Covenant vs Aliens, Part one
Posted By: Mantis<jamie@netride.net>
Date: 23 January 2005, 4:08 PM
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Covenant
vs
Aliens....
Part one...
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The Arrival....
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January 6 1953
earth time...
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A covenant ship prowled the outer realms of a small solar system... The systems star
was in the process of going to red giant status.... several nearby planets were obliterated, One
planet out of five remained. The ship had taken heavy damage due to a solar storm spewing
lightning bolts throughout its slow moving cloud. The crew needing to stop and effect repairs
headed for the planet. It was a small planet, about 1500 kilometers in diameter with just enough
gravity for stable walking. The Zealot Commander of the ship, Narr'achta, was reluctant to go
down there. The planet had heavy ice storms of methane and lightning. Only a grunt in a heavy
fur coat would go down there. Several grunts and two elites in breathing aparatuses were prepped and ready to go out and escort engineers incase of any danger...
Officer Raren'Te was the first to set foot on the barren ice planet, and His partner for
life Gran'dree, a female Arbiter, was right behind him. "Gah! This place is colder than than that
blizzard back at home!" Raren'Te growled. "Maintain Discipline! form defensive perimeter!
If you see anything tell me!" The grunts stumbled off to set up turrets and set up barrier
shields. One particular grunt was too curious for his own good and wandered off into the
blizzard, enjoying the methane atmosphere. He set up a image enhancer scope to see through
the thick frozen fog. He yelped in surprise as he saw a huge circular object in the distance...
A ship? a mountain? A donut? Several questions formed in his mind. He activated his
communicator. "Leader! Quick! huge thing in distance! look scary!" Raren'Te, his partner,
and two grunts came to him. "What is it, Grunt?" the grunt pointed franticly to the
enhancer scope. "Look through!" Raren'Te looked through it. He quickly fumbled with his
communicator and spoke "Commander! we have found an object of uknown origin....
5 miles west of encampment." "An object? What object? Our scanners detect noth...."
A detection scanner beeped in the back ground...
"Commander! we are recieving a transmission over the short distance channel!"
"Play it..." The commander waited for anything.. ................... A huge blast of sound flooded
out of the speakers... "WaaaaRRRROOooooOoooooOOooooOOOoooo." "By the rings!"
Several elites whispered in horror. "Commander? Permission to investigate the object?"
Gran'dree asked in a questionable tone. "..." "Sir?" "Permission granted. But should there
be any conflict or battle, Retreat from the object."
Raren'Te and his fellow elites marched 5 miles through barren ice and poisonous
snow towards the object, Climbing over various high rock formations jutting out of the
ground at slanted angles. Several grunts got scared by eerie shadows formed by lighting
strikes flashing throughout the air. One grunt fainted and hit his head on a boulder. Another
tripped and was accidently stepped on by and elite. Gran'dree bieng a female wasn't fond
of the weather and forced her self to stay alert even though stinging pellets created a
loud constant storm of noise in her helmet. After a long hour they reached the object...
It turned out to be a huge cresent shaped ship... there were several huge entrances, looking
like obscene pieces of organic anatomy hanging out as if they were fleshy tubes. They stopped
at a ground level entrance. "Turn on image enhancers! Stay alert!" They entered...
Huge fleshy looking pipes of metal lined every square inch of the walls... The floor and
ceilings were lined with frozen goop... They journeyed into the depths... They finnaly
found a huge open room... Everyone gasped... A huge creature... Fossilized to a
seat of some sort... Its eyes staring into the depths of a huge... Telescope? Its
hands gripping two control sticks. The group approached cautiously... A Soldier
Elite inspected the creature closer... It appeared to have a long elephant-like snout
that jutted out straight into a breathing unit... Below the breathing unit was a hole...
A huge gaping hole.. Looked to be burst from the inside... "This beast looks to have
swallowed some sort of explosive, A suicide attempt?" No, Not quite... Raren'Te
probed the lower seat. "The transmission is originating from this spot..." The
ground suddenly shifted and a piece of floor moved down like a switch. "The
transmission has stopped!" suddenly a line of light lit up across the floor. It
lead over to a shaft in the floor. Gran'dree peered into the shaft. She took a
plasma grenade and dropped it into the shaft. The grenades timer set to 10
seconds, Its explosion was barely visible in the shaft. Raren'Te watched in awe.
"Thats a long fall for even for someone as large as that beast..." Gran'dree nodded
her head in agreement. "I say we explore further down..."
It wasn't long until a make shift rope elevator was done. Several grunts were
first to go down. Raren'Te went down, Then Gran'dree, And three other elites. The others
stayed up stairs making sure the rope didn't break. It took 15 minutes just to reach bottom.
They explored a huge tube like cargo bay of sorts... Several objects varying in size and shape
were scattered across the room. "Me got bad feeling about this." A grunt whispered. "You
have bad feeling every day!" Another grunt barked. An elite was making various reports to
the commander over the comm link. "There are several objects... Many appear to have broke
and rotted over time..." They finnaly came to a foggy pit, several leathery objects, looking to
be eggs, were scatered around in it. A faint floor of light hovered over the pit, the fog couldn't
come out of the pit. An elite tripped on a broke piece of flooring and rolled down into the pit.
He went straight through the light as if it wasn't there. "Hey! You alright?" The elite stood up
and dusted his suit off. "An elite is ever strong!" He stared at one of the nearby objects. He
touched one and examined it... Careful not to damage the delicate looking outer covering.
Something looked odd... a liquid on the outer shell... appeared to be moving... upward...
The shell turned translucent... He though he saw a pair of hands inside of it... He backed
away and pulled out his plasma rifle. The egg twitched and four "lips" on the top of it split
open.. He slowly tried to get a look on the inside of the egg... a goopy organism was squirming
about inside the egg. He reached out to poke it with his plasma rifle...... A huge spider burst
forth and attached to the elites helmet. A tail squeezing his neck. "RAhh!" The elite screamed.
"By the rings!" An Raren'Te hopped down to haul him out. "get.. it.. off.." The elite choked.
Several elites tried to pry the demonic spider off his face. "It won't come off!" "Quick get him
back to the ship!"
They reached the medical bay of the ship. The elites set him on a table, An elite got a
prying device and attempted to get the thing off. One elite put his fingers under the tail, The elite
with the device attempted to pry one of the legs off. The tail tightened up extemely and broke
the elites fingers. He screamed in pain. "RAAhH! IT HURTS" He pulled his fingers out and
they hang limply, unable to move. "Get the surgical laser!" A grunt brang it to him. He placed
it on one of the legs... FZZ... the leg spewed blood onto the floor. The blood ate its way through
the floor like acid. A grunt below watched the acid slowly eat through the next floor. The grunt
screamed in terror and fled. "That liquid could eat through the hull! IT COULD CAUSE A HULL
BREACH!" Gran'dree yelled. Two elites hurried down three floors. The acid had stopped half way
through the third floor. "That thing is dangerous!" He prodded the acid with a plasma pistol...
The entire front half of the gun began to smoke. "Gah!" He grunted and dropped it.
Back upstairs they used a med scanner to see what the thing was doing. After
a moment or two they saw a long tube was down the elites throat. The scanner however
couldn't penetrate any part of the creature. "Hrm," The medical elite pondered. "I guess
we'll just have to see what it will do." Several grunts and elites left, But Raren'Te stayed.
"If anything changes or happens to him. Tell me or the commander immediatly" Raren'Te
growled and left the room.
After a while of studying the pictures of the creature and taking notes. He left the room.
This elite was particularly odd, He didn't have a lower left mandible, he had a scar across his
right eye, and his right hand had a elite gauntlet over it. He entered the practice room silently.
Several elites and grunts were practicing command drills and fighting simulations. Gran'dree
was using weight equipment. Her shoulder armor was off and she wasn't wearing shin guards.
Her muscles exercising to their fullest potential. Several elites were admiring her from a distance.
But the med-elite wasn't. He sneaked around behind a stack of weapons. He waited.. She got up
and left the room to use the lavatory. He snuck up to the weight equipment and got a tiny sample
of acid and poured some of it onto the left grav propulsion thruster holding up the weights. The
thruster flickered and tried to continue functioning. Gran'dree returned later and began to lift more
weights. The grav thruster finnaly gave out after her second try. the left weights came off thier
harnesses and smashed into her left arm, hand, left foot head and stomach. Effectively stunning
her. "Arbiter?" A grunt had wandered over to Gran'dree. "Arbiter?" he yelped at the sight of
her wounds. "ELITE DOWN!" The grunt screamed and fled in fear. Several elites came and formed
a semi-circle around her. Raren'Te rushed in after the ruckus of the grunt screaming. "Whats happened?"
He pushed through the small crowd. He saw his partner for life bleeding before him. The last
thing he remembered before he went berserk was the med-elite snickering from behind a crate.
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