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Omega Red Chapter 1
Date: 18 December 2002, 12:45 am
1200 Hours, April 25, 2577 (Military Calendar) /
Ki Fong Star Cluster, Fire Hawk Canyon, Hayfong 7
Archimedes 4 District, Alpha Sector B7a, Grid 13 by 19
The gleam of three suns reflected off of the visor of the MJOLNIR armor, which was concealing the face of a war torn elite Spartan, commander of the greatest force man has ever conceived. He is second only to only a single surviving original Spartan who has never received a code name and only responds to Master chief or Spartan 117. Commander of a dead squad of Spartans called Alpha Green. As for this second generation Spartan He is called Spartan 945-Omega and is commander the most elite surviving squad called Omega Red.
Spartan 945-Omega motioned for red 6 to look down into the canyon and estimate enemy numbers. Red 6 Radioed back over the comm. system "About nine-hundred Grunts give or take a hundred, a couple hundred Jackals, few dozen Elites, and three or four hunters. "
"And I thought Hayfong was supposed to be a holy world to the covenant. Red 4 toss a couple of grenades down there." 945 Requested.
The fourth red light on 945 HUD (heads up display) blinked then he could see from the other side of the canyon six or seven little black dots fly across the sky and slowly fall to the ground. As he returned to his hidden position he heard seven thuds in a seemingly consecutive order drowning out the screams of dieing grunts as soon as the last explosion. The team sprung up and began to empty the extended clips on their MA8-5C customized assault rifles. The razor sharp armor piercing bullets cut the grunts methane tanks with environment suits like butter. The Covenant horde was firing wildly in every direction. The chaos gave blue team enough cover to place the HAVOK nuclear mine under the covenant cruiser. Every blue light on 945s HUD winked twice. 945 radioed to blue leader "have your team use their JACKHAMMERS to take out the hunters down there." He saw four fiery streaks fly across the sky and then heard one booming thud; after the smoke cleared he saw four monstrous bodies lying in the middle of their own craters. 945 radioed to all green units "Green team use your MAR (magnetic Accerlated Rounds) rifles to eliminate the elites." In a few moments he saw several elites fall to the ground then a streak of smoke go straight to their heads, and then finally several loud cracks confirming the kills. "All units return to the rendezvous point." 945 commanded. The Squad returned to the Y7-Albatross troopship and proceeded to go into orbit of Hayfong 7 to watch the light show that was starting in a few short seconds.
Chapter 1
0415 Hours, March 24, 2557 (Military Calendar) /
Epsilon Serpentis System, Babylon XVII Theater
Susa Military Complex, Barracks 129
"MAGGOT!!" The Sergeant yelled "GET OUT OF BED!!"
Erik slowly rolls off a cot wondering why his father was calling him a maggot. As he opened his eyes he saw that it wasn't his father yelling at him, but a man in military clothing with a metal pole in his hand.
"Well what the hell are you waiting for clothes off to the showers? ON THE DOUBLE DAMNIT" Erik stared at him for a second. "THAT MEANS NOW!!!"
He snapped to conciseness and slowly began to take his clothes off. He realized that there were many other boys and girls also getting up and being yelled at by other men in camouflage. Some kids started running to the end of the building naked once Erik was undressed he followed. The showers were freezing cold. Later a man looked in the showers and yelled "Everybody out... NOW!!!"
Erik had to still rinse the shampoo from his hair so he waited a second. All of a sudden he felt a huge jolt in his side and fell to the floor twitching and wondering what just hit him. He slowly opened his eyes it was blurry for a little while but he say a figure of a man standing next to him. When his eyes came into focus he say the man that got him out of bed.
"GET UP AND GET DRESSED NOW!!!"
Erik ran back to his cot in fear of getting hit again he found a sweet suit with ERIK-945-Omega plastered all over it he put it on. All the kid in the room were dressed and sitting at the side of there cots when a huge man, a shade over two meters, in a black uniform, his right chest covered in what seemed to be every possible military medal, on his upper right sleeve as an insignia that had gold eagle with its talons poised forward in one was a lightning bolt and three arrows in the other. When he stopped in the center of the building all the men in the room saluted.
The man began to speak. "I am Master Chief and for now you will consider me more powerful then god and the rest of these called the instructors. Now everyone out side, NOW!!"
He and everyone ran out side Erik and all the other kids were lined up and the boxed in by the uniformed men Master Chief stood in the front center and yelled "1000 jumping jacks"
He immediately started and the kids did too one boy stopped and was Shocked by one of the drill instructors. After the jumping jacks were push-ups, then sit-ups, deep squats after that, then knee bends. Half way through the deep squats Erik threw up. After they were finished Master Chief yelled "Rest... Instructors get water"
Erik gulped down as much water as he could then Master Chief Said "lets take a jog... THAT'S AN ORDER!! ON THE DOUBLE TRANEES."
After running for what seemed to be an eternity Master chief stopped at a building where a translucent woman stood in the doorway. He said something to her that Erik couldn't hear. Master Chief turned around commanded everyone into the building where tables with chairs all the kids took a seat on the table in front of each seat was a small plate with cheese and crackers on it and a glass of water next to it Erik ate his down as fast as he could then gulped down the water. The woman was now standing in front of the room Erik could tell now that she was an AI. She Said "Good morning boys and girls my name is KAEDE and I am going to be your teacher"
Erik wanted to lay his head on the table and take a nap - until KAEDE started to tell them about a battle and how three hundred soldiers fought against thousands of Persian infantry.
A holographic countryside appeared in the classroom. The children walked around Miniature Mountains and hills and let the end of the illusionary sea lap at their combat boots. Toy sized soldiers marched towards what KAEDE explained was Thermopile, a narrow strip of land between steep mountains and the sea. Thousands of soldiers marched toward the three hundred who guarded the pass. The soldiers fought: Spears and shields splintered, swords flashed and spilled blood.
Erik couldn't take his eyes off the spectacle.
KAEDE explained that the three hundred were Spartans and they were some of the best soldiers that ever lived. They had been trained since children. No one could beat them.
Erik watched, Fascinated, as the holographic Spartans slaughtered the Persian spearmen.
He had eaten his food but was still hungry, so he tried to take some from the girl sitting next to him, as his hand slipped away her hand snapped to his around his wrist. She whispered to him "It's mine don't touch it!"
"My Bad" Erik says waving his hands sarcastically. So he just took food from the boy on the other side of him, and munched them down as the battle raged on.
The Persians broke rank and ran and the Spartans stood victorious on the blood-scathed fields.
Erik and the other children cheered. They wanted to see it again.
"That's all for today," KAEDE said. "We'll continue tomorrow and I'll show you some wolves. Now it's time for you to go to the playground."
Playground Erik thought, finally a place where he could just sit on a swing, relax, and think.
He ran out of the room with the other trainees
Master Chief and the other Trainers were waiting outside.
Master Chief Said "Time for the playground to get there we need to take a short run so lets go."
The trainees ran without haste but the short run turned out to be 6 miles. Erik had never seen so many poles and nets and towers on a playground ever before in a couple of places where there baskets with ropes tied to them that went up to a pulley then came back down to the basket.
Then Master Chief announced "Today's game was also my first game as a Spartan its called 'Ring the Bell', to start form three lines." They did. "Now the people next to you are your team from now on get to know them well because they are the people who will earn you dinner and them yours. Is that clear."
"YES SIR!!" the children responded in almost perfect unison
Next to Erik was a large muscular boy with rusty red hair, on his shirt was CAIN-408-Omega and beyond Cain was a scrawny girl with jet-black hair on her shirt was DEJA-777-Omega. Cain walked over to Deja and Erik walked over to them and said "Hi, I'm Erik."
"I'm Cain" Cain said with a grand pride in his voice
"My name's Deja and I'm fast real fast."
"Lets find out when the gun fires run as fast as you can to the basket over there, then hold it until me and Erik get there then we will take it all the way to the top and ring the bell."
When the Master Chief shot his gun it signaled the start of the game before the crack of the gun came back to Eriks ears, Deja was almost halfway there he and Cain began to run too but couldn't catch up, she beat everyone there was a boy that almost her going after the basket but she won and he gave up his fight to get it, when Erik and Cain arrived. The three got in the basket together and began to slowly heave themselves up to a suspended plat form right next to the pole with the bell on it. They took turns ringing the bell then lowered themselves back down though they were not the first people back from ringing the bell they were the first team.
That night Erik ate a full dinner and it was delicious even though he can't remember what he had, because he ate it so fast. On the wall in the there was four plaques on one it said '117 Apha Green top of class' on the next it said '236 Psi Black top of class' the other had '508 Gamma White top of class' on the last said 'Omega Red top of class'. The Master Chief walked up to Erik put his giant hand on Eriks shoulder and said to him "You want 945 to go in that blank don't you?"
"What if I do what's it mean to you?"
"Not just any one can get on this wall."
"Yeah so."
"You have to be the best of the best of the elite, the finest soldier in this squad like I was in mine."
"You're a Spartan?"
"Down to the bone, Spartan 117 of Alpha Green."
"I'm going to be better than you Master Chief and on that plaque it will say 945 Omega Red top of class."
That night a ten year old boy went to sleep not as the child Erik Chicofsky, but as Spartan 945 of Omega Red, rank trainee. As a Spartan his only family was his squad.
Over the years Erik, along with all of the other 74 children, forgot almost everything that was before the Spartans.
Omega Red Chapter 2
Date: 18 December 2002, 12:49 am
2000 Hours, May 27, 2561 (Military Calendar) /
Epsilon Serpentis System, Babylon XVII Theater
Susa Military Complex Wilderness Preserve
The A7-Albatross Rocketed through the sunset inside was the Master Chief and five junior Spartans. Master Chief commands attention to himself and announces "Todays game is a game of chance the last squad to the ship is the one who has to walk home and just so you know we are well over 200 miles away from the barracks and there is a mountain range between us and the base. You each were issued a piece of paper before you entered the ship. On each piece of paper is part of a map once your dropped off you need to find each other then find an other squad to find where you are supposed to go the last squad to reach the rendezvous point won't have a ship waiting and will be forced to walk back or they could die. I will admit you five are my favorite squad. And of you don't make it no one will."
Erik looked at who else was in the ship it was Cain-408, Deja-777, Ezekiel-191, and John-218. These four were his best friends since his first day as a Spartan.
The Chief selected Cain as the first to get dropped off. After a few minutes Deja, then John, then Erik was asked to go, so he hopped out of the albatross and started to head for the lake because that's where they planned to meet up and put together their parts of the map. After a few hours of walking he found the lake and the rest of his squad they had their pieces of the map put together and were waiting for him. He ran to them with his piece of the map held out he set it down in the right spot but up side down, Deja flipped it over, they realized that they had the half of the map where the rendezvous point was so they didn't need an other squad so they got their barerings straight and headed for the rendezvous point. When they could see the troop ships Cain realized that in their attempt at a speedy return they left the rest of the squad in the dust and said "Lets stop here and make camp and wait for the others."
"Why?" Deja asked
"'Cause I don't want anyone to have to walk home." Cain stated firmly
So the team stopped just a couple dozen meters away from the rendezvous point and built a fire hoping that the smoke would draw the rest of the squad. The other squads arrived one by one over a period of a day. The final team arrived at night and instead of waking everyone up they just kept going to the rendezvous point where an albatross was waiting, they left only a note for their comrades informing them that they left.
That morning Erik found the note immediately informing the other Spartans that they have been betrayed. A furious Ezekiel stormed towards thee LZ (landing Zone) with four other boys behind him, the rest of the squad no just 65 strong packed up and left at noon that day leaving in a single very crowded albatross.
When they returned they found in the Barracks that Ezekiel was in fight with an other boy and the master chief was just watching and since he was in his armor nobody could tell what the expression on his face was yet alone why he was in his armor.
"At ease 191 and 329." The chief yelled all of a sudden. "You two call yourselves Spartans, well right now you are not because Spartans stick together, Spartans have respect, Spartans are the best of the best if you think you are by fighting you don't have a clue of what a Spartan is. Remember the wolves they worked together for a single cause to achieve one single objective that is how a Spartan should work like a hungry pack of wolves. If you continue this nonsense you both will be ejected from the Spartan program. Separated from your family and each other never to see a Spartan again. You will be cut off."
0930 Hours, November 17, 2565 (Military Calendar)/
Chi-Gong-Fi System, Aboard UNSC Destroyer Black Dragon
Boarding Xhosa-Ming Space Station In Orbit Over Ki-Shing IV
Lieutenant Commander Samuel Stallin of the UNSC (United Nations Space Command) Black Dragon, he stood at the bridge of his almost invincible destroyer. The Black Dragon fully armed weighs in at 1.2 million tons equipped with four Mark-9 quick charging MAC (Magnetic Accelerated Cannon) two fore and two aft, twenty-six hundred Chu-ko-nu missile pods, three modified covenant plasma torpedoes, one stolen covenant saber beam cannon, and twenty SHEVA nuclear rockets. The Lieutenant Commanders favorite weapon though was the Fire Storm Accelerator, a weapon of merged human-covenant technology this weapon uses an atomic fusion bomb inside the Saber Cannon, which harnesses the energy and focuses it into a beam and slices through any thing in its path, when being tested it cut through a small moon. The majority of the ships mass came from the 15 meters of honey combs of stolen covenant ship armor (salvaged from the battle for reach) and titanium-A battle plate armor, the ship also hides behind an attempt at energy shield also salvaged from a covenant cruiser. To push all the armor and weapons around is one Human beta Fusion Reactor to power the human thrusters and a covenant polymax plasma core for the main engines of Covenant design; the Black Dragon is also capable of slipstream space precision travel. This ship is the first destroyer classified as a human-covenant hybrid vassal because of all of the stolen covenant armor and technologies. It was also partially manned by covenant deserters, three elites and one hunter to be precise, the hunter controlled the saber cannon and the Elites the plasma torpedoes, and they were always very closely watched. Lt. Stallin loved his ship even if it was fresh out of the port and only six weeks old, on the ships side someone in their painted a non-regulation black dragon and strangely inside of the dragon was a red omega symbol on the side at that time he didn't understand the red omega until his first assignment with this rookie ship.
United Nations Space Command Fleetcom Transmission
2963Q-621
Encryption Code: Phoenix
Public Key: File/ Denied/ Classified
From: ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) Fleetcom
To: Lt. Cmdr. Samuel J. Stallin
Subject: Mission Objectives ~|{[://lDxy://jknX;:P://Qertg//:uf/dg//:kjv]}|~
Classification: Restricted (BGX Directive)
/start file/
Lieutenant Commander,
These are your orders you will take the Black Dragon to these coordinates (grid- 1294/56 by 3361/924 over alpha gamma sector in the Peraclese district) then pick up the Y7-Albatross waiting there for you and then take it to the Xhosa-Ming Space Station In Orbit Over Ki-Shing IV where you will drop off the albatross and the Omega Red Squadron. You must also Escort Doctor Karen Wade from earth to the Xhosa-Ming Station.
/end file/
Press ENTER to open linked attachments [{~00~}]
In the Lt. Cmdr.s Mind the painting on his ship and the fact that his first objective was to take the Omega Red to their enhancements meant they were forever linked.
2100 Hours, November 27, 2565 (Military Calendar)/
Chi-Gong-Fi System, Xhosa-Ming Space Station
Sector Zulu 5, Room 316, In Orbit Over Ki-Shing IV
Erik dressed in a medical gown was sitting on a bed when Master chief walked in
"Get through this one." The chief said. "This will be the only mission you go through that you wont decide if you will accomplish it or not just be strong and return as a Spartan not a child in a body bag."
"Chief how do I win this if I don't decide?"
"Fight that how you win you fight for your life."
"I'll win this one for you chief so you can see me succeed."
Hours later the Master Chief watches Erik through a plate glass window as the doctors' hitch him up to endless tubes and wires, injecting him with the one thing that has taken more Spartan lives than the covenant. But it was also Omega Reds final test and what made a Spartans what they are, super soldiers, he nervously glanced back down at his file to see what exactly they were putting in these young soldiers again.
/file start/
Synopsis/ biological risks
WARNING: the following procedures are classified level-3 experimental. Primate test subjects must be cleared through UNSC Quartermaster General Office C=code: OBF34. Follow gamma code biohazard disposal protocol.
1. Carbide Ceramic Ossification: advanced material grafting onto skeletal structures to make bones virtually unbreakable. Recommended coverage not to exceed 3 percent total bone mass because there is a high risk of significant white blood cell necrosis. Specific risk for pre- and near postpubecent adolecents: skeletal growth spurts may cause irreparable bone pulverzation. See attached case studies.
2. Muscular enhancement injections: protein complex is injected intramuscularly to increase tissue density and decrease lactase recovery time. Risk: five percent of test subjects experience a fatal cardiac volume increase.
3. Catalytic thyroid implant: Platinum pellet containing human growth hormone catalyst is implanted in the thyroid to boost growth of skeletal and muscle tissues. Risk: rare instances of elephantiasis. Suppressed sexual drive.
4. Occipital capillary reversal: submergence and boosted blood vessel flow beneath the rods and cones of subject's retina. Risk: retinal rejection and detachment. Permanent blindness. See attached autopsy reports
5. Superconducting fabrication neural dendrites: alteration of bioelectrical nerve transudation to shielded electronic transduction. Three hundred percent in subject reflexes. Anecdotal evidence of marked increase in intelligence, memory, and creativity. Risk: significant instances of Parkinson's disease and Fletcher's syndrome.
6. Polyatomic plasma ion inductor: covenant shield chip placed at the base of the brain to protect subject from any spinal or neural damage. Risk: occasional energy burst may sever the spinal cord or even cause fatal brain damage. See recently translated covenant manuscripts.
7. Oxygen complex capillary implants: oxygen gel is implanted in strategic areas of the body. Six hundred percent increase in time subject can go without breathing. Risk: Gel can occasionally clog subjects blood flow result, death
/end file/
Press ENTER to open linked attachments [{~65~}]
Master Chief closed the file. He was very stressed so he went to the place where every Spartan felt most comfortable the gym. When the chief arrived there were leatherneck marines working out there. The chief acknowledged them with a head nod and proceeded to the bench at which he placed a total of 1.2 thousand pounds on the one hundred pound bar then walks around, lies down on the bench and continues to go up and down as if the was no weight at all. The astonished marines looked at the chief then each one at the other and mumbled something to each other. After a few moments they walked over to the chief and asked what squad he was in?
"Spartan 117 of Alpha Green, The First, The Finest, The Best...The Elite." he responded
"All of those guys are dead" one of the marines said
"Nope, there's one left. Me"
"When was your first battle with the COV then?"
"2037 hours, Nov. 27, 2525, the same day as the killing of the first Spartan. Forty years ago today."
"Really"
The chief got and left. He had an appointment in a few hours and he'd like to finally see this new Spartan doctor.
Doctor Karen Wade stood in room 408 of the Xhosa-Ming station; she was amazed at the physical condition of the fourteen-year-old boy in front of her. If she didn't know any better she would think he was a nineteen-year-old Olympic athlete. The boy his shaven completely bald with fresh insertion marks all over his body where the operators had injected grafted or implanted things to make this boy into a Spartan.
"He's the best we got," Master Chief said as he walked up behind the good doctor. "I'm going to appoint him squad leader."
"Hopefully he's a good choice." The doctor commented.
"He's a tactical genus and has the brute strength of an ox, that was before this week."
"But can he lead?"
"Lets hope so."
Omega Red Chapter 3
Date: 24 December 2002, 8:18 pm
1600 Hours, November 29, 2565 (Military Calendar)/
Chi-Gong-Fi System, Xhosa-Ming Space Station
Sector Zulu 12, Funeral Room, In Orbit Over Ki-Shing IV
"We give these soldiers to the earth the place that they would have fought so valiantly to protect, now we shall fight for them." That was the first thing Cain said as a Petty Officer in the UNSC. "They are our fallen brothers in a fight in which we could not fight back the only fight a Spartan will ever be denied an honorable death."
The 59 coffins were launched into space towards the systems star. Erik stood attention watching his dead friends float away into the star. He and sixteen other Spartans were the remaining combat ready elite of Omega Red.
After a day of packing up the team boarded the Black Dragon for the second time to go to a new Spartan School which was organized by five loyal Elite who were going to train Omega Red in the art of Covenant warfare, how to speak and read the Covenant language, and how to control Covenant ships. This would help the team in many different ways. It would equip them with the ability to see and anticipate many Covenant maneuvers and strategies it would give them the ability to steal Covenant technologies and machines.
0100 Hours, November 30, 2565 (Military Calendar)/
Ki Fong Star Cluster, Outer Rim
Aboard UNSC Destroyer Black Dragon, Bridge
UNSC Fleetcom Promotion Notification
/start file/
Lieutenant Commander I am pleased to inform you that you have recently been promoted to Captain you will receive your new uniform at you next destination
/end file/
Captain Samuel Stallin left his quarters and headed for the bridge to find out what happened over the night.
"We are ready to leave Captain." One of the crewmen said.
"What are you talking about I'm only a lt. cmdr.?" Stallin said with surprise.
"Not any more the ship was notified at 0100 hours this mourning."
"Really where are we headed lieutenant."
"Hayfong 2, the Military fortress holds the Spartans new training ground."
"Are the Spartans boarded?"
"Ready and waiting."
"Lets go then."
"Hayfong 2, that is where we were taught the human tongue, right Shouw." An Elite gurgled out to the other.
"Yes, Kosh and his brothers are there. They are the first to be 'awakened'." Shouw responded to his comrade, in his disgruntled accent.
"They revealed to me that the prophets were false." The Hunter commented in an even worse sounding English than the other two.
The third elite remained silent throughout the whole conversation about when they were "awakened".
The ship rocketed away from the station as the soldiers of a group called the "awakened" talked about when and where they met the awakened prophet still preaching in the home system, waking more.
Cain and Erik walked together to the Black Dragon cafeteria for their mourning meal. "Where do you think we're goin' now?" Erik asked
"Me, I think we're goin' to the cafeteria, cause I'm hungry." Cain said with a hint of humor in his voice.
"Ohh k, I'll take that as an I don't know."
"So what are you going to eat?"
"The usual, a whole turkey three steaks and a gallon of ice cream for desert."
"I thought you were having a meal."
"I'm not that hungry though, what are you having"
"Same as you."
They sat down in the cafeteria in the corner where there were no marines and crewmen sitting. And began to eat their massive meals. The Master Chief sat down next to the boys, he seemed like he was finally moving at normal speed instead of his usual warp speed. "Why so slow, Sir" Cain asked
"You're just feeling the effects of the Spartan enhancements, everything is going to seem slow and light for a while, you'll get used to it."
"What did you put in us?"
"That, Petty Officer, is highly classified."
"Well what do they do then?"
"Some make you stronger and some make your reaction time quicker. That's basically it."
"So now we are, like, super soldiers right?"
"No, Super soldiers are fiction we are reality."
Suddenly a loud thud echoed through the ship. The Master Chief got up and ran off. Yelling to the boys as he ran "STAY THERE!!"
Master Chief burst onto the bridge wondering what was going on the out the main view port he saw a battle between a small human force that was calling for help, Chief assumed that the Black Dragon was responding, to the mayday.
"Captain what's our status?" the Master Chief asked.
"Shields at fifty percent, we were hit by a stray missile. It seems that the Covenant are trying to glass the planet."
"That force has two careers, sir, it's a planetary invasion squad." Shouw stated.
"Are you sure?" Master Chief asked
"Positive, there is a glassing convoy in slip space ready to go though, incase any plans go wrong."
"Captain, lets surprise the glassing convoy while they waiting." Chief suggested.
"Brilliant idea Master Chief." The Captain announced to the bridge. "You heard the Chief, people, lets get movein'."
"SIR!" The majority of the bridge-hands shouted.
The Black Dragon stealth fully approached the dormant convoy in slip-space.
"Charge the plasma torpedoes and saber cannon, ready the MAC guns, take the safeties off all weapons, man all defensive turrets." The Captain said coldly to the crew. The bridge was silent except for a few beeps and clicks as the crew fulfilled the Captains orders. "At my command fire both forward MAC guns at the cruiser, then just before impact launch missile pods A-1 through A-5 at the cruiser, and a plasma torpedo at each of the destroyers, and the saber cannon at the frigate." The ship crawled for a few moments. "NOW"
A glorious barrage stampeded towards the unsuspecting convoy. Suddenly one destroyer jolted out of slip-space but the torpedo was redirected towards the other destroyer just in time to sandwich it between two bolts of radioactive plasma. The cruisers shield flickered and was shot out by the first MAC round the second obliterated the ships hull, and then the rockets finished the job. The beam from the Saber Cannon sliced through the shield and hull of the frigate then exploded but it wasn't enough to finish off the ship before it managed to launch some fighters and two plasma torpedoes.
"Fire missile pods A-6 through A-15 at that frigate now!" The Captain shouted. The rockets twisted out of their tubes and jetted toward their target. "Now let's go help out the people on that planet." The Black Dragon shot out of slip-space just in time for the two plasma torpedoes to collide with each other and strand the fighters in slip-space forever. The Black Dragon dropped out of slip-space just in time to stop the invasion of Hayfong 7. The Captain decided to test out the Fire-Storm Accelerator, it tore through the covenant ships like a surgical laser. That was the end of a small covenant fleet to one human ship.
Omega Red Chapter 4
Date: 24 January 2003, 3:05 am
01900 Hours, December 6, 2565, (Military Calendar)/
Ki Fong Star Cluster, Hayfong 2
Archimedes Military Academy
Erik watched, through the window of his new school, the Spartans of Zulu Black spray out the final fires on Hayfong 2. Which were started days before when the Covenant tried to take the planet. This was the first Erik saw any other Spartans besides the Master Chief. These Spartans were different though instead of the Chiefs sheik green armor, they had cold black plasma singed armor. Cain walked up to Erik.
"It's scary isn't it?" Cain asked sternly.
"What's scary?" Erik responded quizzically.
"That's (the Spartans of Zulu black) what we are going to be someday."
"No it's not."
"It scares me."
"We're not going to become them."
"They're Spartans, we're becoming Spartans, so how are we going to be different."
"No, the chief told me that each group was trained with a specific specialty. These guys, like chief, are for ground combat only. Delta White was trained to pilot fighters and bombers in both space and planetary combat. We on the other hand are going to be both and more."
The remaining trainees of Omega Red stood in a single horizontal line watching Kosh, a massive elite coated in a metallic black armor.
The fearsome creature began to grunt out a vague sounding English. "I am your new teacher, if you didn't know already my name is Kosh. If you hadn't noticed I am not human I am a member of a race called the Kie-Nikon or what you call the elites and I am here to make you the best soldiers ever produced. You will listen to me as if I were your superior.
Now onto what you are going to do, see the hole in the wall on the other side of that crevasse?" all of the young Spartans responded with a SIR. "Alright then, after getting through that, pick up the weapons on the ground and destroy the targets on the other side of the laser barrier. Oh, and you all have ten minuets starting...NOW!"
The squad rushed towards the crevasse ahead there were three ropes hanging over the small canyon Cain was one of the first to reach the edge. He jumped with all the strength in his legs, he barely grabbed the end of the rope, but he had enough momentum to swing across the gorge though. He was the first across the crevasse now for the puzzle part of the challenge the hole was ten meters from any surface that a person could reach it from, so Cain began to search for an alternate way through. Moments later he found a small crack in the wall on the far side, he quickly ran over to it and tore it open only to find 'CHEATER' spray painted, in a neon blue, on the wall behind the crack. After five minuets of scanning the wall Erik walked up to Cain.
"Have you fond anything?" Erik asked.
"Only a decoy." Cain responded reluctantly.
"How 'bout I give you a boost up.
"That's a great idea but, how are you gonna' get up then?"
"I'll find a way you just finish the mission."
The two dash over to the spot directly under the hole. Erik clasps his hands so that Cain can jump up to the hole. Cain backed up then sprinted towards Erik, his foot went into the tightly gripped hands and as Cain jumped Erik used all the strength in his arms and launched him up. Cain barely reached the bottom of the hole but, managed to grasp the rim, and managed to pull himself through the hole to see that the ground was a good thirty meters down. Cain closed his eyes, said a little prayer and pushed off just as Erik helped an other kid up to the hole. Cain landed on the ground with a booming thud that echoed through the great hall. Cain's eyes darted back and forth searching for a gun when on the far side of the room he saw a faint green glow. He decided that it was probably the laser barrier. As Cain began to run the other kid landed, but Cain didn't care, he wanted to be first to finish and he was almost out of time. When he reached the translucent green wall he found exactly seven-teen M-117 15mm heavy sniper rifles he dashed to the one nearest to him as he gazed through the scope he discovered seven-teen small bulls-eye style targets about sixty-five meters away. Just when Cain thought he had it made he realized that there was only one bullet in his gun, which meant he needed one hundred percent accuracy. "Well here goes nothing." Cain mumbled to himself. He zoomed the scope as far as it could go aligned the sight with the dead center of the target, held his breath for a moment tightened his grip on the trigger. Without even feeling any recoil Cain saw the smoke stream slam into the center of the bulls-eye and then herd the thwap of the sub sonic bullet leaving its chamber. He herd a siren then a small section of the wall disinagrait in front of him he passed through and to the right Kosh was standing behind the finish-line waiting with a stop watch in hand.
"9:45, barely made it trainee." Kosh grunted
"Well I'm first aren't I?" Cain snidely responded
"Yes, you are first, but that makes someone else last. Do you understand?"
"Yes, sir."
The other trainees began to arrive in groups of two or three. Erik arrived last by himself gasping for air.
"What's up with you?" Cain asked Erik
"I climbed the wall myself after I helped everyone else over the wall."
"How?"
"I barrowed a rope."
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