"Hey get up an' shake it off Marines! I swear I will kill anyone who dares to disobey me" Sergeant Johnson roared over the din.
Several of the Marines gingerely stood up and gave Johnson salutes before grabbing their weapons and heading off to find shelter. Johnson took a puff from his newly lit cigar and switched his pocket-radio to the classical channel, a twentieth century musical that he particularly enjoyed came to his ears "Can I Play With Madness?" by Iron Maiden, and he knew all the words off by heart.
"Geez Sarge, do we have to listen to that classical stuff?" Bandana said as he regained conciousness.
"This stuff is as I have so-often told you IS YOUR HERITAGE BOY!, if we were onboard the autumn i would-" Johnson began as he reached for another cigar.
"Send you to clean the loos with our Toothbrushes? yeah, we've all heard that one sir." Bandana finished as he stood up from the seat and inspected their new base.
"Hold on, I see one possible Heavily armed and two definites. Looks like we got Squid-Chins boys." Johnson said as he lit his second Cigar of the day, Fire Team Charlie nodded, familiar with Space Core slang. drawing his Sniper Rifle Johnson fired two shots, One went straight through the Red Elite's head the other missed the second by inches
"Damn it!" he cursed as he fired another three rounds, each one a miss. Johnson saw the second shape quickly dispose of the other Elite
"It's OK Folks! Wegot ourselves an Ally!" he shouted to the Marines cheers.
"Mendoza, you're with me, we're gonna go check on our friend over there." Johnson ordered as he strapped his Sniper Rifle onto hiis back and set off
"It's a mess, Sir. We're scattered all over this valley. We called for evac, but until you showed up, I thought we were cooked." Johnson said to the Master Chief as he stood to attention in front of the one-and-only Master Chief.
"Don't worry, Sergeant. We'll stay here until evac arrives." Cortana said over the head-set Radio.
"Heads up! I got a Covenant dropship headin' in, over here!" Bandana's voice crackled over the radio. The Master Chief quickly loaded his Assault Rifle and headed over to the new sightings of Covenant forces, Johnson in quick pursuit. Johnson fired his Assault Rifle at the nearest Elite and was pleased at his response of keeling over.
"Get up so I can kill you again!" he grunted as he killed a few of the grunts in the squad. The Master Chief was like a battering ram, every Covenant in his way fell to the onslaught of the Assault Rifle.
"Look sharp! Covenant dropship on approach! I could use some help over here!" Bandana's voice crackled over the radio again and Johnson headed to the west side of the Infrastructure, where the Master Chief was busy slaughtering Jackals by the bucket load.
"Uh oh, another bandit droppin' in behind us! They're tryin' to flank us!" Bandana crackled over the radio followed by a scream and the sounds of Plasma Firing
"Bandana do you copy? Private J. L. G. Ernest-Mahorn the third do you copy?" Johnson shouted over the radio.
"I thought that you said you would never use my full-name." Said Bandana sulkily over the radio.
"Hey you OK Bandana?" Johnson said as he continued running towards his position.
"No, a Plasma Grenade hit me, It hurts..." his voice came over the radio
"Sit tight" Johnson grunted as he met with the Enemy, fireing round after round at everything near him. Johnson saw the Elite standing over Bandana's corpse shooting Plasma into it and laughing.Johnson fired two cartridges and the Elite came down, dead.
"This is Pelican Echo 419. Anybody readin' me? Repeat. Any UNSC personnel, respond." Foehammer's voice crackled over the Radio.
"Roger, Echo 419. This is Fire Team Charlie. We read you 5-by-5. That you, Foe Hammer?" Cortana said in response to the call.
"Roger, Fire Team Charlie. Good to hear from ya." Foehammer said over the radio
"If you're not too busy, Foe Hammer, we could use a lift. We have survivors to transport to the command shuttle." Johnson said angrily as he prepared to evac, then he saw the Life Pods.
"Roger, Johnson. Okay, Charlie Team, Warthog deployed. Saddle up and give 'em hell." she said as her Pelican dropped off an M-12 LRV Vechile.
"Roger, Foe Hammer. Stand by to evac survivors and transport them to safety." Cortana said as the Master chief jumped into the Warthog.
"That's affirmative. Echo 419 staying on station. Foe Hammer out." Foehammer finished.
"The Master Chief and I need some backup, can you spare a few men?" Cortana asked Johnson as he lit up a ciggarette.
"Sure Cortana. All right ladies, volunteers step up on the double! The rest of you, get to the Dropship." Johnson said and two Marines saluted and jumped into the car.
"See ya Sarge!" they said as they zoomed off into the caves.
"That's a wrap people." said Foehammer as the Pelican took off.
"Say Foehammer..." said Johnson as he made his way to the front of the ship.
"What Johnson?" said Foehammer as the ship took off.
"nothing." said Johnson quickly as the ship flew to Alpha Base and rest.