A/N-In this chapter I decided to bring Johnson into the story. He's my favorite character in Halo, so I decided not to leave him out. Enjoy.
Chapter 5
The Bombardment Begins
"Aerosal!" One of the pilots yelled.
"What?" He yelled standing over the captains' remains.
"That's heresy!" The pilot shot back. "The prophets will have you condemned for that! They will hunt you down, and they will…" He was cut off.
Aerosal put his plasma rifle to the pilots' head. He had this strange glint in his eye, almost one of satisfaction. Another pilot jumped at him and Aerosal, seemingly without effort, took another plasma rifle from his belt with his left hand, and, with a grin on his face, shot the two pilots in one fell swoop.
Then the pilot who had greeted him at the door walked up to him.
"You can't beat all of us." He claimed, smugly.
"There is a bomb on this ship." Aerosal replied calmly. "One big enough to blow the entire fleet. You will obey my command or I will blow this entire fleet. That ought to bring a slight delay to this invasion, don't you think?"
Everyone on the bridge just stared at him for a moment. There was anger in their eyes, and Aerosal saw it, he enjoyed it.
"Now," Aerosal stated as if nothing had happened, "Lets get moving, we have a planet to destroy. Return to you're posts"(By this time the fleet from Pharmack had already entered slip space).
They did accordingly. That night Aerosal personally set up private security cameras all over the ship…
At The Siderus 2 Battle Cluster…Capt. Kel pressed a button bringing up a large view screen of a Covenant warship. Elites were walking up and down corridors. Johnson walked into the room. She hadn't yet noticed he had entered. Johnson certainly found the fact she was looking into a Covenant warship suspicious. But more then that it was the fact she was changing view screens, almost looking for something…
Johnson cleared his throat "Ma'am."
"Ah Johnson," She said calmly, flicking off the monitors, "It comforts me to see they transferred you here from Pharmack."
"I'm sure." He replied sourly.
He walked out of the comm. Center, the captains piercing glare following him until he was out of her sight.
With Aerosal…"Sir." A tall, thin Elite walked up to Aerosal.
"Ah, Oleic. Good to see there's someone on this ship on my side."
Oleic, Aerosals right hand Elite, truly was the only one on the ship that still approved of him. He never used an energy shield, due to either bravery or pure stupidity. Most likely stupidity.
"How much longer until we arrive at Sideras 2?"
"Not much longer sir, though there was something I wanted to show you."
Oleic walked up to a control panel, and turned a small dial brining up a screen of two Elites talking in a room.
" Sir I think you better hear this."
He turned up the volume on the speakers.
"So what are we going to do about him?" One of the Elites remarked.
"See this," The other one replied holding up a small card, "This will get us into Aerosals quarters. Tonight, we'll sneak in and kill him in his sleep. No confrontation, no problem."
"But what about his lackey, Oliec."
"Once we take care of Aerosal, we will finish with him."
"Alright, sounds good to me, when and where should we meet?"
"The mess hall, two-hundred hours."
With that they separated and parted ways.
"Thank you for bringing this to my attention, Oliec."
"Sir, it's my pleasure."
With Johnson…"I want you to pull up all of Captain Kels files."
"Yes sir but"
"And get me a history of all the communications in and out of this battle station."
"Yes, alright but"
"And would someone get me some water, I'm thirsty!"
Sergeant Johnson walked down the corridors of the battle ship, shouting commands to his men. He knew Capt. Kel was up to something, and he was going to find out what it was, no matter what it took.
"Sir if the captain finds out we're doing this…"
"She won't." Johnson cut in.
"But if she does..."
Johnson broke in, this time, with a reasuuring tone of voice. "She won't."
The entire battle ship was in a bustle to prepare for the covenants arrival. The armories were empty, rec. rooms deserted. Everyone was waiting for the covenants arrival. Johnson, stopping in one of the Pelican hangers, continued talking to his men.
"We're outnumbered two to one," He stated. "And we don't have nearly enough weapons to equip everyone on ship. So, every other man gets an assault rifle. When either a marine with a rifle dies, or one of those Covenant bastards hits the floor, take the weapon and shoot. We have set up barricades and explosive barrels throughout the station. Every door in the station will be open. You will each have a small device you can use to shut and lock the door." He continued. "There will be a small frequency painted along the wall near the door. Just enter it into the device and the door will shut and lock. We will be using tanks and warthogs to defend the larger areas, such as this hanger. All Pelicans will be on stand-by, ready for evac"
"Evacuation sir?" A marine spoke up. "Surely you don't think we'll have to retreat?"
"If we have to, at least we would have taken down more then a few alien slime balls with us." Johnson replied with a grin.
With Captain Kel…"Ma'am, the reinforcements from Pharmack have arrived. Would you like them to dock, or provide cover from space?"
"Tell them to go here," She said pointing to a location on a star map. "And to take defensive positions.
"Yes ma'am."
Minutes passed by. The entire station was waiting for the Covenant to arrive. They didn't have to wait long.
"We've got Covenant ships approaching!"
"Get out." Capt. Kel ordered the marines in her office. "Get out now."
They did not object.
Aerosals Fleet…The fleet finally came out of slip space, right in range of the ships from Pharmack.
"Bring up the carriers." Aerosal ordered Oliec with a nasty tone of voice.
About ten large ships with many pods to launch rockets moved to the fornt of the fleet. They looked as though they were meant for nothing else but to launch projectiles.
"Take aim at those battle cruisers. You may fire when ready."
Just as Aerosal gave the order, each ship shot at least three rounds of five large missiles. As they made contact with the ships, they simply penetrated their armor and sat in the ships. The marines in side the ships all moved toward the missiles.
After a few seconds one of the marines wiped his forehead and, with a sigh of relief, exclaimed, "It's a dud." But no sooner had he said that the missile opened and green mist started to flow out.
Aerosal sat for a while watching as the gas stated to leak through the holes made by the missiles.
The marines at the battle cluster watched in horror as the "silent killer" as it was later known, went to work, completely disintegrating the battle cruisers. No one said anything. Thus was the reason for the name of silent killer. The long silence afterward. One might think they had gone deaf.
Aerosal shook his head and said under his breath, "Good, very good. Turn your coordinates toward those battle stations."
Johnson sat in the fire control room. "Prepare to fire, we have to make sure none of those damned missiles get through."
"Yes sir."
Just then a marine walked in, looking flustered and out of breath, and called Johnson.
"Johnson, I finally found Captain Kels files."
"And…" Johnson said impatiently.
The marine paused for a second to catch his breath.
"You're not going to believe this but…"
"But what!" Johnson yelled agitated now.
"Sir, Capt Kel has been dead for five years…"
A/N- Pretty good huh. Gotta love the cliffhanger. I'm planning on dragging this story out for quite a while, and I'm really focusing on storyline. Sorry I didn't get Master Chief into this chapter. He might not be in the next one very much either. Thanks.