Interview
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"Thank you for answering my questions."
"No problem. I'd rather these memories help inform the current and coming generations rather then rot and die with me."
"So what can you tell me about the last moments of the Battle of Voi?"
"I don't really know much about what happened on the front. Scarabs and some really big fucking guns. This elite guy, "The Arbiter," they called him, Spartan-117 and Miranda Keyes forces were fighting to reclaim the city. They managed to destroy an anti-air gun that was stopping our frigates and fighters. Echo 798 was our head fighter. It got there a little while before the gun was destroyed. He managed to inform Lord Hood about Spartan-117's position and was shot down. I was in the co-pilots chair of a Longsword, one of them high tech fighters. The other three positions were taken by some pilot guy I never got to thank, Grant, and Strought. Grant was monitoring the local radio traffic, while Strought was checking out the situation on global channels. I was listening in on some of the transmissions through my COMM when I wasn't watching the system readings. Stuff was really going to hell. Some weird stuff was going on in other parts of the world. There were unconfirmed sightings of a small Elite army being led by what appeared to be a woman in an Elite armor Harness. It wasn't until a few weeks ago I actually heard the confirmation of such reports. Anyway we flew onwards, we started passing over Voi; we were close to the "Forerunner Ship".
Pvt. Clark looked out through the window. The Fighters were beginning to pick up speed.
"This is Bravo twenty-two, AA gun is down, repeat AA gun is down!"
The fleet of Longswords arrived over the Traxus Facility and flew over the Forerunner landing pad.
Clark looked at his targeting screen. "Firing ASGM-10 Missiles on Forerunner ship!"
The missiles from their fighter, and others, streaked across the air and hit their target dead on.
"Yahoo! Eat that Truth, you pansy," Grant shouted staring out the windows. All the fighters that had emptied their payload veered off as they heard Lord Hood's orders; "All ships Fire at will!!"
The Longsword veered upward to avoid the blast. Clark heard the ship being smacked with the powerful rounds. He expected the shrapnel to come any minute…
"What the fuck-"
The marines in the Longsword heard a loud sound, like giant plates of metal grinding against each other. The radio filled with cries of disbelief from the other fighters and crewmembers on the Frigates.
"It didn't even leave a scratch!"
"What's it doing!?"
"Got movement-"
"Any idea what that light is?"
"Did he activate-"
"No…"
The bright light gave off some kind of discharge. The Longsword shuttered. There was a blinding light, then nothing. Darkness. Clark opened his eyes. They were drifting in space, and below them, a giant Forerunner structure; The Ark.
The meaning of this is to introduce some more of the cast in Union, as there will be a lot of characters. I probably will have two more faked interviews, and one more chapter about Kei. This will be updated randomly between Forging a Hero chapters, and before Tales of Union so be on the look out!