User:WadeYancey/Hull-breach (Short-Story)

== Hull-Breach ==

In the Briefing room of the UNSC Pride, above Skopje, 2547

"Almost all UNSC forces have been pushed off of the surface, a Covenant Task-force decimated half the fleet, and your telling me...there's still a way to come out of this with a win?" Fleet Admiral Dariv said, his stone cold stare unbreakable. "Then please, inform me, what is it you plan on doing Captain Foster?"

"Sir if I may?" Captain Foster asked, motioning to the data-pad on the table that controlled the room's viewscreen "It is well known that after the first few hours of this battle, the odds where bad, hell the odds were already bad at the start." Images of broken ships and wrecked MAC platforms hanging on the threshold of Skopje's orbit fill the viewscreen. "Odds...odds are what control the tide of battle." Foster said, motioning to the Force report on the screen. "A Covenant Task-force, versus what...four tiny Battlegroups hastily composed into what we call a defense fleet?"

"I don't see how this is explaining anything Foster..." Dariv said, his tone harsh. "Get to it."

"Right sir." Foster said, then switches the onscreen images to a picture a UNSC Prowler. "The UNSC Eclipse's End...after the first Shiva to detonate in it's AO, we thought the Eclipse was lost, or at least it's stealth systems were toasted by the Radiation. But, we received a encoded transmission from that sector three hours ago, from the Shipboard A.I. Luka." The everyone in the room shifts. "The Eclipse had a mission, none of you know about. I'm not even sure our Fleet Admiral here even knew. I'm not sure if even I should know." Foster says, face completely honest. " It's mission was..."