Chapter 12 From Bad to Worst
The sun was just coming up over Caprica city as the Spartans, ODST and a mix of UNSC marines from the Into the Darkness and colonial soldiers manned a roadblock at the top of an entrance ramp to a raised highway that lead out of the city. They were lucky before them was a bridge that had been destroyed the first day by the covenant and the other entrance ramp was destroyed so the only way for the covenant armor to get onto the highway was to get pass their road block. Because of their need for their entrance ramp the covenant couldn't use their scarab or even their ship born weapons.
"They are gathering." said Ian as he looked out toward the now abandoned Zeus Military base. He could make out a line of Wraith, Ghosts, choppers and even some Locust gathering.
"They launch a bombardment with the Wraith plasma mortars and then move in with an infantry attack." said Rose "How long do you think we can hold them?"
"With a lot of luck all God damn day." said Ian as he looked ahead of them. "I have Tom placing a line of anti infantry and anti tank mines a head of us."
"Good I sent our sniper and your teams scout up ahead as well to find a good sniper's nest." said Rose
"How good is your sniper?" asked Ian
"Just watch." said Rose as she looked out toward the battlefield. Thanks to a location beacon built into all Spartan suits she knew that her sniper, Kim had set up in the second story of a what appeared to be a night club.
Kim lied down with her sniper rifle as Alec covered the stairs with his SMG. Kim zoomed in with her sniper rifle as she looked out over the occupied Zeus Military Base. She picked out her first target a Brute Chieftain who was preparing for battle; he still didn't have its armor on. He never finished because a bullet went through his forehead. Instantly the Covenant went into action as they took cover and Jackal snipers moved forward, however their beam rifles where not as advanced as the new UNSC sniper rifle and as such Rose was outside their firing range. Her Spartan training meant that Covenant forces where dropping as fast as she pulled the trigger.
"Look at that." said Ian as he watched another brute die as he tried to get into a chopper.
"I told you she was good." said Rose as suddenly something that sounded like thunder filled the air.
"What the?" asked Ian as suddenly a nearby building exploded.
"Artillery!" yelled Tom as a rounded landed near the roadblock. All the ODST and the Marines took cover as another round landed just in front of their roadblock.
"Who the fuck is firing!" yelled Ian "This isn't covenant!"
"Who do you think?" asked Rose as another round flew over head.
Miles away a in a small park just outside the Hercules mountain range a line of colonial artillery was busy firing round after round down range into the city.
"Keep the fire up." ordered a ground commander as he looked out over the battlefield.
"Yes, sir." said the Artillery commander
"Good we will need it to retake the city." said the commander as he gave the order and a line of tanks started down the highway into the city.
High above their heads a line of 70 battlestars, the bulk of the remaining fleet charged forward launching round after round at the covenant fleet. They had jumped within firing range of their main guns. They had caught the covenant by surprised but they couldn't pierce the shields of the covenant capital ships. They were able to shot down some phantoms, Banshees and Vampire fast attack fighters. But surprise only lasted until the first round was fired and it didn't take long for the covenant fleet to turn and start firing Plasma rounds into the colonial Battlestars. The Plasma beams simply turned whatever ship it hit into nothing more than a hulk of melted metal. The Colonial fleet had no real chance against the covenant fleet. However it did prove entertaining to watch for the Prophet.
"These humans are entertain." said the Prophet as he sat looking at the live video of the destruction of the colonial fleet.
"Yes, prophet." said a Brute "However sir, we have located the demon."
"Show me." ordered the Prophet as the image of the UNSC roadblock.
"We can destroy them right here and now." said the Brute "We can destroy them from orbit and then burn this entire planet and the other human planets in this system."
"So hasty…No." said the Prophet "We have shamed ourselves by letting this demon destroy the holy Halo and the Ark. We will only redeem ourselves by killing him on the ground not from orbit."
"Can I send drop pods down and Banshee attacks?" asked the brute
"No…this is a test of faith, we will meet the demon head on and we will win." said the prophet as a line of Colonial tanks appeared on the screen. "Wait….you may destroy those local forces with banshee attacks but ground forces will take care of the demon."
"Very well sir." said the Brute.
Meanwhile back on the planet the fire from the colonials kept up as a line of tanks started down the highway toward the road bloc.
"What are those local idiots doing!" yelled Tom as he took cover from another round.
"They are launching a ground assault." said Rose as she spotted a line of tanks heading down the highway.
"Why wouldn't we? We need to take back our city." said Lee Adama as he and the few colonial forces that had stayed behind with the ODST and Spartans.
"Yes, but there is no way you guys can win against the covenant with a force like that." said Rose as suddenly seven banshees can swooping out of the sky firing fuel rods rounds at the colonial armor. In a single pass almost a quarter of the attacking force was whipped out.
"Ya, you need real weapons not your weak rip off of ours." said Tom
"What do you mean rip off?" asked Lee
"Think about it our weapons look so much like yours not because of any ancient but because you found earlier versions of them on the Forward Until Dawn." said Tom as Lee look down at the battle rifle he had taken off Zeus Military base it looked a lot like the weapons in the hands of the UNSC, too much to be just an accident. Suddenly the Artillery rounds stopped coming in as smoke rose from the base of the mountain as the artillery was blown up by the covenant.
"Wow….I think that may be the first time the covenant actually helped us out." said Blake
"They are helping themselves." said Ian "They don't want one of those rounds landing on their fastest way into the mountains."
"Well it seems that Kim is out of rounds." said Rose as her team sniper and Alec head back.
"Then they should be hear relatively shortly." said the Master Chief as Plasma motors started flying over head.
"Ya." said Ian as she flipped the safety off his battle rifle and looked down range at the oncoming Covenant.
"Charging head on…they are cocky." said Tom
"We haven't given them a reason not to be cocky." said Ian as he opened up.
"Now listen you Colonials aim for the grunts and maybe the Jackals you can't take down the Brutes." said Blake as he and Laura stood side by side.
"The what?" asked Tyler
"Alright, the grunts are the little guys who are being forced to fight, the jackals are the median sized ones being paid to fight and the Brutes are the big guys." explained Blake
"What do you mean forced to fight and being paid?" asked Lee
"Well the little guys are pretty much slave warriors, they don't want to fight us actually." said Laura
"They are trying to kill us." said a colonial
"Ya that is because they are being forced at any moment they can they will surrender." said Laura
"They greeted us a liberators when we took over their planet from covenant occupation." said Blake
"And the Jackals?" asked Lee
"They are hired mercenaries and when we took their planet they wanted to sell information and supplies to us…for a price of course." said Blake
"Will you guys stop talking!" yelled Alec as he and Kim jumped over the barrier before turning and firing. "We are dealing with the Covenant."
"No… I thought we were dealing with the girl scouts." said Tom as he appeared.
"Yes, all the Covenant just wants is to sell us cookies." said Alec as he rolled his eyes and kept firing.
Inside the destroyed remains of the Battlestar Pegasus Kyle Spence awoke to find himself tied up, to a chair.
"So what should we do with this alien?" asked a voice as Kyle looked out his visor toward a the source to see a man in a blood stained uniform. He had been lucky they hadn't taken off his space suit.
"We should shoot him and get it over with." said another voice as another bloodstained
"Maybe…" said a woman "However he may have information that could help us and our people we need to break him."
"Good luck with that." said Kyle as the three Colonial officers turned and looked at him "I am just a pilot I have no information that could help you."
"Ya, right you boarded our ship." said an office
"My fighter was damaged after the battle so I had to abound ship." said Kyle
"Either way you are our enemy." said the colonial
"You separates are sure fucking idiots." said Kyle "I am not your enemy."
"Ya right." said another male officer as the woman just stood back and watched.
"There is a button on the right side of my helmet on the jaw line, push it and see the face of your so called enemy." said Kyle
"What if it's a trick and it triggers an explosion." said an officer
"Then I die too you idiot." said Kyle as suddenly the woman pushed forward and push the button on the side of the helmet to their amazement the visor retracted to show a young man with bright blonde hair and blue eyes. "See I am human."
"This has to be a trick." said another woman with blonde hair as she appeared.
"Unless the Cylons found a way to look human then he is human." said Admiral Cain
"It still doesn't change the fact that they attacked us." said her XO
"Please we where only trying to rescue the Master Chief." said Kyle
"The Master Chief?" asked Admiral Cain
"Humanities greatest hero, he saved us all from the covenant, the flood and finally all life in the universe." said Kyle
"How can this Master Chief save all life in the universe." said XO
"You are learning fast that you are not the biggest badest things in this galaxy." said Kyle "Over 10,000 years ago a race, called the Forerunners who were far more advanced then even us, they populated the entire galaxy and then a new threat appeared…the flood."
"You said this Master Chief beat the flood." said Admiral Cain
"There is no real beating the flood." said Kyle "It is a parasite race that feeds on intelligence, not even the forerunners could even stop the flood from taking over the galaxy."
"Then how come we have never heard of this flood?" asked the XO
"Simple because the forerunners used a weapon of unstoppable power….the Halo rings." said Kyle as Gina Inviere who was really a Cylon eyes widened at the word Halo.
Meanwhile in another star system a Cylon Basestar appeared in a flash of light over a highly developed planet. The planet was covered in a single massive city, only the oceans where city free of the giant city. And even that was now brown from pollution. This planet was the beating heart of all Cylon activity. It was here that all Basestars, the Centurions, all Raiders and the weapons where produced. Even the colony ship which had become the capital was built on this planet. However that wasn't the important thing.
"Are we ready?" asked a one as a six and three boarded a heavy raider.
"Yes." Said the six as the heavy raider took off and headed toward the holiest spot in the universe to the Cylons. The heavy raider landed gently.
"It's time." Said the three as the ramp opened and the three humanoid Cylons walked down. Instantly they where met by two floating robots, these where the warriors that protected the site.
"Why have you come here." said a voice as the Cylons instantly bowed their heads as the guardian appeared.
"Holy Guardian we have come seeking your advice." said the three as she looked up at the floating metal ball with a three sides caved in and a blue front eye.
"You are not supposed to come to my installation." said the Guardian as the three looked up at the ground high above her head. "This is Halo installation 01 and only reclaimers are allowed to set foot on it."
Well I hope you liked this chapter, and the fact that the Cylon homework or what I like to call it the Factory world as a Halo ring above it. Now I am taking the July 4th weekend off so I will not update till after that. However I have set up a poll on my profile for you all to take if you feel like it. Now please keep reading and keep reviewing. Thanks Wilkins75.