"The long Journey" (a Shadowrun crossover with everything)
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sonofccn
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Nice to see something actually manage to spar with James. Not sure how I like him getting Master Chief's armor through...that might make him too overpowered. All well have to wait and see.
Really did like the fight scene between James and...whatever that was leading the Jackals. My knowledge of Halo being limited in the extreme.
Really did like the fight scene between James and...whatever that was leading the Jackals. My knowledge of Halo being limited in the extreme.
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Overpowered?sonofccn wrote:Nice to see something actually manage to spar with James. Not sure how I like him getting Master Chief's armor through...that might make him too overpowered. All well have to wait and see.
Have you read my previous chapters? ;)
And honestly, he's not much more powerful than a standard Spartan in Halo, so the armor will basically just make in a bit more powerful, but not immensily so...
The aliens being led to slaughter were actually Ungoy, or as they are commonly known, "grunts".Really did like the fight scene between James and...whatever that was leading the Jackals. My knowledge of Halo being limited in the extreme.
What James fought was an Elite, although a low level one...
He will eventually face more powerful ones, trust me... :)
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sonofccn wrote:Nice to see something actually manage to spar with James. Not sure how I like him getting Master Chief's armor through...that might make him too overpowered. All well have to wait and see.
Really did like the fight scene between James and...whatever that was leading the Jackals. My knowledge of Halo being limited in the extreme.
don't worry James will have his genetic potency tested by the Covenants elites in a manner that even his mighty ancestor would consider worthy.
I mean really and if he fails there's always the chance of him running smack into Jackson or Rainbird or god forbid Im'pec
excellent update preao I come back from Disney and see this magnificent piece
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Elites have different level of competence, as the white and gold armored ones are more powerful than the blue ones...
And Halo has much worse than Elites... It has Hunters... :)
And Halo has much worse than Elites... It has Hunters... :)
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I'll be playing no easy way out from rocky four and eye of the tiger while reading any future chapters
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No need to, I've renewed with the musical cues for the next upcoming chapters...
Chapter 38
Cue “Black Sun” from the Dead Can Dance album Aion
“Hello, James!” A strong feminine voice said in James’s ears.
“I am Cortana, the armor’s integrated AI.
I’m here to help you save the survivors from the Pillar of Autumn.
That’s the ship that crashed here.” It explained.
“Hello Cortana!” James replied.
“How do you know my name?” He asked cautiously.
“I was monitoring your communications when you rescued the Master Chief.” She answered.
“That is how I learned of your involvement, and that you were truly here to help.
And it is why I offered my help and the armor.”
“Major, are you all right?” Hicks asked, concern in his voice.
James realized he hadn’t moved since donning the armor.
“Yes, I’m fine guys.” He said.
“I’m currently getting to know my armor.
It has an integrated AI named Cortana, who will help us for this mission.”
“Major,” She said, calling him by his title, “I believe it would be better if your team could hear me directly during the mission.
Would you mind if I transmitted my words to them all when I talk to you?”
“No, of course not.” James said, puzzled at the respect the AI was showing him.
“I want all my team members to speak freely unless ordered not to, and hearing your advice directly will ensure less waste of time for the mission, increasing efficiency.” He explained.
“Now, why don’t you reveal this armor’s little secrets to me and my team?”
“Of course, Major, right away.” Cortana said, sounding happy.
“This is a Mjolnir Mark V armor, made specifically with Spartans in mind.
As your ship informed you, Spartans are augmented humans, with greater speed, endurance, strength and resilience.
Although I’ve never seen a Spartan as augmented as you are.” She said with clear admiration.
How does she know about the extent of my augmentations, James wondered.
“The armor is dangerous for anyone not augmented, as it increases the existing speed and strength of the wearer with the help of servo-actuators.
These actuators are so sensitive that anyone not capable of fast movements would break an arm or a leg when moving with the armor.
In fact, the original designers did a couple of times, until they decided it was better letting the actual Spartans test it.
The result is that the already formidable Spartans become unbelievably dangerous in these armors, capable of rivalling even Covenant Elites in hand to hand.
Be careful though, it may take some time for you get used to it completely.”
“Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.” He said, figuring these Elites to be the big aliens he’d killed.
“Now let’s see what this baby can do.”
He turned around, and would have gone straight to the Elite’s body, except his body kept turning because of the added momentum the armor had given him, and he tripped himself, falling face first on the ground.
“Got a problem, Major?” Asked Hudson, laughing.
“Maybe you should lay off the booze for a while.” He added.
James didn’t reply, ashamed of his blunder in front of his men.
But he knew Hudson was right, though, as his sudden twist and fall must have been a sight to behold.
He slowly got up, taking his time to feel the armor’s response to all his movements, and realized how natural it all felt, so natural, in fact, that by the time he was up, he controlled the armor perfectly.
He showed this to Hudson by turning around, jumping over the surprised man’s head, from a standing start, and, after landing behind Hudson and turning around, by lifting the surprised man, armor and all, a combined weight of over two hundred pounds, with one hand.
He lifted Hudson over his head, arm fully extended, and felt no exertion, no strain at all.
“Sheeeeeiiiiiiiiittttt!” Hudson cried.
He held Hudson there for over a minute, then gently let the man down.
Hudson was no longer laughing.
“Holy cow, man, you’ve become the mother of all badasses, Major.” He said, impressed.
“What, you mean I wasn’t before?” Asked James, his tone deadly serious.
“Uh, yeah, sure, I mean…” Hudson sounded a bit nervous then.
“Hudson, he’s yanking your chain.” Hicks told him.
James was glad the MACOs could still find mirth in their situation, cut off from support, on an unknown terrain apparently filled with hostile creatures.
Of course, he thought, compared to the last mission, this one’s pretty easy for now.
“MACOs, move out!” He said, taking the lead.
Cue “Welcome to the Jungle” from Guns’ n Roses
The MACOs moved as one, going deeper in the mountains, towards the energy shooting construction the Musashi had detected.
Their Tricorders were reading off the charts power levels coming from the structure, and they also detected many lifeforms close to it, many human, but most not.
They increased their pace, moving from cover to cover in a standard two by two formation.
James was in front of the group and had increased his lead, but he made sure the rest could keep up with him.
They travelled down a small sinuous valley, and when they rounded a wall, what they saw froze them in mid-stride.
The structure which housed the energy emitter was big, easily thirty meters tall at its tallest point, where the energy pulse came out.
The structure appeared to be made of a rock-like substance, and looked like an immense sledge hammer’s head, the energy cannon being its handle.
It was about twenty five meters long, eight meters tall and looked at least fifteen meters wide.
On the side facing them, they saw an inclined ramp going up the side of the structure.
Huge pipelines exited the structure on both sides, and then ran into the ground.
The structure was the host of a battle, the MACOs saw.
Humans were fighting against aliens, and from what the MACOs could see, it was a losing battle.
They saw a human get back-handed by a blue armored Elite and fly six feet back into a rock, then fall on the ground with its head at a strange angle.
They saw two Marines hiding behind a tree, firing one after the other, killing the small aliens left and right, until one of them lobbed a blue scintillating grenade at them.
The Marines jumped out from behind the tree and tried to roll away, but the grenade hit one Marine in the back and seemed to stick there.
When it exploded, there was not much left of the victim.
His partner, no longer behind cover, didn’t last much longer.
The Marine killed another small alien before its partner fired its hand weapon point blank in the human’s back.
His chest exploded in a ball of vaporized mist, a hole close to twenty centimetres in diameter clearly visible.
All other humans were hiding on the flattened top of the structure, taking cover behind its parapet, firing on anything that looked alien, but it was clear they would be overrun soon, unless they had some help.
And so help they got.
James signalled the MACOs to split in two groups, groups A and B, so they would each approach the battlefield coming in along the two walls of the valley.
James’s group, group A, was composed of himself, Hicks and Hudson, and came in from the right, while group B, composed of Doc, Wilson and Heyes, and came in from the left.
As James and his group made their way towards the structure, he saw the Elite he’d seen ordering the troops around pop out from behind his cover and aim another of their blue scintillating grenades at the defenders on the structure.
Before he could release the grenade, though, James had lifted his Phaser and had fired three rapid pulses in the creature’s grenade wielding arm.
The shield flared and failed on the second shot, and its right forearm exploded in a violet mist.
It howled in pain and surprise and dropped the grenade on its right thigh, which stuck there.
It grabbed at its leg armor plate and pulled with all its strength, and at last succeeded in getting it off, but the grenade exploded as it was about to throw it away.
The broken, eviscerated and partially vaporized body fell down, throwing the smaller aliens into utter chaos.
Seeing James’s group approaching, they all left cover, firing blindly, and running away.
He noticed they did the same thing on the other side of the valley, where Doc’s group was coming in.
The MACOs kept advancing in formation, firing on any target that presented itself to them.
When they were close to the structure, the two groups closed in on each other, trapping the smaller aliens between them and a third front, as the refugees on top of the structure renewed their assault upon seeing the cavalry arrive.
The small aliens died quickly under the combined fire power of all three groups.
As the firing stopped, James signalled for the MACOs to do a perimeter sweep, so once again his team separated in two groups, and they went around the structure, searching for surviving aliens.
Finding none, noticing there was also a ramp on the other side of the huge energy emitter’s base, they went up to greet the survivors of the crashed vessel.
“Look, it’s a Spartan!” One of them said.
The man was wearing a greasy coverall, and was most likely one of the crashed ship’s mechanics.
At least half of the people on top were part of the maintenance crew of the crashed ship, according t their clothing, and they were all happy to see James and the MACOs.
But among the other half of the refugees, there were some who did not seem too happy about seeing them, or more precisely, him, he concluded after a nasty look was received from a Marine.
One man looked very happy to see him, though, and he showed it clearly.
He was black skinned, a bit over six feet tall, athletically build and looked I his prime, even though his face showed he was closer to fifty than forty years old.
His voice exuded authority, and he kept gnawing on an unlit cigar.
“Chief,” The man said, “I’m Sergeant Johnson of the UNSC Marines Corp.
It’s about time you showed up, ‘cause we were getting chewed up and spit out faster’n a rifle on full auto empty’s its clip out here.”
The man reminded James so much of Apone, Hicks and Hudson’s old team leader.
“Holy cow,” Hudons exclaimed on the MACOs’s frequency, “It’s Sarge’s nicer looking brother.”
Hicks snorted at that comment, and then started laughing.
“We are happy to help, Sergeant.” James told the man.
“Do you have any wounded we can help?” He asked.
“We sure do”! Sergeant Johnson said.
“Got me a couple of leathernecks in need of some hole patchin’ over there.” He finished, pointing at two Marines lying down near a parapet.
James signalled Doc to go take a look, and the man took off, unpacking his Med-Kit from his armor’s back compartment.
“What’s the situation?” James asked the Sergeant.
“Are re-enforcements on the way?”
“They’re on their way, but we sure as hell ain’t got all the time inna world to wait for them.” Said the man.
“They better get here fast, or we’re likely to become Covie chomp.”
He then turned around and ordered his men to perform perimeter sweeps, and to stay alert for incoming enemies.
As his first lookout called out, James and the MACOs received Cortana’s message at the same time their Tricorders beeped an enemy contact.
Cue “Le Duel Sauvage” from Le Pacte des Loups soundtrack.
“Covenant dropship inbound.” The AI stated.
“I read two of them, Major.”
As James looked towards the detected ships, he saw bright violet pulses streaking down on their position.
“Spread out!” He called while tackling the Sergeant out of the way of the deadly rain.
He landed in a sideway roll, and got up right next to a nook in the energy emitter, one big enough to hide him from enemy fire.
The pulses hit the structure and exploded violently, but the shields of his new armor absorbed the brunt of the overpressure, and James barely felt it.
More surprising was the fact that the structure had suffered no visible damage from the onslaught of energy that kept impacting it, not even burn marks.
Their Tricorders showed them the ships were separating as Cortana informed them:
“They are separating.
One is going to the back of the structure, and the other is going to the front of the structure.”
James located both ships, and then signalled to the MACOs to spread out.
He separated the team in two groups as before, except that this time, group B was four man strong, Hudson being an addition to the group, and group A consisted only of James and Hicks.
As James started off to the back of the structure, Sergeant Johnson followed him with a few of his men.
Some of the non-combatant personnel of the Pillar of Autumn wanted to join in, but James told them to hide and only fight if the enemy came up the structure.
He wanted to increase their chances at survival, and not being trained in warfare and combat in general, James knew they would only be a menace to themselves and others on a battlefield.
As his group arrived to the parapet and hid behind it, training their weapons on the landing field of the enemy, James jumped right over to land on the ground eight meters down.
He landed in a crouch, his increased strength having absorbed the fall better than he could before, and as soon as he came out of his crouch he ran to a tree and hid behind it.
He heard the vessels’s repulsors before he could actually see it, and when it positioned itself over its chosen spot, the humans on the structure opened fire on it with everything they had.
A quick peek by James told him the human weapons weren’t doing much damage to the ship, and when it returned fire as it was descending to its deployment spot, the defenders had no choice but to dive behind the structures’s parapets and remain there under cover.
As the ship continued firing, its side doors opened up, and many aliens jumped out of it, weapons at the ready, intent on destroying their enemy.
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Group B had gone down the back ramp, and were going towards the descending enemy ship, which was apparently aiming at an open area at the back of the structure to use as a drop zone.
As with the front ship, this one also started firing as soon as it saw the Marines and MACOs advancing towards it.
The men all scattered from the approaching pulses, and hid behind boulders and trees while the firing ship let its troops out.
The MACOs, led by Doc, were picking targets and firing left and right, even through the barrage of energy pulses coming from the drop ship.
The aliens seemed surprised by the resistance they were encountering, and the MACOs surmised that they were most likely expecting to face their versions of Marines, feebly equipped survivors with little weaponry, and certainly not four Starfleet MACOs with full combat armor and pulse Phaser rifles.
They had already killed three smaller aliens when another one, of a type they hadn’t seen before, the same height as the other small aliens, thinner, with a head like that of a turkey, sporting a feathery Mohawk, came out from behind a tree.
They took aim, but before they could fire, it disappeared behind a shimmering orange field, which blocked all the shots fired at it, eventually failing after four Phaser pulses hit it, which allowed Hudson’s bullets to hit it, chewing up the alien’s body before it fell to the ground, dead.
But the creature had succeeded in its mission, for all the attention had been diverted on it, and when the MACOs and Marines looked around, they noticed they were surrounded by enemies.
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Cue “X-Squad” from the Mortal Combat Annihilation soundtrack
Some aliens were still in the air, in the process of landing, when James came out of his cover running and opened fire.
He was going to his left, heading straight for a huge boulder, firing one handed in the aliens landing on the ground, almost half of his shots finding targets.
As he reached to protection of the boulder, four of the dozen of debarking aliens were dead, all had scattered, and since the ship had started shooting at James, the defenders on the structure came out from behind the parapet to fire at the surviving aliens.
James was able to notice that some smaller unknown aliens had some sort of portable shields that were blocking all the bullets that actually impacted with them.
He realized at once that these aliens could be dangerous to his team if not taken out quickly.
As the drop ship was getting back in the air and about to leave, its cannons fire anew at the structure’s defendants, James reconfigured his Phaser again, boosting the power of his shots, and fired a full spread of pulses straight at the ship’s cockpit.
His rifle’s power pack depleted its last energy reserves as his fourth pulse left, but these were sufficient to destroy the cockpit in a fiery detonation.
The ship stopped its upward motion, seemingly floating for a second before coming back down to crash on the field, killing two more of the small aliens.
James was replacing the spent power pack, snapping it into place when he was tackled violently by the blue armored leader of the alien troops.
The impact was so powerful that both combatants’ shields fizzled and were brought down completely, and both lost their weapons that went flying through the air far away from them.
James used the momentum imparted to him by the big alien’s attack to roll to the side, locking the alien’s arms and putting his right leg on its left tigh, and propelled it through the air.
It landed to James’s left, ten feet away, and after a quick tuck and release he was up in a fighting stance.
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Energy pulses and bullets were flying everywhere, and cover was becoming hard to find.
Two Marines were down already, while the aliens had lost another two shield bearers.
Enemies were running around like crazed animals, jumping, rolling on the ground, firing madly any way they could.
Doc had found another lifepod and was using it as cover as he laid down suppressive fire, trying to help his men and the Marines on their side to regroup and get back under cover, but two of the shield wielding aliens had come together and were advancing in unison, providing cover to a small, grenade throwing comrade.
Doc saw the little alien cock his arms back and release the grenade it held.
He tried shooting the arm, and then the grenade, but failed at both, his targets too small even for the aiming aid of the armor.
The grenade sailed through the air for only a short moment, before impacting the back of a retreating Private Heyes’s armor, sticking there and beginning to pulsate.
As his eyes widened in horror, as he was about to cry for his friend to get his armor off, Doc could only witness the massive explosion, caused by the grenade’s power and the detonating of Heye’s remaining power packs, which tore Heyes apart and threw him to the ground.
He fell, the overpressure from the blast knocking him around, his armor protecting him, but Doc knew he had suffered a concussion.
As he laid there, his vision blurry, he saw a blue armored giant aiming at him, his face an approximation of a smile.
Before it could fire, however, both their attention was taken by an explosion coming from the rear of the structure, followed quickly by a loud crashing sound, of metal screeching at it was deformed in a massive impact.
The creature looked very surprised, than apparently angry, and turned to finish Doc off, but fire from Private Wilson and Hudson drove it away.
It started running towards the structure’s northern pipes, intent on circumventing them in order to see what had happened.
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Cue “Hell is Thy Home” from Gamma Ray, album “Majestic”
They studied each other only for a second, then both warriors came wading in, ready for battle.
The creature took two small steps forward and launched a quick snap-kick straight at James’s left knee, but before it connected, he’d already lifted his left leg and positioned it over the incoming kick, effectively blocking it with a small kick of his own.
The alien retreated its foot but launched a quick left jab at his face, quickly deflected to his right by James’s left hand.
After the alien’s probing attacks, James decided it was his turn.
Just like the alien had, he launched a quick snap-kick to the aliens left knee joint using his left foot, but unlike James, the alien wasn’t able to block it or fully evade the kick.
It tried to take a step back, but before it was out of reach, his foot had connected, although not as solidly has he would have liked.
Still, he had followed the retreating creature after his kick, and his left jab connected before any defences could be attempted.
This time, however, the blow was attenuated by the fully restored shield from the alien’s armor.
Having taken the alien’s full measure, James opened up on it.
A left jab rocked the alien’s head back, and when its hands got up to protect its face, James sidestepped to his right and launched a powerful right hook that went around the creature’s defences and snapped its head sideways.
The blow also had taken down its shield, for James saw violet blood coming out of the creature’s mouth.
He followed the punch with a spinning right kick the alien never saw coming.
The impact propelled it closer to the structure, folding it in two.
It landed to the ground on all four, almost two meters away.
James closed in on it and threw a right kick straight at its face, a kick with enough force, he knew, to snap its neck and kill it instantly.
But the kick never made it, for another creature, also dressed in blue armor had come in fast and with precision and power had kicked at the side of James’s right leg with sufficient force to drop his shield and numb his leg.
The impact made James spin around to his left, so he used the momentum to sidestep and turn around to once again face his enemies.
He almost fell while pivoting because of the numbness in his leg, but then his Pain Compensators kicked in and his leg felt good again.
Which James thought was good, since the second alien was on him instantly, attacking relentlessly.
It threw a right hook which James blocked with his left forearm, it came back with a left cross that he deflected to his left using his right hand.
It tried sweeping his left leg with its right one, and when James countered the sweep by lifting his leg over the alien’s sweeping one, it replied by continuing its pivot, transforming the sweep into a full-power right spinning kick.
James blocked it with his left shin, again receiving a numbing impact, but this time he didn’t need his Compensators as he was ready for the blow.
After blocking the alien’s kick, he simply extended his leg rapidly for a front kick, which the creature blocked with a mighty downward block.
Which was what James had wanted, for as soon as the block was started, James retracted his left leg and jumped up, snapping a full power straight right kick at the alien’s head.
Committed as it was on the first block, it never got the chance to even attempt anything against the second kick.
Its head snapped back, its shield went down, and its lower left jaw made a resounding “crack”.
It howled in pain, and would have run straight at James, but its partner put a hand on its arm to stop it.
It was up, and ready to go at it again.
James didn’t really want to tangle with two such creatures at the same time, but looking towards the structure, he realized the trees and boulders were offering great cover to the creatures, and the continuing firefight he heard from the back of the structure told him no help would come from there either.
He knew he wouldn’t be able to draw his pistol in time, and he realized that he had left his combat knife in its sheath on his Starfleet armor.
Frag it!, he thought, hand to hand it is then.
They separated so he could not easily defend himself, even trying to flank him.
They came at him together, as if they had battled as one all their lives.
While one attacked low, the other attacked high, keeping James off balance, hoping to prevent him from countering, or mounting attacks of his own.
The warriors were moving so fast that if anyone had been able to see them, they would have looked like huge blurs moving around.
They were pushing him back, he realized, and when his back touched a boulder, he knew why.
They had effectively cut off any escape route he could have had.
They kept attacking, he kept blocking, his speed the only thing that allowed him to keep up with the two fronts of attack, but he knew, just as they suspected, that he could not keep it up forever.
While he was the stronger and faster of the three, he wasn’t sure he had the most stamina, and he knew he was expanding a lot of energy fighting both creatures at the same time.
He knew he had to find a way out, and so he calmed himself, and analyzed the pattern of his opponents’ attacks.
They were good, but unimaginative, he realized, and so he knew he could use that against them.
The one on his left threw a right punch at his head, while the one on his right attacked with a left spinning kick.
He sidestepped to his right, lifting his left leg to block the kick while his right hand delivered a hammer punch to the kicker’s face, while his left hand came up and over, blocking and then grabbing the puncher’s hand.
He stepped on his left leg, pivoted and launched a massive kick at the puncher’s groin while pulling his opponent with his left arm.
The creature bent at the waist, its legs becoming wobbly, James still pivoting and pulling.
When his move was over, the kicker had recovered and was advancing on him, but the sudden appearance of its companion froze it in place.
James kicked his victim at the other alien’s legs, but the creature sidestepped to its right, its left being blocked by the boulder.
He’d counted on that, and when the creature was no longer impeded by its friend, James attacked.
A quick right spin kick to its knee opened up its guard, which allowed James to slip a right jab at its head, followed by a left uppercut which tore of the already damaged lower left jaw.
Its right hand closed instinctively on James helmet while its left hand grabbed his right arm.
James’s left arm came up in front, continued over the creature’s shoulder, and came back out under its arm, forcing the release of his head, and bending the creature’s arm in the opposite direction which nature intended.
He heard ligaments tear, and the creature cry out I pain, its left hand reflexively releasing his right arm, which he used to punch the creature in the throat with bone crunching force.
As the creature fell down, the other one got up, still wobbly from the groin blow it had received, and rammed James in the stomach, trying to bring him down to the ground.
He hooked both his arms under the creature’s, around its stomach, and heaved.
He lifted it over his right shoulder, and before it could react, he ran straight at the boulder in front.
The creature’s head exploded under the impact, spraying him with brain matter and violet blood.
He dropped the lifeless alien to the ground and turned to join the MACOs he thought were still fighting on the other side of the structure.
That was when he realized there were no longer any shots fired.
He looked up, and saw the remaining Marines, his MACOs and the surviving personnel from the pillar of Autumn, all looking at him in awe.
“So,” He said, trying to lighten the mood, “Did I miss anything?”
Chapter 38
Cue “Black Sun” from the Dead Can Dance album Aion
“Hello, James!” A strong feminine voice said in James’s ears.
“I am Cortana, the armor’s integrated AI.
I’m here to help you save the survivors from the Pillar of Autumn.
That’s the ship that crashed here.” It explained.
“Hello Cortana!” James replied.
“How do you know my name?” He asked cautiously.
“I was monitoring your communications when you rescued the Master Chief.” She answered.
“That is how I learned of your involvement, and that you were truly here to help.
And it is why I offered my help and the armor.”
“Major, are you all right?” Hicks asked, concern in his voice.
James realized he hadn’t moved since donning the armor.
“Yes, I’m fine guys.” He said.
“I’m currently getting to know my armor.
It has an integrated AI named Cortana, who will help us for this mission.”
“Major,” She said, calling him by his title, “I believe it would be better if your team could hear me directly during the mission.
Would you mind if I transmitted my words to them all when I talk to you?”
“No, of course not.” James said, puzzled at the respect the AI was showing him.
“I want all my team members to speak freely unless ordered not to, and hearing your advice directly will ensure less waste of time for the mission, increasing efficiency.” He explained.
“Now, why don’t you reveal this armor’s little secrets to me and my team?”
“Of course, Major, right away.” Cortana said, sounding happy.
“This is a Mjolnir Mark V armor, made specifically with Spartans in mind.
As your ship informed you, Spartans are augmented humans, with greater speed, endurance, strength and resilience.
Although I’ve never seen a Spartan as augmented as you are.” She said with clear admiration.
How does she know about the extent of my augmentations, James wondered.
“The armor is dangerous for anyone not augmented, as it increases the existing speed and strength of the wearer with the help of servo-actuators.
These actuators are so sensitive that anyone not capable of fast movements would break an arm or a leg when moving with the armor.
In fact, the original designers did a couple of times, until they decided it was better letting the actual Spartans test it.
The result is that the already formidable Spartans become unbelievably dangerous in these armors, capable of rivalling even Covenant Elites in hand to hand.
Be careful though, it may take some time for you get used to it completely.”
“Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.” He said, figuring these Elites to be the big aliens he’d killed.
“Now let’s see what this baby can do.”
He turned around, and would have gone straight to the Elite’s body, except his body kept turning because of the added momentum the armor had given him, and he tripped himself, falling face first on the ground.
“Got a problem, Major?” Asked Hudson, laughing.
“Maybe you should lay off the booze for a while.” He added.
James didn’t reply, ashamed of his blunder in front of his men.
But he knew Hudson was right, though, as his sudden twist and fall must have been a sight to behold.
He slowly got up, taking his time to feel the armor’s response to all his movements, and realized how natural it all felt, so natural, in fact, that by the time he was up, he controlled the armor perfectly.
He showed this to Hudson by turning around, jumping over the surprised man’s head, from a standing start, and, after landing behind Hudson and turning around, by lifting the surprised man, armor and all, a combined weight of over two hundred pounds, with one hand.
He lifted Hudson over his head, arm fully extended, and felt no exertion, no strain at all.
“Sheeeeeiiiiiiiiittttt!” Hudson cried.
He held Hudson there for over a minute, then gently let the man down.
Hudson was no longer laughing.
“Holy cow, man, you’ve become the mother of all badasses, Major.” He said, impressed.
“What, you mean I wasn’t before?” Asked James, his tone deadly serious.
“Uh, yeah, sure, I mean…” Hudson sounded a bit nervous then.
“Hudson, he’s yanking your chain.” Hicks told him.
James was glad the MACOs could still find mirth in their situation, cut off from support, on an unknown terrain apparently filled with hostile creatures.
Of course, he thought, compared to the last mission, this one’s pretty easy for now.
“MACOs, move out!” He said, taking the lead.
Cue “Welcome to the Jungle” from Guns’ n Roses
The MACOs moved as one, going deeper in the mountains, towards the energy shooting construction the Musashi had detected.
Their Tricorders were reading off the charts power levels coming from the structure, and they also detected many lifeforms close to it, many human, but most not.
They increased their pace, moving from cover to cover in a standard two by two formation.
James was in front of the group and had increased his lead, but he made sure the rest could keep up with him.
They travelled down a small sinuous valley, and when they rounded a wall, what they saw froze them in mid-stride.
The structure which housed the energy emitter was big, easily thirty meters tall at its tallest point, where the energy pulse came out.
The structure appeared to be made of a rock-like substance, and looked like an immense sledge hammer’s head, the energy cannon being its handle.
It was about twenty five meters long, eight meters tall and looked at least fifteen meters wide.
On the side facing them, they saw an inclined ramp going up the side of the structure.
Huge pipelines exited the structure on both sides, and then ran into the ground.
The structure was the host of a battle, the MACOs saw.
Humans were fighting against aliens, and from what the MACOs could see, it was a losing battle.
They saw a human get back-handed by a blue armored Elite and fly six feet back into a rock, then fall on the ground with its head at a strange angle.
They saw two Marines hiding behind a tree, firing one after the other, killing the small aliens left and right, until one of them lobbed a blue scintillating grenade at them.
The Marines jumped out from behind the tree and tried to roll away, but the grenade hit one Marine in the back and seemed to stick there.
When it exploded, there was not much left of the victim.
His partner, no longer behind cover, didn’t last much longer.
The Marine killed another small alien before its partner fired its hand weapon point blank in the human’s back.
His chest exploded in a ball of vaporized mist, a hole close to twenty centimetres in diameter clearly visible.
All other humans were hiding on the flattened top of the structure, taking cover behind its parapet, firing on anything that looked alien, but it was clear they would be overrun soon, unless they had some help.
And so help they got.
James signalled the MACOs to split in two groups, groups A and B, so they would each approach the battlefield coming in along the two walls of the valley.
James’s group, group A, was composed of himself, Hicks and Hudson, and came in from the right, while group B, composed of Doc, Wilson and Heyes, and came in from the left.
As James and his group made their way towards the structure, he saw the Elite he’d seen ordering the troops around pop out from behind his cover and aim another of their blue scintillating grenades at the defenders on the structure.
Before he could release the grenade, though, James had lifted his Phaser and had fired three rapid pulses in the creature’s grenade wielding arm.
The shield flared and failed on the second shot, and its right forearm exploded in a violet mist.
It howled in pain and surprise and dropped the grenade on its right thigh, which stuck there.
It grabbed at its leg armor plate and pulled with all its strength, and at last succeeded in getting it off, but the grenade exploded as it was about to throw it away.
The broken, eviscerated and partially vaporized body fell down, throwing the smaller aliens into utter chaos.
Seeing James’s group approaching, they all left cover, firing blindly, and running away.
He noticed they did the same thing on the other side of the valley, where Doc’s group was coming in.
The MACOs kept advancing in formation, firing on any target that presented itself to them.
When they were close to the structure, the two groups closed in on each other, trapping the smaller aliens between them and a third front, as the refugees on top of the structure renewed their assault upon seeing the cavalry arrive.
The small aliens died quickly under the combined fire power of all three groups.
As the firing stopped, James signalled for the MACOs to do a perimeter sweep, so once again his team separated in two groups, and they went around the structure, searching for surviving aliens.
Finding none, noticing there was also a ramp on the other side of the huge energy emitter’s base, they went up to greet the survivors of the crashed vessel.
“Look, it’s a Spartan!” One of them said.
The man was wearing a greasy coverall, and was most likely one of the crashed ship’s mechanics.
At least half of the people on top were part of the maintenance crew of the crashed ship, according t their clothing, and they were all happy to see James and the MACOs.
But among the other half of the refugees, there were some who did not seem too happy about seeing them, or more precisely, him, he concluded after a nasty look was received from a Marine.
One man looked very happy to see him, though, and he showed it clearly.
He was black skinned, a bit over six feet tall, athletically build and looked I his prime, even though his face showed he was closer to fifty than forty years old.
His voice exuded authority, and he kept gnawing on an unlit cigar.
“Chief,” The man said, “I’m Sergeant Johnson of the UNSC Marines Corp.
It’s about time you showed up, ‘cause we were getting chewed up and spit out faster’n a rifle on full auto empty’s its clip out here.”
The man reminded James so much of Apone, Hicks and Hudson’s old team leader.
“Holy cow,” Hudons exclaimed on the MACOs’s frequency, “It’s Sarge’s nicer looking brother.”
Hicks snorted at that comment, and then started laughing.
“We are happy to help, Sergeant.” James told the man.
“Do you have any wounded we can help?” He asked.
“We sure do”! Sergeant Johnson said.
“Got me a couple of leathernecks in need of some hole patchin’ over there.” He finished, pointing at two Marines lying down near a parapet.
James signalled Doc to go take a look, and the man took off, unpacking his Med-Kit from his armor’s back compartment.
“What’s the situation?” James asked the Sergeant.
“Are re-enforcements on the way?”
“They’re on their way, but we sure as hell ain’t got all the time inna world to wait for them.” Said the man.
“They better get here fast, or we’re likely to become Covie chomp.”
He then turned around and ordered his men to perform perimeter sweeps, and to stay alert for incoming enemies.
As his first lookout called out, James and the MACOs received Cortana’s message at the same time their Tricorders beeped an enemy contact.
Cue “Le Duel Sauvage” from Le Pacte des Loups soundtrack.
“Covenant dropship inbound.” The AI stated.
“I read two of them, Major.”
As James looked towards the detected ships, he saw bright violet pulses streaking down on their position.
“Spread out!” He called while tackling the Sergeant out of the way of the deadly rain.
He landed in a sideway roll, and got up right next to a nook in the energy emitter, one big enough to hide him from enemy fire.
The pulses hit the structure and exploded violently, but the shields of his new armor absorbed the brunt of the overpressure, and James barely felt it.
More surprising was the fact that the structure had suffered no visible damage from the onslaught of energy that kept impacting it, not even burn marks.
Their Tricorders showed them the ships were separating as Cortana informed them:
“They are separating.
One is going to the back of the structure, and the other is going to the front of the structure.”
James located both ships, and then signalled to the MACOs to spread out.
He separated the team in two groups as before, except that this time, group B was four man strong, Hudson being an addition to the group, and group A consisted only of James and Hicks.
As James started off to the back of the structure, Sergeant Johnson followed him with a few of his men.
Some of the non-combatant personnel of the Pillar of Autumn wanted to join in, but James told them to hide and only fight if the enemy came up the structure.
He wanted to increase their chances at survival, and not being trained in warfare and combat in general, James knew they would only be a menace to themselves and others on a battlefield.
As his group arrived to the parapet and hid behind it, training their weapons on the landing field of the enemy, James jumped right over to land on the ground eight meters down.
He landed in a crouch, his increased strength having absorbed the fall better than he could before, and as soon as he came out of his crouch he ran to a tree and hid behind it.
He heard the vessels’s repulsors before he could actually see it, and when it positioned itself over its chosen spot, the humans on the structure opened fire on it with everything they had.
A quick peek by James told him the human weapons weren’t doing much damage to the ship, and when it returned fire as it was descending to its deployment spot, the defenders had no choice but to dive behind the structures’s parapets and remain there under cover.
As the ship continued firing, its side doors opened up, and many aliens jumped out of it, weapons at the ready, intent on destroying their enemy.
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Group B had gone down the back ramp, and were going towards the descending enemy ship, which was apparently aiming at an open area at the back of the structure to use as a drop zone.
As with the front ship, this one also started firing as soon as it saw the Marines and MACOs advancing towards it.
The men all scattered from the approaching pulses, and hid behind boulders and trees while the firing ship let its troops out.
The MACOs, led by Doc, were picking targets and firing left and right, even through the barrage of energy pulses coming from the drop ship.
The aliens seemed surprised by the resistance they were encountering, and the MACOs surmised that they were most likely expecting to face their versions of Marines, feebly equipped survivors with little weaponry, and certainly not four Starfleet MACOs with full combat armor and pulse Phaser rifles.
They had already killed three smaller aliens when another one, of a type they hadn’t seen before, the same height as the other small aliens, thinner, with a head like that of a turkey, sporting a feathery Mohawk, came out from behind a tree.
They took aim, but before they could fire, it disappeared behind a shimmering orange field, which blocked all the shots fired at it, eventually failing after four Phaser pulses hit it, which allowed Hudson’s bullets to hit it, chewing up the alien’s body before it fell to the ground, dead.
But the creature had succeeded in its mission, for all the attention had been diverted on it, and when the MACOs and Marines looked around, they noticed they were surrounded by enemies.
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Cue “X-Squad” from the Mortal Combat Annihilation soundtrack
Some aliens were still in the air, in the process of landing, when James came out of his cover running and opened fire.
He was going to his left, heading straight for a huge boulder, firing one handed in the aliens landing on the ground, almost half of his shots finding targets.
As he reached to protection of the boulder, four of the dozen of debarking aliens were dead, all had scattered, and since the ship had started shooting at James, the defenders on the structure came out from behind the parapet to fire at the surviving aliens.
James was able to notice that some smaller unknown aliens had some sort of portable shields that were blocking all the bullets that actually impacted with them.
He realized at once that these aliens could be dangerous to his team if not taken out quickly.
As the drop ship was getting back in the air and about to leave, its cannons fire anew at the structure’s defendants, James reconfigured his Phaser again, boosting the power of his shots, and fired a full spread of pulses straight at the ship’s cockpit.
His rifle’s power pack depleted its last energy reserves as his fourth pulse left, but these were sufficient to destroy the cockpit in a fiery detonation.
The ship stopped its upward motion, seemingly floating for a second before coming back down to crash on the field, killing two more of the small aliens.
James was replacing the spent power pack, snapping it into place when he was tackled violently by the blue armored leader of the alien troops.
The impact was so powerful that both combatants’ shields fizzled and were brought down completely, and both lost their weapons that went flying through the air far away from them.
James used the momentum imparted to him by the big alien’s attack to roll to the side, locking the alien’s arms and putting his right leg on its left tigh, and propelled it through the air.
It landed to James’s left, ten feet away, and after a quick tuck and release he was up in a fighting stance.
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Energy pulses and bullets were flying everywhere, and cover was becoming hard to find.
Two Marines were down already, while the aliens had lost another two shield bearers.
Enemies were running around like crazed animals, jumping, rolling on the ground, firing madly any way they could.
Doc had found another lifepod and was using it as cover as he laid down suppressive fire, trying to help his men and the Marines on their side to regroup and get back under cover, but two of the shield wielding aliens had come together and were advancing in unison, providing cover to a small, grenade throwing comrade.
Doc saw the little alien cock his arms back and release the grenade it held.
He tried shooting the arm, and then the grenade, but failed at both, his targets too small even for the aiming aid of the armor.
The grenade sailed through the air for only a short moment, before impacting the back of a retreating Private Heyes’s armor, sticking there and beginning to pulsate.
As his eyes widened in horror, as he was about to cry for his friend to get his armor off, Doc could only witness the massive explosion, caused by the grenade’s power and the detonating of Heye’s remaining power packs, which tore Heyes apart and threw him to the ground.
He fell, the overpressure from the blast knocking him around, his armor protecting him, but Doc knew he had suffered a concussion.
As he laid there, his vision blurry, he saw a blue armored giant aiming at him, his face an approximation of a smile.
Before it could fire, however, both their attention was taken by an explosion coming from the rear of the structure, followed quickly by a loud crashing sound, of metal screeching at it was deformed in a massive impact.
The creature looked very surprised, than apparently angry, and turned to finish Doc off, but fire from Private Wilson and Hudson drove it away.
It started running towards the structure’s northern pipes, intent on circumventing them in order to see what had happened.
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Cue “Hell is Thy Home” from Gamma Ray, album “Majestic”
They studied each other only for a second, then both warriors came wading in, ready for battle.
The creature took two small steps forward and launched a quick snap-kick straight at James’s left knee, but before it connected, he’d already lifted his left leg and positioned it over the incoming kick, effectively blocking it with a small kick of his own.
The alien retreated its foot but launched a quick left jab at his face, quickly deflected to his right by James’s left hand.
After the alien’s probing attacks, James decided it was his turn.
Just like the alien had, he launched a quick snap-kick to the aliens left knee joint using his left foot, but unlike James, the alien wasn’t able to block it or fully evade the kick.
It tried to take a step back, but before it was out of reach, his foot had connected, although not as solidly has he would have liked.
Still, he had followed the retreating creature after his kick, and his left jab connected before any defences could be attempted.
This time, however, the blow was attenuated by the fully restored shield from the alien’s armor.
Having taken the alien’s full measure, James opened up on it.
A left jab rocked the alien’s head back, and when its hands got up to protect its face, James sidestepped to his right and launched a powerful right hook that went around the creature’s defences and snapped its head sideways.
The blow also had taken down its shield, for James saw violet blood coming out of the creature’s mouth.
He followed the punch with a spinning right kick the alien never saw coming.
The impact propelled it closer to the structure, folding it in two.
It landed to the ground on all four, almost two meters away.
James closed in on it and threw a right kick straight at its face, a kick with enough force, he knew, to snap its neck and kill it instantly.
But the kick never made it, for another creature, also dressed in blue armor had come in fast and with precision and power had kicked at the side of James’s right leg with sufficient force to drop his shield and numb his leg.
The impact made James spin around to his left, so he used the momentum to sidestep and turn around to once again face his enemies.
He almost fell while pivoting because of the numbness in his leg, but then his Pain Compensators kicked in and his leg felt good again.
Which James thought was good, since the second alien was on him instantly, attacking relentlessly.
It threw a right hook which James blocked with his left forearm, it came back with a left cross that he deflected to his left using his right hand.
It tried sweeping his left leg with its right one, and when James countered the sweep by lifting his leg over the alien’s sweeping one, it replied by continuing its pivot, transforming the sweep into a full-power right spinning kick.
James blocked it with his left shin, again receiving a numbing impact, but this time he didn’t need his Compensators as he was ready for the blow.
After blocking the alien’s kick, he simply extended his leg rapidly for a front kick, which the creature blocked with a mighty downward block.
Which was what James had wanted, for as soon as the block was started, James retracted his left leg and jumped up, snapping a full power straight right kick at the alien’s head.
Committed as it was on the first block, it never got the chance to even attempt anything against the second kick.
Its head snapped back, its shield went down, and its lower left jaw made a resounding “crack”.
It howled in pain, and would have run straight at James, but its partner put a hand on its arm to stop it.
It was up, and ready to go at it again.
James didn’t really want to tangle with two such creatures at the same time, but looking towards the structure, he realized the trees and boulders were offering great cover to the creatures, and the continuing firefight he heard from the back of the structure told him no help would come from there either.
He knew he wouldn’t be able to draw his pistol in time, and he realized that he had left his combat knife in its sheath on his Starfleet armor.
Frag it!, he thought, hand to hand it is then.
They separated so he could not easily defend himself, even trying to flank him.
They came at him together, as if they had battled as one all their lives.
While one attacked low, the other attacked high, keeping James off balance, hoping to prevent him from countering, or mounting attacks of his own.
The warriors were moving so fast that if anyone had been able to see them, they would have looked like huge blurs moving around.
They were pushing him back, he realized, and when his back touched a boulder, he knew why.
They had effectively cut off any escape route he could have had.
They kept attacking, he kept blocking, his speed the only thing that allowed him to keep up with the two fronts of attack, but he knew, just as they suspected, that he could not keep it up forever.
While he was the stronger and faster of the three, he wasn’t sure he had the most stamina, and he knew he was expanding a lot of energy fighting both creatures at the same time.
He knew he had to find a way out, and so he calmed himself, and analyzed the pattern of his opponents’ attacks.
They were good, but unimaginative, he realized, and so he knew he could use that against them.
The one on his left threw a right punch at his head, while the one on his right attacked with a left spinning kick.
He sidestepped to his right, lifting his left leg to block the kick while his right hand delivered a hammer punch to the kicker’s face, while his left hand came up and over, blocking and then grabbing the puncher’s hand.
He stepped on his left leg, pivoted and launched a massive kick at the puncher’s groin while pulling his opponent with his left arm.
The creature bent at the waist, its legs becoming wobbly, James still pivoting and pulling.
When his move was over, the kicker had recovered and was advancing on him, but the sudden appearance of its companion froze it in place.
James kicked his victim at the other alien’s legs, but the creature sidestepped to its right, its left being blocked by the boulder.
He’d counted on that, and when the creature was no longer impeded by its friend, James attacked.
A quick right spin kick to its knee opened up its guard, which allowed James to slip a right jab at its head, followed by a left uppercut which tore of the already damaged lower left jaw.
Its right hand closed instinctively on James helmet while its left hand grabbed his right arm.
James’s left arm came up in front, continued over the creature’s shoulder, and came back out under its arm, forcing the release of his head, and bending the creature’s arm in the opposite direction which nature intended.
He heard ligaments tear, and the creature cry out I pain, its left hand reflexively releasing his right arm, which he used to punch the creature in the throat with bone crunching force.
As the creature fell down, the other one got up, still wobbly from the groin blow it had received, and rammed James in the stomach, trying to bring him down to the ground.
He hooked both his arms under the creature’s, around its stomach, and heaved.
He lifted it over his right shoulder, and before it could react, he ran straight at the boulder in front.
The creature’s head exploded under the impact, spraying him with brain matter and violet blood.
He dropped the lifeless alien to the ground and turned to join the MACOs he thought were still fighting on the other side of the structure.
That was when he realized there were no longer any shots fired.
He looked up, and saw the remaining Marines, his MACOs and the surviving personnel from the pillar of Autumn, all looking at him in awe.
“So,” He said, trying to lighten the mood, “Did I miss anything?”
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Re: "The long Journey" (a Shadowrun crossover with everythi
That was...magnificent good sir. For combat you are the king, hail to thy. Frack that was good but one tiny question. I thought his suit's AI was supposed to warn him about things like an Elite doing a flying kick out of god darn nowhere. :)
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Re: "The long Journey" (a Shadowrun crossover with everythi
Nope, Cortana only warns about the big danger, and leaves the smaller issues to the Chief... Or in this case, the Major...sonofccn wrote:That was...magnificent good sir. For combat you are the king, hail to thy. Frack that was good but one tiny question. I thought his suit's AI was supposed to warn him about things like an Elite doing a flying kick out of god darn nowhere. :)
Glad you liked it... :)
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Re: "The long Journey" (a Shadowrun crossover with everythi
that was awesome the chaos and battle the elites are good and damn intimidating and the sound track is freaking sweet.
So James is just a magnet for pretty AI women?
So James is just a magnet for pretty AI women?
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Gald you liked it...Admiral Breetai wrote:that was awesome the chaos and battle the elites are good and damn intimidating and the sound track is freaking sweet.
And Danger, don't forget Danger...So James is just a magnet for pretty AI women?
It's his middle name after all: James "Danger" Reynolds... :)
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man someone should write a bond song with that in mindPraeothmin wrote:
And Danger, don't forget Danger...
It's his middle name after all: James "Danger" Reynolds... :)
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Be careful what you wish for:Admiral Breetai wrote:man someone should write a bond song with that in mindPraeothmin wrote:
And Danger, don't forget Danger...
It's his middle name after all: James "Danger" Reynolds... :)
"James Danger Reynolds"
Lyrics by a crazed recess of Praeothmin's mind
Cue "Goldeneye"
See James Reynolds hide in darkness,
His enemies will soon be dead,
The Shadowmaster is in action,
Bringing pain to those who oppose him,
Danger is his middle name,
'cause he faces without shame,
Forces very dark and savages,
But he will beat back the forces of all Evil,
He'll never quiiit, and he'll pummel
madness into submission,
He'll never fail, 'cause he pushes
until he triuuuumphs,
He will prevail, for light needs
to conquer darkneeeesss,
But now, the time, the time has come,
and he'll crush all those in his paaaaath
See him move like a tiger stalking,
Shadowing his future prey,
Allies wish to gather around him,
Enemies wish to stay far
Danger is his middle name,
For nature made him a predator,
Danger is what makes him thrive,
When his blood rushes, he feels so aliiiive
He'll never quiiit, and he'll pummel
madness into submission,
He'll never fail, 'cause he pushes
until he triuuuumphs,
He will prevail, for light needs
to conquer darkneeeesss,
But now, the time, the time has come,
and he'll crush all those in his paaaaath
There, if its bad, it's your fault for inspiring me to write it... :)
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that was..so over the top so hammy...IT WAS AWESOME!!!
my god Preo Whiskey came out of my nose..man that hurt but it was worth it
my god Preo Whiskey came out of my nose..man that hurt but it was worth it
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Hey, you asked for it...
New chapters will start coming on again next week...
New chapters will start coming on again next week...
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Cute. Thanks for the smile.Praeothmin wrote:Be careful what you wish for:
"James Danger Reynolds"
Lyrics by a crazed recess of Praeothmin's mind
Yeah!!!Praeothmin wrote:New chapters will start coming on again next week...