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Neverland: The Rescue
Posted By: SOS.Odin<kavika86@yahoo.com>
Date: 5 February 2004, 9:32 PM
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John and Kelly walked back to the base and decided to attack the Covenant base and rescue Dr. Halsey and Chief Mendez. Before the sun breaks the horizon, John, Kelly, and ten others would sneak onto the Covenant base, take out the guards, and rescue the captives. Before the sun would hide back behind the horizon, they would return and wipe the base out of existence.
John peeked over the hill and reviewed the Covenant base one more time. It was around mid-night, nine other humans were positioned at various other spots along the ridge of the woods. Kelly was just ten meters to John's right. She was supposed to sprint across the open field in front of them and avoid the sight of the guards. Then she would take out specific guards, allowing the rest of the team to move in.
John motioned her to move in. Kelly was already twenty meters across the field when John's hand came back to rest on his rifle. Kelly had always been the fastest Spartan, tough as nails too. In another two seconds Kelly had closed the hundred meter gap to fifty. Just then John noticed an Elite he had not seen earlier. The Elite was in the direct path of Kelly, he was sure to see her soon.
Kelly saw him too and dove. She landed on her hands and pushed back off performin a series of front flips. This was the signal for Anthony. Anthony was a sniper waiting in a tree above John. He saw the Elite as well. Two silenced cracks later, the Elite was on the ground.
Kelly landed from her front flips and started back towards the base. There were no walls to this base, just towers every hundred meters. Kelly was to take out the two closest towers and signal for red and blue team to move in. Then they were to move in towards the prisoner cells and covertly eliminate the guards. After that they were to make it back out the same way.
Spatans John, Anthony, Kyle, Kelly, and Max made up red team. Blue team was made of Marines. Cpl. James was the leader of blue team. His teammates were Pvts. Ian Staten, Brian Souder, Kevin Souder, and Steve Wilson. They were equipped with MA7Bs and battle rifles. Their job was to shoot anything that came chasing the Spartans out of the Covenant base.
Cpl. James watched with amazement at the speed of the Spartan. In less than two minutes a single Spartan had eliminated eight Grunts and four Elites before they knew what happened. A signal came over his comm, it sounded like a child's rhyme. A second later, three more Spartans were running across the field. Anthony stayed in the tree. Cpl. James signaled for his men to stay frosty.
John stopped under a Covenant tower and waited for all of his Spartans to gather. Once regrouped the four Spartans moved forward in a high crouch with Max covering the rear. Each of them were equipped with silenced battle rifles and M6D pistols. They moved as one in the shadows and towards the cage.
John raised a fist, signaling to halt. The four Spartans stopped at the corner of a building. Four Grunts were heard around the corner. It was a patrol. John lowered his hand, palm down, ordering the Spartans to go down and blend with the shadows. The four Grunts passed by, pistols holstered and chattering away in some alien tongue. John pointed to his gun and raised two fingers then pointed at each Spartan. This meant for each Spartan to discharge two rounds on his command. All four Spartans aimed and readied. John clicked his finger nail on his rifle and a quick volley of rounds flew through the air. All four Grunts fell to the ground and remained motionless. John motioned for Kyle to hide the bodies, while the remaining three moved forward.
Red team came upon an open courtyard with a cage in the center twenty meters from anything. Five Elites and a dozen Grunts were on night guard. John waited until Kyle caught back up until giving any orders.
"Fan out, pick off Elites first, then target the Grunts. Wait for my shot first. I'm almost positive those Elite's shields aren't even up." John's orders were too quiet for a human, but crystal clear to a Spartan.
John posted up and aimed at the nearest Elite. He figured a whole minute would be sufficient for the Spartans to sneak into their positions. John took a quick peek at Dr. Halsey, the lady who had given him that silver disc when they first met. She was the closest thing to his mother, and seeing her there was killing him.
John looked to his left and right, spotting his Spartans aiming at their targets. He resighted on the Elite closest to him and discharged. The Elites chest filled with armor piercing rounds and he fell. Three more dropped soon after. John aimed at a startled trio of Grunts and opened up. A silent baa resounded from his gun as he dropped all three of them.
John surveyed the area. Five dead Elites, twelve dead Grunts, and four scared humans in a cage. John stepped from the shadows and ran towards the cage. The other three Spartans also moved out and scanned the buildings behind them for any movement. John snapped a wooden bar from the cage and the humans squeezed out.
"Thank you John." Dr. Halsey had tears running down her face.
Chief Mendez was less happy to see the Spartans, "Damn it! I taught you guys better than to be here!"
John knew he meant in that twisted world and not specifically at that base, "Good to see you too Sir."
John motioned for them to follow him and for Max and Kyle to cover the rear. Kelly ran ahead to make sure the exit was still clear. The seven humans slowly made their way towards the edge of the base. There they met up with Kelly, who gave them the thumbs up. John picked up Dr. Halsey and they all ran across the field to the woods where blue team was waiting.
Halfway across the field four white tracer streams streaked over the humans heads. John took a quick glance back and saw each round deflect off the armor of a monstrous creature. It was a Knight and it was running.
Knights didn't use weapons, they didn't need to. They were the size of four Hunters, fast as and Elite, and tougher than Brutes. They didn't use shields either, just armor to thick to penetrate.
John's comm ficked on and Kelly announced to everyone, "Aim for the space in between his head and chest and the space in between his chest and pelvis! Knights don't have armor there!"
Soon after the announcement the Marines opened up. The staccato of automatic weapons fire no doubt alerted the base to their presence, but it didn't matter, the mission was almost over.
Kyle, Max, and Kelly picked up the three remaining humans and sprinted for the woods. Chief Mendez, on Kelly's shoulder, unholstered her pistol and opeded fire on the Knight.
Red team hit the woods and dropped their cargo. They then spun and opened up. All of red and blue team were firing on the lone Knight for a full four seconds before he hit the woods.
The Knight, covered in blood, grabbed hold of Pvt. Wilson. Wilson screamed before he was crushed like an aluminum can. Blue team unleashed Hell on the Knight. Hundreds of rounds were pumped into it. The Knight turned around and grabbed a hold of Pvt. Staten. It's hand wrapped around his body and held one arm down. Staten refused to die and opened up point blank into the Knights neck with his free arm.
The damage was too much for the Knight and it fell, loosing it's grip on Pvt. Staten. Staten could not move though. He had a broken arm and probably some broken ribs. Cpl. James picked Staten up into a fireman's carry and started to fall back to their firebase.
Pvts. Kevin and Brian Souder turned back to the field and opened up on some Grunts who were crazy enough to run out in an open field. The whole time Anthony was removing Elites from the whole combatical equation. Red and blue teams started moving back into the woods as the Covenant decided not to follow across the field.
The mission was a success and the sun was just peeking over the hills. They would be back later that day to clear out the rest of the Covenant.
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