Part 2
Branded as Traitors
By: Natination
A/N: Well, i decided to continue my series though here, and for you branded as traitor's orginals, i replaced them and decided to add two charaters to the mix and rewrite everything. Do not worry, everything will be alright.
The Station's sensor's blared a warning that covenant ships were inboard.
Nate had resided to a distant hallway over looking the MAC systems. With his chemical enchanced eyes he saw the purple hull of the covenant ships heading this way. He was already donning his new suit without even relizing it. It was the Mark VI fresh out of being produced. it had seavral new features that he hadn't had a chance ot test out just yet. He had suited up all but the helmet, and it snapped shut with a snap and a hiss. Improved shields impressive. He didn't have any time to waste, the Peacemaker would be departing either to engage or destory the enemy. There was covenant to kill and extintion of the human race depended on killing every one of them.
Meanwhile in the control room:
The three officers watched as the covenant ships appoached. they ordered the halcyon class ships and the Peacemaker to defend the station. Like they had a spit chance in hell holding off 20 covenant ships.
"More slipspace ruptions sir! 40 more covenant ships have appeared, all heading inbound on our position." The tech grimly said.
"Line them up and fire!" One of the officer in charge said. three whumps soon followed and three ships were decapitated. Cheer's erupted as the ships exploded. They had taken them out before their shields had gone up. Two destoryers and a frigate had met their doom.
"Launch Longswords! engage enemy single ships, fire at will at closet covenant ship with MAC cannons, open fire with chain guns." The same officer said taking charge as the other two sliently watched. The station was equiped with 50mm chain guns in overlapping fields of fire for station to fighter combat. "Launch a wave of Shiva nuclear warheads at Carrier A and B and Cruiser A and C. set promixty denators at 500 meters"
20 shiva nuclear missiles launched from hidden compartments as they headed for their targets. They whistled their way to their targets as the covenant ships did evasive maniver's. It hit carrier A and blew it to pieces. One cruiser was hit by a nuclear warhead and surivied by the teeth of it's skin before a MAC cannon ended it's suffering. Ship's were falling fast on the covenant ship's yet they didn't do a lick against them. Something was up. A change in tactic's.
"We have inbound enemy fighters from underneath the station sir! their heading for the MAC cannons!" A tech said from his console.
"Tell the squad 3 and 4 to engage!"
"Engage Demise."
On the peacemaker the ship was racking up kills quickly as it launched it's MAC rounds. A frigate and destoryer was gone and Cruiser A had been able to avoid the nuclear warheads but not the 3 MAC rounds heading for it. It slammed staight into the nose and listered to starboard as the second hit it's middle and torn though it and third blew apart it's reactor.
The covenant ships must have had enough because they full streamed ahead firing like crazy.
Jimmy dates was the current CO on the bridge as fired quick orders. The Stress was wearing him down as he tried to give orders as fast as he could. The bridge crew wasn't holding up as well either, they were trying to do multiple tasks at once as they listened for orders. Nate had gotten on the Peacemaker 3 minutes before it left the docking station. He was standing quietly as Jimmy dates gave orders. There was a console no one was looking at and Nate looked at it. It showed a heat bloom in the middle of the station. it slowly started to go higher and higher.
"Warrent officer..." Nate asked.
"What is it spartan?" Jimmy said.
"Take a look at the station, their's a sudden heat bloom smack dab in the middle of it." Nate said.
Jimmy looked at the infared screen as he seemed puzzled. "No... this can't be.."
"Sir, the halcyon class May flower has been blown apart."
"A escort ship has left the battlefield from the station, carrying the three officers somewhere. Their stationed just out of system." A bridge crew member said.
"No... this can't be.. it can't be." Jimmy said. He was looking at a heat bloom of something. Then he said in a shaking voice. "It is... Helm, prepare for a slipspace jump! alert the other 4 Halcyon class ships to jump to slipspace at once!"
"Sir... message has been sent." The communcations officer said. "Their following our lead."
"We got to punch a hole in thier lines, tell station MAC cannons to fire at Charlie and Delta Frigates. Our MAC cannons take out Beta Cruiser and Vince Carrier. Have the Halcyon's take out Zulu destoryer before it cuts us to pieces." Jimmy yelled.
"I can't belive their going to do it." Jimmy said. "Their going to create a mini supernova."
"A what?" Nate asked.
"120 nuclear warheads going off at the same time." Jimmy said. "It'll kill everything within a lightyear of here. Including all these covenant ships."
Another group of 12 covenant ships jumped in system. bring the the total strength the of covenant fleet back up to missing 6 ships. The station MAC cannons were able to knock out 2 with the help of the Peacemaker another 2 was destoryed as well.
Plasma and human weapons going everywhere as it was crazy and hard to keep track of everything that was going on.
"Sir, only the Mist remains!" One tech said. "Their trying to follow us!"
"Tell them to jump somewhere other then here!" Jimmy said. The order came to late as a plasma turpedo slammed staight into the bridge of the Mist. Screams prior to the impact could be heared over the communcation officer's headset. The Mist kept going with no one at the controls and slammed into a frigate and expoded taking the frigate with it.
"UNSC Peacemaker!" A voice over the intercomm said. "Enagage the enemy! Dont let them hurt the station, we're on it!"
"Bullshit." Jimmy replied. "By the way, your nuclear arsenal is going to go off and you still need to go another 12000 meter's before reaching safe levels of radation and heat wave. You wont Make it."
The Slipspace ruption eneveloped the Peacemaker as the Covenant ships headed towards system.
On the escort ship Hammerhead, chaos reigned on the bridge as they tried to get their vessel far enough away. The blast was too bright to look at it as it totaled the MAC cannons and the 300 personell and 150 marines stationed on it . It continued to envelop ships like a mad dog eating food as all ships broke contact and tried to flee. As it gathered momentum it ate though the lines of the covenant ships as they all did evasive maniver's against the horried human weapon.
Whoever was on the bridge at the time was screaming as the shockwave tore though the small ship and burned it down to particales.
Meanwhile the Covanent Commading captial ship Lighting Judgment escaped the blast of the heatwaveTora'Sulmee was commander of the ship and had barely manage to get out in time. the human weapon alone had wiped out over 40 covenant ships of all sizes. As the blast cleared he saw he was the only survior left. The Prophet (though minor) was still higher ranking then him and scorned him for not knowing about the weapon. Who could have known the humans would have built a weapon as mighty as the fore runner ship on high charity? The Brute commander ordered him to be exiled in prisinor for this crime. Crime of not knowing what? He did not know the answer. Pershaps he should. Maybe the prophets were-... He banished the thought from his mind as he paced his cell. He must have done something wrong. He began to go over the long list of things that could have gone wrong when he noticed something. A shape uncurled itself and rose up to nearly his height and was in a tattered uniform. It still bore symbols that all elites feared to face even though thier too proud to admit it. Spartan. Here was a human that was a well trained soldier and knew how to fight a elite hand to hand. Even without Armor. The elite still had his armor but he knew it gave him little edge.
"This could be a little messy..." Sam grinned. "I haven't killed anything in for a while except for that elite who came in here 49 hours ago."
Shoka'Sulmee backed into the the force field as he readied to defend himself. This could get a bit gorey.