Hi, this is my first fan-fic, so I hope you enjoy.
I don't own Halo or Starwars.
16 April, 2551-
The Spirit of Fire and her crew have only been in UNSC space for less than two months, and already it has been relocated to Reach with a new slip-space drive being installed. And now Captain James Gregory Cutter found himself sitting in his office reading over the files ONI had given to him one last time before he went to brief the crew.
Arriving at the bridge, Cutter quickly briefed his crew of their new mission over the ship's intercoms, before standing up to look out at the fleet assembling in front of the docks. As far as he could see it should be an easy assignment, investigate a forerunner structure that was spotted on long range scanners. Though some he was concerned of somethings, such as the fact the structure was located on the galactic rim and theres a chance the Covenant found it aswell. Before him multiple ships where slowly moving into position to prepare for the jump to slip-space. High Command must of been thinking like-wise it seemed as he had been assigned a total of nine other ships for this mission. There were four frigates, the UNSC Savannah, UNSC Gettysburg, UNSC Allegiance, and the UNSC Euphrates. Forming up near them where the destroyers, UNSC Herodotus and UNSC Iroquois, with the cruisers UNSC Dawn Under Heaven and UNSC Leviathan slightly ahead. Sitting in the middle of the formation was the fleet's main carrier, the UNSC Musashi. As the Spirit of Fire left the orbital docks that had been its home for the past week or two, it began to make its way into formation for the jump, Cutter turned and began to make his way to the mess hall, it was going to be a long trip.
21 April, 2551-
It had been five days since they jumped to slip-space, when Captain Cutter was finally called to the bridge. "Two minutes until arrival" an officer informed him upon his arrival to the bridge. Cutter watched out the window as the rift between planes formed, and his fleet of ships exited slip-space. First thing he noticed was a large forerunner space station. It was of the normal gray silver color scheme, with blue lights here and there. The station had a rounded area in the middle, with two prongs sticking upward, and a cone sticking out of the bottom. It almost looked like someone placed a bowl on top an ice-cream cone and proceeded to jab two prongs into the bowl.
Cutter was broken out of his thoughts of what the station did, as several officers began to report their findings. "Sir, communications with the other ships is being scrambled; it seems the station is jamming transmissions." "I'm picking up a strange energy field surrounding the station." One officer reported, "I've got positive sighting of a covenant super carrier, and several corvettes near the station, they do not appear to realize we are here."
Cutter decided that the last report was the most important. "How many ships are there?" "Unknown, the jamming is affecting radar, but there is visual conformation of the super carrier and at least three cruisers on what appears to be a patrol path." The officer responded. Cutter turned to the tactical map in the center of the bridge, in attempts to see what was going on, but quickly dismissed the idea as the hologram fizzled and went static every several seconds. In fact he noticed Serina was in a similar position. "Are you ok Serina?" He asked. "Ye..es it... field... affecting me." She barely got out. While still concerned, he he had more pressing matters to attend to. Cutter walked toward the window asking, "Are you sure they haven't spotted us yet?" "It appears so; they have yet to move to engage, seems likely to guess they're being jammed as badly as we are." Cutter thought over his choices here. He could retreat to Reach again, and call it a failure, use the jammers to his advantage and hit the super carrier with the element of surprise, and hope to destroy it, or try picking off some of the patrols, while sending a message back to Reach for backup.
"Attempt to contact the rest of the fleet and tell them to form up, we're going to hit that 'patrol' before they know we're here. Also try to send word back to High Command that things got rough over here." The officer answered with a quick "Yes sir!" before the entire bridge went to work. Outside the view point the fleet was getting into formation. The ships unable to receive the message quickly figured out what was going on. "Begin moving on those cruisers, and charge the MACs" Cutter said as the fleet grouped up.
After moving forward for about two minutes in silence, an officer finally spoke up, "Entering energy field in 3...2...1" Upon this the bridge's lights dimmed for several seconds before returning to normal, but Serina winked out on the holo-terminal. "Status report!" Cutter responded. "It appears the field had created a power flux for several seconds. Most systems are running fine now, though the reactors are having some power loss. Serina has gone into a dormant state. What little contact with the rest of the fleet we had is gone." Cutter didn't like the loss of communication, but cutter trusted those captains could handle this, and there were more pressing issues to attend to as another officer got his attention, "Covenant patrol group has spotted us. It seems they are running away. The rest of the Covenant fleet is holding position." "Do we have a firing solution? Don't let them get away, prepare the MAC." Cutter quickly responded. He watched as the bridge went into a flurry of movement. "Sir, firing solution is set, lead cruiser targeted." Came the officer's response. With that Cutter gave the order, "Fire!"
The darkness of space was lit up for several seconds as the Spirit of Fire's MAC round impacted the cruiser, turning it into a large blue fireball, and the other two veered to go around.
"That was too easy..." Cutter muttered. He knew there should have been at least some form of resistance from the shields, but it was as if they weren't active. Now that he thought about it, the cruisers engines kept flickering on and off. Something wasn't right here. Even now the cruisers where still running instead of returning fire. As he mauled over what was going on, two more MAC rounds flew past, destroying the other two cruisers. Dual blue fireballs lit up the area, before dimming into nothingness, but a blue glow remained.
"Sir, we've just been pinged by something, and the Forerunner station is powering up!" Cutter was shaken from his thoughts, surveying the area, he could see the station's two prongs lighting up, casting a blue glow on the ships. Above the prongs the beginnings of a slip-space rupture could be seen. "Has that super carrier spotted us yet?" asked Cutter. One of the deck officers said "Most likely, but it appears to be retreating toward the structure. I think it's going to jump." Cutter thought it over for a few seconds. The super carrier's engines were acting up just like the cruisers'. If they were lucky, the shields were dead as well. "Get us in firing range of the carrier, and prepare to fire the MACs." Around the bridge several officers gave him questioning looks, but responded with "Yes sir", trusting the captain's orders.
As the black-hole like rupture to slip-space opened, the Covenant fleet began to form up near it, in attempt to retreat from the UNSC ships quickly approaching. Ever since the ships entered the field surrounding this station, all plasma based tech went either offline or barely working, their reactors barely producing enough charge to keep the life-supports and engines running. Being both shield-less and weaponless meant these UNSC ships could easily destroy the super carrier and its escorts. As the rupture reached 50% stability, and the ships got closer, blue lightning began to fly between the prongs and the ships.
"What is going on over there?" Cutter asked to no one in particular upon seeing the lighting beginning to fly between the super carrier and the station. His only response was the unanimous "Not sure" that swept through the bridge. Uncomfortable with the lack of inform, Cutter asked, "Are we in range yet?" "MACs are in range, but at this range, we might hit the station instead. We still got a while for everything else. "This was the weapon's officer's response. Cutter took a moment to weigh his options. He could fire the MAC now, and risk damaging the station, or wait several more minutes to fire everything, but be at risk of return fire. His mind was made up as the lightning intensified, and the super carrier began to turn to face the rupture. "Fire the MAC."
Upon his command, the large tungsten round flew through space to greet its target. The corvette that happened to be in its way was consumed by a blue fireball. The lone fireball was soon joined by several more as the rest of the fleet opened fire. The super carrier finished aligning itself with the rupture, as the lightning grabbed hold of it, before the carrier was thrown through the rupture, with the rest of the fleet preparing to follow it.
"Sir, the Covies are jumping!" cried out an officer. As Cutter watched, two more cruisers jumped. He reiterated his order; "Fire the main batteries and MAC once recharged and prepare to follow." This fleet's shields were offline, and he was going to take advantage of it. He would not let them escape. As five more ships jumped, leaving only three cruisers and a corvette, he felt the deck of the bridge shutter as a MAC round flew out to meet them. The round sped out, but missed the corvette by a few feet, instead hitting the one prong of the station with a flash of light. Surprisingly the structure survived the impact, though the force was enough to cause the whole station to spin to the side. Seconds later, the remaining covenant ships jumped through.
"Captain, what are our orders?" Not wanting to let them escape, Cutter simply said, "Follow them through." Quickly approaching the rupture, the UNSC ships prepared themselves for the jump. As the fleet got close to the rupture, the same blue lightning connected with the ships, before flinging them threw. The rupture closed behind the last ship, while the lightning died out, and the station slowly began to rotate itself back in place.
Cutter watched as he entered the rupture, the lightning creating a blue aura around the Spirit of Fire. After the ship was flung though, problems began. Immediately the ship shuttered and groaned from the intense speeds it was flung. Soon after the lights flickered out on the bridge. Thinking quickly, in attempt to keep his ship from falling apart, Cutter called to his comm officer, "Are we out of jammer range?" He got the reply of a "Yes". "Good, tell the fleet to drop out of slip-space!"
Not even a minute after telling the comm officer, a rupture began to form in front of his ship. As his ship slid through, the blue lightning appeared once more to slow the ship down. The sudden stop threw the crew around on the bridge. Getting back up, Cutter took a moment to get his bearings. The entire fleet made it, though the UNSC Euphrates appears to be damaged. The Spirit of Fire was experiencing mild power failures. No doubt the others were too. Looking out of the forward view-port, he noticed they were in orbit of a green world with several oceans. Just ahead where the three Covenant cruisers and the corvette, with the corvette being in a similar position as the Euphrates. Glancing beside him he could see Serina coming back to on the holo-terminal. "What did I miss?" she asked upon reactivating. "A lot. Now does anyone have any idea where we are?" Cutter replied.
Well there is the prologue. hope it was good, please review. I hope to have the next chapter up by next Friday.