Fists of Justice, Apparition Dropship
Alto boarded the Apparition Dropship he had see the insides of these ships many times. Alto had 4 Unggoy, 2 Kig-yar, and 4 Sangheili. Alto and Zukav were the 2 out of 4 Sangheili the other two were in the 2 ghosts in the gravlift. Zukav went into the cockpit and ordered "Pilot get us airborne we have two banshees escorting you." Another Dropship was behind them with 2 Unggoy, 4 Kig-yar, and 3 Sangheili only 3 Sangheili because they were transporting a Wraith not 2 ghosts. The two companies were landing were landing in waves it would take 20 waves to land all of the companies' troops. The waves would come in every ten minuets until the Fists of Justice was right above the battlefield this was going to be done as an intimidation move. When the ship was right above the battlefield each wave would take five minuets. Alto went into the cockpit to see the landing site. Fists of Justice was in the upper right hand corner this ship was a massive Assault Carrier one of the largest in the fleet. The dropships landed and released all of their troops and vehicles.
Alto order over the Battlenet "set up the command site right here! Have the Unggoy set up the Shades and Battlenet Link Up! I want this done in five minuets! Banshees take a quick over view of the battlefield! The Ghost and Wraiths cover us until we have a base going!" Alto got out a minuet later only to see no enemy. Zukav went up to Alto and yelled out "I don't get it the first thing the enemy would want to do is stop us from setting up a base!" Alto replied "Hmm, the enemy might be waiting to ambush us here," he pointed to two large rocks that were nearly hugging and had large flat surfaces then he continued, "or their waiting for us to go off our guard." Zukav grunted in agreement then he said still yelling because a noisy dropship was landing "The base defenses are up and running the second wave is only five minuets away!" Alto said "The enemy will attack when the second wave comes if not they are just wait for us to go into an ambush." The second, third, fourth, all the way up to the tenth wave came and went still no opposition was met. A white grunt came up and said "The leader of the ship's Council of Field War wants to speak with you, Mighty One." Alto went to the Uplink Crate a deep sounding voice yelled "Field Master Alto you are to move out and met the enemy they are obviously waiting for you!" Alto replied "Leader, there are too many areas that can lead to ambushes if we advance." "Fellow brother, are you refusing an order?" "No, I would just like to express my concerns" "Brother, just to as you are told!" Alto sighed "Yes, Leader!" Alto order on the Battlenet "Banshees take a quick fly by, Ghosts you'll scout out a good hold up position, Wraiths if the Ghosts run into trouble come in and assists against the threat. Infantry, we'll move out in 10 minuets so get in a spear head formations all separated by 20 feet. Once you get to your hold ups make a circle formation." Ten minuets later the infantry moved out. A very loud shrieking noise went off. Alto turned on his sword the battle had begun.
Sixteen things came running down a hill some tripped over and flew down the hill they got back up when they finished their flight. Alto yelled out "Fire, everyone fire!" a large volley of plasma hit the things only one died. Alto ordered "Fall back to the base everyone back to the base!" All of Alto's soldiers went back to the base not one group was out of the base. The things came pouring out like a flood. Plasma bolts came down over the enemy which seemed like they weren't fighting in a formation. Alto went up to an Uplink Crate he ordered "Banshees fire into the thickest part of their formation. Ghosts' line up for a charge after two salvos of plasma bolts from the Wraiths. Infantry follow the ghosts in a spear tip formation." Zukav ran up to Alto yelling "The enemy they are former humans, and covenant soldiers!" Alto saw that they just kept flooding in so he started calling them the flood. Alto said to Zukav "The flood isn't fighting in a formation that is their weakness we need to use every strategy we have to beat them." Three companies of Alto's battalion went into the battle slowly.
Alto led a spear formation himself the Ghosts charged in and so did Alto's formation. The fighting was fierce the Ghosts fired at and ran over the flood troops. Alto's troops kept up heavy plasma fire on the flood. Alto saw small things jump on the Unggoy and kill them, but yet they popped on the Sangheili energy shields. A large one held the same things until they found a target. A rocket speeded by one of the Ghosts it missed and blew up in a cluster of flood troops. They didn't care at all they just kept firing. Alto saw that his formation was breaking up so he charged strait into the flood. Alto did a swirl attack killing three of them. The flood charged Alto with human and covenant weapons. Alto's sword was one of the most effective things against the flood on the entire battlefield. Alto slashed and hacked, but yet more flood came. Alto yelled out "Fall back! Fall back!" The sun was setting when Alto got back up to the Uplink Crate Alto yelled "I need reinforcements! I want all the companies to come down in one big wave! I need to overwhelm the enemy before they overwhelm me!" The leader of the Council of Field War said "Yes, I will send down your entire battalion, but it will be midnight before they can arrive." "Okay, I need those companies! I'll hold the base here until they arrive!"
Night soon came over the battle still raging the Fists of Justice shooed a large light over the base the flood still pounded on the Alto's men. The battle had started at 7:00 A.M and now it was 11:00 P.M and the battle was still not in Alto's favor. Alto order a last ditched assault to buy more time. Alto went up the Uplink Create and ordered over the Battlenet "Banshees give me air support strike at every spot the formations will attack. Ghosts protect the Wraiths while they fire ten salvos of plasma bolts into the enemy. Then charge into the spots the Wraiths stuck at." Alto got all of his battalion's twenty Banshees into the battle. The flood number roughly 1,500 and Alto troops numbered roughly 350 troops. Alto's numbers put him at a huge disadvantage except he had vehicles which accounted for why he was doing so well. Alto had lost only 5 vehicles which was a modest amount for saying he had roughly 35 vehicles. Alto figured that while he was being overwhelmed by numbers the flood had lost a good 500 out of 1,500 troops while Alto had lost about 150 of his men. Alto led another formation except with Zukav. Both Alto and Zukav had energy swords which helped a lot. Alto took half of the formation and pushed out and Zukav had his half of the formation do the same. Alto slashed of one of the flood soldier's arms Alto looked straight into the flood soldier's face he saw the horror and despair in his eyes. His eyes told a horrible story about this Sangheili his eyes reminded Alto of his own feelings. Alto had remembered the prophets' saying "No, enemy has ever with stood our might!" Alto saw that this Sangheili his former brother in arms was apart of the battalion which had faced the flood with full might and they lost. Alto shook his head and slashed his former brother down. Alto did a swirl as he was surrounded by the flood he killed ten in the swirl. Alto jumped up in the air and land straight on a flood soldier he did a roll and slashed attack and jumped back up chopping a flood soldier in half. Alto looked up about twenty Apparition Dropships came down and fired while unloading dozens of troops more and more Apparitions came down all over the flood's random formation. Alto had a huge advantage now the flood was overwhelmed after this now it was just the clean up.
Alto and his Operation Masters took an Apparition Dropship back to Fist of Justice. Alto got much need rest he dreamed about the moment when he looked into his follow brother's eyes. Alto woke up it was day time now or at least to his clock it was. Alto thought about the battle and how he could have won with less causality if the Leader of the ship's Council of Field War hadn't ordered them to come out of the heavily defend base until he had his two full companies and the third on full stand by to reinforce his position. Zukav walked up to Alto said "Leader, the Council of Field War would like to see you." Alto shook his and said "They want a summary of the battle?" "Yes, they do."
Alto walked down to the council's room two Major Sangheili stood guard at the door. Alto walked into the room "Welcome, Field Master Alto and well done on such a fine victory! I'm Kuwa 'Mornuuee leader of the Council of Field War or at least I'm today. My predecessor was killed during the night for his lack of patience for the enemy to come to us and it cost us dearly. The enemy you faced isn't some thing we fought before and we see that they care not about casualties, but bodies." Alto asked "bodies?" "Yes, during the battle several clips of it any showed the larger things drag bodies out of the fight." "So the enemy is taking bodies to where thought?" "Look at this clip this is Weku an Intelligence Sangheili this is the footage that is transmitted directly to the database in this room." "Is he still alive?" "No, he is dead just watch the footage." Kuwa turned on the holo database player this footage he said "This is what Weku saw and now is seeing." The footage came to life a voice said "This is the intelligence I have gathered on the Battle of Fists of Justice Gravlift Site." Alto whispered "So, I was fighting for the Fists of Justice Gravlift Site?" Kuwa nod a yes to Alto and singled him to be quiet. The footage continued "I'm about to go into the battle the Field Master here has ordered a charge the tenth charge of the day. The charge will with no doubt come with the same fruitlessness as the other nine. The battle between these things has been fierce, but yet interesting. The small things..." Kuwa skipped those parts of the footage to a battle Weku was having by himself. Weku was losing the fight a flood soldier came from the back a killed him. The footage didn't stop the thing took him and dragged him for three hours. A large complex appeared it was forerunner with out a doubt. The complex was covered with sown no less than two feet height. The body was dragged through blood stained halls. Then it was taken to this huge thing that was in the middle of the room there were huge computers in the middle. The flood soldier picked up Weku's body and threw it at the huge thing a few hours later Weku's body was absorbed by the thing.
Kuwa said "Well, Here is your new mission we are going to destroy that thing and hack the computer and take all the information we can on these things. Your battalion is in no way involved you are coming so you can have revenge on this massive thing. Three squads of special ops. are waiting to go to this site with you as there leader. This will be a night attack and will be recorded directly here same with the information on the computer. The squad is in hanger 80. The area outside of the complex will be bombed so don't except resistance outside. Will you take this mission?" Alto replied "Yes, as long as Zukav from my battalion comes with me." "Okay, then the more the merrier." Alto left and got Zukav and went to the hanger 80. The squads were in three dropships that were painted black for this mission. Alto wore his golden armor at the protest of his men which were wearing black. The dropships launched out of the hanger a Seraph shot by. The Seraph fired two plasma bolts from its cannons near the entry to the forerunner complex. The dropships landed and dropped their troops. Alto and all his men jumped out. The complex door was locked a Sangheili put on a charge it blew and Alto's men poured in.