Suicide Salvation
Posted By: Guardian<shadwsofarchonia@yahoo.com>
Date: 8 September 2005, 2:32 am
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If you have a weak stomach, DO NOT READ THIS STORY
A squad of five marines moved down the silent halways of the Atlantic. Outside the battle raged as the human fleet brought forth every weapon possible to keep Earth from falling. The combat boots clacked against the metal floor of deck sixteen. Fireteams were dispatched to each entrance to the ship. Airlock, MAC energy dispertion controls, and launch bay areas.
The Covenant had earlier launched hundreds of fighter craft to overwhelm the Magnetic-Accelerator Orbital Platforms. It had been only a few hours since the battle had begun and the human forces were down to two hundred and ninety three orbital platforms. The ship count continued to decrease, even when more human ships were jumping into system. Out of seven hundred cruisers, destroyers and frigates only six hundred fifteen remained. The superior technology of the Covenant was a problem against the unshielded human ships. Each plasma blast was enough to disable if not destroy a frigate.
Since Section-13's secret Spartan II campaign mission at Reach was implemented, the Halcyon class cruisers were brought back into service with the same specifications and armor designs as the Pillar of Autumn. The honeycombed Titanium-A battle plates proved to be far effective than the standard battle plate equiped to a cruiser. Also the three sucession-shot MAC was a gift from the gods. Each burst would destroy a frigate and in most cases disable a cruiser.
The Atlantic had just jumped back to Earth an hour ago. Roughly estimated time of arrival was thirteen minutes prior to the detection of Covenant forces outside of the Orbital Platform maximum firing range. As per orders of Lord Hood all ships were to maintain battle formations but not to engage enemy forces. The stupidity of the order had cost the human forces seven orbital platforms and eighty-five ships.
The squad of marines made their way to their assigned airlock guard duty. Any alien activity detected or boarders were to be repelled with extreme prejiduce. No hesitations. Any acts of cowardice were to be dealt on site with a quick magnum round between the eyes. Regardless of teh fact of the requirement of every man and woman for the marines to defend Earth.
As six minutes drew near completion the squad rounded the corner and saw the airlock doors a few meters from their position. Corporal Alexander Johnson was the commander of this team as was under strict orders to hold this area. A few ten meters down was the engineering section and two decks above was the armory. A loss of suck a strategic position would be deadly.
"Thomas, you and Kaitlin take up direct fire positions towards the airlock doors. James find a good sniper position and provide covering fire for Tom and Kate. I'll take the area left of the door and Sarah is to cover you from Covenant plasma fire. Understood?"
"Loud and clear sir" they responded in unison. The plan was underway and now only hope was left on the measure of having no fights erupt between leap-frogged genocidal forces and humanity.
Time ticked away as the marines waited in silence for any action to come their way. First a few minutes, then a few hours and eternity seemed to converge on the desolate squad. Alex thought of his family at the evacuation site, loading onto emergency cruisers with modified slipspace drives for faster than current slipspace speed travel. As he was about to shift his position for a better line of sight towards the door a unknown order screamed through his mind. He let out a blood curling scream.
In less than thirty seconds the rest of the team was alert and started to be concerned with their leader and converged on his position.
No I won't fucking kill them, no fuck you. bitch i'll fucking kill you. Leave me alone, no fuck you. I'll slit your throat, get out of my mind. No I said leave, leave! No not my family no, no! His thoughts ended abruptly and in one quick motion he grabbed his firearm drew it. Clicked the safety off and opened fire on James. Three rounds in sucession created a distinct triangular patern in his forehead with blood and bits of brain and skull splattered the barricade behind him. He then moved to Thomas and shot him in the crotch once and then sadistically he shot him in the esophagus area.
"Oh my god!" was all could Kaitlin scream before two bullets entered her chest and a third one between her eyes. Sarah in fear opened fire with her battlerifle. But her bullets went awry and ricochetted off the bulkhead two meters behind the Johnson. Please don't kill me, please don't kill me. Tears formed in her eyes as she began to whisper a plead for her survival. The Corporal moved forward and closed the distance between her and him. His pupils had changed from the normal sphere to the shape of a slit, much like that of a snake.
"What are y-" she said in shock before Alexander's fist connected with her jaw. Much like a ragdoll her body went sprawling to the floor. Blood sprayed from her mouth as she felt one of her teeth loosen under the immense sudden force. She looked up and saw his boot connect with her chest. The air leaped out of her and her lungs cramped. Pain surged through her body. What have i done to you?
The now brain controlled Alexander grabbed Sarah by the neck and slammed her against the bulkhead. He spoke much like a Covenant would speak.
"Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we are their instrument."
Against her will he forced her to kiss him. Sorrow and anger flooded her as she tried to resist. But with each movement against him a punch connected with her chest. She coughed blood onto his face.
"You bitch!"
He kicked her in the chest once more and then grabbed her firearm.
"Fuck you, stupid human bitch" an inhuman voice resonated through the vocal chords. The undead Corporal clicked of the safety and pulled on the trigger releasing the first round into Sarah's chest. A scream of agony echoed through the desolate hallways of the Atlantic. A smile of satisfaction harbored on his lips as he squeezed the trigger again and again and again. Each empty casing pinged on the metal floor. The gun's slider moved all the way back signalling the clip being empty. He let the weapon drop as he drew another magnum in his left hand and left the shells eject once again.
Twenty four total rounds entered the corpse of Sarah Mclean. Blood sprayed against all surroundings. His tongue escaped his mouth as it grew larger than a normal human tongue. He got onto his knees and then began licking her blood. With a grin, sharp inhuman teeth came to bear. He bit into her neck and like the force of magic bought her back to life. His sadistic fashion about to represent to the one who wished to be left dead.
Sarah could only lay there breathing as blood poured from twenty four bullet holes in her body and feel the rotten breath of the monster that had his teeth in her flesh. Time passed into seconds and then the horror unfolded.
Across the hallways of deck sixteen a scream unleashed rebounding along all surfaces and finally making its way onto deck fifteen to the notice of a few marines near the elevator heading to the decks below. A hint of fear and confusion spread across their minds. There was peace and control momentarily before they themselves grabbed their heads as inhuman thoughts poured into their minds and they succombed to the unknown.
In a matter of minutes explosions started to ripple through the hull of the Atlantic but before death consumed the horror filled ship five things happened. Something that no one expected except for a secret council located aboard a cloaked Covenant ship near the battle of Earth. Three succession of burst MAC shots left the Atlantic targeting the Mariana Trench. The rounds tore through the weakest area of the Earth's crust creating a super-heated tunnel towards the Earth's core. The fourth thing to the shock of humanity were two NOVA Class Nuclear Devices following the path of the MAC rounds.
First detonation shattered the crust of the human hope. The second detonation rippled across the continent and began the process of destruction of earth. Massive chunks of continental areas began to explode and be hurled into space. Crashing into the geo-sync. platforms. In a matter of minutes Earth exploded sending a subspace shockwave and creating a tear in the space time continum. Releasing destructive energies of the Universe in SOL. Energy in the magnitude area of 5.3 swept through SOL at half the speed of light. Before all forcest at Earth were destroyed a message was sent to the Covenant Homeworld of the Prophets by the High Prophet of Terror aboard the Cloak and Dagger.
"It is done, the will of the gods..."
In less than an hour SOL no longer existed, the sun was consumed by the massive energy wave. The super-nova reaction fueled the wave and increased the output from 5.3 to 5.5 magnitude and the speed of the wave increased to three fourths that of light. The radio wave disturbance and frequency disturbance moved faster than light however. By the time the message from the High Prophet of Terror arrive it was severly distorted and the message played out on the Artificial Planet Class Station, The Serene Justice.
"It is...of the gods..." the message repeated but the static continued to increase with each replay between the words.
Author's Note: I was bored and the Energy magnitude is very high even for the year 2552 with Covenant Weaponry. Partially its a bit made up. Secondly, after a little bit of research and some guess work. I can say that today's Earth's energy output of electricity, fossil fuel burning, nuclear reactions and fusion detonations combined on this planet. The total Energy Magnitude would come to somewhere close to 0.49 to 0.5 Energy Magnitude. So a 5.5 Magnitude is ::bomb-whistle::.
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