Author's note: Okay so UMWG is in war, Tatooine base destroyed with six mandos, and Lopez is here!
Chapter 14
2300 hours November 6, 2553 (Military Calendar)/ Marathon class cruiser North Star/Orbit over Tatooine
John looked at Lopez. "This is the commando droid we took from the base. We wiped its programming and put in a dumb AI on mechanics and fighting. Unfortunately when I grabbed it I damaged the voice thingy and Simmons tried to reprogram that but it only can speak Spanish." Sarge said. John just shook his head slowly and walked away. Grif asked "Lopez would you like to learn how to be lazy?" Lopez turned and did not speak. "Lopez, would you like to shoot Grif?" Sarge asked Lopez. "Si, gracias senor." yes thank you sir Lopez said, drawing his pistol. "Aaaaaaaaaaaah" Grif yelled running down the hall as Lopez took aim.
An hour after the creation of Lopez John was checking his armor, his helmet on a table and his chest section of armor on the floor as he made some fine tune adjustments to the shield system. Cortana spoke to him on the external speakers of his helmet. He sealed the armor cover and he was just about to remove his armor for a hot shower when the intercom activated. "Chief please report to the bridge. We have some problems."
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John stepped on the bridge and saw the captain. He looked at the screen and saw five ships that were CIS design. "Send those ships a message to retreat or be destroyed." The captain said to the comm. officer. "Message sent sir." The officer said. A small hologram appeared on the AI pedestal. There was a slug faced man with wavy eyes. "I am the commander of this fleet, who are you, and what right do you have to order me around?" The creature asked. "I am the captain of the UNSC cruiser North Star and I am in defending this system from attacks." The captain said in a commanding voice.
John saw the slug talk to someone out of view. He then smiled in a way that made John know that something was wrong. "Sir, power spikes across enemy fleet!" the ops officer yelled. The captain smiled and said to the enemy "You just signed your death warrant. Have fun in Hell." The connection was broken then. "Charge MAC guns and prep archer missiles. Order all ships to prepare to fire at the enemy. All fighter pilots are to prepare to launch and all marines are to be ready to repel boarders!" The captain said to the bridge crew. "Master Chief, you are to wait here and repel boarders when they come." The captain said.
John nodded and watched the enemy ships launch fighters. This will be another slaughter for those droids, thought John. He saw the ship's fighters launch. The Longswords move into an oval shape around the UMWG ships. Bright red lasers leapt from the enemy ships and they all were sent straight to a New Covenant frigate, Honorable Victory. The concentrated lasers hit the fighter protection force, killing a few unlucky pilots. The other lasers hit the ship and broke through the shields and split the ship open in the small impact areas. The enemy was about to fire again when the Victory jumped to slip-space to appear in between two enemy ships and it fired its pinpoint laser system at the enemy ships. They erupted in twin balls of flame. When the flame was gone the Victory was burnt holed and leaking coolant from the two explosions. The enemy ships fired at the Victory. Life pods and phantoms shot out of the ship, attempting to board the enemy ships. Fighters shot down the attempted boarding ships, and the life pods jumped to slip-space and reappeared next to the UMWG fleet. The Victory's fighters then moved to defend other ships.
"Sir! MAC system fully charged! Targeting solution is online!" The weapons officer said. "Fire." Came the cold hard reply. A white streak from the UNSC ships, two from the destroyer Mother Russia. The enemy ships attempted to avoid the shots. They were unsuccessful, mostly. One was obliterated from two grazing hits, there plasma charges detonated by the ships AI. One shot missed completely, its plasma charge destroying it to avoid collateral damage. One ship escaped unscathed. The other launched different ships that had different appearances before being destroyed. The unscathed ship launched a ship that looked like two plasma rifle barrels fused together on top of a butt of a plasma pistol. There were enemy ships that looked like old orange juicers. The twenty juicers split to five groups of four and all the fighters attacked the UMWG fleet as the juicers flew straight to the ships.
The enemy fighters opened a hole to allow the juicers in. The anti ship guns were too busy fighting suicide fighters to deal with the juicers. They impacted on the UNSC ships and ripped large holes in them. The New Covenant ships were fine because their shields literally crushed the boarders. "Boarders are on the Star, I repeat-'' A marine's voice was cut off as blaster sounds were heard. "Damn!" the captain yelled. He turned to John and said "I need you to repel boarders as soon as possible." John nodded. He ran off the bridge headed straight to an armory to grab a few weapons.
John looked at the large amount of weapons in the room. He would have preferred his MA5B assault rifle but this was close packed grouping in s ship so he grabbed two SMGs and attached them to his thighs. He grabbed a M90 assault shotgun and attached it to his back. He saw a very useful piece of equipment. It was a machinegun turret.
A/N: Review please. I mean you already read it so I don't have to say 'read'.