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"Nobody is staying behind for any reason. Casualties are high enough as it is, so lets just get there, bomb the f**kers, and get outta there."

-He felt unsure about the whole nuking thing, but you cant really fight the chain of command-

*He closed his eyes and concentrated on a single thought for a while*

"Yeah, well. I was going to do it anyway, even if you guys didn't approve."

With that, he sped towards the target area, flying over heavy morter emplacements, one or two shots comming close to the pelican, the rest falling harmlessly behind.

"We are about seventeen klicks to the target. The bombs have a five klick diameter of effectiveness. So we need to be about ten away when they both go off."

"A.D.V. Pelican to Black Raider one. We are approching max safe distance for the nukes. If you would be so kind as to soften up the defence for us before we go in, I would be so happy."

'Rodger that Black Knight. We got your back.'

And with that, all thirteen longswords opened up with their missiles, the full payload of twenty five missiles each streaking forwards the target area over ten kilometers away.

Each of the three hundred twenty five missiles detinates at varying distances, showering thousands of scatter bombs over the area, detinating Grunt breathing tents, shattering the armor of countless Elites.

Then, as the fire fell from the sky, the thirteen Longswords split away, arching off of the path allowing the Pelican free travel towards the launch site.

((Man. This would be some awsome show of power no?))

When everyone had secured themselves, and they were about five clicks from the Target Zone, the pilot dropped the lever that launched the twin nukes.

With a lurch, the Pelican releases it's droning missiles each traveling at half the speed of the ship in which it was launched. Quickly the two bombs fall behind, still moving forwards towards Ground Zero.

"Don't get premature, we still have a job to do."

*He held on even tighter to the crossbar*

Just then, the Covie flack was starting to grow tough, and the Pilot had to dodge and weave through the incoming plasma fire from the heavy guns. And, just as they were ten klicks from the blast area, the twi bombs hit the ground, bounced once and then detinated.

Each bomb was split into three smaller sections, each section carrying three different type effects for it's load. One type was an Electric Pulse, one was a concussion blast, and the other was a flash bomb.

All of the different parts went off at seperate times, only miliseconds after each other. One section of one bomb blew, sending the munission flying for a few hundred yards, then the other section blew, and finally the third.

"God's flashbulb."

Commented the Pilot and the Copilot at the same time upon witnessing the flashbulb effect from six different locations.

"Two specially designed tactical nuclear missiles."

Says the pilot in the back of the Pelican as it rode the six shockwaves.

"Basically, each nuke has three sections to it's contruction. Basically, each one has a small charge of antimatter which allows it to detinate in a very large explosion. This was the test run. The Covenant had set up a focused shield device. That means that any attack force on the ground would have a Captical Ship class shield around them. You can imagine the type of trouble that would create."