Part 1: uninvited guest by Dokkir
|
The fall of jericho 7
Date: 21 October 2005, 8:42 am
White light start to appear out of the darkness, hundreds of pictures appears and disappear at light speed then it start to slow down the vision came into view, in first person view: there was a picture of an ODST getting shot by 10 plasma bullets and fell to the ground as the last plasma collided against his body melting the amour onto his skin there was a scream as the person who witness the bloody death of his team mate suddenly stood up and fired his M6D until all of its clip where emptied. The elite fell without a word.
The man woke up in his bunk bed, cold beads of sweat drenched his clothes, he was shocked at first but when he realized it was just a memory he stood up and wash his face at the bath room with cool water, when a nervous marine entered the room and spoke with nervousness "lieutenant Zan Winter sir! The captain wants to see you at the bridge ASAP." As the marine spoke the lieutenant dry his face with a towel and replied with a nod and put on his ODST gear and headed for the bridge.
The year was 2535 the same year before Jericho 7 was destroyed it was one of the biggest defeat the UNSC ever had, 11 years after the Human-Covenant war started…and 16 years before the fall of Reach.
Lt. Winter was stationed on reach but had been transfer to go defend the outer colonies like Jericho 7, which is why he is on this destroyer called "spirit of Andromeda". He is in command of 100 ODSTs in the 105th platoon and one of the remaining ODST commanding officers left, the war had killed many heroes and heroines. The strongest marines and the greatest Admirals fell before the covenant unstoppable onslaught. But there was a new hope, there had been rumors floating about super soldiers called SPARTANS but Zan never believe in rumors and if these humans really exist they would just only delay the inevitable, end of humanity.
The bridge door greeted Lt. Winter, as it opened upon his arrival, crewmen and officers were hard at work on their consoles. Captain Yanshin was talking to the communications officer (Lt. Don) when she turned around to notice the ODST just 2 meters away. "Reporting in ma'am!" Lt. Winter saluted. "At ease lieutenant." replied Captain Yanshin, there was a pause and she continued "we are about to reach Jericho 7, ETA is 20 minutes but we received a stray transmission from a prowler the "hammerhead" it appears that the transmission is a distress signal…but no Intel about what happened to it. The trip has to be delayed; we have already alerted the other UNSC ships at Jericho 7, they will be arriving shortly." She finished with a tone of fear in her voice "yes ma'am, so when are we going to be approaching the prowler ma'am?" but before Captain Yanshin could respond the ship's camera suddenly reveals something gray in the black space "magnify the object by 1000x!" Yanshin order "aye aye Ma'am!" responded a crew man the camera zoom in to reveal the "hammer head"…half melted, half smashed.
"Oh my god" whisper Yanshin "ma'am incoming transmission!!!!" static echoed through out the ship speakers. It was static and buzzing at first but then a human spoke into the ship "this is Cpl.Stello we are under attack by the covenant! I repeat we are under attack! They are using boarding craft to get in-" there was sound of a fire fight and marines screaming from explosions and plasma burns " the Cole protocol has not been initiated and the NAV data base is not destroyed, The ship's AI is also not recovered oh no ahhhh!!!! God damn it!! Mike is down! Die bastards!!!!" static washed over the scream and the transmission ended". The ODST gaped at the ship, there was a moment of silence "ma'am permission to assist the survivors and destroy the NAV database!" Yanshin look at him with a mixture of confusion, she hesitated for a while then said "permission accepted."
The amoury is a nice place to be in, it is what completes the recipe of mass destruction. Too bad the UNSC only puts in standard issue weapons like shotguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles, pistols, submachine guns, grenades and rocket launchers
Lt. Winter is loading his MA5B, grab some extra clips with him and also two M6D pistols for dual wielding, that is what he always train on during his free time at the firing range. (I am going to need all the fire power I got, I hope the month's worth of dual wield practice will work) he drew a smile on his face but not long enough for the his fellow soldiers to notice "okay men gear up I need 40 men to help me destroy the NAV data base and to retrieve the AI. Now, who would like to volunteer?" 100 hands raised up Zan sighed and just chose the 40 best men he got "okay 10 person on each squad red, blue, green and black. the rest of you will enter another part of the ship to assist the survivors and make they survived load up and get on the Pelicans…lets hunt down those bitches one by one."
but one last buring question remains, what is the Prowler ship doing here? is ONI intrested on something or someone at Jericho 7?
|
