Alex

10 Minutes After Drop

Da Streetz of New Mombaza

Yo Dog Peace Out!!!

Alex heard a ringing noise and turned around to aim his pistol at a dangerous, phone? Who the hell would be calling? The city was on fire and half of it was blown up, how the hell were the phones even still working? Either way, Alex wasn't about to leave a ringing phone unanswered, it was just plain rude. Alex walked over and picked up the phone.

"Hello?" he said

"ERROR: ERROR: SYSTEM CRITICAL: IDENIFYING USER: CODE: DARE………"
"What the heck, do you even know who this is, I'm in the middle of a Covenant occupied city and" Alex replied angrily before being cut off.

"ODST SPRK RECOGNIZED, DOWNLOADING CITY MAP TO VISR DATABASE."
"Superintendent, is that you?" Alex asked the computerized voice incredibly. How could the New Mombasa city A.I. have survived all of that?

"GO FIND YOUR SQUADMATE'S BEACONS YOU TWIT."

"Wait, what do you, dangit he hung up." Alex frowned, that was definitely the Superintendent. Alex took a step backward as a map of the city flashed into his vision via his VISR. Alex hated to admit it, but the Superintendent had done a good job with the map. Not only did the map show the last know locations of his squad mates, it also showed the locations of emergency weapons stockpiles, gang activities, graffiti, and many of the cities other famous attractions!

Alex had wanted to visit New Mombasa since he had first heard of during school on Reach. His teachers had told him all about other planets, and New Mombasa had been one of his favorite locations to see in the holotheater that the school had. Of course Reach had plenty of neat things too, he thought as he walked toward the nearest area the Superintendent had marked, a place called Tayari plaza. His town on Reach was in walking distance of an ONI facility, and he recalled with nostalgia the barbed wire fences and shoot to kill signs that marked the land behind his backyard.

Of course things weren't always good on Reach, he had hated the weekly glassing drills where he was told that in case of glassing they were to lay on the floor. What good would lying on the floor do against a beam of superheated plasma? It made no sense at all. Alex was jolted from his sea of memories when a bolt of plasma streaked past him, he had been spotted!

Alex ducked behind the nearest building, he was sure the beam had been from a Beam Rifle, since it had only been fired once. Alex peeked around the corner to find himself staring at a Jackal on one of the rooftops. He quickly ducked back around before it had a chance to fire at him again and pulled out his pistol. He ducked back around and fired three shots at the Jackal. The first shot pierced the creatures arm and it let out a screech, the second one hit the creature's Beam Rifle, and the third went straight through its head finishing it off.

Alex rushed over to the creature and grabbed its Beam Rifle, he turned on his VISR mode to help him see better. He examined the Beam Rifle, if it was beautiful without the blue outline of a weapon from the VISR database on it; it was even more beautiful with it on. He quickly pulled up the schematics and reloading schemes for the weapon.

He had always wanted to use a Beam Rifle, but it seemed that every time he got close to the damn thing it was either out of ammo or in the hands of another ODST. That other ODST was usually his best friend and squad mate Chris. While Alex had been trained in what other ODSTs jokingly called tech support, Chris had been trained in sniping, and he was damn good at it. Throughout his time with Chris Alex had seen him pull quite a few fancy tricks, everything from eliminating 5 Jackal Snipers with only 5 Bullets left in his Sniper Rifle and no spare clips anywhere near him, to hitting a target the size of a bottle cap without using any scopes.

He holstered the Beam Rifle on his back and took out his Silenced SMG; he was going to save that baby for a special occasion. He pulled up the map of the city on his visor again, he was almost to Tayari Plaza. "Good," he thought, he didn't want to risk any more encounters with the Covenant again. Alex stopped dead in his tracks as heard a familiar roar like sound. He had been spotted again and this time it wasn't just a Jackal, it was an assorted group of brutes and grunts, this was not going to end well.

Alex turned his VISR mode off and grabbed and armed a frag grenade which he threw at the nearest Grunt. The alien panicked and shot its plasma pistol wildly at the grenade. The grenade blew up and several shards impaled the Grunt in the neck, Alex watched as the small creature was thrown several feet into the air before its body landed right in the middle of the small group of grunts that were firing at him. Upon seeing the lifeless body of their comrade, panic overtook the naturally cowardly creatures, and they started running wildly in all directions. Alex took advantage of the situation and ducked out of cover, downing several of the creatures with his SMG before being forced to retreat by a barrage of plasma fire from the Brutes.

Dangit, the Brutes had him pinned, if he moved out of cover to shoot them their continues barrage of plasma would kill him within seconds. He wondered when they move in for the kill, he was no match for a Brute. Suddenly he heard a roar and the first Brute rounded the corner and held its hands up to smash him. He had to think of a way to kill it, and quick. As the Brutes arms came down Alex whipped out his Beam Rifle and blocked the Brutes arms with it. He then dropped the Beam Rifle suddenly and whipped out his pistol. He stuck it straight at the Brutes neck and squeezed the trigger several times. At such a close range, the bullets pierced the Brute's armor and went straight into its killing it instantly.

Two more Brutes came around the corner and Alex finished them off with his Beam Rifle. "Heh", he said aloud, "Shoot Reload Repeat." As he ran away from the scene of the fight and toward Tayari Plaza.

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A lone ODST sat on a roof and stared down the barrel of his sniper scope as he watched another ODST run away from his location and toward Tayari Plaza, the ODST didn't attempt to make contact with the other ODST. Instead, he marked Tayari Plaza on his VISR Database and retreated back inside the building.

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