Ch 10
The freelancers headed back to the simulation room, after a meeting with the director. He told them that were going to conduct experiments with AI very soon. Six just wanted to show the freelancers the rest of the mission.
"So, Six. You going to show us the rest of the mission?" Tex asked.
"Damn straight." He said, as he walked into the simulation room.
The room returned to where he left off. Six grabbed the plasma launcher and put it on his back, the focus rifle in his hands. Exiting the building, they see two grunts. Six hoses one grunt with his rifle, melting it to death. The second grunt gets on a ghost and attempts to run. Six zooms in on the covenant vehicle, and pulls the trigger.
A beam of plasma hits the fuel tank, and a second later, an explosion is heard.
"Fuck me." Kat muttered, as she sat in the passenger seat of the parked revenant. Six sat in the driver's seat and drove towards the second AA gun.
They ran over some grunts and headed over the ridge, heading towards the second AA gun, that was heavily guarded by dozens of covenant infantry and two wraiths.
"Well fuck." Kat muttered.
Six floored it, and splattered several jackals in the process.
"Watch the wraith, Six!" Kat shouted, as a wraith noticed them.
The covenant tank fired a plasma round, missing the Spartans.
"That's right. Keep coming." Six muttered, as he returned the greeting, the weaker plasma round impacting on the wraith.
The wraith then speed forward, and missed its target. The tank went right over the cliff, and into a large lake.
"Well, that's one way to get rid of a tank." Kat said, as the second wraith fired at them.
"Jump for it!" Six shouted, as the plasma round tore into the revenant, destroying it.
"We have to take out that wraith!" Kat shouted.
"No shit!" Six retorted, as he aimed his plasma launcher at the wraith and pulled the trigger. Four large blobs of plasma struck the tank.
"Is that a spider?" the gunner asked, as the four plasma rounds exploded, destroying the tank.
"Well, that'll make our job a lot easier." Kat said.
The two headed towards the AA gun, and encountered two hunters.
"We don't have time for this shit!" Six muttered, as they were engaged in a firefight.
"They're dead." Wash said.
Six and Kat used all the grenades they could scavenge from the battlefield, mainly from the dead covenant forces.
The two headed inside the gun and broke the shield that protected the core. They fired into the core, and just like the last gun, the gun went on a countdown to detonation.
"Well done, Six. ONI needs up-close recon on those spires. We're going to fly you the rest of the way." Carter said.
A Falcon landed, and Jorge was sitting in the gunner's seat.
"Spotted some nasty business in the canyon on the way down." Jorge said.
The chopper heads down the canyon, and six fires his mounted grenade launcher on covenant forces trying to cross the bridge.
"Nice shooting, Spartan." The pilot said, as he flew them towards the spire; Jorge and Six firing at the covenant forces.
"There's the spire." The pilot says.
"Well take us in." Six says.
The pilot moves thru the shield, and the EMP knocks out their power.
"Lock your armor, Spartan!" Jorge shouted.
"Brace for impact!" the pilot shouts, just before they crash.
Six wakes up, seeing the destroyed Falcon. He grabs his focus rifle, and spots several grunts and jackals approaching them across the river.
The two Spartans move up the hill, eliminating all the covenant forces that oppose them. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they see a phantom appear out of nowhere, and fly out of the barrier with no problem, only to get shot down by the Grafton.
"Frigate Grafton is on-station to kill that spire, but you need to power down its shields." Carter said.
"Six, head to the top. I'll hold these bastards off." Jorge said.
Six grabs a jet pack, and uses it to propel himself across the ground and towards the gravity lifts. Entering one, he ascends to the top.
"Time to end it." Six muttered, as he walks inside the control room, and kills the grunts guarding it.
An elite ultra draws out its energy sword and moves to engage him. The elite runs forward, occasionally taking fire from the Spartan. He swings his sword, only for the plasma blade to embed itself in the outer metal of the control room.
Six grabs the elite and throws him off the spire, hearing his screams as he falls to the ground, many miles below.
"Lt, drop the shields and get out of there!" Carter advises.
Six presses a button and, and the shields drop. He run at full tilt, and jumps as he hits the ledge. Jorge catches him, and pulls him into the falcon.
"Control, this is noble one. Spire on is green. Kill it." Carter says.
The UNSC Grafton approaches the spire in a steep dive, charging the main gun.
A loud booming noise is heard, as the MAC destroys the spire. An explosion is heard, and the Spartans turn around.
"No. No! Someone tell me this isn't happening!" Jorge frantically said.
"UNSC Grafton, do you copy?"
"Grafton is dust! We need to get out of here, now!" Carter shouts back.
A massive covenant super carrier is shown in full view, hovering over the field.
"Computer, end simulation." Six said.
The holo-chamber returns to its original form, the freelancers watching.
"I can't believe that. That ship just…" North said.
"It was a massive warship." Carolina said.
Six headed to the control room and pressed in a few commands.
"Before you discount that, Carolina, look at this." Six said.
The holochamber turned into Six's HUD on the next mission, when he took down the supercarrier. Right now, Six was on a covenant corvette.
"The ship I'm on, is a covenant corvette. One of the smallest vessels in the covenant fleet, comparable to our frigates." Six said, watching as the HUD showed him killing an elite.
The HUD turned to see a row of four plasma cannons firing at another UNSC frigate. All four guns fired at once. The plasma torpedoes tore into the frigate, and the UNSC vessel exploded.
"We were that outnumbered and outgunned during the war?" South asked.
"We were. Hell, the fact that we lasted 30 years is a miracle of itself." Six said.