Battles in New Mombasa III
Posted By: ghostmarine<shawnbock@cox.net>
Date: 18 October 2008, 10:30 pm
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Shawn woke up and Boris was at the computer. Shawn walked to the computer and looked at what Boris was looking at. They both were astonished, there were around twenty signatures heading their way. "Well lets me them" Boris said picking up his rockets. Shawn grabbed his MA5C assault rifle and followed him out. Outside they saw in the distance the twenty ODST they saw on the radar. One had a portable scanner, probably checking for survivors. Shawn and Boris ran up and met the group.
When they got there the ODST almost completely ignored them, the one with the scanner said "Looks like we found them, you five help their get any equipment we may need." The rest continued after they reached Shawn's setup. One of the ODST assigned to help carry the equipment said "You have anything of use in battle?" Shawn and Boris lead them to their stock of explosive devices and they all carried it out. One ODST waited outside then lead them in the tracks of the others.
Shawn asked the lead where they were going and he said "The center of the city, that's where everyone is. It started with only around thirty guys were there. Then they contacted a frigate hiding nearby and using their scanners found everyone." Shawn was wondering how many there were together, but he'd find out soon enough.
They reached a large building, the entire base was filled with ODST soldiers carrying and sorting supplies. One level higher up there was ODST with battle rifles looking around and patrolling. Boris noticed at around the sixth level were snipers, or something long barreled. Inside there was one ODST giving orders, his helmet was off.
His face was rough and had pale white hair around his entire face. His eyes were golden, combined with his hair he glowed. It made him look less old, and he looked to be around his fifties. He saw the group and said "Greetings, sorry it took so long to reach you. Had to go to the bigger pockets of soldiers." Boris said "understandable, what's this whole operation about?" The commander replied "We're going to kick the brutes out; they already pulled out but are coming back. Think they realized street fighting wasn't their style."
The commander lead Shawn and Boris up a stair case, they reached the seventh level and there were ten snipers looking out. There also were missile pods watching the horizon. The commander sat at a desk and said into a microphone "Commander Gordon reporting in, Shadow you read?" There was a pause then "This is Shadow, what's the status of your mission?" Gordon said "Everyone is here, counting seventy five. We suggest you lift off, won't take long for the brutes to notice where we are." "Copy that Commander we'll be able to provide air support in twenty minutes." "Roger" and with that Gordon turned the microphone off. Gordon said to Shawn and Boris "What are your specialties" After they told him Gordon assigned Boris to base level defense, and Shawn to second level.
After two hours the crates and boxes of supplies were moved to a sub level, only accessible from the base level. Boris grabbed a MA5B assault rifle, an older version but would be good for laying heavy fire down. He also clipped a M7 to his leg plate, just in case. Shawn picked a BR55 battle rifle and took point with two other ODST on the second floor. ODST set down Boris' C4s and other explosives as they prepared for the fight.
As Gordon went to the base level with a turret everyone heard the sounds of marching. Gordon put his turret down of the tri-pod and waited. It wasn't long until the first was visible. Mostly grunts were in it, Brutes were in the back and a few jackals with shields were in between the grunts to act as cover. Gordon wound his turret up, and as soon as the first bullet flew out, everyone started firing. Using rubble as cover the ODST engaged in battle with the grunts. Shawn fired at the closer grunts and was careful to use only the necessary number of rounds.
Gordon's heavy layer of fire was knocking the grunts down left and right. Snipers picked off jackals in their weak spots and knocked down brutes as they gave orders. As the battle dragged on brutes became the dominate force on the field and they used cover. Snipers began having a hard time hitting anything, as did everyone. Gordon's turret began clicking, he was out of ammo. He took his assault rifle and got up into the battle with everyone else.
A sniper noticed something in the sky and contacted Gordon "sir, I think phantoms are inbound." Gordon looked up and saw one. "Copy, tell the missile pods to open up." The sniper gave a hand signal and the ODST carrying the pods fired at the phantoms. Only a few were destroyed, others dropped off reinforcements and left. Worse yet chieftains appeared on the field carrying plasma turrets.
Now spikes and plasma bolts covered the base level soldiers, no one could fire. Ten ODST took some heavy hits and were dragged to the sub level by fifteen medics. Others who weren't hit as bad kept fighting.
Gordon pulled out a detonator, when he pulled it all the C4s Boris laid out in front of them blew. Boris set them father back, which greatly crippled any support to the front. Boris's other explosives, like his land mines, were more in front of them. As soon as they got too close they'd pull out.
Shawn yelled down a code for grenade throwing "sir should it rain?" Gordon shouted back "Let it rain!" All the ODST on the second floor pulled out grenades and flung them out. The entire front line of brutes and jackals fell apart, and chieftains threw grunts to take their place. Suddenly the ground shook, and from the smoke of the field a green light could be seen...
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