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Mobassa Chronicles by System Failure
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Mombassa: After the Jump
Date: 10 January 2005, 12:43 AM
September 29, 2252 (military calendar)
13:56 hours/ Old Mombassa; Hotel Zanzibar
Main lobby/ East Entrance
I stood there and watched, as a blinding light illuminated the Elite, uttering its death cry. The flash faded quickly, yet my eyes were still blinded by it, the image of the Elite etched into my retinas. The barrel of the Battle Rifle smoked in my hands, I held it tighter, as now it was my only companion.
The Elite fell to its knee's, smoke wafting from the three bullet holes in its chest. It cocked its head at me, as if darin' me to come closer. He doesn't know Sergeant Coleman takes shit from no one. I leveled my gun at its head, ready to shoot. But it just collapsed to the floor, blood pouring out of its battered chest.
I reached into my ammo pouch and pulled out a cigarette. Cigarettes, they say smoking kills, but in this war, the enemy will kill me long before the smoking does. Before pulling of matchless lighting tape, I paused. Maybe it isn't such a good idea to be smoking now. I pulled the carton out, and tossed it on the dead elite. I fired a round through its neck, just to make sure. Them bastard ass Elites, some of them don't die at first, and come back to kill yah.
I let my battle rifle fall to my side. It hung there; limp, like a dead limb. The Elite had some grenades on it, so naturally I took them. There were three plasmas; them "stickies" as I call them were some weird things. I picked the up, and put them in the grenade pockets near my knees. The stickies were fucked up grenades, stayed with you till they blew. Low chance of survival. More personal than our fine UNSC general issue, the frag, which instead of killin' one poor son ova bicth, could blow a whole squad of them to hell. Ours don't stick however, so we can bounce it and lead targets, making for a lot more surprise killings.
I stretched my neck, and decided to move on .The hallway was littered with bodies, some marines, but the majority were them Covenant bastards. Like always us marine kickin' ass. Flicking on the BR's flashlight, I scanned the area. The walls were covered in pockmarks and plasma scoring. Same ol' shit. Since the war started, the close quarters fighting always looked the same. Like a dozen frags went of, leaving the floors and walls crumbling, and with pieces of the latter hitting the ground silently. A small tribute to those who died in a battle that probably only lasted two minutes, tops. The hallway was starting to creep me out, so I double-timed it through the hallway, and nearly fell of a ledge.
There was no hotel, where there was supposed to be hotel. Must've gotten taken out by the mortars. Some call them snow cannons; cause the plasma they shoot out looks like a giant snowball. Till it hits you. Then it just looks like your ass getting blown up. The whole area was once again, littered in bodies. Heard on the COM that a Spartan was in the area. This was probably him. Spartans, them efficient ass mofo's. They can tear a platoon apart piece by piece, as long as they got marine support. I chuckled at this thought as I scoped the area.
"Sgt. Coleman, need a lift?" asked my head set. I looked down at the street, just in time to see a LAAG hog roll up. It was in fine condition, except for the fact that a dead Elite had been pierced on the front to hooks. Nasty.
"Nice hood ornament," I said as I slung my battle rifle over my shoulder.
"Thanks sir," replied the driver, "Do you want a ride?"
"Hell yeah!" I yelled as I jumped down. I trotted over the LRV and jumped into the passengers seat. Looking to my left I identified the two marines, the driver was Spec. Jason Carey and the gunner was, shit. It was that lazy ass Marine from my squad, Cpl. Martin Pierce. Those lucky ass bastards, pullin' a LRV outta their asses.
"Sarge, good to see ya," said Cpl. Martin, grinning from ear to ear.
He was damn lazy but it still warmed me to see at least two of my squad still alive. "Good to see you too Cpl.," I said nodding my head to him.
"Sergeant," said Spec. Jason.
"What's up?" I asked, half greeting, half question. We were heading down a section of broken highway. It made a perfect ramp down to the beach below. It was a nippy day out an the beach was a little chilly.
"I got reports that our pelican crashed a few hundred meters from here." Jason responded
"Good, take us there, we'll need the supplies." As we hit the bottom of the ramp, the pelican came into view. It was a mess but the crew compartment was intact. The ships were nearly indestructible. Unfortunately for us that was a big nearly. The scarab almost tore it a apart. Some bodies lay around the wreck, but surprisingly now were marines. There were to mint condition ghosts near by, their drivers in a pile in the warm yellow sand.
A noise was heard in the pelican. Martin aimed his turret at the doorway, its motor whinnying softly.
"Come the fuck out!" I said with my Rifle aimed at the opening. Two marines stepped out, lugging two bags of weapons apiece. The last few days of the war had gotten me wired, so bam! I reflexively pulled the trigger.
"God damn, sergeant!" screamed the Marine that the shot was closest to. He's probably gonna be shaken up for a while now.
"Good o..." said Cpl. Martian behind me, his voice trailing off. I followed his gazed over the river to New Mombassa. The metal and glass counterpart or old Mombassa's brick and stone. Then I saw it. Right next the massive COM tower that dominated the skyline. The covenant cruiser was jumping from in side the city, inside the goddamn city! Motes of blue tinged light appeared around its hull, and it slowly moved into slip space. Barley visible against the blinding light was the Amber Clad, the base ship for most of the Marines in the Bassa' region. And its leaving us here too.
"Holy shit!" screamed the other marine in the crew compartment.
I looked down at him, then back at the cruiser. In the blink of the eye it was gone, taking some near by buildings, and the Amber Clad with it. Then I remembered the other part of a slip space jump. "GET The Hell Down!!" was the last thing I said before the blast. Martin jumped forward, off the turret and landed in the sand next to me.
A deafening roar was heard as the air around new Mombassa pressurized, violently. The pelican was silhouetted by a harsh, white light. The area around the beach was soon filled with burning pieces of buildings, vehicles, and roadway. They began hitting the ground like mini meteors and causing the sand where they landed to boil. This wasn't
good.
"What the fuck happened?" asked Spec. Jason.
"When a ship enters slip space," I started, my eyes were squinted, because the amount of falling debris had risen, "It pulls all the crap near it along with it, wreckage, ships, anything close enough to be caught in the gravity well. Usually air is not problem, but we got lots of.." I stopped when I felt one of the marines in the drop ship tapping me.
"What?" I asked looking at the scared face of the marine. Damn wimp.
"Building," he said pointing up. I looked up. A five-story section of the COM tower was hurtling towards our position. Smoke poured out of its windows, and the fires inside gave it an eerie glow. There was no sound except for the falling chunks of building around us. Someone behind me let out a long line of heartfelt explicatives, and then it landed, right on top of us.
Mombassa: After the Jump (Academy)
Date: 15 January 2005, 10:07 PM
September 29, 2252 (military calendar)
13:56 hours/ New Mombassa; Cole Military Academy
Cafeteria / Top Level
Standing there I watched, a blinding light illuminated the filthy Elite before me, uttering its death cry. The flash faded quickly, but gave me a quick glimpse of the damage that it had endured. While my eyes were blinded, the image of the battered Elite brought a smile to my face. The bloodstained barrel of a shotgun smoked in my hands. Looking down at it, I tightened my grip, as now it was my only companion.
The Elite fell to its knees; smoke wafting from the mangled mass of flesh and bone, which used to be its chest. Pieces of blackened flesh fell to ground plopping on landing. It cocked its head at me, as if darin' me to come closer. This was one time an Elite cockiness would be its undoing. I leveled my gun at its head, and pumped a new round into the chamber. It looked up at me, as if waiting to see if I was man enough to pull the trigger. Even though I was only sixteen, I wadint no bicth, so I pulled the trigger.
The shot erupted from the gun, and ripped the head of the Elite. Purple blood poured out of the fresh wound, the still beating heart squirting blood into the air. The head, or what was left of the head, landed several meter behind the body, clanking on the floor. The Elites body collapsed to the floor, blood pooling underneath it.
I let my shotgun fall to the ground. It clacked on the ground; and fired, blowing a hole in the wall scant millimeters from my head. The wall section was blown away, leaving a gaping, half-meter hole. The shot didn't even faze me, despite the fact that it had almost claimed my life. Since this morning I had been getting lucky breaks.
But some lucky shits they were. My friends dying from a grenade, but by luck, a falling light panel stopped the blast. Then my girl died, killed by a fucking sword Elite, but before he could kill me, the sword malfunctioned, sparing me death, but giving me grief.
Now it lay there dead, one swipe from killing me. Then another lucky break came, a Marine's lifeless body landed next to me. With came a shotgun. My luck was others misfortune. I should fell happy bout the good shit, but all my losses are too much for me to handle.
The Elite had some grenades on it, so I took them. There were three plasmas; them "angels" as I call them weird things. Called them that cause usually that was the last thing many Marines saw before being blown to the pearly gates. I picked them up, and put them in my pocket on my vest. I only learned how to use them the week before, in spec weapons training. Never thought I would ever use one of these.
They're a helluva lot more personal than the UNSC frag, which instead of killin' one poor son ova bicth, could blow a whole squad of them to hell. Ours don't stick however, so we can bounce it and lead targets, making for a lot more fun during the simulations. Then I looked to the Elite's waist and spied the Elite plasma rifle; It was a bit big for me, a beefed up Spec Ops version but it still controlled like normal. I took a few potshots at the lunch menu, and looked back at the body.
In its hand was the fateful sword. I picked it up in my hand. It was warm, and blood dripped steadily off of it. This was a treat for me and lifted my spirits some. Me, Marcus Bunn, the owner of a new plasma sword. I looked it over and saw the cause of the malfunction; a piece of metal had lodged its self near the battery, and caused a short circuit. I removed it and the sword came to life, humming in my hand. I looked at it then retracted the sword, as to save the battery charge.
Rising to my feet, I stretched my neck, and decided to move on. I momentarily paused to stoop down and close my girl friend's eyes, and then I walked on. Before I left the rubble, death and blood that was now the cafeteria, I blew a final kiss to her. She was with god now, and I had to accept that fact.
As the door closed behind me I saw the Main hallway. It was littered with bodies, some marines, but the majority were them filthy, bicth ass Covenant bastards. Little pussies attacking a military school, hell most of use weren't even old enough to enlist. Flicking on the sword, I scanned the area. The walls were covered in pockmarks and plasma scoring. Since the war started, the close quarters fighting always looked the same. All the similar battle vids were a testament to that.
Like a dozen frags went of, floors and walls crumbling, and with pieces of the latter hitting the ground silently. A small tribute to those who died in a battle that probably only lasted two minutes, tops. The hallway was starting to creep me out, like I was in a vid, being shown to young soldiers in the making. I double-timed it through the hallway, then stopped.
A blue Elite stood in front of me. It was a minor Elite probably with only a few kills under its belt. We drew our weapons at the same time, he a Covie carbine and me the Plasma sword. The Elite pulled the trigger and blue blot of plasma flew at me. I dove out of the way and slid up behind a partition. The Elite continued to fire, and the marble wall came off in huge melted chunks. The bolts came constantly for several seconds then stopped.
I attacked, covering the distance between us in seconds. It jumped to the left to doge my attack, but I regained composure and caught him in the side. The blade overloaded and killed the shields in a single swipw. I look of fear was on the Elites face. A look that had good reason. I brung the blade back around and cut the Elite in half, blood gushing out of its body. The two pieces landed side-by-side smoking gently, with a faint hissing sound. Then a rumble caught my attention.
I looked above me at the skylight in the ceiling. The covenant cruiser, the root of my greif was jumping from in side the city, inside the goddamn city! Motes of blue tinged light appeared around its hull, and it slowly moved into slip space. Barley visible against the blinding light was the Amber Clad, the base ship for most of the Marines in the Bassa' region
A second later it was gone, and it pulled the Academy with it.
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