Chapter 7
Ship: Glory to the Gods Everlasting. Location: edge of Covenant Remnant space, engaging Remnant fleet: Never Ending Promise.
I awoke to PainKiller shaking my shoulder, as I sat up pain lanced up my side. Looking down I saw a plasma burn running up from my waist to my shoulder. Already the pain was easing as the burn was coated in Bio-Foam.
Getting up much to the displeasure of my side, I said "They're not here".
"What aren't here" asked Pain.
"The bombs, they aren't here" I answered,
"Why else would they shoot at us".
"It makes sense, the Covenant wouldn't waste these bombs, they know they can destroy Earth if the get close enough" said Flash.
With that agreed I looked around, taking in the situation. We still had most of the weapons we came in with; though I doubted we would need them seeing as the ship would be a designated suicide zone.
"Is everyone Ok" I asked.
"Good to go" said StarFox.
After everyone called in I realized someone was missing.
"Where's IceWolf" I asked.
"Um, well in the explosion he got hit in the head with plasma coil" reported PainKiller, "He will have a severe concussion but otherwise will be fine".
"Good, why don't you wake him up" I said.
"Don't have to boss, I'm up" answered Ice who was proceeding to stand up, though staggering slightly.
"Well then let's get going then; we have to get off before the ship blows" I said.
Since we would likely face little opposition I told them to travel light and then picked up my shotgun. Once everyone reported back that they were ready, I looked back and checked their weapons. Ice was packing his energy sword, Fox had a DMR, Pain had his Splaser Carbine, Flash had her katana, and we all had our M6Gs and ammo for all. While looking around I had also uncovered a crate of point defense gauntlets, usually carried by Kig-Yar, and gave one to each.
We started running down the corridors and came around a corner and found several Unggoy rushing towards us, probably heading to the hangar we just left. Without slowing I fired my shotgun and hit two with the blast, killing them.
The ship shook again, another torpedo hit, but we kept running and made it to the bridge in a few more minutes. Glancing over the readouts I saw that the ship only had a few minutes left before the reactor went critical, it was already at seventy nine percent and rising. Looking over at the hangar control station, I saw there was still a type-52 transport in one of the hangars. Looking over a schematic I saw it wasn't too far from here.
"There's still a phantom left in hangar nine, we gotta go now if we're gonna get to a safe distance" I said.
"Well what are we waiting for" Star said, as he took off running, which for a SPARTAN is about 32/kph. We arrived at the hangar without any further encounters and climbed aboard the Phantom.
"So does anyone know how to fly this thing" I asked, "Why is everyone looking at me".
"Well boss for one you're the only qualified pilot" said Pain.
"Fine" I said and made my way to the cockpit.
We exited the hangar and took off full speed ahead. Flash came up beside me and got on the radio and hailed the Face of Danger.
"Face of Danger, this is WolfPack 0-4" she said, "We are coming at you in a Phantom, broadcasting IFF on all channels, do not fire, repeat do not fire on Phantom marked as friendly, how copy".
"This is Face of Danger AirControl, solid copy on no fire on Phantom marked as friendly; over" came back, "You are cleared for hanger four, and then report to the bridge".
"Solid copy Face of Danger AC, hangar four, WolfPack out" flash responded.
"Hangar four it is then" I answered.
"Hey Rogue, take a look out back" called Star.
I looked at my rear scanner and saw as the ship we just left exploded.
Once back on the Face of Danger we went immediately to the bridge and saw Captain Dereck Mearings standing beside a holo-representation of Admiral Hood.