Halo 5.1 Guardians of Sera Chapter 48
"It's gonna take a while to activate the device!" said Adam
"Don't worry, we'll hold 'em off!" assured Marcus.
"This is it Spartans. Weapons hot!" said Locke.
The fight was on with the weapon in sight. Delta held back the combined forces of The Locust, The Lambent, The Prometheans and now The Covenant.
"Great now the Covvies are back." said Baird.
"Sierra 117 to Mama Bird, we need immediate air support. We are at the site of the imulsion countermeasure and we're about to be overrun with all hostile enemy forces."
"Copy that 117. I'm en route to your position with some backup on my own. Hang tight." said Commander Palmer.
"Nice to have air support again." said Anya.
"For now, we keep fighting" said Master Chief.
Phantoms dropped reinforcements as another Phantom with Arbiter and The Swords helped even the odds by shooting it right out of the sky.
"Arbiter! Thanks for the assist." said Marcus.
"We'll keep Covenant transport off you, deploy the weapon!" said Arbiter as the Phantom attracts the Covenant's attention.
Just then Commander Palmer flies in guns blazing.
"Mama Bird to ground team we are inbound!"
"Who's we?" asked Marcus.
"Hey guys! I got your back!" shouts Carmine from a minigun onboard a raven.
"Hey it's Carmine!" said Cole.
"The Cavalry has arrived!" said Carmine about to go weapons hot and rain down holy hell with Palmer.
"Solid copy! Hit 'em hard guys!" said Buck.
Palmer and Carmine did a strafing run of heavy chaingun fire, turning foes below into bloody mush.
"Oh yeah! Got 'em!" shouts Carmine.
Palmer and Carmine went for another strafing run as more reinforcements grappled up to the roof.
"Did you see that? I'm on fire man!" shouts Carmine racking up more kills.
"Good kills solider. Good kills!" said Palmer.
The rooftop was finally secure and safe enough for Adam to go in and begin the activation sequence for the Imulsion countermeasure.
"Cover me! I can reach the device!" said Adam.
Adam begins to power up the machine, lights turning on and so forth.
"Mama Bird to Spartan teams, You kids want some ordinance? Dropping some extra firepower and ammo in a drop pod. Stand by." said Palmer.
"117 to Mama Bird, conforming ordiance. Thanks for the assist." thanked Master Chief.
Commander Palmer dropped pods of ammo and heavy firepower in the form of Spartan Lasers. As she did so, Myrrah and her Tempest bursted up to the roof.
"No, I will not allow this. Stop!" she demands.
Carmine and the Raven go in to take her on.
"Eat dirt and die motherfucker!" Carmine shouts
Carmine opens fire onto Queen Myrrah and the Tempest.
"Take that you bitch!" he adds.
The Tempest opens its mouth unleashing a solar beam onto the Raven setting it ablaze as it goe for a crash landing on the ground.
"Ah shit! We're on fire! We're on fire!" said Carmine.
"NO!" shouts Palmer flying in to get even.
"No, Carmine! Everyone! Take that bitch down!" orders Marcus.
"Goddamn it! I thought we killed that bitch!" said Cole.
"How long is this gonna take Dad?" asked Marcus.
"I need to increase the output by stages. It'll take a while." explained Adam.
The Tempest went on the attack trying to scorch the team and the device.
"Scatter!" shouts Palmer as she too tried to avoid the solar beam from the Tempest.
"Spartans head for the ordinance! Lock and load." ordered Master Chief.
"We need to target it's mouth." suggested Locke.
"Palmer! We need you to keep that bitch distracted so we can aim for the mouth!" shouts Marcus.
"Got it! HEY! OVER HERE!" shouts Palmer opening fire onto the Queen.
"Now! Target the mouth!" shouts Master Chief.
The team managed to knock the Queen out of the sky with the device beginning to accelerate.
"Okay! I'm priming the accelerator! Stand by!" said Adam.
The device's systems are beginning to power up.
"Marcus, the system's online and powering up. Grab the Hammer of Dawn while you can. It's the only way to kill it!" Adam adds.
"They're not the only ones with a laser weapon Professor. Spartans, grab the Spartan Lasers and swat the bug bitch out of the sky so Delta can strike it with the Hammer of Dawn." said Palmer.
"You heard her. MOVE!" said Master Chief as Blue Team and Osiris grabbed the Spartan Lasers to even the odds.
"We got enemy reinforcements!" said Marcus.
"I'll deal with 'em." said Palmer providing air support.
Master Chief uses the Spartan Laser along with Blue team to set Myrrah up for a Hammer strike.
"That's it! Now use the Hammer!" urges Adam.
Marcus then uses the Hammer of Dawn causing major damage onto Myrrah.
"YEAH! That's for Carmine!" shouts Buck.
"She won't go down that easy" adds Vale.
"Then we rinse and repeat until she can't get back up again." adds Tanaka.
The Tempest goes to flank the team from behind as Palmer flies in to cover them taking a bit of the damage onto the Pelican.
"Commander!" shouts Locke.
"I'm okay. I can keep her stable. Just laser that bitch!" said Palmer.
"Adam, stop this! Or I'll kill your precious son! Shut the machine down!" said Myrrah.
"Ignore her, Dad, keep going!" urged Marcus.
The team kept focusing fire on the mouth trying to bring the queen down. This time Palmer flies in shooting the mouth giving the ground team the opening they needed.
"She's down ground team. Hit her with everything you got!" said Palmer.
"Fireteam Osiris, light her up!" ordered Locke with his team firing a shot from their Spartan Lasers.
"It's down again, drop the hammer!" shouts Anya as Marcus does just that.
"That hurt it. Keep it up!" encouraged Anya.
"Targeting the mouth!" said Master Chief.
"How many bullets can she take?" asked Kelly.
"Keep firing until she can't anymore" said Master Chief.
The team mangaged to knock the tempest down again.
"Spartans, all together!" said Master Chief.
Blue/Osiris combined forces for one simultaneous blast from the Spartan Laser as Marcus brings down the hammer once more.
"The accelerator is reaching target speed, Marcus! Almost there!" said Adam as the machine blasted a beam into the sky.
Myrrah bursted towards the machine, as she goes to latch onto it trying to take desperate measures into her own hands.
"You leave me no choice!" she said.
"Marcus! Hold her off. She'll destroy the whole chamber!" urged Adam.
"We're trying hold on!" assured Marcus.
"Focus fire on her exposed back!" said Master Chief.
The team all opened fire to get the Queen off the device as best they could. Even Palmer flew to step in.
"Adam! End this now! Accept that your species will die!" said Myrrah.
"I don't think so!" said Palmer targeting her back.
The Tempest then goes for another solar blast on the Pelican, but this time, doing more critical damage onto the Pelican.
"Spartans...I gotta...situation here.." said Palmer.
"Mother..." said Buck.
"We can get the Queen off the machine ma'am!" assured Locke.
"No you can't, not without help" said Palmer.
"Commander! You don't have the firepower!" said Locke.
"I got the mass." said Palmer.
"Solid copy. Hit her hard ma'am." said Locke.
"You're on your own Spartans. Palmer out."
Commander Palmer goes for one final attack.
"Get away from them you BITCH!" she shouts guns blazing and using thr Pelican's mass to knocl the Tempest off back to the ground as she goes to crash by Carmine's location.
"Hammer it now! It's your only chance!" shouts Adam.
"This is for Palmer. Spartans! Let's finish this!" said Master Chief.
Blue/Osiris with one final effort all fire the Spartan Laser to bring down Queen Myrrah once and for all as Marcus dealt the final blow with the Hammer of Dawn.
"Gotcha bitch! And keep your dead ass, DEAD!" said Cole
Queen Myrrah and the Tempest crashes down covered in ash.
However more stalks began popping up dropping more Drudges onto the team.
"It'll be at full power soon" said Adam.
"Professor, you said you tested this. How?" asked Baird.
"On myself Damon. I had to see how the Imulsion developed over its lifecycle.
"We got incoming" said Fred with Drudges closing in.
However the device activates creating a blue pulsating wave that goes after the Lambent, destroying them instantly.
"It works!" said Vale.
"It's started!" said Adam.
"Let's go Dad. This tower's too unstable now" said Marcus.
"I'm sorry Marcus...I'm not gonna make it" said Adam.
Marcus dropped his Lancer quickly as he says,
"It's okay, I'll carry you."
"Marcus, the Imulsion developed faster in me, because I forced it to! I had to find out how it reproduced!" explained.
"What are you talking about?" Marcus asked.
The device fired another wave revealing Imulsion veins from Adam's arm.
"Oh shit.." said Cole.
"No! You are not going to die!" said Marcus.
"It's too late, Marcus. Every cell in my body's breaking down. And this is gonna happen to every contaminated cell on Sera. It has to!" explained Adam.
"No Goddamn it, I can't lose you again!" pleaded Marcus.
"I'm glad I was able to see you again, Marcus. Now go, and live, for me!" said Adam.
The machine fired another wave causing Adam Fenix to turn into ash leaving nothing but his labcoat and COG tag.
"Oh God, no!" said Anya.
Marcus fell to his knees holding his father's COG tag in his hands.
"Dad. Dad no! He's gone. He's gone! He's gone."
He closes his fist holding his Dad's COG tag as the machine fired another wave.
Master Chief goes to put his hand on Marcus' should.
"I'm sorry Marcus."
This was cut short as everyone tured to see the Queen rising from the dead body of her Tempest.
"Hubris!" she began as she got to her feet, slowly walking up to the team.
Everyone had their guns trained on her.
"Hold your fire" ordered Marcus.
"Ah, so pious and moral. Even now" said Myrrah.
"Is that what you think?" asked Marcus.
"Your Father thought he had all the answers, but he had none! Nothing but clever ways to kill. The Hammer of Dawn, Jacinto, and now this. And his arrogance, finally killed him!" said Myrrah.
Marcus then pulls out the knife Dom gave him in Mercy to stab Myrrah with it.
"Feel that?" he asked hearing her gasping for air and forcing the knife deeper inside her.
"That's from Dom, and everyone else you killed , you bitch!" said Marcus letting Myrrah slide off the knife andf fall to the ground on her back, killing her once and for all.
However even this victory was cut short.
"Congratulations" said a disembodied voice.
"Eyes up!' said Marcus.
The Warden Eternal made his appearance, flanked by Promethean Knights.
"Ah, Myrrah. Outliving her usefulness sadly. Clearly you are all more formidable than I had antcipiated."
"You again?" asked Marcus with everyone guns trained on the Forerunner.
"Your fight is with me! Leave them alone!" said Master Chief.
"Indeed it is. Sera has no use to us believe it or not. I only come bearing a message, as much as I would like to wipe this planet off the face of the galaxy within less than a nanosecond. But Cortana seems to have a change of heart. I'm afraid for me, this fight must continue elswhere. For now, enjoy this victory while it lasts Reclaimer. We will be seeing you again very soon." said The Warden Eternal taking his leave with the entire Promethean army with him.
The machine then activates a massive planetwide wave all over Sera as the Imulsion counter measure begins to eradicate all Lambent infected beings all over Sera ranging from Hanover, The Deadlands, Char, Mercy and Anvil Gate. Even Hoffman and Berny saw it from the sky as Adam Fenix's device was working and even destrioyed an Imulsion rig.
Below the tower a crashed Pelican and a Raven with a rolling helmet was on the beach. The helmet gets picked up as Carmine wiped off the sand and puts it back on. He and another COG soldier then see Palmer taking her helmet off, injured but alive as her armor lock deactivated.
"Hang on Palmer, help's on the way as he and the COG soldier carried her out from the crashed bird.
Carmine signals the birds on their position.
Meanwhile, the combined joint forced of the Coalition of Ordered Governments, The United Nations Space Command, and The Swords of Sanghellios all stood together in victory by the beach with the sun setting down.
Delta Squad, Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris all walked out to a hero's welcome and a job well done. Applauds and cheers towards them for ending a multi decade long war. Baird regroups with Dizzy, Jace and Sam knowing their safe.
Marcus walks out broken even with his fellow soldiers cheering him on. He holds up his Lancer, throws it to the ground and begins to take off his armor and walks to the beach with Anya going after him.
Captain Lasky and The Arbiter goes up to the Spartan team for a job well done.
"Well Spartans, we offically helped end a war. Ready to go home?" Captain Lasky asks.
"I vote we celebrate first. I could use a drink. So...Who's got the first round?" asked Buck.
"You ask, you buy" replied all the Spartans.
"Hell of a journey this was." said Fred.
"You said it" said Vale.
Master Chief could't help but look at Marcus and Anya on the beach as he goes after them.
Marcus takes it all in even taking off his trademark durag off his head as he goes to sit on a rock, letting out a sigh.
Anya appraches the man taking in this bittersweet victory.
"Marcus, whatever it takes, I'm here." she assured.
"What's left Anya? What've we got left now?" asked Marcus.
"Tomorrow, Marcus. We finally got a tomorrow!" she tells him.
Anya goes to hold Marcus' hand as he returns the kindness and pulls her close to her. Anya snuggles in on him as the two shared the moment together.
Master Chief's footsteps were heard as he holsters his Assault Rifle on his back and takes off his helmet.
"Chief?" asked Anya.
"Hope you don't mind" asked Chief.
"No, not at all." said Marcus standing up standing face to face with the Spartan.
"It's been an honor to fight along side you all. Glad we could help end this war." said Master Chief.
"It should be us thanking you Chief. You have our thanks. For standing by until the end." said Marcus and he and Master Chief exchange a handshake.
"It's just...hard to believe he's dead." Marcus adds.
"Were it so easy?" asked Chief.
"I take it you'll be leaving Sera soon?" asked Anya.
"Our fight is far from over. But for now, we all can use the celebration." said Master Chief.
Marcus, Anya and Master Chief look towards the setting sun as the people of Sera finally have a tommorow to look forward to. A tomorrow with no fear. A tomorrow without a war to fight. Delta along with the retutning Carmine and Sarah Palmer, Blue Team, Osiris, Arbiter and Captain Lasky look on as well. With the UNSC Infinity overhead. They finished the fight.
