Briggs Marauders
Posted By: matt cesario<caesarcesario@comcast.net>
Date: 25 August 2004, 4:02 AM
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D+132:38:20, September 20, 2552 (military calendar) somewhere on the surface of Halo.
Platoon leader Adrian Briggs looked up and down
the line of six warthogs poised to spring from the forest they were concealed in and ambush the covenant vehicle pool over the rise. He was given special orders from Major Silva to branch off from the convoy leaving the Pillar of Autumn's crash site and proceed to find and harass the enemy to the best of his ability. His air support, dropship D111, had spotted this vehicle pool on the way into the crash site.
The seventeen other men under his command had all seen battle before and were the best of the best. There were six ODST's in the dropship that could help reinforce him if needed. He reviewed the Marauders one more time, two passengers were armed with sniper rifles, three with the new M19 SSM rocket launcher and then himself with his trusty MA5B. Then on two of the warthogs, the M41 chain guns were replaced with a M19 rocket launcher. Briggs couldn't wait to see how those would do.
"Marauders, prepare to attack on my mark." said Briggs. He waited a minute or two then screamed into the mike: "mark!"
With that all the warthogs rumbled to life and flew over the hill. Luckily the shade guns were unmanned and they swept through the defenses. The Covenant were caught completely off guard, most of the grunts were asleep.
Over his radio he heard the gunners and passengers calling in a kill: "Blue one gunner, got three of those covie SOB's." "Blue three passengers, got a two for one!" "Red two gunner, got a whole squad of those mothers!! This swap is great!!"
Briggs thought it best to join in the fight and get a few for himself. It was hard though because he could only use one hand, the other was holding him in the 'hog. None the less he got three or four grunts.
"This is Red two driver, got a visual on some enemy Ghosts, two of them coming down spin!!"
"Roger Red two. Red two and three break and engage enemy units." said Briggs.
"Roger."
"Sir," said his driver, "look, there is a platoon of jackals massing in a rough phalanx formation."
"Blue group, follow us, we're going to break their formation and scatter them into the hills up spin from here." said Briggs.
"Roger, moving now."
"Delta 111, this is Red one."
"Copy Red one go ahead."
"Deploy the troops to the hills just up spin, we're setting up an ambush and we are going to push the enemy straight at them." said Briggs.
"Copy, deploying."
Then Delta 111 flew right over Briggs head and opened fire on the Jackals formation with its 70mm chin gun as it past over them. The remaining Jackals held their ground only to be cut down by a hail of 102mm rockets and 12.7mm rounds. The remaining elites and grunts fled into the hills looking for salvation from enemy fire only to be greeted by four HE grenades and more AP rounds. Then Briggs wondered how Red three and two were fairing with the ghosts.
"Red group report over." said Briggs.
"Red two, got a wounded passenger, he looking pretty bad need an evac."
"Read three, got some wounded but its nothing a first aid kit won't fix."
"Roger, Delta 111 this is Red one need an evac for a critically wounded at Red twos location over." said Briggs.
"Copy that Red one tell them to move to the hills, we'll pick him up there." said the pilot of Delta 111.
"Roger, Red one out."
Briggs looked back at the covie vehicle pool, almost everything was destroyed and it even looked like Blue one took some grunts prisoner. Now it was time to gather intelligence on more covie positions and motor pools. He ordered Blue group tp dismount and collect any intel they could find. Then Briggs thought he heard the faint whine of a banshee in the distance, but concluded his ears were just playing a trick on him. Just to be careful he alerted the group of the possibility of a banshee in the area and to watch the sky.
Not a minute after he warned the group a banshee came in at tree top level and strafed the dropship picking up the ODST's and his wounded. The gunner on Red two fired on the banshee as it pulled out of its run, making it smoke from one of its engines. As it came back around for another pass the dropship was already lifting off into the air giving Red twos gunner a clear line of sight and blew the banshee right out of the sky.
"Good shooting Red two. Marauders regroup at my position." said Briggs.
"Roger moving to your position." replied Blue one.
To be continued...
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