Spartans in NYC Chapter 6
Posted By: Chief-117<smg6787@msn.com>
Date: 4 December 2003, 2:59 AM
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Sorry that I have not updated in a long time, I have been extremely busy. I will now be updating on a weekly basis. Sorry for the long wait.
2204 Hours November 15, 2553 Onboard the Covenant Assualt Carrier The Sphere of Dominance New York City, North America, Earth, Sol System
The room was full of screaming bullets, the hiss of plasma, the bursts of gunfire, and the rocking of the explosions. The elite attacking Sam never got a chance to land his blow as he and John shot him a dozen times before putting down several other elites. The invisible elites had tried to suprise them but they were to few and were quickly repulsed leaving behind thirty or so dead comrades. The Spartans took their share of casualties as well. Sam could see the faint blue outline of eight Spartans laying motionless on the floor. Mike ran up to Sam and John with smoking SMGs.
After regrouping the Spartans split up moved toward their objectives. Sam, John, Mike, and 250 others went down three separate corridors that ran all the way along the ship, each was ten yards wide and led from the engine room to the bridge, 4 klicks. As they moved along at a slow but steady pace they met little resistance. Most Covies turned and ran at the sight of the vaunted Emarald Soldiers. After several minutes of running the two columns of the center corridor came within thirty yards of an intersection with another corridor that ran perpendicular to the one Sam and the rest of the men were in. The two point men moved ahead to have a look around the corners. The motion sensors didn't pick up anything. They pointed there rifles around the corner and looked on their HUD at the Land Warrior Mk. XXII B/MM/LP. There was no sign of of the enemy and even on the thermal view finder from the tiny camera on their rifles showed no enemy activity.
When they felt that it was all clear they crossed the adjacent corridor only to be struck down by a long burst of enemy fire. One managed to crawl back into the cother corridor, his blood could be dripping out of his suit. The other lay motionless. Several blue glowing balls were thrown from down the other corridor and landed near a Spartan. The plasma grenades exploded taking out two men and were then followed by four green plasma rod shots. The plasma explosions didn't take anyone out but the Spartans were now stunned and confused. Seeing their chance they charged forward at the Spartans. To add to the confusion several of the invisible eliteshad followed them and attacked their rear taking out a pair of Spartans. John ran up to them and took several out with a shotgun and then took out a plasma sword that he picked up off a dead elite and ignited it, dueling the last three elites as the rest of the rearguard's attention was turned elsewhere.
Several explosions rocked the ceiling creating holes in the corridor above all of them. Plasma grenades were thrown from above and when they exploded a few dozen Covenant troops dropped down through the holes and engaged the Spartans in hand to hand combat. From the ambush point where the Spartans were first attakced charged two pairs of Hunters. They came up to the opening of the corridor where the Spartans were fighting. They charged their fuel rod guns and were about to fire when the point man who lay motionless on the floor seemed to come back to life a put a burst into each of the four hunters' backs. Eventually the Spartans shook off the initial shock and regained the initiative and repell ed the ambushers. The Covenant left behind forty- three dead but the Spartans lost seventeen men including John. Sam and Mike found him at the rear where he fought the four elites with his plasma sword. He cut the head off one elite and impaled another before having his left hand cut off. He then cut the other in half and as he cut the last one's head off he was impaled in the stomach.
Sam held his head in his arms while Mike took out his medkit and tried to give him first aid, his sadness shook his arms and slowed his mind. The rest of the men watched Sam, knowing those three had the strongest friendship in the regiment. They could tell he was crying under visor. After a minute or so which seemed like hours to them John's moaning stopped and his fist let go of Sam's arm. Sam dropped his head and leaped up and let out a great roar. He chraged down the corridor with Mike at his side as the rest of the Spartans tried to keep up. They took out any Covenant they came along without blinking an eye. Fianlly they came up to the door leading into the bridge. They opened the door and charged into the room shooting anything that moved. They began to reload frantically while surrounded by more than a dozen elites, three in gold armor with plasma swords.
To be continued...
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