Frozen Hell part 1: The Drop
My name… Heh. I haven't been asked that in a long time… For the past week I have been surrounded by rookies on a Hellhole of a planet. A man ounce told me that's its not the power of your forces but the strength of your might that determines your fate. From what I've seen… I Wish I had more might. This was supposed to be an "easy" mission, but like they say the easy jobs are what get you killed. Anyway it was suppose to be a routine job the Covenant killed every last person on the planet but never Iced it About 1000 marines were shipped here to gather what ever was left of the bases supplies. All green. Except for 5 ODST, unfortunately I was one of them. When the Covenant showed up we thought it would be our greatest fear but as we soon learned. The planet is what we really should be worried about, By the way… The names Jack.
What I thought would be the best part was that I got to be with some of my friends. I soon learned that would be its greatest flaw.
"So do you know what they plan on doing with us?" I asked.
"Well from what I've heard. We will each be commanding a squad of 200. From what I'm guessing we will be putting up with the rookies in pairs." My friend Caleb said.
"But, there's five of us and 1000 men. So who's leading on their own? My friend Ben said. Then just at that moment everyone at that table turns and looks at me. Just then I realized that I was screwed.
"Looks like your screwed my friend." Austin said to me.
"Ya… Anyone wanna trade units? I mean com' on, me on my own. I probably get frost bite on that hellhole." I said
"Yeah you're the best here. I don't think you'll have a problem…." Jeff said to me.
"Fuck, your right." I said. "So how are we gonna get down there?" I asked.
"Oh there's about five ships leaving in about… 5 minutes." Caleb said.
"There is no way its in 5 minutes. The only person here who knows is you!"Ben yelled.
"Hey its basic need to know information. I'm sure if they thought you guys needed to know I'm sure they would of told you." Caleb said sarcastically.
"Who the hell is running this army! I mean you think they'd tell the people leading the squads what the hell is going on!" Austin yelled.
"Yeah plus wouldn't there be some kind of announcement."
"All marines and ODST please report to the hangar." The intercom said.
"I think that was it." Caleb said.
We made it to the Hangar in a crowd filled with marines with faces that could showed that they have no idea what the hell to do. Then I turned and saw 5 huge ships in each part of the hangar. This was a routine operation ones that I have dealt with many times. Weapons inside. Make camp when we leave await coordinates for objectives. Soon the announcements came on and told us who was in whose group. Lucky me I was gonna be the first to land.
As everyone was in my ship we all took a sit in this cramp metal deathtrap that they called a ship. As we left the station you could feel the force go up against your face almost creating a tingling sensations. 5 minutes before we hit I stood up to say something to my squad. "Ok ladies. We're gonna land in a few minutes and I'm gonna just let you know its gonna be fucking cold." As I said that I heard a laugh go through the crowd. "Now when we land I want you get all the weapons, food, ammo and everything else out and set up camp until we get the call to move out. This is gonna be a simple mission, get the stuff and we leave easy as that." I finished
As I look back at that now I see how wrong I was…. If I knew what would happen next I would of never told my men to set camp or hell even sleep. For what was about to happen me nor my men were ready, it was gonna be the end for most of us but the beginning for the rest...