Fireteam Comet
By: Spartan-938
Fireteam Comet/Chapter 02
Andrew slid on the wet floor of the shower and fell, landing on his arms and knee's, thankfully nothing else. He stood up. The ship had been shaking a lot, but he had merely held onto the shower handles to keep up. The ship gave a final lurch and just shuddered and he went flying forward. "The hell was that, Covenant?" Andrew headed to the towel rack and dried himself off. He left the showers into the locker room, some marines and officers trying to get back up or figure out what was happening.
Andrew opened his locker and put on his underwear and deodorant, put on a black tank top and some thin gray pants and headed for the ODST lockers. Hey punched in the access code, zero, one, one, seven, and entered the room where on a series of hooks and shelves lay the ODST combat suit parts. He put on the boots and pants, sealing their latches. His upper suit, with a flak jacket vest, went on next. He picked up his helmet. Just like the other ODST helmets except a bit thicker, bullet proof and could hold an A.I, the helmet itself had a enough power to keep the A.I active, connected to the suit, the A.I might as well had been in MJOLNIR Mark V power armor. He starred at the visor, his reflection starring back at him. "Hello, handsome." He lifted it and put it on his head, the automatic locks engaging.
Captain Crane looked out the main window into space, starring at the planet. It was beautiful, plentiful forests, valleys for the colonizing; it looked like a Prototype of Paradise. The Hologram of a young women beside him was joined by another. This one was a young man, in old-fashioned jeans, a long-sleeved shirt and two beautiful wings jutting from his back, which were folded. "Hey sir, what the hells going on", the Gold A.I asked.
"Were experiencing some…technical difficulties."
"I don't like it when I'm lied to sir."
"I wish I was but we have no idea what happened. Senya did a full ship diagnostic, we have ten crewmembers dead, thirty-six injured…it's not looking at all good."
"Covenant tampering sir?"
"Unknown."
"I see. Sir I just finished analyzing the ship veiwscreen recorders. We came out near a Covenant ship and not long after in front of a small attack force. I recommend an immediate ship power down and scan for any signatures that could potentially lead the Covenant here sir."
"I agree." This time Senya had spoke up.
"I suppose that would be best."
The captain turned to the holotank.
"Senya shut down all main power, put us on Auxiliary power, divert all power from any spareable systems and put in in the main power for when we can start back up, those freak jumps drained a lot from what the screens up here are showing."
"Sir!" She fizzled away.
"Sir what should I do," Flay asked looking up at the Captain.
"While Senya's doing that search I want you to bring the ship to a Orange threat level."
"Orange sir?"
"We're in the clear for now but with the chance of those Covenant ships coming and dropping in at any time we cant be to careful. I also want you to tell all other ships in this area to power down to Auxiliary power and stand-by, and for the person in charge to make a call to the Governor on the planets surface for them to do the same. Covenant scans can pick up a lot of things, even ships on Auxiliary but it'll be more difficult and could by us some time."
"Yes sir."
"Attention all personal, we are on threat level Orange, all Marines get ready for anything, pilots, to your ships but keep the engines off, I repeat, OFF!"
The voice echoed through the whole ship. Small armory stations were opening up all around the ship, all armories ran by crewmembers were getting all the merchandise out. Something was going down. Something big.
The Captain looked out of the window, the two pilots at their controls. Their consoles started beeping. One looked up at him. "Sir, slipspace rupture, on the far side of the planet, One covenant CCS-class Battlecruiser, running dark with as much minimal power as they can give out, they've sent two dropships out sir Phantom class. At the moment they are both heading for the planet but that's because they dropped out a pretty fair distance away, trying not to get picked up by our sensors."
"They're weapons, are they online?"
"Not that I can see sir." The pilot said this with a sound of fear in his voice.
"Alright. Senya, Flay."
The two holograms fizzled up.
"Senya, I want two Longswords out there and to move as fast as they can to Intercept, tell them if it gets too hot they can retreat. ("Sir," she said as she fizzled away.)Flay, I want you to return to the holotank that has your chip in it, in Lieutenant Faulkner's quarters."
"Yes sir."
"Oh and Flay, make the Lieutenant well aware that he and his fireateam will be brought planet side by Pelican soon."
"Yes sir."
Andrew inserted the A.I's chip into his helmet. "Hey Flay, how's it going?"
"Pretty good. Captain wants us to get the team and head for the Pelican bay."
"Which one?"
"How the hell should I know?"
"Can you do a scan that can tell us where there's a Pelican bay that isn't to crowded?"
"Yeah, give me a sec."
Andrew nodded and left his quarters. He ran down the halls with sudden warmth in his body. He loved getting into combat with the enemy. His team was unrivaled, even with the Elite's of the Covenant. He could down an Elite any day. He got to Armory C-9, Fireateam Comets home during space travel, always choosing what they'd use next time, polishing their favorites, and sometimes heading to the shooting range.
He stepped through he automatic doors to see the huge cache of weapons. The way the Armory was organized you'd think you were in a 21st Century Super Market. On some benches in a far corner sat his men. Private Ken Raves, kneeling on the ground putting two canisters of C-7 Foaming Explosive in a bag with fifteen Fragmentation Grenades. Strapped to his back was a M19 SSM Rocket Launcher. Sitting next to him was his weapon, a Shotgun. The bag probably had some shell boxes. Ken was a heavy weapons expert, he felt right at home with bombs that could go off at any moment in the area. Gunpowder was a pleasant scent of accomplishment to him. All of Ken's features were hidden by his armor and helmet. Ken was a veteran Fireteam Comet member; he always refused promotions though. No one really knew why. Ken put the bags strap on his shoulder. He was used to carrying uneven weights. He looked at a C-12 Damage Pack being hefted up onto James Torence's back. James was relatively new, he didn't favor anything but he was good with a machine. And a weapon, with one grenade he could probably blow up the Relic. He held up a MA5B Assault Rifle.
Andrew Holstered a Pistol and grabbed an Assault Rifle too. He looked at the others. Two were new team members; One named Dave Krowl, who was pretty much a marine in an Elite Fireteam. And the other was Jack Packard. Jack was new, there was no denying that but he was damned good. Andrew had seen him practicing with the MA5B, he was a good shot and could be counted on in a firefight. Jack put on his helmet, hiding his Light Brown hair and blue eyes. Jack was a pretty nice guy. He was serious when it was needed but out of combat he was another one of the guys, he didn't seem to be very popular around the ship though, him just being transferred on. They all gathered their weapons and ammo and left the Armory. Everyone followed Andrew, who was following a NAV point set by Flay. Andrew keyed his COMM. "Captain, this is Faulkner, we're inbound to Pelican bay D-9, what's our Op status?"
"You're team is going down planet side to defend a small town. Those two Phantoms were decoys, while we were focusing on it another Covenant ship came out of Slipspace, and sent off five Phantoms of it's own down to the town. We don't know why their specifically targeting this small area but we're sure it's because they want to get a foot hold and a good vantage point on the real target, the city. I don't think they've detected the Colony ships, we're trying to keep it that way, while they're aren't many forces down there right now expect more on the way, and expect more reinforcements in due time. Good luck Marines."
Fireteam Comet got to the Pelican bay and boarded. The Pelican took off from the bay down to the planet. The ODST's all checked their armaments one last time. It was gonna be a rough landing.
Longer chap than usual, expect combat and more plot development in the next chapter. Thanks for reading.
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