Sanchez and Grant ran from Galileo Base into the forest. There was a narrow dirt trail that started at the edge of the forest. The two Spartans halted, Grant dropped to a knee and scanned the area through the scope of her DMR while Sanchez remained standing and did the same with his sniper rifle. Sanchez equipped himself with his usually shotgun/sniper combination, one for close range one for down range.
"All clear…for now" Grant said with caution.
"I'll look down range" Sanchez told her. "You look left and right"
"Got ya" she replied. The two continued cautious down the trail and after a few minutes, Grant lowered her gun. "Sanchez I'm not seeing anything near us."
"Keep looking …just until we see the end of the trail" Sanchez said.
The two kept going until they saw the end of the trail. Sanchez dropped to a knee and zoomed in on his sniper.
"OK" he said confidently "See that patch of dirt at the end of the trail?"
"Ya" Grant answered "I'm also seeing heavy Covenant activity in that area "
"Well were gonna have to make it loud" Sanchez said to her "Wanna start here then flank 'em?"
"How 'bout I go left and you take them out here and draw their fire" Grant said back to him. "I'll take out that generator"
"Sounds good to me" Sanchez said confidently "Go when you're ready"
"See you when I get back" Grant put her gun on her back and ran to her left, dodging and propelling off of trees showing off her Spartan reflexes. Sanchez remained crouched, looked through his sniper scope, saw a blue armored elite on a plasma turret to the left, steadied his aim, and squeezed the trigger. The head of the elite exploded into a spray of purple blood as the bullet went right through its eye. He looked for his next target, right behind the turret was another elite. He pulled the trigger again and shot the elite right through the neck and it collapsed face first into the turret. Sanchez felt his energy shield drain to half as glowing purple needles cracked on his armor. Two jackels returned fire, each running in his direction as a trail of purple needles continued to follow him. He dropped his sniper, and looked up grabbed a thick bark of tree, pulled and threw himself up the tree and the trail of needled stuck to and exploded at the bottom of the tree. He pulled his shotgun, pumped it, and jumped down. He landed and crushed one jackels shield and body under it, and blasted the other jackel away with his shotgun. He picked up his sniper rifle, put it on his back, and ran to the large patch of dirt ahead to assist Grant.
"Grant, Your position!" he said over com while sprinting.
"Sanchez get away from this area!" she yelled over com.
Sanchez slowed his pace "What do you mean? Where are you?" Sanchez felt the planet beneath him shake, a gut-wrenching sound, and a blinding flash of blue light. He lost his balanced, dropped his gun, and fell backwards "What the fuck?"
"Generator destroyed" Grant said to him over com.
"Already how…" Sanchez stood up and picked his shotgun. He walked forward onto the large patch of dirt. There were at least a dozen grunts, a few jackels, and a couple of elites with bullet wounds in their skulls.
"Well…" Sanchez looked around at the dead Covenant with blue and purple blood oozing out of them "Quick and painless right?" He looked up at the giant burning generator "How did you -"
"Plasma grenades" Grants said proudly "They do wonders."
"Damn good job" Sanchez said to her still looking around at the dead covenant that she dropped in disbelief.
"Thank you" she replied.
"Majestic, Crimson, it's Sanchez" he said over com.
"Go ahead Sanchez" DeMarco replied.
"Grant and I destroyed our assigned generator, we're heading back to the base now, how far along are all of you?"
"Already!?" DeMarco said in disbelief "Most of us are still hip deep in shit right now!"
"I told you we'd be the first done!" Grant said excitedly.
"I guess we should go help" Sanchez said to her.
The two made their way back down the narrow dirt trail. As the neared the exit, they heard an ear-ringing screech. The two Spartans halted with their guns at the ready. They looked around.
"That sounded like a Promethean Knight" Grant said urgently to Sanchez. He looked around, he didn't see anything until…
"LOOK OUT!" Granted screamed to him. He turned to look back in the direction of Galileo Base, but felt a force so powerful against the right part of his armor and went flying like a baseball into a tree. He hit hard. He felt and heard the wood of the tree behind him crunch. He dropped and fell face first into the dirt.