Halo 2: The Covenant Wars [Chapter 1](Circa 2003)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I'm going to copy the work verbatim from when it was originally written so there are some spelling and grammatical errors. I wanted to capture the authentic writing style of my thirteen-year-old self haha.
The four pelican dropships flew over the vast Alaskan landscape due directly north. The Master Chief was securely fastened to the seat closes to the drop exit door. "Ok Marines lets lock and load. ETA in 5 minutes," said the pilot over the com channel. The Master Chief took his new MA7B assault rifle with a 5x magnification scope and loaded it. The he took our his M6D pistol, loaded it, cocked it, and slid it in place in his holstered. He was fully loaded with frag grenades and ammo and was ready to kick some ass.
"ETA in 1 minute," announced the pilot. The Master Chief looked around him and saw the determination on all the Marines and smiled, he wasn't the only one eager for a fight with the Covenant. There was a soft thud as the Pelican dropship landed lightly on the snow covered surface.
"Let's hit it Marines!" Shouted Cortana as the dropship's exit doors flung open letting a cold arctic wind sweep through the holding bay of the dropship.
In the distance the Master Chief spotted dozens of Covenant figures. There were at least 10 jackals armed with plasma pistols, 20 grunts armed with needlers, and 15 elites armed with plasma rifles. The Master Chief up his hand telling the other Marines to pause. He motioned for Pvt. Jenkins to take out his super rifle. He did and looked into the gun's 10x magnification scope and opened fire. One jackal fell and 2 grunts fell with shots to the head. The others, seeing their comrades fall, assumed an invasion and fled for cover.
Pvt. Jenkins put away his sniper and pulled out his double SMGS, one for each ahnd. The SMG fires even faster than the assault rifle. “Master Chief lets move, we don’t have much time.” Announced Cortana anxiously.
“Ok Marines lets move out!” Shouted the Master Chief. As they came into firing range, the air crackled around them as plasma bolts whizzed by. The Master Chief rolled into a crouch behind some crates and opened fire at four grunts whose needlers had run out of ammo. As the Master Chief peered into the 5x magnification scope of his MA7B assault rifle, his shield dropped a quarter of an inch and he realized that a jackal had found his covered and opened fire.
But not for long. The Master Chief turned around and fired four times into the middle of the jackal’s shield. As the alien staggered backwards, the Master Chief jumped up and brought the bunt end of his fun down hard into the aliens face. The jackal fell backwards under the force of the blow, and blue blood erupted from its face. “FIRE IN THE HOLE!!” Shouted a Marine somewhere in front of the Master Chief. Three seconds later a frag grenade exploded, sending three jackals and four grunts flying through the air, blood stained.
Looking back into the scope of his new MA7B assault rifle, he picked off the gunners of the four shades sending them tumbling out of the gunner seats, dead. The Master Chief ran over to one of the shades, threw one grenade exploded, sending the shades flipping in the air and crushing three grunts when they landed. The gunner’s seat on the last remaining shade vibrated as the Master Chief let a wave of plasma soar through the air and into four elites. The elites roared out in anger and pain before they fell over the side of a very big cliff.
“Gotcha you son a…!” The Master Chief began.
“Master Chief, I’m reading some pretty big signals just at the bottom of the cliff.” Interrupted Cortana.
“Sir you might want to have a look at this!” Shouted Pvt. Johnson from the edge of the cliff. The Master Chief climbed down from the gunner’s seat of the shade and quickly walked over to Pvt. Johnsons.
“What’s the matter Private?” Asked the Master Chief.
“Sir.” Pvt. Johnson replied as he handed over the sniper rifle, “there seems to be two heavy artillery vehicles coming this way.”
The Master Chief looked into the 10x magnification scope and what he saw was horrifying. There were indeed two covenant vehicles heading this way, one wraith tank and one new covenant hovercraft. The new covenant vehicle had a small plasma gun mounted on the back with a cockpit able to hold two people. Behind the hostile vehicles were two hinters, two new covenants, and three elites. The new covenants were about eight feet tall and appeared to be very heavy and muscular. The brown fur scattered about their limbs and torso was rough and dirty. The uncovered skin was like living rock. The armor covering the creatures’ torso, arms, and head seemed to be lighter, flattened version of the hunter’s shield weapons. They had horrifying faces, with small, dangerous eyes, gaping mouths, and snorting snouts. Their guns appeared to be a variation of a fuel rod weapon, and had a menacing scythe running along the bottom. The beasts also had belts of red cylinders, possibly a new kind of grenade.
The covenant force was rounding its way up the side of the mountain. “Marines listen up. There are a new kind of covenant and they looks like their tougher than the others, stay low and aim for their heads.” Informed the Master Chief as he threw the empty clip of his assault rifle down on the ground and snapped a full one in place. “Lock and load. This ain’t over till all the covenant are dead.” Said the Master Chief.
“Sir yes sir!” Shouted the Marines in unison.
A plasma bolt soared barley over the head of the Master Chief and slammed into a crate that was holding plasma grenades and erupted into a massive plasma fireball. The Master Chief turned around and peered into the scope of his assault rifle and opened fire on the covenant along with the other Marines. Before he knew it, the elites were terminated and the only aliens left were the hunters and the new type of covenant aliens. “Cortana what the hell are those new aliens and the covenant vehicle?” Asked the Master Chief.”
“Hacking into the covenant battle new… if I’m correct, those aliens are called ‘brutes’ and the new vehicle us called a shadow,” replied Cortana.
That instant a brute jumped of the gunner’s seat of the shadow towards the Master Chief, but the Master Chief fired four quick shots into the alien’s head. The alien jerked in midair before it fell to the ground with a loud this. Slowly orange blood flowed out of the brute’s head like an orange stream. Almost instantly, a brute hopped into the gunner’s seat of the shadow and opened fire on the Marines. Six Marines scream out in pain as the plasma rounds practically melted them. “Cortana we need to do something nor or else there will be nothing left for evac!” Shouted the Master Chief over the roar of screams and gunfire.
“Ok, lets move. There is one abandoned wraith tank over there,” Said Cortana as a nav point popped up in his HUD.
“Ok, here we go!” Shouted the Master Chief as he ran out into the line of fire. Rounds from the covenant’s needlers bounded of his armor and exploded when they hit the ground.
When he reached the wraith tank there was a hunter patrolling the area. The Master Chief switched to shredder rounds and aimed at the middle of the hunter’s back, and before the hunter could have turned around he let a dozen bullets soar through the air into the hunter’s back. The alien let out a roar of anger escape before it fell flat onto its face and orange blood splattered the ground. “Cortana the door is locked,” said the Master Chief.
“Ok… there,” replied Cortana as the door popped open and the Master Chief hopped in.
The inside was different than the Master Chief had ever seen. There was a plasma screen showing what was going on outside and there was numerous controls and buttons. “Cortana, how do you drive this thing?” Asked the Master Chief as he looked at all of the controls.
“Let me handle this please,” said Cortana as she took control. The wraith tank lunged forward running over a brute and continued on its way. The image of a hunter appeared on the screen and its fuel rod gun charged and a bolt of plasma soared through the air towards the wraith tank. But Cortana easily dodged it and let a big ball of plasma fly through the air and slam into the hunter making it fly backwards and fall into another one before they both, entangled, fell over the side of the cliff.
“Covenant dropship inbound,” said one of the Marines over the com channel. The Master Chief looked at the screen and saw a covenant dropship about twenty meters from where they were.
“Not for long,” mumbled the Master Chief as he sent another big ball of plasma flying through the air towards the covenant dropship. The dropship’s shields shimmered and then went out, and that’s when Pvt. Wayne pulled out his jackhammer missile launcher and opened fire. The missiles streaked across the sky and struck the dropship on the starboard side making it explode into a massive fireball.
“Yeah that’s he way to do it!” Shouted one of the Marines.
As the Master Chief stepped out of the Wraith tank, the unmistakable sound of a Pelican’s engine filled the air. A few yards away the Pelican dropship landed and the Marines hopped in. “Welcome aboard Marines and Master Chief,” said the pilot over the com channel.
“Mission complete Master Chief,” said Cortana.
“And I couldn’t have done it without you,” answered the Master Chief as the dropship took off.
“And yeah, you couldn’t have,” replied Cortana. The Master Chief smiled as the dropship banked right to take them home.
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