John's pupils shrank to the size of a pin as the elite's shields overloaded. The creature was coming at him like a freight train, his clip was wasted, and he was backed against a cliff. Without a thought Chief sprang forward, ducking the elites first haymaker, and then countering with a left hook of his own. The alien howled as its lower mandibles hung loosely from its face. It's pain was short lived as the Spartan swept its legs out from under it and caved the rest of its face in with the butt of his rifle.
Chief surveyed the rocky landscape around him, piles of stinking alien carcasses were strewn across the valley, he had finally secured the dimensional doorway the covenant saw as their "Gateway to Salvation".
Boba Fett looked down at the holodec on Slave 1's right console, which flashed the words "5 Billion Imperial Credits Deposited". These dimensional rifts started appearing across the galaxy and the empire had been closely researching the galaxy on the other side. They discovered a network of ring shaped weapons that had the ability to erase life across an entire galaxy. It made their death star look like a simple gamorrean club by weapons comparisons. One of their imperial drones had obtained blueprints to one of the rings but had been shot down close to the portal that opened near dantooine. Vader had hired him to retrieve the drone and neutralize any and all witnesses. His ships shields screeched and went down as soon as he passed through the swirling white orb and into the next galaxy.
"Chief!"
screeched cortana,
"an unknown craft just appeared on the horizon, the construction is like none we've ever encountered, no idea if its a friendly yet,"
Suddenly, the boulders were in front of him erupted into a hailstorm of sparks and gravel.
"Damn portal messed up my targeting computer, looks like this is gonna go down the hard way", said Boba to himself as he landed on the ridge about a mile from the poor sap he was about to blow a hole through.
Chief's head rang as he climbed out from a pile of rubble. His diagnostics blinked on and off and he could barely make out cortana yammering in his ear. Finally he made out what she was saying.
"Hostile is inbound Chief!"
Chief's shields went down instantly as the red bolt of hard light slammed into his left shoulder. He quickly dove around a boulder the marines had used as cover. A huge smile spread across his face as he saw a full stash of goodies. A rocket launcher, a few DMR's, Assault rifles, a pistol and any covenant smoke wagon you could think of.
With his shields recharged Cortana only said one thing
"Kick his A$$ Chief!",
Chief lept over the boulder surprising his attacker with the brash move. The plasma pistol bucked as it spewed a charged ball of green goo.
The searing lime colored ball swept boba's legs out from under him as he jumped to dodge it, his legs semi cooked but still functional. He landed hard on his stomach as the armoured soldier approached fast. He was being peppered with projectiles, these antiquated weapons made his ears ring as they skipped off his mandolorian helmet but they were largely ineffective.
John sprinted towards the body that lay face down still concentrating his fire. His rounds were pinging off the target there's no way that plasma blast put this guy down. He got within a mere feet of bounty hunter when a searing heat encompassed him.
Boba's flamethrower made the spartan's shield flash as he boosted backwards with his jet pack. His trigger finger flew as fired blaster bolts towards the huge soldier few of them the target. This chump was as quick as he was big! Boba flew higher as bright pink spears of light were fired, when suddenly he realized the damn things were following him! The made hollow "Shunk" sound and they lodged into the outer layers of his armour and then quickly exploded. He heard a larger explosion as a needle rocked one of his steering nozzles sending him careening to the right. Quickly he unlatched the pack which exploded against a pile of boulders while he landed deftly on his feet. Again he was being showered with bullets which were definitely bruising without his outer armour. Boba rolled to his left behind an bolder and sprinted up a small crevice between two monolithic rock walls. Scrambling up the side of one he found a ledge about 20 feet off the floor. He would wait for his quarry to come to him.
Chief proceeded slowly as he entered the canyon. His radar had long been fried by this new threat and to make matters worse Cortana went dark as well. The attacker's tactics were like nothing he had seen even the spartans he had worked with weren't so skillfully reckless. Half way into the crevice something hit him hard around the neck. A cable tightened like a noose he was being pulled up the side of the canyon. Darkness started to creep into the corners of his vision, he was blacking out. Firing his shotgun above him franticly he heard the rumble of falling stone and the frustrated cry of his attacker. The rope went limp and they both fell to the floor.
Boba rolled forwards as he hit the ground unsheathing a 20 inch vibroblade and slashing down at his opponent sparks flew has he hacked off a few pieces of forearm armour but then the son of whomprat kicked the blade from his hand. he felt a sickening crack as something in his arm broke. Again, Boba turned and ran up the canyon throwing a thermal detonator behind him for good measure. Chief lept backwards as the grenade rolled towards him. The blast flung him backwards 50 yards, slamming him into a boulder. Pressurized gel was oozing from his suit and he felt the old familiar Iron taste of blood in his mouth.
Fett jabbed the bacta needle into his arm and felt it start to numb the feverish pain. It had been a long time since a quarry had challenged him like this he mused. He leaned against at tree at the top a bluff at the end of the canyon. The detonator had collapsed the walls of the crevice, "not even Solo is lucky enough to survive that" he thought and he walked to the edge of the cliff. Over the wind he began to hear a faint whistle, looking down he saw the rocket he tried to dodge it but the explosion crumbled the cliff. As he got up he felt a searing pain explode in his shoulder his arm was bare and the soldier had taken advantage.
John kept firing the covenant carbine and quickly as he could. He had gotten lucky with that shoulder shot now the bounty hunter was raining back blasts keeping him from getting a clear aim. At his feat he saw a covenant sword and he decided it was time to finish this. He activated the sword and ran at Fett in a zig zag pattern. Blaster bolts slammed into him ripping off armour and making his skin blister under it as he closed the space. Once in range he lunged with his sword slicing off his attackers cape and other shoulder guard.
"If he wants Jedi I'll give him Jedi", Boba thought reaching for the light saber he had recovered from Vader's welp on Bespin. The two blades met with catasrophic force plasma splattered them both as the blades connected. Fett began to pursue the retreating spartan who's sword had begun to flicker.
In a last ditch effort Chief hefted a body of a nearby grunt and hurdled it at Fett. The lightsaber easily sliced the body in half but ignited the methane pack that creature used to breathe. The explosion sent Boba reeling on his heels giving John the chance to stick a plasma grenade to his helmet. In a panic Fett flung his helmet away, dodging the plasma blast, revealing his scared face. The beastly spartan was now almost on top of him. Pressing a button on his control pad a pair of turbosteel gauntlets wrapped his hands. His first straight caught the Chief off guard shattering the glass visor covering his face.
Chief felt the bones below his eye shatter, "Those freakin gloves hit like a gravity hammer" he thought.
Bobas counter was swift a small viroblade hiding in his boot extened and the kicked John in the side. The blade found its mark between plates of armour and gel and collapse the ultimates soldier's lung.
Trying to focus, John stumbled back, Fett lunged forward with his fist high looking to smash Chiefs skull like a cannonball to a watermelon. Without thinking John's training kicked in, he rolled forward taking out Boba's legs, Then quickly rolled sideways dodging Fett's sideways hammerfist.
Stepping on Boba's outstretched arm and grabbing the other he wrenched the arm out of socket. The bounty hunter wailed frothing at the mouth and kicking with his blade at John's back. The last thing Fett saw was the spartans boot before it obliterated his skull.
Chief then crumpled beside him gasping for air, he felt himself slip unconscious just as the med team in a Pelican dropship arrived.
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