Civil War with the Chief
Chapter One
A New Force Joins The Fight
"Keys! This jump is unstable! If we take it I can't guarantee where we'll land!" Cortana yelled to the Captain. "Cortana if we stay here the Covenant is going to rip us apart, we're jumping." A few parsecs later the Pillar of Autumn was getting sucked into earth's gravitational pull. "Cortana, where are we?" The Captain asked. "Sir.. The geographical systems are telling me we're on earth, in the are where the United States government building stands, but it doesn't look like present day." She replied. "Sir! We're taking fire!" A petty officer hollered from the other side of the bridge. "What kind of munitions?" The Captain asked. "Sir, Lead bullets…" The Captain looked straight at Cortana's Holo-form. "Thaw out the Chief."
Thirty seconds later in the cryo-chamber a hydralic whoosh could be heard as the Master Chief, the only Spartan left after the war on Reach, stepped out of his deep space casket. "Chief, Sorry about the quick thaw, the freezer burn should wear off in a second, the Captain ordered you on deck." I heard one of the cryo scientists joke as my boots touched down on the steel floor of the Pillar. "You're supposed to hit the armory and then report to Cortana and the Captain on the bridge." He said as I made my way to the door.
A few minutes later I was standing at attention in front of Keys with a twelve gauge on my back, a .45 side arm strapped to my thigh and an assault rifle in my hands. "Good too see you Chief. We took a random jump to escape a Covenant Armada and landed here. Lead bullets have been hitting the side of the Autumn since we landed. I'm sending you and a few squads of Marines with you and a couple LAV-Hogs armed to the teeth down there to see where the hell we are and what is going on." The Captain briefed me.
I silently turned and headed to the motor pool. A dark skinned Sergeant was bringing the troops who were going with me to attention and getting them read to jump. "All right Maggots! You being dropped via pelican insertion onto the planets surface. DO NOT fire unless fired upon, Move out!" He barked to the men in full battle dress, itchy trigger fingers ready. "Hoo rah!" They all yelled back as the engines on the Pelicans came to life.
Down on the surface a seventeen year old soldier in a gray cotton uniform yelled to his superior. "Sir, that thing in the dry is dropping something!" The officer yelled back. "Ignore it for now! Burn that bridge before them yanks can get across! Then fall back and regroup, then we'll deal with this thing!" As the covered, wooden bridge erupted in fire, a platoon of Confederate soldiers fell back and watched as something they'd never seen before started dropping soldiers with weird looking guns on Southern Soil.
Back in the air a pilot got on her intercom system and spoke to the Marines aboard her insertion craft. "Marines! Thirty seconds until touch down! LZ is hot. Get ready. Touch down! Hit it Marines!"
They all yelled back simultaneously ready for anything.
"HOO RAH!"