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Chapter 4

The Battle of Spartan HQ Part 2

Meanwhile Lord Hood, along with several ODSTs, were fighting off Covenant forces in the auditoriums. Lord Hood had made a surprise visit to Spartan HQ right before the Covenant choose to attack. One marine was shot in the heart and he was dead before he even hit the ground. The marine fired their submachine guns and assault rifles at the Covenant. One marine tossed a frag grenade behind some Jackals, spraying the wall with blood. A Hunter pair entered the room and fired their Fuel Rod cannons at the marines cover, melting it. A marine fired two rockets at the Hunters, but Brutes stepped into the path of the missiles, killing them instead of the Hunters. A Grunt then fired its Needler at the marine holding the smoking M41 SRR, blowing a huge hole in the man's chest. "Roger!" A marine yelled and went to the man's side. The marine was coughing up blood and trying to speak. A Hunter comes up to the marine and hit him with his huge shield, breaking every bone in his body, before the Hunter brought his huge foot down onto the other marines face. An ODST snapped an Unggoy's neck with his bare hands, but a Brute punched the guy in the face, and then he shot him with his Spiker. Marines on the balcony fired a chain gun at the Hunters. One of the Hunter went down from a hail of lead, but the other Hunter raised its Fuel Rod Cannon at the ODSTs on the balcony and fired; there was nothing left of them, not even a boot. A Brute threw a spike grenade at one marine and it stuck to him, he was torn to shreds when the grenade detonated. Lord Hood turned to the last surviving marines.

"Go and get help, we'll hold them here." Lord Hood told one of the marines, and he left to get help, but he doesn't make it far before an Elite with an Energy Sword kills him. Grunts charged at Lord Hood and the surviving marines' position and were meet with Lord Hood and the marines fired their MA5Cs at the Grunts, killing a whole bunch of them, but they kept coming. As the Grunts started to climb over the barricade and into the auditorium's store room, a marine picked up a M90A shotgun and started to blast the Grunts as they climbed over the barricade. Two Sangheili climbed over the barricade, the marine shot one of the Elites in the head with his shotgun but the other Elite stabbed the marine. The other marines are all shot in the face by a third Elite. Lord Hood tried to fire his pistol, but it only made a clicking sound so he surrendered to the red armored Elites.

Meanwhile, Spartan-118 Heath and Spartan-087 Kelly were surrounded by ten to twelve Elites with stealth technology. "I should have remembered what Chief Mendez taught us; that we should always anticipate that there will be more hidden." he told Kelly. She just nods her head.

"Demons lay down your arms." the colonel's language translation software said as the Sangheili yelled it out to the two Spartans.

"What do you think, go out with a bang?" The colonel asked Kelly. She brought up her assault rifle and the colonel followed her as they fired their assault rifles at the camouflage Elites. Some of the Elites' shields flickered and died then rounds tore into their armor and flesh. An Elite cut the colonels assault rifle in two so he pulled out his M6 and fired it at the Elite. The first three rounds killed his shields and the final round delivered the knockout punch. Then he fired another three round burst at another Elite. The Elites fired their plasma rifles and Needlers at the two Demons. They just hit their shields and the two Spartans continue to fire as they noticed their shields were dropping, but they start to recharge slowly while under fire. Spartan-087 ran up to an Elite with an energy sword and she grabbed his hand with the blade and snapped the Elites wrist, then made him stab himself in the throat. A plasma bolt hit her square on the shoulder so she turned around and shot the Grunt with her M6 pistol. The bullet hit the Grunt major in the head. Spartan-118 drew his energy sword and slashed an Elites neck. The colonel picked up another MA5B assault rifle from a dead ODST. Then an Elite jumped onto the colonels back and started bunching him on the left side of his helmet. The sudden Elite caused the colonel to drop his assault rifle, so he ignited his energy sword and stabbed the Elite in the head and threw him off. Then they continue to fire their MA5's at the enemy and after two minutes, all the Elites laid dead.

"Ali Ali oxen free." he said into his radio. Soon after, the chief, the other Spartans, the Arbiter, and all the marines appeared at the all clear signal the colonel said and continued towards the vehicle and hanger bays. They could hear Grunts and Jackals behind them, and along the way they found dead Covenant along the hallway towards the hanger bays. The Grunts and the Jackals were filled with bullet holes. They approached a barricade with marines stationed, two marines were manning a chain gun. The rest of the marines were armed with MA5B assault rifles and BR55 Battle Rifles. Some of the marines were armed with shotguns, submachine guns and the M6G pistols

"Chief placed some mines in the hallway." The colonel said to him. He saluted and then he and Spartan-104 placed mines along the way they have come. The chief spotted a Jackal's shadow coming around a corner, he brought his pistol up and when the Jackal came around the corner he shot the Jackal dead center in the head. He killed two more that came around the corner in the same way.

"Chief, I'm picking up movement to your left." Cortana said to him. He unslung his MA5 assault rifle and prepared to fire. However, his motion tractor showed yellow contacts, friendlies.

Eight ODST were with another man who was not on armor. The ODSTs gave the chief a nod. "Admiral Grayson what are you doing here?" the chief said to the other man.

"That's not important right now Chief, we need to rescue Lord Hood before we leave this base otherwise the covenant will use him to gather information on all the new equipment we been working on."

"Where is he sir?" The chief asked as he opened up a channel so all the other Spartans could hear him.

"Four levels below us, he is being guarded by Brutes." He answered. "Where is Spartan-118?"

"I'll take you to him sir." the chief replied. The admiral followed the chief to where the colonel, the other Spartans, and the others were waiting. Everybody snapped to attention when the admiral entered the room.

"Good to see you again colonel." the admiral said to him.

"When did I meet you sir" the colonel ask politely.

"We met right before you left with the chief to the Ark. You saved me and my men's lives that day from the Covenant and from the Flood."

"That's right you were a commander at the time." The colonel answered. The admiral proceeded to tell the colonel about Lord Hood. "Very well we'll use the ventilation shafts to get down there."

"I agree, but someone needs to stay here to guard the entrance to the hanger bay and to the vehicles bay," The admiral remarks.

"Very well, the Spartan-IVs and the Spartan-IIIs will remain here with Spartan-058 and Spartan-104 with three squads of marines." The colonel told the admiral. "The master chief, Kelly, the captain, you, your men, two squads of marines, and myself shall go and rescue Lord Hood."

"Colonel, we should also be looking for additional survivors." Admiral Grayson said to him.

"Yes sir." the colonel replied. "Captain Doolittle, take four ODSTs and see if you can't find any more survivors."

"Yes sir." Captain Doolittle replied before leaving. The Covenant launched a surprise attack on the barricade before they could get into the ventilation shaft they were going to use to get around. The marines on the chain guns opened fire and riddled the Grunts and Elites with bullets. An Elite threw a plasma grenade at the marine holding the chain gun, but a Spartan stepped in front of the grenade and it only weaken the Spartan's shield. The Spartan then grabbed a mini-gun from a crate that he open and started poured hot lead into the Covenant troops. The Jackals overlapped their shields and one marine aimed for the weak spot in the shields and when a shield were up in the air, he nailed that Jackal in the head before three plasma bolts hit him in the head.

"Spartans, throw you grenades over their shields." the admiral ordered. The Master Chief, Spartan-104, and the colonel primed plasma grenades and threw it over their shields. The blasts from the plasma grenades killed the Jackals and weakened the Elites shields that were standing to close. The marines and the Spartans killed the Elites with their assault rifles. Two Hunters appeared so a marine grabbed a rocket launcher and fired it at the first hunter. The first rocket hit the Hunter straight in the face, killing it. Then he fired a second missile at the other Hunter, but it brought its shield up in time. The Spartan with the mini-gun fired at the hunter's flank and the Hunter fell down dead. The rest of the Covenant retreated. Many Grunts were killed by the Spartan holding the mini-gun as they retreated. They opened up the ventilation shaft and start to crawl around.

"I hope we don't have to go through a fan." A marine spoke out loud.

"Keep your voices down, there could be Covenant below us." April told them over the radio.

Lord Hood was surrounded by four Brutes and one Brute Chieftain with a gravity hammer. There were Grunts and Jackals patrolling the hallways and the area where they were holding him. "What do you want from me?" Lord Hood demanded from his captors. They didn't answer.

The rescue team was still crawling through the ventilation shafts. They could hear Sangheili talking with other Sangheili and issuing orders to Unggoy and Kig-Yar. "We have to hit them all at once." The Chief told them. The Spartans and the marines nodded in agreement. Two Spartans and a squad of marines headed for the exit out of the ventilation shafts. They prepared to exit as the others got ready to throw flash bangs into the mass of Covenant below them to temporary blind them so they can drop down from the shaft. They threw the flash bangs down there, the Covenant where temporary blinded so the Spartans hit them. They fired their assault weapons and the bullets tore into the Brutes and Elites armor and they fell down. Grunts ran in disarray, but were also cut down. The Chief breaks several of the Grunts necks with his bare hands. The colonel attacked the Brute Chieftain by firing at his head. The Chieftain killed a marine with his hammer trying to get to heath, but the colonel killed him in the end. Then the colonel picked up the gravity hammer.

"This might come in handy." The colonel said to himself.

"Lord Hood, are you okay sir?" the Chief asked him.

"Yes, thanks to you and your Spartans." he answered.

"There will be more Covenant on the way, let's get out of here." The colonel told them.

"I quite agree Colonel." Lord Hood replied as they headed for the vehicle bay. They ran into more Covenants along the way to the vehicle bay. The Spartans dispatched the Covenant with their assault rifles. Jackals appeared with their shields already activated so the Spartans threw grenades behind them. When the grenades exploded and killed them all. An Elite was put down by the combine fired of the Master Chief and the colonel. The Elite fell and tried to get up, but fell back down dead. The Grunts that were with the Elite ran away but was shot down by the Spartans. The colonel throws a plasma grenade and it stuck to a Grunt forehead and it detonated killing the Grunt and three others. Once the colonel round a corner he was hit in the face by a Brute. He fell flat onto his ass and the Brute grabbed him by the neck and began choking him, but the Chief shot him in the head with his M6 pistol. Another Brute appeared and tackled the Master Chief, but the colonel stabbed the Brute in the back with his energy sword. They made it back to the barricade after two more firefights with Covenant Grunts and Jackals. Four marines that went with them lay dead in the base. Once they made it to the barricade they found more Grunts and Brutes in front of the barricade, all dead.

"Were there any human casualties?" Lord Hood asked Spartan-104.

"Yes sir," he replied. "We lost three."

"Cortana, activate the self-destruct we're not leaving this base in the hands of the Covenant." Lord Hood said to Cortana.

"Roger." she answered. They headed to the hanger bay. Four Grunts blocked their path, but the ODSTS dispatched them with head shots. They made it to the hanger bay where Lord Hood saw his daughter with several ODSTS and some pilots pinned down by Covenant Snipers. Two pilots went down from the Covenant snipers and an ODST took a plasma blast to the face.

"Chief, Colonel take those snipers out!" Lord Hood told them. They aimed their BR55 rifle at the Jackals and dispatched them quickly.

"We have a company coming down the hallway!" a marine yelled from the back. Colonel Heath-118 went back and sprayed the Grunts that were coming down the hallway with his MA5B assault rifle and then placed a Lotus Anti-tank mine down and set it for proximity fuse.

"April what type of ships are those?" heath asked once he got back.

"Accessing UNSC aerial vehicles," April said over the colonel's private com. "It's a Longsword Transport fighter, it can be used as a fighter, a transport or a command vehicle with six gun ports protecting the ship. It can hold a crew of 4 in the cockpit plus twenty-five additional people in the back."

"Where are the gun-ports located?"

"This ship has two gun ports on the top, two on the left side, and two on the right side. This also has missiles and the same type of gun that's on the regular Longswords."

"Quickly get in!" Spartan-118 orders. Spartan-117, Spartan-123, Spartan-104, Admiral Grayson, Spartan-058, three marines, three friendly Sangheili, and six ODSTs got in one Longsword transport fighter. Spartan-119, Spartan-121, Spartan-197, four marines, and three ODSTs boarded another Longsword fighter. Spartan-118, Spartan-087, Spartan-121, Lord Hood, Commander Jenny, ten ODSTs, eight marines, thirteen friendly Sangheili, Spartan-B292, and Spartan-B091 boarded another Longsword fighter. Jenny took the pilot seat and the colonel took the copilot seat. The rest of the Spartans and marines boarded Pelicans. The Pelicans were already equipped with vehicles. The colonel noticed that underneath the other two Longsword Transport fighters they had vehicles attached so he wondered if they had one attached as well.

"Colonel, the bay doors are not opening!" the chief said over the com.

"Who needs a door?" the colonel replied before he fired a Longswords missile that blew the hanger bay doors open. They left the base and blow past several Banshees. "Where are we going to now sir?"

"Take us to Antarctica," Lord Hood replied. "We must rescue Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez along with the 300 base personal." they went on their way to Antarctica and they heard the base explode.

"I hope that kill a lot of those Covenant basters," a marine said. "No offense Arbiter."

"None taken," the Arbiter replied.


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