The Battle of Evermore Part 2: Break
Posted By: Gruntkiller<ttavenor@nf.sympatico.ca>
Date: 31 August 2003, 5:58 PM
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The Battle of Evermore
Part 2 of 4
Break
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Erik's eyes opened suddenly from a sharp pain in his chest. Above him with one foot on his chest plate an Elite stood yelling out orders to Grunts who where laying explosives next to the small door. Above the Elites head dangled the body of the other sniper his leg trapped between the platform of the destroyed watch tower and the wall. The blood of the sniper was still dripping down forming a puddle on the ground. The sound of plasma flying filled the air as thousands of plasma bolts per minute were fired up at the machine guns and snipers on top of the wall.
Erik didn't dare move if the Elite felt the slightest movement that he was alive he would be shot. The Elite took his foot off of Erik's chest and turned around heading back towards the line of Jackals that sat along the edge of the jungle. The Ghosts Erik had seen earlier sat off in the rainforest firing burst at the top of the wall and drop ships were landing and unloading troops constantly behind the front lines.
Around him several Grunts ran away from the door behind him, he quickly turned his head and looked. Along the door packets of what appeared to be explosives were attached to the door, several wires ran down to a small black box with a small flashing light.
Erik stared at it for a few seconds deciding what to do next, he pulled his pistol out of its holster and fired three shots at the box, 2 hit the third one missed and severed three wires. The light still flashed the box was armored.
The battled raged and nobody noticed as Erik desperately crawled away to the side away form the door, the Covenant concentrated on the Marines on top of the wall who fired down almost non-stop.
Suddenly there was a huge explosion as the packets of explosives still hooked up to the detonator went off setting off the other three too in the blast, the force blasted a hole in the wall where the door was about 12ft high and 20ft wide. This was the break the Covenant needed, dozens of grunts ran forward climbing over debris through the hole where Marines mowed them down but more kept on coming.
20 Jackals in a phalanx formation, 5 across and 4 deep climbed up through the debris and began firing upon the Marines on the other side of the wall Warthogs rushed to set up a barrier and provide support fire with their .50 machine guns.
Up the road Wraiths were coming bringing with them two large supply vehicles with portable grav-lifts to transport troops to the top of the wall. As the Wraiths came into range of the base they fanned out and fired heavy plasma rounds up into the air and over the wall wreaking havoc upon the Marines which now were all over the place taking up defensive positions.
Erik continued to crawl away from the wall towards a patch of bushes he was ignored in the heat of the battle except for the occasional Covenant who would quickly dismiss him as dying from a fall off the wall. Erik soon reached the bushes and crawled into them hiding from sight, he set himself up to have a view out at Covenant lines. Using his pistol he began taking shots a line of five Jackals leading a ground of Grunts and an Elite through the break in the wall. Within 20 seconds two of the Jackals were dead, and in the confusion of the battle nobody noticed the Marine hidden in the bushes.
A stream of machine gun fire came through the break into the approaching Covenant squad, the bullets ripped through the Grunts who were now exposed and badly injured the Elite forcing it to retreat back to behind the main lines.
The supply vehicles arrived just behind the Covenant lines and quickly unloaded their gear and headed back for more. The force of Covenant was about 5000 now and more were still coming up through the tunnels.
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Erik still lay in the bushes, all his ammunition for his pistol was gone long ago and all he could do is stay out of sight. Behind the Covenant lines which were now fairly dug in a whistle blew, The fire from the Covenant stopped and for a minute all that could be heard was the machine gun and sniper fire. Then as if urged by some ungodly force the Covenant rushed forward en masse to the wall and many tried to get through the gate. Near the back of the huge mass of soldiers several covenant carried the portable grav-lifts up to the wall and set them up, soon Covenant were being lifted up to the top of the wall to face the Marines who desperately tried to hold them back. The bodies of Covenant plunged to the ground as they were cut down when the reached the top but there were just too many and the Marines had limited ammo.
Still from the distance more and more Covenant came, the base was on the verge of being overrun and the battle of evermore lost.
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