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Humanity's Last Hope: Part 2
Posted By: Ishkabibbl<Sock41@Cox.net>
Date: 13 April 2003, 1:03 AM
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All of a sudden I was back in the library. The figure smirked, "Well that was faster then I thought it would be." I glared at the figure, "You never even told me your name. What is it?"
"Just refer to me as Guardian, which should be good enough for you. Also you never seemed to tell me yours."
"If you must know its Jack. Besides that, why didn't you send me to the right war?" The figure shook what seemed to be his shoulders, "Wee bit slow today aren't we? That was the correct war, you just weren't alive long enough to dig around." I gripped my sword and AR, "Send me back again at whatever time the rules said I had to be there." A slight nod from Guardian and I was surrounded by the cubes again.
"Whoa... there's got to be a better way to do this." I stood up and was in the middle of a fire-fight. Dozens of grunts sprayed plasma pistols at a squad of marines cowering behind a destroyed Scorpion. I whipped out my AR and sprayed their heads with shredder rounds. A red grunt shouted with its arms in the air, "They're everywhere!" One of the marines behind the tank nailed it with a shot in the back. I ran up to them. A marine looked up, "Sir, its good to see a sergeant around here. Thanks for the help."
"I don't have time for this! What's the current situation?" The marine gulped, "Sorry sir, right now we're winning the fight on the ground but I think the covies will take orbital control soon. Our squad was ambushed on the way to reinforce a bunker a few clicks away. The sergeant died when the tank exploded." I tapped my fingers on my sword while pondering what to do next. "See if you can contact any units around here. Tell them to gather at the bunker and we'll plan our next move then." The Pvt. saluted me and I returned it as he ran off to talk to his squad-mates. Later we were sprinting towards the bunker. "Get down!" I ducked as plasma flew above me. Rifle shots were heard as blue blood splashed the trees. I yelled, "How much farther is that bunker?" The marine behind me ran up, "Only a dozen meters, but there's heavy resistance." I nodded and took point. I side stepped from behind a tree and dropped a couple of jackals with three round bursts. We continued are rampage in the back of the covenant lines.
Once we reached the bunker I walked inside and saw it was in pretty bad shape. Plasma burns were all over it, which was bad because it meant they got inside it. I tapped a marine's shoulder, "Hey, who's in charge?" His face was pale and tired looking but he pointed out a group of sergeants. A siren went off and people were screaming, "They're coming again!" I reached into a crate and withdrew a couple of grenades. After loading one into the grenade launcher under my main barrel, in place of the flash light, I sprinted up one of the ramparts. There were screams from the wounded everywhere as hunters fired fuel rod cannons into the clusters of men. Cries of medics went unanswered. A marine fell on me missing his torso gurgling as blood filled his throat and mouth. I sighed, I've seen this so many times...*Click* my grenade discharged into a group of elites. They went flying every which way. Then there were screams behind me. I pivoted and saw a few elites that were uncloaking. I swung my AR over my back, unsheathed my sword, and brought it down on one of their heads. Before they could respond I shoved it into another's chest, twisted it, and brought it up through its head. The third tried to slash my legs, but I parried and elbowed it in the face. It came back faster then I thought it would and head-butted me, which sent me flying backwards. It seemed to gloat without noticing the grenade at its feet. After fifteen more minutes of fighting the covenant were defeated. Everyone knew that was just another probe. I cleaned my sword and reloaded my weapons. One of the marines that was attacked by the cloaking elites walked over to me, "Thanks sir, you saved my hide back there. I was wondering if I could do anything for you?" I nodded and grinned, "Follow me, we're going to get ready to counter-attack for the next fight. Grab some extra clips and grenades."
"Wait sir! Aren't you going to grab a pistol?" I didn't really have a choice as he shoved it towards me. I strapped it to my right thigh and started moving towards the tree line. We leapfrogged each other in the woods passing tree after tree. Finally, we reached the covenant camp. I pulled down the Pvt. "Hey, you got any string?" His eyebrows went up as he pulled a few strands out, "Got these from my uniform."
"Thanks. Ok here's the plan, first I'm going to hurl these grenades that I just tied together near those ghosts. Then you'll try to take out any elites that you can. After they get to their ghosts I'll fire my last grenade into the other four taking them all out. After that's done you'll run with me covering you. Lastly, if you think I died just look for me in a few months ok?"
"Yes, sir!" He proceeded to load a fresh clip into his pistol, as I hurled the grenades. "Now!" I yelled as I sprayed the area with my AR. I heard shots being snapped off and saw an elite glow. He yelled something in his language and the others ran to the ghosts. Once again a huge grin came over my face, "Start running!" The Pvt. saluted me and ran off towards the bunker. *Click* My grenade sailed over grunts and jackals and landed under a ghost. A fiery inferno ensued around the ghosts. Without their leaders the grunts ran for their lives. The tree next to me disintegrated. The jackals were firing with their pistols. I snapped off a couple shots with my pistol then started to sprint back to the bunker. I was harassed every inch of the way by the jackals. A few white contrails appeared out of nowhere, which left each jackal minus a head. I heard a cheer from the snipers on the bunker. I continued my jog until I met up with the Pvt. that had gone with me. His face was grave, "Sir, that wasn't the covenant camp. Recon just found it and its about forty times bigger." I slumped down against a tree, "Forty? No way will we be able to hold that off!" He sighed, "Since we did a pretty good job on that patrol group we get the honors of scouting out that base."
"I thought you said a patrol found it."
"They did, but they got slaughtered before they could tell us what was there."
"By the way sir, I'm Max."
"Just call me Jack." I stood up, "Better get some more string." Max was grinning like a lunatic.
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