Fight or Flight: Chapter 6 (The Big Boom)
Posted By: teemus<teemusligg@hotmail.com>
Date: 8 December 2003, 3:05 AM
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JerichoII October 25 2541
(Sgt. Diego Enrout to crash sight)
Diego sat in the passenger seat of the hog, they had just left their original position and were to rendezvous with the 22nd regiment and secure the crash sight. He listened as Sumeet; his gunner played some sort of word game with other marines over the COM link. They could now see a rough outline of the pelican. Two Long Sword bombers sord over the 6th regiment and headed towards the forest where the artillery had last been seen. Just then Sumeet yelled, "Sir incoming Covies, they have mortar tanks with them!"
Diego then clicked on his COM link and tuned into the Companies radio, "Alright, looks like the little bastards sent in their own Convoy! Break up and engage the enemy, but keep your distance from the tanks!" The squad then acknowledged his order and broke out of their formation. Diego then turned to his driver and told him to come around the back of the Covenant. Surprisingly it only took ten minutes to bring down the whole Covenant strike force and with only loosing one hog. For the 6th and 22nd Wart Hog regiments, this was just a breeze to what they had coming up.
Diego's com link then clicked on and Major Chaudhry's voice came out, "Where the hell are you guys? We need back up, they just keep on coming!" The channel was then full of static and the noise of gunfire. Diego turned to his driver and told him to floor it. The Hog picked up speed and headed towards the crash sight. As they got closer the noise just got louder.
(Sgt. Eversmit Delta Company front Gate)
Eversmit ejected a used clip from his MA5B and slammed in a fresh one. He paused to look at the regiment of Wart Hogs that had showed up ten minutes ago. They were getting pounded pretty badly. Eversmit then turned to Roy. "Is this all they sent in?" He asked pointing to the Wart Hogs. His question was then answered by a loud rumbling noise. He turned to see a whole regiment of Wart Hogs coming towards the crash sight. He was soon brought back down to earth when plasma went past his head. He turned to see a Golden armoured Elite running towards him. He quickly raised his assault rifle and opened fire. Eversmit's clip was almost empty when the Elite finally fell.
Then over Eversmit's COM link, the captain's voice came, "Eversmit, I want you to take your men to the crash sight and set up a perimeter. You are to hold this perimeter until the LRV's have loaded the bodies and are back within the base walls. Then you are to access the pelican's memory database and destroy it, and then fall back. Do you understand soldier?"
"Sir yes Sir!" Eversmit replied. He then turned the COM link to his companies channel and spoke, "Alright boys, it looks like we go ourselves another mission. We are to hold the perimeter around the Pelican. You will not let any squid headed, split chin son of a bitch into that cockpit! Do you under stand me?" He then got a whole bunch of; Sir yes Sir's or you got it. In five minutes Eversmit had gotten fresh supplies and was at the rendezvous point. He and his company then made there way to where Roy's position was. As they approached they saw Roy shooting and a group of grunts and occasionally swearing as plasma soared over his head. Eversmit jogged to the rock that Roy had taken cover behind, "Were gonna move for the crash sight, I need you guys to give us covering fire!" Roy nodded and began talking to the marines under his command through the COM link.
Eversmit then clicked on his own COM link and tuned into Chaudhry's channel, "We are coming to you, so do not fire towards the trenches. What is the situation with the bodies?"
"We could use some help, and with the bodies, both pilots are dead and we have two wounded. We got the two pilots out but are working on the wounded now."
"Roger that, we are moving out." Eversmit then yelled, "Covering Fire!" and he and his men jumped out. As soon as they got out of the trenches, Eversmit heard a scream, a boom, and a loud crack.
(Command deck of Cruiser Jado)
Avu turned to the prophet, "Your Excellency, those electric fences are to strong, we can not get past it."
"Yes Yes I know commander. We shall launch one last wave, if this wave fails I will accept your advice and leave this planet. For the electric fence, we will fire the artillery at it. Fire on my mark commander. 1...2...3...Mark!" Avu then fired the artillery. As soon as the plasma was away, a long sword dropped a bomb directly on top of the artillery cannon. This bomb destroyed the artillery and half of the command post. After the commander had recovered he heard a very loud scream and crack.
(Long Sword Bomber, Charlie 5)
Brians saw covenant artillery charging up. He then turned to his weapons manager and told him to lock onto it and that they were gonna destroy it. As they came in for the dive, Brians saw a piece of plasma leave the artillery. He knew it was to late, but he could still stop it from firing another. As they came low enough, he felt the Long Sword shake as the bomb left the bombing bay. As they pulled up Brians heard a loud boom and crack.
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