Escaping Reach
(A Halo Reach fan fiction)
Chapter 1
"Dreaming"
A unknown UNSC base, Reach
1 day after the fall of Reach
"INCOMING!" The four Spartans ducked for cover as a wraith blast contacted the ground in front of them. The commander scanned the area looking at all the covenant forces moving towards them. "Specter! We need those turrets up now." A Spartan in red and black armor looked over to his commander then looking at his tac pad. "Copy that sir I need to manually reset the targeting parameters." The commander sighed. "How much time Specter?" The Spartan looked down again at his tac pad after going through menus he looked again. "Bout 5 minutes if I can get to the main turret, but…it's right there." The Spartan pointed to the farthest turret.
"Nothings ever easy huh?" The commander looked over to the rockethog parked next to the main building. "William with me! Nika stay with Specter. Get to that turret we'll keep those wankers off your back." Specter and Nika the blue and black Spartan ran off towards the turret as the commander and William ran towards the Rocket hog and engaged the covies. Specter and Nika reached the turret. "Nika keep me covered I just need to reset everything and get it back online." Nika stood with rifle pointed. "You got it scott. Just be careful." There was a boom Nika peeked over her cover to see a scarab drop onto the planet. "Oh shit we got a Scarab!"
Scott continued working on the turret if he got'em online then the scarab would be toast. The commander radioed Scott. "SCOTT WE'LL KEEP THAT PIECE OF SHIT BUSY JUST GET THE TURRETS ONLINE!" "They're going to get themselves killed." Nika looked out from her cover to see the rocket hog actually keeping it's own against the scarab. "Maybe I should retract my previous statement." As she said that a scarab blast flipped the warthog the two Spartans were sent flying out of the hog and onto the ground. "OH GOD NO!" "What's happening?" Scott said as with one flick of the switch the turrets activated. "How they holdin- Oh no…" The two spartan's were crawling their way over when the scarab smashed them with it's leg trying to dodge the newly activated turrets gauss fire.
"What do we do now?" Nika and Scott were in cover trying to stay out of the scarab's line of fire luckly the turret fire was keeping it moving. "Scott?" "I dunno Nika…we should collect the dog tags and leave. We just needed to get the turrets online our objectives complete." Nika sighed with relief as she looked at Scott they had always been close she was glad that he didn't hop on the warthog. "Right, so I'll flip the hog and you get tags." "Sounds like a plan break on 3. 1…2…"
"THREE!" The two ran out from cover Nika sprinted right pass the bodies while Scott slid into the crater left by the scarabs legs. He clipped the dead Spartan's tags and ran out towards the hog. Nika flipped it over and she got on turret. "SCOTT DRIVE!" "ROGER THAT!" Scott jumped in and tried starting the hog. It stalled. "Come on. COME ON" he tried again to get it started. "S-s-scott…" Nika looked back at the scarab who stumbled over and saw them. "It's going to KILL US!"
"COME ON! COME ON!" The scarab was about to fire when a turret blast caused it to topple onto it's side. "Oh thank the lord lets go." Scott finally got the hog going and they began to drive off. "Man what are the chances." "Slim to none. My friend." Nika looked back to see the scarab getting up to fire again. "SCOTT!" The blast hit hog sending it in the air Nika slammed against the ground in the open while Scott landed behind cover. The scarab lifted it's head and aimed at Nika. Nika was on her hands and knees she was breathing heavily as she saw it's gun charging she had accepted her fate she was going to die. At least one of them was making it out of there she looked over to Scott who was stumbling up and looking at her. "It was nice knowing you my friend." "NIKA NOOOOOOOOOOO!" The Scott rushed at her as the blast shot towards her and then everything faded.
A/N: Hey guys this is my first fan fiction. Constructive Criticism is appreciated thanks for readin.