The Final Frontier

Hi everybody, thanks for the reviews, greatly appreciate them, anyways, I suck at summaries and stuff like this so on with the story!!! Can someone tell me how the italics/bold/etc things work cause it buggered up chappie 2 slightly

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Chapter 3 – Launch Deck Massacre

Launch Deck 2- 1 Day and 1 hour since the covenant started attacking

"Calling all available marines, battle stations, this is not a drill, I repeat, this is not a drill"

"Shit, they sure took their time calling everyone" Jericho muttered to himself

"Alright, take what ever you need, Evans, Jones and Jericho, you take sniper rifles and we'll be blue team" Kennedy said as he picked up a sniper himself, he's not the greatest shot in the Navy but he is decent."the rest will be red team, go cover the 2nd floor with whatever you got."

"Yes sir!" a dozen marines boomed over the intercom

"Uh sir, what are we going to do?" Evans replied

"alright, here's the plan, Us four are going to pick off as many covenant forces as possible and to scatter them at the same time, so we have to split up, changing positions if your spotted, the rest of you Marines are going to concentrate your firepower at the center of the group, hopefully taking out as many elites as possible, take some phosphorous grenades with you as well, Got that?"

(A/N: added the phosphorous grenades for no reason at all except for fireworks)

"YES SIR!!" Boo

"Right, let's go do some target practice!"

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Launch Deck 2

This is to easy, 'Seramee thought as he sliced a marine in half, if this is how easy it is going to be, humanity will surely fall. He saw a human took a swing at a jackal, instantly knocking it out and pumped 6 bullets into it, not noticing the elite, 'Seramee picked up a plasma rifle and fired 3 superheated plasma bolts into it's head, effectively melting it. He saw a couple more marines hiding behind a barricade, holding back a whole load of grunts. So he chucked a plasma grenade into the two, sending them both flying.

"You humans are too easy "He taunted to the marines, laughing loudly. Out of the 40 humans that were defending the post, only 10 remained behind a barricade. Some grunts went flying as a grenade exploded in the group. An elite crumbled to the floor when a bullet struck it in his unshielded head

"Eat hot plasma you infidels" He Screamed as he stuck a plasma grenade on a nearby human, making him run in circles before being vaporised "woot, woot, woot"

"Your excellency" a grunt squealed" We're getting reinforcements from high command. They'll be here in 30 minutes sir."

"Good, now get into battle you little idiot" and pushed the grunt aside and into a wall, knocking him out, oops, he thought, no battle for him then. And laughed

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3rd floor of launch deck 2

As the battle raged from below blue team silently slipped onto the third floor, it's very dark, good, Kennedy thought

"Alright blue team, get into position, red team, fire on my mark"

"Yes sir"Came the reply

"Good" Kennedy said, this plan has better work, he thought, humanity may depend on it

"Blue team in position"

"Finger on the trigger and FIRE!!!"

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"Your excellency" a jackal squacked "reinforcements will be here soon"

'Seramee answered with a nod, he watched as a hunter was just about to hit the human in the face

It stopped

"What? Kill that mammal, what are you waiting for" and looked in horror as the creature slowly fell. With a large bullet hole in his neck, spurting orange blood.

"Shit,what the hell happened" He barked. And saw his strike force fall one, by one and the occasional two as the sniper rounds slammed into the covenant strike force, Many grunts started to scream and scatter "Wah!!!!!" one screamed "Run for it people!!!" shouted another "Arrgghhh!!" screamed a dozen "There they ar-"shouted a jackal but never got to finish as about 5 rounds silenced him for good

"Damn you humans!!!" Roared 'seramee "Cowards, come here and fight"

"This is high command, you will not retreat as this is an executable offence, by the order of the prophets you must not leave"

Bullet after bullet hit into the gold elite, each one felt like a massive sledge hammer hitting into him, he have experienced the puny human metal- pingers but never did he get hit in such a scale. Many of his comrades fell before his eyes, this is not fighting, this is a massacre

"reinforcements are coming, stand by, do not retreat by the order of high command"

"All units, fall back, defensive positions!!" 'Seramee shouted. These mammals are going to pay...

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Meanwhile on Earth

"When are they going to pick us up" "Don't know chief, in about an hour or so"

Great, the chief though. If her reports about the covenant are true, then if we aren't picked up soon, then we are screwed big time. The covenant forces are estimated at 3000 grunts, 100 elites and ONLY 12 hunters. Along with a black ops squad. And they could always pick up more

"What's Reece's squad's status?"

"Good, they went down to pick up more people, encountered covenant activity but it was minor, took no more than 5 minutes to destroy. Got a couple of grunts that went AWOL. And about 50 more civilians and a APC" Cortana replied. They'll need one helluva pelican to pick up those people, she thought and 'smiled'( she was in the M.C's head, remember? )

"That's nice. And the covenant"

"20 miles away and closing, be here in ten minutes."

"Right...tell the marines to take up positions inside the base and wait..."

"Can't you tell them, I'm not your communications officer you know" She replied and John( M.C) knows she's ticked off.

"My radio's busted" he grinned "by all the plasma radiation"

"Damn it..." -----

END OF CHAPTER 4

Well folks, that's all for this chapter, I will update shortly as it is still the summer holidays and Thanks to everyone who reviewed ( especially those who said my grammar /punctuation needs work on )

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