[Episode 79423] [Episode 79423]Ranmas mind raced. That had been a banshee, firing at something on the street, maybe a few buildings. How did they come from? Not important at the moment. He had to fight them. Without taking further notice of Nabiki he ran into the room he was sleeping in and grabbed his helmet.
After he had put it on, he jumped out of the window.
“So we’re back in action, huh?”, a voice asked inside his head.
Ranma said nothing and just nodded at Kytoma, the AI of his suit. She was something like a sister of Master Chiefs Cortana. The spies of the ONI had thought that it would be better to have two SPATAN’s with an AI to make the job, before Reach was assaulted and Ranma disappeared from the ‘Pillar of Autumn’.
He had only one problem now. He had no weapon. But that was just a minor problem, at least for now. After appearing here, his obsession with martial arts had come through and he had learned to use his ki in the last year. He could even form a ki-attack. The only problem was that he couldn’t fire more than four attacks when he had activated the shield of his suit.
The banshee made a second pass and Ranma concentrated. The blue glow of his attack formed in one hand a streaked at the banshee. Ranma had to breathe a bit harder as the attack was on its way and hit the banshee on its right wing. The wing was completely separated from the main body of the Covenant ship and it hit the ground some seconds later in an explosion.
“Chief, I think I know where that banshee came from.”
“And?” Ranma asked.
“Jubaan. I have searched the police radio channel. It seems like the Covenant come throught some kind of portal. Those Sailor Senshi are fighting the Covenant too, but they seem to loose.”
Ranma just nodded and started to run towards Jubaan. He knew that he needed at least half an hour to get there with his full speed of 55 miles per hour.
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Meanwhile in Jubaan, Police Sergeant Jason Yamasaki hid behind a low concrete wall. He was a member of the Jubaan Police Department’s SWAT-Team. Or more exactly, he was the last surviving member.
He had never thought that he would get into this position again. He had been born in the US and went to the Marine Corps. 1991 he was in the Gulf-war and he had been the only survivor of his unit. When he came back from the Gulf, he left the Corps and went to Japan, to see his grandparents. Later he left the US completely to live in Tyoko, where he got into the police a bit later. As Ex-US Marine, he had been transferred to the newly founded Jubaan SWAT-Team, after the first Youma-attack.
He glaced over the low wall and towards the two SWAT-APC’s, which were now nothing more than burning pieces of steel. Those alien weapons had burned through the armor of the vehicles and he had been the only one to get out of the first APC. He slid back down the wall and checked his MP-5 the n-th time in the last half an hour.
This was too much like the situation in the Gulf. But this time there wouldn’t be an Apache coming to the rescue.
He stood up and jogged towards a large building, never leaving the cover of the wall. He needed to get away from here.
Plasma bolts and bullets flew over his head. He looked down the street. There was a Humvee speeding up the street the mini-gun in the back of the car blazing. He didn’t have to see any markings on the vehicle to know that it was of the Corps. He just knew it. A larger bolt hit the front of the car and it turned over. Only one Marine was able to get away from the burning car, his M16 blazing into the direction of the aliens.
Two squeals was all to let Yamasaki know that he had hit two of those little aliens. The soldier came to a rest beside Yamasaki, who could see the name and the rank of the Marine. Private First Class Abrams, a maybe seven feet tall Afro-American.
Abrams was breathing hard as he looked at Sergeant Yamasaki. He only saw the blue uniform, the gun and the SWAT-uniform.
“You…ah…okay?” Abrams tried in Japanese.
Yamasaki looked at him.
“Don’t bother, Private,” He answered in English,” I grew up in LA. How did you get here?”
Abrams swallowed hard.
“When my Sagre heard about that ‘invasion’, he grabbed me and two others and tried to get here as fast as possible. I think he disobeyed some orders with that.”
Yamasaki nodded. He looked over at the burning Humvee.
“What the fuck?” he heard Abrams say. He looked into the direction Abrams was looking in.
He blinked as he saw some guy in a black-green armor run at high speed towards the Humvee. The guy in armor stopped at the burning vehicle and turned it around as if it was made of cardboard. Yamasaki’s jaw hit the ground as he saw the guy rip the mini-gun from its mounting and than walk over to them. He also could see the rank markings of a Chief Petty Officer on the armor.
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