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The UNSC in a galaxy far far away

Chapter 2: First contact and skirmish

"Okay this is no good." I thought to myself while looking at the holo tape display. That jackrabbit that I sent out to scout was currently being chased by a pair of trade federation STAPs and I couldn't have a head straight back to the base or I would lead the trade federation to the base and this early on that would be very bad. I can't let them destroy the jackrabbit because then they might be able to find their way back to the base through learning something from the wreckage of that if they decide to get curious.

I look at the direction that jackrabbit is heading via holo table and see that it is heading to the Northeast away from the base I ordered them to continue on that for a another 400 m then turn right at a large Hill that is there. Then I selected my two warthogs and had put them on an intercept course. Then I turned to Jack and asked one question. "Do we have any form of communications Jamming?"

Jannike was not having a good day. The Lord admiral ordered her to scout the area surrounding the base. She may have gotten little carried away exploring the surface and may or may not have come across some crazy aggressive skeletal looking robots on flying bike blade looking things.

She would have returned fire if the first shot from those things hadn't melted the barrel to the turret mounted grenade launcher. As two more crimson plasma bolts with past closer than she would have liked she slammed down on the accelerator. The dirt and grass kicked up as , the three wheels of the jackrabbit tore into the ground with the sudden boost in acceleration as the closer of the two STAPs swerved to avoid some of the larger chunks of dirt.

As this was happening Jannike suddenly received an incoming transmission from command without taking her eyes off the road she answered the communication.

"This is command we need you to take a turn to your right at the hill coming up in 400 m then follow these coordinates we're sending you. Two warthogs will meet you along this course so be ready …also we're about to initiate a communications jam to prevent them from calling for help this will also make it to where we won't be able to send or receive signal so you'll need to stay on those waypoints we just sent you. Command out…"

"Roger that over! I hope this wor……" Jannike suddenly begins swerving and screaming from the sudden and blinding pain of having one of her rabbit like ears have a chunk taken out of it by a blaster bolt.

"And I looked him right in tha eye and said ya mama doesn't love ya and she dresses ya funny!"Lucas Elliott recounted to his comrades as they all sat around the two warthogs.

"You should have seen the look on his face when he said that!" Cabbeius added to the conversation. Kusan 'Jaka scoffed in amusement at his comrades antics before turning his head to the sudden chiming sound originating from all their communicators.

"This is command. One of our scouts has fallen under attack by two hostile vehicles we need the two warthogs to follow the coordinates that I am sending now to intercept. We cannot wait these hostiles find their way back to the base and we can't let them get any information they might be able to glean from destroying one of our units. Be aware we are going to be jamming communications after these orders are sent."

Sgt. wick took a brief look around at the rest of the crews to the two warthogs and said. "You heard the man Mount up and let's move!"

As he said that the other five Marines hopped in the two warthogs and begin making their way down the chain of coordinates as fast as they could push the machines. Krem lek after going over his M319 grenade launcher for the 9th time today he perked up one of his ears while looking to Sgt. Wick and asked "so any clue who we're going up against? I know it's two vehicles but we're not going up against tanks or anything right?"

"No clue though I doubt it's tanks seeing is whatever they are they're keeping up with a jackrabbit and I don't the Lord admiral would send us after tanks." (Responded the sergeant while not taking his eyes off the road.) Making a sharp turn around a hill with a large Stone head on it to head to the next set of coordinates.

Krem's attention shifted to the hills up ahead "I hear weapons fire and engines revving I think we're getting close." as he loaded a grenade into his M319 grenade launcher after doing one more brief check.

Sgt. Wick quickly agreed with the assumption. "looks like it it's definitely along the path of coordinates the Lord admiral sent us. All right Marines lock in load and double time it we're going in hot!"A chorus of Oorahs followed as the 2 warthogs engines roared as the drivers press down on the accelerators.

"SHIIIIIIT!"

Jannike yelled as she began to lose control of her now smoking jackrabbit. She had managed to avoid most of the incoming bolts of plasma from the definitely hostile airborne platforms , whoever these things belong to they're definitely not friendly. They managed to hit the engine housing at least two times , now they managed to damage the right side suspension and wheel causing her to start to veer off the path she had been following. Before she crashed she noticed a small farmhouse that looked to have been shot to hell and back. After fighting with what was left of the steering she managed to crash her jackrabbit into the waist high stone wall in front of it before quickly leaping out ,making a run for the abandoned farm house . The whole time having the STAPs hot on her heels as they begin to rapidly close the distance with blasters blazing. Barely avoiding getting roasted alive by the oncoming blast bolts, she smashed through the window on to the floor of the already dilapidated building.

She rose to her feet she noticed a very foul smell emanating from what looked like the corpses of two humans presumably the owners of the house. Before she could fully process what she was looking at all hell broke loose. A hail of red blaster bolts began blasting holes in the walls as Jannike dropped to the floor. Avoiding getting shredded by the on coming fire. After a few moments the fire stopped and she grabbed her M6G PDWS Magnum. she quickly moved to cover behind the lower half of the wall, which seemed to have been made from some sort of surprisingly durable stone. She flicked the safety off on her sidearm, with practice ease popped out from cover and fired off three shots at the two hostels. Two of the shots hit one of the machines once in the chest once in the head; the other shot ricocheted off the gun mount of its airborne platform.

As she quickly duck back into cover another barrage of blaster bolts rain down in an attempt to cut her down. Then she suddenly heard the BRRRRRT of a warthogs minigun, followed by a thump and boom of 40 mm shell of a M319 IGL grenade launcher. The combined heavy fire tore apart the airborne platform and its pilot.

The two warthogs came skidding to a stop in front of the entrance of The farmhouse. Before she could even think to leave cover one of the humans driving a warthog shouted out. "Is anyone alive in there?!"

Jannike rose up from her cover before responding with," I'm alive but I found two dead civilians in here!"as she began to approach the two warthogs a blue male lepi with a grenade launcher stated. "we should probably report that to command."the human turned his head to respond to the lepi. " We can't the jamming is still up until we return the base they don't want anyone tracking us or any of these things from" (as he kicks one of the Dead droids.) "calling for help."

Then the Marines heard a humming sound. "SHIT! There must have been nearby patrols that heard the gunshots and explosions! Get ready for a fight Marines!" Sgt. Wick ordered as he quickly hopped into the driver's seat of his warthog. "You"( he said as he pointed at Jannike) "Get back in that farmhouse and provide covering fire with this!" As he tossed her his assault rifle and ammo before starting up his warthog.

"Roger that!" Jannike yelled in response. As she was running to The farmhouse she looked over her shoulder, just in time to see half a dozen more of those aerial platforms quickly approaching. She quickly got behind the lower wall of what was left of the farmhouse and aggressively chambered the MA37 ICWS Assault Rifle. "All right you tin plated skeletors come and get some."

B-711-A was assigned to patrol the countryside and eliminate any resistance it came across, along with the rest of its patrol. A few minutes ago a abnormal jamming field was activated and began interfering with its ability to send transmissions back to the droid control ships in orbit. however this jamming field wasn't strong enough to jam the incoming transmissions from the control ships in orbit. And because of this B-711-A determined that whatever was creating the jamming field is a threat and must be eliminated.

B-711-A's programming deemed that the most effective way to find the source of the jamming was to head deeper into the driving field. However before it could do this the B1 unit and the rest of its patrol detected and unidentified weapon firing and an explosion, and deemed that whatever that noise came from was the more immediate threat. " Unidentified threat detected proceed with attack paltern Delta gamma."

The group of B1s formed up in a wide Arch formation and begin accelerating towards the source of the disturbance. As they crested the hill B-711-A spotted a destroyed farmhouse and three unidentified vehicles near the wreckage of two STAPs. One of the vehicles was heavily damaged by a combination of what appear to have been blaster fire and a crash and was quickly deemed irrelevant. The other two vehicles were slightly larger and had three beings on them each, as well as a mounted turret of some kind. B-711-A quickly gave the order to the rest of the patrol. "Eliminate them."

Sgt. Wick quickly begin barking orders as more of the airborne platforms began approaching. "Delilah take Elliott and Jaka go around that collapsed windmill at 10 o,clock and hit them from the left side, Krem ,Cabbeius you're with me! Come on Marines let's go!" The two warthogs began to speed off in opposite directions as the droids rapidly approached. Cabbeius quickly took aim at the nearest STAP and let loose a torrent of 12.7mm rounds from the warthogs minigun, turning the area around them into a bullet hell. While Cabbeius was firing on the nearest STAP Krem set his sights on two that were just close enough for his 40 mm grenades to hit both of them, with a thump and a boom another two were taken down.

Then the remaining three STAPs began chasing Sgt.Wick's warthog , with blasters blazing in an attempt to eliminate the team and their vehicle. Jannike fired off several burst from her assault rifle and managed to take one of the droids right off the STAP."Take that you tin can!" Shouted Jannike.

Suddenly Delilah's warthog came swerving up behind the last two STAPs guns blazing in a combination of 12.7 mm rounds and a 40 mm grenade. The two STAPs attempted to swerve to avoid the oncoming fire but we're not fast enough as they were shredded into scrap metal, as they tumbled to the ground. Cabbeius looked around at the debris then looked to the other warthog and gave it the satisfied smirk…before that smirk quickly disappeared and he ducked as a missile flew by where his head was mere seconds before.

As I waited for the two warthogs to get to the jackrabbit, I was going through the various research and upgrade options that were available to me on terminal in front of me. It seemed that I was going to have to upgrade the jackrabbits with that little drone sooner than I thought. Then I noticed something a tab that said heroes and commanders, of course it didn't make the people they were just in cryosleep inside the ark ships just like with the Marines. As I started to go through this list several names immediately stood out to me… Sgt. Johnson, Stolt, Lop(and by the looks of it the benefactor upgraded her midichlorian count to just under 12,000. Which if I remember correctly was roughly with Darth maul had...), chips dubbo, and Thrallslayer…the fact that I could pull these guys out of cryosleep and have them on my side… Needless to say that got me excited. But at the moment I only had enough resources and energy to wake and equip two of them. From what I was reading they also came with a base force for them to command.

Now that I think about it how many people are on each of the 24 Ark ships? "Hey Jack how many people are in cryosleep on each of the ark ships?"

Jack appeared on the holopedestal next to me. " Each of the ark ships holds 500 million people in cryosleep.They also have a artificial womb that can create new individuals by mixing and matching genetic templates from an onboard archive."

"800 MILLION!? HOW BIG ARE THESE THINGS!?" I shouted louder than I intended. " I mean that's a lot of people to fit in a ship. So…"then I thought about it if all the people on Earth could fit in Texas if it was just houses (I remembered that from high School)... Then putting billions of people together shoulder to shoulder in cryopods could fit in a smaller area..

"Each of the ark ships is 50 miles (80.467 kilometers) long by 12 miles (19.312 kilometers) wide by 10 miles (16.093 kilometers) tall. Before you ask they are not armed , they're very slow and it will probably take them a whole day to leave atmosphere due to their size and weight."Jack casually responded.

"Thank you Jack I'm going to get back to this." Jack's hologram nodded before blinking out. Now that I knew that I was basically overseeing over 19 billion people I was feeling a lot more anxious. I continue to look at who all I could have call up from cryo sleep to help with the current trade federation situation. The more I looked at it the more Sergeant Johnson seemed like he would be the best choice for now, sure I could get two of them with my current resources. But I didn't want to use all my resources at once at least until I could recoup them. "Use another build slot to create another power generator and upgrade our current supply pads and power generator."..." And wake Sergeant Johnson and his men from cryosleep." (I said as I reached down to pet my pitbull Catahoula mix Bud Bud.)

KEEP FIRING! Bellowed SGT. Wick as not only 7 more of those airborne platform showed up but 3 these ones looked heavier and could fire missiles. The warthogs and STAPs chased each other in a deadly game of cat and mouse. Jaka leaned out of the warthog enough to aim his grenade launcher towards the pursuing heavy STAP. He lined up a shot and fired, but unlike firing a regular round he held the trigger for a few seconds until the grenade got close then release. With a loud pop the grenade triggered it's EMP function disabling the heavy STAP and its Droid operator. "NICE SHOOTIN JAKA!" Elliott yelled over the BRRRT of the minigun as he gunned down another STAP.

"SHIT!" Cabbeius shouted as he was grazed by a blaster bolt. He reached out and smacked the head off the offending droid as it's STAP came to close. He then fired the minigun at another STAP rittling it with bullets as it went down in flames.

"You ok Marine?!" Shouted Sgt.Wick to Cabbeius after witnessing Cabbeius get grazed.

"MY BUTT GOT SINGED!"

Another droid was thrown from it's heavy STAP after Jannike blasted it with 7.6251m , the heavy STAP slowing to a hovering stop. Seeing the heavy STAP come to a stop relatively intact gave Jannike an idea. "Hey guys give me some cover fire! I'm going for that thing!" She said as she vaulted through the window of the ruined farmhouse.

Sgt. Wick quickly glanced over "Wait hold on now! Damn fool! covering fire!" He yelled as Elliott, Cabbeius, Jaka and Krem all immediately opened fire on a heavy STAP that was attempting to intercept Jannike. The heavy STAP fired a rocket just as ever shot hit the airborne platform. The rocket impacted with the ground several feet behind her causing a blast wave that launched her several feet through the air, landing right next to the heavy STAP. Jannike rose up after shaking off her pained and dazed state, before climbing onto the heavy STAP and fired it's cannons at the oncoming STAP that was quickly approaching from the front, the final STAP going up in flames Sgt.Wick quickly pulls his warthog up to her and begins to shout " Marine you damn near got yourself sent home in a box! But nice shot now get down from there to get medical treatment. Delilah get the medkit from the warthog."

"Roger that Sarge!" as Delilah ran to her hog.

"Huh? What are you talking abou…." Then as the adrenaline started to leave Jannike's system a burning pain slowly started to spread throughout her body. She attentively lifted her arm and looked at her side to see that her body was peppered with bits of shrapnel. There was a large gash running from her hip to her ribs that was still bleeding. She could see a long shard of shrapnel judging out of her thigh. "oh lord…" She muttered to herself realizing the extent of the damage.

Delilah returned with the medical kit and began applying first aid. Once she finished she helped Jannike to the warthog. The Sargent looked at the two intact heavy STAPs and the crashed Jackrabbit. "Delilah, Cabbeius take her back to base. Elliott, Krem get get some body bags from the warthog and get those civilians from The farmhouse we're not leaving them here.Then get those things and see if we can get them back to base."(has he gestured towards the heavy STAPs.) "Jaka pick up that bot you EMPed, pop its head off just to make sure it's dead and throw in the passenger seat then help me hook up that jackrabbit to the warthog. Double time people I want to get all that done before anymore of those things show up!"

"SIR YES SIR!" The rest of the Marines responded in unison.

Author's note

Well that's the end of chapter 2! Took longer than I thought to make it. I hope you all enjoy it, just to inform you guys my uploads are going to be sporadic because of how busy my life is.