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Private Howards by evildude_93
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Private Howards- Part 1
Date: 29 October 2006, 12:07 am
Snow covered the landscape, from the feet of Private. Howards towards the Horizan. It was the coldest day of his life, he also had plasma scorching on my arm to boot. His medic Cpl. Thomas did a good job patching it up, however taking aim was still a trial for him there was no question. He placed his Sniper Rifle at his feet and took out his scope, he decided to take a quick look at the surrounding area before reporting back to the lieutenant and the rest of the squad.
Snow rained upon this dreadful wasteland, why would the Commander bring us here he thought? Of all the places on this ringworld. Though that structure in the distance looks significant.
"One last look and I'm..... What the?" His quiet muttering transformed into fear.
Covenant drop pods descended from the sky, from no oubvious source though! Private Howards quickly aimed his scope down to where they had landed, a small valley, only a 2 kilometers away. He placed his scope back into one of the pockets on his utility vest, he quickly piced up his Sniper Rifle and swung it by it's leather handle around and onto his shoulders. He tapped a button on his helmet, activating his comn. link to lieutenant. Peirce.
"Come in Bravo 1, this is Bravo 4 do you respond? Over." He said in paced fashion. He waited for a few agonising moments, listening to the static on the other end.
"*STATIC* Bravo 4 *STATIC* 1,we read *STATIC* situation? Over?" Howards assumed it was lieutenant Peirce and replied.
"This is Bravo 4, I can't make out what you are saying! I have detected a flight of Covenant drop pods and I have assesed their location. Over." Again nothing but static on the end, until a garbled voice made itself clear.
"*STATIC* hostiles! I repeat! These hostiles arn't Cov*STATIC*. They can take heavy amounts of damage! Request *STATIC* support. I repeat, requesting sniper support! Over!" Howards took his index finger off his helmat and ran off towards his squad. He couldn't quite catch what the lieutenant was saying but something about non-Covenant hostiles.
He retraced his steps back towards his squad who were situated in a small sheltered valley, which overlooked the large structure. As Private Howards got to his previous posistion, he could see his squad in circular formation upon a small him, using rocks for cover against.... What the hell were those? Strange sickly looking creature using Covenant weaponary were attacking the squad, their skin was a derainged shade of yellow, small antenea growing from their necks.
As Howards took aim, a beweilding screech took him off guard and one of those creature lept upon him. It attempted too grab Howard's weapon from his hand, the creature had amazing strength but a lapse in it's concentration gave Howards a chance to stab the barrel into it's chest and fire 2 rounds through. The creature however still alive began grabbing his face, Howards pulled the rifle from it's chest and stabbed it into it's head.
Green blood dripped down onto Private. Howards, his Snper Rifle covered in yellow flesh and green blood. A small pulp of flesh was resting upon the scope, he picked up the pulp but as he was about too hurl it away, there was a metallic feel towards it. He cleared away the flesh and his hand were dogtags! They read, Cpl. Neilson. Howards' heart shrunk, this creature was once a Marine like himself.
He stood up and took five steps back from the corpse. He was in utter shock, how could this have happened? Howards lost his footing and fell too the ground below, it must've have a 15 foot drop. He landed on his back however somthing broke his fall. He looked down beside him to find the bodies of more pf these creatures! He quickly gathered himself only to run into a larger creature. It stood at 7 foot and underneath the yellow flesh was blue armour, this was once an Elite! It was about smack himself across the face with an awakwardly grown arm, however concentrated fire from his squadmate Private. Laura Harding ensured his safety, the creature fell down dead.
"GET YOUR ASS UP HERE AND TAKE THIS SHOTGUN!" She screamed at him. Howards ran towards her, dodging these 'mutants'! He grabbed the shotgun from her hands, it was only until he took it did he realise it was covered in blood! He looked down to see the lieutenant dead.
He took the shotgun and joined his squad in the battle! Pvt. Howards, stood beside Pvt. Douglas, a young member of the squad. He was young and inexperianced, you could see the fear on his face as more and more of these creatures surrounded them, firing all sorts of weapons.
"Two on the right, behind the rock!" Douglas shouted. Cpl. Thomas fired his battle rifle at the two creatures killing them both.
"How did this happen?" Howards asked.
"They just came out of nowhere and attacked." Pvt. Harding answered.
"How many are there?" Howards asked.
"We don't know! They look like mutated Elites." She replied.
"And Humans." She looked at Howards with a grim face, but she turned around and pressed on the defence.
20 minutes into the battle the creatures returned with veichles, no amount of cover protected them constant Ghost fire. Pvt. Douglas was hit first, his head shot clean off. Then it was Pvt. Harding, a direct hit to her chest. Cpl. Thomas was hit also, he died before he hit the ground, and then behind Howards, a creature smaked him across the face, everything went dark. It was all over he thought. His final moments.
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