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Rouge Spartans~Part 2
Posted By: LittleGruntie<crazymofrorevan@hotmail.com>
Date: 4 September 2006, 12:49 pm
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Heita II
Solaris City
0730 Hours, September 6 2552 (Military Calendar)
Marine Base of Operations, Spartan sleeping quarters.
Danny woke to the sound of talk. He sat up in his bed and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes. He looked over to Rioja and Opal. Rioja was just waking up but Opal was already awake sitting on her bed. "Your finally up," she said when Danny had looked at her, a smile tugged at her face, "c'mon we're supposed to be ready." The three got up and helped each other put on their amour. The spartans then picked up their weapons. Danny, slung the his S2 over his shoulder, picked up his carbine, placed 10 reloads for the sniper and carbine, placed his plasma pistol in his left pistol holder but gave his battle rifle to Rioja. Rioja accepted the weapon and shifted as he once again hefted his beloved M19 SSM rocket launcher. He picked up 5 missile reloads and secured them to his ammo belt. He then picked up 8 clips for the battle rifle and stuffed them in his ammo pouch. Opal had a battle rifle, a M6C pistol and an MA5B assault rifle. She then found 10 clips for each weapon and pocketed them along with a data pad. They all walked through the dorms towards the stairs that led to the ground floor and also the command level. They walked up the stairs quickly and located the Major. "Spartans reporting for debriefing, sir," snapped Danny, saluting to the Major with Rioja and Opal. "Spartans, come look at this," said CO, returning the salute, pointing to a radar screen in front of him. The spartans crowded round the small screen, on it many small red blobs moved around it. "Those blips, what do u think they are?" asked the Major, sitting down on a chair savaged from a HEV. Opal answered first, before Danny or Rioja could, "Covenant scout parties."
"Yes! But do you know who their looking for?" The Spartans knew that the major had the answers already but still answered. "Us," said Rioja in his deep African voice.
"Yes!" exclaimed the Major again, "so we're gonna show ourselves to them."
"Sir?" asked Danny, unsure if their CO had gone mad or not.
"We need to get off this god-forsaken planet. Before they burn us along with the planet.The only way is to capture that damn ship," he checked a small data pad similar to Opal's" the Sacred Promise. Promise is a destroyer, one of the best in the covenant fleets, if our information is correct."
"Where did you get this information from, sir?" asked Opal. As soon as she had said these words the hologram hummed to life. A foot high creature appeared as the crystals condensed and formed an image. The spartans flinched as an image of an Elite appeared fully armoured and with an ignited energy sword in his right hand. "Meet Teya 'Albotee," said the Major with a hint of glee in his voice," Albotee is a back-engineered covenant AI. He is the AI that will get that crate moving and will get us home. All we need to do is to put him into the Bridge and we will have control. He has come up with the tactics, times and info that we will use to enter the ships gravlift. We attack in an approximately 2 hours from 0800 hours. That would let us prepare and get in to position. Get your stuff together, spartans, your moving out." He saluted them and they saluted back,"I'll send the info to your data pad," the Major said to Opal. They saluted, turned and left.
Heita II
Solaris City
0945 hours, September 6 2552 (Military Calendar)
En route to the Covenant LZ
The Pelican flew low along a deserted motorway. It was followed by twenty-five other Pelicans. They swayed from side to side, so if they were subjected to anti-aircraft fire they would be able to dodge it easier. All the Pelicans had a full load of ODST each armed for close quarter fighting, just shotguns and assault rifles. The first Pelican held the three giant green armoured clad humans. Danny watched as the Company Commander, Lieutenant Tom Condes, checked his battle rifle, his nine-inch blade, his ammo and his grenades and then slipped his helmet over his bald head. Danny checked his own weapons. His S2 sniper rifle, beam rifle, his carbine and the ammo for the weapons.
Rioja nudged him. He looked to his left and grinned from behind his sliver face plate.
Rioja had leaning against him his rocket launcher, and Danny knew he was grinning as well. He glanced at Opal; she was standing up holding onto a hand hold, looking out the back of the roaring Pelican, watching the other Pelicans follow them.
"Thirty seconds out. Stand by," called the pilot from the front. The Pelican swooped down and swung into a gaping hole in the side of an abandoned warehouse. The pilot landed on the far side of the warehouse followed by all 25 pelicans. One by one the pelicans unloaded their human cargo. The spartans jogged off the pelican with the ODST's and searched the spacious warehouse. Confident that there was no Covenant in the area, they relaxed. Danny read through the mission details on his HUD, he was to gain entrance to gravlift underneath the Promise then he and the other spartans were to split with the ODST's and locate the bridge and take control of it. If it worked the rest of the marines would follow up in the Pelicans that had just dropped them off. But they had to haul ass across the deserted city first. Condes walked to the spartans and told them to take point. After ten minutes of winding through the narrow street, they finally found the enemy. The Grunt was a rookie, orange amour and even better it was asleep. Danny signalled to Opal and she ran across and thumped the little Grunt's head in. A another grunt was awake and heard the dull thump and ran to find the dead Grunt with it's blue florescent blood spilled all over the floor. He was making the decision of telling his superiors what he had seen, when a green giant slammed a metallic weapon in the side of his face. The Grunt's neck snapped and his gas mask was ripped off his face. The gas hissed out and the Grunt's life pack deflated. Opal picked up the grunt's plasma pistols and hung the both on her belt. They carried on and reached the point where they were to split up. Ten groups of thirty ODST troops split off and took different routes. The plan was if they ran into serious opposition it would only be a small task force that would be killed, not the entire platoon. The Spartans went with the Lieutenant and took point for the group. They had barely even gone thirty meters when they ran into blue-armoured Elite. Rioja was closest and dive into the alien figure. But the Elite wasn't alone, behind him was at least ten Grunts, waddling after their superior. They all ran in fright, squealing in the strange language, knowing that they were all about to die. The element of surprise was gone and they all knew it. Rioja managed to stand up and placed a foot on the still alive Elite, to hold him down. The Elite was weapon less and his shield system was down. If the alien was more experienced he would have used his hands to throw Rioja off. But the alien just stared at Rioja as he pulled out a magnum from his belt aimed at the Elites head a fired, once. Danny saw the Elite slump to the ground, its head deformed where the metal slug punched through its skull. Its purple blood splattered the floor. As Rioja holstered his weapon, the ODST's rushed past him running down the slope where the Grunts had ran down a few seconds later. They ran into a courtyard. The Grunts were running up some stairs on the far side. An ODST had a S2 in his hands and brought four of the squealing Grunts down before having to reload. The bullet reports echo though the narrow buildings and Elite along with some reinforcements appeared which consisted of several Grunts, a few Jackals and Elite driving a Ghost. Rioja sighted the Ghost with his rocket launcher and gave the trigger a tug and a rocket whooshed though the air. The rocket hit the side of the Ghost as it turned to fire on the squad. The Ghost flipped though the air and landed upside-down, crushing the driver. The Grunts opened fire on the humans. Plasma hissed though the air. The humans opened up as well, machine guns stuttered, grenades exploded and Grunts were flung across the open courtyard. No-one saw the three green humans climb onto a crashed van then onto the rooftops. Then sneak across the bare rooftop and stop just above a cobalt armoured alien. Opal looked at Danny and he nodded. She jumped and as she came down, she brought her assault rifle down on the Elites neck. There was a loud crack and the Elite slumped to the ground his, plasma rifle fell and clattered next to him. The rest of the opposition was gunned down as they ran from the humans. Only one ODST had a minor burn on his leg. A few minutes later when the trooper was bandaged up, they carried on their journey. There journey took them to a hotel right next to the LZ. They raced inside and made their way to the back. The overhead lights flickering as they hadn't enough power to keep them operational. They emerged to from behind a small wall and the titanic Destroyer hovering above them with its grav lift stretching to the ground. They waited for ten minutes, getting into position. There was a bang then a red flare shot towards the sky trailing smoke after it. That was the signal as the Lieutenant shouted from behind his sliver face plate, "GO! GO! GO!" The response was perfect, all 300 ODST's opened up on the Covenant LZ. Hunters were ripped apart as sniper rounds sunk into them or as missiles blew them to what ever hell they belong to. Elites fell to the ground, as their weapons overheated, with multiple holes torn through their strong bodies. Grunts were sent flying or popped like firecrackers. The covenant vehicles were blown up before they had a chance to move. The humans stopped firing and peered down to see if anything moved. 30 seconds later the entire platoon charged down. They slowed to a creep as they manoeuvred through the carnage, picking up dropped covenant weapons. As they neared the grav lift, a whine was heard which turned into a loud hum. Everyone stopped and hid behind wreckage, their weapons pointing in various directions listening to the sound of hum and wondering what was making that sound. An ODST on the far side of the platoon was the first to find out. "BUGGERS!" the ODST shouted before she was engulfed in a tidal wave of plasma. Everyone fired at the flying bugs. The drones, as they were properly called, had to land as their wings weren't strong enough in atmosphere. So when a bugger landed it was taken down as fast as possible. The entire fight lasted fifteen minutes. Seven ODST's were dead, five had minor damage. The dog tags were taken from the unlucky seven. Danny waited till his shields recharged before stepping into the grav lift. The purple light cast off it made the ODST's look alien. Amazingly, all the ODST's mange to fit in the purple light and after a few seconds they were picked up by a invisible hand and shot upwards towards the Promise. Danny looked up as he was picked up off the floor and sucked towards the beast above him.
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