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Senya was at the Captains side. Another Covenant ship was moving towards the other side of the planet, a desert like plateau. Crane looked at Senya. "Assessment?"
"I don't know sir. There are no humans colonies in that area, and they aren't trying to move to the from within the planets atmosphere because they already directed a ship there right in the open. I'll scan for any sighs of energy or radiation."
Senya bowed her head for a moment.
"Sir, I've picked something up, a military installation, located on the Plateau and full of underground tunnels and facilities. Sir, there's been a hidden UNSC base here for who knows how long."
"Hail them Senya, we have to warn them about that ship," Crane said inspecting the diagram of the base on the screen in front of him. "And while you're at it ask them what the hell they're doing there."
The explosion went off, completely breaking apart the building walls. It caved in along with another building and half of another. They rubble came down crushing the Elite's, and the humans who had remained in the town. A small crater opened up where the first building had once stood, ruble pouring down into it. Andrew tackled Dave to the ground and began punching his face. "YOU STUPID IDIOT! YOU KILLED OVER TWENTY PEOPLE!" He saw blood all over Dave's face as he mashed in his nose. He felt Dave's nose break. He stopped working the face and began punching Dave's stomach. While the newest members of Comet looked at the chaos that was once an apartment complex, Ken walked over to Andrew to stop the fight. Andrew pulled his combat knife from its sheath and started to bring it down at Dave's throat. Ken's hand grabbed his forearm and pulled Andrew up. Ken's other hand wrenched the knife from his grasp and slid it back into it's sheath. Ken looked into the sky. A click was heard in all the ODST's helmets. "This is Private Ken Raves, requesting immediate evac, Private Dave is down, an Elite caught him off guard without his helmet, bring medical supplies, his face was beaten bad and he probably has a broken rib or two."
"Roger, inbound."
Andrew walked away from Dave and wiped his bloody hands on some grass. He looked back up at the wreckage. He'd have Dave removed from his Fireteam for this. The Pelican came in and lifted them out. As the Pelicans door began to shut ten Pelicans and two albatross's could bee seen flying away and over the cliffs. "Hey pilot, what are they doing?"
"Orders from the Captain. Covenant found some old UNSC base on the other side of the planet, we're gonna try and hold em off."
Andrew left the Pelican bay with his men. Dave was on a stretcher being taken to Medical bay 5 for some stitches and to rest and recover. Dave was knocked out so he couldn't yell and shout that Andrew had nearly killed him. The COMM crackled in his helmet. A female voice spoke; "Lieutenant, good to see your back unharmed, Captain Crane wants you and your team to get to the nearest HEV deployment bay, you're getting dropped into the city."
"Why couldn't the Pelican take us there, or we just walk then?"
"Because the Covenant just deployed a Scarab excavation walker and numerous Artillery piece's around the city. We don't know why the Scarab's there, probably looking for another base, but we know it's gonna be hell, and why not send a group of Elite helljumpers down there to quench the flames?"
Flay snorted over the COMM.
"Senya out."
Andrew got into the bay and stepped into an HEV. He saw a number of other Helljumper's get into their HEV's as well. On the right of Andrew's in the weapon holder was an MA5B. To the left was a Shotgun. He heard Ken laugh with pleasure; Ken's HEV held two SPNKr's and plenty of rockets. The pods' covers slid down over them sealing them in the boxes. Andrew heard a loud clicking like noise and felt the pod slid down. He enjoyed the felling of the HEV's as they fell. Sure it was dangerous but so where Trains, starships, Longswords, and more. It shook a little. It had hit the planets atmosphere. The felt it rock and jump a little. The bottom boosters had activated and the chute at the top had released. He heard some loud noises and explosions and felt the pod impact on the surface.
The pod door released and he jumped out, MA5B in hand. He knelt down and looked around. It seemed pretty clear, they must have landed at the edge of the city. He looked up and saw some fire on some rooftops. A couple pods must've landed inside the buildings. He made his status light flicker green. Three more lights from his team lit up. Someone other then Dave was missing. Andrew looked around the area. In a dirt pile, in a construction zone lay a sideways HEV, it's chute not yet released. Andrew shouted and ran for the pod. Who ever was in it may still be alive. A service tag blinked up on his HUD, Stan. Andrew was nearly there when a Plasma mortar came down on the pod. The HEV's metal melted off and a body rolled out. Stan was shouting, and crying, his suit's chest burnt away and his skin being burnt off. Another mortar came down on Stan and nothing was left but a small crater of glass. To be lucky enough to survive an HEV malfunction and to be killed like he was so soon after. It was horrible.
Andrew slowly began to back away from the construction zone. Hey needed his Shotgun. He heard his men on the COMM asking where he landed. He ignored them. A Wraith slowly made it's way into his view and tuned facing him. He kept backing toward his HEV, scared and hardly breathing. The Wraith's gun on it's to begin to move up and down a little, targeting and calculating. Andrew bumped into something, his pod. He reached back and grasped the Shotgun. He held it up in his left hand, his right holding the Assault Rifle. He stood still. The Wraith stopped moving. He sprinted forward firing his assault rifle. His HUD's ammo counter going lower. The bullets bounced off the Wraith. It fired a large blast of Superheated Plasma. Andrew forced himself to run a bit faster. He avoided the blast. His Assault Rifle depleted of ammo in its clip. He threw the gun aside, out of the battle. Andrew bounced the Shotguns handle to the right into his right hand. He grasped it and fired. The rounds impacted on the Wraith having no effect. Two small guns on the side fins of the Wraith popped up and began to fire. Andrew jumped up, the turrets followed. The mortar fired. The glob of plasma barley missed Andrew. Andrew landed onto of the Wraiths cockpit. The two small turrets tried to aim up at him but only hit the Wraith, melting off some of it's own plating. Andrew aimed the Shotgun straight down at the hatch and pulled the trigger. The plating dented down a little and a few bits of shrapnel from the bullets flew back against Andrew's armor. He kept pumping and firing till the hatch had dented in enough to have a few openings on its edges. Andrew tossed aside the Shotgun. The mortar fired but missed Andrew, not being able to aim low enough. Andrew pulled and bent the hatch so half of it was facing straight up. A Major Elite looked up at him from inside and howled with rage, it's mandibles spreading open. Andrew grabbed a grenade off his vest and pulled the pin. "Smile asshole." He stuffed the grenade down and jumped off the Wraith quickly. The Grenade rest in the Elite's mouth, it's mandibles briefly closing in around it before it exploded.
When Jack, Ken, James, and three other ODST's arrived, Andrew was sliding the last new shell into his Shotgun, his Assault rifle strapped to his back. He stood up and looked at his men. The COMM crackled and they heard him say; "Let's rock," as he cocked the Shotgun.
Trying to make these chapters a bit longer. Sorry for the delay all, ive been doing stuff. I know that the whole cocking a shotgun and saying a cheesy one-line-er is cliché but I couldn't help it. Before I get any comments like: "WTF, ODST NOT MASTER CHIEF WHAT WRONG WITH YOU!?" (not saying that any of my readers are so fanboyish that they have no brain) or: "FTW ODSTS CANT PWN LIKE TEH SPARTAN, LOL N00B 1337PWNER etc, etc." Listen, you've got to do what you can with what you've got. If I was a dedicated Marine with no chance in hell of living I'd go down fighting and attempting the impossible. Also, I'm aware that Shotguns arnt dualwiedable but that wont stop Miranda Keyes in Halo 3 when she's up against three Brutes. Now the difficulty with stuff like this is you have to keep carecters like marines strong but not as strong as Spartans are. Also, pretty much the only reason Marine's don't seem ver capable in the games is because, one, you're a super solider, and two, their just AI. Also this chapter is in two part's due to problems loading them together as one.
CHEESY ONE LINER BITCHES
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