The Tool Story [WIP]

Right, so.... with the fall of Apollo I need to shove my WIP Novella somewhere so here it is, the Tool story, prepare for a long read ^-^
Chapter one

2416-year-89-day
Michael put his hand on the holo interface entering the key code, as the door lock L.E.D turned from red to green and a click was given as the door opened, a synthesised voice stated "Welcome home Michael Tool" Michael grunted as he dropped his backpack and slumped onto the couch next to his brother Liam, Liam was fourteen and had the same brunnete hair and brown eyes as Michael and Corbin. Michael stared at the holoscreen as the news came on, on the screen was a video of a ship flying down and firing a few guass rounds into the 'Tool-Brother's Minin Co.' factory, the reporter states "So far we are unaware of the intentions of this attack and of whom performed it, rumours are coming in saying that the N.M.R commited this vile attack but right now it cannot be said, one thing is for certain though.. Mars is not safe."

Michael stands up and walks outside when he hears a distant howl, not a dog's howl, the howl of a starship engine, all of a sudden three attack frigates emerge from the clouds of Mars and begin firing upon the city of New-London. Michael stares at the explosions to afraid to move then out of no where his father grabs him and pulls him into the house putting his hand onto the holo interface and locking the door, the synthesised voice states "Door locked Keith Tool".

Michael's Father grabs him by the arms and says "Son stay here and watch after your brothers ok?"
Michael stares blankly so his father shakes him "Michael, do you understand?"
Michael nods and then says "How?"
His father goes upstairs for a moment then returns with two rifle's "Here son, I taught you how to use it, and now you'll have to"
Michael nods again as his father unlocks the door and walks out, Michael runs to the door and locks it trembling with fear.

2416-year-92-day
A few days pass and Michael is still guarding the house, all of a sudden a there's a bang at the door "Open up!" cries the man at the door, Michael Tenses the gun and aims it at the door using the couch for cover, the synthesised voice states "Hack attempt detected! Hack attempt detected!" Then the door light goes from red to just off, a man slides the door open and walks in, he see's the trembling boy in the corner aiming a gun at him and say's "Lad I'm on your side, I'm here looking for your father's help"
Michael lowers the gun and then says "H-he went out to fight alread.... are you defending the city?"
The man says "Aye, I don't care what people say but these are not N.M.R troops, ships or weapons."
Michael looks at the man"I-I want to help...."
the man looks at Michael from head to toe, and then sighs" I'm sorry lad, but you'll be of no use to us"
Then a second man runs into the house and shouts "Enemy's incoming sir!"The first man was gruff and black bearded the second scrawny and dirty."Shitting hell's bells!" the bearded man cries"We may need you after all lad, come on!"

They walk outside to a bunch of what look like civillians armed with guns and any other things they could find, suddenly the Unathi arrive.... Lizard men with eyes red as blood and skin green as ivy, they leap from the buildings to the ground infront of the soldiers they wield a few guns but they seem to have a rather fondness for melee weapons but they're blades are energy rather then metal. The Unathi stare at the Mars Confederate soldier's until one of them says something completely unintelligable and they open fire killing a few Confederate soldier's in the first fire.

The bearded fellow grabs Michael and chucks him to the ground tossing him an energy knife and nodding. Michael had played Holo games before but this was different this was real life, Michael cowers in his cover as the Confederate soldiers fall back fleeing from the laser fire, one of the Unathi walks past Michael's cover not noticing him and fires at the bearded man Michael picks up his gun and fires it straight into the back of the Unathi downing him instantly, Michael then runs to him drawing his energy knife and putting the blade next to the Unathi's throat as he screams something in that god forsaken language Michael just wants it to end so he... cuts the Unathi's throat and the bearded man grabs him as they flee back to the house.

As they enter Michael's brothers come running to him clinging on he tells them "Go hide upstairs I'll come get you in a moment" The two brothers Corbin and Liam have always listened to their brother and so they did as they were told and ran upstairs, luckily Michael's mother was on a diplomatic visit to St. Peters station and she would be there a few months.
Michael looks at the bearded man and says "Who are you?" The bearded man chuckles and replies with "Sergeant George Fawkes, yourself?" Michael responds with "Umm... Private Michael Tool" Giving Fawkes a joking salute, Fawkes smiles then looks at the boy and says in a gruff tone, "That your first?" Michael nods silently, Fawkes then says"You did a good job lad... welcome to the Mars Confederation Navy, if we make it out alive you'll be an official member lad trust me" Michael smiles half heartedly and then says"What next?" Fawkes tells him "We 'ave to get to the dry dock there are a few colony transport ships there that we can use to ship any civillians to New-Geneva they 'ave planetary defence cannons which will be able to shoot down those poxy things those monsters call ships" Fawkes grins and then tells the boy" Go get your family and we'll get a move on" Michael goes and gets his brothers and they make their way down the streets winding through alleys staying out of sight of the recon ships over head.

Michael walked with Fawkes and they were silent until Fawkes said "Mine was a New Marx Rebuplican shot him right in the head" Michael nodded silently"It doesn't get easier lad, but.. it does get less important" Fawkes said responding to Michael's nod.
They arrived at the dry dock and they saw a group of soldiers already guarding it, they went over and as they got closer they noticed that they were Confederation soldiers one of them was Keith Tool, Michael smiled although these soldiers were better dressed and better equipped they were still M.C soldiers and that's what mattered Michael approached his father after his brothers had hugged him and said "Dad, I'm signing up.. I helped Sergeant Fawkes here and I'm going to help New-London" Keith sighed and then said "If that's what you want son" The looked at Fawkes and said" You look after him, you hear me!?" Keith boarded the shuttle with a tear in his eye and then assisted the other civillians in boarding it, within a few moments the shuttles airlock bolted and the shuttle powered up and took off hovering above the ground for a moment pushing all the soldiers back and then taking off and leaving orbit, Fawkes looked at Michael "Come on lad, I'll show you the basics"

Chapter two.

2418-year-13-day
In the two years that follow the war was bloody, the Soghun invasion force had taken two other cities and the rest of the cities would soon bend the knee as morale was at an all time low.


the laser fire flies past Michaels head, as he fires his energy gun back at the Unathi soldiers in his eyes it's all over for him, his men are dead and his motivation is broken, his only thought now is....survive. He takes off his dirty glove and wipes the sweat from his brow the glove just smears the dirt on his forehead, he drops it and peeks his head over the small wall to recieve a laser shot to the shoulder, Michael screams as loud as he can, then crawls around the hover car near him, and he sits there and takes inventory he thinks to himself "one grenade, two fast charge pulse packs one pistol, one energy rifle, wait! where's my energy rifle!?"

He takes a look around the car seeing his rilfe at the small wall "How did I forget it? Frack frack frack frack!" He draws his pistol staring at it, then as he starts to think what the Unathi will do if they capture him, he turns off the pistol's safety and puts the cold plasteel against his temple his finger slowly tensing on the trigger...*bang* Fawkes screams " Come on you scaly sons of bitches! This is what you get when you mess with the 4th rifle devision!" Michael quickly pulls the gun away from his temple and proceeds to fire it at the Unathi one by one the Unathi fall back or die as they take fire from the rooftop of the garage Michael's pistol runs out of ammo and he sighs with relief as he see's Fawkes' men gunning the Unathi down. One of the men shouts "Clear!" And the Confederate resistance soldiers make their way off the building and into the car park, Fawkes runs to Michael bringing a medic to tend to the melted flesh on Michael's shoulder. "You did well kid... you said you'd hold the area and you did, I shouldn't have doubted you now let's get you to a-" Michael collapses probably due to the pain, the doctor tends to his wound trying to touch the mangled shoulder as little as possible.

2418-year-14-day
The beeping of a heart monitor wakes Michael from his unconscious state, Michael groans as he hoists himself up he feels a stabbing pain at his right shoulder and he proceeds to put his hand on it wincing as the pain grows deeper as he touches it. Michael's father enters the room and looks at his son with judging eyes, he cracks a proud smile,"Goddamnit son... I told you to be careful but look at you a true soldier." Michael grins as his fathers kind words wash over him "Well pap I learnt from the best" "Aye that you did" Fawkes says as he enters the room, "You gonna pull through lad, we could use you out there," Fawkes says as he takes a drag from his Premium cigar Michael sits up straight instantly saluting "Yes captain!". Fawkes says "Well lad I came here today to pin this on you" Michael pulls a confused face as Fawkes pins a brass pin on the shoulders of his unfirom, Fawkes then salutes the confused lad and says "Gunnery Seargent Tool, you deserve it, now get some rest lad we're hitting those scaly shits next week we think we can do it..."
Michael nods and closes his eyes as his father and Fawkes speak quietly.

2418-year-18-day
The young Gunnery Sergeant opens the door to the classroom turned briefing room as he takes a seat everyone is silent, some of them have had trouble seeing how a young boy is a Gunnery Sergeant but the soldiers that mattered didn't care, he kicked some serious Soghun ass in that war so why would it matter? Michael looks up at Captain Fawkes giving the briefing, the captain looks at Michael and says "Sergeant!"
"Yes sir!?"
"Tommorow we take the refinery at Normandus"
"Yes sir."
"Your team will be with me on the main assault, teams Wolf, and Eagle will be providing covering fire as we move through the refinery killing every green son of a bitch we find, understood?"
"Yes sir" Michael replied again.


2418-year-19-day
The rover bounced up and down as Michael kept his grip on the iron stability bar above, the soldiers all had dead looks in their eyes, the war was long and they were tired, they just wanted it to end. Michael however was different, yes he wanted it to end but he wasn't going to accept defeat, because Michael had Fawkes to look up to, that man had inspired Michael.
All of a sudden the rover was under fire, the convoy stopped right away and over 120 Confederate soldiers piled out all wielding laser rifles beards and dirty faces they charged the refinery many of them dying in the first run from the rovers to the various bits of cover outside the refinery the Unathi fired on the soldiers using Laser cannons on tripods the poor confederate's were mis-informed they were told the battle would be a sure win for the confederation, but alas the Unathi's were well entrenched not to mention the Unathi vanguard that came to great them, they were clothed in power suits wielding energy axes and they charged at the confederate ranks slaying them easily, Michael was cowering behind a piece of rubble from one of the old nearby skyscrapers, he looked to his left to see a Unathi grab Fawkes by the throat and lift him up. Fawkes looked at Michael and shook his head, as he did so he pulled an energy knife from his pocket and stabbed it through the Unathi's visor killing him almost instantly the Unathi dropped to the floor and Fawkes looked at Michael and smiled. A moment later an energy axe was buried deep within Fawkes' skull the deliverer of such a blow was a 7"2 monster of a Unathi he looked at Michael and started to take giant strides towards him as the body of Captain Fawkes dropped to the floor, Michael however instead of cowering any longer stood up put his rifle butt against his wounded shoulder and fired and again and again, until the Soghun's suit deactivated and dropped to the floor, Michael ran up to the Unathi trapped in his massive power suit and put his jackboot on the external visor access button and the visor slid open Michael jammed his rifle inside and pulled the trigger, he looked around the battlefield in awe of the dead, maybe 30 confederate's were still fighting but this battle was lost the Soghun had over ran the convoy and the confederate's were taking fire from both sides, Michael didn't want to believe it but it was going to happen he was going to die today.

Then a distant howl was heard as a earbreaking boom was dispersed across the battlefield, The C.S.S Gemini emerged from the dust tinted clouds of mars and began hammering the refinery with guass shells, the purple energy blasts were a sight. The next noise that was heard was the roaring of engines as hover tanks and rovers flew approaching the refinery and gunning down the Unathi  troops a joining the barrage on the refinery's structure. Michael stood still observing until a clean shaven, clean faced and navy blue uniformed confederate soldier ran up to him and said "Leftenant O'harius Confederation Marine core!"
Michael stayed silent as the guns quietend he looked at Fawkes dead on the floor and then at the marine with a pure hatred and thats when.......he just fainted.