Chapter 3
Vice Admiral Nelson
"Working on that" came a voice over the Intercom. "when I say so, blow exit Airlock 3"
"Okay" said Ziizika, as she did some more spins and turns to avoid being hit by any more shots, and then. "BLOW IT!!"
And the Long-sword did a triple spin, and then POP… TSSSSS…
And over the intercom they heard Silence screaming
"YEE FUCKING HAA MOTHERFUCKERS" as they watched, he was standing in a full Space suit, Riding on top an old warthog like a surfboard… riddled with C4.
"I always thought he was nuts, and I was right, completely bloody mental." said Jackal, watching through the Vid panel. As their ship continued to avoid the enemy fire, taking hits every so often, that just fizzed onto the shield.
And then the warthog slammed onto the front the first attacker, in the distance, three Covie cruisers and one of the burners were now pieces of flying rubble, and Half a Battleship was flying straight towards another of the Burners Kamikaze style, Testament to Human faith.
Silence bent down, and un-strapped his feet from the warthog, as he was being flown at G forces most would die from, regardless of the inertial dampeners or the relativity of space, then did a double flip off, and only just landing on the second in time to activate his magnetic boots, and with a plasma grenade in hand, he activated it, and threw it onto the rear engine, then jumped out into the void of space.
" I wonder how those Covie bastards fare against twenty three tons of human engineered C4 eh? " Said Silence over the intercom, and took out a wireless detonator as the first plasma grenade exploded, causing the Fighter to spin out of control.
To Silence's left he saw one of the covenant Cruisers firing at the Humans Helicon Class's. So he waited until it was in range of the Enemy Fighters and blew it.
Bang wouldn't suit what happened. You can't hear in space for one, and for two it's too small a word. When the fighter exploded, the core overcharged to increase the explosion tenfold, and ten times bang makes for another maths question.
Covenant Cruiser divided by two…
The other fighters were busy fighting the Marine Long-swords, but Vice Admiral Nelson was a master Tactician, and was giving his enemy a run for their money. Only a minute later three covenant cruisers were left, and they were flailing in space, attempting to regroup.
"do you mind picking me up now? " said Silence, as he floated past some wreckage he had created.
"Silence, you are one crazy Son of a bitch, we're on our way"
"yeah, well, just be careful eh? Remember for every balance there is a counterbalance" said Silence
"are you worried we'll miss? "
"no, I'm worried you'll hit me and I'll go flying, I've seen it happen before, just get me inside alright? Preferably with all my limbs intact"
"Unclassified Long-sword fighter, this is the Destroyer Queen Anne what is your current Status" The M.E.R.C's had expected them to call, but not so quickly, they thought they had at least another hour.
"this is the Long-sword Fighter 09844207, just picking ourselves up" Said Roger over the Com-unit.
"09844207 you are classified a stolen Vessel, Surrender and you will not be harmed"
"Awe crap" said Jackal,
"They've jammed internal Communications,
Silence closed the Airlock behind him he'd just finished re-pressurization, and turned; to meet an array of weapons pointed towards him which were being held by the toughest, trigger happy looking marines he'd ever seen.
"Uh,
obviously we've met before, who are you again?" said Silence
stupidly, and he was shoved towards wall, and disarmed, then shoved
through the hallway into the cockpit.
Silence heard a whack,
"Hey, I thought that you O.D.S.T guys were supposed to be tough, I barely felt that" said Jackal, and as one of the Marines gave him a firm fist to the face he spat out blood.
"Who's in charge here?" asked one of the Marines
"What now?" Roger asked as noticed Silence fiddling around with his handcuffs.
"Vice Admiral Nelson wants to see you" replied the Marine,
Before the Marine holding Silence knew what hit him, he was flying through the air, after which Silence took the wrist of another marine and jerked him around, took out the pistol from the Marines holster and pointed it at their leader while still holding the guy in an arm and foot brace. To which all ten of the Marines moved their sights to his vital Organs, which were covered by the Marine he was holding.
"They call me Silence, What about you?"
"Lieutenant Kakadu"
"Great, now that we've been formally introduced, I would be ever so obliged if you would take me to this Nelson guy. And please don't piss me off; I'm hypo on adrenalin after blowing up a cruiser in space while riding on top of a LAAG classed warthog covered in C4."
"Ah Roger, How nice it is that we meet again" said the vice admiral from the command chair in the centre of the bridge's control room.
"Can't say the feelings mutual, last time we met you tried to blow me up." replied Roger, as he paced around the chair with the green laser sights from the dozen Marines pointed at his chest.
"Let bygones be bygones eh? It was only a small bomb…"
"Last I checked a twenty five kilo tonne nuclear bomb wasn't exactly small."
"And then you stole my ship."
Roger noticed one of the Medics moving slowly out the door,
"Don't mind them, we have one on every floor, Vu there is the one for our bridge."
"Don't worry? There would be lots of wounded in the infirmary by now, and-"
The bickering went on for quite some while, until Ziizika shoved in and said
"We need your help" to which the Vice Admiral.
"Explain"
Ziizika was about to tell him everything when Roger cut in with "The things we do for help"