Final Resistance by Chris Vennettilli
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Raging war
Date: 13 March 2005, 3:46 PM
Raging War
a Halo story
Earth
July 17th 2552
1930 hrs (Military Calendar)
Seargent Tony Sacarto wiped a trickle of sweat of he forehead. "Damn Covenant." he muttered. The Covenant had bombed a previous town once called Ocura. Tony was in China when the aliens atacked. His 10-man squad wasn't looking too good either. In Ocura, Tony had two of his men,
Zacheriah Montigue and Johnathon Balok, killed by an Elite named Zunko 'Parnegz .Others were MIA . The rest had barely made it out alive. "Jesus boss those Covies are gonna catch up to us faster than you can say 'Take cover!'" said Private Christopher Mattenson. Tony agreed and said, "OK, troops, we need to reach the other side of this jungle then we can signal a Pelican to pick us up. No doubt there'll be Coveanent crawling all over the place. If so, take them out quietly, don't fire a shot unless I give the go. Clear?" he asked. There was a shout of "YES SIR" from the surviving marines. As they set off, one of the Marines said quietly, "Should've stayed on the ship"
Earth
July 17th
2000 hrs (Covenant Mission Clock)
Somwhere in the jungle, a Coveanant cruiser, the Majesty Devine, hovered over the tree-tops. Troops came out of her grav-lift and spread out over the area. No doubt they had heard about the humans coming this direction. The Elite named Zunko 'Parnegz and his right-hand Grunt named Azgraz
took command of 12 Jackals and 4 hunters "Let us go and vanquish the human taint in our way!" he barked. A series of cheers and grunts came from the group. They all climbed into a Phantom and rode after the humans
Earth
July 17th 2552
2100 hrs (Military Calendar)
"Get down!" Tony yelled as he grabbed Private First Class
Jennifer Linox out of the way as a Scarab clunked on the spot where she would've been if she hadn't moved. "Tanks,boss." she sighed. Making sure that the Scarab was gone, Tony stationed Mattenson and Linox as snipers on a rock formaton just 100 metres North East. He took comand of Herman Slender, Matthew Berang, Alex Dagger, Gary Henderson and Duke Winston as his 5-man fire-team. The rest had been stationed as defense.He almost dropped his MA5B when he saw the many enemy toops coming.
There were 5 Ghosts. Each piloted by Jackals. Mattenson aimed, and squeezed the trigger, hard. The S2 AM bucked as the bullet tore through the air.
The Jackal knew what was coming. He tried to jump, but was too late. The sniper bullet tore through the Jackals head, sheered his brain and exited via the back of his skull and did the same with a ghost directly behind him. The Ghosts skittered and veered into another. The rear Ghost crashed into a coconut tree and sent a shower of coconuts raining on the remaining Ghosts. The nuts knocked the remaining drivers out and a quick crash into trees put the drivers out of their misery.
Oh yeah. Mattenson thought now taking aim at the Phantom flew ahead. It got the upper hand and sent plasma bolts streaming towards him. One his his arm. Mattenson howled in pain as blood came streaming from his wound. Linox treated him while the defense fired their M19 rocket launchers with homing technology. The Phantom tried to veer away, but the rockets got there first.
The Phantom tumbled out of control and started spining. "By the Forerunners!" 'Parnegz cried. A Jackal who had fallen in the spining ship, had fallen on a hunter's razor sharp spine had been impaled. 'Parnegz shielded his eyes to block the blast of light and heat.
Earth
July 18th 2552
0100 hrs (Military Calendar)
"Whoo Hoo!" the Marines cheered. "Sarge, enemies destroyed. no one to stop us now." Mattenson said with delight into his SQUADCOM system. "Exelent. Mattenson, I'm putting you in charge of taking the cruiser. Unless you're too chicken." Tony said, happily. "Hell no,sir" Mattenson said. Squad out" he killed his SQUADCOM. "OK guys follow me. He said picking up a round for his S2 AM. Locked it up and set off for the Majesty Devine. From the crashed Phantom, 'Parnegz pulled himself out of the burning ship, all bruised and cut, bleeding purple/black blood, coughed once, grabbed an intack plasma rifle and sowrd and half a dozen grenades. He set off to slaughter the human who stole his victory. he limped off to follow the fresh human footsteps, gave a slight but sure smile. He turned around to see Azgraz and 2 hunters emerge from the downed ship unharmed. Then they set off
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