Chapter 3 Touchdown September 21, 2552
Posted By: Tamir Klien<BaldEagles7@earthlink.net>
Date: 24 October 2005, 9:45 pm
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Chapter 3 Touchdown September 21, 2552
We where low now. We where flying about 50 ft below the ground. We where trying to search for the crash survivors. The pilot picked up a signal.
" Hey I found something. If the tracker is correct the crash survivors should be just over that hill…you see that river? Their there I'm hoping. When we came to the river. There where a 15 Covenant. We picked them of easily.
"Who ever where getting a single where coming to pick you up. Where five miles away from you. Where coming." Said the captain. We landed and got out with our rifles at the ready. I saw a man being carried onto a stretcher. And the wounded and the alive climbed into the Pelican and took off.
They new there where more coming in our direction. Some of us could've gotten in the Pelican but the last thing those men needed was sleep and comfort so they would take up just about they whole Pelican.
We skimmed the area some more. Then we saw a Warthog come over the hill to the right of us. It stopped in front of us. 2 men got out of the front, one from the gunners mound, and there where two who came off the side of it. (They where hanging on to the side.)
" Well if it isn't Sergeant Johnson." Said Lieutenant Parker. The 2 men shook hands and padded each other on the back. The laughed.
" You son of a bitch I thought you where dead." Said Lieutenant Parker. They laughed again.
" Excuse me Lieutenant…but we have a mission." Said Sergeant McKay. The then stopped within a few seconds. We all began to start up a strategy. We first introduced our selves because even though we where all on one ship it were still hard to remember everyone's names. Sergeant Johnson's group had another Warthog back at their first checkpoint. So they could ride over back and bring it back so we had 1 for our use.
My group started to walk up the tower like platform while the other group went to go get the other Warthog.
" Holy shit men we got incoming Covenant!" Screamed Private Samson. We all had our weapons loaded so we where ready. We began to shoot.
" God damn, Ross patch yourself in to Sergeant Johnson!" Screamed McKay. Ross was a **Private. He was especially good at hand-to-hand combat. And he was very good at fixing things such as COM links and weapons.
I pulled the pin on one of my grenades and threw it across the battlefield. It exploded, 3 Grunts went flying.
" Men get to that fucking platform double time!" Screamed Lieutenant Parker. We all started to run. A Covenant Elite jumped in the air. It had his energy sword. It cut Ross's head right off. Blood went everywhere. His brains went everywhere. " You fucking bastard, die!" I screamed at the top of my lungs and shot like crazy. The Elite then fell. I ran to Ross's head as fast as I could and I took the remains of his dog tag and quickly put it in my pocket. I then ran up the stairs of the platform. We where surrounded. Why the hell did the Covenant attack us no when Sergeant Johnson's men left? I thought to myself. Then I remembered that the Covenant got where very smart. So I wondered if they new that if we had less men with us we'd be more vulnerable. That must have been it.
"In coming grenades!" Screamed The Lieutenant, as we all dived for cover. It made a loud noise and sparks of blue and purple went all over. And shrapnel from the wall came out and hit some of our backs but luckily no one was hurt. We got back up and started firing again. Those bastards where going down one by one. A stream of plasma came at Taylor and hit him right in the head. He dropped his rifle and fell to the floor. Brain fluid was seeping out of his head onto the floor. I then keep firing again. Kris who was a corporal took Taylor's dog tags and slipped them over his fingers.
Two men dead and we where surrounded. I reloaded my gun. These Covenant where smart, but compared to our aim and accuracy it didn't even come close. I hit two Grunts. Both fell down with there blue blood seeping everywhere. I took another grenade from my belt and pulled the pin. One Elite and four Grunts blew into chunks of carnage and guts.
" When are those bastards getting back?" Screamed McKay.
" Sir can you through me another…" Said Kris as he fell to the ground with a wound to his chest. I was close to Kris so I screamed.
" Jackson cover me! I'm going to try to help Kris!" I said. And Jackson nodded.
Jackson was a ***Private. He joined the military to get a collage education. Back in 2550. I looked over his profile a few years back. He had done some bad things back on earth but here it was a whole different story.
Jackson covered me like I had asked him. I took my pack out and opened it up. I took out my med kit and searched through it. I was looking for a cooling substance, which sealed the wound partially but didn't fix it entirely. I found it. I took it and injected it and around Kris. He screamed a little. But then he calmed. I left the med kit out just in case of another emergency. I then started shooting again. Kris could not do anything so I stayed and covered him.
It had been long enough. I patched myself in to Sergeant Johnson's HUD.
" Hey Sergeant where the hell are you?" I screamed to him.
" Where coming right over the hill, hang in there!" Said Sergeant Johnson.
" Ok then." I said. Then I turned off my HUD and kept on fighting. I decided to take out my M6D Pistol for a change because even though it held fewer rounds then my assault rifle I could zoom in and get a much clearer shot. So I set down my assault rifle and took out my pistol.
I zoomed in with my pistol and began to aim for the covenants heads. I first took my shot at a Jackle since it had an energy shield so it was harder to hit it. The energy shield reflected my first shot then I took another shot at it and it was hit right in the head. Just then I heard the noise of Warthog's come over the hill. The vehicles swerved to both sides of the platform and where shooting there gunners where shooting with there Jackhammers and the deadweights where shooting there assault rifles.
" The cavalry has arrived!" Screamed Sergeant Johnson. The Covenant where being picked off like cans on a fence. The Covenant's blood was all over the place. One of the Elites shoot a huge stream of built up plasma from his energy rifle. It came flying at one of the Warthog's. Luckily the Jackhammer shot at it in the air and it blew up. Even though the plasma didn't get them the shrapnel from the plasma exploding did. The little specks of plasma burned the Marine at the mound. He took his hands off the gun and put his hands to his face screaming. He fell off the back of the Warthog. An Elite ran up to him and was about to shoot.
Just then I felt a stream of air come past me. It was a combat knife going at a very fast speed. It hit the Elite right in the head right before it shot. Brain fluid was coming out of its head but it was still not dead. It resisted to fall down. The person who through it was a ****Private Jackson. Jackson was extremely good with knives. That was what he most wanted to use. He'd rather us a knife then a gun even if his chances with it where low.
The Elite pierced to rounds of plasma into the Marines chest. Blood came out of his mouth and then the Marine was dead. The Elite seemed to be getting off balanced so I pierced 4 rounds into it 2 for it to be dead and another to make sure.
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