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Battle of Nazareth II, Part I: Defence of Teritum City by Spartan 268
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Battle of Nazareth II: Defence of Teritum City
Date: 7 November 2008, 6:16 am
Chapter I, Part I: Without Warning
Date: 18th August 2545
Time: 0930 hours
Location: Pelican dropship, Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
Dust began to fill the air as a half a dozen UNSC Pelican dropships began their discent into the City center of Teritum. On board each dropship were a dozen ODST's (Orbital Drop Shock Troopers) or Helljumpers as their more commonly known. They were the UNSC best special forces corp they had to combat the Covenant besides the Spartan super soldiers. The dropships touch down the troop bay doors opened and out jumped the ODST's. This a more discreet insertion then what the ODST's were used to.
Normally they would be inserted through a planets atmosphere via HEV's (Human Entry Vehiecles. The HEV's were small one man drop pods that released from a orbiting UNSC ship high above the planets atmosphere. The survival is quite low depending on the insertion. Many men and woman have been killed during these insertions. Some of the Pods would vere off course slamming into cliffs and even landing in rivers and lakes, even some pods would also shot by Covenant even landing in heavily controlled covey territory. These landing however almost all the time ended up with casualties.
All the ODST's began to form up into their squads as the drop ships began to lift off. The ODST's wore black uniform and armour instead of the standard issue green uniform UNSC Marines wore. They also wore black helmets that covered the whole head. Their main weapons of choice were the BR55HB SR Battle Rifle and the MA5C ICWS Assault Rifle. Specialist however carried a third weapon. Snipers carried Sniper Rifles and demolishion normally Rocket Laucher and the Spartan Laser and also other explosive materials. Each ODST carried a side arm either a standard M6G pistol or the M7 Submachine gun. ODST's also carried 5 M9 fragmentation grenades. They could carry up to nine extra mags for each weapon depending the armour.
When they were formed into there sqauds, there commander "Captain Briggs" stood in front of them. He began to speak.
"Allright, this is is where will set up our base of operations" he said gestureing to the building behind him. "The rest of the battalion will be arriving here later. Now you's know what you have to do so get crackin"
"Sir yes sir" the ODST's replied together.
The ODST's broke off into small groups and started to get to work on setting up the base. The Captain made his way into the building they were going to use as their base.
"Another day in hell, what could possibly go wrong" the Captain said removing his helmet when he was inside the building.
"Take cover" Briggs heard someones voice called over the com in his helmet speakers.
He looked out of the door he had just entered and saw men running in all directions. "What the hell" he thought. Out of know where there was a massive explosion above his location. Briggs was knocked off his feet. The roof of the building collapsed and Briggs was buried in the rubble. The last thing he heard was the sound of gun shots and plasma fire and then everything went black.
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Chapter I, Part II: Without Warning
Date: 18th August 2545
Time: 0940 hours
Location: Gun pit five, Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
"Come on get your backs into it, the captain this base up and running in an hour" Sergeant Banks ordered his squad.
He and his squad were setting up some machine gun post.
"What is that?" asked a young ODST private standing up pointing toward the sky.
Banks looked up into the bright blue sky. To his surprise there was a blue orb like object arking across the sky. "Oh shit" Banks thought. He knew exactly what that was. It was a round fired from a Covenant wraith tank. The round started to descend down on his unit's location.
"Take cover!!" he yelled into his mike tackling the private to the ground
Everyone in his unit heard this and started to run for cover. Banks looked up and started to track the round. It was heading for the building that the captain had just entered. There was an explosion and then the top of the building collasped. He couldn't believe this was happening. He looked back down the street. At least a couple hundred covenant infantry were making their way towards he and his squads location.
"Private Collins man that gun" Banks ordered the private he tackle before pointing at the 50Cal.
Banks cocked his Battle Rifle and aimed it towards the Covenant force. Everyone else in his unit had regained their composer and started to take up positions to get a good shot at the enemy.
"Fire!" Banks ordered his men as the Covenant got closer.
Collins opened up with the 50. Banks fire at a trio of grunts who went down quickly. Grunts are the weakest of all the races in the covenant. They are sort of doglike. They normally but travel in packs and are rarely seen alone. They use special breather masks that are attached to a pack on their backs. They cannot breath normall oxygen but instead the breath methane which is found in the atmosphere of their home world.
Within a couple of seconds the forward 3 line of the enemy force went down without a fight. Hot plasma round erupted from the enemies plasma weaponry. Half a dozen ODST's went down and Banks dove into cover to avoid the rounds.
"Jesus Crist, is this how you treat your guests" he yelled ducking out from his cover and fire a couple of rounds at an elite. He ducked back behind cover as a some more rounds whizzed past missing him by centimetres. He could feel his skin blister from the heat from the hot plasma on his skin as they went past.
To his left he saw one his men take a needler round to the upper right thigh. A couple of seconds the round exploded. The soldier drop to ground clutching his thigh with one hand. The soldier got up and strapped his rifle to his back and pulled out his sidearm instead. Two other ODST's primed a frag each and chucked them into the oncoming force. They exploded but killing some covy infantry. This however did not stop the covenant from advancing and they continued forward. They respond by throwing plasma grenades at ODST's. These grenade were deadly and had the to stick themselves to objects and when they stuck, they stuck. One such grenade attached itself to Private collins leg.
"Sergeant get out of here" collins said to Banks.
Banks jumped behind some rubble. There was nothing he could do. A couple of seconds later the was an explosion. Collins was dead.
Banks got to his feet and contiued on with the fight. The battle was going pretty well until an explosion behind Banks sparked his attention. Shit. He had almost forgot about the wraith tank. He looked back down the street. A bluishpurple colour object had appeared behind the Covenant soldiers. The wraith fire two more rounds. This time the rounds hit one of the machine gun pits. Banks coulds hear faint yells of pain as the soldiers in that pit were ripped apart by the explosion.
Banks called to a lone ODST with a rocket launcher. "Take out that tank."
The ODST nodded and fired two rockets at the tank. They hit their target. The wraith exploded into flames killing some nearby grunts and an elite. Now were only couple of enemy left. He emptied clip into a group of Jackals weilding rist shields and plasma pistol. Jackals are a birdlike race in the covenant. Very fast and agile, they are normally use energy shields attached to their wrist. They are also good marksmen when it comes to using the beam rifle. A Covenant variant of the UNSC sniper rifle.
The jackals shields took most of the shock but a few round found their marks. A frag thrown by someone fell behind the group and exploded. Hot metal cut through the unprotected area of the jackals killing them instantly. The battle finally ended. Banks sat down in the hole that was once a gun pit that was destoyed by a plasma grenade killing collins. He removed his helmet. One of the other sergeants that survived the battle was making his way to banks.
"Where's the captain?" the sergeant asked also removing his helmet.
Banks reconised other sergeant as Powers.
"I saw him enter that building just before it got hit by that wraith" Banks replied pointing at the building he saw the captain last.
Banks got up and he and Powers started running towards the remains of the building the captain was last in.
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Battle of Nazareth II: Defence of Teritum
Date: 8 November 2008, 3:05 am
Chapter II: Buried Alive
Date: 18th August 2545
Time: 1000 hours
Location: Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
"Sir, sir can hear me?" someone said.
"Are alright?".
Captain briggs opened his eyes. He his whole body was aching with pain. He could here someone muffled voice some where above the rubble covering him.
"Sir" the voice said.
"Yeah I hear you" Briggs said replied.
"Get this shit off me".
"Yes sir" the voice said. "Quick someone help me out here".
Briggs could here more voices. His head hurt a lot from the rubble. His nose was broken and he could feel dry all over his face. The wait of the rubble lessened as bits were taken away. He could breath better now. Finally after a couple of minutes the piece above his head was taken way.
"Hey sir" Banks one his plattoons sergent face appeared above him.
"What happened?" Briggs asked.
'Wrath round hit the top of the roof"
Banks replied. "Covenant forces come out of nowhere and start to attack. We finished but with a few casualties"
"How many" Briggs asked.
"Everyone except fifthteen" Banks said.
Briggs felt a pang of guilt in the pit of his stomach. He started to feel sick. The last piece of rubble was finally removed and now he could finally stand. He look at what was left of his men out ofwhat he origally had. A medic came over to him and start patchin him up. Sergent Banks and a few others stood there watching him. Briggs look out at the street outside. Bodies of dead Covenant soldiers there lifeless. Amongst tham lay bodies in black ODST armour, his men.The medic putwhat he was doing.
"Allright sir hold still this will sting abit" the medic said. He grabbed Briggs nose and put it into place.
It hurt like hell but Briggs didn't care. He was to worried about the men that had been killed.
"Allright sir you'll have to take it easy for awhile. You got a servere concussion". The medic said.
Briggs nodder and the medic left. Sergent Banks moved towards Briggs.
"Sir. You might need this" Banks said handing him a battle rifle and a helmet.
The handle had blood on it and the helmet was slightly scratched. He move past the group placing the helmet on his head. He looked back at them.
"Men. This means war" he said cocking his weapon.
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Chapter III: Patrol
Date: 21st August 2545
Time: 1450 hours
Location: UNSC Warthog, Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
It had been a few days since they had first arrived in the City of Teritum, since that surprise attack. They had allready been in a few major skirmishes since then with Covenant and still they weren't giving up. Sergent Banks and his squad were on a routine patrol around the streets of the old city known as Teirtum.
"Sergeant, I'm picking up enemy movement three streets ahead of our current location" a young private said.
"Rodger that, stop the vehicle" Sergeant Banks said.
The warhog come to an abrupt halt in the middle of the quiet street. The other warthogs in the patrol also come to a halt.
"Allright I'm going to take five men with me, stay here with the warthogs" banks said over the com. "Conners, Jacobs, Burks, lewis and Franky follow me."
The five men he had called jumped down from the transport hog that was also part of the patrol. Banks hopped out of his warthog and made his way to the side of the street. He signalled the five of them to follow him. It took two minutes to make their way to the street where the young private had spotted movement on the motion tracker. As they got closer to corner Banks signalled them to halt. He made his way to the corner on old shop crouched low and peaked his head round the corner. Before his eyes he could see a wraith and a couple of Covenant infantry. He ducked back in cover and signalled for the others to come to him. When they got to him he breifed them on what they were up against.
"Allright we can take them" Banks said.
"Conners, you take the wraith, everyone else take out any Covenant infantry you see."
They all nodded that they understood the plan. Banks took one last look around the corner.
"On my mark", Banks said. "Mark!".
He jumped out of cover Battle Rifle raised. He took aim at a group grunts and squeezed the trigger. Four went down. Two rockets whizzed past Banks as Conners fired at the wraith. Both rockets hit their targat and the tank exploded into flames. Jabobs dropped to the ground as an elite fired it's plasma rifle him. Jacobs had taken two rounds to the chest. He lay on the ground limp. Banks fired at the elite which took cover behind a few bits of rubble. Banks primed a frag grenade and threw it right where the elite took cover. Three seconds later there was an explosion and the elites dead body flew a couple of feet away from where it was originally. There weren't many enemy infantry to take out but the fight seemed to go on forever because of a jackal sniper hiding in a second story window had shot Burks in the neck. Lewis had fired a few rounds at the jackal but it was to quick and shot him aswell. Jacobs fired a rocket round at the window and the jackal was engulfed by the explosion. The last few enemy started to make a run for it but were cut down by the ODST's. The fight ended and Banks called to the patrol to come to him. A couple of seconds later the warthogs rounded the corner and parked on the side of the street. Mathews made his way over to lewis who was sitting on the road clutching his stomach. Connors walked over to Banks.
"Burks didn't make it" Connors said handing Banks private Burks dog tags.
"Lets get out of here before anymore enemy show up", Banks said looking at the tags.
"Where are we goin?" the driver of one of the warthogs asked.
"Back to base" Banks replied jumping in the warthog.
And with that they left.
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Hello everyone, I hope you's like my new series seeing as though I havn't written anything for over a year.
Battle of Nazareth II: Defence of Teritum City: Chapters 2-3 redux
Date: 10 November 2008, 7:00 am
Chapter II: Buried Alive
Date: 18th August 2545
Time: 1000 hours
Location: Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
"Sir, sir can hear me?" someone said.
"Are you alright?".
Captain Briggs opened his eyes. His whole body was aching with pain. He could here someones muffled voice some where above the rubble covering him.
"Sir" the voice said.
"Yeah I hear you" Briggs said replied. "Get this shit off me".
"Yes sir" the voice said. "Quick someone help me out here".
Briggs could here more voices. His head hurt a lot from the rubble. His nose was broken and he could feel dry all over his face. The wait of the rubble lessened as bits were taken away. He could breath better now. Finally after a couple of minutes the piece above his head was taken way.
"Hey sir" it was sergeant Banks one of Briggs plattoons sergent.
"What happened?" Briggs asked.
'Wrath round hit the top of the roof"
Banks replied. "Covenant forces come out of nowhere and start to attack. We beat them but with a few casualties"
"How many" Briggs asked.
"Everyone except fifthteen" Banks said.
Briggs felt a pang of guilt in the pit of his stomach. He started to feel sick. The last piece of rubble was finally removed and now he could finally stand. He look at what was left of his men out ofwhat he origally had. A medic came over to him and start patchin him up. Sergent Banks and a few others stood there watching him. Briggs look out at the street outside. Bodies of dead Covenant soldiers there lifeless. Amongst them lay bodies in black ODST armour, his men.The medic finished what he was doing.
"Allright sir hold still this will sting abit" the medic said. He grabbed Briggs nose and put it into place.
It hurt like hell but Briggs didn't care. He was to worried about the men that had been killed.
"Allright sir you'll have to take it easy for awhile. You got a servere concussion". The medic said.
Briggs noddered and the medic left. Sergent Banks moved towards Briggs.
"Sir. You might need this" Banks said handing him a battle rifle and a helmet.
The handle had blood on it and the helmet was slightly scratched. He move past the group placing the helmet on his head. He looked back at them.
"Men" he said cocking his weapon. "This means war".
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Chapter III: Patrol
Date: 21st August 2545
Time: 1450 hours
Location: UNSC Warthog, Teritum City, Planet Nazareth II
It had been a few days since they had first arrived in the City of Teritum, since that surprise attack. They had allready been in a few major skirmishes since then with Covenant and still they weren't giving up. Sergent Banks and his squad were on a routine patrol around the streets of the old city known as Teirtum.
"Sergeant, I'm picking up enemy movement three streets ahead of our current location" Private Wallace said.
"Rodger that, stop the vehicle" Sergeant Banks said.
The warhog come to an abrupt halt in the middle of the quiet street. The other warthogs in the patrol also come to a halt.
"Allright I'm going to take five men with me, stay here with the warthogs" banks said over the com. "Conners, Jacobson, Burks, Mathews and Franky follow me."
The five men he had called jumped down from the transport hog that was also part of the patrol. Banks hopped out of his warthog and made his way to the side of the street. He signalled the five of them to follow him. As Banks and the other made their way down the street Wallace and the rest of the patrol established a defencive perimetre. It took two minutes for Banks and the others to make their way to the street where the young private had spotted movement on the motion tracker. As they got closer to corner Banks signalled them to halt. He made his way to the corner on old shop crouched low and peaked his head round the corner. Before his eyes he could see a wraith and a couple of Covenant infantry. He ducked back in cover and signalled for the others to come to him. When they got to him he breifed them on what they were up against.
"Allright we can take them" Banks said.
"Conners, you take the wraith, everyone else take out any Covenant infantry you see."
They all nodded that they understood the plan. Banks took one last look around the corner.
"On my mark", Banks said. "Mark!".
He jumped out of cover Battle Rifle raised. He took aim at a group grunts and squeezed the trigger. Four went down. Two rockets whizzed past Banks as Conners fired at the wraith. Both rockets hit their targat and the tank exploded into flames. Franky dropped to the ground as an elite fired it's plasma rifle at him. He had taken two rounds to the chest. Franky lay on the ground limp. Banks fired at the elite which took cover behind a few bits of rubble. Banks primed a frag grenade and threw it right where the elite took cover. Three seconds later there was an explosion and the elites dead body flew a couple of feet away from where it was originally. There was a beam of purple light that had origanated from a second story window of to banks right.
"Sniper" Banks called.
"On it" Burks called.
Just as Burks took aim there was another beam of light. The sniper was using a beam rifle. The round had hit Burks in the throat. He dropped to the ground clutching at his throat.
"Mathews, see to Burks" Banks called to the young medic.
"Yes sarg" Private Mathews said.
Banks and Mathews ran to Burks location. When they got there they grabbed him by the scruff of his uniform and dragging him to cover. Mathews removed Burks helmet while Banks laid down some cover fire. He took cover so he reload his weapon. He took a quick look at Burks. He was starting to cough up blood, choking to death.
"Hang in there soldier" Mathews said.
Burks face was going white as the blood drained from his body. Banks couldn't bare to watch the man die and went back to laying down fire. There was an explosion as Jacobson fired a rocket round at the window where jackal sniper was hiding and the jackal was engulfed by the explosion. There was a whooshing sound and Banks looked up and noticed a V shaped object floating in the air down the street making its way towards his small squad. As the object got closer Banks could identify what it was. A covenant dropship. Banks looked back at Private Mathews. Mathews looked up.
"Burks didn't make it" he said to Banks handing him Burks dog tags.
Banks nodded then grabbed the dog tags off Mathews and placed them in his right chest pocket of his amoured vest. He watched as privates Connors and Jacobson started to retreat into a building on the other side of the street as the dropship fired at them with it's plasma cannons. The dropship then turn its attention to him and Mathews and they to ducked into a nearby building.
"Private Wallace" Banks called into his helmet mike when they were both inside.
"Yes sarg" private Wallace called over the com.
"We are pinned down by Covenant fire and unable to get back to the warthogs" Banks said making his way up a staircase, private mathews at his heals.
"On our way" private said.
"Negative" Banks said. "We can't risk any more casualties. "Head back to base, tell the Captain what's happened."
Wallace began to say "But sarg.....", but was cut off by Banks who began to yell.
"Don't question me just do as I say!!!"
"Rodger that sergeant. Good luck." Wallace said and the com went dead.
Banks made his way down a small hallway. At the end was a doorway that led to a room. He kicked the door down and made his way to the window. The dropship was right above them now. He looked across the street at the building where Connors and Jacobson were hiding. They to were watching the dropship rifles at the ready. Banks watched as they both bolted away from the window. The window exploded as a banshee fired it's plasma cannon at them.
"Connors, Jacobson. Are you's allright?" Banks called into his com.
Connors voice sounded over Banks helmet speaker "I'm right. Jacobsons been knocked unconsious."
"Hold tight" Banks called. "Stay in cover".
"Yes sarg" Connors said coughing.
Banks looked at Mathews then back at the dropship. Covenant infantry were allready jumping down from the dropships fuselage.
"Now what?" Mathews asked watching as a dozon covenant soldiers entered the building they were hiding in.
"Bring the fight to them" Banks replied.
He shouldered his rifle and made for the hallway. Three grunts stood down the other end plasma pistols at the ready. He and Mathews opened fire. The grunts dropped to the ground dead. As they got closer to the grunts corpse an elite appeared with another four grunts. Banks and Mathews both primed a grenade and rolled them down the hallway. They ducked into a side door that led to a bathroom. There were two loud thumps as the frags went off. Banks ducked back out into the hallway. The elite and grunts were lying on the ground dead. They made their way down the staircase weapons blazing. At the bottom there was another elite weilding what looked like an energy sword. The elite swung at Mathews who ducked just in time. Banks however wasn't so lucky, the elite's sword cut at his leg. Banks fell to the ground clutching his leg.
"Mother fucker" he yelled.
He grabbed his combat knife from his waist holder. The elite raised his arm ready to kill Banks. Mathews fired his assualt rifle. The elite turned it's attention to him giving Banks enough time to make two quick swipes at the elite archillies tendons. The elite tripped. It tried to get up but couldn't. The elite yelled. Mathews put it out of it's misery by breaking its neck. A grunt appeared in the doorway behind Mathews and shot him in the back with its plasma pistol. Mathews dropped to the floor. Banks sat up, blood was seaping from the wound he had received. He threw his knife at the grunts head. The grunt didn't see it coming and went head over heals as the knife implanted itself in its skull.
Banks removed his helmet revealing his scarred face. He slowly made his way to private Mathews. He turned him over. He was still breathing.
"What the fuck got me?" Mathews asked getting up shaking his head.
"Grunt" Banks replied removing his combat knife from the grunts head. "How's your back?"
"I'll be fine" Mathews said.
Banks grabbed a bandage from his hip pocket and start to wrap it around his wound. Mathews made his way to a counch in the corner of the room. He sat down removing his helmet. Connors and Jacobson entered the building.
"Sarg, the dropship is leaving" Connors said taking a seat
Banks nodded. "We'll stay here the night" he said. "We'll head back to base tomorrow moring".
They all nodded in agreement. Banks sat down on a chair. His leg hurt like hell but he didn't care. The only thing he was worried about was how they were going to survive. And with the he fell asleep.
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