Sunday, November 29, 2009

Single Occupant Exoatmosphereic Insertion Vehicles
October 20th, 2552 [Military calender]
Upper Stratosphere- 15 km from target LZ.

Buck's ODST squad were supposedly on a mission to board the High Prophet Regret's Covenant Carrier from a low orbit, along with 5 other squads of ODSTs dropped from the U.N.S.C Destroyer Say My Name. They would soon find out, howeveer, that the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) had appointed the intelligance officer aboard Say My Name, Cpt Veronica Dare to reassign Buck's squad on a mission that could turn the tide of the war.

The thirty plus SOEIVs burned through Earth's Atmosphere, each contained an ODST ready to assault Regret's carrier and kill the wrinkled alien who dared to bring the war to their homeworld. The Titanium-A ceramic plating on the base of the pods glowed amber from the violent friction with Earth's Atmosphere. One Pod, Pvt O'brien did not make it through the upper atmosphere, his Ceramic plating failed and he was cooked alive inside, not long after, his pod disintergrated. This was the risk every ODST faced during their Op's, all of them were tenacious and brave or just crazy, which earned them the title of Helljumpers throughout the U.N.S.C.. The significance of the pods were that they minimized losses during re-entry. Some cases whole Dropships wold be shot down, losing an entire squad. Through the ODSTs they would only risk losing 1 or 2. The pods also presented a much smaller target, only 5 metres long, 3 metres wide and 2metres thick.

Dare: " Latest intel reports the covenant are amassing beneath the carrier."

Buck: "They're pulling back? Why?"

Dare: " We're not gonna' find out way up here."
[ The pods blasted pasted a carcass of a burning U.N.S.C. Frigate]

Romeo: "I take it back, Navy got its butt kicked."

Buck: " Hey Romeo, remember when I told u to shut your mouth?"

Romeo: "Yeah?"

Buck: "Consider that a standing order."

Romeo: : "............"

Buck: "Captain, 15 klicks off the deck."
[The Carrier was visible....it was 3 kilometres long and reminded Buck of a large shark or whale.]

Dare: "Prepare to adjust trajectory...on my mark."

Mickey: "What-?"

Dutch: " What she just say?

Dare: " Mark!"
[ The pods from buck's squad blasted away from the formation curving violently.....away from the carrier.]

Buck: " We're way off course!"

Dare: " We're heading exactly where I need to go."

Mickey: "But we're gonna miss the carrier."
[Ripples of energy traveled across the surface of the Carrier.]

Dutch: " Radiation!"

Mickey: "The covenant just set off a nuke?"
[Just then a huge glowing lance of energy ripped a hole in space and time... and Began engulfing the massive carrier.]

Dare: "No, the carriers going to Jump! Its a SlipSpace Rupture you need to--"

Just as Dare was finishing her sentence, Regret's Carrier shot into the rupture and disappeared. However, Slipspace anomalies would take part in the presence of gravity, and A split second after the Regret's carrier vanished A massive flash of light and energy consumed the the city of New Mombasa, followed by a massive EMP and Shockwave.

Dutch: " EMP! We're losing power."

Buck: " Stabalize! Then pop your chutes! We're going in hard!"

The Shockwave instantly blew the formation apart, deflecting every member of the squad on a different path. The FNG tried comunicateing but the comms were down due to the ElectroMagneticPulse, another pod affected by the shockwave crashed into he's with crushing speed and sent his pod girating out of control. The FNG tried to hold on to the handle bars of the the inside of his pod, but slowly his vision began tunneling and he blocked out from the G-forces from the spinning....
~me~ at 11:32 PM