Through the eyes of a grunt Pt 1 of 3
Posted By: BansheeBoy<396tocool@declub.yahoo.com>
Date: 22 May 2004, 7:27 AM
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Through the eyes of a Grunt Pt 1 of 3
Bastip was just a normal, cannon fodder Grunt. He wasn't a leader in any way he was a follower. Just a normal Grunt, part of a squad of grunts led by an elite named Noso Oslami.
They were inside a small fluorescent covenant boarding craft. The squad consisted of six grunts and the elite. Oslami seemed to be angry with being put with a band of Grunts, dishonoured even. He'd much rather be in a boarding craft with other elites.
Bastip wasn't that happy about the oncoming mission either, heck, he hadn't even want to have joined the covie army. But they were forced to, to wipe the sacrilegious humans of the face of the galaxy. Bloody stupid reason he thought. Their mission was to board the human ship and kick their candy-asses. But why didn't the three covie cruisers just shoot it out of the sky? Bastip imagined the explosion inside his head and then remembered why. Something to do with that fucking ring which he'd been on been on duty on for the last three dam years. Three years! He'd not seen his family in that long, but had been promised he would be allowed to see them after this battle. He just had to survive. His ramblings were stopped all of a sudden by Nosa Oslami shouting " Contact ".
The boarding craft flew towards the human ship. It fired a few shots of plasma destroying the escape pod blocking their entry and gently landed.
Bastip counted in his head " 3, 2 , 1". The door blew back and Oslami yelled " Go,go,go ".
Bastip picked up his plasma pistol and a few plasma grenades and followed the rest of his group. They'd chosen a bad place to land as four humans greeted them. The grunts instantly ran for cover, but didn't find much and began to run around screaming. The only ones who kept their heads were Oslami and Bastip. Bastip saw three of the marines were on one side of the corridor and hurled a plasma grenade at one of the human's chests. Now it was his turn to run around screaming and unfortunately, for them, it ended at the foot of the other two humans. There was a satisfying explosion as the three humans flew six-feet in the air. Bastip turned round to see another charred human corpse and Oslami aiming his plasma rifle at the limp body. One of the grunts opened his eyes and asked " Is......is it over?"
" Get you're acts together you barstards or next time I'll crush your methane tanks" said Oslami. " Yes...yes sir " stuttered of the grunts.
The clean-up crew managed to kill all the humans in the next corridors without suffering a casualty. Still most of the grunts had been incompetent and were getting on Oslami's nerves.
He had come so close to firing his plasma rifle at some of those grunts. Bastip continued down the next corridor and saw a large blast door. " It's locked down sir" said one of the grunts.
Oslami stepped up to the CPU and thumped it hard. The door began to open.
" Genius " said Bastip. The squad looked through the blast door to see eight humans on the other side. Two broke their ranks and ran at the group. They were torn up by the combined plasma fire of the group. What followed was a tactical battle between the covenant and the marines. Bastip found great cover behind an ammo crate and took three humans down with charged pistol shots. Suddenly human fire came at his position. But he couldn't see where it was coming from. He looked around the large two-story room only to be fired at again. He heard the screams of several grunts. The battle wasn't going well. Bastip had an idea though. He threw a plasma grenade down into the first floor and looked up. Several humans jumped for cover as did a green-armored human. He also managed to see the limp bodies of his group. Oslami was still hiding a few feet behind him, but they were all that was left.
" Good riddance eh? " he said. It was a rhetorical question but you could tell he was afraid of the green-armored human. The green one had climbed to their position and began to aim at the elite. Oslami ran at the green-armored human. Bastip stood up and aimed at the human's head. He was about to shoot when Oslami came into his line of fire. " Shit " thought Bastip. He ducked back for cover and heard a crackling of a nearby radio dropped by a dead human. It said : " This is Captain Jacob Keyes, I'm taking this bird down to that ring-world manually. Over and out ". This ship was gonna crash into the ring. He had to get off now! He wouldn't go back.
Bastip ran for the blast doors and took a quick look behind him to see the green one knock out Oslami with the butt of his rifle. The green-armored human now turned his attention to Bastip.
He tried to lock the large room down but didn't understand the CPU. The green one was coming closer! Then he remembered what Oslami did. Bastip thumped the CPU as hard as he could and the blast doors began to close. Bastip ran back through the corridors to the boarding craft, only to find there wasn't one there. He was lost! Suddenly two humans appeared from round the corner and shot at him. Bastip picked up one of his dead brethren and used him as a shield. He was out of plasma grenades and his pistol ammo read 002. He didn't have a chance. Then he stumbled over something. A human grenade with a pin still in it. Using human weapons was considered treason by some but this was a special case. It was life or death. He took the pin out, hurled it and dived back. Human body parts flew everywhere as the grenade impacted. Bastip stood up. He knew he wouldn't live another encounter. Then Bastip saw a human escape pod still docked. That was his ticket out. He stepped inside. He pressed buttons until some motion began. The pod disengaged from the human ship.
" Alright, lets figure out how to fly this thing" exclaimed Bastip. Something had come up on the pod's CPU. It read : " Computer taking control of all pods.....................heading for derelict ring-world". Bastip looked down at the screen and yelled :
" Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"
To be continued.................................
This is my first fan fiction, so be kind.
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