Tides of Destruction(part 3, valley of death)
Posted By: teemus<teemusligg@hotmail.com>
Date: 20 December 2003, 5:42 AM
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Jado system February 6th
Briggs sprinted up the hill in front of the rest of the unit. He quickly clicked on his COM link and ordered Bryans and his men to see's fire and move up. Briggs came up over the ridge of the hill and caught a jackal from behind. He quickly put the alien down with a few controlled MA5B bursts. As soon as the wails of the Jackal ended, the rest of the 80 remaining troops turned to look at him. At first they looked shocked to see one human standing over the corpse of a smoking Jackal. One of the Elites was about to laugh when the rest of the unit ran over the hilltop as well. Half of the Covenant didn't even have time to react, tracer bullets cut down the first line of Elites and the rest began to retreat to the cover of the trenches.
Briggs turned to the marines who were shooting at various targets, "Slit up and take em on from different sides!"
"Roger that," the marines replied. Briggs then turned back to shooting at a group of closely packed grunts.
"Sir, we took em completely by surprise! There are only about 20 of them left!" Briggs second in command yelled. Briggs started to turn to acknowledge this when he heard his second in command scream. Briggs turned and saw the soldiers smoking body lying in a pool of blood.
"Holy shit," Briggs said to him self while jogging over to the marines' body. "Medic, we need a medic over here!" barked Briggs.
Quick to the response was Davies, the units' medic, "What happened to him sarge?"
"I don't know, just hurry up!"
"Ok, im gonna need some room."
"What ever you say," replied Briggs. Briggs then turned to face the Covenant in the trenches again. He slammed a new clip into his MA5B only to throw it down and draw his pistol as an Elite charged him. Briggs preferred to use his pistol when the aliens decided to charge. He levled the pistol and activated the 2x zoom. Briggs took aim at the alien's forehead and opened fire. The first 5 shots brought the Elites shields down. This is when Briggs realized that the alien was close to him, to close for comfort. Briggs hostlerd the pistol and picked up the Assault Rifle. He took aim again and opend fire. The Elites already weak shields were able to stop the first few bullets, a few more good placed shots and the Elite was lying on the floor in front of Briggs. Briggs to the time to reload his pistol and Assault Rifle. He pulled his pistol out and ordered the unit forward. The remaining members of the unit were able to cross the short distance to the trenches without taking on any fire. The unit jumped into the trenches to find that nobody had survived the lightning fast assault.
Briggs started in wonder at the empty shade emplacements. The area around the shade was untouched by combat. Briggs wondered why the Covenant didn't man the shade implements; they could have easily taken out the whole entire unit with the 5 shade emplacements. Briggs ignored this thought, there was still more work to be done. Briggs picked up a radio and contacted the Angle, "This is strike force Bravo, we have secured the LZ, we are ready for the rest of the division."
"Roger that strike force Bravo, good work down there, other divisions are on their way."
Briggs turned the radio off and turned to his men, "Good work guys, I need a body count for our side."
"Sir, we lost 30 marines in the whole raid so far."
"Alright, we wait for the rest of the Divisions and the command crew to get down here." The marines' began to dig graves in the valley for those who had lost their lives in the raid. In the process of digging a grave for his second in command, Briggs heard a rumbling noise and turned to the sky. Out of the clouds hundreds of Pelicans began to appear. The Pelicans came in and dropped of troops, supplies, Wart Hogs, Scorpions, Land Cruisers, supplies, the whole enchilada. Once the supplies were dropped, the Pelicans took off again and landed about 20 meters away from Briggs position. Briggs guessed that this was gonna be where the air base and HQ's location.
Briggs was still staring at the Pelicans when Major Saran walked up to him, "It's a good location, but there is still a lot of work to do on it, I did want to make one of the towns out HQ, but that would take many more men to storm. I want you to know that you and your men did a fine job today."
"Yes sir, we sure showed them," replied Briggs.
"Yea, you sure did," Replied the Major, and with that he walked away.
To be continued...
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