Spartan 058 - The Tale of a Sniper
Chapter 4 - On Board MAC Station - Athens
Chaos rung through the first few minutes of fighting, Fred and Linda were both there when the first Grunt had busted through the airlock, that Grunt was the first so get a S2 bullet in the forehead.
Linda fired several more shots, she paused to reload. "This is to easy Fred, can this really be the invasion force that we all thought was coming?" Linda questioned.
"I'm not sure, but then again, who could be mad about having less resistance?" Fred said with a hint of relief.
"I definatly could," Linda remarked as she dropped four more Grunts with four cracks of the rifle.
Several minutes ticked off of Linda's mission clock, something was wrong, not about the Covenant's lack of vigilance, but of the whole situation. Something just didn't fit right, and she didn't feel like sticking around to see what it exactly was. She turned to Fred and gave him the all clear signal. He pointed to a small group of blips in the distance.
"Look at that, those Elites have something with them," said Fred in a curious tone, "What the hell could it be?"
"I'm not sure, but we better find out and fast."
Linda rounded a corner and saw several Elites guarding the hallway into a small hangar bay, she fired a round on the run, successfully gutting the Elites disfigured skull from stem to stern. The other got several rounds from Fred's assault rifle in the stomach with a quick smack of his rifle butt to the face.
"Doors are locked, and it feels like their braced, no way of getting in," Linda replied, her voice calm and steady.
Fred sat for a moment obviously pondering what to do next, but what to do with no way in? "There's gotta be a back door, lets cut back and exit the station and float in from zero gee, whatever they have in there is important, and they aren't wanting us to see."
Linda hated backtracking, almost as much as she hated the Covenant, they passed through multiple corridors with the remnants of bodies both human and alien. One even tried to get up but got a bullet in the back of the head for stirring. They got to another launch bay only one hundred yards away from the Covenant's temporary holding cell. After making sure no personel were inside they began the opening of the massive steel doors.
Linda opened a COM to Fred, "We need to get in and get out asap, we'll find out what the Covenant have got and get back to fending off borders." Fred's acknowledgement light went off as the two pushed off into space towards the adjacent bay.
A small boarding ship was attached to the main viewing window on the bay's door, Linda could see the half dozen Grunts moving through to accompany the Elites who had slipped through with their 'cargo'. This 'cargo' of the Covenant's had a striking appearance, it looked like a enlarged purple jellybean with small spikes protruding in every direction making it look like an inflated sea urchin. The words slammed into Linda's mind as she realized what in the world it could be.
A bomb.
Diminishing her negative thoughts she quickly reacted, she told Fred of the unfortunate news and went on to tell him her plan. The Covenant had been thinking since their almost fatal attack on Reach the couple of weeks previous. They knew what those MAC guns could do and they wanted them gone. Gone away so they could glass the planet with relative ease, tricky basterds. All she needed now was a plan, because if she didn't more platforms would fall.