Marine
Posted By: Tamir Klien<BaldEagles7@earthlink.net>
Date: 23 September 2005, 11:40 pm
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I heard the alarms go off on the Pillar of Autumn. Everyone in my cyro tubes woke up. The openings to them opened up. Cold steam came out of them, and the floor became a mist of clouds. We all where alarmed and scared even thought everyone didn't show it.
My name is Mason Rockwell. I'm 20 years old. Most of the men in my battalion where in there mid 30 early 40. One person aside from me was in his 20. His name was Thomson Williams. I just called him Thom. We all ran over to our gun rakes about 10 feet away from the cyro tubes. We grabbed our MA5B assault rifles and our pistol. Then grabbed as many rounds as we could carry. Then grabbed out battle helmets. We all ran out the door in unison. There where 20 of us. We where like brothers. We would die for each other; risk our live for each other just to see each other's faces another day.
All of a sudden while we where making our way to the bridge and explosion erupted from the left side of the hallway. Then when the smoke cleared we saw fellow marines bodies blasted and torn up. Then we saw 4 Jackals and 2 Elites. We loaded our guns double time. We where piercing rounds into the Covenant so fast some of us got a little carried away and kept shooting even after they where dead. Two of our men where wounded badly. One was shot in the leg and another was shot in the torso. We couldn't leave them to die. First we tried patching the wounds as quick as we could. Then two of our men took one each and singed them over their shoulders. This meant 4 of our men could not fight. We kept proceeding to the bridge. Passing the body's lane on the ground I almost heaved. Explosions where coming in from all directions. Luckily we weren't getting attacked. But that luck was soon going to run out.
I put up the map of the ship in my HUD. We where close to the bridge. I'd say we would be there in about 3 minutes. All of a sudden the lights went out. Their where wires that where hanging out of places which only gave us hardly any light. We all turned on our light on our assault rifles. We maneuvered our way through the hallways. We heard men screaming and the sound of cracking bones. An explosion went off right in front of us. The wires caught fire. Now we had to worry about not just the Covenant but also the risk of us getting burned.
" Come on men, you don't want to die now!" Commander Rolins barked. It seemed to him we where moving to slow. But this was the fastest we could go in these conditions. The scorching heat of the fires made me sweat. When we got to the next turn in the hall we heard some Grunts talking. Their where about 20 of them. It seemed like they where speaking English. But from there small voices it was hard to tell. We hide on the side of the walls with our weapons at the ready. We new it would by pretty hard to defeat all of them. On of our men, Markus had picked up some frag grenades. Then Commander Rolins gave the command. Markus rolled it into the hallway where the Grunts where. Grunts have very bad hearing we where taught in the mission briefing room. So when it rolled down the hallway the didn't hear nor notice. The commander whispered, telling us to duck and cover our bodies over the wounded the explosion was loud. I saw blue-purplish mist covering the halls. We picked up the wounded and kept moving. When we passed what was once a group of Grunts I saw their blue blood splashed all over the walls. Some parts of there bodies where still there. I saw near one of the Grunts arms a plasma rifle. I picked it up.
" Come on Mason lets get going." One of my men yelled.
As we made our way to the bridge in almost complete darkness a signal on our HUD started to flash.
To all aboard…get to an escape pod as quickly as possible. The Pillar of Autumn we soon to be no more. So get the hell out of here and god speed." Then the transmission went dead. Now we all new our new objective, to get off the ship alive.
We heard huge explosions coming from the outside of the ship. The ship started to shake. Some of us almost lost our balance. When we came to the next hallway there where two paths we could take. We needed to know which one would get us the escape pods the quickest. Samuel, one of our teammates checked on his HUD.
" We need to take the right path." He said, he sounded very unease. We made our way to the pods when we saw 10 men fly across our path. We peered around the corner and we saw 5 Elites.
" K…. men make your way to those damn pods as fast as you can we can't take all five you know that. We just have to take a risk. Damn…I don't know how else to say this but for the ones who don't make it…god speed." The commander said. We started to run. The Elites shot us with there plasma rifles. The two men carrying the two wounded went down. I wanted to peer back but if I did I would sheer die. So I kept running. I saw a pod that was open and I went for it.
" Thom, get over here now." Thom saw me and started to turn in my direction. Thom and I where good friends, almost like a brother to me. Samuel ran to my pod. Someone was already in the pilots seat and there where 4 seats left. The 3 of use quickly strapped in. One more of our men quickly got in. Then the pod extracted from the Pillar of Autumn.
Part 2,
I saw 100's of pods flying across space in all directions. I couldn't stop thinking about my fellow teammates. Where they dead? Where they alive? They feeling of uncertainty made me shiver. I just gripped my gun and thought to myself, those bastards are going to pay.
I set my assault rifle up on the rifle rake above me. I just couldn't set my mind clear of thoughts. Every thing that went on today just filled my mind with thoughts. I sighed. I didn't even know where we where going. I mean we where out in the middle of space. I sighed again and lade my head down on the mildly cushioned seat. Then I drifted off into a sleep.
I was looking over the yellow meadows on earth. My brothers and I where playing war. My brother Daniel where on one side and my brothers Greg and Edward where on the other side. Daniel and I where in the trees hiding. We saw our brothers running towards me.
" Hey Dan I think they see us lets get moving." I said whispering to him. We climbed down the tree very quietly. We started to head towards the barn. I didn't see a root out of the ground. I tripped.
" Come on Mason get up!" He yelled to me. When I turned my face the other way I was peering into Greg's eyes.
A loud noise woke me up. It must have been at least an hours worth of sleep I had gotten in.
" All aboard, where going down!" The pilot said to us very nervously. What happened the pod was flying fine? Alarms went off in the ship they where very loud. It seemed like where about to collide with another pod.
" The steer isn't working I cant hold!" The pilot said.
"Oh shi…" I said. Just then the bottom of our pod it the top of another pod. Sparks flew all over the place. Luckily they didn't catch fire to the pod. I was almost projected out of my seat. When we got past the pod we flipped. I gripped onto my strap so I wouldn't fall out of my seat. I turned my head and looked out of the windshield of the ship. We where going to collide with the planet of Halo.
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