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The Fall of Rye: Chapter 2: Ambush
Posted By: teemus<teemusligg@hotmail.com>
Date: 2 March 2004, 5:27 AM
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Rye system, July 2nd
Jason quickly ran up where the other ODST's had gathered and fell into line. The Major glanced over at them and then shouted, "Gear up and follow me!"
The Helljumpers responded quickly as they pulled their packs over their backs, loaded their weapons, and made sure the safeties were off. Major Garcia made sure that everybody was ready, loaded his own weapon, and then marched off into the deep wood that surrounded them, all his men followed. The Helljumper's first objective was to retake one of planets' main power plants; it was the most important thing that was in the enemies' hands. Jason spotted Vince at the head of the marching column of ODST's and made his way to him.
"What do ya think?" asked Jason as he pointing at the bullet casings littering the ground.
"Well, so far there's only blue and purple blood on the trees," Vince responded, giving Jason a serious look, "Maybe there won't be any blood that belong to Humans."
Jason was about to reply but stopped dead in his tracks, as did the rest of the 2nd ODST battalion, the section of woodland in front of them lay about 50 dead marines, each in awkward, motionless, positions. Red blood stained the trees. Every few meters a small patch of blue or purple blood would appear, but the scarlet-red dominated the area. There was a faint groan and Garcia ran up to one of the largest mound of Human carcasses lay. The groan came again, but this time louder and more desperate. The Major turned and shouted, "Where are you? Don't worry, we're not Covenant, were here to help."
Just as Garcia was about to give up on his search, one of the medics shouted, "Over here sir! I've found a live one!"
The Major walked up to where the medic stood and pushed him aside. He then turned to the body on the floor and spoke, "What happened here, son?"
The wounded man then replied calmly, blood bubbled out of his mouth as he spoke, "They ambushed us... they're still out there."
Garcia turned to the medic and demanded him a safe return back to where the HEV's had landed; two medics lifted the injured Marine and carried him slowly back. Garcia turned to the rest of the ODST's and barked, "Search the rest of the bodies! I want First Company to keep an eye out while Second does a thorough search of every dead soldier here."
The ODST's began the gruesome search of the bodies, Jason who was on watch, thought he saw a faint movement in the trees. Just to confirm the occurrence he clicked on his COM, "Major, you better come look at this."
"I'm coming, this better be good, Jason." replied Garcia, "What is it?" asked the Major in a stern voice as he jogged up to Jason.
"I think I saw movement in the trees, sir."
"Alright, just to make sure..." The Major clicked on his COM and spoke to the whole Division, "Ladies! Stop what your doing and fire a three round burst into the trees. Stay alert!" The Major then held his hand up and counted down from three. When he reached zero, he threw his arm down in a guillotine-like motion and everybody fired. After the rumble of weapons fire, there was silence, but then came a bloodcurdling roar from inside the trees. Without warning, a Covenant attack team stormed out of the trees, weapons blazing.
Within in the first five seconds, ten troopers hit the ground dead. The rest of the Division acted suddenly and swiftly. They dove behind stacked bodies and rocks for cover; and then they fired at the Covenant with everything that they had. "This is shit!" yelled Jason as he slammed a fresh magazine into his AR.
"Yeah, they should have at least told us they were coming." replied Vince sarcastically.
Jason put his MA5B on top of the boulder that he and Vince had taken shelter behind, and fired another full clip at nothing. It was too risky to stick you head out and aim, Jason ejected his used magazine and swapped his MA5B for a Shotgun which was held onto by a Marine. With effort, he managed to pry the gun out of a dead troopers hand and take some extra shells from the Marines pack. Jason reloaded the gun and risked poking his head out to see the situation. Most of the ODST's had taken cover behind the many rocks that littered the area. Some of the more desperate Helljumpers had stacked up dead Covenant and were hiding behind those. The thing that got to Jason was the fact that in some places, fresh red blood covered the area.
The problem was that they could not see the enemy and the enemy could see them. Jason planned on fixing that, he quickly clicked on the COM and spoke to the whole Division, "On my mark, throw grenades at the front line of trees, we may blow some of their cover."
Jason was just a PFC, but right now everybody wasn't really worried about the chain of command, he clicked the COM on and barked, "Mark!"
There was the sound of a hundred or more grenades being primed and then thrown. Three seconds past and there was an earsplitting explosion. Shrubs and trees were obliterated in the blast; some of trees fell from the roots and revealed some of the Covenant on the other side. The rest of the Division acted swiftly, the Covenant had been caught by surprise. A few of the troops darted for better cover during the momentary silence. Then, all hell broke loose, the entire Division opened fire at the same time as the enemy. The front lines of Covenant—which mostly consisted of Grunts and Jackals, ones that hadn't activated their shields—didn't stand a chance; the tracer rounds from the guns tore the alien bodies in half. The rest of the Covenant attempted to run but were cut down as they did so. There was a cheer from the troops as the last Grunt hit the ground in a puddle of its own—and others—blood.
Jason sat behind the rock smiling on how his plan had worked, the Major made his way to him, "Nice work Jason, you handle yourself well."
"Thank you, sir," replied Jason with the grin still on his face and smartly saluted. His smile soon disappeared when he saw Vince on the dirt holding his chest. Jason quickly bent over his friend and spoke; frustration bordered his voice as he wondered why he hadn't noticed it before, "Vince! Vince, wake up man, we won." The wounded ODST did not reply, but instead started straight into the sky. Jason collapsed in tears on Vince's bloody chest. The Covenant had hit him with an overcharged plasma-blast in the chest. As the Major ordered everybody to continue a search of the bodies—but this time with higher precautions—Jason swore to avenge his best friend.
To be continued...
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