Halo: Two Spartans
Captain Thanas look around on his ship as it came out of slipspace. The crew was nerivous about what was in the system maybe, he wasn't so sure it was just that. they did look to be in high spirts from their victory over a sloppy commander though.
They might have crippled a serious fleet back there. He gave one more glance before returning to his datapad with one final note he ended the file he was reading.
"Helmsmen, lets go visit The Deliver." Captain Thanas started thinking. He was a bit late, but they had to do an longer route then Admiral Garret and his people took. They had run into a frigate which had sent a warning message out before the two MAC rounds they had fired could penerate their shields and destory the ship. The covenant would be getting all ships to search for him. They might have known it was him to did most of the dirty work of that fleet. Killed so many of thier kinsmen. Well... he be waiting for them.
"ETA: 5 minutes. Sir, there hiding behind a planet in orbit around it. we should be in view, in 4 minutes 47 seconds." The helmsmen replied.
"Continue on course." Capt Thanas replied. He turned his chair around to face them. He heard the heavy clunking of the spartans behind him. "Hello Nate and Sam, how was the covenant on that planet we nuked?"
"Not bad, we set it and got it off with no one hurt. Elias is destoryed." Sam said with bitterness. It had been their home for the past 2 years. "We managed to get past the Covenant ships that were left without trouble."
"Good." Captain Thanas said. "Garret will be pleased that landing force is dead. Too bad we couldn't stop that cruiser."
"Sir..." Nate's question trolled off as he looked at the camera view. Thanas Twisted around to see what the matter was.
Wreakage of the independence bridge flew by the view screen scrapping a line all along the bottom of the ship. It looked like a scar as the bridge of the ship burned up into engines. Capt Thanas looked out with wonder. The Deliver stood there in hover. Looking like a gaint spin top rotating slowly in space. burnt out sections and gaint holes all the way were the telltale signs of Covenant revenge. How did they track them here or did they pop in uninvited ontop of a fleet?
The Archangel was in piece all over the place, The massive MAC cannon floated along debris, cleanly cut from the bottom of the ship. It looked operational too if it wasn't sheered from the bottom of the ship. With The Freedom burnt out hull only a 1km away it looked like it was running before it got gutted. Did they launch Shiva nukes?
Bodies passed by as the AI zoomed them in and ID the bodies in its database. Most were from the Arch Angel, A few cilivans. The top 1/4 of the Arch Angel seemed to be intact. With the Camera zoomed it looked like the Bridge of the Arch Angel. It was burnt out with bodies strapped in. On the Command Chair stood Garret, petified in terror as the impending plasma beam burned out though the bridge.
Covenant serphs and even a destoryer layed amist the wreakage. burned out, gutted from bow to reactor. A cruiser layed domimt as it came into view. Burned out sections of Archer missles and MAC wounds present.
"Cruiser is active! plasma turret online, its moving to track us!" The AI hastly said. "SIr?"
Captain Thanas watched the plasma turret swung into view, powering up. "Get us the hell out of here now!"
"Yes sir!" The helmsmen did quick work as they dodge though the wreakage, the Rear camera view watched the plasma turret. Shield came down... IT fired one burst which guided out like a streaking missile. It crashed into the Cilivan ship as the Prometheus went behind it. Losing energy the plamsa lost it bolt as it slowed by the endless walls of the Colony ship. It had saved them.
Thanas Came out the other side and gave a board side of Archer missiles Which donated on the shields.
Launching a SHIVA nuke which floated nearer the Cruiser. Captain Thanas went to slipspace as the nuke dentated taking out its fury upon the ship for killing some many good people. The Cruiser vanished as the nuke wasted it shields and desterageted it. The shockwave almost hit right before slipspace came on.
"That as dam close. What do we do now?" Nate asked.
"I dont know spartan, I dont know." Captain Thanas said. He looked into slipspace as if looking for an answer.