Battle for Croton 3.5
Posted By: Earl Hershberger<echersh@earthlink.net>
Date: 11 September 2003, 6:45 PM
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Battle for Croton 3.5
So there they stood face to face with a prophet.
"If you truly wish to help us." The prophet began, but was quickly cut short from a plasma bolt hitting him in the head.
"No way" Grater said, "Shandor you actually did something right."
"It was an accident" Shandor whined "I didn't mean to shoot him it just kind of happened."
"No, no you did the right thing." Renner assured him.
"Or maybe it was a her," Shandor was going off in his own world.
"Let's just find away out of hear, Grater hold off on using that nuke we're not in the covenant ship anymore."
"Fine" Grater said kicking the floor a little depressed.
It took the better part of three days to escape from the forerunner structure; to the marines it seemed like one long hellish nightmare. They had lost only a few people since they tried their best to keep out of the ensuing chaos. Finally they reached the exit after fighting a tooth and nail battle to escape, Andrea came up with the casualty list.
"We lost Duke, James, Frank, and Shelly." She said showing no emotion.
'Guess we won't be seeing any girl on girl action now." Grater said, and gave Andrea a cat call. (This was regardless to say a bad idea.) All he got was a swift kick in the balls and a hard punch in the face. The remaining marines couldn't contain themselves they fell over laughing. This soon ended when Grater reminded them he was still holding the nuke.
"As I was saying we five are the only left." Andrea finished.
'Well shit" Renner said "I say we find the covenant ship it can't be to far away."
Just then static came over Shandor's radio and the familiar if not nauseating voice of Jamison the same asshole who had sent them on this stupid mission came over the radio.
Renner grabed the speaker. "Sir, sir we need help my team has taken heavy losses and we need evac." A different voice then came over the line. "Roger that well get you evac ASAP, but we have some major problems of our own."
The next five hours consisted of setting up the nuke, swimming in a hot spring, beating on each other and Hillock trying to get Andrea to take of all her clothes
"OH MY GOD" Shandor screamed as he was thrown non to lightly into the hot spring.
Hillock was still talking to Andrea and getting punched once in a while for his trouble.
Renner just sat thinking to himself, why couldn't it always be like this. No covenant, a roaring fire, friends to share stories with, Shandor getting the crap beat out of him regularly. He almost hoped evac wouldn't come, there was only one problem they were almost out of food they had two days rations left but at the moment he didn't care he was in heaven.
Jamison frowned "We've lost three recon bases in twenty minutes pull the rest of the recon bases back to more defendable positions"
"Yes sir" Micigger said. "Permission to speak sir."
"Go ahead" Jamison said "It's not like it's really going to matter."
"Well I would like to know were the hell the covenant got all these troops from, I mean we had them on the run and I doubt they have a ship in orbit or they would have glassed us so what's the deal?"
"I didn't want to tell you this but."
"But what?" Micigger said getting very impatient.
"Well this planet has (he ponders for a moment looking for the right worlds) formations from an advanced race, our scientist had been extracting and trying to adapt some of the technology."
"So that's why we had so many ships in orbit for an H class planet."
"Exactly," Jamison continued apparently the covenant was doing the same thing so we both slipped past each others noses, so it is possible to surmise that the covenant could still be slipping in troops or they had a lot more to begin with, either scenario is not good."
"Well it looks like the fighting has stopped for the night" Micigger said more to himself than anybody else.
The next morning a pelican touched down.
"Time to go marines" Renner barked.
They all came sprinting back, first came Grater he was in nothing but his boxers.
"Sorry sir was in the middle of trying to drown Shandor, and I didn't want to miss the bus."
Next came Shandor bruised, beaten, and soaking wet but somehow still in high spirits.
"ME AND GRATER WERE JUST HAVING A GOOD TIME."
"I'm sure he was" Renner said letting himself a small laugh.
Next came Hillock with a black eye and a bruised arm.
"I got her to take her shirt off sir."
"Good for you" Renner said.
Finally bring up the rear was Andrea.
"Your men are pigs" she said.
"Well at least they like you" he offered.
He hoped into the pelican and they were off.
Who knows what's next?
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