Halo - Halo 03 by First Strike # Eric Nylund

Author:First Strike # Eric Nylund
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-01-09T09:25:37+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

TIME:OATE ERROR \ Estimated 0530 hours, September 23, 2552

(Military Calendar)\Aboard captured Covenant dropship, Epsilon Eridani system, en route to surface of Reach.

The Master Chief stood on the deck of the Covenant dropship.

He stood because the crash seats had been designed for Elites and Jackals and none of the contours fit his human backbone. It didn’t matter—he preferred to stand.

They drifted through the upper atmosphere of Reach, descending like a spider on a thousand-kilometer thread of silk.

They passed close to a hundred other ships moving in orbital arcs—Seraph fighters, other dropships, scavenger craft with grappling tentacles that dragged sections of salvaged metal.

Dominating the skies were a pair of three-hundred-meter-long cruisers.

The cruisers accelerated toward them.

The Chief moved up to the cockpit where Polaski and Haverson sat in the seats they had removed from the Pelican and welded in place.

“They’re pinging us,” Polaski whispered.

“Nice and easy, Warrant Officer,” Lieutenant Haverson whispered. “Just use the programmed response Cortana gave us.”

“Aye aye, Lieutenant,” Polaski replied and concentrated on the Covenant scripts that scrolled across the display on her left.

“Sending now.” She tapped a holographic icon.

Sergeant Johnson and Corporal Locklear stood two meters behind the Chief, both of them nervous. Johnson chewed his stub of cigar and scowled at the incoming Covenant warships.

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