This fan fiction is now known as "Panda Bear's Art of War."
Panda Bear's Art of War
11:39 hours, February 25, 2006 (civilian calendar)\ Team CTF, Sol system, Blood gulch simulated map, Halo.
(Welcome Panda Bear) appeared in the message boards as one Spartan spawned out of no where on top of the red team's base. He was immediately under fire from all directions.
"SHIT!" Panda Bear (a.k.a. Red 001) swore as a green orb of fuel rod blast detonated right beside him, taking down his shields and doing damage to his health. He turned quickly and dropped into the flag room of the red team base, good, the flag is still there, he thought with a sigh of relief as his shield bar began to slowly recharge. 4 red dots instantly appeared on his radar, all heading for his location. But not for long, Panda ran up to the wall of the flag room where a shotgun was lying on its side and backed up into the crevice in the wall. This is a common trick that he used to defend the flag, the enemy radars will bounce off of the wall of the flag room and he won't appear on their radar until he was ready. The red dots came closer; Red 001 counted till three and threw a frag grenade into the left entrance to the flag room. One second later, a blue armored Spartan ran right into the shrapnelled infernal created by the grenade.
Panda leaped out from his hiding spot and took aim with his assault rifle. After firing a full 60 rounds of automatic fire into the now dead corpse of the enemy, he began to reload. Surveying his radar carefully; it appears as if the second enemy was circling in from the back of the base while the third and forth were somewhere outside his radar range, doing damage to red base's defenses.
Red 001 quickly pulled up the scoreboard and found a 6-4 game with blue team having the 2-man advantage, he currently sat in the 5th position in the overall ranking. The red dot on his radar was moving in closer and closer. Panda ran through the entrance beside him and into the hall beyond, where his enemy was bound to show up in seconds' time. He primed and threw his second grenade into the entrance, hoping to blow up his enemy. His grenade bounced off of the outer wall and landed somewhere beyond his vision. Panda was about to aim his weapon when another frag grenade flew into the hall and landed near his feet.
"CRAP!" Red 001 was not fast enough to escape the explosion; a blaring siren went off in his helmet as his health bar dropped to 2 bars and his shield was gone. One hit would kill him. Panda retreated into the flag room and escaped through the opposite entrance into the front of the base. A warthog, manned by two enemies, one driver and one gunner in the back, was speeding towards his base, chain gun blazing away.
(The enemy has your flag) Panda turned around just soon enough to see the blue Spartan rushing out of his base with their flag held in both hands, he took aim with the assault rifle and fired a full clip into his enemy, taking down his shields. The blue Spartan dropped the flag and threw a frag grenade. Red 001 was prepared, he sidestepped the grenade even before it landed and finished reloading his weapon. The blue Spartan ( (sc) Chimnay) readied his M6D pistol and fired on Panda.
This was a bad situation; red 001's slowly recharging shield was taken down almost completely with only two shots. At this rate, he was going to be gunned down. As if answering his call, a red Spartan, newly respawned, leaped off of the base, blasting away at the exposed back of Chimnay who was busy engaging Panda Bear. Red 001 voiced silent thanks and brought his assault rifle to bear and fired in full automatic.
(You killed (Sc) Chimnay) Appeared on his screen.
"Thx", Panda Bear typed to his teammate.
"NP." Was the hastily written answer. (No problem)
Red 001 quickly sprinted up the ramp of red base and found 4 frag grenades sitting before the teleporter, he quickly grabbed them and found some extra pistol ammo.
(Your ally has the flag) This was a call for back up, the blue team would no doubt be trying to gun down the red with the flag. Ignoring the health pack, Panda ran through the green teleportation device and rematerialized behind a shadowy hill in the middle of the map. On his right was a dark path surrounded by looming rock formations, the path lead into a cave on the right and a slight rise to the left. There were two yellow dots on his radar. Good, I have back up. Panda sprinted up the hill and emerged on the other side, finding two of his team in formation, also running towards the enemy blue base. Wow, is this, could this be :gasp: TEAM WORK! Panda was bewildered; this was the first time that he had seen such co-operation between his team, he smirked, he had no problem with that.
No sooner had he thought that when the two red Spartans split up and run away in random directions, all engaging their own choice of enemies. Red 001 sighed never mind, it was too good to last anyways.
He ran up to the curve leading towards blue base and rounded the corner into shadows, he strafed to the right and brought his pistol's aim onto the blue base. Three blue soldiers spawned together, red 001 quickly opened fire, taking advantage of headshots. 2 Spartans fell quickly and the third located Panda and rushed towards him and threw a grenade in his general direction. Red 001 easily avoided the grenade and fired on his helpless enemy as he rushed towards red 001 with minimal skill. Before Panda could gun down his enemy though, the blue Spartan suddenly disappeared under the wide tires of a warthog, driven by one of his teammates.
"That was soooooo my kill" Panda complained on his team message board.
"Lol," replied his warthog-driving teammate, irritating Panda even more. Red 001 was alerted to the LARGE red dot on his radar, he looked up and found, to his dismay, the bulbous aircraft known as 'shees'.
Shee noobs, hmm… Panda thought slowly and jumped to his right just as the Banshee tried to ram him. Turning in mid leap, he opened fire into the exposed side of the covenant craft, spark flew from the thin armor. The enemy craft took flight again; it's rear present to Red 001. Panda Bear switched to his pistol and turned on the 2x zoom, his aim found the exposed armor of the blue Spartan piloting the craft and pulled the trigger once, twice, and three times.
(You killed Buttass) Red 001 stopped, now why would anyone want to name themselves 'buttass'? I would never know, after all, I've seen people named 'dudu' before, not to mention the infamous 'sdfjhdfghndkcbhj' talk about noobs.
Stopping to think was a mistake.
(Panda Bear was killed by Slowpoke) Red 001 cringed, how could he let himself stop moving in enemy territory! He might as well as have asked for a cup of tea and some of those cute teacakes. You never stop moving in a Halo Online Multiplayer game. While the respawn clock ticked down, Panda looked at the lovely way in switch his previous physical form was sprawled on the ground, in a similar heap as the many that he has killed. A slight, fading white trail hovered over his body and disappeared.
"Aha, so you are a sniper!" that was all Panda Bear needed to know. Seconds later, he respawned near the red base. Sprinting up the ramp once again, he looked around and found the one thing that he was looking for. A long barreled SRS99C sniper rifle ly on its side, the same weapon that had been used to kill him only moments ago. He quickly switched his assault rifle for the sniper rifle and aimed it in the general direction of the enemy sniper. The trail of a sniper bullet is the only weakness of this long range, too-power and too-accurate weapon; it usually gives away the position of the sniper and if he doesn't move, he's most likely be 'sniped' moments later.
Adjusting the aim of his sniper scope to 8x zoom, Panda found the enemy sniper, his figure instantly jumping towards Red 001 as if he was but a few feet away. The words "slowpoke" appeared over the enemy's head. He was comfortably perched on top of a shadowy hill, sniping away with the cursed weapon, and probably killing red Spartans too. Panda smirked; Slowpoke was protected from most fire by the large boulders around him and the steep hill, but not from the pure genius and aim of the great Panda! Red 001 nudged his aim and brought the tiny aimer to the top of Slowpoke's helmet, he opened fire. The next instant, Slowpoke twisted and fell as the ultrasonic sniper slug tore through his helmet. He was a noob for staying at the same spot and not moving, Wait… that would be me before I got sniped… strike that thought.
(You killed Slowpoke) the red Spartan did a mini-victory dance and abandoned the sniper rifle for his assault rifle. Panda Bear was much better in hand-to-hand combat anyways.
A fleet of 3 warthogs, two machine gun hogs and one rocket hog, all fully manned with gunners on the back, rushed towards his base. From Panda's position, he saw that the fleet of rampaging hogs either blew up his retreating team or ran them over. He sighed; a Spartan's job is never done.
I have a feeling that I've said that before somewhere…
(Panda Bear was killed by Slowpoke)
"God damn it!"
To Be Continued
Next chapter I'm going to begin to implement the true purpose of this story. If anyone has read Sun Tzu's Art of War, then he/she would know that the book outlines the fundaments of military art. What I try to do with this story is to introduce new and original concepts into Halo Multiplayer. In order to do that, I'd need everyone's support, because after all, if no one reads this, what's the point of publishing it right? So read and review! Or I may sic the great Panda Bear on ya!
By the way, if you were wondering, this is based on Halo: combat evolved multiplayer for the PC. My user name is usually Panda Bear, and Slowpoke is a friend (real life) whom I frequently pwn on CTF or slayer. The elements and tactics of this story are all taken from my experiences when playing on bloodgulch; I'd like to think that I'm pretty good (usually in top three with an average of around 25 kills per game), so maybe even you can pick up some cool hints from reading this!
Cpt.ShaneSchofield: Hey, thanks for being the first reviewer! I'm glad that you found this funny! I was told: "You can't humor if your life depended on it!" I am still recovering from that till this day.
Halosobsessed1010: You'd be hard-pressed to find that "your mom" is a real player on Halo multiplayer, and he does team kill, a lot! If it's even a he… lol