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Admiral Daggers Last Mission

Admiral Daggers of the fifth fleet was just waking up when the battle stations siren came on. He began running along the main corridor of the cruiser ‘Victory’ when he heard over the intercom “Frigate Explorer is damaged and about to explode, prepare for shock wave”. “Carla, seal all bulk heads except for the ones in my way to the bridge” Daggers shouted. He looked on the view screen and saw the Explorer take multiple hits as it moved to cover the Victory. It exploded and sent a shock wave that could barely be felt. He knew his fleet wouldn’t last long being only 6 frigates, 3 destroyers, a carrier and a cruiser, the Victory, his flagship. He kept running. When he got to the bridge, he sat down in his chair and turned to the tactical display. His mission was to get to a planet where the Elites were going to join with the humans to fight the Brutes and Prophets, who had betrayed them.

He decided not to risk his small fleet and ordered “get us out of here now, jump to hyperspace”. “Sir, frigate Warrior can’t jump to hyperspace, their captain said he’ll distract the covenant” said the Comm. officer. “Give him my sincere thanks, Navigator jump when ready” Daggers replied. As they maneuvered, the Warrior launched everything they had, literally, escape pods were on a collision course with a covenant frigate. The Warrior downed two enemy ships which really got the covenants attention. All Daggers saw, was twenty plasma torpedoes heading straight for the Warrior before they jumped to hyperspace. He knew the consequences if this mission failed, but he was determined to save earth from destruction.

He was only a new Admiral, and what’s left of the UNSC was trying to defend Earth and Mars (which was now a large shipyard and weapons platform. Humanities only choice was to join with the Elites. As he was travelling he realized he traversed near Sigma Octanus, a system which Captain Jacob Keyes had defeated 2 covenant frigates, a destroyer and a carrier with only one destroyer. Daggers knew that the covenant had superior technology and numbers, but having the elites on the human’s side would tip the odds. He began thinking about how it all started on Harvest when a mysterious ship was reported, and when the UNSC was trying to communicate. And it took two years for the UNSC to realize what they were up against. “The United Earth Space Corps” he chuckled “it would take a miracle to save what’s left, I just hope the Elites will join”. He knew that he might not return but he pledged he would not let Earth fall.

Chapter 2

Meeting the Elites

“Sir, we’re 20 minutes from our destination. We’ll need you on the bridge soon” said Lieutenant Johns, Lieutenant Johns had been a good friend of the Admirals for the time he had served under him. After many battles, the two worked well together. His other three officers aren’t known to him, although with Johns on communications, Cutter on Navigation, Smith on weapons and Diaz on Ship Operations, he knew they would do well in the field, plus they had the AI which was known as a smart AI. The Victory was the second last cruiser in the fleet and it was a test vessel classed a ‘Hydra’. It had Shields more powerful than covenant ones and covenant anti-grav systems. Three metres of a new type of armor that can withstand enormous heat. It had 500 Archer Missile pods each upgraded to 50 missiles instead of the normal 36 to a pod. Plus 10 Shiva Nuclear missiles, 20 pelicans, 25 longsword single ships and as a new addition two super Magnectic Accelerator Cannons which can shoot a heavy round every 8 seconds each, with the strength to destroy a covenant vessel in one hit regardless of armor or shield. He thought of how proud he was two command such a powerful vessel.

Daggers stepped onto the bridge. “ETA till arrival” said Daggers, “2 minutes sir” replied Johns “well do you really think they’ll join, I mean, I hope they do but the odds are that this could be a trap”. Daggers thought for a moment than said “maybe so, but you have to remember that they were betrayed by their leaders so I think they will join, because they have the same goal and can’t achieve it alone…. Okay stay sharp were about to drop out of hyperspace”

As the space around them warped, they saw what remains of the planet Reach. In orbit around the planet was a covenant fleet of 100 ships. “Full speed to that fleet, general quarters battle stations” Daggers ordered. The fleet moved in and then Daggers ordered the fleet to stop and said in a message toward the covenant fleet “I am Admiral Daggers, commander of the fifth fleet, please reply with your name and business intended here”. He waited a moment. Than the face of an elite admiral appeared and replied “we have been fighting for years and now we have grown to resent what we have learned and ultimately, we must work together if we are to survive, please admiral, accept this invitation to come on board the Truth and Reconciliation”. “Johns tell them I’m on my way, Carla ready a pelican for transport and move the fleet closer to the covenant”. “Sir I’m picking up no weapons charge on the enemy, pelican ready” Carla replied. Then he ran down to the pelican bay and jumped in the readied pelican and took off for the covenant flagship. He had just realized there were 5 marines in their and he said “I want you to be my bodyguards while we’re there”. “Sir, yes sir” they said in unison. The marines were pale, they barely knew what was going on and had just been told not to shoot the enemy they had been fighting for years. But the lieutenant acknowledged the order and calmed his troops.

Finally they were in the bay of the flagship as the door dropped there was a single elite in yellow armor with a sword on his waist on his waist, he said “hello admiral, my name is Ona Shadaa, I am….. currently the leader of the elites. Please follow me this way”. As Ona walked down a long purple corridor, they past some grunts checking a see through computer panel and Daggers saw the rangers tensed extremely, he couldn’t blame them though. They have been enemies for the past decade or two, but he shot them a glance and they knew not to shoot the grunts. But Daggers knew that this ship was full of covenant.

Suddenly they walked through a large set of doors and into a chamber. There were lights in the shape of chairs and the walls had holographic pictures of elites. There were heaps of pictures, some had groups of elites, and others had just a single elite with a weapon in hand. But one caught the admiral’s eye, he saw one with what looked like Ona. Ona was holding small elite figure in his arms with an elite the size of a human wrapped in cloth standing next to him. As he walked towards the holograms, Ona moved closely beside him. “Ona, is this your family” Daggers asked. “I am unfamiliar with this term family” Ona replied “Well a family generally consists of one male, one female and any number of children. They are a group who share a name, for you it would be Shadaa” Daggers explained. As he finished he saw Ona’s face drop to the floor. “They were killed by the brutes while in orbit of high charity, that was when I ordered all elites to retreat to this planet and signal you for assistance” Ona said “Now I suppose that we should talk about this alliance, but we will not be made pawns or shields for your kind, keep this in mind as we….” Ona looked at the door just as a grunt came running in and said in high pitched voice “sir, we have picked 80 brute vessels coming in from slipspace”. “Admiral, I only have 50 warships, the rest are carrying the elites that I could find. They’re refugees, Please, we need your help,” Ona said with a hint of worry in his voice, then Daggers replied “Alright, now assemble your refugees half behind your fleet, half behind mine and prepare for battle, Lieutenant, let’s go” Daggers got up and started to run toward the docking bay. The marines and Daggers got to the pelican and ran in. As he was taking off, he open a com line with the Victory and said “Johns, order the fleet to move in front of the Elite vessels heading towards you because they’re refugees, put the fleet on battle alert Daggers out” and com line went dead. He put the Pelican on full burn and turned towards the Victory. He changed the view screen to a tactical display showing all the ships in the system. The brutes were coming in to destroy the Elite’s fleet so they can’t fight them on the human’s side. They didn’t even notice the fifth fleet heading towards the 25 refugee ships which were moving towards them. “That will be a very bad mistake on their part” he said to himself.

Daggers turned back to the window and saw a destroyer’s side armor he quickly swerved above the ship just before he smashed into it. He brought the pelican to rest in the pelican loading bay. As he got off the pelican, he noticed that pelicans 4 and 5 were missing, he used 5, but 4 was unaccounted for. He didn’t think much of it. As he ran past the MAC cannons manual terminal he saw three crew members ready for the attack. Finally he reached the bridge and sat at his chair watching the tactical display. A simple exchange of fire would be useless as the Brute’s have 20 more ships and Ona was ordering a small jump. Daggers thought of something and opened a com line with Ona’s ship and said “Ona, I want you to jump just out of weapons range behind them, then start firing everything you have but get the refugees further out”. Ona replied “Good idea admiral, but I’m concerned that you will be obliterated by the brutes when they……”. “Don’t worry Ona, we’ll be fine, now hurry” Daggers explained. Daggers watched as Ona’s fleet gained some speed and then warped into hyperspace and disappeared. Ona’s fleet almost instantly appeared behind the approaching fleet and started to charge plasma torpedoes. “Show camera on screen 1, behind the approaching fleet,”. The fleet appeared behind the Brute fleet and started to charge plasma torpedoes. Daggers shouted “Shields to full power, prepare MAC cannons and put a firing solution on two destroyers, focus fire on the biggest ships, release all single ships and launch two Shiva nuclear warheads at two of the carriers, Carla bring all point defences online, Johns, open fifth fleet com line”. “Open sir” Johns said hurriedly. “Fleet this is Admiral Daggers, form clusters of 3 ships and form up in a line, carrier Yorktown I want you to stay behind the Victory, every one, fire at will!” Daggers almost shouted that last order, but as he looked at the view screen he saw the whole fleet open up and large streaks of golden MAC rounds hurtled towards the enemy fleet. Just as the first salvo was about to reach the fleet, the Victory shuddered again as the cannons fired a second time. Then Smith said “sir, I’m seeing all hits on the enemies fleet, all ships that were targeted are either disabled or detonating now”. Daggers turned towards the screen and saw 7 ships floating lifeless in the vacuum and 4 of them starting to explode. Then the Victory’s second salvo landed and obliterated two more destroyers. Daggers suddenly noticed 50 torpedoes shot from Ona’s fleet and the Brute vessels tried to out run them but just got smashed from behind. Every shot made it through the shields and splashed over the ships. The ships’ infrastructure started to buckle and warp. Finally the ships started to turn into clumps of molten metal as plasma and atmosphere vented into the space.

The Brutes seemed confused and covenant ships veered in all directions. The remaining ships charged straight for Daggers fleet, but Daggers fleet broke ranks and charged straight in for the kill. Long swords sped towards the Seraphs, scores of archer missiles flew towards the approaching fleet. The brutes were thrown off by the ferocity of the attack and started a jump to hyperspace. They took another barrage of MAC rounds and plasma torpedoes. By the time they made the jump, only three, badly damaged, ships survived to make it back. Ona’s fleet bombarded the remaining vessels until they were vaporized. Daggers decided not to interfere, these brutes were responsible for the murder of countless elites, they got what was coming. “Diaz, damage report” Daggers asked. “Sir, minimal damage to shields but other than that, all green,” Diaz replied. “Johns send another message to Ona’s fleet, tell them to follow us through our slipstream or the defenders will think your are another assault and open fire, and send one home reporting of our mission” Daggers ordered. “Sir Ona has acknowledged the message and is moving to follow us through our slipstream” Johns said. “Increase speed and take us home lieutenant” Daggers ordered. As the victory moved into the slipspace, so did the fifth fleet and Ona’s fleet.

Chapter 3: New York City

As Sargeant Peter Norms scanned the building across the park from the hill, when a warthog skidded behind his squad as they rearmed there weapons. His four man squad was made up of him as a rifleman, a corporal engineer named Kelly, his long range specialist Private Macormack, and assault trooper who liked to be called Marty. “Private, keep an eye on that building, I saw some movement a moment ago” Norms said, “righto” Mac said as he placed his sniper rifle up on the stand and took aim. A colonel said “sargeant, we have a problem, that building is stopping our tankers from advancing over the bridge, without the tanks we can’t break through their defensive line. I need your squad to take out that building and hold for support, it shouldn’t take long as we’ll be waiting here. Alright I’ll see you when the buildings gone”. And with that the Colonel moved off in the warthog and Norms looked down at the park in front of the target. Suddenly he saw a bright explosion which was followed by a massive BOOM!. Norms looked at the intersection as a squad was thrown from the warthog. They struggled and disconnected the Gauss cannon on the back but one of them had been crushed by the warthog. Norms ordered his squad to start down the road and around a block of flats. As they came around the corner a massive blast of plasma pounded the ground in front of them. Norms only just made it out of the way. The marines with the cannon said “There’s a plasma cannon in the building which has the whole street zeroed in, be careful when crossing the road”. “Marty, I’m going to make a run for the marines, when the plasma opens up, give him a rocket” Norms ordered. Then he bolted towards the park as the plasma only just missed him. Marty lifted his launcher and aimed. He pressed the trigger and a rocket shot straight for the window. It smashed into the cannon and made it fall out of the window with the grunt still strapped in to it. It crashed into the ground and splattered the gunner on the pavement. As his squad walked up to the Statue, Norms asked what was going on. “Private Baretta, C company, we got hit as we patrolled the road in the warthog and our corporal got hit, we got the gauss cannon but we can’t move because of fire from the building, what are our orders?” the private said. “We’re going to try and take out that building, I want your squad to hold of the enemy until we return to this point here, squad we’ll take the sewers, Kelly in the hole” Norms ordered. As Kelly jumped in the sargeant turned on his flashlight and jumped in next. As his squad followed he looked down the tunnel as Kelly activated the lights. “These pipes are only new and lead straight under the building” Kelly said. Norms signaled his squad forward. About fifthteen metres down the pipe there was a ladder leading into the basement of the building. Norms moved up and quietly lifted the cover. As he jumped into the room, he saw thousands of covenant plasma weapons just stacked in racks, as Norms moved to a pile of pod like shapes he picked one up and pressed one of the two buttons on it and it formed a familiar plasma turret. Norms pressed the other and it turned back into the pod. He strapped it to his back as Kelly got out a weird looking box. “That’s the new rupture mine, one of those should shatter the supports of the building and crush every covenant soldier and weapon inside, alright lets get out of here” Norms said. They all slid silently into the hatch and closed the pipe entrance. Little did they know that a grunt had been sitting scared behind a crate and heard everything they had said and ran to tell the others. As Norms pushed through the manhole to get on the park, he almost got hit by a plasma pistol charge but quickly dived out of the way. “Private, what’s going on here” Norms demanded. “Well they must know you’re going to blow the building because they have done nothing but charge us for the last minute, look here they come again” Baretta said as the gauss cannon smashed the doorway and three grunts flew out, the marines quickly opened fire and destroyed the remaining covenant infantry. “Look, blow that god damned building to hell so we can get out of here”. “Fire in the hole!” Norms shouted as he pushed the trigger and the building shuddered then collapsed, as it half collapsed the mines final explosion triggered and the whole building went BOOOOOM!. As the building finally collapsed, they all ran forward and aimed there BR’s at the rubble. Norms saw a grunt in pain and almost felt sorry for the creature. But after remembering what had been done to the Human race he shot the grunt in the head. As he started to walk up to the top of the pile McCormack said “sir, we might have a bit of a problem”. As Norms looked over the Manhattan Bridge, he could see thousands of covenant grunts and Brutes charging across the bridge. “Men, prepare for assault fire at will” Norms ordered. He assembled the pod behind a half destroyed wall and started to fire. Marty used his 30 cal and hammered away at the enemy. The marines put the Gauss cannon up and started to fire at the ghosts and infantry. Scores of enemies fell to the barrage of fire, but were still moving through. Norms shot a flare on to the entrance of the bridge and as the smoke started to billow out, the marines stopped firing. “Any moment now” Norms whispered to himself when suddenly a large shadow moved in the sky and Norms ordered to fire everything. Explosions ripped up the front of the bridge as mortars fired high explosive shells at the horde. Two tanks rolled up and pounded the enemy charge. Then two banshees came down at a high altitude and shot at the tanks that were moving onto the bridge. One of the tanks saw them and shot his gun blowing the banshee to pieces, but the second banshee shot his plasma bomb and the tank started to melt and the crew baled just in time. Norms shot the banshee with his plasma gun and the banshee’s wing pod blow off and it spiraled into the water. More marines and vehicles moved up to prepare for the assault on the island, as Norms hopped off the plasma turret, another marine jumped on and two more marines set up 50cal. Machine guns. As his Colonel moved towards him he said “Sargeant, nice barbecue, now I’ll need you to prepare for another assault because we have special forces in that city, now two days ago they sent out the new Spartan squad to destroy the covenant frigate over the city so we could surround the enemy and force them out, they sent us a mission report two minutes ago, here it’s a video feed”.

COMMENCE MISSION RECORDING

SPARTAN REPORT ON OPERATION STARSHIELD

04/07/2556    1034hrs

“This is Spartan group 2 reporting, we have successfully planted the bomb but they took of before we could set if off, requesting immediate evac from the town centre. We are surrounded by enemy troops and are under extreme fire from enemy Wraiths, we need evac now!” said the Sargeant. “Sir, we need to retreat to the city hall and set up a defence, inside we might be able to hold them off” shouted another Spartan. “Fine, we’re going to sit in the buildings top floor, send immediate assistance or we will be overrun!” replied the Sargeant “Spartans out”. Norms new from the look on the colonel’s face meant that this was an important objective. “Sir we will be ready to go in ten minutes, we’ll take a scorpion and a warthog” Norms said. The colonel saluted Norms as he cocked his rifle. As Norms started to walk off the colonel said “Get them to the top of a tall building and mark flare, pelicans and skyhawks will pick you up”. Norms thought that most the Skyhawks had been destroyed, they must really want those Spartans back.

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