Spartan Training
By: Natination
Debris filled the space around the covenant cruiser; its demise was unknown for now as a pelican tried to make its way to an open breach in the hull. Nimbly dodging pieces of debris that were the size of it, the pelican finally was able to get to one of the many breaches in the hull. The back of the pelican opened up as the pelican nestled into the breach in the hull backwards.
Nate and Sam walked off the deck as they glanced around. Engineers lay dead among the deck, as the fusion core was still online providing gravity for the ship. Making their way to the bridge among the many doors, they careful walked down hallways and opened doors. Once they narrowing avoiding falling into a pit where it was a 100 feet deep because the floor had somehow collapsed.
Finally coming upon the bridge where bodies of several gold elites and silver ones. Walking up to the holographic symbols, Nate and Sam tried to bring a Captain's log. They had to be one, or some type of recording device.
"Trying to interface." The AI said. "I have the recording, lets go."
"Roger." Nate said. "Lets get out of here."
"Yeah. This place is giving me the creeps."
They humped to the pelican as the pilot who in a zero gee suit and were barely able to strap in and move around fired up the engines and left the Covenant ship behind.
"Admiral we have retrieved the data. Sending you a copy now." Sam radioed in.
As the pelican dropped into the hanger alarms went off as the defcom went to 1 (fighting imminent). Before the pelican had fully landed Sam and Nate were going though the hallway as everyone scrambled into an alert status.
The bridge was a hectic array of data ports and control panels with people manning them now.'
"Mac guns fully operational, 100 on each cannon." A Mac gunner reported.
"Engines are 100" people reported in.
"Archer missile tubes ready for launch"
"Shiva Tactical nuclear warheads ready."
"Aim Mac cannons at the slip space rupture." Admiral Snooker said. "Open up the AI holotanks now."
3 AI's popped up. One of the figure looked like the tank general Patton as he reported in. Q in his lab coat popped up as well. And a Ninja of sorts popped up as well.
The Patton figure asked to take control of the Mac cannons and was designated command.
The slip space rupture ended as 7 covenant ships arrived out of slip space.
"Blow the hell out of them." Patton yelled.
The covenant fleet did consisted of a carrier, a cruiser and 2 destroyers and 2 frigates. The key word is did because as soon as they came out the Mac guns opened up and slammed two rounds each into the carrier, cruiser and a destroyer. The destroyer was gutted instantly and didn't stand a chance, as its shields didn't come online yet. The Round had run clean though the ship stem to stern and blew the entire bridge and fusion core apart. The Destroyer detonated like a firecracker and its hulls blew into thousands of fragments and it pinged off the hull of the other covenant ships.
The Mac round for the carrier was completely different story. The shield came online just before they hit and sent their shields down two thirds. The Cruiser was the least lucky, The Mac rounds hit it dead on and the hull snapped and popped and decompressed. The Mac rounds had skimmed the hull ripping holes all along the two sides of the ship. It was a slow and antagonizing death for the cruiser as the compartments decompressed one by one. Unknown to anyone but the bridge crew of the cruiser, The Commander of the ship was walking onto the bridge and the door was open just as the Mac rounds passed by and tore out the wall behind him. Needless to say there was a white elite floating in the dead of space now.
"Get us the hell out of here now!" Admiral snooker said. "Get as behind something so the plasma doesn't hit us directly.
The guns on the all the covenant ships warmed as the shields also came online for the remaining ships.
"Squadrons of seraphs are coming off the carrier!" Q said.
"I suggest we launch the half of our longswords now. We can keep the rest in reserve." Patton said.
"Any breaches of security to our systems of any kind?" Admiral Snooker asked.
"None detected." The Security AI said. Snooker couldn't remember the AI's name at the moment. "Q, help on system security, I don't want no breaches."
"Yes admiral." Q said and focused on helping the AI out.
"Mac guns are charging again sir, there be ready in 45 seconds." The Mac operator said.
The carrier and Cruiser moved towards them firing as they went. Plasma fire lanced out and missed by mere meters. The covenant was unusually sloppy. They didn't know that the commander of the Carrier used to be in charge of infantry units, thus he was expecting a splash effect because of gravity. There is no gravity.
That was when the seraphs and longswords engaged each other and the chain gun defense opened up pouring fire into the seraphs. The Carrier fired a plasma torpedo towards the Peacemaker. Nothing could stop it now. It would slam straight into the Center Mac cannon and split the ship nearly in half till the engineer compartment.
"Damn. We fought a good fight though. Fire MAC rounds now! One last salvo!" Admiral Snooker ordered. 6 rounds rang out destroying the carrier and Cruiser and one frigate.
The Energy torpedo was about to hit.