Chapter 2
An Interesting Developement
Soon enough Doug and Eddie were lost amongst woodland, the Jackals were long gone disappearing into the vast amount of trees and hills.
"I don't mean to alarm you Eddie" whispers Doug "But I think we are lost."
Eddie doesn't answer he is too wrapped up in preventing any ambush from happening to pay any attention to the Spartan.
Suddenly a beam shoots through the trees nearly hitting Eddie in the head, Doug had managed to drag his marine companion out of the way, they both start to run as fast as possible, through dense woodland, they could hear running footsteps behind them and the sound of beam rifles being fired, Eddie did not want to look back to see what was going on, Doug on the other hand slowly took a grenade from his pocket, took out the pin and dropped the grenade to the ground.
"Pick up the pace Marine!" Doug shouts as they both speed up, a huge explosion is heard from behind them, a long with screams from several Jackal's, but that didn't stop the sound of footsteps.
Suddenly there was no more woodland, they had run out onto a huge field, with a building in the middle of it.
"Doug! that ... that's a UNSC base!" Eddie exclaims.
"It looks deserted" said Doug "But hopefully there is some equipment there that we could use"
Doug had finished speaking when a shot from a beam rifle shot and hit him on the arm, this time he flinched.
"SON OF A BITCH!" Doug shouted.
Doug quickly turned and took out his SMG, before he could fire though, the sound of a moving vehicle was heard, suddenly a warthog sped through the middle of Eddie and Doug parking in front of them giving them cover. The marine on the turret starting to fire at the incoming Jackals, blood stained the field and Jackals' dead bodies started to gather outside the woodland area.
"WOOOO! THIS IS THE MOST FUN I'VE HAD ALL DAY!" shouted the one marine on the turret, the driver of the warthog quickly jumped out of the vehicle and walked towards Eddie and Doug!
"Hey Peterson! you're alive! and Spartan 259!" the marine said "this abandoned UNSC base has provided us with cover for the last few hours stranded on this planet"
"Simon, do you know where we are?" Eddie said trying to disregard the loudmouth on the turret.
"Well, it's obviously a former UNSC held planet, long taken over by covenant forces, perhaps once used as a training planet for UNSC troops, seeing as it's one of the few human inhabitable planets in this galaxy." Simon said looking around.
Doug was trying to get a few kills off firing his SMG towards the woodland area, but there was no more movement, the turret stopped shooting and the marine jumped from his seat.
"OH YEAH! I AM THE MASTER!" the marine said "Peterson! you son of a bitch, you're alive?"
"Gordon! still kicking ass even in this bullshit?" Eddie laughed hitting Gordon on the arm.
"HEY MAN! IT'S MY JOB!" Gordon said delivering a hit in return, Eddie grabbed his arm in pain.
Gordon and Simon were both dark skinned, half brothers and best friends, although it was a huge clash of personalities, they were the perfect pair when in a combat situation.
"The base has supplies, weapons, ammo, even warthogs ... I haven't heard from sarge or Davids yet" Simon said looking at Doug.
"There will be another wave of covenant coming through here, they know our whereabouts" Doug said interrupting Gordon and Eddie's friendly banter "We need to be ready for whatever they have to throw at us, if we can hold the base for long enough, maybe the Sergeant will find us and then we can think about leaving this place"