The Arisen Dark
Posted By: RabidChicken<RabidChckn@Aol.com>
Date: 5 April 2004, 5:23 AM
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The Arisen Dark
James slammed a fresh clip of ammo into the butte of his Assault Rifle. Turning over on his stomach, he fired several rounds at the advancing Covenate battalion. "Neil, move!" James yelled at a tall, lanky figure beside him. Neil stood up and ran from behind the rock his squad was hiding behind and rolled behing another rock. There was confused chatter over the com channel, and it was slowly begining to interfere with James' aim. He hesitated to stop the chatter. If he did it could interupt something important. He knew his comrades were quickly dying out in the battlefield. The Covenate outnumbered the Marines at least ten to one. James rolled back behind the rock and grabbed for another clip of ammo.
Neil sat panting, at a knee behind the Warthog. He was scared to death at this moment, like every other Marine at this battle. He poked his head and gun from behind the Warthog and fired a few rounds at a Grunt, killing it. The chatter over the com channel was starting to annoy him, but refused to say anything, it wasn't in his place. A plasma bolt soared past his head, and he could feel the scorching heat. He instinctivly ducked, and several more struck the side of the Warthog and the grass around him. "Grenade!" Neil yelled as he pulled the pin on a frag grenade and tossed it in a patch of bushes, that several Grunts and Jackals were hiding behind. It detonated, sending Grunts and dirt flying through the air. Suddenly he heard James' voice over the com channel, "Okay everyone listen up. Our scouts are reporting a Covenate tank on a hill to the north. If we don't take care of it now, we wont make it out of this battle." There was a grim tone about that sentence Neil didn't like. "We're going to give Josh cover fire while he heads towards the Covenate tank, he's going to set explosives on it." He cotinued. "Alright on three. Josh get ready." Neil saw Josh crouch down behind James, ready to run. "Go!" James yelled.
Josh sprinted past James, just as he began firing. Plasma was soaring past Josh's head and feet, but he kept running. Josh pulled out a pistol and shot as he ran. James brought down an Elite that was running behind Josh, ready to fire. Neil threw a grenade directly in front of a squad of rushing Grunts. It detonated, sending them through the air. Josh dived into a patch of bushes just as a plasma grenade landed barely an inch from his foot. James sighed. He actualy thought Josh wouldn't have made it. His life was in our hands, and we did our job. Suddenly, the Covenate swarmed towards Josh's position. "Shit, thier moving towards Josh, take them out!" James yelled.
Neil stood up and began running just as James had given the order. He shot a Grunt that had been left behind and continued running. James had made it to the bushes first, followed closely by the twenty Marines in his squad, and closely followed by Neil and his Marines. Neil stood up and looked around. Thier was no sound except the heavy breathing of himself and his comrades around him. "Where's they go?" A Marine next to James asked. "I don't know, we should-" James was cut off sudenly as a row of Marines was shot down by Plasma vollies. Neil instinctivly dived out of the way, just as several of his Marines were taken down. Neil shouldered his rifle and shot back, but at what? There were no Covenate to been seen. "Their using guerilla tactics, stay sharp." James said.
James looked around. He knew what the Covenate were doing. Hit and run tactics. He didn't like this, this was too quiet for Covenate. They weren't normally ever silent. "Medic!" James heard an injured Marine say next to him. James looked down at him. He was missing the skin off his arm and part of his torso. James carried him into the bushes and placed him down. "Stay here and keep quiet." James told him. He grimaced and nodded his head in agreement. Suddenly James heard gunfire, and then screams. He ran back into the clearing. Several more Marines were injured, and several Covenate. Suddenly, all of the bushes around him rustled. Out of nowhere, at least seventy Covenate troops jumped out of the bushes, guns blazing. James was hit in the arm, and began firing, ignoring the burning. He was struck again in the leg and kneeled down, still firing. He heard more screams around him, and Marines and Covenate alike dying. James was hit several times more, and dropped his Assault Rifle. He fell on his back and saw Neil get picked up by a Hunter. The Hunter tossed Neil into the air and fired its fuel rod cannon. It struck Neils limp body. "No!" James screamed. James felt himself get picked up by a Hunter. The Hunter tossed him into the air. He heard the fuel rod cannon go off.
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