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HALO: FIRST STRIKE
The Chief grabbed a battle rifle and, for close use, a pair of
submachine guns. He took a pair of silencers for the SMGs and
hip holsters for the smaller weapons. He picked up a dozen frag
grenades in their plastic ring carrier and slotted that into the left
thigh section of his armor.
He'd need ammunition, a lot of it, if things got hot. So he took
extra clips for the SMGs and the battle rifle and taped them onto
his chest, arms, and right thigh. More clips went into a back-
pack, along with two Lotus antitank mines, a few cans of C-7 ex-
plosive, detonators, timers, two field first-aid kits, and a fiber-optic
probe.
While the rest of Blue Team got their gear together, John told
them, "Stay off the COM from now on."
They all nodded.
Lead lining or not, they were close to too many listening
Covenant ears to take any more chances with the COM.
He moved to the still-open port hatch, slid the fiber-optic
probe outside, and plugged it into his helmet. Grainy images ap-
peared on his heads-up display.
Hundreds of Covenant ships swarmed into view. In their
midst a speck glowed and grew larger until the Master Chief saw it
was a ship of similar design to their own: two U-shaped hulls,
each the size of their dropship, sat on top of one another. This
ship accelerated toward them and separated—one part moved to
their dropship's stern and the other drifted to the nose.
The clanging of metal on metal reverberated through the
hull, and the Master Chief felt a gentle motion in the pit of his
stomach.
He looked back and passed on a thumbs-up to Fred, indicating
that their tow had arrived, and Fred passed this signal on to the
rest of the team.
On the fiber-optic feed the Master Chief saw that the Covenant
tug maneuvered them through the fleet, up, over, and around
ships a hundred times their size. There was a moment when they
dived and there was nothing on screen save the stars and black of
space. The Master Chief got a glimpse of the gold-colored star
on his heads-up display, and then the video feed moved over to a
planet of ocher smeared with clouds of sulfur dioxide and an or-
biting moon of silver.