No Hope in Hatred

Chapter 3

The marines stepped through the planet's ice cold snow. It was so cold that the oxygen coming from the marines like smoke from a fire. The colony's massive skyscrapers stuck through the clouds as a gigantic shadow. Samuels looked up at the towering buildings and swallowed hard. It made him feel sick to look at them like that. Hall led in front, along with the squads two new rookies, Olsen and Webowski.

After around 3 hours of non-stop walking, the squad had finally reached the entrance to the planet's colony, New Moscow. The streets were deserted. The burning ruins of buildings filed the air, and many dead marines lay on the floor. Samuels was ordered to search one of the ruined buildings. All he could see was collapsed walls and rubble. He searched deeper. He paused as he saw a hand sticking out from the rubble.

He lifted and scraped all of the rubble off the rest of the pile. He was shocked to see a dead marine, or half of a dead a marine. His legs had gone, but his arms and head were still attached. His stomach was spread for metres across the floor. He felt like he was going to be sick. The stench of it filled the ruined room. But then he saw something else. He saw bite marks across the dead marine's helmet and face, which explains why half of it was gone.

"Found anything?" Hall shouted from outside.

"Just more fucking bodies!" Samuels replied angrily.

He re-joined the squad in the street by the building. They came to a spot in the street where mutilated civilian bodies lay in piles and in their cars. Men, women and children lay there. Samuels looked over to Baker, where he saw a tear coming down from his eye. Ahead of that, they found more and more of the same horrific scene

They heard sounds of gun shots coming from the distance. It sounded like it was in the city centre. But they were more than 3 miles away from the city centre.

They heard footsteps and whispers coming from all around them. Then out of nowhere, a Needler round hit Olsen in his visor. He screamed out as it hit him and after about a second it exploded, showering Hall and Baker with blood. Olsen dropped to the floor with a thump, as the insides of his face stained the floor. The squad looked up to find that what seemed like an entire covenant company had surrounded them. They had been ambushed.