Post by Chambers, T. on Jul 4, 2018 6:36:15 GMT -5
1426 Hours, November 14th 2540 (MILITARY CALENDAR) /
UNSC Jackboot , Orbit Above Merisa Prime, Outer Colonies
The klaxons had brought them all to attention, however they'd all really been waiting for it, the small flotilla that the Jackboot had been assigned to had appeared out of slipspace and fallen into group with the remainder of the UNSC warships.
For some reason the Covenant hadn't yet decided to glass the Merisa, however it was surely only a matter of time and with the arrival of the flotilla they were evenly matched. Even with an even number of ships they were so far out gunned it was unlikely they were going to win and even if they did it was going to be very, very costly.
Tom found himself as the warning klaxons sounded again signalling the battle was about to begin. Since they'd woken him up from the Freezers he'd felt... odd something just wasn't right. Was he going to die today, probably was the best answer but there wasn't a use for it so he directed the two men he had with him to move forward toward the MAC maintenance tubes, if anything was going to happen they needed to be there right away. There was some grumbling in Russian behind him.
Tom ignored the grumblings, it was best to trying to enforce that kind of discipline hadn't worked to well before both of his charges were unhappy draftees he was the volunteer, he'd agreed to this life and they hadn't he got it but still they were here now and needed to do the job or for sure if that MAC failed they were probably going to be dead if they couldn't pin point the issue right away.
"Got everything?" he asked them, waiting a moment Vlasov, a mountain of a man grunted in acknowledgement. He was a Crewman, a full crewman and he was being made responsible for the electrical systems of probably the most important weapon they had, it wasn't easy but he'd done it before. There was a somewhat brighter yes from his second 'apprentice' Crewman Recruit Haru. "All the bits & pieces boss." Tom gently shook his head. "I'm hardly your boss... alright let's go." he thumbed the control panel next to the access hatch and it hissed before whining open.
there was a single blare of the Klaxon, the Jackboot's captain had used it to quickly signal the opening of hostilities, Chambers closed his eyes and slowly counted to five as they stood in the maintenance tunnel, hopefully they weren't going to be instantly vaporized.
Finishing the count he opened his eyes and continues with the team up until they reached the maintenance station as a junction of four corridors. Well they weren't dead yet, "Okay, get set up we wont have long..." He hadn't even finished saying it before the titanium can they called home suddenly vibrated and groaned, the artificial gravity felt off for just a second but it quickly followed up by the the whir and hum of the MAC firing, they'd gotten away with a graze or something so far, hopefully that would be the worst of it.