Earth, A Place for Death. Part 5: Attack on the Gods Hands.
Posted By: FuManChu<cameronscottfay@yahoo.com>
Date: 6 August 2003, 9:54 PM
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Preparing for the attack on the covenant cruiser GODS HANDS
2100 hours, 10, Aug. 2554
"Ok marines, we will be heading out in ten minutes. We will lead an attack on the Covenant ship floating above the city." said the sergeant to the group of sixty marines in front of him.
"Yes sir."
The marines headed out of the room and got geared up. Jones and Green walked over to Hill, who was still in the hospital, and gave him a battle rifle and two SMGs. Hill took them and stood up. He let out a little cry of pain but remained standing.
"This sucks," Hill said.
"I'll bet," said Jones,"we are going to lead an attack on that cruiser tonight."
"I'll be fine," Hill said and walked outside. He looked into the night sky. The stars were shining bright. They twinkeled redish blue and back to white.
"C'mon Hill, lets get to our vehicle. We are going in with a Scorpion battle tank," Green told the other two and they walked away. The tank was specially fitted with extra plates of armor and a better machine gun that was more accurate. Jones climbed into the drivers' seat and Hill got the gunners' seat. Green hopped on a tread and three other marines did the same.
"Ok marines lets get the hell out of here and kick some covie ass!" yelled Jones.
"Ooh-Rah!" yelled the five other marines on board. The tank rooled out onto the street. Three warthogs drove in front of them as an escort. Two ATVs raced ahead as scouts so that they could report any covenant movement. The covenant craft grew bigger as the neared. About two clicks away from the ship a whole bunch of lights appeared in the sky. They were flying down to the ground. Three of the pod-like craft landed in front of the warthogs. Everyone stopped. The pods opened up and an elite jumped out of each. The gunners in the warthogs mowed them down. Once the threat was gone they moved forward again. As they got close to the ship they met up with ground forces. The infantry was composed of twenty marines, five engineers and five demolitions men. The infantry got in to position behind the tank. The gravity lift was in sight. Then thirty covenant troops came out of the lift. Green got a lock on and fired a shell from the tank. The blast killed all but five of the troops and the warthogs cleared the rest. The men waited to see if anymore would come. None did. The men hopped out of the vehicles and ran up onto the gravity lift. They started to hear a whining sound. Then the troops saw five dropships headed their way. As the dropships landed the marines were being lifted up. The dropships fired at them. One engineer was hit in the head and brain matter flew to the ground. That was the only casualty.
Inside covenant cruiser
2130 hours, 10, Aug. 2554
The men split up into groups of three. Naturally Jones, Green and Hill grouped up. They were going to head to the bridge of the ship and clear it out for the engineers so that they could get important information.
"C'mon guys, lets go," said Jones and the three men headed into an alien hallway. Everything was a matallic puprle. It was creepy to Green. As they came up to a dorr it detected their presence and slid open almost noiselessly. Inside there were three elites patrolling. Each one had a plasma sword. The three men split up and stayed in the shadows. Then all at once their battle rifles barked and the three elites fell dead. Their screams echoed in the big room. Jones checked his map and motioned for the other two to follow him. As they neared a door he said,"The ships bridge is right out there. I expect heavy resistance so be prepared."
"Yes sir," said the other two. The three men charged the room with rifles ready. To their suprise there was no covenant.
"Jones to engineers, the bridge is ready for you to move in. Repeat, the bridge is ready."
"Yes sir, I will come up myself along with an escort of two marines." The radio clicked off and they waited. In five minutes the engineer was there. He ran to the computers and started converting the data to disks. After ten minutes they were ready to head out. Three fourths of the forces in the ship were cleared and the last ones were being killed right now. Once all the covenant were dead the demo team planted their explosives.
Jones spoke to the other marines once they were gathered around the gravity lift,"Ok we know that there are covenant troops below us so, when we land we need the technicians to be covered and the warthogs' LAAGs to be manned. Green, Hill and myself will take the tank and help clear out the forces. Once they are dead we get back to base camp. Got it?"
"YES SIR!" the group yelled back. The marines stood on the gravity lift and were let down. As soon as they landed plasma hammered their position. Jones rolled to the right and got behind a boulder. He popped up and shot at a group of grunts. They didn't know what hit them. Then plasma wizzed by his head and hit a marine behind him, spilling out his guts. The marine cried and finally passed out. Jones looked over at the tank. Hill and Green were already there. He glanced around and saw a plasma grenade land on a marine. It detonated and killed three more men.
"Jesus Christ we are getting fucked up," Jones said to himself. He worked up the last bit of courage he had and stood. He ran for the tank. Plasma and bulets zoomed past his head and he nearly got stuck with a plasma grenade but he made it to the tank. The three men got on and the cannon boomed. Alien bodies went flying. The head of a grunt landed on Jones and he jerked. It was very ugly. He primed a grenade, stuffed it into the grunts neck and tossed the head back. It blew up sending shrapnel and bone fragments everywhere. Two more shots of the cannon and the last covenant died. The marines regrouped and head back to base camp.
Base Camp
0100 hours, 11, Aug, 2554
The marines gathered in the dark outside of base camp. The general there walked out and stood at the center of them.
He said,"Good job marines. We are just now getting the data sorted out and we have another job for you. Their data says that covenant troops are massing at the south end of New Mombosa. The spartan some of you may have seen is headed there now. Once you and the spartan clear that group you can rest for a couple of days. Then we have an attack that will hit their homeworld." a few gasps were heard."Thats right, you heard me. We will plan an attack on the covenants homeworld. Our target there is their Master Prophet. He is the one with control over the covenant. Anyways, you guys get some rations and sleep. We will head out at 1500 hours today. Oh, I almost forgot. Look at that cruiser over there." The marines tirned and looked at the ship. It exploded in the air and metal flew everywhere. The ship crashed down in to the buildings below and sent up a huge cloud of dust. The marines cheered and went to get some food. There was still a job to do. Green thought of how tired he was and told the others that he was going to get some sleep. They left and did the same.
To Be Continued...
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