Author's Note: Sorry this took so long to make but school and shit and being grounded and stuff. Anyone play Halo 2? It was awesome even though the ending sucked and capaign was short but overall it was great. And without further adoo....Lost Marines!
Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Microsoft or Bungie.
Halo:Lost Marines
Chapter One: Covenant Bastards
Nicholai sat at the table in the mess hall looking in the eyes of his opponent never blinking. He looked atthe hand that he had and smiled for the benefit of his opponent, he looked around the table, four in all, but three of them had already folded. He looked at the money in the table, so much money, and he wanted it. Nicholai was 26 years old but he looked younger. Some hardly believed he was a lieutenant, he had flaming red hair and deep blue eyes. His father was Canadien and his mother was Russian, or so he was told by his foster parents. He never knew his real parents, the were killed when he was two years old at the Fall of Harvest.
"So, what you gonna do Ace?" Nicholai asked with a smirk.
Nicholai put another hundred into the pot looking at Ace's face. Sweat was beating on Ace's head and his eyes shifted in uncertainty.
"Alright, Nick, I fold." Ace said putting his hand on the table, a full house.
Nicholai smiled in victory and laid his hand on the table, revealing his hand....a pair on twos, hardly enough to win.
"Should have stayed Ace, you would have won," Nicholai said with a smirk, "next time be more careful and don't throw away a hand like that."
"Jesus, Nick, how do you do it?" Ace asked, "I looked into your eyes and saw someone that wasn't lying."
"It's a secret," Nicholai said, "again?"
Just before he was about to answer the intercom buzzed on.
"This is Captain Dylan, will Lieutenant Nicholai Castle please report to the bridge immeadiately."
"Guess not, I better go now, the captain sounded impatient, see you guys later." Nicholai said.
And with that he left the bridge and moved through the passageways, greeting fellow marines as he made his way through the decks. The ship that he was on was called The Apocalypse, it was just a basic patrol ship. This confused him because he was transfered to this ship, and a marine of his status and record could be fighting and aiding in the war, not being someone on a patrol ship, it was weird but orders were orders and he had to obey them.
He entered the bridge and he made his way to the front of the bridge, where the captain always was, watching the never-ending space. He saw the captain and he stood at attention and saluted the captain.
"At ease lieutenant," Captain Dylan said, "we have a situation, and I need your help, Gabriel, put them on screen."
Gabriel was the ship's AI, he was one of the smart-AIs. A human representation of the AI came on screen.
"Yes captain, coming on screen now." Gabriel said.
A picture of a Covenant flagship came on screen. It was a majestic site, seven plasma, each one capable of tearing through any ship, if this thing knew where they were, they were fucked.
"Covenant flagship, just came out of Slipstream, on route straight towards us, 1 billion kilometres away, waiting for orders, captain." the AI said.
"Lieutenant, you are the most veteran officer on this ship and the only one I can trust to caryy out this mission." the captain said.
Captain Dylan handed Nicholai a strange looking thing. It had a circular shape, and it was made purely of stone. It looked like a very old rune.
"What is this?" Nicholai asked.
"I have no idea, we found it on Planet Seraph in the Valentine system, one of the closer system's to Earth, just as we had driven the Covenant off the planet. they were digging and found this. Twenty elites were transporting it to their ship when we ambushed them and captured the relic," the captain said. "Our mission was to get this to the ONI base on Kerma when they found us."
"What do you want me to do?" Nicholai asked in a very serious tone.
"Good," the captain said, "I see you will accept the mission. This ship is going to be destroyed, there is no avoiding it. I need you to get to the escape pods right away, and I need you to try as hard as you can to get this to ONI."
"But how?" Nicholai said.
The captain sighed and put down his head. He muttered something that Nicholai couldn't hear or understand and then he lifted his head.
"I don't know...but I need you on an escape pod now!" the captain said.
"Yes sir." Nicholai said as he turned to leave.
"And lieutenant, you will also be getting an escort who are on their way to the escape pods on deck 16right now, you will join them there.....good luck." the captain said.
"Sir, multiple covenant boarding crafts on approach, I estimate 1000 covenant troops, they are too small to hit with archer missiles or MAC rounds, they will reach here in approximetly 5 minutes." Gabriel said.
"How many marines and naval personel do we have on the ship." the captain asked.
The AI was silent for 0.53 seconds before she answered.
"223 sir."
Everything was silent until Nicholai broke the silence.
"Give them hell sir."
The captain smiled and lifted his head picking up the microphone for the intercom.
"Alright marines, code red get yourselfs a weapon, we have Covenant on ! Gabriel shoot everything you got at that Covenant hunk of junk when it gets close enough, were gonna show theseCovenantbastards the time of their lives!"
Covenant Boarding Craft
Igna 'Drakamee walked around the small boarding craft up and down. He looked around at his team. Ten Jackals andeight Grunts, hardly a team. He planned to lose at least six Grunts and three Jackals but he didn't really care. This was a very important mission, he knew that, but he didn't understand why he couldn't have been paired with another Elite or something, it would have made his job easier to accomplish.
"Alright you pathetic worms, the will of the prophets is that we will cleanse that starship of the unpure race and recover the sacred relic that the humans stole from us." Igna told his team.
"Sire, why is this thing so important it's only apiece of rock." One one the grunts said.
Igna whipped out his plasma rifle in a flash and shot the Grunt in the head with it. The others looked to there fallen comarade and shrank back in their seats in fear.
"This is what happens when you question the will of the prophets, we will board soon so get ready." Igna said to the terrified Grunts and Jackals.
Igna looked at the human ship that came closer every secondand snarled at it.
UNSC ship: The Apocalypse
Nicholaileft the bridge but before he left he grapped some weapons, he took a Battle Rifle and dual SMGs, with some ammo. He left and when he was out the door something slammed into the ship and made him loose his balance and fall over. The Covenant had arrived.
He made his way quickly through the passageways to Deck 16 where they were waiting for him to leave, to get off this soon to be atomb ship. He heard gunfire and screams and squeals of Grunts. He unsholdered his Battle Rifle and got ready for whatever was coming. A squad of Grunts came around the corner and he opened fire, he killed three and the other two ran away screaming, "There everywhere," and other nonsense that Grunts always say.
An Elite in red armor came around the corner and caught Nicholai off guard. the Elite fired his Plasma Rifle but it was empty. He growled and charge Nicholai, gun raised in a whacking position. Nicholai rolled aside, got up and whacked the Elite in the back of the head, and shot the other two Grunts who were rallied by the Elite. Two Brutes ran at him from down the passageway, he clicked the trigger and nothing happened, it was empty. Just them a squad of marines came around the corner and killed the Brutes, then shot extra rounds into their corpses and muttered not very nice remarks.
"Thank you, if you want to live get off this ship." Nicholai said.
"No can do sir, orders are to hold the ship, and we will." the sergeant said winking.
He left the sergeant and his marines knowing they would soon die and he made his way to Deck 16. He got there without further enemies and he got into the escape pod.
"Is everyone here?" Nicholai asked.
"Yes sir, about time you got here." one of them said, a sergeant.
"Ok, pilot, let's get off this ship." Nicholai said.
"Yes sir, where we going?" the pilot asked.
"Get down to the planet, I'll try and think of something there." Nicholai said.
"Aye sir." the pilot said.
The left the escape tube and rocketed into space, he looked back at the ship and knew they wouldn't last much longer. Just then, a plasma turret turned to them and fired at them, it clipped one of their wings and they started to spin out of control.
"Were in for a rough landing boys!" the pilot said.
The entered the planet's atmosphere and rocketed towards the ground. Nicholai saw the ground rushing up to meet them, the everything was black.
Author's Note:Well that's it for the first chapter, please review, please!