The Final frontier

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Chapter 3: The Calm before the Storm (without the Calm)

The "final Forntier"'s control room, 7 hours since the covenant attack

"Things aren't going too well sir" The engineer( let's call him Nick)shouted over the constant explosions "only 3 MAC cannons are left, and half the fighters are casualties now"

"What?, how are we supposed to defend this base, would have been easier if we still had an A.I, anyways, give me a statistic on all the defending troops"

"Sir, 1500 marines on board, 10 spartans ,a bunch of Warthogs and a few tanks,"

"any reinforcements"

"Yes sir, we getting troops from Space Fleet Alpha, 10 Frigates and a Cruiser, totalled With 25 or so of the defending fleet we might still have a chance"

"Thank you, keep the MAC A firing, fire some nukes and make sure they don't get anywhere near 10 miles is that understood!?"

"Sir"Nick and the crew replied"Yes Sir"

"Good"Wilson muttered" time to fight back big time..."

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Gun Deck Beta

"Keep firing!!" kennedy shouted "don't give these assholes a chance

"YES SIR!!"

More Explosions rocked the deck as the Covenant Cruisers pounded at the Deck

"Sir" Jericho screamed" Aim at that Cruiser 3, it's shields are down"

"all units!" Kennedy Called out "fire!!!"

His repliy was met by hundreds of archer missiles firing right into the side of the Enemy cruiser, piercing the armour and knocking it into an asteroid, the cruiser instantly blew up when it hit, sending thousands of bits of molten metal all over the place

"WE ROCK!!!" Kennedy roared as cheers came from all the gun deck

"Seargent don't get too cocky over that" Cpt Wilson said over the intercom" we still got about 500 alien bastards to beat up,understood"

"Yes sir" Kennedy replied

"This battle's not won until every single one of these S.O.Bs are destroyed"

"yes sir" Kennedy said

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Back on Earth

"Cortana do we have a response yet"Master Chief spoke wearily, it has been a long day, 8 hours and still no response, Reece(a Spartan) along with 5 other marines went to search for survivors while he and cortana along with the remaining 3 tried to get someone to pick him up

"No chief, none yet"Cortana said"I wonder what's taking them so long"Wait, I've got a signal"

"Where?"M.C exclaimed"and who"

"It came from somewhere in the orbital cannon, it's Echo 538, Stormbreaker, they said they'll try to pick us up. They got a civilian ship we can ride."

"Thank you Cortana, do you know where to go"The M.C asked

"how about the "Final frontier", I just picked up a signal calling for any human surviors to help, they're getting attacked by the covenant"

"Great, let's go"

Finally, he thought, when we get there, the covenant will wish they hadn't even attacked the Fort in the first place

"Cortana, see if you can get Reece and the others"

"Chief, they're already picked up, they found about 30 civilians and a handful of marines along with another Spartan III soldier"

"Even better"

"this is Echo 538, covenant activity detected in your area, 40 miles and closing"

"oh great" M.C said "more covenant, let's hope they've got life insurance"

"Probably not Chief"

"Good," ----

Back on the "Final frontier", 20 hours into the attack

Wilson was unusually calm at the moment, considering half of the guns are down, the covenants are still strong and reinforcements aren't sill here yet

"Our shields are down sir" nick said" Activate previous procedures sir?"

"Do it"Came the answer

Another Huge explosion shook the deck

"Shit what was that?"Wilson shouted

"That was Launch Deck 2, moderate damge, a few deaths and about 20 injuries, the bad news is, we cant launch anymore fighters from there"

"Speaking of which, how many active fighters left?" Wilson asked

"30 out of the 90 launched are left sir"

"oh shit, we'd better get reinforcements quick or we're screwed" Wilson muttered to himself

"Right, launch the HAVOK missiles and send out all remaining fighters"

"yes sir"

"Sir, we got something you'd like to see" Corporal Andrew said

"what is is Corporal?"

"Signal from the Orbital Station back at Earth Sir, say they're going to gather up survivors and come help"Andy replied

"But isn't the Orbital Station destroyed"

"not quite, there's a room in there where all the special technologies were hidden, works like a plane's black box, only 20 times bigger and practically invulnerable to all energy and ballistic damage, the remaning crew hid in there"

"How did the crew get hold of a ship"

"That I still need to find out, but they say that they found 'him'"

"Him?, I can't be, he's supposed to be dead"

"Well stuff that sir, the Master Chief's back in action!!"

"Great!!" Wilson exclaimed "Just one more thing"

"yes, sir?"

"Do NOT speak to your superiors like that, in any situation, understood" he growled coldly, thinking, time for a little fun

"Sir" Andy Squealed "Yes Sir"

"Good," Wilson growled

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Gun Deck Beta, 1 day into the attack

"They're still not giving up sir" a marine shouted

"If you've been in the past 20 years or so marine, you'll see that they do not give up, sometimes they pile up damn high and you run out of ammo, so keep firing soldier"

"YES SIR!" the marine said

A Plasma Torpedo hit scorched one of the missile pods as it narrowly missed, setting off missiles and killing a couple of marines and caused a massive fire

"DIE BITCHES DIE" Kennedy Roared as he kept firing his Missile towards the Covenant

A Giant Blast sent shockwaves throughout the station, sending Kennedy Flying

"What the hell?" he exclaimed

"Sir, breach onLaunch Deck, a covenant strike force no doubt"

"How did they get in?"

"Through the Launch Deck 2 Sir, the launch door was damaged and the ship's shield went down a few minutes before, looks like they blasted through"

"numbers?"

"300 grunts, 20 elites and 100 jackals, and oddly only one hunter"

"hmm...."Now that is weird, Kennedy thought, only one hunter, his bond brother must've been killed, so that means he's none too happy

"Marines, go, go, go! Time to kick some covenant ass people, time is of the essence, let's move!!"He yelled, hardly able to contain his excitement.

"Beware Covenant, we're comin"

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Covenant Super-Dropship, a few minutes before the breach 'Seramee was leading the covenant strike force, using his own crew and troops. He was the one of the best elites in the Covenant Army, being in this for 30 cycles, longer than some of these humans have lived no doubt. He's seen the fall of Harvest, reach and Earth, fought against the master chief and barely survived. He was a hero amongst the ranks. And now he might me the one to destroy humanity once and for all "orders your excellency?" a veteran elite asked

"Disable the shield surrounding the station, then blast the damaged door open"

"Yes your excellency" replied the Elite, then walked over and started contacting the capital ship

Almost in an instant 5 Superheated Fuel Rod Guns slammed into the space station, rocking it around. The shields flickered for a bit, then switched off

"There's our chance your excellency, destroying the launch door"

The Elite pulled the fire trigger and shot a fuel rod right into the door, vaporising the door.

"We're in your excellency"

"now, CHARGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

With that 'Seramee lead the Force into maybe the last battle against humanity.

Right, that's that sorted out, pretty quick as well. Alright see ya