He hurried to an open door and crept down the hallway. He walked down another corridor and stopped short. Crewmen walked out of his bunkroom yawning and hit the Spartan from behind. He gave a yell and hit the alert button next to the entrance to the bunkroom. It alerted that an intruder was onboard.
"Damn it." Nate said. He elbowed the crewmen into the wall, cracking his neck and primed a Fragmentation Grenade and threw it into the bunkroom. Men screamed as a WHUMP went off inside the room. Nate charged down the hallway shooting unvarying marines and crewmen as he made his way around the ship. He had probably wounded 30 men and killed 20 by the time he got to a ladder to the command deck.
He climbed up the ladder taking out his shotgun. He glanced around as he headed for the bridge. Despite the alarm of an intruder on board, there were only 6 marines stationed at the bridge. Nate had no choice but to take them out. Nate pulled out his pistol and slung his shotgun to the side for easy access for later. He flipped around the corridor from the metal plate hiding him and opened fire. He fired all 12 shots in his pistol and flipped to the other hiding spot. He took a glance around the corner. He had gotten 4 out of the 6 marines. He loaded his pistol as the marines called for backup. The empty clip hit the floor as it slid out of the magazine slot and he slammed a fresh clip into its spot. He cocked it and put it in his holster. He grabbed his shotgun and made a mad dash towards them firing as he went. He broke the neck of one marine who was frantically reloading his pistol and fired his shotgun at the other. The Marine who was shot flew backwards into the bridge and slumped to the floor. Nate walked into the bridge, frighten looks from the bridge crew glanced at him as Nate looked around.
"Where's the admiral?" Nate asked.
"Are you going to kill us all?" One man asked.
"No, I'm looking for the admiral before the stupid son of a bitch kills us all." Nate explained. "This ring isn't a weapon, it's a fucking-"
"He's down on the surface heading towards the control room with three companies of men." One of the bridge officers said.
"Well then, I'll go down there and have a chat with him and my friend." Nate glanced at the pistol. "If any covenant show up, blow the hell out of this ring. I'll be commandeering 4 of your nuclear mines."
"Yes 4 mines ought to be enough." Patton said.
"Make that 5." Nate said. "Have someone load them onto a pelican and bring it down to the control room."
"Sir... Isn't this treason?" One member asked.
"No. We're protecting the human race and the men and women on REACH from the mistake this admiral is making." Nate said. "I have to go. You have your orders, get it done."
"Withdraw alpha base once I give you signal. Get the hell out of here." Nate said.
"Sir, what about you?"
"I'll be sitting nears the nukes to make sure they go off." Nate said.
"Yes sir." The bridge officer said. "There be ready by the time you get down there."
He seemed to be thoroughly convinced that the ring was a weapon. Nate ran down the way he came as he saw the pelican loaded with the 5 nukes. He powered up the pelican as the last nuke was carried onboard.
5 minutes later a pelican was headed directly towards the control center, the doors were still open. The pelican crashed straight though as Nate jumped out of the open back of the pelican. He flew down at 120 miles per hour as he started to think this WASN'T a good idea. He landed in the snow that cushioned his fall, but he landed and made his own small crater.
He climbed out of the crater as he saw a group of marines heading for his position. He decided to play dead. There were three of them, easy to take out. One marine gestured to the "dead" Spartan as they ran towards his body. Looking out for any traps two of them turned around and looked around.
"The Admiral Wants his head, if we bring it in, we got shore leave for 3 months." One Marine said.
"Sounds good to me." Another said.
The marine who first spoke pulled out a combat knife and edged slowly towards the Spartan. He went to do a throat cutting action as Nate's hand shot up and grabbed the knife. Ripping it out of the marine's hand he gave the marine a slight kick, which sent him sprawling 3 feet away. The other two marines started to turn around as Nate slashed the knee joints and crippled them with pain to the ground. He slit each marine's throat. Nate stopped as she felt the barrel of a shotgun pressed against the back of his head.
"You don't want to do this..." Nate said.
"Yeah, well I think I do, you just killed my two friends." The marine remarked. "Now I'm going to blow your brains out."
"I don't think so." Nate said. He ducked and did a low kick to the marine's legs, he tumbled to the ground as he pressed the shotgun trigger and fired one shot in the air. Nate threw the combat knife at the marine it lodged in his throat and he gurgled for air. He gave one last breath as Nate broke his neck.
"Why didn't you just listen to me?" Nate said frustrated.
He got up and grabbed the shotgun and its ammo. He looked around for a pistol and didn't find any, just some MA5B's. He grabbed one of those and 600 rounds from the marines.
He made his way slowly up the pyramid running into mini-forts along the way with marines stationed in them. They opened fire with turrets and guns at him as he tried to make his way up it. He was forced to dispatch them. When he had finally gotten passed them, he glanced around. There were probably 20 or so marines left somewhere. He walked though the open blast doors to see the pelican there with the nuclear payload. No one had bothered to even touch the pelican or the nuclear warheads. Good.
He sent a small burst transmission signaling withdraw of Alpha-base and the get the hell out of here in 15 minutes. He set the timer for the nuclear warheads for 20 minutes. He also had a small switch or button, which he would press that would either terminate the nuclear warheads or set them so they couldn't be stopped.
Climbing out of the pelican he readied his MA5B and made his way down the hallway. He saw a squadron of 5 marines open fire at him. He Threw a Fragmentation grenade and went full auto on his MA5B. The marine's were dead as he pressed the button.
10 marines were facing the doorway. They were lined up with 5 kneeling and 5 standing behind them. Nate calmly walked towards them. The Admiral was at the holo controls and grabbed a shotgun when he saw the Spartan entered.
"Whoever doesn't want to die, put down your weapons? This isn't your battle-" Nate said. Three shots rang out from the old Admiral with his shotgun Nate knew he couldn't avoid the shots. The first two took out his shields and the third blew apart his armor. He slumped down to the ground. Blood oozed from a hole above his hip, he wouldn't survive 10 minutes. A message scrolled across his screen that the UNSC ship Peacemaker saying it had received it orders and is leaving the solar system. Alpha base had been Evac and no one would save the 10 marines here. The marines stepped away and lowered their weapons. Nate grinned as he pressed the button to donate the warheads.
"You men did good. We saved Earth from destruction." Nate said to the soldiers. They lined up and saluted as everyone looked at the admiral.
"Damn you, what have you done?" the Admiral whispered.
"Saved humanity from stupid bitches like you." Nate said. He felt the heat from the device in the backpack and the nuclear explosion went off. He felt a slip space eruption and he felt like he was being teleported before the blast had reached the control and vaporize everything within its radius.
1 days mission time. The watch officer, Jimmy Dates watched the nuclear blasts enveloped the control center and the ring began to shatter. Parts of it flew into other the side. The ring has gone off a split second before the ring had torn apart. Three pelicans were turned to atoms in an instant as they returned to the peacemaker. He wondered what happened to the admiral and the Spartan as the ring fragments slowly rotated in space.
"Take us to slip space. Let's get back to REACH." Jimmy Dates said.
"Sir... Priority Alpha message from REACH, Sent to your data pad." The Communications officer said.
The officer opened up his data.
FROM: REACHONI SECTION 3TO: ALL REMAINING SHIPS
REACH HAS BEEN FOUND ALL SHIPS ARE TO AVOID THIS PLANET AT ALL COST. DO NOT COME TO HELP. BATTLE HAS BEEN LOST. REPEAT BATTLE HAS BEEN LOST. ALL SHIPS PROCEED TO THE NEAREST OUTPOSTOR FOLLOW THE COLE PROTOCAL TO EARTH.
FROM, ADMIRAL STANDFORTH COMMANDER OF SECTION 3 ONI
Reach has been annihilated? Impossible. No it was possible, but still reach was the last stronghold of the earth Empire. Survival of the human race shrank to weeks now. The nearest stronghold was the Alpha Centurion base. It was approximately two days away from a slip space jump.
"Initializing jump to REACH sir." The Helm officer reported.
"Belay that, we got new orders, head to the Alpha Centurion base." Jimmy was stunned. He needed some whiskey or something heavy after he got off duty. The chance of survival for human race was almost gone now. It was now a run and hide game. As the slip space eruption merged with the ship he wondered if how long he would live now.