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The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 1
Date: 11 March 2002 5:05 am

As I look over the rock and having human blood spraying all over you isn't fun especially while selling people you know and love being blown to bits. Having Conveant firing at you grenades exploding all around you its hell. Im Pvt J.D. Andrews and this is my story.
"This all started when my brother was killed in a fight onboard a UNSC Cruiser against the Conveant Fleet and after my sister Jamie Andrews joined the marines. It took me a few months to join because my mom was a little paranoid and she didn't want my sister to leave either. I finally convinced her to let me go. Well actually I ran while she drove after me and I had ditched her.
When I finally got to basic my Drill Instructor was a pain in the ass. I made a new friend named Michael who was in the same bunk as me, he was a nice person but he always tried to get any girl to like him which usually got him slapped, kneed, kicked and punched in the face, but he was always there for you ok sometimes. There was a girl I liked she was a really good shot and but a badass. At the firing range she had a better shot then the Drill Instructor and one guy fired his Assault Rifle at the other trainees and the Drill Instructor enjoyed ventilating his head.
Near the end of basic the Drill Instructor told us some info "when we will be going into battle during heavy fire fighting the Conveant. You will have armor plating but it will not doing anything to the plasma weapons that hit you. You will be shipped off in a few hours good luck" "J.D. if you really like that girl you have to go talk to her man"Michael said "all right" I walked up to her after we had got my squad assignment "Hello my name is J.D. what's yours" I had asked her "My name is Alexandra but I like being called Alex im in Delta squad what about you?"she said "im in Echo well I have to get to my Pelican my friend is calling me" I looked at Michael waving at me but he looked at a girl and talked to her she slapped him upside his head "well goodbye J.D. nice meeting you"she said "You too" I walked over to Michael and picked up my stuff and went to the Pelican. She watched as the Pelican lifted off and walked off.
As I took my seat Michael pushed me over to get the better spot "Man I just made friends with a sniper""Ya its good to have good relations with snipers wait is it a woman" this is the pilot we will be flying over some enemy territory so it might get a bit rough and don't blow chunks on my deck"Ya hey aren't you going to tell me anything""I know what you are talking about and no im not going to talk about it" just then I heard a loud engine noise and I saw holes in the wall appearing Everyone hold on we are being attacked by banshees, god there is so many of them ahhhhhhhh the ship shakes and flames come out of the cockpit "Everyone hold on we are going down and get ready to move out when we crash"my L.T. screams at us. I look around seeing friends and team mates then I hear a loud noise and a large jolt. I wake up with a piece of the ship through my left leg and blood from the marine sitting next to me all over me. "Michael man are you awake"I look over and he's slumped over with part of ship's wall shoved through his chest "Pvt are you ok im going to get someone to help you up" my L.T. is standing above me and next thing I know blood spatters all over my face as a blue ball of energy hits him in the chest and in the distance I see a blue figure outside the hole. I pick up my Assault Rifle and point it at him "Hey you mofo this is for my friends and my L.T. eat this"I fired at him after he looked at me the bullets just bounced off this transparent wall around him he lifted up his plasma rifle and fired at me I was hit in the arm and chest "Crap at least I have my nade to kill something" I tossed my frag at him and it killed him and I glanced around for a minute and everything went black.
At Delta squad's base the Pelican that came from basic landed and the squad got out. Their L.T. greeted them "I am your new Squad Leader you will listen to me, my name is L.T. Jamie Andrews and you will address me either by ma'am or L.T. is that understood marines""Yes Ma'am""Ok children get your things stowed in your bunks and report to me in 10 minutes is that understood""Yes Ma'am""Good fallout"
Alex walked off and dropped off her personal items at her bunk and get settled and reported back. "Alright children here are your Assault rifles, you us them to fire at things not for decoration threat them with respect they will save your butt from something very painful does anyone have any questions" Alex and 2 other people stepped forward "Ma'am I am wondering can we use a sniper rifle instead of the Assault Rifles"
"Yes you can only if you prove you can aim better then most people can with the Assault Rifle then ill considerate it Pvts" Alex lifted her AR and aimed it at the L.T. and fired one shot blowing off a spider on her shoulder "Is that good enough for you Ma'am"she snickered "Well that is a damn good shot but if you hit me I would of killed you, come pick up your Sniper Rifles and you other 2 shoot at the target 5 times and ill see your accuracy" they fired at a picture of a conveant elite hitting it between the eyes 5 times "Nice here you go, alright people we will be leaving in a few minutes in our pelican towards the front lines"
Just then a corporal runs up with a message the L.T. takes it and reads it "Change of plans seams that the conveant shot down a pelican heading towards a battle near the front, seams that some conveant got past the lines and shot it down we are going in and getting the squad out and also to eliminate any hostile forces there do you understand me" "Yes Ma'am" "good everyone meet at the pelican in 5 minutes. Alex walked off wondering if it was anyone she knew was sent out battle ready from basic. When she got on the pelican it hit her she knew people on 2 different pelicans who left, it was me and a person who came from her town.
The pelican shuddered as it landed and the squad exited into a forest heading towards the downed pelican. They moved in closer only to find that there were some grunts outside it and 1 elite standing around a crater where she saw the remains of an elite through her scope. Just as she was about to fire they ran inside. Out of nowhere she heard gunfire and the sounds of plasma weapons firing. "Ok lets move it there is some people still alive and I hope to find them alive when I get there" the marines started running and made it to the pelican.
"Hello out there we need some help we have many dead people and wounded" the squad walked in seeing 2 marines lying dead near the elite and marines standing all around and there were bodies slumped on the seats "Excuse me im just wondering what squad is this ?" my sgt answered "we are echo squad Ma'am my L.T. is dead he was shot twice by the dead elite outside who was killed by a pvt with a Ar and a frag he was hit twice including the wound he sustained from the crash, im not sure if he's dead one of my snipers who has training in medical things is checking him out. Alex who was standing in there shuddered when she heard it was echo and looked around for me " a couple of my men where blown out or disintegrated when the fuel rod shots hit" Alex looked at the sniper who was looking at me and she noticed that my body looked familiar
I woke up seeing a woman sniper with a med kit looking at my wounds "How bad am I?" "Good you are awake I thought you were dead you are Michael's friend right??" "Ya I am are you the sniper he told me about" "Yes I am" I looked around at the marines and saw that there were people I had never seen before and then I saw Alex standing there "Hi Alex what's up" she looked at me and walked over "Hi how are you doing, ouch I didn't see what happened to you were you the guy who took out the elite outside" "Yes I was that's how I got shot" just then a blue orb attached to a marine outside and exploded killing 2 other marines with it. "Holy shit" was repeated through out the cabin as we saw a lot of grunts and elites.

Continued in Part 2 to find out what happens next post
Some comments to tell me how you like it thanks

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 2
Date: 15 March 2002 6:09 am

     As we looked on in horror there were at least 50 grunts 15 elites and other units. The sniper who was healing me went to the remains of the cockpit and she opened fire. There were 5 marines from Delta Squad still outside when the conveant opened fire. I could still hear their screams. Delta's L.T. walked up "Alright everyone prepare to move out, anyone who can move and fire a weapon will protect the wounded" there were still some marines from my squad at the hole firing their rifles at the conveant when a plasma grenade blew their bodys apart. The sniper in the cockpit almost was killed when a elite jumped through the window and Alex shot the Elite through the chest many times. "Alex we gotta get out of here" "you go we will hold the pelican till everyone is out" I got up and limped out of the Pelican only to find i had just entered a bloodbath.
     "All units tighten up the lines dont let any through" shouted my sgt but he was killed a moment later as elite jumped over the lines and fired 3 shots into him before he was killed too. "oh god this is horrible" the person right next to me got shot in the face and I had his blood all over me. I moved behind a log trying to get my clip in when i saw a shadow above me "Holy Shit" I turned around and there was a Red Elite standing above me. There was no other marines in this spot so i was alone. I started crawling back firing my MA5B into him but with little effect. My clip ran out "Oh god im going ot die" i heard the elites voice saying "Prepare to die you filthy human" he raised his energy sword and I closed my eyes trying to find the button to activate my frag. Then I felt this liquid spray all over me. I opened my eyes and saw the dead elite with a shot in his head and chest. I turned around and saw Alex and the Sniper from my squad (Let me just call her Echo Sniper) waving at me. "J.D. get over here we need someone to defend us from melee attacks" "Im not moving no way". Then a echo squad marine ran by and his friends grabed me and dragged me back to where Alex was behind a large boulder.
     "Just stay down J.D. and you will be fine" and my ears went deaf for a second from Echo Sniper's Sniper Rifle blowing through 3 grunts. "OH MY GOD MY ARM AHHH" i heard a marines scream next to me as his arm was blown off by a Elite. He got up and ran towards a group of 2 elites, 7 grunts, and a Elite Commander near the front. He activated all his Frag Grenades while he was being blown to bits. He killed every singal of those conveant. I just then had the courage to fight again and i stood up and unloaded 3 shots into a grunt nearby.(This is where i began and now I dont have a clue whats going to happen) "Ok people lets move out of here we are going to be over ran and ahhhhhhh" a shot blew through echo sniper as she lay there dieing with a shot to the chest. A elite ran right by us and killed the guy who moved me by smashing his plasma rifle into the side of his skull. Alex wasn't paying attention because she was slaughtering a couple jackals who didn't know where the snipers were. Echo Snipe fired a few shots into the Elite "Die you bastards die" she screamed before the elite killed her. I was firing my AR wildly at the elite trying to hit him. He ran at me "Alex look out we have a elite coming wait i got this" I sild beneath the elite and tripped him and stuck my AR in his back and fired. Blue ooze sprayed all over me. "That shows what we can do"
     Just then i took a plasma shot to my same leg that was wounded already. A grunt had enough courage to walk up alone to a marine and shoot him. I smashed my rifle into his skull. "Stupid Deformed Midgets" "J.D. im running out of bullets we have to get out of here Ahhhhh my chest" I turned around seeing a hole in her chest armor and blood coming out of it. I went and moved her out of the aim of the conveant and 7 marines ran past me firing their Assault Rifles into the conveant. I watched in disgust as 3 fell in unison as the grunts fired at them. I tossed my last frag into the grunts watching them fly, I smiled. "Ok alex im going to move you to back of the lines I ......." my voice was blanked out by the sound of 3 pelicans landing. The Squads that were here had 25 men each, we only had 17 people alive out of the two squads. I saw 75 marines get out and 3 Warthogs drive off the pelicans into the battle. I picked her up while dropping my MA5B and picking up my pistol. As I just made it to the pelican a group of 15 grunts rushed the pelican. They tossed plasma grenades everywhere blowing marines to pieces everywhere. A marine in front of me got hit by a plasma grenade and it stuck to him. "Oh shit"I said out loud. It exploded and all I saw was a bright light then darkness.

          Fourteen Hours Later

     I awaken to find myself in bed off the battle field. My skin burns from me touching it. I had bandages over my left leg and my right shoulder. I looked around and then it hit me I was in a hospital. I saw nurses hovering over a marine next to me. He has part of his face and torso missing. "Geez I glad im not that guy"I thought to myself. "Why can't I die I mean I 've been in a crash, i've been shot many times, people I know died all around me, and to top it all off a plasma grenade blew up in front of me" ohh thats what happened to you I heard a nurse say " Well I guess this is my luckly day" "And mine too" I looked to my other side and saw Alex in the bed next to me she had severe plasma burns and bandeges on her. "Well I think my day just got even better" I smiled "owww that hurts" Alex smiled and laughed.


     Continued in Part 3 (I might make a part 3 if people like this and if I can think of other things so post some comments thanks)
     Jaywhit10

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 3
Date: 30 March 2002 4:57 am

We had been in the air for only a few minutes when a flight of banshees blew one of the Pelicans out of the air. The crash killed everyone on board. The banshees took off and we neared landing. The pelican shook as we landed. We were sent out here on a mission to protect a structure, but we didn't know why. "Alright you grunts Bravo squad will enter the structure and my Alpha squad will defend the outside." "Geez can't he go any faster" I thought. "Delta and Echo since you still haven't gotten full replacements you will be securing a perimeter around the structure, you will have 4 warthogs at your disposal you would of had another but Charlie unit isn't with us any more, move out" my commander sent me to be the gunner on a warthog "Why the fuck do you want me on this??" "Because I know you can't run very fast so get on" As I walked past I saw Alex with camouflage on walking towards the forest.
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ÝÝÝÝÝAs I got on the I noticed the gunner's bucket was covered in red stains
ÝÝÝÝÝ"Well this looks encouraging I know im gonna die today" "No your not your being driven by me, hi im Jake" "hi im J.D. have you been driving this thing long??", "Ya I have well lets get moving" Just as we started to move a marine jumped in the shotgun seat and cussed at Jake. As we drove on I just couldn't help thinking why the hell were we sent out to investigate a structure. I guessed that only Bravo and Alpha squad knew. As we drove on we passed a warthog going really fast and firing at something behind them.
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ÝÝÝÝÝWe saw 4 ghosts chasing it. Jake hit the accelerator and we drove and made a shortcut pulling right next to the ghosts. "Hey blue bitches looking for something". I fired the Chain Gun right into them and the marine in shotgun laughed as he fired his AR. Immediately after we opened fire 3 of the ghosts blew up and the last one fired at the other warthog and rammed into us, exploding instantly. I was tossed off the warthog and into a tree. Three minutes later I woke up slumped over a branch. "Geez did you get the number of that truck" I dropped out of the tree and walked over to the warthog I was on. There was pieces of it everywhere. I found pieces of the marine all over the place. When I bent down I had a tremendous pain in my chest. I guessed I broke a few ribs and when I moved the plate on the ground I found what looked like Jake. I walked and found the elite who was driving a ghost still alive on the ground. I spat on him "Burn in hell" I grabbed a Grenade from my pocket and tossed it on him and walked away.
ÝÝÝÝÝI felt the heat from the explosion and blue liquid sprayed everywhere. I found the warthog the was being chased. It hit a tree and was still smoldering. The gunner was slumped over the chain gun and the driver and the and marine in shotgun hit the windshield and the driver's head was through it. I checked the computer on the warthog and the Captain was calling all units to the structure. I flipped on my H.U.D. and checked where the structure was and started walking. Another warthog drove by and stopped to let me on. "Can I get a ride my warthog was trashed" "Sure jump on" I hopped in the shotgun seat. The warthog drove off and I saw in the distance there were explosions and blue balls of energy.
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ÝÝÝÝÝTo be continued in Part 4

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 4
Date: 4 April 2002, 12:52 am

ÝÝÝÝÝThe warthog jerked up and down and the smell of burning death entered my nose. The warthog's chain gunner was spinning around firing like a madman, the driver was makeing sharp turns and almost rolling over, I was fumbling my MA5B clip. "dude calm down, geez it's like you hiped on something, oh here's your stop" the warthog stopped and I dropped the clip on the ground. I jumped down and reached for it.

ÝÝÝÝÝA group of hunters fired their fuel rod cannons at the warthog, all I felt was was extreme heat and I saw that they turned the hog into molten sludge. "what the hell??, oh shit I gotta move out of here". I raised my MA5B and fired at the hunters, they weren't paying attention to me until till I killed one of them, they turned and looked straight at me. I knew this wasn't very good, they shot at me and I could tell I was going to end up like the hog. But right then a very stupid marine tried to make a run for cover and lucky for me got in the way. I took my chance and ran near the rest of the marines.

ÝÝÝÝÝWhen I jumped over a dead marine another explosion sent me flying backwards. A plasma grenade went off near me, a body flew out of the air and landed in the bush ahead of me. I tried to check if he was alive and all I saw was that he had no lower half of his body. I stood up only to be shot in the chest. I was knocked back down I dropped my MA5B and I was looking for my pistol and then I saw something that made this scene look all to famillar. I saw an elite running towards a marine next to me. This marine was trying to help me up. "Holy shit look out" The elite raised his plasma rifle and slammed it into his head. I grabbed his weapon, thankfully it was a shotgun. I raised it and fired a few shots into his head. I kept pulling the trigger even though it was empty. I was kinda going a bit insane but then my com sounded which brought me back into reality "All units the is Captain Johnson all squads move towards the structure and support us, out"

ÝÝÝÝÝI heard some sniper fire and the hunters who were harrassing us were now on the ground with a large hole in their heads. When I got to the area where the Echo and Delta squads were meeting up. I had finally found my pistol, it was between my chest plate and my body. The pistol was melted "Oh thats where it went, thank god that was there". I saw in the distance where the structrue was, it looked like a communications center but what the hell did I know. Alpha squad was getting their asses kicked. I saw a large group of conveant rush their lines and just slaughter them. I saw an eilte cut a man in half and then I noticed the man was the captain. Bravo squad ran out of the building not noticing what was going on outside. They were immeadatly slaughtered. Both our squads opened fire which was a very very bad thing. We gunned down a good part of the conveant. A small group of grunts came around the corner and opened fire. 4 marines went down before we slienced them. The rest of the conveant fired at us. We tried to return fire but we were being cut down very easliy.

ÝÝÝÝÝI heard Delta's L.T. talking to someone on her com. "we need extract, we are being wiped out, and when are we gonna get ODST reinforcements". "Ma'am what the hell we had ODSTs with us?? "Shut the hell up, yes we did it was charlie unit" something was very wrong here, the banshees that attacked our pelicans only took out the one full of ODSTs, they waited until we were inside the structure before they ambushed us, it was like they knew we were coming. I just forgot that and unloaded a large amount of shells into a eilte. They fired a volley of plasma at us and one nearly hit me and wounded someone behind me, I could tell that person was alive because I heard the screams. I just kept firing till a plasma grenade killed a good deal of us. Another marine next to me took a hit to the face. The conveant started charging us, we didn't have enough marines left to stop them. "all units pull out we have pelicans coming in but no reinforcements let's move". We all just started to run, a elite sliced a marine into pieces next to me. I smashed my rifle into the back of his head. I had just remembered that there was a wounded marine and no one cared. I grabbed her arm and just ran as fast as my fucking legs could take me.

ÝÝÝÝÝMarines were being shot all around me. I saw marines going hand-to-hand combat with them. Elites were just having a field day. I saw something in the bushes and ran over with my MA5B pointing in it. Someone smashed a rifle into the side of my head. "Ow who got the number of that". "Oh shit sorry bout that", "lets just get out of here" the person who hit me the head was alex. I was happy to see her but that really hurt. I just went on as Alex helped me move the marine. I got near the field where the pelicans were. I saw a bunch of banshees flying over head shooting up the marines on the ground and the pelicans in the air. This was not going to be good.

ÝÝÝÝÝTo be continued in Part 5

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 5
Date: 11 April 2002, 11:08 am

     To my horror I saw a pelican literally falling out of the sky. It was on fire and it crashed into a pelican that was landing. There was at least thirty five banshees flying around up there. Alex was taking shots at the banshees trying to hit one of them. I saw in the distance a group of marines making a run towards a damaged pelican that was taking off. Five banshees flew over firing their fuel rod cannons at the marines. Not one of those marines were alive. Alex took another shot and to my surprise a banshee fell out of the sky. I was reloading my MA5B when something jumped out of the bushes, it was a marine. He was holding a Jackhammer. "Wait a minute we had jack-hammers why didn't we use them against the conveant at the structure??" "One because I couldn't fire it because it was jammed and the L.T. told me to save it for when we needed it and im glad I did because I think we need it"

The marine was from my squad and he had a bunch of pistol clips on him, I guess that he had been using his pistol the whole time. Another shot fired from Alex's sniper rifle and this time it hit a elite on a ghost and it swerved out of control and hit a bunch of grunts who were to stupid to get out of the way. We were just about to move to where the pelicans were landing when one of the pelicans unloaded a squad of marines. I was really glad to see reinforcements but as soon as they were all out all of these elites, hunters, and grunts with needlers popped out of the ground. They were probably hiding in holes. "Oh my god" I heard Alex say as the conveant slaughtered the marines, I watched a marine take a fuel rod cannon shot to the head (which was not pretty). The marine next to me steadied the Jackhammer and fired a rocket into the conveant who had slaughtered the marines. Four grunts and a hunter were killed instantly and Alex fired a couple sniper rounds into the heads of elites whose shields were weakened. The marine fired another rocket into them.

Just after another explosion happened and the pelican which had unloaded the marines exploded taking two grunts who were firing at the pelican's cockpit (from the inside). Two more pelicans landed unloading two more squads of marines. But this time conveant popped out of the ground and started firing as ten banshees flew over strafing the marines with their plasma cannons and fuel rod cannons. "Ok people we need to move towards the pelicans, it might be our only way out of here so lets get going". Alex and I picked up the wounded marine and we started moving towards the pelicans through the smoke from the downed aircraft. The other marine with us was firing his pistol at anything that moved (he was a really good shot but that doesn't matter). It seemed that we were the only marines from our four squads that made it. While we were moving I fired my MA5B at a ghost that was heading towards the other marines. I had damaged it but it kept going and the elite's shields held until the marine hit him in the back of the head three times with his pistol.

I though we would make it without being spotted until a banshee flew over and shot at us. We took cover behind the smoldering ruins of a banshee. I kept firing at it and the marine and Alex fired their pistols at it. The banshee made another pass and fired a fuel rod cannon blast right at the place were we took cover. After the smoke cleared I saw the other marine lying on the ground dead. "Crap Alex this isn't very good, I don't we are going to make it to the pelicans and we can't hold our own for long here" "I know J.D. but don't give up hope we don't know how many pelicans are coming with more marines, but one thing though they should at least send some Longswords". I had an idea to try to radio any USNC units in the area, but all I got was static but there was some mumbling on it I couldn't understand. I amplified the sound and it sounded conveant, but it was on our frequency. I couldn't listen any more because Alex was yelling at me to fire at a group of conveant that had spotted us.

I raised my MA5B and fired into them trying to stop the elites coming, I didn't care about those grunts running at us Alex was taking care of those. There was at least seven elites about 213 yards away running at us. I threw a grenade into the grunts that were shooting at us. It got about 97% of them and the rest ran away. I dropped down to change my clip and plasma shots were flying by our position. When I looked up three of the elites had fallen and the other four were running at full speed towards us, well a few seconds later there were two when me and Alex threw our last grenades into them. Two of the elites were left and the first one reached Alex with a plasma sword activated. I shot at him but to my horror the other one was right on top of me.

The elite swung its plasma rifle at me and missed. I hit him in the side of the head with my MA5B. Right then I heard a shriek and I saw the other elite shove the plasma sword right through Alex's chest. That really pissed me off, I felt a burning inside me. The elite swung at me again with the plasma rifle and almost hit the unconscious wounded marine under a part of the banshee. I shoved the barrel of my MA5B with all my strength into the elites chest, which didn't do much until I pulled the trigger and blue blood splattered all over me. I turned and fired at the other elite who wasn't paying attention to me until I shot him. He moved when his shield dropped but I knocked the sword out of his hand.

When it ran up to me I swung my MA5B and its head and barely missed only cutting up part of his face which looked like it was going to leave a scar. I swung again at the elite's gut. The elite grabbed my MA5B and smashed it into my gut. "Holy crap that hurt" I sputtered out before it smashed the MA5B into my shoulder breaking it and it then lifted it up and I knew this was it. The elite swung and hit me in the left side of my head, cracking my helmet open. In the background the last pelican out here exploded. All I saw was a bright white light then nothing but darkness.

Something happened which must of been a miracle because I woke up in a hospital bed. A nurse standing by my bed went wide eyed and hurried out of the room. I had a horrible pain in the left side of my head, my ribs were broken, and my shoulder was shattered. A doctor walked in the room and sat down next to me. "You know you are very lucky, we thought you would never wake up again because you have been unconscious for thirteen days. You were found on the battle field seven days ago when we staged a large attack on the conveant at the structure. A squad of marines spotted something moving, which was the wounded marine near you. When they checked the pulses of the bodies which weren't hit with plasma fire in the head or chest. They found you with your helmet in two pieces and dried blood staining the left side of your head." "All I want to know doctor was what is the structure, and I need to tell you that I heard conveant on our radios". "Im cleared to tell you this is listen Pvt. The structure was an old communications station we used to contact USNC units on this planet. This was used before our marine units had the same communication abilities as it. We abandoned it when the conveant landed on the planet and we needed more marines in the fight.". I was shocked that they sent us in without telling two of the squads what was going on. "And Pvt. I really don't want to tell you this but I have to, the planet you were from New Epsilon was glassed three days ago."

I didn't know how to react to that, I had already lost someone a few days ago. The doctor told me good bye and just got up and walked off. The wounded marine that had survived the encounter, I found out that we were both being transferred to another squad. I thought to myself quietly as I fell asleep "really what I am fighting for now"


Continued in Part 6
P.S. If you have any comments post them, BUT don't talk about my grammar I already know thank you very much.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 6
Date: 16 April 2002, 1:54 am

     This was the first time in a few weeks that I had actually stood up. One reason that it took me so long was that I had a metal plate put in my head. The doctors had to replace part of my skull after what the elite had done to me. I walked over to the armory and opened up my locker. I saw that my things had collected some dust. I put on my armor and my helmet. They had replaced my helmet and it didn't have my blood stains or dents in it. I put a fresh clip in the MA5B and started walking towards the firing range. I made a turn and I had to go through a security check point. Something happened the other day to have the security like this, but I was asleep when that happened. They checked my I.D. card and let me through. I entered a room with targets 15 yards to the left of me and rows of marines firing at the targets. I kneeled down and put the MA5B against my shoulder, my shoulder my still sore and I hoped it wouldn't aggravate it more. I took aim and fired a burst. My shot went wide and only nicked the outside of the target.

"Hahaha you suck how the hell did you live this long", I turned and saw a marine and his friend cracking up at the site of me. The corporal in my squad had just entered the room. She saw what the idiot was doing and walked up to him and hit him in the back of his head, knocking him unconscious. "What an idiot, and you better not start anything buddy or you'll get the same". She said to the marines as she took a spot and fired into the targets. I looked back at the target and for no reason I had a thought about Alex and what happened. I just felt a surge of emotions. I pulled the trigger and fired five rounds. I hit three out of five rounds in the center of the target.

The next time I fired I just kept the trigger down so I could see how my shoulder would take the punishment. The target looked like Swiss cheese and my shoulder felt like it was on fire. I knew that I need to take it easy before I was just about to put another clip in when a siren sounded and a red lights went on. The loud speaker sounded. "All units to combat stations, the base is under attack and conveant forces are attacking with air and ground vehicles. I repeat all units to ahhhhhhhhh"
The loud speaker went dead. The marines in the firing range all got up and grabbed their gear .ran to their positions. I could hear the sounds of Banshee engines as they flew over the base. The base I was in was behind the front lines and was the main base we had on the ground. Part of the roof collapsed behind me and crushed three marines.

I turned the corner and ran towards the pelican bay. The door was blown down and conveant were pouring through the hole like water. An explosion blew another part of the bay door down and a wraith was driving towards us. I fired at a grunt and then shot an elite with weakened shields. I fired 17 rounds and enjoyed watching him gasp for air after I filled his throat with bullet holes. The marine who was taunting me in the firing range was hit with a plasma shot. A plasma grenade landed on him and he ran towards his friend to get it off. He exploded taking two marines with him, what an idiot. We had assembled into a good sized squad and we were holding them off.

I spotted a wraith with three hunters, five grunts, and two elites. The wraith fired and blew away five men, but was then hit by a cannon shell and exploded into flames taking out the hunters who were sitting on it and four grunts. A sniper laying on a pelican put two shots through an elite's head. The other elite was hit by another shell and blown to hell. A Scorpion MBT rounded the corner and started chewing up the conveant. Three warthogs came around and drove through a squad of conveant who had just came out of the forest and chewed them up with their chainguns. A hunter fired at me siring my face and melting part of my armor plates together. I happily fired 26 rounds at him and I was shot at by five grunts who narrowly missed me. The corporal was behind them and tossed a grenade their way.

There was one grunt left who I smashed his skull in. "Oh shit look out"I heard someone yell I turned and dodged a blast from a fuel rod cannon. I smiled as a pelican started up and its engines cooked the hunter to a crisp. I saw three red elites charging a group of marines and slicing them into pieces. I was with three other marines and we backed up while firing at them. One of the elites fell, then another, but one of them reached us and killed one marine and smashed in another's skull before I played baseball with his head. The elite stumbled back and was shot up by the corporal.

Part of its blood sprayed on me and I looked kinda flourescent. The remaining conveant forces tried to pull out before we killed them all, but were slaughtered. We had lost thirteen marines and one warthog. Also there was three destroyed pelicans and four damaged ones out of the twelve that were there. Other parts of the base weren't so lucky, the defensive positions encircling the base were totally destroyed. Four squads of marines were wiped out and the vehicle storage bays were hit. I started walking around checking the bodies to see if any conveant were still alive. I saw a elite climb out of a damaged pelican and it crept behind the corporal. "Look behind you, move it!" The corporal turned and jumped to the left.

I fired my MA5B at it. Its shields shimmered as my shots hit. It didn't care about the corporal anymore and charged me. "Oh crap this isn't good" I threw my MA5B at him because I didn't have time to switch clips. I grabbed my combat knife strapped to my leg and dodged a swing from its plasma rifle. I shoved the knife into its chest and it shirked, and it grabbed my head and lifted me off the ground. "A little help here, please anybody" Part of its head blew off and I saw the corporal's pistol against the elite's head. Well after that it dropped me, which hurt like hell because I landed on my shoulder. "Is that good enough and thanks".

After the battle the Commander briefed the corporal, me, and four other people of where we were being transferred. "Ok listen up you are going to be sent to Sigma Octanus II, to help out our units there. We are losing battles there and our precious marines. I am going to have your team join our dwindling marine forces there since you are all combat experienced . You will back up ODSTs and marines on the planet. Okay I want you all to introduce yourselves to each other." A small guy with glasses stood up "Im Pvt. Tom Reese and im a sniper", a marine stood up "Im Lt. James Thomson and im this team's Lt. and my word is law" another marine stood up "Hi im Cpl. Taylor Rodriguez and im the demolition guy, you need a explosion, you got it", a marine stood up "Hello im Pvt. Sarah Sheffield and I have medical training which I guess sort of makes me a medic", I stood up "Im Pvt. J.D. Andrews and well im good with laying down suppressive fire and close combat" and then the corporal from squad stood up "Hi I am Cpl. Jessica Roberts and I am trained in electronics and I am a marksman". "Good you will all take off in a pelican, towards the destroyer Elemental." You will leave in fifteen minutes so get your things together.

Twenty minutes later I was onboard a pelican en-rout towards the destroyer Elemental. I never really liked space fight, and the large black void made me nauseous. Taylor was fiddling with his stuff, the Lt. was yelling at Tom because he dropped his gear on his foot, Sarah was looking at her feet, and I was trying to find the new blade I was given which was six inches long and made out of stainless steel, I had my pistol replaced with a shotgun for close quarters combat. Jessica was checking the circuits on her decoding equipment. I knew we were near the Elemental when the pelican slowed down and shook as it landed. Our team's callsign was Tango-573. Well here goes my new assignment.



Continued in Part 7, and P.S. please comment on this story and thank you for reading this I really appreciate it.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 7
Date: 20 April 2002, 1:49 am

ÝÝÝÝÝ(Note: I wanted to try something new in this part. So tell me how you like it thanks)


I was having some weird dream when I woke up. I heard tiny explosions in the room and sat up. I saw Taylor lighting these small red things. I noticed that they were cherry bombs. He was dropping them into Tom's bag. "What the hell are you doing Taylor, we aren't supposed to wake up for another hour and a half". "Oh sorry I didn't mean to wake you J.D., I'm just bugging sleeping beauty over there". He pointed over to Tom in his bunk with something over his ears. He looked like an idiot. I put some clothes on and walked to the door. I smacked Taylor on the back of his head and he tossed a cherry bomb at me but it missed, hit the door, and bounced back into the bag of cherry bombs. "Oh shit, thanks J.D.". "Your welcome, idiot". I walked out and heard a bang. I wanted to take a look around the ship because I never really been on a destroyer, especially one this new. But first I had to see the L.T. for something but I had no idea for what.

He told me to meet him on the bridge at 0700 hours. It was 0638 so I could look around up there if the captain let me. I walked around the corner look for an elevator to a higher deck. I really had no idea where to go. I found the lift and used to get to deck 1 where the bridge was. When I got out and walked down the hall I found the mess hall. I guess I few minutes to get breakfast because my watch said 0643. After I had eaten breakfast I headed towards the bridge. When I got there I couldn't believe what I saw. I saw another destroyer and a cruiser in front of the ship. A marine on guard asked what I was doing on bridge.

I told him that L.T. Thomson was going to meet me on the bridge. He let me through and onto the bridge. I saw the Lieutenant waiting for me next to the Elemental's captain. "Good Morning Pvt. Andrews." "Good morning sir". "Look I have to tell you something Pvt. Andrews, since you have survived three engagements and have about twenty kills. Well I have discussed it with the captain here if I could do it, so I'm just going to get to the point. I'm promoting you to the rank of corporal, good work". The captain turned around "Good job 'Corporal' I know you have suffered a lot but you will make a fine corporal"

I was just about to leave when the captain told me and the Lt. to be ready because the Elemental will go into slip space in thirteen minutes. I left the bridge and the marine let me through while congratulating me. His supervisor yelled at him to pay attention, all while I slipped around the corner. Before we went into slip space I wanted to know if the ship had an area for target practice. I went down the lift and on the deck where the armory was. I saw marines with their combat gear and their weapons walking down the hall. I saw a group of ODSTs (who were probably stationed on the ship) and I was going to ask them where the armory was. I noticed that there was a marine in between the three of them. As I got closer the marine looked familiar and I heard them talking. "Ah come on you know you want to", "What is it don't you get, leave me alone you stupid horny bastards!"

I saw the marine as she tried to move away from them, but they wouldn't let her. They really started pissing me off but I didn't want to get involved yet. "No way, we aren't letting you leave yet sweetie". "Ok that's it I'm getting mad assholes, let me leave or ill have to hurt you". "Go ahead try"I finally realized that was Sarah, she kneed one of the ODSTs in the groin. The guy's friends pushed Sarah against the wall and punched her three times. I ran at them and they didn't notice me. I did not really care that they were taller and bulkier than I was.

I dropkicked the closest one and he smashed into the guy who was still in pain. The other guy noticed I was there and well kicked me in the side of my head. The guy I drop kicked got back up and pulled my arms behind my back. "Oh shit can't we just talk about this guys". The other guy punched me in my stomach and it hurt because I wasn't wearing any armor like they were. The guy who was kneed in the groin got up and laughed "Oh look someone tried to help stupid marines, you people never learn". Sarah grabbed the guy's head and kicked it. I stepped on the ODST's foot and elbowed him in the face.

The other guy just backed away slowly and was knocked unconscious by the Lt. "Problem here boys". The ODST's got up "uhh no sir, uhh bye" they ran off. "Are you two ok?" Sarah and me both said "Yes sir we're fine" at the same time. I walked down towards the lockers where they had my gear stored. Sarah walked with me. I put my armor plates on and my helmet. Right then the loud speaker sounded "All personal, prepare to go into slip space." I held onto a bar as the ship went into slip space and what I heard when we came out wasn't good.

"This is the captain, all personal to combat stations, we're engaging the Covenant. Tango-573 to the bridge and all other squads to their positions. I picked up a shotgun, MA5B, and my combat knife. Sarah grabbed here MA5B and her med pack. We ran to the lift and the Lt. joined us. When we got to about the 4th deck when the ship shook. "I guess the Elemental just fired her MAC guns".

ÝÝÝÝÝWhen the lift reached the first deck marines were scrambling around trying to get to their positions. I entered the bridge and the rest of the team was already there. I saw out at the battle there was at least 20 human ships including us fighting about 14 Covenant ships. I saw out in the void of space white flash and then I knew a human ship had just exploded. I saw two Covenant ships heading straight for us. "Ok Tango-573 you will be on at the bridge. I suppose the Covenant are trying to find earth and find technological data on our ships.

The Elemental is newer destroyer with new scanners, better engines, and more armors than the cruisers. The Covenant some how know this and will to take over some ships including us. Your job is to protect the bridge from any Covenant who comes aboard. "Sir two Covenant cruisers incoming from the heading 514.34 and 523.03", "Ok tell the destroyer Reprisal and the cruiser Starlight to launch their Longswords and open fire on the Covenant ship at heading 514.34." I saw the Covenant ships launching banshees and drop ships. "Master Sgt. tell the Reprisal and Starlight to have all their Longswords engage the banshees while our Longswords take out the drop ships" I saw a brilliant white flash and I had just known that another human ship exploded. The three human ships fired their MAC cannons and their archer missiles at the Covenant ship.

The Covenant's shields went but only a few archer missiles hit the ship. The Covenant ship's banshees all headed towards the Reprisal and the Covenant cruisers fired at it. The Reprisal was severely damaged and its bridge was gone. The Elemental and Starlight fired at the Covenant ship again and it blew up. The other Covenant ship sent all the banshees towards the Starlight and fired at it. The Starlight took some hits in the mid-decks but the banshees were the most troubling. The Elemental fired at the Covenant ship but it dodged the salvo of archer missiles but took a MAC cannon shot.

ÝÝÝÝÝI heard the ship creaking as it nearly missed a shot from the Covenant cruiser. "Elemental this is the Starlight; we have taken heavy damage on all decks. We are on fire and abandoning ship. The Covenant ship fired another round and the shots hit the Starlight. The cruiser exploded into tiny bits. "Sir a few pelicans made it from the Starlight and landed in bay 2, sir Covenant drop ships just landed in bays 1,3,4 and Covenant boarding pods just attached on the port side of deck 3. Sir boarding pods landed on deck 1." "Ok tango-573 and my marines kick some ass for our comrades, good luck"

We ran towards the area where the Covenant were boarding. I cocked my shotgun and Taylor unhooked an incendiary grenade and tossed it where a couple of elites just entered the ship. Their shields were destroyed immediately and one was burning into ashes. An incendiary grenade is technically a fire grenade. The other one charged our position along with two grunts and another elite. My team opened fire and so did the other marines. One elite got to us but learned what a shotgun could do at close range.

A marine was hit in the head by a plasma bolt and another was picked up by an elite and smashed against the bulkhead. "Don't let them in the bridge marines give them heck" I heard a marine Sgt. scream over the shrieks of his marines. More and more Covenant kept poring into the 1st deck. A group of Special Ops. Grunts entered the room and fired their Needlers hitting marines around the room. Blood splattered everywhere and a needle nearly hit my head and landed on the bulkhead. A plasma grenade flew over the barricade and landed on an ammo box. An explosion rocked the ship and I knew that it wasn't the ammo that caused it, it was from a shot by the Covenant ship.

I raised my shotgun and a couple of those Special Ops. Grunts were no more. Tom fired his sniper rifle at close range and it killed three Grunts, Sarah was patching up a marine who had a needle still in him that didn't explode, and Taylor was readying a block of explosives to be thrown. I tossed a grenade into the Covenant and a dead Elite flew over the barricade. Taylor tossed the block of explosives right where a Covenant boarding pod landed. No Covenant that wasn't an elite survived and the elites were cut down by MA5B fire. My shotgun was hit by a plasma shot and it was finished

I picked up my MA5B and opened fire on the Covenant ranks. The Covenant were being cut down as they got in. There were no more Covenant coming aboard the 1st deck. The COM on every marine's HUD sounded "All units this is ODST squad three, we need support in bay 1. The Covenant are overwhelming us. We need ##### oh my go###". "Tango-573 we are going down below to support the ODSTs and any other marine squad that wants to help hurry up". Our team and two squads of marines headed into the lift and proceeded to bay 1. We turned a corner and saw an explosion and three ODST bodies flew into the hallway. Jessica moved near the opening and fired a short burst from her MA5B and signaled us to move in. "Ok my team lets move out".

We headed into the bay and saw a large amount of covenant in there with three dropships. ODSTs were holding their positions behind crates, two destroyed pelicans, and a repairing area. We moved to an area with steel crates creating a 180 degree wall of defenses. Tom set up his sniper rifle and started picking off Elites, Jessica and the Lt. were keeping the Grunts and Jackals away from our position. Taylor was picking up something "Hey look what I found". He had a Jackhammer in his hands. He fired off all the rockets he had at the dropships. One of them was severely crippled and the other two were still flyable. I saw a Banshee fly by followed by two Longswords and the Longswords followed by more banshees. Sarah and me had the left side and we were firing our MA5Bs into Hunters who were harassing the ODSTs.

ÝÝÝÝÝA fuel rod cannon shot flew over my head and hit a ODST. He wasn't much of anything anymore. The Hunters and some Special Ops. Grunts with needlers and fuel rod cannons started raking our defensive position with weapons fire. A heard a scream and I saw Tom with arm missing flopping on floor in horrendous pain. Sarah went over with her med-kit and tried to find something to stop the pain. Taylor tossed his last three incendiary grenades together into a group of Hunters. They weren't bothering anyone any more. The covenant sent all their forces towards the ODSTs behind the destroyed pelicans.

They were being wiped out but the covenant were taking heavy losses. The only covenant that weren't charging were the ones protecting the dropship. "Ok people lets take out the dropship with the exception of Tom." We started moving out and the two other marine squads went with us. The other ODST squads were helping out their comrades. The covenant opened fire on us and two marines fell instantly. There were three Jackals in front of the Grunts and Hunters giving them cover from our rifle rounds. Two marines who were holding a Jackhammer each made short work of the Jackals. All the marines opened fire and the covenant took immediate loses and another four marines were hit in their heads.

All the squads charged the covenant position and the dropship fired its plasma cannon and marines were just hit and cut down. Our team made it to the dropship without any losses. Taylor tossed us some demo charges and we placed them on the bottom of the dropship and inside it. Another marine squad easily finished off the covenant inside of it. We moved back as we fired at the remaining covenant forces inside the bay. The dropship blew up sending pieces of burning metal everywhere. What all the marines saw outside of the bay was very disturbing. Three more covenant ships were heading towards us. All the marines knew that they would be sending more covenant onboard the ship.

"All marines you've fought a valiant battle, we've taken out all the covenant on board. But we are going to have more company, out of the all the longswords from our three ships we only have thirteen left. The Reprisal is still there but we've gotten a distress message saying that their marine forces are dwindling and the covenant will take over the ship in a few minutes. I am going to order all the personal onboard our two ships to abandon ship. I will fire all the weapons on board this ship to provide cover, good luck my brave soldiers". I found a box of MA5B ammo and I passed some out. I started getting into a pelican when Sarah came back saying that Tom died from a stray plasma shot from the dropship. The Lt. got onboard and sat down with us and another marine squad got on with us.

We started hearing the ship shaking as it accelerated towards the closest covenant ship which was the one that destroyed the Starlight. The Elemental fired its weapons as the pelican closed the bay doors. I saw marines scrambling to the lifepods and other pelicans before it closed. "Ok hang on marines this is gonna be a bit choppy". The other marines had no commanding officer because he was hit by the dropship. The pelican lifted off and went out into space but was hit by a plasma bolt from a banshee that flew by but was blown to hell by a longsword.. I knew we were gonna fly into the atmosphere of Sigma Octanus II. I heard com traffic from the cockpit. "####### This is Alpha-294 to the Elemental, requesting longsword escort prior to atmospheric re-entry" "#### Acknowledged #####". "Hey what the hell, oh my god more ships are coming out of slipspace. Wait a minute they are our ships. There's three cruisers, two destroyers and a battleship. Yes those cov bastards are gonna get it". There was a loud cheer onboard the pelican. Then we entered the atmosphere and the pelican started jumping around and the metal started getting hotter some of the marines were getting nauseous, including me. Sarah I saw was rocking back and first and I guessed she was scared, but I mean who wouldn't be. When we finally came out, the pelican was shaking horribly and the pilot had no idea where a human base was because of the damage to the pelican. I heard that a team of marines that was on the ground were calling for evac and I guessed the pelican was going to set down near them because I heard the pilot reply to them.


To Be Continued in another part. Please comment on this story and thanks for reading it.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 8
Date: 26 April 2002, 11:32 pm

I woke up with a cold sweat because I just had a nightmare. It was about each member of my squad dying slowly but I still lived though. I checked my watch it was 05:00 and I felt like a piece of shit. My body still ached and I really wasn't physically ready for the mission that the Lt. was gonna brief us on later but I was still gonna do it. Our squad had only five members including myself and we weren't really strong enough to go on a raid but my maybe a reconnaissance mission. Taylor tossed and turned on the bunk above me which was so loud he could of woken a whole platoon of sleep starved marines. I wished he still had his cherry bombs, that would of shut him up. I just laid there for another hour till the Trumpet played and every marine was woken up. I put my combat fatigues on to start my morning exercises but a message over the loud speaker stopped that. " Tango-579 proceed to the briefing room in 15 minutes that is all".

"Goddamn it Taylor don't they give us a second of morning time"

"Huh what, whatever just another 5 minutes"

I pulled him off the top bunk and he woke up. I proceeded to the briefing room and ran into some MPs. They asked for my identification and I gladly handed it over to them. "You my proceed Corporal Andrews". They opened the door for me and everyone from my squad was already there except for Taylor. I greeted everyone and sat down. Soon Taylor strolled in and was met by the Lt.

"Good Morning Taylor nice for you to join us what took you so long, were you sleeping in again"

"Sorry sir I was a little disoriented after J.D. pulled me out of bed and dropped me on the floor"

"Okay sit down. This briefing will begin, at 02:00 hrs marine patrols spotted Covenant ground forces exactly 13 kilometers to the east of this base. The mission will be for us to be inserted 3 km away from the Covenant's last sighting. You will deploy Lotus anti-tank mines to hamper the Covenant operations in that area. Any questions, none alright we will assemble in the pelican bay and move out at 11:00 hrs"

My squad got up and exited the room. This was going to be an easy assignment or I had hoped it would be. I wasn't very hungry so I went straight to our squad's weapon lockers. I picked up my MA5B and grabbed three clips of regular rounds and another three clips of shredder rounds. I started putting on my armor plates. I was given new armor because my old armor was severely damaged. I grabbed a M6D pistol and seven clips for it. I strapped my Combat Knife right under my right thigh armor plate. When I turned other marines were getting their gear also. Taylor was strapping on his explosives and two bandoleers of Incendiary and Fragmentation grenades each. I saw Sarah grabbing her pistol, MA5B, grenades, clips, and her medical kit. The Lt. and Jessica just grabbed a MA5B with clips and grenades. They all strapped on their armor. I was going to take a few laps around the barracks with my combat gear on when the ground shook and the loud speaker went off.

"All units to your combat positions, pilots to your aircraft HQ is under attack. Large Covenant Attack force moving in with infantry, tanks, and aircraft. I repeat all units to their combat positions."

We just looked up and ran for the nearest opening to the outside and what we saw when we got near was horrible. I looked out the windows and saw hundreds of Covenant soldiers advancing on the base. "Tango-579 and Combat Team 7 to the command center". Our squad ran as fast as we could to the command center. We passed marines setting up barricades near the entrance of the command center.

The General greeted us. "Your two squads will protect and purge the Data Banks of any combat information we have. Tango-579 your squad will provide cover for Combat Team 7 but there is another reason for me assigning you to protect that very spot is because there is an maintenance hatch in that area that leads into the brig. It only can be accessed from the area of the Data Banks because the openings of it are from the top to keep prisoners from escaping. Move out now and secure that area". Both teams got up but Combat Team 7 left first till and when we ran into the hall the Covenant had already penetrated the HQ.

We opened fire and our bullets bounced off some of the Jackal's shields. A Hunter shot at us and hit the roof above us which fell and a good part of it landed on Taylor. He was pinned and there was no way to get him out and Combat Team 7 had already moved away from us. "Guys go, leave me I will hold them off long enough for you to get to cover." Taylor grabbed a bandoleer of Fragmentation grenades and chucked them at the Covenant. Different colors of blood splattered all over the place and my squad ran off. We heard the Covenant get closer to us but then a large deafening explosion was heard and Covenant bodies were tossed all over the place. The area we had to defend had two different corridors that met up and created a two meter wide and a thirteen meter long corridor leading to the Data Banks. I almost got around the corner when I was shot in the back by an Elite who was chasing after us. My squad fired their rifle's at the Elite and turned into him into a corpse. They dragged me over a barricade that was set up by Combat Team 7. My armor was melted but no internal injuries Sarah said to me. Five men of Combat Team 7 stayed with my squad behind the barricade and the other five were inside the room with the Data Banks destroying all the equipment. Four Elites came around the corners and two were immediately cut down by our MA5B's.

The other two fired their Plasma Rifles at us and hit one of the marines in the head leaving nothing more then the charred remains of a helmet. My rifle ran out of ammo and I loaded in a clip full of Shredder Rounds. One of the Elite's charged us while the other kept firing suppressing shots. I shot all my rifle rounds into the Elite till his shields fell and was pumped full of lead. The other one was hit by more MA5B bullets and a grenade finished him off. At least thirty Grunts entered the corridor armed with plasma pistols and needlers. Pinkish needles sprayed our position and hit one marine in the gut and the Lt. took one in the neck. He died slowly clutching his throat and blood sprayed everywhere. Sarah filled the other marine with Biofoam and checked the Lt. She shook her head no.

"They are gonna overrun us and kill us all"screamed a Combat Team 7 marine

"Shut up Pvt. We have orders and we are gonna hold till we have support or we might need to evac through the maintenance hatch" I screamed at them.

"Crap we've got hunters" Jessica yelled over us

I lifted my rifle and fire short bursts into the Hunters while the other marines handled the remaining Grunts. My bullets bounced of the Hunter's armor but one of my bullets hit it in a open spot of its armor. I fired three more rounds into that spot and it fell forward. There was two more Hunters and they fired. The barricade was already hot enough it could melt. The first blast hit the door to the Data Bank and melted some of it and the second blast burned through the barricade and hit Jessica in the gut and melted the armor on her back. Blood was coming out of her mouth and she started having spasms and Sarah went over to do something to help but Jessica's eyes rolled back and she died right there. I was the highest ranking marine there and that wasn't good. There was three marines from Combat Team 7 that could still fight. The Covenant were pissed off at us and tossed plasma grenades and only 1 made it over. It attached to a marine and he had to act quickly or we would all die.

He jumped over the barricade and ran right into the Covenant blowing the Hunters and Grunts to hell. All of us tossed a fragmentation grenade into the Covenant and blew Elite's and Grunts alike into pieces. We all fired Shredder rounds into the Covenant ripping Grunts apart A squad of Special Ops Grunts rounded the corner with Fuel Rod Cannons and Needlers blazing. One marine was hit in the chest by a Fuel Rod Cannon. The wounded marine was hit several times by needles and Sarah took a needle in the shoulder. The other marine and I kept up a constant rate of fire mowing down the Grunts but more Grunts and Jackals rounded the corner. I was gonna use Sarah's medical kit but it was burnt to a crisp, great. It seemed that there was no end to the Covenant. I fired another short burst and my clip ran out.

"Sir, more Covenant coming into the corridor we aren't gonna last much longer"The marine said

"Don't say that we are gonna make it ask your squad how much longer till they are finished"I replied

"Sir, they are almost done and we'll get support in a few minu........ ahhhh" he was hit in the chest by two plasma blasts and a Fuel Rod Cannon blew the top part of his body into bits of burnt flesh.

I loaded my MA5B with Shredder rounds and fired at them. Elites entered the corridor with Needlers and Plasma rifles. I heard pistol rounds going off and I noticed Sarah was still conscious and kicking. Blood was pouring out of her wound and if she didn't patch it soon she would die of blood loss. I grabbed her wound and put my hand on it to give it some pressure. I could see tears welling up in her eyes when the Elites just stopped and reached for their plasma grenades. I had just remembered about the maintenance hatch and I broke open the door that held it. I pushed Sarah in and closed it. I heard a large explosion and marines screaming. The Data Bank's doors blew. I opened the hatch and climbed down. I helped Sarah in and I noticed we were in the brig. Titanium Brig doors lined the corridor and I heard gunfire at the head of it."You will be just fine Sarah but keep your hand on the wound". She just looked at me as I set her down and ran to the door. There were two Combat Teams outside holding off the Covenant. I opened the door and immediately took cover. I went over to them and gave them a hand.

"Who the hell are you Corporal, you aren't part of our teams"

"Sir my squad was stationed above in the Data Banks with a Combat Team. A wounded member of my squad and me are the only one's who survived. She needs immediate medical attention or at least some BioFoam."

"I have no medics but I have BioFoam, here". He tossed me a bottle of BioFoam and I ran back in to Sarah. The Golden Elite just laughed at the site of me as I ran by. I ran to Sarah and said "Hold on this is gonna sting a bit so don't move". I filled her wound with BioFoam, I thought at least she wouldn't bleed to death. The marines would hold out till reinforcements ever came, if they came but Sarah wouldn't last that long. I just sat there thinking of what happened today and watching Sarah's vital signs. My HUD showed the position of the marines outside and amount of Covenant there was. Sarah fell unconscious and I slowly fell asleep thinking that was it my fault that all my squads were wiped out.

Continued in Part 9 Please Comment on my Story I would Really Appreciate It Thanks.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 9
Date: 29 April 2002, 2:13 am

I woke up to the sound of a marine's screams. I had fallen asleep here. I looked around and saw the brig was still secure but the door was partly melted. I checked if the room had any Covenant inside of it. Good nothing in here. I checked Sarah's vitals and she was stable but still unconscious. I grabbed her extra MA5B clips and took them with me. She still had her M6D so she could still defend herself. I opened the Brig's doors and took a position with the other marines. The Covenant were all over this place and marine's were being killed all around me. There must of been 3 or 4 Combat Teams stationed here. Some of the marines had jumped over the barricade and were fighting hand-to-hand with the Covenant. I shot a Jackal in the back of it's head when it had turned around to shoot some of the marine near him. Hunters came around the corner and blew away all of the marines that were going hand-to-hand. Everyone behind the barricade opened fire and bullets pinged off the Hunter's armor. Two marines threw grenades behind them and ended the Hunter problem.

Special Ops. Grunts and Elites came at us. Their Needlers, Plasma Rifles, and Fuel Rod Cannons blew the marine lines apart. The marine next to me was hit by a Fuel Rod Cannon and the blast sired the skin off my arm. You could see the insides of my arm but I didn't mind the pain and I fired short burst into the Elites watching the bullets bounce off. I fired the remainder of my clip into an Elite whose shields were low already and killed him. I loaded another clip in and mowed down the closest Grunts to use. A marine primed a grenade and tossed it right behind some Jackals guarding the Covenant's entry point. Blood splatter everywhere and the Jackals were tossed across the room. An Elite jumped the barricade smashing his plasma rifle into the marine's head. I pulled out my combat knife and shoved it into it's back. I pulled it out and shoved my last grenade it the hole I created. Then two marines and I shoved him back over the barricade and laughed at him trying to take the grenade out. The Elite blew into thousands of pieces and some of which landed on us and the other Covenant. Needler fire sprayed us and the two marines I was standing with was hit by at least four needles each in the chest and head. There wasn't much left of their upper bodies after that. Their blood sprayed over us as I fired 10 rounds into the Grunts that shot them. A plasma shot scorched the top of my helmet and then my motion sensor detected motion in the Brig but away from the prisoners.

"Corporal where the hell are you going we need you here" The marine Sgt. screamed at me while killing an Elite who got to close with a weakened shield.

"Im detecting movement back there and Im going to check it out sir"I jumped up and dove through the door and a needle just barley missed me.

I ran back to where I left Sarah which was near the maintenance hatch. I saw Sarah had backed up to the wall with her pistol drawn aiming at the hatch. I saw there were dents in it as something was trying to open it. "J.D. something is coming through there and it looks pissed, are you ok??". Sarah said to me while looking at my arm. "Yes its fine don't worry about it, whatever makes it through won't be living long soon after" I said loading a clip of Shredder rounds. When it opened an Elite dropped down into a hail of bullets. It's shields died and it took hits in the chest and head. I ran under the hatch and shot a Grunt looking down it. I pulled it down and grabbed it's plasma grenades. I tossed all of the plasma grenades through the hatch and closed it. I picked up the Elite's plasma rifle and fired it to weld the hatch shut. The metal around the hatch was melted and look secure for now.

"Puny human whatever you try to do to keep us out will fail and I'll finally kill you like I should of". the Gold Elite screamed at me in English. "Well you stupid asshole you don't have any shields and if they try I'll kill you before they get you out". I returned grinning

"Sarah can you walk, and if you can take a position and aim at the Gold Elite."I whispered to her.

"J.D. I can but why??"she replied "Because if they come in im probably dead and won't be able to kill the Elite, while as you can with one good placed shot." Marines outside screamed and I could see that the Covenant were overrunning the barricade. I ran over to the door and popped 7 rounds into a Jackal's head. The rest of the marines were doing what ever they could to kill them. Their Sgt. was being attacked by two Grunts at the same time and actually killing them. One marine was smashed several times against the wall by an Elite. The Elite saw me and charged into the Brig. The Gold Elite yelled something at it probably warning it as it shoved my knife into it's head. There was seven marines left who backed into the Brig firing. One of the marines was somehow toting a Jackal's shield generator and was blocking all the plasma and needles. I fired my MA5B over his shield and cut down a group of Grunts. Then a Hunter came out and fired. We both moved out of the entrance way as the Fuel Rod Cannons hit. Smoke filled the room and a Red Elite stepped in. His plasma sword cut the marine on the other side in half.

I fired my MA5B and unloaded every shell in my clip. "Oh Crap" as I noticed I had no more bullets left in my clip. The rest of the marines kept firing and some of the shots hit and killed the Red Elite's shields. It charged at me and I dodged it but then the Red Elite shoved the blade through the left side of me. I felt the burning sensation and then I smashed my MA5B on it's back three times expecting to kill it. But the Red Elite stood straight up only to be shot in the head by a M6D. The other marines were firing outside the door and Sarah had her M6D still aimed where the Elite was. The maintenance hatch started the jolt. I had no rifle rounds left so I pulled out my M6D. I ran towards the maintenance hatch with two other marines and Sarah joined us. We aimed at it as it opened and two Grunts that jumped down were slaughtered. Their friends which were three Elites jumped down. I fired my Pistol into the Elite while I grabbed my knife. His shields dropped and I smashed his head with my M6D. The other Elites fired at us. The plasma wasn't aimed at me but at everyone else. The marines fired and most of the Elites shields were down and two more fell to gun fire. I stabbed the Elite in the chest with my combat knife.

"Die you stupid Covenant" I screamed over the Elite's own squeals.

The Elite staggered and grabbed my head. Blood was dripping down its head and chest. The Elite aimed his plasma rifle at my head and chuckled but then the rest of the marines came in MA5Bs blaring cutting down the remaining covenant and they killed the Elite but almost shot me in the process. I pulled out my knife and noticed my fellow marines were wounded and were on the ground. Sarah took a shot in the chest but was there wasn't severe damage. The other marines were dead or dying. A Hunter dropped down and his Fuel Rod Cannon was already charging. It fired and blew away two marines. The rest of us fired and our bullets pinged of his armor. His shield was blocking its weak spot so our bullets were useless. One of the marine's MA5B rounds punctured his armor and was treated to a Fuel Rod Cannon blast to the chest. The Sgt. pulled out a grenade and was going to throw it but two Grunts hit him with plasma fire in the side of his chest and killed him. The last marine fired on the Grunts and killed them while Sarah kept firing shots into the Hunter's head. I reloaded my pistol and dove under his shield. I aimed for the weak spot and fired, soon after the Hunter's blood splattered everywhere and fell. I saw an Elite charging us and a Grunt trying to open the Gold Elite's cell. The marine fired wildly trying to hit the Elite.

"Oh my god help me Sir"the marine screamed at me while firing wildly

Sarah fired her last clip and then collapsed but I fired my M6D and hit the Elite in the head as its plasma rifle bashed the marine into the ground. The Grunt somehow opened the door and gave the Gold Elite its plasma pistol. The Gold Elite thanked him by crushing him. It just looked at me and charged. The Gold Elite crushed the wounded marine and shot at me. I dodged it and returned fire, my bullets hit the Gold Elite in its side and blood splattered everywhere. It got up to me and knocked my M6D out of my hand and I returned the favor. I tried to dodge a swing from the Elite's arm but it grabbed my arm and broke it. I still had my combat knife in my other hand and I stabbed the Elite in it's chest.

"You know I've been wanting to do that to you for a long time, you bastard. That was for Alex". I yelled at him

"Ahhhh ,arrrg stupid human im gonna kill you". The Elite was about to rip out the knife when I bashed him on the head with my empty MA5B which was still at my side. The Elite stumbled and fell. "Take that you stupid covie, never saw that coming ehh. Ok why the hell do I feel my wounds now". I knelt down and picked up my pistol and dragged the Elite's sorry ass back into a new Cell and locked him in. The Covenant scientist was still there and kicking. It just looked at me and backed up when I aimed the pistol at it. I took out the BioFoam and filled my wound on my side. I knelt down next to Sarah and checked her pulse. It was still strong and her wound wasn't too deep. I filled it with what was left of the BioFoam. I still had one member of my squad still alive and that made me fell better. I didn't like what happened to me though, all my other squads had been wiped My HUD was cracked but still working and it showed no Covenant on this level and Marines moving in near the Data Banks. Some marines made it in the base and maybe that is why im still alive and then I just laid there panning the area with my pistol. I just sat there staring at the blood stained floors thinking of all my fallen comrades.

To Be Continued in Part 10. I would also to have people post comments on my stories good or bad thanks.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 10
Date: 8 May 2002, 11:55 pm

     After awhile of looking at the blood stained floor and hoping the marines would come down here.   My motion sensor started going off and I guessed that it must off been the marines but my HUD showed that there were five contacts moving in and they weren't human, they were Covenant.  I knew I would have to fight them so I started getting up by pushing myself against the wall till I was standing up.  I checked what I had which was my M6D with two clips and my combat knife.  I slowly walked to the brig door hoping only to find some Grunts.  I looked around the corner and saw the dim glow of a Jackal's shield.  I stood there and counted how many were there and there was two Jackals and three Grunts.  The Grunts by themselves might be a challenge but against Jackals that might be a slight problem.  

     I kneeled down behind the wall to think of what I was gonna do.  I saw a grenade on a dead marine's body and I grabbed it.  That would come in handy.  The Jackals and Grunts were eating the dead bodies and one of the marines who was still alive was moving.  They fired at him and killed him instantly.  One of the Grunts proceeded to eat his body and I took aim.  I aimed directly for his head.  I fired two rounds and blew out what was supposed to be the brain.  The other Covenant saw and fired at me.  The wall in which I was hiding behind was burned and the plasma shots almost hit me.  I fired back and my bullets bounced off the Jackal's shield.  A Grunt tossed a plasma grenade at me and it landed on my helmet.

     "Holy Shit"I said while ripping off my helmet and tossing it at the grunt.  The plasma grenade exploded and ruined the Grunt's day.  Plasma fire erupted all around me and I ducked behind the wall.  I picked up my grenade and pulled the pin out.  I tossed the grenade between a Grunt and a Jackal.  The explosion killed them both but there was still one Jackal.  I spent a clip trying to kill the Jackal but the shots kept hitting the shield.  The Jackal charged at me plasma pistol blaring.   I was hit in my shoulder by plasma as I was changing clips.  The pain was intense but I didn't care and I fired again.  My shots weren't doing any damage and by the time I had two shots left the Jackal was really close.  I moved behind as the Jackal moved around the wall and jumped right in front of me.  I fired my last two rounds into the shield which was no effect against the Jackal.  The Jackal aimed it's plasma pistol at me and prepared an overcharged plasma shot.  I was just about to give up hope when the sounds of gunfire erupted and the Jackal was hit by a hail of bullets.  The Jackal was still moving and fired off its overcharged plasma at the people shooting at it before it was finished off.  I looked up and saw four marines toting MA5B's.  I was really glad to see fellow soldiers still alive.  

"Sir, are you okay??"said one of the marines who was walking over to me

"Yes Pvt. im fine, I was wondering when you were gonna come down here" I told the marine and winced from the pain.

"Well it took us awhile to get down here, the Covenant are all over the base, we're all that is left of our squad.  Everyone else is dead including our CO's" Said the marine while helping me up

"Thanks and  well I lost everyone in my squad except for her"I said pointing to the unconscious Sarah

"Well Sir, I guess you are the highest ranking marine here.  So what do you suggest we do now"

"So lets go find some more marines and kill some Covs.  But first can one of you marines help her up." I said to them.

"Ok im Pvt. Stevens, thats Pvt. Lopez, Pvt. Jamison, and that is Pvt. Walker"The marine said to me as we started moving.

"Ok im Cpl. Andrews and that is Pvt. Sheffield"Said me.

     I reached down and picked up some pistol ammo from a dead marine.  Pvt. Walker helped up Sarah who was conscious again.  We headed to the stairs not wanting to go back up the maintenance hatch again.  There was Covenant in the area and I hoped there wasn't any near because they could get an easy head shot on me.  Pvt. Stevens was leading the rest of us.  He peered around the corner and looked back at us.  "There are five Jackals over there and they looked pissed off about something.".  The marines looked for any Fragmentation Grenades on themselves  but no one had any.  "I've got an idea.  One of you go back down and look for any plasma grenades.  We'll use those to take care of the Jackal Pvt.Lopez ran back down the stairs and five minutes later he came back up with five plasma grenades.  

     He handed each of us a grenade except for Sarah.  Pvt. Lopez  walked up and leaned around the corner and was hit by five overcharged plasma bolts.  There wasn't mush left of the his burning  corpse.  The marines and I rounded the corner and opened fire.  Our rounds bounced off the shields but we got lucky and hit one of the Jackals.  I tossed the plasma grenade and to my satisfaction, it stuck on a Jackal's head.  The Jackal tried to get it off and took another Jackal with him as he exploded.  The three other marines chucked their Plasma grenades and killed two more Jackals.  The last Jackal started to retreat while firing wildly at us.  We took cover as the Jackal fired an overcharged shot.  The blast hit the wall above Pvt. Stevens head and melted a hole in it.  When we looked back the Jackal was gone, which was strange.  The Covenant never pulled back like that before and then I guessed that the Jackal must of went to go get his friends.  

     We went the opposite way the Jackal did and we came up on what used to be the gym.  We moved in slowly half expecting to be ambushed.  There wasn't any Covenant living  but there were a few dead ones and a hell a lot of dead marines.  If we got into a fight we wouldn't last very long.  One of the marines with us had been hit in the chest twice by plasma bolts but it didn't seem to hurt him that much.  We moved near the other exit and found something that made me sick to my stomach.  There were several half eaten marine bodies on the floor and seven Grunts still eating them.  The Grunts shrieked when they saw us and reached for there plasma rifles.  The three other marines fired their MA5Bs in a full-auto fusillade cutting down the Grunts.  I fired four shots from my M6D into a Grunt and killed him.  We checked the Covenant and marine corpses for grenades and there weren't any.  A lot of these bodies were ODSTs and they looked like they were killed just as easily as any another marine.

"Oh my god, those Covenant bastards"Said Pvt. Jamison

     I went through the door first and peered out.  I saw something that would kill us all there were two Hunters standing right there.  We wouldn't win a fight against those two so I told the rest of the marines with me to go across and I'll cover them.  The marines moved across as I opened fire with my M6D.  I used the 2x scope and hit one of them in the open spot on their neck.  The other one turned and fired his Fuel Rod Cannon.  I jumped and rolled across before the bolt hit.  All there was  where I had been was smoke and a Giant hole in the wall.  My body hurt so badly after that maneuver I had a really hard time getting up.  Pvt. Stevens and Pvt. Jamison helped me up.  The Hunter was still there but it knew only of me and it thought I was dead.  We slowly walked farther up the corridor because of my injuries.  We rounded a corner at came apon the entrance to the remains of the  hanger and saw Grunts, Jackals, and Hunters firing on marine forces outside the building.  I saw a group of marines blown apart by a Hunter.  Other marines were firing at it in a rage but the bullets bounced off their armor and it didn't stop the Hunter from killing another group of mainre  I checked how many clips I had left how many bullets in them.  I had three bullets in the clip I was using right now and one other full clip.  Pvt. Walker set Sarah down and took aim at the covenant.  Pvt. Stevens and Pvt. Jamison did the same.  I switched the clips and saw Sarah aiming at something in the hanger.  "Geez she's one stubborn person, she doesn't know when to quit"I thought quietly in my head as I aimed for the back of a Jackal's head.

     "Alright lets help out those marines, take aim . . . . . blow the shit out of those bastards"I screamed as I pulled the trigger.  The Jackal I aimed for head exploded and it's blood sprayed all over it's shield.  Two Hunters were hit in their open spots and were taken down.  Pvt. Stevens's clip ran out of bullets after killing two Jackals and countless Grunts.  He and the other marines switched to shredder rounds and tore up the Grunts leaving only a few Jackals and Hunters left.  The Jackals made a mistake and turned to face us and were killed by the other marines.  One of the Hunters turned at us and fired.  Most of moved out of the way but the blast hit Pvt. Jamison and burned away the upper half of his body only leaving a burnt lower torso and legs.  I aimed for the Hunter and blew out his neck with three rounds.  The other Hunters started pulling back and were cut down by marines from both sides of the hanger.  We paused to switch our clips and a plasma blast hit the wall above us.  We turned around and saw eight Jackals aiming at us.  One of the Jackals was our little "friend" from earlier.  We were dead, we couldn't do a thing against them.  The Jackals didn't get the reason why Pvt. Stevens, Pvt. Walker, Sarah, me started smiling and even chuckling a bit.  By the time they realized it was too late.  There was a squad of ten ODSTs standing right behind them.  The ODSTs opened fire and the Jackal's blood sprayed everywhere.  The ODSTs cursed them and spat on them.

"Thank you Sir we needed some help"I said smiling while trying to salute

"Don't worry Corporal we weren't gonna let the last of the marines here get wiped out"The ODST said looking at me.

     They were about to walk over when a Jackal moved and aimed its plasma pistol at us.  The Jackal pulled the trigger before the ODSTs could kill it and I took a plasma bolt in the chest.  I was knocked back a couple feet and I was starting to block out.  All I remembered was hearing some ODSTs cursing and Pvt. Stevens trying to look at me.  Sarah was trying keep me elevated then I collapsed.

The Hell Of War Through The Eyes Of A Marine :Part 11
Date: 16 May 2002, 2:04 am

     I awoke with my vision blurred, a nurse was injecting something into me and I had no idea what the heck it was.  The nurse looked at me, then she looked at the monitors and left the room.  I sat up, my eyes were focusing again and I looked around the room and  no one else was in here, I had no idea why I was alone in a room that should be filled with wounded marines.  I saw a figure outside the door and an Officer walked in.  I could tell he was a Commander by his insignia.  

"Good morning Corporal Andrews, I am Commander Wilkins"The Commander looked at me.

"Good morning Sir.  Do you know how long I have been unconscious"I said to the Commander and managed a salute.

"Well Corporal what I've been told is that you have been out for just about one day and twenty-three hours. Lt. Roberts was picking marines to fill up the remaining spots in your squad.  Since you are the highest ranking marine left in the squad you will get to chose the marines."

"Sir I know I should continue Lt. Roberts in choosing the new marines.  But in reality who would be their CO Sir."

"Well I was thinking about that and well you are gonna be their CO Sargent Andrews"

"Really I would like to know who the CO is and . . . . . did you say Sargent Andrews Sir??"

"Heh Yes I did and here is the list of marines.  Congratulations Sargent Andrews and if you see Pvt. Sheffield soon give her this.  Well that is it I might see you later Sargent Andrews" The Commander handed me the papers, two tiny black boxes, and then left the room.

     I started reading the papers, they had bios of each marine.  Not very interesting stuff but the  only three marines with combat experience I was gonna choose.  Two of the names stuck out in my head Cpl. Cory Stevens and Pvt. Mike  Jamison I fought with them earlier.  The other marine was Cpl. Louisa Mendez, she had been in twice as many battles as I had and to add to that she was a sniper.  It took me another hour and 20 minutes to choose the other five marines and they were Pvt. Steven Michaels, Pvt. David Anderson, Pvt. Brian Wallace, Pvt. Miguel Rodriguez, and Pvt. Harold Smith.  Not one of those five Privates haven't seen combat except for their training.  This was going to be fun. I got out of the bed and stood up to the disagreement of my muscles.  I leaned over and took a look at a notepad which listen my injuries.  Plasma burns to the left arm and leg (they fell better), a deep hole in the right side caused by a plasma sword (already knew that) cutting near the kidney (didn't know that), plasma burns to chest minimal damage(great that is fine), and a dislocated  left shoulder (it wasn't broken good).  I started feeling a bit woozy and steadied myeslf but that stopped a soon time after.  I looked for my combat fatigues and found some new dark blue combat fatigues (yes they are clean!).  

     These weren't dirty or torn so I put the fatigues on.  It took a good 10 minutes to put them on because my left arm still hurt like hell.  I looked around for my combat knife and found it in its sheath.  I was about to leave when the nurse came in and screamed at me.  I told her I was fine and I wouldn't be going into combat anytime soon due to the fact I didn't have a squad.  I also told her I just wanted to give something to another squad member and practice my aim with a MA5B.  She reluctantly let me leave and I picked up the little black boxes and the papers and sat down for a second.  

     I opened my black box and found the insignia for a Sargent in it.  I attached it to my uniform and left the room.  I was going to talk to Sarah and give her the black box but I had to first give the papers to Commander Wilkins.  I headed down to where his office should be and looked around.  The base seemed unusually quiet today.  There wasn't any marines around except for the MP that stood at his door.  I showed him my ID and was allowed in.  I saluted the Commander as I walked in.  He asked me to sit down and make myself comfortable.  I politely said no and stood.

"So Sargent Andrews decided on the eight marines to join your squad yet."The Commander said

"Sir yes I have decided on them and here they are" I handed the Commander the papers I had chosen.

"But one thing puzzles me Sir, where are all the marines? usually there would at least a group of marines anywhere inside of the base"I also added

"Well they are all in the hanger, every single one of them.  We had just gotten some new equipment and they are showing them the specifications for them.  If you want to get one or at least hear about it I would go now."The Commander told me and it sounded like he wanted to get rid of me.

"Sir I will, maybe I will see you later about my concerns for some of the new marines"I said, saluted, and then left the room.

     I jogged a bit of the way to the hanger.  What ever this demonstration was it seemed very important, the HQ looked like a ghost town.  I passed areas where some marines had the gruesome duty of cleaning the bodies and boy parts.  Many of the walls had tons of bullet holes and plasma burns, the HQ still looked like hell.  I moved hastily past the gym and where the Hunter took that shot at me.  I could see holes in the ceiling and I could see the Hanger down the hall.  Most of the wreckage had been cleared out and half of the pelicans that should be there were.  In the middle was a large cargo container and a couple hundred marines were gathered near there.  It was in the middle of the hanger and it was a good 300 foot walk from where I was.  I started walking and by the time I got there I saw a marine Lieutenant in a Black Suit picking up an AR.  I took a seat and started listening to the Lieutenant. in the Black Suit. "Ok marines we have a little surprise for you can any of you guess what this is. . . . .  No this isn't a MA5B, this is a MA6B.  This is new.  The MA6B fires 8.83mm rounds instead of the MA5B's 7.62mm rounds.  The MA6B also has a longer barrel for accuracy and some silenced fire.  The MA6B fires 8.83mm AP, Shredder, and the new type of bullet which is an explosive tipped bullet or an EX round.  The EX rounds do more damage then the other bullets and has a greater affect against Hunter armor, not much though.  One other thing about the MA6B is that it can also fire the MA5B's 7.62mm rounds."The Lieutenant said

     The Lieutenant picked up the MA6B and loaded a clip in.  Another one of those marines in a Black Suit set up a target 100 feet away.  The Lieutenant fired a three round burst and the target blew into pieces.  "Ok that is the end of our demonstration, we will assign the MA6Bs to their owners in ten minutes"  

     All of the marines stood up and proceeded to leave the hanger.  I saw Sarah far across the hanger on the other side of the group of marines.  I started heading over there and I saw that Sarah was with Cpl. Stevens and Pvt. Jamison.  I jogged over there and stopped.  They were surprised to see me there.

"Well J.D. they let you out already, I thought you would actually be in there for the time you should be."Sarah said to me and Cpl. Stevens was cracking up.

"Well the Commander talked to me and gave me these things, and you shut up" I said to Sarah and Cpl. Stevens.  I gave Sarah the box and I showed them what I had gotten.

"Hell they made me a Corporal and they made you a Sargent.  Is there anything else that you need to tell us."Sarah looked and said

"So this is great that all three of us got a promotion.  So is there anything else you need to tell us??.Cpl. Stevens said.

"Well okay im your new Commanding officer.  Sarah, Cpl. Stevens, and Pvt. Jamison you are all in my squad.  We have one other Cpl. joining us and her name is Cpl. Mendez and our official sniper.  The other five marines in our squad are fresh from training which is gonna a hell of a problem"I told them and I started walking.

"Jesus Christ really we are gonna be in your squad.  Okay thats fine, well sort of.  The only thing that freaks me out is that we will be working with five new marines straight out of boot."Pvt. Jamison finally said.

"Don't worry about anything okay guys, the only real thing im worried about is that are we gonna get to use those new MA6Bs.  Those things kick ass"I said and all three of them agreed with me.

     The marine Lieutenant called out to all the marines in the hanger.  He said the base still had 183 marines left from Alpha HQ and they shipped 75 MA6Bs with them for the surviving marines.  So in other words only the most worthy marines get them.  In about ten minutes 50 of the MA6Bs had been assigned and none of us still haven't been assigned one.  They called out Pvt. Jamison, then Sarah, Cpl. Stevens, and then me.  When they handed me it, it was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.  The gun wasn't dented, scratched, or covered in blood stains.  They gave me one clip of each type of round.  I loaded the EX rounds and I was going to test it on some targets but the Lieutenant wanted to tell us some more things about it.  He showed each technical aspect of the MA6B and also demonstrated that the butt of the rifle is stronger.  He smashed the last part of the target into pieces with it.

     While the Lieutenant was talking I heard some sort of muffled scream but I didn't pay any attention to it.  The Lieutenant then stopped talking and stared out towards the container.  The other two marines in the black suits were just on the floor not moving.  He muttered something as 23 blue blades lit up in the hanger.  The blades were Plasma Swords and 23 marines were cut into pieces.  This is time I heard the Lieutenant say something "Waste those sons of bitchs".  The Lieutenant picked up his MA6B and we all followed.  One marine cried out "Burn in hell" and almost all of the marines had EX rounds in the MA6Bs.  I aimed for a spot where the Stealth Elite holding the Plasma Sword should of been.  I fired the first rounds and Elite blew into pieces, the rest of the marines opened fire.  The Stealth Elites tried to deactivate their plasma swords but most of them were blown apart by the new MA6Bs.  Plasma fire erupted from near the container and the plasma bolts hit marines and burned through them because only a couple marines were wearing their combat armor.  
     
      A couple of the Stealth Elites who were still alive moved up and started bashing marine skulls in.  We couldn't see them but the Lieutenant who was wearing his combat armor and helmet turned on his IR.  He yelled out to move out of his way as he fired in a full-auto fusillade and parts of Elites were blown on the floor.  The only Stealth Elites left were the ones still firing at us.  All of the marines opened fire towards the container and the fire ceased as two bodies fell to the floor.  The base's loud speaker went off.  "All combat ready marines prepare to engage the enemy.  Stealth Elites all over the base.  A Covenant radar signature was spotted near the base but no visual contact made all marines strap on their armor and get into your vehicles, good luck and kick some ass" I found Sarah, Cpl. Stevens, and Pvt. Jamison all ok.  

"Okay lets get our combat armor on and head towards a warthog, Pvt. Jamison since you already have your armor go secure a warthog for us we'll join you in a sec" I told them

"Yes Sir"Pvt. Jamison said and ran off.

     We ran as fast as we could.  I was a bit slower then them because I was still injured.  When we got there I grabbed a few EX and AP clips for my MA6B.  I put my combat armor over my dark blue combat fatigues.  I strapped my new helmet on.  When I left the armory and got to our hog everyone else was there.  Cpl. Stevens asked me if he could ride on another warthog because there wasn't ant room left and I was using the chain gun.  I strapped myself in as Pvt. Jamison pulled the warthog out and Sarah rode in shotgun holding a Jackhammer and her MA6B.  We moved out and I scanned the air, there wasn't any Covies in the area.  My COM went off "All units the Covenant ship is centered over the base but still no visual contact hold on, . . . . . The Covenant ship must be using a Cloaking device. Oh my god what the hell is that"I saw this shimmering and this Covenant ship was just hovering there.  This ship was as big as four covenant dropships next to each other.  Marines opened fire and the bullets didn't do jack shit to the ship's shields.  Sarah steadied the Jackhammer on her shoulder and fired a rocket.  The rocket hit and the shields shimmered and gave  out not long after as bullets constantly hit it.  I kept my fingers down on the firing controls for my chain gun as the bullets pinged off the armor.  The Covenant Ship landed and the bay doors in the front opened up.  10 Special Ops Jackals climbed out supported by 5 Hunters.

"OH shit Sarah fire some more of those Jackhammers, Pvt. Jamison drive us around those bastards"

     The Marines opened up on the Jackals but were blown apart from Fuel Rod Cannon blasts by the Hunters.  I fired the chain gun into them and got lucky.  One of the Jackals were blown apart but we had a bigger problem, the Hunters were aiming for us.  Pvt. Jamison tried to swerve but the shots were too close and my Chain Gun wasn't doing shit to them.  Sarah fired another rocket and it slammed into the Hunter's shield.  Three of the Hunters aimed for us and fired their Fuel Rod Cannons, the first shot hit behind us, the second landed in front of us creating a large hole in which we hit and flew into the air, and the last shot hit the front of the Warthog blowing the engine to pieces.  All three of us jumped out rolling onto the ground.  I was thrown off the Warthog and landed in the middle of the battle.  I aimed the MA6B at the Hunters and pulled the trigger, instead of bouncing off the armor the EX shells connected and melted part of it.  I was gonna fire some more rounds but I stopped when a squad of ODSTs came out into the battle and opened fire.  The squad was Lt. Clower's but my HUD showed the insignia of Captain.  I shouted over to him and he saw me lying on the ground.  He turned and fired.  What I saw next scared me out of my mind at least 15 Stealth Elites appeared in the middle of the marines.  They sliced marines up and started heading towards the Covenant ship.  They ran right through Cpt. Clower's squad and killed a bunch of his squad members by slicing them into pieces with their plasma sabres, then they grabbed him and a few other men and some were from his squad.  I stood up and a plasma bolt zoomed by my face.  I didn't give a damn and fired blowing an Elite into pieces.  

     The Elites turned and fired their plasma rifles at me, I ran as fast as I could and dove into the crater.  I looked around and Sarah and Pvt. Jamison were in the crater along with three other marines.   Pvt. Jamison was bleeding from a gash he got from falling out of the hog. Cpl. Steven's Warthog drove by and he was manning the chain gun.  They drove right through the Stealth Elites and ran a few over.  The Elites fired and the plasma bolts killed the marine sitting in shotgun.  The Stealth Elites dragged the marines they took past the remaining six Jackals and into the ship.  The Jackals backed up and fired the Hunters fired another volley of Fuel Rod Cannon and disappeared into the ship.  I stood up and I could see Cpt. Clower's face as they closed the bay doors.  I fired my last rounds in my clip into an Elite that was holding him.  The Elite dropped but another one grabbed him and held him.  The Covenant Ship lifted off as bullets peppered the ship's hull.  It's shields came back as marines started firing Jackhammers, the shields deflected the explosions and bullets .  The Covenant Ship lifted off and began to cloak.  The ship's plasma cannons fired and a Scorpion that started moving into position blew into pieces, not one piece larger then a chair still together.   The Covenant Ship's weapons were really powerful.  I heard the sound of a Longsword's engine as two of them flew by.  They made a pass and the Covenant Ship opened fire and the plasma bolts streaked towards one of the Longswords and blew it to hell.  The other one was hit before it could fire a missile and crashed.  It's plasma bolts stopped firing and it disappeared.  The last plasma bolt that hit the base blew the radio tower to pieces and along with it, the radar dish.  I just stared out where the ship disappeared and felt a wave of sorrow for Cpt. Clower and those other marines.

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