Fanfiction story halo
This is the story of the asteroid belt that surrounded the solar system home to the planet, REACH.
2 days ago, the deep space scanners on the asteroid 237B sighted what looked like a covenant fleet, set to reach the asteroid belt in two days. We used a contact in a Reach spaceport to tell UNSC about the fleet. We are still fugitives and outlaws from the govs,, but we would hate to help the covenant, not after they enacted genocide upon that jackal colony, their own people, just because they traded with asteroid pirates, more specifically, us. So we do feel like that was our fault.
As pirates, we had the asteroid belt armoured with space-to-space cannons, some black market coil guns, homing rockets, and ripper droid caskets shooters. They shoot a rocket, which splits open near the target, releasing these chrome spiderlike 'ripper droids' armed with plasma cutters and a drill harpoon that grab onto the ship and nearly always destroy or incapacitate the target. But the prize of our raiding fleet and our elaborate defences, are 30 sabres, modified to carry shells that contain an artificial virus that eats metal and thrives on plasma radiation.
The dials and switches were turned, the lights glowing positive. It was a suicide mission, but we had unanimously decided to go ahead. A ship, containing a elite group of specially trained hunters, trained to kill the Spartans, was our target.
The organic shapes of the covenant fleet slid silently through the void, all eyes towards reach, no attention paid towards the small traces of unusual radiation being emitted from the asteroids. A unique signal echoed through the void, picked up only by the pirates receivers. Huge doors slid apart on dozens of the surrounding asteroids, revealing the cannons, coil guns and rockets of the pirates defensive systems. The sabres and raiding ships speed out from cover, falling upon the stunned fleet, as the heavy weaponry opened fire. The cannons targeted the seraph carriers first, disabling them, giving the sabres a free reign to fly towards their target. The target ship was a seraph carrier, but was protected at the centre of the fleet. The sabres flew through the bombardment being fired at them from the ships and surviving seraphs, saving the virus shells for the target carrier. The covenant forces began to recover from the shock, their numbers striking a heavy toll against the pirates.
2 minutes in to the battle, only one sabre remains, its target in sight. The virus shells are loaded. The button is pushed. Nothing. It has jammed. A small opening is seen in the ship, seraphs pouring out of it. The pilot, formulates a plan. He flies head on for the landing bay, reaping horrible carnage upon the fighters that stream out of his target. Leaving a path of wreckage, he lands. As his hatch opens, plasma shots ricochet of the sabres body. First he throws his grenades throw the opening, sticking his assault rifle through the widening gap. He rolls under the body of his sabre, shooting back at the amassed crew of the ship. He lodges his grenade into the jammed release mechanism of the virus canister, inches from his face. He pulls the pin.
Because of the actions of these pirates, the Spartan hunter squad never reached Reach, allowing the Spartans to survive to fight, and bring about the eventual downfall of the covanent.