The Virus Part 9
Posted By: monitor101
Date: 12 September 2003, 10:48 PM
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(Author's note) Well I'm back and so is the virus. I would just like to clarify that the virus is part of a four part series which starts off with The Virus then its two sequels The Mutation and The Cure. But the next series will be a prequel The Plague which will tell about what happened during the first encounter with the virus which happens 22 years before this. So here's the next part of the virus hope you enjoy)
(Zeta Doradus 3, Zeta Doradus system, 01100 hours PM, year 2550)
Sergeant Kurt Holmes ran around a tree closely followed by Wilkes, Maddox, and Street. About a hundred yards to their left the human forces were holding their own against the Covenant. The outskirts of the city Bamako were grass fields scattered with trees and giant boulders. Holmes looked over at the battle that raged on. The air filled with tracers and plasma. The UNSC forces of about 300 soldiers were suffering heavy casualties as were the Covenant. But every single one of them would soon die if Holmes and his men didn't do anything about it.
"Okay here's the game plan we gotta find this Sergeant Argos guy. He is supposed to be in charge of this whole thing. When we find him we hafta circle them and there should be five of them. Once we do that then put on your NVs and open up but don't worry about hitting the virus its in a bulletproof cylinder," Holmes said.
"But what if there's more of them?" Street asked.
"Don't worry there won't be ONI would more than likely send a small number like five for a black op like this move out," Holmes said.
When the four of them had learned the truth during the attack on the Gladiator they had escaped on a Longsword. They docked with the Constellation which jumped out of the New Bisson system and came to Reach. There Holmes and his men had slept comfortably for once and had a decent meal. After some well deserved R&R they suited up after being informed of a mission on Zeta Doradus which they all had expected ONI had did a good job of setting this up. Holmes and his men boarded the Constellation which jumped out system for Zeta Doradus. There they boarded a Pelican and were dropped off to try and stop ONIs plan to unleash the virus on the human and Covenant forces.
Meanwhile on the Gladiator Dr. Brooks and the remaining spooks returned to ONI HQ and Brooks met up with Sergeant Argos. Dr. Webber was hospitalized and was recovering from the gunshot wounds to the shoulder and leg. Brooks knew that Holmes and his remaining men would try and stop them so he set up tighter security, putting the force that would let out the virus up to 15 men instead of five.
Holmes looked ahead through the night vision goggles. He had his MA5B drawn. Holmes saw movement ahead and he switched his NVGs to thermal vision. The shapes of the figures ahead were Covenant. Holmes motioned for his men to duck and he pulled the pins on two grenades. He lobbed both into the middle of the Covenant.
Two consecutive blasts rung out and three quarters of the Covenant were killed five Grunts survived and turned around. They began shooting blindly into the trees. Holmes ducked as plasma shot past. He opened fire and sprayed the Grunts with fire. All five were cut down. Holmes and his men pressed on.
They crept silently through the trees for about five minutes when they came to a platoon engaging the Covenant who were 100 yards ahead. A Marine a corporal most likely was standing behind a tree
"Hey Corporal where's your sergeant?" Holmes demanded asking the corporal who was the highest ranking in the platoon.
"Sir our sergeant is dead I guess that leaves me in command sir," the corporal said.
"Well then can you tell me where a Sergeant Argos is?" Holmes asked.
"Yes sir a Sergeant Argos I remember a guy with that name who pasted by here about five minutes ago sir I think he is 200 yards west of here assisting Major Lance," the Corporal said looking around.
Holmes said nothing he and the three others ran off. Holmes with the three others ran for a minute when he saw movement this time human. He motioned for them to stop. The four of them screwed on silencers of their MA5B's and took their positions.
Holmes would fire first then the others would. He looked through the NVGs at what was happening. Sergeant Argos was a tall older man. He sat on a stump fixing a metal device. The ONI spooks were in the middle of a clearing completely surrounded by trees. Holmes eyes widened when he saw that Dr. Brooks was among them. He was also messing around with the device. That was in the very middle of the clearing. Then it hit Holmes the device was a mortar tube. He saw at least 15 spooks all armed with MA5B's and M6D's holstered.
Holmes drew his silenced MA5B and aimed for Argos. He was about to shoot when a spook with NVGs saw him.
"Enemy six o' clock!" the spook yelled and he drew his assault rifle. He opened fired and sprayed rounds into Holmes position.
Holmes ducked and opened up, shooting rounds through the brush. He got up as rounds stopped snapping over his head. Street and Wilkes opened up into the middle of the clearing. Two spooks went down. Holmes stood up and sprayed the clearing. A round came from one of the spooks guns and ricocheted off a tree and went into his NVGs. Holmes screamed and fell into the clearing. He yanked the disabled NVGs off and scrambled to his feet.
The remaining 13 spooks except for four were quickly mowed down by Street and Maddox. Three of the remaining four were running for Holmes and the fourth one was in a fight with Wilkes.
Dr. Brooks tackled Holmes and they both crashed into the ground. Holmes pushed Brooks off and tried to yank his M6D out of its holster. Brooks got to his knees and sent two jabs into Holmes face; Brooks made a grab for his own pistol. Holmes kicked Brooks in the groin and Brooks yelped in pain and fell to the ground. Holmes slowly got to his feet but was quickly brought down by three spooks. One of them pointed a gun at Holmes face.
Street and Maddox saw the remaining three doing this and they went to assist Holmes. They opened up on the three and they were quickly killed. Maddox sighed and looked over at Wilkes who was beating a spook to a pulp with his MA5B.
Holmes got up and went over to Brooks who lay on the ground. Holmes sent five hooks into Brooks face. He got up and looked at the three others. "Let's find this thing and get rid of it," Holmes said as he walked over to the mortar.
As Wilkes, Maddox, and Street were walking over to the mortar. Argos who had been shot in the shoulder, stood up with an M6D. He put a round into Maddox's shoulder and a round into Wilkes back. He fired two more rounds that caught Street in the shoulder and Holmes in the arm.
Holmes fell to the ground. He looked at the blood that stained his sleeve. Lying on his back he saw that the bullet had grazed his arm leaving a deep gouge. He drew his M6D and fired at Argos who ran off into the trees, one hand with a pistol and the other with a metal cylinder.
Holmes got up and shook his head. He looked at Wilkes, Street, and Maddox they weren't moving. He got up and heard a metallic click. He whirled around to see an M6D pistol pointed at his head, held by Brooks.
To Be Continued...
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