Reach: Fire On The Horizon
Posted By: PFC. Carl Parley<Aldon_104@hotmail.com>
Date: 23 November 2006, 9:47 pm
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Reach: Fire On The Horizon
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1030 Hours
Reach, Bunker
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The explosion sent John flying over Carl and over the edge of the bunker. He landed hard, smashing into a Jackal. Carl pulled the gun towards the edge of the bunker and ripped through a pair of Hunters who were at that moment lumbering towards John, ignoring any other aliens around them. A clear path that the Hunters made was the way to go. Carl pointed to John and to the path.
The crunch was heard by Martinez across the battlefield. He looked towards the bunker and saw Carl on the gun pointing to John, and Austin and Johnson throwing grenades into the battle. He turned looked towards Paul; he was strapping grenades together with "EB Green".
"What in gods name are you doing?" asked Martinez.
"What does it look like?" said Paul
"I don't know, I really don't know."
"I'm making a bomb."
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Dude, we don't need a bomb."
"If you'd look down you probably have a change of heart."
Martinez looked down and saw that the bunker was getting overrun; John was fighting towards the Wraith. Johnson, Carl and Austin were on top of the bunker covering John with a heavy "rain of fire".
"Man hurry up with that god damn bomb!" yelled Martinez.
Paul strapped one last roll of tape around it and threw the bomb to Martinez. "Good, thanks." Martinez primed one of the grenades and tossed it into the battle.
John saw the bomb and hid under a dead Hunter's body. The explosion burnt the skin off of the Hunters body and the arm on which the rail gun was on was burnt off. John bent over and grabbed the rail gun, it still pulsed a bright green. He turned and aimed at the Wraith and fired, a green bolt of energy arced through the air and contacted with the Wraith, it ejected its rider and slammed into a tree. John flicked his com to Martinez and said, "Cover me I'm going to check to see if it works. "Aye." replied Martinez. Bullets shot towards him and the aliens around him fell. "Helluva shot." John whispered to himself. He broke into a sprint; the Covenant fired ghostly blobs of plasma at him. More than enough hit him and his shields dropped to zero. John set his sprint to full capacity and pumped the gel in his suit, he wasn't dodging anymore. He slammed into an Elite it spun off and sent its weapon into the air. A nav point appeared on his HUD. "Thought you might need it." said Cortana. John jumped and grabbed the plasma rifle that the Elite flung. He turned in midair and fired in a circle around him. Covenant fell to the ground smoldering from the plasma fired. He back rolled when he hit the ground and propelled into the air in a low crouch. He landed two inches shy of the cockpit to the Wraith; he slipped and slammed into the cockpit. A gold armored Elite jumped onto the Wraith. John kicked with both legs into the Elites chest. It stumbled into the tree. John squeezed into the seat and backed up the tank. The Elite slipped down the nose and up against the tree. John sped up and smashed into the Elite. The upper part of its body flew onto the ground, while the lower stomach and legs spurted blood onto the purple metal of the Wraith, tainting it a very dark purple. The Pelican hovered three feet above the tank, and Paul, Martinez and Gerry jumped out onto the Wraith. Gerry lost his footing and slid down the Wraith. His hand wrapped around the barrel of the cannon and he heaved himself up and over the barrel, right behind the cockpit.
"Hey!" yelled Paul." Don't sit on the barrel."
Gerry was holding on with one hand and was firing into the small squad of grunts crouched behind a fallen tree. "Why?" he asked.
It'll burn your balls off!" Paul said with a smirk.
Gerry scrambled off the barrel and sat next to Martinez. He shot a look at Paul and then threw a grenade at the tree. Splinters flew into the faces of the Grunts, there was blood gushing everywhere and the Grunts slumped up against the tree and the rocks near them, blue gel oozed from under the bodies.
"John." said Cortana. "We have multiple Banshees in an intercept course for use!" John angled the barrel towards the group. He got the cannon ready. On top of the tank, an Elite was climbing onto the barrel. Martinez jumped up and kicked him in the back of the head, he slammed into the cannon and Martinez slammed into the bulkhead, and off the tank.
"By, by boys!" yelled John, he fired the cannon and a load roar could be heard on top of the tank. The camera showed a smoldering body of an Elite on the gun. The plasma ball hit a Banshee. It exploded sending shrapnel into the other crafts and onto the ground below. Balls of fire fell to the ground. "Guys, lets kick some Covenant ass!" yelled John. The tank rolled through the crowd towards the bunker.
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