Tides of Destruction(Part 1, Incoming)
Posted By: teemus<teemusligg@hotmail.com>
Date: 13 December 2003, 10:38 PM
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Jado System February 6th
(Capt. Wells, Cruiser Hammer head)
The Capt walked into his private room and picked up the mission briefings. The Covenant had invaded the Jado system early in the war. The Covenant did not glass the planed for some reason. ONI believes they are using it as an airfield to refuel their ships to get them in range of Earth. In order to prevent this a force was formed to go in and retake the planet. The fleet organized to carry the troops and supplies to the area was that to rival the Harvest fleet. The Covenant had established a main HQ on the planet, the idea was to send in the 10th armoured mountain division, along with the forward infantry to attack from the rear. The 10th armoured division was one of the biggest in all of the UNSC. It contained Scorpion tanks, Wart Hogs, and the newly made Ground Cruisers. The Ground Cruisers could hold a crew of up to 5. It had two mounted laag guns. While the 10th mountain and forward infantry distracted the Covenant 3 more divisions would be sent in to attack from the front.
The Captain then put down the folder and sighed, "This is gonna be one helluva campaign."
(Sgt. Briggs, Pelican 224, enrout to surface of Jado)
Briggs sat in the first seat of the Pelican. Normally he would have taken a seat at the back, but this time he wanted to be the first one out. Briggs sat looking at the faces of his fellow Marines, they all looked pale and dry. Briggs was part of the forward infantry, and their first mission was to secure an LZ for the 10th mountain and all of the other divisions to land. Briggs sat thinking about home and his wife and children. He hadn't seen them in 2 years. With the war going on, there was no time to leave and see your loved ones. He looked around the Pelican again and thought that more then half of these men would never even see their home planet again. Then over the teams frequency the pilots voice burst in, "Five to dirt"
Briggs acknowledged this and turned to his troopers, "Alright Ladies, the Covenant is holding a picnic down their, and each of you is invited!" Then there was a small cheer from all of the troops on the Pelican. "Check that your weapons are loaded, we hit it in 5." With this he watched as the troops picked up their MA5B's, M6D's, Sniper Rifles, Rocker Launchers, the whole enchilada and made sure the safeties were on and the weapon was loaded.
The Pelican began to shake back and forth as it hit air pockets on its decent to the surface. Then over the COM link, the pilots voice burst in again, "Hang on! We've got enemy banshees incoming!" Briggs turned to look out of the nearest view port. The Pelican made a sharp turn and got a lock on one of the banshees. The whole Pelican shook as two rockets streaked after the doomed craft. Briggs watched as the enemy flier was engulfed in a giant fireball. Briggs felt his spirits rise; only to have them drop again as an enemy flier got lock on one of the other Pelicans. He watched as the Banshee fired its fuel rod cannon. The shot must have hit the fuel tank because the Pelican was absorbed in flames. Briggs swore to him self and continued to look out of the view port. He watched as two more Pelicans went up in flames. Within ten minutes the Pelicans had managed to destroy all of the Banshees, but they paid for it with two full Pelicans. The Pelican did a full 180 and the doors opened up.
Briggs jumped out and took a knee to cover the other people bailing out of the Pelican. Once the Pelicans had gone Briggs scanned the area and yelled, "Clear!" After that he waited till every man had called in a clear. Briggs was nervous, there should have been a lot more resistance. He then heard a squealing noise and turned to find a Grunt carrying an over charged Plasma pistol. Briggs tried to yell duck but it was to late, the Grunt had fired and nailed the Marine next to him on the back of his head. The marine fell to the floor with a large hole in the back of his head. The rest of the squad turned and saw the Grunt. The Grunt jumped with surprise and tried to run. All he got in return was a hail of bullets.
Briggs activated his COM link and spoke into it, "Keep a sharp eye out, there could be more."
Just then a Private yelled, "Contact! To the east!" All of the marines turned to see Jackals and Elites pouring over the hill. Briggs took a moment to look at the force the Covenant had just deployed. He then looked at the Human force and realized that they out numbered the Covenant. This was no time to determine rations; there was a fight to win.
To be continued...
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