Sorry, I've been really busy this week. Summer school, bleaugh. Anyways, here's the new chapter! I don't own Halo or its characters, as usual. Also, remember to read The Island of Mata Nui, also by me. Enjoy this chapter!
"It was aliens."Carol could barely contain her disbelief. Aliens? Harvest? Destroyed? How did this happen? "It appears that they bombarded the surface of the planet with superheated plasma, causing the surface to turn into glass. If we cannot defeat these monsters… Humanity could go extinct. We are afraid that your training will be accelerated. The UNSC, no, humanity, needs every soldier it can get. Until further notice, we are at war. Judging by how Harvest was destroyed, they are technologically superior to us, there are more of them, but they can be beaten. The marines will kill them on the ground, but us?" The colonel smiled, "We'll be the ones to get them there. Now, Dismissed!"
The cadets all ran to their next classes; some scared, some excited, and some still not believing what they had heard. "Kaufman, take your cadets to the airstrips. It's time they actually flew for once." Carol looked excitedly at Frye; she hadn't flown since her accident, and was yearning for an actual flight. The simulations could only do so much for her.
"You heard the man, double time it!"
(Castle Base: Reach)
Doctor Halsey nearly spit out her coffee when she read the urgent message on her datapad. Aliens? I thought we had contingencies for this sort of thing. She scowled, and turned the page on her 'pad. I guess I'll just have to speed up project MJOLNIR. She looked down at the half-finished plans, and her empty coffee. I need more coffee.
(Pelican Alpha 0-0-7)
"You ready Carol?" Frye asked Carol, as she prepared the pelican for flight.
"Yeah. First-time jitters. I'll get over it soon."
"Hey, Carol, guess what?" Asked Carol's friend Rosie.
Carol keyed her mike, "What Rose?"
"Look to your left! We're your wingman!"
"We?" Carol asked.
"Yo Brian, guess who?"
"Oh God, no." Carol remarked.
"Hey, Burl! You're with Rosie?" exclaimed Brian
"Yep! This is awesome. Ready?"
"Yeah." Carol Replied. Both pelicans readied their engines, and as soon as the ground controller gave them the all-clear, they took off. It was exhilarating, none of the cadets had ever actually flown a Pelican before. The flight was the same as the simulators, but nothing could compare to actually flying. A message soon appeared on their Heads up Displays, otherwise called the HUD.
YOUR PELICANS ARE EQUIPPED WITH SHORT-RANGE LASER SYESTEM. LOCK ONTO THE LONGSWORD FIGHTERS TO WIN. TRANSMISSION TERMINATED
"What longswords? Frye asked.
"Umm, those ones." Carol pointed towards the two supersonic attack crafts.
"Carol, We'll flank Longsword Alpha from the right. You distract the other. Acknowledge?"
"Acknowledged. Let's do this Rose." Little did they know, one of the longswords flew behind Rosie and Burl's Pelican.
"Crap! Frye, can you lock on 'em?"
"Got it Burl. Trying to… Got 'em!" The Longsword disengaged the Pelican, leaving only one Longsword left. Carol and Rosie, the two most experienced pilots on the academy Sims were a deadly Combination; and the second Longsword soon was taken by Frye and Burl's deadly action with the gun.
"Good work cadets. Not many people can take me down."
"Wait, colonel Burchett? You flew that one?" There was no response. Carol piloted her Pelican down onto the academy's runway.
"Not bad for a first flight," remarked Sergeant Kaufman. Carol ran over to Rosie and gave her a hug as Frye bumped knuckles with Burl. It was their first successful mission, and not their last either.
(Six months Later)
Carol, Frye, Burl, and Rosie never lost a single "mission". They were undefeatable. The academy even tried pitting them against the best pilots in the UNSC, and they still won.
Carol awoke to the sound of alarms. A single sentence was being repeated over the academy's loudspeakers. The Covenant have been sighted on the planet. Report to your craft immediately, this is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill.
"Rosie!" Carol shook her friend awake, "They're here. The Covenant."
"What? Really?" Rosie snapped awake. The two girls proceeded to pull on their combat gear.
"Rosie! Carol!" The two girls screamed as Frye and Brian ran into their room.
"Holy crap! Knock first!"
"Oh God, sorry." Frye blushed.
The girls finished getting dressed, and Carol slapped Frye in the back of his head.
"Ow! Hey, the colonel gave us or orders. We have to take Pelicans Echo-344 and Echo-419. We have to rendezvous with the cruiser Marvin Shields at Stethem plateau." Carol nodded, and the quartet ran towards the hangars. There was a sudden explosion, and the lights flickered.
"Crap, I hate running!" Cried out Carol. They finally made it to the hanger.
The hangar was a bee's nest of activity. Carol was shocked when she saw a group of bloody marines come out of a Pelican.
"They've taken the city! New Oxnard has fallen!"
"Sarge!" Sergeant Kaufman turned to see Carol and her friends run up to her.
"Thank God. Take those wounded to the Shields. They need the medical attention. I'll punch up your birds."
"Yes ma'am." Said Carol. The two brand-new Pelican dropships came into view. The conveyer system dropped the two ships several meters from their locations.
"I'll send the wounded over. Go!" Carol ran towards her Ship, Echo-419, and stepped into the troop bay. She helped Frye up, and heard a scream. Everything seemed to stop, as Sergeant Kaufman was lifted into the air by an unseen force, two holes opening in her chest.
"Covenant!" Cried out one Marine, and he fired his MA5a Assault Rifle at a shimmer under Kaufman's now dead body. The shimmer grew, and vanished, revealing a reptilian alien beneath. The alien roared, and then fell, dead.
"Son of a!" Carol sealed up her troop bay, and ran to her seat. Outside of her ship, a firefight broke out. A whole squad of camouflaged elites snuck into one of the Pelicans that transported the wounded. Carol lifted up her bird, and flew out of the bloodbath, followed by Rosie's Ship. "Oh God." The sky was nearly filled with alien craft. "Uh Frye. We have a situation." And then the fighters noticed the Pelicans.
Okay, Let's hope chapter five takes less time to write. Sorry about that wait guys. Anyways, please read and review. Also, don't forget to read my Bionicle Fanfic, and I will be posting a Pokémon one soon.