something. “my gauss slicer.” He presses a button and the slicer barrels extend away from the rifle barrel and sees the sun’s light reflecting off the very thin metal wire connecting the two steel ball bearings in the slicer barrels. “I’m gonna cut the engines off the Phantom.”
“What if it doesn’t work?”
“It will, this is a 2 in 1 a gauss slicer and a rifle and it’s automatic.” Everyone looks back and they see the giant Phantom. Josh aims and holds the trigger as ten slicer rounds burst out. “I didn’t need to use that many rounds since the wire could cut someone in half by just slowly walking into it.” The next thing they saw was the Phantom spinning out of control and crashing into the ground creating an immense explosion sending tons of shrapnel into the air and creating a huge crater in the battered road. Suddenly Linda sees eight giant bleeps on her motion tracker.
“Crap, they must have departed the Brutes before Joshua shot it down. Fred we have to take care of it.”
“No you don’t.” Joshua butts in as he stops and turns around and shoots the remaining ten slicer rounds he takes out the used magazine and slaps in a new. “Told you.”
“Never mind Fred, Joshua took them out as well.” She tells Fred and then speaks to Joshua. “I thought the Gauss Slicers held twenty-five rounds.”
“It does but mine doesn’t, I made this with parts I found and stolen magnets, ammo and retractors.”
Matthew asks. “How far till we are there.”
“About a kilometer.” Linda replies.
“Doc, how are you doing?”
“I’m tired, there should be an underground route we can take if we take a left here, there will be few if not any Covenant there.”
Linda speaks to Fred. “Fred, lets take a left, there is an underground route with almost no hostiles.”
“OK, come on, move, move, move! Doc show us where it is.” Fred yells over the sound of Longswords overhead.
They take a left into an alley and unlock a trap blast door and head down the ramp into a dark tunnel. “Everyone lights on.”


0927 hours
November 30,2552
Underground tunnel en-Route to Safe Zone
Earth

They reach the end of the tunnel and Dr. Griffin opens the door. There were no tangos so they just walked casually down the dark and gloomy tunnel illuminated from everybody’s lights. The blast door screeches as it opens echoing along the tunnel, Fred and Linda enter first as they look around the illuminated room and they turn off their flashlights. “Two Grunts at nine o’ clock.” Linda says. She zooms in with her Battle Rifle and shoots. “Grunts down.” Then two Elites, a gold and a maroon with six Jackals come out and shoot at the Spartans as they duck.
“Grenade out.” Fred yells while throwing a Fragmentation Grenade then he hears the sound of more Grunts.
“Grenade!” The Grunts cry in their high pitch voices. Milliseconds later he sees four Grunts and two Jackals flying.
Linda rolls behind a wall that protrudes from another in front of her. Fred commands at four Marines, “Fire sector at the Covenant, Linda do the same, I’m moving to the next wall.”
The Marines go to the corner on the left hand side of the tunnel and stand as they shoot with Linda at the Covenant position with suppression fire. The Elites hide Elite throws a Plasma Grenade at Fred so he rolls forward and sweeps the Maroon Elite off its feet with his gun butt and the other melees at Fred but he rolls forward escaping with minor damage to his shields as the Elite strikes a Jackal that was behind Fred on total accident and his neck snaps forward and it falls back. The Elite went in the open when he made the melee attack and Linda and the Marines opened fire blasting through the shields and through the Covenant flesh. Fred turned to his right and melees a Jackal that flies to the left through the air ramming into another which he shot as the Marines and Linda kill the Maroon Elite that had been swept and then open fired upon on the last Jackal. “Nice good dead Covenant just the way I like them.” Fred comments.
They keep moving along the route that they had just cleared. Secretly Joshua tells Matthew, Israel, Michael, Nicky, Kevin, Giana and Catriana to pickup plasma pistols. Everyone grabbed one and put it in his or her pack except Matthew he got a Grunts Needler.
Fred stops to speak, “Lets split up into two groups.” Joshua and the other SPITs who grabbed weapons went with Linda along with other SPITs who didn’t even know they grabbed weapons. Linda’s group took a left to clear the area while Fred’s group that had the Doctor took a right to find the control room. Linda’s group went down a dark hallway and went to the right corner at the end of the tunnel she looked around the corner and saw three Blue Elites, nine Jackals and eighteen Grunts.
She asks, “Joshua can I borrow the gauss slicer.” She didn’t hear an answer. “Joshua.” She looks back and doesn’t see Joshua there. “Six of you” she points to the Marines. “Find Joshua.” Suddenly she hears the sound of plasma being fired.


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“Joshua shoot your gauss slicer.” Michael yells.
“Fine I’ll shoot a warning shot.” Joshua hears Marines coming close. “Marines give me cover fire.”
“Why?”
“Just do it!” he presses the button to open the slicer as the Marines shoot. “Slicer out!” A Blue Elite falls into two pieces as blood gushes from its torso as it twitches in shock on the ground trying to put itself back together. “Matthew, shower them with needles. Fire Team Bravo move over there.” Matthew, Kevin, Giana and Catriana move to a wall across the hallway. “Linda attack the Covenant now!” He yells at the top of his lungs. “Charlie Team” he points to the Marines. “go over there.” They move to the corner of another hallway to their right. “Matthew, aim with all the needles at an Elite.” Joshua watches the pinkish-purple needles as he finishes off the rest of the Grunt. “Everyone else change your pistols and aim for the Jackals.” They charge up their pistols and unleash the overcharged plasma. They all hear the sound of the Jackals cries and the cry of the Elite shot by the Needler as it flies through the air with pinkish-purple explosions. The Marines finish the Jackals and Linda with the other Marines kills the last Elite.
Linda’s group runs to Joshua’s location. “Good job, but what the heck were you thinking attacking them and where did you learn that?”
“They saw us so we defended ourselves and I learned it from a video game I used to play.” Joshua replies.
“Well you did a heck of a good job doing it. Ok, let’s move along” They start moving along the dead bodies and goes into another hallway and they see sleeping Grunts.
“I got an idea.” Matthew says. “I will take off a gas mask of a sleeping Grunt and he will get his leader or at least try to and we will flank him.”
“No, bad idea.” Joshua comments. “Just let Linda kill them while they are asleep.”
“Fine.” Matthew says in an irritated voice.
“Joshua, take your fire teams and head to those walls over there to the right. No Covenant can get behind you because of that blockade over there.”
“Ok.” Joshua replies while Linda starts killing the Grunts. Joshua’s group goes to the wall erecting from the left wall while Matthew’s goes to the one on the right. The SPITs stand their awaiting the Covenant while hearing the ‘thump’ of Linda killing the Grunt’s.
Suddenly they hear the cry of an Elite, “Wort, wort, wort!” And it shoots her with its Covenant Carbine.
She yells, “Start shooting now!” The SPITs and Marines level their weapons and nail the Gold Elite and the Grunts and Jackals as blood splatters out their backs and onto the wall.
“Linda we have found the control room are you almost done clearing the area.” Fred says over the com channel.
“Negative, we have one and a half rooms to clear, I repeat we have one and a half rooms left to clear you should lock the rest of the areas that have Covenant.”
“Roger.”
Joshua turns around and peeps through a hole in the boxes that made a barrier, and he sees three Grunts and a Jackal. He slaps in a new round and Matthew as well and he looks through a different hole. “Ready 1, 2, 3.” Matthew says as he holds down the trigger and twenty pinkish-purple needles and steel bullets launch out of Matthew’s Needler and Joshua’s automatic gauss rifle.
Linda says, “Don’t worry I’ll clear the next room just give me your Gauss Gun and ammo. OK.”
“OK.” They reply.

  • 10.03.2004 8:51 PM PDT
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well its different and id like to read the rest of it but it does need some speach variations, you can tell that you wrote it and not Eric Nylund. you story doest 'flow' as well as his does so far. but hey i love all stories about halo/halo2

  • 10.03.2004 10:55 PM PDT
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then again i am not a writer and i am only a freshmen in high school

  • 10.04.2004 3:01 AM PDT
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What you have sounds good, don't give up

  • 10.04.2004 9:53 AM PDT