Chapter 9: Snatch & Grab
Unknown planet, November 9, 2534, 2200 hours till evac
"Well fuck." Dar said. Yeah that pretty much sums it up. We were on the outskirts of the covenant resupply depot and prison. Standing between us and our objectives was I'd say roughly 3,000 ground troops and a couple hundred vehicles. Not to mention it seems as though they decided to have a huge ass elite convention because there were split chins everywhere. "Looks like it's not such a snatch & grab job after all." Kobe said. "Yeah, and how the hell are we supposed to take out all these sonsabitches?" Dar asked. I still sit there contemplating our options. Then it comes to me. "Excuse me fearless leader, but what the fuck is the plan?" Asked Dar a little impatient. I turn to Dar even though I don't have to because of coms. "You sir, get the first fuck you of the day." I say. "Well he does have a point." Says Kobe. This time I turn to Kobe. "And you get the second." I say. "Now if you two fuck wads would let me talk then I could explain." I said. No one says anything. Good god we are poorly disciplined. Back to the task at hand. "Now Dar do you have your C10 charges?" I ask. I could feel the look he gave me from under his helmet. Kind of like 'Really'. "Right." I say turning to Kobe. "What's the present Alec gave you." I ask. "Oh, this." He states while going invisible. "Perfect." I said while grinning under my visor. "Okay so this is what we are going to do. Dar you are going to enter the supply depot and blow that bitch back to the sorry swamp these things call a home world. Kobe, you will infiltrate the prison and get the scientist out of here. I will provide a distraction for you guys to complete your part of the job. I don't care how you do it, just get it done. Any questions?" I explain ad ask. "Yea, how are you going to get their attention?" Dar asks. I just shrug and say "I'll think of something, now let's move.". We all take off our separate ways.
Ok so all I need to make a show of power and hopefully stun these guys so that they don't disintegrate me on the spot. How the fuck am I supposed to stun 3000 ground troops? Just when I think I am going insane, it finally speaks. "Give me control." The voice says. Maybe I am still going insane but at least now I have an option. Can you do it? "Of course." The voice states simply. Against all of my better judgment I give it control.
As soon as I let go it feels like I am viewing my life through a video game. Similar to those 21st century first person shooters. My body then sprints into the crowd of covenant. So fast that they did't have time to react. It hits top speed and my hand reaches for a grenade. To my dismay, I realize we are heading towards a hunter pair. Oh fuck. "Relax and enjoy the show." The voice says through my lips.
I prime the grenade and within seconds I reach the first hunter. Using my momentum I slam my fist with the grenade into the worms on its back. I release the grenade it it's back and continue to its bond brother. This one I jump on its shield driving it into the dirt. I then leap from the shild on to its back. Once there I slam my fist through the worms at the back of its neck all the way to the front. It lets out a blood curdling scream. I turn my arm so that my hand is facing up and grab the armor on top of its head. I then proceed to tear it apart from the inside. Orange blood sprays me as each individual worm is torn, exploding from the pressure. The top of the hunters head comes off lodged on my arm. The last thing the hunter saw was its bond brother exploding into pieces. It then crumbles to the ground in a heap with me on top of it.
It seemed to have the desired effect because all the covenant seemed to just be staring at me in awe. Oddly enough the first one to snap out of it was a grunt. How unfortunate for it. It reacted by firing off a few needler rounds at me. I use the Hunter head and armor to act as a shield and catch the needles. I then grab the needles out of the armor and throw them back at the grunt. All of them landed squarely on the grunts head a second before they exploded. Grunt brain matter showered the covenant around it. This seemed to bring the rest of the covenant out of whatever trance they were in because all hell broke loose.
Even though all hell broke loose, there was one good thing about it. Elites have too much damn pride. What I mean by that is that instead of wasting me with plasma fire, which they should've, the nearest one charged me. Big mistake. As it runs towards me I dislodge the hunter head and armor from my forearms. When it gets close enough, I bury the armor into its chest. It falls to the ground dead instantly. The voice laughs maniacally.
I then proceed to just simply fight them off one by one using pure force to bring down their shields. Majors, minors, ultras, spec ops you name it I had fought it. I had been lucky enough to not run into a zealot. Now it wasn't easy by any means but it could have been worst. That is until my luck finally ran out.
I had just finished off an elite by shoving my rifle into its hideous maw and holding the trigger. When suddenly I was being propelled forward. I land on my stomach and roll over on to my back. I turned just in time to watch the zealot that kicked me land on top of me sword ready. "Heretic, I will rip out your intestines and wear them as a memento for the demon that I killed." The beast snarls, spit flying on to my visor. I wipe it a way and fall into hysterical laughter. "What is so funny?" It asks. It takes me a minute to calm down before I answer. "The fact that a human has caused you so much trouble, to be called a demon." I say while going back to laughing. At least I would die with a grin on my face.
It snarls and brings back the sword ready for a final thrust. I laugh harder. Just as it is about to finish me off, the top half of the elite went flying. The legs held their ground for a few moment before collapsing on the ground next to me. The figure that was behind it was a dark shadow dripping in blue blood holding a glowing scythe. Adding to the effect was the explosion of the resupply depot. At first I thought I had been rescued by the angel of death himself. I was half right.
"You good?" Dar asked. I simply nod my head and stand up. While standing there I inspect him. He is covered in bluish purple blood with a sniper rifle on his back. "Umm you know you have a gun right?" I say. "Who needs a gun when I got this baby?" He says while slicing the arm off of an adventurous elite. I just shake my head. I glance over at the army of covenant just standing there. "Shall we?" I ask motioning in that direction. "After you." He says making a sweeping gesture. I didn't have to be told twice.
I sprint towards an elite drawing my knife. I slide tackle the first elite that I come to and slice the back of the knee of one close to it. It crumbles down to one knee. I drop my foot hard on the elite on the ground while I bury my knife in the back of the skull of the other one. Before I can get up 4 elites charge me. They are all cut in half by one swing of his blade. He then proceeds o kick some serious ass.
I want to clarify something from earlier. When I said it took both Dar and Kobe to challenge me. I wasn't saying that there skills were bad. They're good but mine are just better. I can attest to Dar being good at combat because I witnessed him do something amazing. He simply punched clear through an elites head to grab the elite behind its throat. He proceeded by snapping its neck one handed and withdrawing his arm from the others head. Point being he still was badass. Are we undisciplined? Yep. Are we deadly as fuck? You can bet your sweet ass that we are.
We continued fighting like this for what seemed hours. Just trying to make sure Kobe has enough time. It was around this time that I saw a giant blue ball enter the sky. I would have considered it beautiful had it not been a giant blue ball of death. "Dar move." I yell as loud as I can. Luckily he hears me and dives for cover. I do the same and watch the giant blue death ball engulf a group of elites. The concussive force sent any others near it flying in all directions. "Wraith." I mutter to myself. I take a look over at Dar and see he is thinking the same thing that I am. We nod at each other and take off.
Fortunately the gunner of the wraith was aiming at me. Plasma flew past filling the area I had just been in. I then jump into the air onto an elite. I then proceed to use their heads as stepping stones till I got to the gunner. When I was near I launched myself off of the head of the elite I was on and was aiming to drop kick the elite in the turret. Half a ton of human and armor hit him square in the face. I'm sure it wasn't its best day. Dar wasn't far behind me because he leaped onto the cock pit and cut it open with his scythe. He then yanks out he elite driver, impaling it before jumping into the wraith. I then pull out the crushed body of the elite and control the turret.
We keep this up and blow shit up for a good hour. The plasma turret made short work of most elites. Not to mention the amount of plasma that rained down on them. Everything was going good until we ran into another wraith. We fired at each other for a while. We managed to hit it once killing the gunner but it hit close to us so many times that we were probably just as badly damaged. We went through a spell were none of us even came close. It was just constant fire. Finally we have had enough and just sit till it fired at us. It stopped too so we moth fired. Ours was slightly sooner. We waited till the last second before bailing. The force of the blast sent us flying. When we stood back up, we noticed the covenant pulling back. "Pussies." Dar said. This little rest allows me to take back control of my body. That's when the shaking happens.
We sit there for a second trying to determine whether or not we were going to wait and find out or bolt. Unfortunately we didn't decide fast enough. Out from behind the destroyed depot steps out our worst nightmare, a scarab. It slowly marches towards us. Its main cannon began to glow green. We look at each other and it that split second we know what we have to do. We do what anyone put into this situation would do. We run.
*Notes: Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Been busy. Hope you enjoy the chapter. Please review. And so we go.