The Battle of Evermore Part 3: Rush
Posted By: Gruntkiller<ttavenor@nf.sympatico.ca>
Date: 7 September 2003, 9:20 PM
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The Battle of Evermore
Part 3 of 4:
Rush
0330
Fort Wyatt
News finally arrived to the main base on the northern flats of the siege of the base in Evermore. Every soldier that could be spared was loaded up into transports and sped off south along with tanks and warthogs. Overhead Pelicans made rushed takeoffs filled to capacity with troops.
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Evermore
0340
A Grunt jumped into the patch of bushes where Erik was hiding. Both Erik and the Grunt stared at each other in shock for a second or two but quickly Erik gathered himself and grabbed the Grunts head and brought up his knee smashing in the front of its skull killing it instantly.
The grunt's plasma rifle fell out of it hand onto the dark rainforest soil. Erik stared at it for a second and picked it up. Outside his little refuge the battle raged on as more and more Covenant flowed through the break of the wall into the fray. Inside Warthogs drove around plowing down Covenant but most of them were overcome by plasma fire which melted through their armor and killed the engines. The Tanks sat at the back of the base firing shells into the masses of Covenant troops, while the remaining Marines clung to life behind any available cover only appearing to take a few shots then hide again.
0408
From the distance coming up from the south a large convoy came into sight. On the front vehicle a large cannon sat while the ones behind it were carrying troops. They were still over 30km away but they were traveling fast.
From the north the first reinforcements arrived. A group of 10 pelicans landed behind the base and quickly unloaded its troops and warthogs. The Marines quickly made there way to the northern wall and entered through the small door, what they faced then scared every one of them for life.
The tanks barely resembled the thundering beasts they once did, there armor plating was melted into grotesque shapes and most of them were inoperable. The ones that still worked fired constantly into the break and at the masses of Covenant soldiers who ran for the buildings. On the South wall the Covenant had almost taken complete control with only a few Machine gunners who stayed in the cover of small towers built on top of the wall to provide sniper nests.
Overhead a pelican with machine gunners set up out of the back hatch made flew over the north wall and towards the south to provide suppressive fire. A stream of plasma fire coming up from a ghost crashed into the right wing of the pelican causing it to spin out of control towards the ground. In a large plume of smoke and fire the Pelican crashed into the ground behind the Covenant lines killing everybody on board and several Covenant soldiers on the ground.
"Call in for more soldiers, we need everything they got," yelled out the combat CO from Fort Wyatt.
Only minutes after the first of the Marines from the north arrived, the Covenant convoy from the south came to a top 300ft away from the main gate. The cannon on the first vehicle quickly began to charge until a green glow came out of its barrel. Then to the horror of every Human the canon fired, the huge charged plasma shot flew through the air at an enormous speed then crashed into the main gate. The initial transfer of energy from the shot to the gate caused it to weaken tremendously but it was the heat from the plasma that did it in. The temperature of the metal rose so quickly that it cracked and began to fall, the top of the wall fell first with an enormous crash inside the base. The cannon fired a second shot destroying what remained of the bottom part of the gate.
Inside the base everything was silent even the sound of gun fire had stopped for the moment. Every Marine prepared for the onslaught that was about to come through. Outside the base the shouts of Elites could be heard followed by the sound of Ghosts starting up.
Over the remains of the gate 20 ghosts were the first to come. They let out a near constant stream of plasma burning through the air killing several Marines in seconds. The few tanks which still had an operational main cannon opened fire upon the ghosts but for the most part the ghosts maneuvered too fast to be hit by the slow aiming beasts.
Erik stared in disbelief as about 2000 covenant troops formed up into a huge box formation stretching from just ahead of the cannon to the rubble where the gate had stood minutes before. Upfront 12 lines about 200 across stood ready to make there charge through towards the Marines who were now basically trapped against the opposite wall. The next few lines were made up of Jackals with Hunters placed every so often to provide heavy fire power, behind them there was a sea of Grunts, Hunters, and Brutes who would be the main fist of the attack. Mixed among all the troops except the first lines of Grunts there were Elites of various ranks who would command the assault, off to the side of the formation there was a Gold Elite guarded by two black armored spec ops elites.
The Gold Elite shouted out to the crew manning the plasma cannon who immediately went to work. A green glow once again was emitting from the barrel as the plasma inside charged to make a devastating blow against the Marines who where still pinned down at the opposite side of the base.
Sgt. Daniel Scott, the gunner of one of the tanks, stared at the plasma cannon and the green glow.
"Its gonna fire again!" yelled out Daniel grabbing the controls to the tank's turret and aiming it. "Concentrate all fire at the cannon."
Every Marine knew the consequences of the cannon firing again. Tanks all across the line aimed and fired.
The first of the shells from the tanks sailed harmlessly over head but the next few where better aimed. One crashed into the front of the vehicle which the cannon was placed on causing the anti-gravity supports (the same ones used on Ghosts, but on a much larger scale) to give out and the vehicle to drop several feet to the ground, but the cannon was still unharmed. The next shot slammed into the top of the cannon's barrel, followed closely by a third which slammed into the cannon near the chamber where the plasma was being charged. The explosion destroyed several key pieces of equipment for stabilizing the charging plasma causing it to become unstable and explode.
The explosion quickly killed hundreds of Covenant and injured many to the point where they lay in unrecognizable heaps of flesh wailing in pain as there own bodily fluids boiled causing many of them to die slow deaths.
The Gold Elite began shouting, causing the remaining covenant to quickly form up again. The Elite quickly let out another shout and the first lines of Grunts broke out into a run over the rubble into the base.
Behind the remains of tanks and warthogs the Marine force now growing from reinforcements where hit with a barrage of plasma fire as hundreds of grunt poured out over the rubble of the gate towards them. Quickly Machine guns began firing mowing down the Grunts as they charged onwards, but they kept on coming and casualties mounted. The Rush began.
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