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The First Step Into A Long Fall Part 3
Posted By: JediKnight114<JediKnight114@aol.com>
Date: 14 May 2002, 10:54 pm
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Well the worst happened to Delta squad, everyone hung in silence. Jake had gotten out of sick bay (after a little mingle with the nurse) and had joined up with the rest of his squad. Life around the base was easy going, every day something new would turn up and with research facilities going full charge something big was bound to happen. As for some of the new technical advances there was a simple shield devise that automatically charged and covered the area in which the projectile was to strike, sort of like a smart shield. Another was a new battle armor, it had multiple layers the classic titanium alloy cover with a layer of anti flame material with a water base inside, and the very bottom layer was heavy Kevlar with a steal strip running through it. All made lighter by advanced movement enhancers. The usual supply ship came on its schedule and past on the news about our several defeats and few wins, morale was running low these days. Then the solemn tune of life was cut short when the base intercom came to, "Eagle Battalion report to briefing on the double" . Alex looked up form his meal to see his fellow soldiers running and scurrying to and fro until Jake ran by and did one of those double takes and stopped turned around and grabbed Alex,
"c'mon man we gotta go", then commander Dalton's voce came over again
"All combat teams on alert Alpha 1 , Fire teams to offensive positions, stand ready"
Something was up and everyone knew it, the entire battalion had assembled and was ready. Dalton soon showed his weary face and asked if everyone would watch the projection screen in the center of the room. The screen came to life and showed massive scenes of destruction, an entire base annihilated smoldering wreckage was everywhere with wisps of flam and smoke rising up. Then the camera flashed back, showing scenes of incredible fighting, explosions big enough to rip apart tanks and reinforced bunkers gun fire projectile and plasma alike was all over the place. The camera panned and zoomed on a marine hanging on the back of an elite stabbing it with his combat knife, purple blood oozed everywhere then the elite limp without life slumped and fell. The marine then got up and was hit in the back by a charged shot, a huge hole was blasted into him and with a dieing breath he threw a grenade onto a gold elite, a beautiful flash of blue went off. Then the camera flickered and then dimmed. "alright gentlemen as you can see we have our selves a problem. We are dispatching you to this area here 4.45 clicks south by south west of installation 026 where we believe to have found a covenant force there. You will have full force compliments and every piece of equipment we have churned out over that past months. Your objective here is to eliminate any and all forces there and to establish a outpost to hold your position until we provide relief. May luck carry you so far may your skill hold you upright and may the survival of mankind keep you alive, God Speed gentlemen."
In all 60 drop ships and 2 cargo ships were airborne and enroute to their target. Jake and Alex settled up together, "hey whatta ya say we set up together this time?"
"sure, I can't see the harm in that", the drop ships landed an hour or 2 off schedule due to bad weather. As they landed tanks and jeeps all busied themselves with setting up a perimeter, 103 tanks and 70 jeeps all made use of themselves. Captain Mclarkin came over the comm. Channel, " ok boys we have some bastards to go kill" with that the behemoth force moved on.
"this is Jolly Green to Eagle's landing enemy sighted 250 meters north of our current position, I count 53 mortar tanks 20 ghost escorts and roughly 3 elite squads, 10 squads of grunts and jackals , we have our work cut out for us sir"
"hmm right lets see , all units move east 5 degrees I want cutthroat interceptors on point, soften em up a bit." then the unmistakable roar of the interceptor's engines were heard off in the distance , then over head , and then out in front . As the cutthroats were flying escort longswords came in and dropped their payload, secondary explosions confirmed hitting their targets. Jake and Alex had moved ahead to pre- position themselves with the other snipers.
"snipers in position we have I repeat we have a clear shot may we engage enemy ?"
"permission granted engage enemy on your mark I repeat you are clear fire at your discretion"
As that was said white contrails were seen being shot off and elite after elite dropped then the fire concentrated to the jackals. but the jackals soon organized themselves and walled up next to each other. "shit that's gonna be a problem" yelled Another marine suppressing fire continued to keep the jackals pinned. Then the warthogs leaping and bounding over the ridge came charging out into the midst of everything chain guns going everywhere. The covenant mortar tanks quickly countered this sudden onslaught, 5 jeeps were taken out and 2 more damaged in a volley of super hot plasma. 4 scorpions took vantage on either side of the ridge pass and fired. The other scorpions filed in and took u positions and fired as well, plasma and tanks shells were exchanged. A costly effort but scorpion after scorpion was cratered though each tank did not perish in vain, they took out 23 mortar tanks.
"move forward advance bring heavy fire don't let our lead slip" with that everyone lurched forward and sniper fire opened again a gold elite directing covenant troop movement was shot through the head by 5 different snipers and then shot twice in the chest just to make sure he wouldn't get back up, longswords came over again and dropped more bombs, huge fireballs plumed upwards where they hit. Then a group of 25 hunters appeared over the far northern hill closest to the covenant base. They immediately opened fire their fuel rods clashing down peppering the battle field, killed both covenant and humans.
"Jake c'mon lets get those hunters"
"ya I'm with ya"
"wait I have something on my motion tracker,... Hold up" Alex raised his rifle and clicked on his inferred which wined to life casting the world into the mute red thermal world. He saw 3 cold spots shaped like an elite, he pulled the trigger twice over what he thought to be the head of one of them, it fell dead it's jaw twisted and broken. The other two took cover but were stopped short by a volley of grenades tossed by a group of marines behind the elites, they smiled and waved the all clear to Jake and Alex. They both moved on and took up temporary cover in some bushes Alex mounted his rifle again and sighted in on one of the hunters...
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