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Last Stand Part one
Date: 15 March 2003, 11:27 PM
LAST STAND/COMABAT EVOLVED PART ONE
You awake to the sound of a fellow marine jumping out of his bunk putting on his armour and loading his MA5B, "hey wake up, mate!" he yells at you, "what's going on" you reply still half asleep; "those Covenant bastards are attacking us!" he yells at the top of his voice. You jump out of your bunk as quickly as you can, opening your foot locker scrambling to put on some fatigues and strapping on your breast plate, leg guards and a brimmed hat, "hey you'll need this!" yells First Sargeant Andersan the man in charge of Fire Team Bravo throwing you a M90 8 gauge shotgun and a box of shells, you place the boxes contents in you left leg pocket and a MD6 Pistol; which you stooged off a dead bloke from Reach you place in your right leg's holster and a few spare clips into the right pocket of your fatigues. Whilst loading up the shotgun Captain Keyes' voice booms over the loud speakers "This is Captain Keyes I want all squads to report to secondary Defensive positions, the Covenant are attempting to board this vessel I want all squads to guard empty life boat positions as Covenant are attaching boarding craft to the empty positions." What? You think as the loud speakers now falls silent, You wonder why the Covenant would bother attacking one ship as it attempted to escape Reach; it maybe that the Covenant are searching for the SPARTAN-II that was thought to be on this vessel. As you recall two marines bragging about that they saw him being loaded aboard the ship. You shrugged this thought off and get back to the job at hand; and that was to stop the Covenant from capturing this ship, "OK troop fall in!" Yells Sargeant Andersan and you fall into line next to the other marines, noting their medals and awards and noting that you only joined the UNSC only two months ago and that makes you the most inexperienced of the group. "OK, men we have led those dumb bugs away from Earth so they won't get their hands on it, but it seems we have stumbled onto something big, something they are scrambling over each other to get; well I don't care if it is God's on personal-anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant hoola hoop! We will not give it over to them, but we will give them a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in!" Yells Andersan at the top of his voice, "am I right marines?" "SIR YES, SIR!" you and the entire 35 man team of Bravo Team yell in response. "MM HMMM damn right I am!" Replies Andersan, "Now move it out, double time!" You and the Entire team move out you look around noting the scenery you can see Pelicans loading up other teams for departure onto this mysterious ring you have heard men on the radio talk about and also the impressive M808B Scorpion Tanks being loaded being loaded on some of the Pelicans; "hey, I'd hate to be a Covenant when those things get cracking mate!" Yells the marine running behind you, you notice his medals and awards on his chest, he must have been a good marine and still is. "Yeah I pity those pricks!" you yell back at him in response", "the Name's Hunt, Roger Hunt, what's yours mate?" You pause for a second, realise that no-one had ever asked your name in the entire two months no-one except for the guy who signed you up back on earth, "join the marines he said! See the universe he said! Man he never said kill an entire alien race! Oh, and the name is Race, William Race" you reply. "hahahaha, that's what the bloke said to me when I signed up too, Will, and hey just stick by me and you'll get through this, I've been in the Corp for 8 years and not a scratch" "you got your self a deal, mate!" you reply. Now noting that the squad has made it to the Warthog rack you bag driver seat, Roger bags gunner and Andersan bags passenger seat and other marines jump onto other Warthogs and your Warthog leads the pack along the service lane around the ship. "Keyes said the Covenant have been sighted along here you know so when we get Launch Bay 7 we get 4 pelicans to take 4 Warthogs down to the planet with us and use them as he has assigned us as scouts. Also Half the squad is gonna be deployed by Lifeboat" Says Andersan as you drive along the service lane at an impressive 150 kilometres an hour. Andersan waves a hand and 5 out of 9 Warthogs turn off at a different intersection heading for lifeboats to be dropped onto the surface.
"Hey Race" yells Roger holding onto the Warthog's M41 LAAG gun "yeah?" you say keeping an eye on the road. "Have you been in battle before?" Roger continues, "three times this will be the forth" you say still concentrating on the road, "Ah that's OK I thought you would be one of those still green newbs and end up in a body bag first time of action" Roger comments... You don't reply you just keep looking ahead. A few minutes later, "Ah Sargeant?" you say in a terrified voice, "What is it Race?" Andersan Replies, "tell me what do you see up the lane about half a click?" you say. Andersan pulls out his binoculars and trains it on the dots running around on the lane 536metres away; "Holy shit!" Andersan breathes. "What is it sir?" Roger asks Cocking the 12.7mm M41 LAAG just in case, "it's a Covenant landing party they've breached the landing bay!" Andersan replies sounding shocked. You slam on the brakes and the M12 LRV skids to a halt in a few metres, the other 3 Warthogs also stop. You can make out the shapes of what the landing squad consists of; 2 Elites, 3 Jackals and 12 grunts. All of who are involved in a fire fight with a squad of marines who were attempting to leave the Pillar Of Autumn by Pelican. Yet got caught by this Covenant Group who were dropped off by a drop ship which was destroyed before it left by a well placed SPNKr 102mm shaped charge. It seemed the marines were winning as they were taking cover behind a bunch of cargo crates and the debris of the wrecked drop-ship, the Covenant seemed suicidal against the marines they just kept coming and coming. "Give those, men some support Hunt!" yells Andersan as he rests his MA5B's forward grip onto the Warthog's roll cage to make his fire accurate over the distance, "sure thing, Sarge!" replies Roger, taking pleasure in rotating the M41 LAAG to the Covenant's direction. BLAM BLAM BLAM BLAM barks the M41 instantly cutting down all the grunts in the group, Andersan joins in by letting loose with his Assault rifle and kills a Jackal. The other marines just watched; you included; Andersan and Hunt mow down the Aliens also the marines down near the marines took their toll on the aliens as well. By lending to the battle with the SPNKr which they used to shoot down the drop ship, in 2 minutes of battle all the Covenant are dead, and the marines only took one loss and that was at the start when the aliens first landed in the bay. You gun the engine of the Warthog and speed down to the bay; the other marines follow as well in their Warthogs. As you reach the bay the marines that were behind the crate had already boarded one of the many Pelicans, yet the Sargeant of this group gives you a gesture and points to some crates on the ground; "let's check 'em out," says Roger. You pull up at the crates as the Pelican with the other marines in it leaves the ship, all the marines huddle around these crates; including you, Andersan pops the lids off crate with his 9inche combat knife, reviling a armament of two SPNKrs, one M90 and a Sniper Rifle, and loads of ammo for Assault Rifles, within minutes everything had been loaded into the Warthogs. Andersan signals to the Pelicans to come over and pick up these Warthogs, within Five minutes you and the other members of the Bravo team Scout force heads for this mysterious Ring...........................
Last Stand part 2
Date: 17 March 2003, 8:05 AM
LAST STAND/COMBAT EVOLVED PART 2
Inside the Pelican it was still rather noisy, yet bearable. Andersan checked and cleaned his newly acquired S2 AM Sniper rifle which he got from the crates which the squad they saved in the landing bay had left for them... Yet he was not the only marine who got stuff from those crates; you also acquired a MA5B with a full ammo pouch to clip onto you combat webbing, you have placed the Assault rifle on a sling and have it on your back resting gently between your shoulder blades, Roger also acquired a M90 shotgun from the crates and checked it. Also and other marines in the other Pelicans had also had got extra MA5B ammo, two SPNKr rocket launchers and a few M6D combat pistols; now the squad was starting to look like a heavily equipped scout team! Every marine had 4 M9 HE-DP grenades on their webbing each. "Hey, Race!" yells Roger from the front seat near the cockpit while you chose to sit on the right hand side seat near the exit ramp, "what?" you yell back as you were in deep thought wondering if we might get out of this alive. "You said you were in combat three other times where were they?" Roger replies, "all on Reach" you say trying to get back to your thoughts. "How bad were you hit each time?" Roger says sounding interested in the topic... "Pretty bad" you say back. Roger walks over to you and sits in the seat opposite of you, "tells about the WORST one," he says.
"Ok then, it might take awhile though"
"Don't worry," says Andersan taking interest it the topic, "we still got twenty minutes till we reach the drop point."
You mind thinks back to the last battle you fought in at Reach three hours before you boarded the Autumn, explaining every detail to Andersan and Hunt.
All the marines of the 235th Assault Squad (your old unit before being posted to Bravo team because of its loss of manpower before boarding the Autumn as well) were all in trenches 5 foot deep; deep enough to duck down out of view and duck up to fire you only have about 20 cm about ground as a target and is pretty hard to hit yet the Covenant always seemed to kill even the most concealed marine. All you had then as a weapon was a MA5B with a half full ammo pouch as you had used that much in the other two battles, ducking and firing constantly you manage to kill 5 elites and a Jackal, yet there was still only a million to kill! "One down a million to go" says private Anthony Ryans as he takes down a Elite in a single burst; aiming low at it's feet and letting the weapons kick leave the last round to hit the Elite in the head. "Hey that's not far from the truth!" Yells your life long friend Private First Class Erric Holwe who you signed up with as a dare against each other and you did it! The reason why he was a PFC was because in basic training he showed a great amount of skill with a S2 AM sniper rifle and joined the sniper command of the 235th being promoted to PFC, as do all snipers of the Marine Corp. Erric was using his S2 right now dispatching another Elite with a furious head shot spraying over another Elite turning it's beautiful Blue armour to a hideous red mess. BLAM Erric's S2 fired again hitting the now red colour Elite in a head shot as well but this one was different even though a fist sized chunk was missing from it's head it was still running towards the position. The Covenant attack force was now 50 metres away and the Elite sprinted towards the trenches closing the ground quickly; while Erric was struggling to get a jammed cartridge out of the rifles breach. The Elite made it to the trench with a few extra holes, but it was running on pure adrenaline or what ever aliens have instead o it and it was pissed we I think I would be too. Now the Alien had a plasma grenade in one hand Plasma Rifle in the other, "HOLY SHIT! GET THAT MOTHER FUCKA'!" yell one of the marines standing near the Elite who was now standing above the trench screaming some war cry, you raise your MA5B in response holding down on the trigger and letting the kick from the rifle let the last round it the burst hit the alien in the head and the Elite falls into the trench next to Erric and the other marines standing near him. The Elite with it's last amount of strength released it's grip on the grenade release the weird type of spoon and arming the grenade, "sweet Jesus!" yelled one of the marines standing near Erric yells in a petrified voice. Erric without thinking and you could only watch helplessly as Erric jumped onto the grenade sacrificing his own life for the men next to him BOOM the grenade detonated and all the parts of Erric and the elite were flung all over the place... Shock seeing you best friend blasted into a million pieces makes you stand up grabbing another Assault Rifle lying on the ground and holding both assault rifles one in each hand. You hold down the triggers of both of them letting loose with a hail of 7.62mm super charged bullets into the Covenant ranks causing lots of wounds not killing anything back wounding almost entire group of grunts as they moved forward other marines responding to this threw grenades at them and fired their MA5Bs at the aliens who were now 10 metres away. "Blow the Claymores!" yelled the captain in charge, you don't know his name but he is a veteran of many battles and only met him once, and with his command the entire field of claymores lying 9.5 metres away from the trenches exploding and killing the entire Alien force as it moved forward............ Then in 2 hours time as the battle had taken 1 hour; you were on the Pillar of Autumn and speeding away from the doomed planet of Reach...
"And you guys know the rest" you say concluding your story. "Damn that's some nasty shit!" replied Roger from the seat opposite of you, "damn straight' says Andersan.
"LZ looks clear," Says the female pilot of the pelican and she opens the atmosphere protection door and revealing the mysterious ring world, which looked like earth, but it wasn't. The surrounding area of the LZ was a green pastureland and with some pine trees scattered around. The Warthogs were dropped first and then the Pelicans circled around and landed the Scout team right near their Warthogs. "We'll be near the command shuttle, just give us a call and we'll come pick you up" and with the Pelicans left them and flew off.
"Ok, marines, mount up!"
And with that you and the marines sped off scouting the surrounding areas for any covenant around the area.........
Last stand part 3
Date: 30 March 2003, 8:07 AM
LAST STAND/COMBAT EVOLVED PART 3
The sounds of the four Warthogs of Fire Team Bravo's engines were humming gently in the impressive valley as they sped across the plains at 129 km/p; well that is what your Warthog's speedo says anyway. "Now can you tell us what the hell we are doing here now, sir?" you ask First Sargeant Andersan, "scouting the area for enemy AA weapons, it seems a few of our recon picket were attack by AA weapons and we lost contact with them" replies Andersan. "Hey, stop!" yells Roger left hand pointing at the ridge were movement could clearly be seen, "does that look like a patrol, sir?" Andersan raises his binoculars and trains them on the movement on the hill, "yeah" he replies, "friend or foe?" you include in a worried voice continuing the Warthog's carnivorous speed across the valley and dodging a few old logs. "Steady, mate!" yells Roger struggling to re-balance after the last turn around the log, "why don't you drive then?!" you yell back at him, "keep you're eyes on those what ever they are, so what are they Sarge? Friend or foe?" "Friend" replies Andersan pointing to the Pelican barely noticeable in the distance, "good, we need to find out were the Covenant are, man I'm itchin' to get back at 'em!" Roger explains. "Go over to them, sir?" you ask Andersan bluntly, "yeah, Will, go over there" he replies.
With in a few minutes the four Warthog's arrive at the 8-man patrol of fire team Vector, the radio in the 'Hog crackles to life "all right, men, move low keep your guns up and secure the area around the Warthogs." "Nice to see you sir, welcome to the end of the world!" replied Corporal Sven Kilgower lowering his MA5B and pointing to his name so you and the other 11 men of the team would see. "Hey, man!" yelled one of the marines in your squad jumping out of the gunner's seat of one of the M12 LRVs and running over to one of the marines of the new squad and shaking his hand. "So what can we do to make your stay on this little planet more bearable, Sarge?" said Sven in a smart-ass tone, "kill the enemy" replied Andersan. "Any way what are you guys doing here?" you explain to the Vector fire team marines, "well PRIVATE, we are here doing the same thing as you searching for Covenant anti-matter AA missiles" replies Sven sounding pissed that he was talked to by a private that way. "Well get your boys in here Kilgower, just put two of your men in each 'Hog and they can sit in the back we'll just ditch the tents we won't need them" interrupts Andersan before a fist fight could start between the two marines.
In five minutes you and the squad with its 8 more men included in the ranks were speeding across the plains trying to save time by driving up stream and cutting between the hills as they were to rocky to drive over. The Warthogs all start sounding like real jeeps as their engines accelerate and produce more power, making it easy to climb up the river, nothing serious yet still slowing the Warthogs to a snail's pace of 12 km/p. "Boy can you control these things easily... ah er..." Said one of the marines trying to catch a glimpse of your name tag on your shoulder pad, noticing the old regiment number. "Shit, man the 235th man that was my old unit as well", pointing to his shoulder badge, "what squad?" you ask keeping an eye on the on coming path. "Alpha, but we got the shit kicked out of us by those damn spec op dudes, only one twelfth of the squad got away, what squad were you in?" continues the marine checking his SPNKr's breech for any sign of it becoming jammed, "Zulu, the reserves, but we were called up in the first few hours of fighting, and heard about the Alpha squad, real fire eaters!" You reply noticing the river ends in a few metres, "that's us, well we used to be" included Sven also pointing to the 235th Alpha squad badge on his hat, "any more of you guys around then?" you ask. "Nope me and Sven are the only ones here yet I think there are still a few of us in Fire team Charlie squad though, oh yeah the name is George, George Wells" said Wells, who was still checking the breech of his SPNKr. "Nice to meet you George".........
With a sudden BANG the rear Warthog was hit by a fuel rod gun blast yet it missed every thing it only caused a fist sized dint on the Warthog's titanium armour and then the source of the blast could be seen a group of grunts and Elites with one grunt with a Fuel Rod gun. The enemy who were on the left side of your Warthog scurrying around and firing heated plasma at the Scout group, "Die mother fucker!" You yell removing your M6D and firing at the group who were less than 50 metres away, one grunt falls over half of it's face blown of by one of the bullets, "way to go!" Yells Wells fixing his SPNKr's sights on the group and firing a deadly two-shell burst at the Covenant. BOOM, BOOM explodes the two 102mm shaped charges as they detonated on the ground under the aliens... " Hey I Guess they do fly!" yells a marine in one of the other LRVs firing his MA5B at the group another grunt of the remaining four falls over; dead. "There's only a few left, Will, drive up there and we'll chuck a few M-9s at them" yells Andersan over the din of his S2 sniper rifle and dispatches another alien. Everyone pulls the pin out of a M9 He-DP grenade and releases the spoon when the enemy were no less than 20 metres away, CLING ING ING rings the sound of the spoons being released. "Now" yells Andersan throwing his grenade first causing everyone to throw theirs, well except you and the other three drivers of the Warthog's who are busy driving the Warthogs, KABOOM explodes all the grenades as one causing extreme damage and killing all the Covenant in the blast radius. All the Warthogs' brakes screech to a halt even though they are on about 30 degrees angle facing up hill, about 5 metres from the top were the aliens were firing from...
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH, are the sounds heard from your position as 3 AA anti-matter missiles rushed up into the sky hitting a Pelican Drop-ship coming to evacuate a group of marines a few hundred kilometres away. The pelican was hit it the rear causing damage to the rear, right hand side engine causing it to cough and splutter. The Pelican's flight was short lived as it lost altitude very quickly and crashed in to a hill, bright orange flames spewed from it's wreckage lighting up the hillside. "Hey those AA missiles are other there!" replied a Private Wallace Jenkins pointing over at the trails the missiles left behind after them, "no shit Sherlock!" Replied Sven in a sarcastic voice and checking his Assault rifle's clip. "Head over there, Will" said Andersan taking control of the situation and pointing out to a hill and signalling the other Warthogs to follow as the squad were on radio silence till they destroyed the battery of missiles. In a few minutes the Warthogs arrived at the top of the hill and placing on the parking brake so the 'Hog won't roll down the hill. You step out of the vehicle and running in half crouch with the MA5B at the ready and putting the M90 on your back, you are soon joined by the rest of the squad on the crest in a few seconds, looking down into the valley you notice the Covenant hardware down near the missile battery which was basically a three tubed rack facing skywards with a Covenant computer in a crate type thing connected to it. The aliens have five ghosts and a idle Banshee sitting on the ground with it's pilot walking around looking at the wreck of the Pelican which was only 50 metres away and the Elite was searching through the wreckage for any survivors. "Well I'm gonna nail that Elite near the wreckage first looks like the pilot and we don't want a 'shee flying around shooting at us" said Andersan changing his scopes setting to adjust for the longer range. "Wells, you take, Race and circle around behind them on foot, it should only take 20 minutes at the most we'll give you 25 minutes though then after that we will starting shooting and god help us if your not there to nail a few of those ghosts for us," said Sven. "Ok" you and wells reply already running in half crouch and now carrying 8 SPNKr shells in a pouch clipped to your webbing and Wells was bringing up the rear with the SPNKr on his shoulder and M6D in his holster at the ready. Within 20 minutes you both were in position with the 8 spare shells for the SPNKr lying on the ground next to you for easy reach and you already had set your Assault rifle's sights for the correct range and were ready to kick some ass!
The Yellow Banshee; re-edited
Date: 2 April 2003, 8:10 AM
THE YELLOW BANSHEE; the re-edited version!
The roar of engines was loud while the 5 Banshee escort were flying along strafing the unknown enemy under the battle cruiser the Truth and Reconciliation and were attempting to board the vessel which they have already breeched the hull and engine coolant was pouring on the ground making it a hard job for the Elite Special Operations team to kill them.
The weird menace seemed to dwell in the liquid, the 5 Banshees were the escort of the gold Elite commander Kahn, a ferocious leader of soldiers, his acts on Reech caused some of the pitiful humans' loss of their precious SPARTANs and had led a squad of Spec Ops against enemy positions and almost signally kill one of the SPARTANs. Kahn, due to his brave efforts on Reech was given the highest honour, a Gold Banshee, a Banshee with 5 times as more armour than a regular Banshee and instead of the slow firing fuel rod gun it had a repeating fuel rod gun firing almost fully automatic. The Banshees continued making strafing runs against these new enemies whilst still moving towards the Battle Cruiser, with in a few minutes the Banshees had landed in the landing bay and had secured the area around Kahn as he exited his Banshee.
Kahn growled at two Elites who were standing near the door guarding it in case the enemies attacked and told them to stand guard at the banshees and keep an eye on his Yellow Banshee. Kahn started moving towards a door which headed to the command centre, flanked on each side by a Spec Op Elite as all of his pilots were part of the Spec Op unit, and he had two moving in front of him and one behind. The had reached the door and opened it Kahn readied his plasma sword and had in an offensive position ready to behead any enemy dumb enough the rush him, his escort had their plasma rifles at the ready and had plasma swords at the ready on their webbing in case they need kill something fast, Kahn had a plasma rifle also but left it hanging on his webbing. After a few minutes of walking they met a group of elites pinned down by the new enemy which he knew nothing about firing in a corridor, the Elites put up a good fight but the weirdly mutated elites and marines won the battle racing up to the bodies and releasing some of the little green squid things which latched onto the dead bodies and dug into the back of their ribs and grabbing onto the spines of their hosts. Kahn growled at this yelling at his escort to kill the enemies, they opened up with deadly precession and blew entire heads of the weird enemies but they kept coming one got too close to Kahn so he swung with his sword splitting it in half and leaving the body to shake wildly on the ground. The escort quickly had to draw their swords as the hosts were less than 5 metres away and their movements seemed slow and pointless their heads seemed to wobble as they moved as it meant their neck had been snapped they had human pistols and assault rifles and a vast assortment of covenant needlers, plasma pistols and rifles. Kahn screamed in anger as one of his escort had just had it neck snapped by one of the hosts as it used its tentacles to break it's neck in one swift motion, the other Elites responded by going agro and quickly charging the enemy and killing them all in a few seconds, the bodies of the hosts lay twisted and they seem half eaten.
Kahn inspected one of the bodies and saw one of the green squid things latched to the host, which was a human's spine; it had broken the marine's neck and latched onto the spine taking control of the body. Kahn saw that the squid thing was still alive and quickly jabbed it with his sword causing it to explode and caused the marines chest cavity to explode open, this gave Kahn a better view of what the squid had done, it had eaten the marine's stomach, intestines, parts of is liver, kidney and even lungs, yet it still was able to attack with speed and agility, the marines skull had been blown in half most likely from a earlier attack maybe before he was killed and mutated. Kahn signalled to keep moving towards the control centre and they moved on leaving the dead elites and marines to finally rest in peace not in pieces. They reached the control centre and they met up with several rough looking Elites and another Gold Elite, he was Stiek, Stiek was the commander of the ground forces here and had called for assistance after he had been called here to kill some new enemy which had started in the detention station and they had first taken the form of dead marines and had escape and killed their guards and taken their weapons and then used their bodies to attack more then steal their bodies and weapons and so on then eventually they had almost taken over the ship, Stiek was celled in before they last contact then after an hour of fighting the Spec Op units had taken control of the ship but with heavy casualties.
After they had secured the ship they began to clean up the bodies and then the flood, as some Elites had called them as they kept coming had attacked again getting more host bodies and this time killing off entire platoons of Elites in seconds. Kahn had come here to evacuate Stiek and what remain of his personal guard which as now just down to 3 Spec Op Elites with Plasma swords, Kahn growled over at Stiek telling him to follow him back to the shuttle bay and leave this ship in a pre-arranged drop ship which was waiting for Kahn's signal to come and pick up the survivors as the commander so the fleet had ordered all commanders back to their capital ships, Kahn had come along to see this new enemy and make a report about them. They had made good progress and had made it to where they had killed the 'flood' hosts before had disappeared, most likely to be remade into servants of this dark enemy who had never heard of a soldiers time of rest; when he dies. They continued moving not taking any notice of the missing bodies, Kahn and Stiek had been placed in the centre of the group and the other Elites formed a ring around them protecting them if any 'flood' decided to make a appearance.
They reached the hanger to only find a hell of a mess, banshee wreckage was spilled over the floor and battered dead Elites lay on the ground most likely kill in the explosion. Kahn was shocked he looked around for parts of his yellow banshee to see if it had been destroyed in the explosion, then he saw it a gapping hole where his banshee had been sitting so he looked down the hole, it fell down into the gorge and there it's wingtip was submerged in coolant was his banshee upside down but ok. He growled into his communicator to tell the drop ship to come in and retrieve him and the team, they said they would there soon so he signalled two elites to come and help him retrieve his Banshee, he instructed them to jump with him down into the pool of coolant below. They fell fast hitting the coolant, it was cold, extremely cold, well it was designed to keep engine cool, they crawled out of the coolant and reached the Banshee it was intact and could be flown, then they heard it the sound of the dropship landing in the shuttle bay, the two Elites yell at each other saying how will they get back up there. Then Kahn saw it, the unmistakable sight of a large body of 'flood' moving towards them, a mixed arsenal of weapons, shooting blindly at Kahn and the Elites, one of the Elites fell first a burn mark caused by a plasma rifle had hit him in the head, the other Elite growled at this throwing a grenade at the group, BANG it went off killing, well killing them again, the hosts and sending body parts flying.
The Elite gave Kahn a knowing look knowing that he would not escape this fight and yelled at Kahn to get away while he still could, the reason the Elite did this is because he saw the drop ship flying off into the distance with out them. Then the Elite doubled over a fist-sized chuck missing from its neck; it coughed on the ground not struggling because it knew it was over for him. Kahn was shocked, another casualty in such a short time, he went to start up the Banshee, it didn't start but it was no good the so called 'dead' hosts which were caught in the grenade blast started to rise again already moving fast towards Kahn. Kahn to knew resistance was futile, some of the hosts had rocket launchers and were already firing shells at him, the shells were close but not close enough, Kahn ready some grenades and gathered grenades of the two dead Elites and stuck them to his Banshee and ready to release the spoons and destroy his Banshee, the 'flood' would soon be near him and he knew if they got his knowledge they could easily repair this banshee and it could be used against his comrades to deadly affect. Kahn pulled the spoons and counted to 3 one... two... three... BOOM! The Banshee exploded in a flash of white light and gold pieces were flung across the valley, then still remaining near the main wreckage of the banshee was the burnt and mangled body of Kahn, missing all parts of his body. Then in the next hour Master Chief the last remaining SPARTAN II had destroyed the Pillar of Autumns fusion cores and caused a wild cat destabilisation and caused the Autumn to explode and destroy the ring world killing all. Chief and the military grade AI Cortana escape the planet and lived to fight another day.
And that is the Story of the Yellow Banshee, yet more Yellow Banshees remain this was the only one to be used in the HALO incident.
An Unlikely Alliance part one
Date: 10 April 2003, 12:54 PM
An Unlikely Alliance
The hypnotic buzzing whirr of the Assault rifle was heard easily in the dark cement walls of the ancient structure of the mysterious ring, the source of the fire, one of the MA5Bs held by Private Molke Gunther; a German; who had an MA5B in each hand. Molke was shooting at the strange green squid things crawling towards him on their tentacles, with each burst from his rifle about 10 of these squids would implode and causing a chain reaction within the ranks of this new enemy. Click Click were the sounds heard by Molke as his MA5B in his left hand ran dry of ammo he instinctively raised the one in his right and let loose with an entire clip and whilst still running along this structures long hallways, he had been running for 2 minutes after his squad was attack and he escaped. Molke only knew these new enemies were enemies because he had witnessed his entire squad being overwhelmed by these enemies while he was in the corner having a leak, his entire squad was killed or was twitching as those squids were inside the dead men's chest. Molke had jumped over the corpses and escaped out the door to only be confronted by the squids and had to run the other way down the corridor and he was continuously firing burst from his MA5B then he found another dead marine and took his MA5B and fired a burst into the dead man's chest killing the squid in there. Then here he was now.
Molke continued this turning around firing a burst and when he ran out of ammo in the clip reload and repeat again every now and then throwing one of his M9 HE grenades into the ranks. He continued this for another 100 metres and found a door he took this and was instantly fired at by a group of marines that were scared shitless as they had just been attacked by the enemy but won without a casualty. Molke jump back behind the door.
"Hold your fire numbnuts!" yelled one of the marines to his comrades. Molke run through the door after hearing this,
"Squids... right... behind me!" yelled Molke short of breath,
"Alright squad, two lines facing the door!" yelled the sargeant. There were 12 men, 13 including the Sargeant, the men formed two lines of six one kneeling the other standing up at the back, the Sargeant gestured to Molke to come and stand behind them all. The weird yet traumatising sound of the squids could be heard, it seemed that they weren't interested in the marines and one marine gave a loud sigh of relief, then one of the squids heard this and came close to the door not moving yet just sitting there sensing for movement. The entire squad just stood there motionless then one marine was sweeting badly it seemed he was about to crack over the pressure of standing still. Then he just held down on the trigger of his rifle and let loose a hail of bullets at the single squid, it was killed instantly.
"Hold your fire!" yelled the Sargeant in charged, Molke noticed his nametag 'Wallace' yet Molke couldn't see his first name just his surname. The other squids in the corridor stopped when they heard the fire, the marine who had fired the burst just stood up from his kneeling position and ran outside the door arms flailing wildly and he got to the door and opened up on the squids he killed over 40 with his clip but as he was reloading one of the squids latched onto his back and dug into his back.
"Get it off! Get it off!" yelled the marine. Blam, Wallace's M90 shotgun belched flame killing the marine and the squid in one shell.
"You!" yelled Wallace pointing to Molke, "take that marines position!" Molke obeyed falling in line next to the marines, he knelt down with duel rifles, and the squids started moving through the door, over the smoking marine's body.
The firefight was short the marines opened up and killed over 50 of them and continued to fire at the 30 or so ones left, in 30 seconds the squids were dead. One of the marines kneeling next to Molke stood up and ran in half crouch towards the door leaning up against it and peeping around the side, all clear, the marine gave Wallace a signal and the other marines moved. Molke didn't though he was still taking in the events he had just witnessed, squids, crazy soldier and a hell of a lot of noise!
"You comin' or not?" said Sargeant Wallace, waving his hand to get Molke's attention, Molke snapped out of it and also moved to the door in half crouch, Molke placed one of his MA5Bs on his back and used just one for now as two rifles use a lot of ammo. Molke ran with his rifle held high and quickly caught up with the other marines as they leaped frogged each others movements moving down the direction Molke had came from, Molke fell into line with Wallace yet he didn't notice Molke. Molke cleared his throat to get the sargeant's attention, Wallace gave Molke a stone cold look, and Molke quickly lessened his running to let the sargeant get on ahead.
"Don't mind him that's tool banger, real fire eater doesn't like cowards, you saw what he did to Jeff, oh sorry, to you he was the guy tool banger shot before." Said a marine who also slowed down and fall into line next to Molke, the marine could see Molke's expression of confusion on his face as he ran.
"My name is Halmes, Tom Halmes, people just call me shortie as I'm about 5 inches shorter than the other blokes" Tom's Aussie accent was strong, Molke glanced at the marine he didn't look that short, maybe it was he was running at the same height as Molke.
"My name is Molke Gunther, I was part of the second squad on the surface, but we came down to secure the elevator and make the Captain's evac easier and then these things attacked us I got away and met you guys" a tear started to form under Molke's left eye, obviously saddened by the loss of his comrades.
"Don't worry well get out of this," said Shortie.
"Shortie"
"Yeah?"
"Just wondering, you got any spare clips?" said Molke looking that Shortie had an idle rifle on his back as he was using an M90 shotgun.
"Yeah here" said Shortie handing Molke 6 clips, "now don't use 'em on the same covenant bastard now!" That made Molke think, he hadn't seen any Covenant not even any dead ones, he had seen plenty of dead marines though.
"You seen any covenant?" inquired Molke
"No" replied Shortie, "Have you?"
"No" Molke replied bluntly. "Hey Shortie, why do you call Tool Banger, Tool Banger? If I'm going to die today I just want to know why you call him that."
"Well simply he just bangs his tools aka; US!" Shortie fastened up his run and quickly overtook the German.
A slight twitching sound made Molke look over his shoulder and he wished he hadn't, he saw the cold dead eyes of an Elite hiding in the corner yet this Elite didn't seem to have noticed him, Molke stopped and hissed to Shortie. Shortie stopped and left the main part of the group and ran back.
Tool Banger just thought when he saw this, damn cowards.
Molke pointed to the Elite, Shortie moved closer and the Elite didn't move, Shortie was close enough to poke the Elite with his rifle. Shortie poked him and nothing happened, he did it again, nothing, Molke walked up and kicked it's damn face in! Nothing, it was truly dead. After it made contact with Molke's boot in toppled over and hit the ground with a thump; it had been leaning against the wall and now lay on its back sprawled across the floor. Some thing puzzled the two marines why was it dead? It had no sign of injury on it, the only damage on it was a few tiny dinks on its armour and it's now kicked in face.
"I'm gonna get his plasma grenades we might need 'em" said Shortie now turning over the body and there it was. A Hole in it's back the size of a basketball.
"Crap look at that, it's gut has been eaten! And so has it's liver, what the hell is going on here?" Shortie kicked the corpse to see how stiff it was, it was pretty stiff, been dead maybe two days.
"Marines couldn't have done this, we've only been here for 8 hours." Molke added.
But what lay in the gut's and liver's place was something more sinister, one of those green squids, yet this on was dead. Shortie made sure of this by stabbing the squid with his knife, it's green blood oozed out of the hole the knife had made.
"Better tell Tool banger!" said Shortie pulling out his radio. Suddenly his Radio crackled to life and then gunfire could be heard.
"Damn it Shortie, and you the other guy get here now we don't have time to explain we're being attacked!"
Wallace and his squad were in a hell of a mess, they had walked into a trap, hundreds of the squids were attacking them and even some green mutants were attacking as well using captured Assault rifles, pistols and covenant weaponry. Soon Wallace was the only one left, he just kept firing his M90 into the enemy's ranks and soon he also met the fate of his men.
Back in the corridor Shortie and Molke had almost reached the door to the elevator shaft were Tool Banger and his squad were, when the gunfire stopped, they stopped as well.
"Anybody answer me!" Shortie yelled into his throat microphone.
"They're gone," Molke said showing no remorse.
"Let's get going then," Shortie said wiping the tears that were forming under his eyes away.
That is the end of this chapter please comments on what you think if you like it I'll post the other parts!
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