Sergeant Levi glanced around the vacant station as the alarms woke him up. He was training three greenhorns on Zero-gee fighting when all hell broke loose. Alarms all around the station were waking everyone that wasn't up. The shipmaster AI made announcement after 1 minute the alarm went off.
"Sergeant Johnson and Sergeant Levi squad to the bridge. Marines onboard, prepare to repel boarders, Covenant detected out of system heading inbound. All station crewmembers to active stations, all marines to your defense posts. Station will stop rotating in 1 minute 30 seconds killing all gravity aboard the station." The AI said.
Levi and his squad were out their temporary quarters with full combat gear by the time the AI finished the 4th sentence.
"Let's hustle!" Levi shouted to the 3 greenhorns. "Time to put the training to good use."
This was bad, Reach was the last stronghold the UNSC had left, and if it fell, and it would, then Earth would be virtually defenseless against the covenant if they found it. The 150+ ships in the fleet were gathering at the rallying point.
30 seconds later they arrived on the bridge where 2 station personnel and a black man stood in standard marine uniform in full combat armor. A cigar stub was still smoldering in his mouth as he pressed his hat down more on his head.
"Sergeant Levi's squad will be under the command of Sergeant Johnson. A ship has failed to do the Cole protocol because of a malfunction." The AI explained. His hologram image appeared to be a Sea captain from a book called Moby Dick written about 1500 years ago. The Figure pointed out that the vessel had recently been to earth, so it cannot fall into the covenant hands. "3 Spartans are heading over to help you out."
"3 Spartans?" Johnson asked. "One alone is enough to be 2 platoons of marines. A bit of overkill eh?"
"We are being carefully sergeant." The shipmaster said. "We want this to be done ASAP."
"Ok." Johnson said. He looked out one of the view screens as the Super MAC guns opened up on the covenant demolished a dozen ships easily. Smaller MAC guns of the fleet then hit the approaching ships and decimated their numbers. Despite the fact of the heavy losses on the covenant's side, they kept on coming like tidal wave.
"Sergeant Levi, let's move out." Johnson said smiling. "We get to dismantled a ship the Marine Corps way."
He held up his MA5B to gesture what he was going to do.
"Let's move it." Levi motioned.
"This is PFC Greg, Megan, and Conway." Levi said hooking thumb behind him as the greenhorns tried to keep up. "Greenhorns."
"Gotcha." Johnson said. "Remember that when you enter the battle with the covenant you fight with everything you got, because that is exactly what they're going to do."
They were able to hustle to a group of containers and boxes when the station was finally slowed down enough to decreased the gravity. The ship was dead ahead when an explosion rocked the station. A wall that was there 5 seconds go was now disintegrated and grunts poured out. The fight for the location of Earth had just begun.