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This is a contest to write something Halo-based, in 117 words. Thought I'd go for it.

1: Faith
++RECORDING RETRIEVED
++SGT A. JOHNSON, TIME: UNKNOWN
++AUDIO TRANSCRIPT BEGINNING

Faith!

To some of you, it is a mere word, to be uttered when a man pleases! To some of you, it is nothing more than something airy-fairy no sane soldier possesses! And to the rest of you who ain’t listening to me, you’d better pray that God loves you!

We fight the Covenant! We fight billions of alien bastards, with a few popguns and toy cars!

What keeps us fighting? We are real MEN of the UNSC! We will not let any obstacle put us down! We will not let a playground bully smash our noses into the sand! We have something in our hearts the Covenant and their Prophets can never hope to understand!

Faith!

2: Redeployment

Two plasma mortars whizzed by the Pelican’s nose as it swerved left, narrowly missing a tower which decided to join the party. Fate decided to toss a couple of Banshees into the bargain, which left the Pelican’s cargo extremely unhappy.
“HQ to Charlie 213, you read?”
“HQ to Charlie 213, redeploy twenty miles south-south-east of your position, over!”

“… WHAT?!”

Static cut off Sergeant Jiffy’s witty reply. Perhaps it was for the better, as south-south-east happened to be back the way they came, past the Banshees and Wraith emplacements, and a Scarab which just came into view.
“It’s your call, Sarge.”
“We’re going in. The worst we can do is falter. Earth needs us now, more than ever.”

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