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[Novel] Memoirs of an ODST (COMPLETE)
[i][quote]"I volunteered for it . Volunteered to drop in a titanium box, volunteered for the most risky job in the UNSC. I volunteered to become an ODST marine, or a "Helljumper", as they were known throughout the corps. It wasn't out of patriotic pride, or anything like that. It was for revenge."[/quote][/i]
This is the first book in the [i]Memoirs[/i] trilogy, and is primarily set during the conflict of Harvest.
[b]COMPLETED -- If you have the time, please read.[/b]
[url=http://www.4shared.com/file/144191105/bcc3d6b3/Memoirs_complete.html]Memoirs of an ODST - PDF[/url]
Partake upon an epic adventure through the eyes of one who's seen it all.
Memoirs of an ODST Book I, first in an epic trilogy by Wolverfrog.
Please don't be put off by the first few parts, I was young and inexperienced, but after a few it really warms up. So, enjoy the story, you should be able to find at least a part on each page of this topic, And of course, there's a lovely little chapter list below. Whatever you choose to do, please leave valuable feedback, as I take everyone's thoughts into consideration. Enjoy! ~[i]Wolverfrog[/i]
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[b]Chapter List[/b]
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[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918]Part One - Contact + Chapter list[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27692603]Part Two - Enrolement[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27704116]Part Three - Suit up[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27740734]Part Four - A Plan[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927859]Part Five - Breaking In[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=28180827]Part Six - Sabotage[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=5#28268272]Part Seven - Tick Tock[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=5#28574258]Part Eight - Refuge[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=6#29578772]Part Nine - Let's get started[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=6#29603898]Part Ten - Time to Drop...[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=6#29656576]Part Eleven - Hope you revised[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=7#29715694]Part Twelve - Detonation[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=7#29742005]Part Thirteen - It ain't over, 'til it's over[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=7#29768341]Part Fourteen - Feet first into hell[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=7#29777559]Part Fifteen - The road to Utgard[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=7#29903386]Part Sixteen - Interrogated[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=8#29989655]Part Seventeen - The Captial City[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=8#30076479]Part Eighteen - Investigation [/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=8#30112758]Part Nineteen - Recon[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=8#30219626]Part Twenty - Gone Fishin' [/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=9#30291330]Part Twenty one - Sacrifice [/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=9#30487245]Part Twenty Two - Rescue [/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=10#30622732]Part Twenty Three - Meet the Spartans[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=10#30745936]Part Twenty Four - Ragnarok[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=12#32050452]Part Twenty Five - An unpleasant history[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=12#32247717]Part Twenty Six - Ambush[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=13#32341829]Part Twenty Seven - Behind enemy lines[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=13#32614835]Part Twenty Eight - Welcome to the URF[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=14#33059421]Part Twenty Nine - Promotion, URF style[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=15#33789196]Part Thirty - Insubordination[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=16#34993041]Part Thirty One - Breaking an entry[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=16#35166930]Part Thirty Two - Rescued[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&postRepeater1-p=17#35398362]Part Thirty Three - FNG[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=17#36420232]Part Thirty Four - The Cole Protocol[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=18#36602083]Part Thirty Five - Into the Fiery Depths...[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=18#37115662]Part Thirty Six - Hell's passage[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=18#37200389]Part Thirty Seven - Ras Mai'ee[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=19#37403993]Part Thrity Eight - I know what the troopers like...[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=19#37863713]Part Thirty Nine - Where heroes fall[/url]
[url=http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=27927918&viewreplies=true&postRepeater1-p=19#37863777]Epilogue[/url]
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More to come soon!
[b]Fan art[/b]
[url=http://insanityxiii.deviantart.com/art/Commissioned-Odst-132265116]Farm Boy, by Insanityxii[/url]
[b]Part 1 - Contact[/b]
I volunteered for it . Volunteered to drop in a titanium box, volunteered for the most risky job in the UNSC. I volunteered to become an ODST marine, or a "Helljumper", as they were known throughout the corps. It wasn't out of patriotic pride, or anything like that. It was for revenge.
Twenty years ago, I was fifteen years old, lounging about lazily in the plentiful fields of the paradise colony world Harvest; I had a good home, and Harvest was pretty much safe from rebels, pirates, and the other troubles that plague less fortunate colonies. Life was good, just me, and my Mom and Dad. Then they came.
The day started like any other, me and a few of the other lads going to watch those Marines in training. We were fascinated by them, how they followed orders to the bone, how they acted swiftly and surely. Later in the day however, an unknown object entered the atmosphere.
It wasn't like any of our cruisers; it was purple, and made of a shiny metallic element which was definitely not used in any of our standard ships, on closer inspection, it seemed like the ship was curvaceous, although why it was built this way was a mystery, surely it would just slow it down with its un-streamlined shape. Needless to say, the UNSC ships rose up armed to meet it.
There were whisperings amongst the local colonists, finally, other sentient life had been discovered. I didn't find out what happened up there until much later, hours went past without it moving an inch, and apprehension slowly crept into the onlooking crowd. Suddenly, the enemy cruiser fired on one of our ships, plasma streaming out of its dual cannons ,that was when the screaming started.
Time went as a blur after that, chaos predominated over every other sense as one by one, our ships were shot down by the shear power of the enemy cruiser, as easily as scissors cut through paper. My parent's house was miles away,yet still, I should have ran back, should have warned them; maybe then I wouldn't even be recounting this tale.
However, I was in disarray, people were yelling everywhere, screaming how they were all going to die, next thing, the also petrified marines were shouting at civilians to board the ship, to evacuate. I tried to run back to the house, to tell my parents, but a marine in black armour which had the initials ODST printed on the right shoulder pad grabbed me and threw me on-board ,probably saved my life.
As we left the atmosphere, I saw before my very eyes blue explosions smash into the once great planet harvest, the UNSC's pride and joy, and my home, and bury it under a glassy field.
My parents hadn't made it; they were still down there, dead or dying. As we fled out of the planets atmosphere, and jumped into slip space, I made a vow that day to wreak a terrible vengeance on the monsters that had committed this heinous act.
All these years later, standing 10km above the desolate New Mombassa, I'm starting to regret it.
[Edited on 10.16.2010 5:39 PM PDT]
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Here's Part 35, it's quite long, but it's got just the right amount of humour and action to keep you interested, enjoy! [b]Part 35: Into the fiery depths...[/b] "Holy crap!" I exclaimed as a Banshee flew literally inches in front of my HEV pod, so close that I could see the Elite piloting it within. "Just...hold...on!" Blade shouted at us, even as a fuel rod blast narrowly missed his pod. Laser fire, enemy aircraft, insane speeds, and a horde of Covenant waiting for us below. Just another average drop in an ODSTs life. I felt a surge as we passed through Harvest's atmosphere, and passed through the dark clouds. My communications dropped for a second as they passed through, entering the clear, night sky. Contrary to Switch's belief, this trip [i]had[/i] been a bumpy ride. Our decoy pods hadn't deceived the Banshees at all, they must have been using heat sensing technology. The only thing keeping us alive was the fact that our pods were moving faster than the Covenant aircraft. That all changed though as the emergency breaks hit in, and the HEV deployed it's parachute like extension, slowing us down considerably. I could also hear thrusters kick in at the bottom of the pod, further decreasing our speed. Whilst this was usually good, as it meant we weren't going to be splattered upon impact, in this scenario it didn't bode well. I could hear the Banshees behind us, catching up. In about ten seconds or so, they'd be able to shoot down our pods. "Sir, Banshees' on our six!" Switch reported to Blade rather unnecessarily. We all began to curse, except the Spartan, who were remaining unnatural still throughout the turmoil. Were it not for the vital signs display, I would have thought them dead. "I know that!" Blade cried back, panic clear in his voice, "We're gonna have to bail out, now!" I understood his order, despite the fact it made me as nervous as hell. I hit the button at the side of the HEV, and the door slid open. I could instantly feel the G-Force winds battering at my armour. I unbuckled my harness, and felt a sharp crack in my back as it hit the roof of the pod, my body pushed upward by the speed it was descending. I gripped the searing hot edges of the HEV's entrance with some difficulty, took a deep breath, and pushed myself out. I felt weightless doing so, after hurtling down in the burning drop pod, any other form of descent seemed slow. After a few moments of vertigo, I remembered my training and spread my arms and legs out wide. A scream tore passed me later as the Banshees chased the now empty pods, oblivious to my presence. A quick look around showed that everyone else had bailed out fine. Almost everyone... "Sir, my pod door is stuck," James' voice echoed over the COM channel. The Spartan managed to keep his voice calm somehow, despite being chased by a squadron of Banshees. It was hard to concentrate while falling freestyle, so how Blade managed to keep his cool and give an order whilst speeding down to the ground below was beyond me. I could see the skirmish on the ground now, and just hoped we'd land well away from it. Our target, the golden, ominous bubble, was in plain site. I suddenly realised with a start that we'd [i]have[/i] to land somewhere near the skirmish, our key codes to the bubble shield, the Jackals, were currently speeding down to the ground below without us. Damn, I should have grabbed mine as I left the pod. "Okay Spartan," Blade began, "Keep your cool. Have you tried smashing the door open?" There was silence for a few moments, followed by a large metallic bang from James' end. A moment later James replied again. "No good sir, I'm gonna have to ride this hell out. Uh oh, that's not good. Sir, there's a Banshee right on my tail!" The Spartan's voice displayed the first sign of panic, slight. Blade swore loudly. I was still painfully aware that we were flying through the air, and the ground was rushing to meet us. Another 15 seconds or so and we'd have to deploy our chutes. "Just hold on James, you're nearly at the destination now. Just hold--" Blade was cut off suddenly as an explosion tore through James' pod below, and the COM wave was flooded with static. "Dammit..." Rook breathed. Blade looked stunned for a second, then regained his composure. "Everyone, deploy chutes now!" he barked, and I complied with the order, yanking the string attached to the pack on my back. Immediately, my speed slowed, and the camouflaged material spread out above me. I just hoped they hadn't had time to set up anti-air cannons. The Banshees were also a worry. "James? Are you there? Report!" Micheal called over the COM line. There was no reply. "Spartan! Respond!" Blade also called. After a few moments, static was replaced by gunfire, and James' voice broke out again. "I'm okay! I thought they had me for a second there, but I managed to break out before the HEV exploded. I've hijacked one of their Banshees, I'll keep the rest off you. Brown three, out." I let out a sigh of relief, not only because James was alive, but also because we were safe from a Banshee attack. Similar exhales echoed through the COM link. "Sir," Switch called over to Blade, "We're gonna need some new access codes, my Jackal's still in that pod below. "Understood. Land in that forest over there, we'll ambush a patrol." Blade replied back. "Oorah sir!" Rook, Switch and I chanted back. The two Spartans simply flashed acknowledgement lights. The forest rushed up to greet us. I just hoped it would be a warm welcome.
