Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

The extremely compressed plasma and meteorite fragments were torn apart and entered the hull of the battleship, destroying it when it hit the metal. The plasma branched and connected into a mesh throughout the ship, blasting the ship with holes. Explosions large and small swept through the alien spacecraft's hull.

The edges of the broken hull glowed red, and then reached a white-hot level, and their ultra-high temperature air was continuously discharged. The plasma beam tore through the engineering bays, blowing their reactors to smithereens - and then the entire battleship burst into flames like a flower in full bloom, along with streaks of Venus and a fading glow of static electricity.

The five plasma beams launched by the Covenant cruiser aimed at the Gettysburg dispersed into patches of red mist - they lost their magnetism and could no longer maintain their shape and be guided to fly to the intended target.

Everyone on the bridge watched as the explosion faded from the screens ahead. Case asked, How's it going?

Lieutenant Hall opened the screen of the engineering console and reported: The engine and reactor have failed due to the impact of magnetic pulses.

When Lieutenant Hiyoshi Kazuko looked up, static surged onto the weapons console, and she said, The acceleration coil of the magnetic accelerator cannon is intact. All three reconnaissance aircraft were destroyed, sir.

Although Kotanna's holographic image was disappearing, her cheerful voice came out through the bridge's speakers: Turret Three was destroyed. However, if one of our other six turrets can operate normally, we can It has the firepower to intimidate the enemy.”

We may not have that chance. Lieutenant Dominic responded as he leaned over the navigation console. There is a large influx of signal points. They are small spacecrafts, more than ten of them. They are being transmitted to the screen in front. The Lilican troop carrier, a spaceship with an exoskeleton made of welded steel plates, a group of Longsword fighter jets, and the weird-looking Bat-class stealth spacecraft all appeared on the screen.

It's Gillis' fleet, Ensign Lovell said. He wants to defeat us when we can't move.

The other party sent us a signal, Cortana said. It's being received.

Captain Keyes? Gillis's rich and resonant voice filled the entire bridge, Is there anything I can do for you? Maybe I can help you tow the battleship back to the base so that it can be repaired quickly?

Thank you very much. After Keith finished speaking, he slowly sat back in the captain's chair.

Two Leyden-class cargo ships flew to the side of the Gettysburg, and after connecting with each other, their engines rumbled.

I don't understand, Lieutenant Lovell whispered, He can obviously beat us.

No, he won't, Case replied. After a while, he frowned and added: Governor Gillis may be reluctant to do this, but he needs us now. The Covenant will not send just one battleship over. After the enemy ship disappeared for a while, There will be more coming, far greater numbers. This is just the beginning of the fight, and we don't have the strength to fight it.

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John sits in the Gettysburg's machinery hangar with eight of his surviving teammates. The room was large enough to park a Long Sword interceptor, and its bulkheads, ceilings, and decks were equipped with robotic arms, with welders, multi-purpose tools, and hydraulic presses hung on the ends of the arms. High-intensity spotlights on three robotic arms shine on the bulkhead, producing bright, cool but not dazzling light. After the Master Chief's retinas had been tortured by the sight of too many plasma explosions, he found that the lighting here was really pleasing to the eye.

They were here because General Whitcomb ordered all Spartans to repair their equipment and get at least six hours of sleep. The mechanical depot was a solid room, reinforced with steel plates, making it impossible for them to be breached if they were attacked again.

Linda sat in the corner with the armor removed from her helmet, the back of her torso, and her shoulders.

Fred and Will hung her armor neatly on two robotic arms, replacing the damaged steel plates and parts with spare parts found at the Reach MI Castle base.

Bright red scars formed a cross on Linda's pale body - the only external traces of her two transplants. Ignoring Dr. Halsey's advice that bed rest was absolutely necessary, she hobbled down to join her companions.

At this moment, she was sitting cross-legged. In front of her was a disassembled SRS99-C sniper rifle and a carefully selected gyro corrector, optical lens and adaptive material barrel cover. Linda continued to reassemble the high-precision weapon with the concentration on her face like a loving mother caressing her newborn child.

Without looking up, she said, Now I know what you have to do to get a day or two of rest in this army.

I heard, Fred added, that you sleep all day, too.

That's why she likes sniping. Will replied, I caught her snoring in that castle on Europa last time.

It sounds like you don't sleep. Anton joked, In the military camp, your snoring could wake up Sergeant Mendez who was sleeping in another area.

That's right, what I was most afraid of was Will's tent. You couldn't sleep well without him, Daisy said.

It's not that exaggerated. Will muttered dissatisfied.

John was glad that they could laugh and talk about her resurrection, but he couldn't join in their jokes. He assumed the important position of command, and Sergeant Mendez once warned him to learn to suppress emotions to maintain his authority. At this time, he hated doing it extremely.

Kelly rolled over and woke up. She nudged Grace with her elbow, and they shook their helmets and sat up together. 0400, Kelly told them, sleep for six hours.

It felt like a fifteen-minute nap, Grace muttered. I just closed my eyes. You're kidding, right?

Kelly looked Linda up and down, then stretched out two fingers and made a smile gesture on the helmet. Linda gave her a pale, weak smile back.

John felt that this smile was strange. He wanted to laugh too, but not much had happened in a long time - except Linda's recovery - to give him a reason to laugh: the gang crawling in and out of the Gettysburg, General Whitcomb's overconfidence The rebels can't, nor can the Covenant who are about to return. At this time, their engines and weapons have not been repaired. Of course, the hundreds of sacrificed crew members on the Gettysburg can't. The bodies were gathered and placed in cargo bay seven.