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Author Note: As promise here is the 2nd mission involving Georgia Company. i hope you enjoy the chapter. Regular author note at the end.


Ambush of Copperhead Squad

Mission 2 of Georgia Company

Charleston, South Carolina

0730 hours

Lieutenant Colonel Thompson arrived in the UNSC Headquarters' located at the historic Fort Sumter located within Charleston Harbor. The Pelican touched down on the landing pad and he stepped out followed by four UNSC soldiers. Another Lieutenant Colonel was waiting for him, this one was in command of Titian Company, and they shake hands before speaking up. "Major General Douglas McArthur wanted to see us in the command center ASAP." They head to the command center, talking as they go. They arrived at the command center after passing through another security station. Major General McArthur turned around to face them and they salute the general and he returned the salute. "Listen up gentleman, we know the Covenant were planning something, they already hit Alamo 1 and now they're attacking the United Kingdom. We can't allow them to attack any cities on the Eastern Coast of the URNA. We know about a Covenant encampment and the Sangheili Zealot running the show; do you have a squad which can take care of them?" General Arthur asked Lieutenant Colonel Thompson.

"Yes sir I do," he replied.

"Get it done son," the general replied. Lieutenant Colonel Thompson saluted him before exiting the command bunker.

Fort Atlanta, located outside of New Augusta

Sergeant Major Jack Price arrived at the infirmary to check up on the men and women who were injured in their last engagement with the covenant as Carnage Platoon had a dozen casualties in their last engagement. The doctor came up to him. "Sergeant Major, we're doing what we can but, many of these men were in a very bad state and I'll have to send some of them to Charleston for better treatment in the morning. The others will need a few weeks before they were able to return to active duty."

"Thanks doc," Sergeant Major Price said as Rebekah entered the infirmary and walked up to him.

"How were they doing?" She asked.

"Some of them will need to be transferred to a hospital in Charleston, South Carolina for better treatment," he answered.

"Price, do you remember back on Spiron when you first met me and Zeus Squad?"

"Yes I remember," he answered.

"At the time, Major Heath-118 knew that one day you would make a great officer. Your men, and even the other officers, respected you. You had his respect as well," She told him. "You're officer material and I would hate to see Carnage Platoon in the hands of another rat ass lieutenant who doesn't care a thing about the men under his command, unlike you and Colonel Thompson." She walked away and he gave one more look at the wounded before following her out. He headed to the NCO Club where Dimitri and Jones were both playing poker with a few of the other NCOs. He went over to the table.

"Dimitri, Jones I need to talk to you." Jack said to them.

"Can't we at least finish this game Jack?" Dimitri asked.

"Ya, you can finish the game, when it's over you guys better come find me." Jack replied before sitting down at a booth, ordering a beer, and waited for them to come and join him. A few minutes go by before Dimitri and Jones join him; they both order a beer. "So what do you want to talk to us about?"

"Rebekah came to see me while I was checking up on my men."

"What did she want?" Dimitri asked. "Wait, don't tell me, she wanted to ask you out?"

"Hell no, you know that's not it and you should know better than that as officers aren't allowed to fraternize with enlisted," Jack answered.

"So can I have her then," Dmitri said laughing.

"Will you stop that, I know you know that I have liked her since we met her back on Spiron."

"I know, I also know that she wouldn't go for someone like me, she does seem to like you though. You do have to admit, she has a beautiful face."

"Ya she does have a beautiful face," Jack replied.

"So what did our hot Spartan Chick want?"

"She asked me if I had thought any more about becoming Carnage Platoon's Platoon Leader; she also said I would be an excellent officer."

"Why does she think that you would make a good officer?"

"She said that I was picked," Jack answered.

"Who would pick you?"

"Colonel Heath," Jack answered. "She said that he knew the first time we meet that I would make an excellent officer one day. What do you think I should do?"

"I think you should take the promotion, just as I suggested you do the last three times you asked me, right before you declined them. I'd rather have you commanding Carnage Platoon then some know it all lieutenant," Dimitri replied.

"Officer on deck!" They hear someone shout before they all stand up as Major Rebekah-099 entered the club. Despite having her armor off, every soldier knew who she was. She was wearing a black-dress, which made many of the NCOs give a cat-call at the sight of her as she was a very beautiful woman. She goes over to Price's table.

"May I join you?" She asked them.

"Of course major," all three of them reply.

"You can call me Rebekah when were off duty," she replied as she sat down.

"Rebekah, you do know that this is the NCO's Club right?" Price asked her and she nodded.

"When will one of you boys offer to a lady a drink?" She asked them as a waitress came over to the table and Jack ordered her a drink.

"If you don't mind me asking ma'am, what were you doing here?" Dmitri asked her.

"I came to have a drink with some old friends," She answered. The waitress brought all four beers at the same time and they all drank their beers together. "Have a goodnight boys; I'll see you tomorrow Jack." She said before leaving the NCO Club. The Marine and Army NCO's give a sigh of relief after she left as many of them had felt uneasy with an officer, especially a Spartan Officer, present.

The next day, both Sergeant Major Jack Price and Gunnery Sergeant Dimitri Vasilyev reported to the briefing room. Major Rebekah-099 was also present and they were slightly shocked to see that she wasn't in her armor, but her navy uniform. A screen popped up with Colonel Thompson on it, staring at them. "Sergeant Major, have you thought it over yet?" Jack looked from Dimitri to Rebekah, then back to the colonel.

"Yes sir I have thought it over, and I will accept this promotion to lieutenant," he replied.

"Then congratulations on your promotion, Lieutenant Price. Major, if you would do the honors." Rebekah walked up, removed his Sergeant Major symbol, and replaced it with his lieutenant bars on his uniform's collar and they salute one another. He then saluted the screen and Lieutenant Colonel Thompson returned the salute. "Lieutenant, your first mission is to assassinate the Elite Zealot that you encountered at the relay station. ONI believes that a small contingent of Covenant troops has infiltrated the URNA from South America and they believe that taking out the Zealot will cause them to retreat."

"Don't worry sir, we'll take care of it," Jack replied.

"Lieutenant, you will only be allowed a small team of eight other men for this mission as this mission requires speed and stealth."

"I understand sir," Jack answered before he and Dimitri exited the room.

"Sir, permission to tag along?" Rebekah asked the colonel. The colonel looked at her.

"Permission granted major," he replied. Lieutenant Price selected six men, along with Dimitri and George. Rebekah then entered the armory in full MJOLNIR armor.

"Lieutenant, permission to tag along?" She asked him.

"What did the Old Man say?" He asked.

"He gave me permission, but in the end it's up to you."

"The permission granted Spartan, always a pleasure to have you along." Jack replied.

Assignation of Sangheili Zealot Field Master:

They headed to the hanger to board a Pelican Dropship. Once they were all on board the pilots lifted off and once they cleared the hanger they were off to the insertion point. Once at the insertion point they jumped out of the moving Pelican and deployed their parachutes. As soon as they hit the ground they prepared for an attack, but one never came so they cut themselves free, grabbed their gear and begin their hike to the sniper nest. So far they haven't seen any Covenant patrols, including any air patrols. Lieutenant Price was surprise by this since usually there were normally a lot more patrols protecting the encampments. Rebekah had a theory which she shared with them.

"They're trying to avoid being detected by the UNSC Air Patrols, but I guess they don't know that we caught them with our satellites." Every soldier was glad that they wouldn't have the enemy breathing down their necks, but they all know that once the Zealot was killed they would have all the Covenant they could ever want. Major Rebekah was on point when her motion tracker picked up a red dot. She told the troopers following her to find cover. A Brute patrol appeared and passed by their hiding spots. The Brute patrol consisted of ten Brutes, one being a Brute Major, 3 dozen Grunts, a dozen Jackals, and to the surprise of the soldiers, two Hunters. They let the patrol pass by them and after the last Brute disappeared, Rebekah stepped out to make sure the area was clear before she signaled for the rest of the men to join her after a few seconds had passed. They then proceed onto the sniper nest and she continued to lead them. They encounter no more enemy patrols and reached the snipers nest which overlooked the enemy encampment just as nighttime arrived. Major Rebekah and Gunnery Sergeant "Wolf" Anders took up positions to take the shot while Lieutenant Price placed his men in a defensive perimeter in case the Covenant accidently stumbled upon them before they could make the shot or before they can leave after the shot was taken. Rebekah and George look through their scopes and see the Sangheili Zealot talking to his troops. Six Sangheili Ultras were standing behind him, and two generals on either side of him. Her motion tracker was also picking up Banshees in the skies.

"Wolf, you take out one of the generals, I got the Zealot," She told him and he replied with a thumbs up. Rebekah was the first to fire. She watched through her scope as the projectile blows the Zealot's head apart and also killed one of the Ultras standing behind him. Wolf fired next, taking out the nearest Elite General with a headshot. A Wraith begins firing into the woods trying to hit them and Rebekah smiles she takes aim on the Wraith with her SBK-100D-35-AP Sniper Rifle. The SBK-100D-35-AP has 20 round mag instead of four and is capable of destroying a Wraith tank with one well-placed shot. She fired and the Wraith tank exploded. Wolf looked up to watch what the Banshees were doing. Four Banshees headed towards them, but fly over their heads.

"That was close," Lieutenant Price said. "Major, shouldn't we fall back before they realize where we were?"

"No not yet, the more Covenant we can kill now means the less they will be to pursue us," she replied. Gunnery Sergeant George "Wolf" Anders looks back down range and lends supporting fire to the major. She nailed a Grunt on a Shade turret that was firing into the woods. The Covenant soldiers were firing into the tree line around their encampment as so far they don't know where the shots were coming from. Anders and Rebekah begin nailing even more of the Covenant soldiers. Two Phantoms lifted off and heads towards them. Rebekah aimed at one of the Phantom door gunners and killed the Sangheili Minor on the plasma cannon, his corpse fell off the Phantom and landed somewhere in the woods. The Phantoms go over their head and they wonder if the Phantom saw them and just ignored them or they have no clue where they were. Her motion tracker soon picked up red dots coming up behind them. A plasm blast hits a tree right in front of First Sergeant Dimitri. Dimitri turned around and shot the Grunt in the head, but more appeared. Lieutenant Jack Price and the others made short work of the cowardly Grunts. Three Brutes attacked next and they met the same fate as the Grunts. One of Lieutenant Price's men was hit in the shoulder by a Brute Spiker. "Jack duck!" Rebekah yelled at him right before firing her sniper rifle right pass Jack's left ear. He turns around and sees a Brute Captain fall with a Jiralhanae knife in his hand. She fired three more times and each shot results in a headshot kill on three Brutes. Jack was still amazed by her skill with a sniper rifle. She throws a grenade into the woods and was rewarded with some screams.

"Let's get the hell out of here," Sergeant Dimitri suggested. They soon disappeared into the woods with their VISORs activated since it was night when they got to their sniper nest. They headed out to the extraction point.

A short time after they left, a Phantom hovered above the site where the humans had killed their commander. A Sangheili general arrived at the site a short time later. He's surrounded by Sangheili Minors. He looked around and saw nothing but Jiralhanae, Grunt, and Jackal bodies, but no humans. "Find them; I want their heads on a pike!" He shouted. He look down and saw a boot print in the mud. He had seen the same boot print somewhere else before. "Demon," he finally said. Some banshees flew over the trees looking for any signs of the humans. One of the Banshees flew too low and crashed into a tree. The Elite General sent his troops out to find the humans. Phantoms were landing troops in the clearing and around 6,501 Covenant soldiers were searching for the human assassins. They would have attacked New Augusta and Fort Atlanta if Lieutenant Price and his men didn't act then.

Lieutenant Price, Major Rebekah, Gunnery Sergeant Anders, and Master Sergeant Dimitri, along with the four other men, were on their way to the extraction point. Their main radio operator was trying to raise Fort Atlanta for the extraction, but got only static in return. They had made good time, but when they arrived at their extraction they saw the dead bodies of their extraction team. All of sudden they take fire from the way they came; Lieutenant Price had accidentally led his men into an ambush. Most of the Covenant attackers were Grunts and Jackals. They manage to get pass them and run for it. Lieutenant Price thought they were goners, but Rebekah and Anders were helping them get out of the sticky situation. They ran as fast as their legs can carry them. They can hear Covenant aircraft in the skies above, but the density of the woods kept the Banshees from seeing them. They're in the mountains heading back to Fort Atlanta on foot. They still hadn't been able to reach anyone over the comms so they headed towards the secondary extraction point.

Meanwhile in Charleston, South Carolina, Colonel Thompson enters the communication center. A screen popped up showing the base commander of Fort Atlanta. "Colonel, I must inform you that the extraction team was destroyed before they could even make the pickup with Lieutenant Price and his men."

"Have you been able to raise his team?"

"No sir," the base commander replied.

"Keep trying to raise them, send out some Reconnaissance Drones to see if we can't find them," Colonel Thompson replied before the screen goes black. Colonel Thompson turned to one of the soldiers in the communications room. "Get me in contact with Major Arnold."

"Yes sir," the soldier replied before Major Arnold appears on the screen.

"Colonel Thompson, what can I do for you?"

"I need you to prepare an airstrike for the Covenant staging area. We can't allow them to get a foothold in this region."

"It'll take some time, perhaps two hours."

"Ok, just get it done major," Colonel Thompson said before the screen goes black for the second time.

Lieutenant Jack Price and the others continued to run until they couldn't run any longer, except for Rebekah. They found some cover in the thick undergrowth and behind some rocks. They knew that the Covenant was still after them, but they were dead tired. They each took a drink from their canteens as the radio operator kept trying to get anyone he could on the other end, but still only got static. They eat some cold MRE's since light from the heating fires will attract their pursuers. Rebekah volunteered to take first watch. Lieutenant Price watched as she disappeared into the darkness before he looked at Gunnery Sergeant Anders.

"Go find yourself an overlook position." Anders nodded before disappearing into the darkness behind them. Rebekah and Anders both set up trip-wires attached to grenades and flares, along with a few claymore mines to give them a warning if the Covenant finds them. Two hours later, Lieutenant Price moved through the darkness towards Rebekah position to see if he could find her. Even with his motion tracker he couldn't find her until he felt the cold steel of her UNSC combat knife against his throat.

"Careful Jack, there are traps and mines all around our encampment and I don't want you blown to little pity pieces." She whispered into his ear before removing the knife from his throat.

"I didn't even hear you approach," he said to her.

"A girl isn't going to reveal all of her secrets on the first date," she replied. He couldn't tell if she was smiling under her helmet with that comment.

"You call this a date?"

"I don't know LT, what were you offering?"

"Some company," he replied.

"Fair enough; follow me to my Den," she replied. He followed her to what she called her "Den".

"Have you seen anything yet? Have the Covenant found us?"

"Nope, everything's been quiet except for a few animals walking around. I almost shot a deer earlier," she answered before a silence settled over them and all they hear is insects.

"About earlier, was that payback for what happen on Spiron?"

"Frankly I'm surprise you still remember that one your men got the jump on a Spartan, and not just any Spartan but Colonel Heath. He told us what happened; Spartans aren't usually caught off guard and we've got used to wearing our armor, which gives us an even greater advantage on top of our augmentations. He admired your solders and later told us not to rely on the technology, but to remember our training and use our minds as those are our greatest weapons."

"So are you saying it was a fluke?" Jack replied.

"No, but you do know that if Heath wanted too, he could have killed your man. Our instructors taught us many things, and one of them was what to do if someone catches you off-guard and has a knife to your throat."

"Are you saying that regular soldiers can't stand up against Spartans?"

"Yes and no, it depends on the situation. The Spartan-II's are a different category then the Spartan-III's and IV's. I don't know if you have heard the rumors about the Master Chief taking on a squad of ODSTs and completely fucking them up. Spartans aren't invincible, but we can take more punishments then the average soldier can, but we're still human and we still bleed just like you do," she said.

"You still haven't answered my question though."

"No it wasn't payback for what happened on Spiron, I just don't like people trying to sneak up on me, especially when I'm in my zone." Rebekah said before looking at him. "Jack, what happened to the other members of Carnage squad that were on Spiron? Why were only you, Dmitri, and George here?"

"Rebekah, when we get back to base, would you like to go on a date with me?" He asked, surprising her slightly.

"Jack, I would be my pleasure, but you still haven't answered my question," she replied.

"I will tell you on our date," Jack answered before heading back to camp. Little did they know that several low ranking Sangheili Zealots had found them and were on their way back to inform the general, who had taken the position of Field Marshall.

When dawn arrives, the squad had no idea the Covenant found them during the hours of darkness. Phantoms, Sprits, Litchs, and a few new Covenant dropships were delivering troops and vehicles nearby, but the thicket of trees was too thick for the covenant vehicles to enter the woods. Rebekah and Anders were back in the encampment when suddenly they heard a twig snap. Anders looked through the scope on his sniper rifle and saw some movement, but it disappeared before he can get a good fix on the movement was.

"Anders, what did you see?" Rebekah asked him.

"Movement but it disappeared," he answered in a whisper.

"I'll check it out," she replied as Lieutenant Price walked up to her.

"Here, thought you might need this," Price said to her as he gave her his suppressed M7 SMG. She moved towards the edge of the woods where she saw some Covenant soldiers, including four Wraith tanks, on the perimeter. She started headed back to the camp, but four Skirmishers and two Brute Minors ambushed her. She opened fire with the Suppressed M7 SMG and the Skirmishers were easily dealt with; however, the Jiralhanae were a different story. She drew her suppressed M6D magnum to deal with the Brutes. She dispatched the last Brute with the M6D and her knife before returning to the camp.

"What did you see out there?" Jack asked.

"A large Covenant force was just outside of the tree line and they are encircling us as we speak. They will most likely attack in about 20 seconds." She said while giving Jack his SMG back. After hearing the info, the squad took up defensive positions. Dimitri placed his M247H Heavy Machinegun down on its bipod. Rebekah looked through her scope and nailed an Elite Major hiding behind a tree. The Elites opened fire after that, but only hit rocks, trees, and logs. Anders and Rebekah begin dispatching the Elite marksman. An Elite Minor fired his Covenant Carbine and missed Lieutenant Price's head by a matter of millimeters, hitting the tree behind him. Anders put a round right in between the Elite's eyes. A platoon of Elite Minors with energy spears charged towards the squad and Dimitri and the other soldier with a heavy weapon realized that was their time to shine and unleashed a hailstorm of hot lead. The Elites dropped like flies. Anders and Rebekah were focusing their attention on the Elite and Jackal Marksmen's. Lieutenant Price threw a fragmentation grenade underneath the feet of a few Grunts, blowing off body parts and throwing them in different directions. The Elite equivalent of a UNSC captain sent a group of Grunts, Jackals, Brutes, Elites, and some Hunters forward. Anders and Rebekah were nailing many of the Covenant soldiers with deadly accuracy. Two of his men fired their grenade launchers into the ranks of the enemy. Lieutenant Price was scanning the wood when he saw two Hunters moving through the trees. He gave the order to take them out, and the Hunters were shortly destroyed with a combination of a rocket launcher and a Spartan Laser. Dimitri's M247H were tearing through the Covenant ranks, not even the Jackal shields can withstand it's a sustained burst of the guns firepower. Debris from the trees were impaling the Covenant troops. Needler rounds hit all around the squad, but only small shards hit them. Plasma bolts from a grunt hit the tree Jack was hiding behind just as he popped out and shoot the Grunt, and four others, in the head. He took cover just as plasma, spikes, and needles began landing all around him. He waited for a few seconds before popping back out and nailing some more Covenant soldiers with his Battle Rifle before his mag emptied. He drew his magnum and opened fire, nailing Brutes, Grunts, and Jackals with headshots. He slide back into cover to reload his BR before tossing a frag on the other side of the tree and then mopping up 30+ Grunts rushing towards him with his MA5C. Further away, a rocket hit a tree, causing it to fall onto a Hunter, crushing the creature and several more around him. The Hunters bond brother roared in agony and fired its Fuel Rod Cannon at the top of the hill, clearing away some of the humans cover and blowing several of the soldiers down the hill. They survived with nothing but a few scratches and bruises. They took to work climbing back up the hill, firing at the Covenant soldiers along the way. They tossed some grenades trying to keep the enemy heads down, but ended up neutralizing some of the threats. Rebekah fired at the single hunter, blowing its head clean off. A Brute tossed a Spike Grenade, ended up in the trunk that First Sergeant Dimitri was using as cover. He ducked down just as the grenade exploded; sending Spikes in all different directions, but most went into the log. Dimitri then popped up and shot the Brute, and some of its friends, with his M247H LMG. He has to duck back down to reload and this allows Grunts and Jackals to advance on the log as other Brutes, Jackals, and Grunts fired on the log.

Every other soldier, including Rebekah, were busy with problems of their own, leaving Dimitri alone to face the multiple Grunts and Jackals approaching his position. He grabbed two of his fragmentation grenades and threw them over his shoulder they landed under the Grunts and Jackals feet. He popped up after the grenades explode and opened fire, forcing everybody to retreat. One of Lieutenant Price's men got hit by multiple Needles and they exploded, blowing him to pieces. Jack cursed and nailed the Brute that had been fire the Needler which had resulted in the death of one of his troopers. Another soldier was hit in the ankle by a Covenant Carbine bolt as he was moving to new cover. A few Grunts and Jackals managed to get into their perimeter, but were quickly eliminated. The Covenant quickly sent fresh troops in to try and overwhelm their defenses. A Drone swarm soon attacked Lieutenant Price's squad. The Drones forced everybody to focus on them, allowing the other covenant troops advance. Dimitri aimed his HMG up into the air, joining with Lieutenant Price in firing at the Drones while the others focus on the enemy foot soldiers. The Drones began falling out of the sky like the flies they are. Rebekah nailed a Sangheili Zealot who was fixing to fire his Focus Rifle at Lieutenant Price. Jack thanked her over the comms. However, she didn't answer him and instead he heard the crack of her sniper rifle two more times, he looked to the left and right and saw two Elites, both with spears, on either side of him lying over the log he was taking cover behind. He picked up one of the spears and turned around just in time to impale an Elite who was fixing to take his head off with some sort of energy axe, he let the spear dig into the dirt with the impaled body. He heard Rebekah's voice over the comms.

"LT stay down, you have more Covenant heading your way." Just as she said that, she was hit by a Jackal's Beam Rifle which knocked her on her ass and down a small hill within their perimeter. She got back up as the bolt had only taken down a percentage of her shields, but by the time she got back into position they were at full charge. She heard Jacks voice over coms and she answered him, telling him that she was alright and it'll take more than that to stop her. The Covenant troops soon begin retreating. Lieutenant Price had lost one soldier in the whole 55 minute firefight. Jack knows that they couldn't stay here since the Covenant had almost surrounded them and besides, another 55 minute assault would deplete their ammunition. They're almost out of rocket launcher ammo, they can fire the two launchers they have two more times before they're completely out of ammo. Plasma mortars begin landing around them. Rebekah spotted a fresh wave of Covenant soldiers heading their way, mostly Brutes and Elites. Rebekah and Anders nails several of them before their sniper rifles click emptied. Jacks voice crackled over their private coms.

"How much ammo do you guys have left?" He asked both of them.

"Four magazines," they reply as they reloaded their sniper rifles and started shooting at the enemy.

"Throw some smoke grenades!" Jack said, "We need to find a better position and hopefully we can get some air support." They threw some smoke grenades to cover their retreat and they ran. They ran knowing that the Covenant were right on their heels. They reach the edge of the cliff and looked back to see Skirmishers and Grunts closing in on them, with a few Brutes and Elites intermixed.

"We only have one chance, and that's to jump." Jack said, before Rebekah and Anders turned around and fire on their pursuers.

"Hurry up and make up your minds, stay here and die or jump and live," Rebekah said before dropping a Brute Captain. Dimitri also turned around and added fire from his heavy machinegun to the mix, dropping Grunts, Skirmishers, Jackals, Elites, and Brutes alike. His machinegun ran dry so he switched to his shotgun. Jack was the first to make up his mind and jump, followed closely by Dimitri. The other three men jumped after them, leaving Rebekah and Anders as the only ones on the cliff edge. "Anders, Jump; I'll leave a present for our guests." She said to him, so he jumped. Rebekah fired once more and nailing an Elite Ultra, causing another Elite to trip over him. She planted a satchel charge full of C-12 Explosive before she then jumped. Her shields protected her from the slide, but she destroyed small trees as she slide down the hill, everybody else was trying to avoid as many trees as possible. They all came to a stop at the bottom of the cliff, only inches from a river. Some of them had lost their weapons during the fall, including Rebekah's sniper rifle. Jack set a rally point near the water's edge. They all heard the explosion from atop the hill. They all arrived at the rally point where Jack handed Rebekah her sniper rifle, earning him a thanks from the Spartan. Wearing their ODST and Spec. Ops Armor, you couldn't tell if they had any bruises or broken bones from the fall. They all lifted their visors or took their helmets off so they could drink some water; the only one who didn't remove her helmet was Rebekah-099.

"Are you okay Jack?" Rebekah asked him.

"Yeah, I'm good except for a few bruises and possibly a broken bone or two. I'll get the doctors back on base to fix me up when we get back," he replied. "Good call LT, it sure beats the alternative." Anders said while he was constantly watching for any enemy contacts as a few Phantoms appeared in the sky. Jack turned towards one of his men. "Meyer, take a look and see if our back door is open."

"Yes sir," PVT. Tripp Meyer replied. Private Becky Lafarge went with him. As soon as they emerge from the trees, they came under fire from two Shade Turrets planted across the river. Private Lafarge was hit in the leg and collapsed, that was when Staff Sergeant Mitton came out and saw the two shades and helped Private Meyer drag Becky to cover. He grabs the soldiers M29 Rocket Launcher and destroys both Shades, but some Ghosts appeared, along with several Specters. He told the two privates to keep their heads down as they made their way back to where the others were, where he told the two officers the bad news.

"Sir, Ma'am, the back-door is a no go," he said.

"We're totally screwed now." Private Becky said.

"Stoll that bellyaching trooper, remember you're a Devil Dog," Dimitri said to her. She shut up after that, not wanting to feel the wrath of the first sergeant. A Recon Drone flew over the area that they were in and all of sudden the radio came alive and Lieutenant Price heard Colonel Thompson voice on the other end.

"Lieutenant Price, can you hear me, over?" Price heard him say.

"Sir, you have no idea how good it is to hear your voice. Mission accomplished, but we've stirred up a hornets nest down here. Requesting immediate support, over," Lieutenant Price replied.

"Aright Lieutenant, support is on the way but be advised, you have a mass of Covenant troops surrounding your position so you better hunker down, out" Colonel Thompson said before the radio went dead again.

"Looks like we've been ordered to hold this position and wait for support, so let's get digging, but first I want an ammo and equipment count; on the double troopers!" Jack said to his men. Anders and Rebekah checked their ammo count, three mags, plus the nearly depleted magazines already in the weapons were left for their sniper rifles, four fragmentation grenades, three Claymore Mines, and they each had four magazines for their secondary weapons and sidearms. Dimitri only had ammo left for his shotgun and sidearm. Everybody was short on ammo for their primary weapons, but they're still determined to hold the position. Rebekah and Anders moved out into the woods to place the mines. They spotted five Jiralhanae Minors, so they use stealth and snuck up behind them, assassinate all five. They soon returned to the position with the Brutes weapons, including a couple of plasma and spike grenades. Dimitri looked over one of the weapons. It looked similar to a human battle rifle and was known as the Type-500 Carbine. They waited for the covenant to approach and Anders spotted additional Covenant reinforcements arriving through his sniper's scope.

"Hold your fire until I give the command." Jack said, and even though Rebekah outranked him, this was his squad and she allowed him to give the orders. "Rebekah, you and Anders focus on their snipers and officers." She gave a thumbs up, and so does Anders. They opened fire on the covenant, nailing a Brute that was running towards them firing his Spiker. Jack waited for his snipers to eliminate the enemy snipers and the Sangheili equivalent of UNSC officers. Twenty-five Grunts opened fire all at once and Jack told his men to wait until they had stopped firing. Anders and Rebekah nailed half of the Grunts, and their Brute commanders, before Jack ordered everybody else to fire. They opened fire on the Covenant soldiers that were coming down the hill. The Covenant soldiers were swallowed up in the hailstorm of lead. A Covenant Carbine bolt hit Private Becky in the shoulder and the medic saw to her wound. She reloaded her M739 LMG and opened fire, nailing several Grunts and an Elite who manage to gain a few inches while she was reloading. She kept firing until she ran out of ammo. She threw a frag grenade, causing a group of Grunts to scatter, but some of the grunts, and a severely wounded Brute, were caught in the blast. Three Elites tripped over a trip-wire grenade which detonated, killing two of them and severely wounding the third. A Brute came over to the Elite and fired his Spiker into the Elite's head, ending its suffering, but Rebekah nailed the Jiralhanae with a headshot before it could do anything else. She ejected her spent magazine and reloaded with her last mag. The Covenant had tripped all the mines so they started to fall back.

The Elite General from his vantage point, looked down at the battle field and he could see the muzzle flashes of the human weaponry. The Sangheili General turns to his underlings.

"Send in twenty Elites supported by a dozen Grunts and attack their left flank, while a Jiralhanae captain take thirty of his fellow Brutes and attack their right flank. Have our marksman on the other side watch the area near the water, they may try to cross at night."

"Yes general," a Sangheili colonel replied before giving those instructions to the Elites and Brutes.

The second wave of Covenant soldiers attacked Copperhead Squad. They beat them off, but the second assault was only a diversion while the Sangheili and Brutes got into a position to strike. Jack, Rebekah, Anders, Dimitri, and Sergeant Milton knew something was up. "Milton, go check our flanks." Sergeant Milton and one of the privates headed towards their rank flank and just as he emerged from cover, the Jackal sniper nailed him with a headshot. Private Nanu fired up at it, but was eliminated by a Brute who fired his Spiker into her back. Dimitri arrived with Private McFall and they killed the Brute, McFall handed his M247H to Dimitri to cover them while he picked up Private Nanu and took her back to the rest of the group. Dimitri hosed down many of the Brutes and Grunts that had appeared. A Plasma grenade landed on a tree behind him, showering him with debris, but he continued to pour lead upslope. The Jackal marksman attempt to bring him down, but he used cover to keep them off of him.

"Anders, I could use some fucking help down here if you're finished jerking off." He said over the comms. Anders turned his attention towards Dimitri and nailed many of the Covenant soldiers until he only has three rounds left. Lieutenant Price came onto the comms.

"Dimitri, get your ass back here, now!"

"Working on it LT," he replied, nailing three Grunts and a Sangheili with his M90 shotgun. A Brute then tackled him, but Anders put his last bullet into the Brute's skull, causing the Brutes carcass to collapse on top of him. Anders rushed over to him, drawing his MA5C and mowing down several Grunts; while he was still running he ejected a spent magazine and inserted a new one. He helped Dimitri roll the Brute off him before they headed back to the others. However, a Hunter appeared and fired at them, missing, but causing them to fall back down the hill. The Hunter came charging straight towards the two down ODST's. Rebekah aimed for the Hunter's head and fired, blowing the Hunters head clean off; luckily, Anders and Dimitri had already moved out of the way before the Hunters body landed. She had the last round for her sniper rifle loaded and she nailed the second Hunter with another headshot. She set her sniper rifle down next to a tree and removed the M489 Assault Rifle from her back just as Anders and Dimitri returned from down the hill.

"How's our ammo looking?" Jack asked.

"We're running low LT," Dimitri replied. Private Becky ducked down just as some plasma rounds hit the cover she was using. She ejected the spent magazine and inserted a new one, her last mag for her LMG. Elites begin deploying portable energy shields to use as additional cover. Jack's squad was running low on both ammo and time, as the Covenant were tighten the noose. Three minutes later and the only ammo left were for their magnums. Dimitri threw his last fragmentation grenade, silencing a squad of Grunts.

"Well it's been an honor severing with all of you," Jack said to them.

"Well if we're going to die, then let's take as many of those fuckers out with us," Dimitri said.

"Hoo-rah," Private Kersey said. The rest chanted "Hoo-rah" as well, ready to take as many covenant out as possible. All of sudden they heard a whistling.

The Sangheili general also heard the same whistling noise. All of sudden a missile hit the Wraith tanks behind him, spraying him with shrapnel and if he didn't have his shields up then shrapnel would have cut him to pieces. Another missile struck the ground, blowing him off the hill and down into the trees. He was dead before he even hit the ground. A Sangheili Colonel took over and he looked into the skies and saw it filled with human aircraft. Banshees and Seraph fighters moved to intercept them, but all of sudden a UNSC Frigate appeared and launched its A-11 and Longsword fighters.

The Frigate launched another salvo of missiles, destroying 8 Phantoms and 3 Sprits. A Litch fired at the frigate, but it weapons had no effect on the ship. A MAC round split the Litch in two with one round. Pelicans, Falcons, and Phoenixes were all launched from the hovering UNSC Frigate named the Medieval Night. Eighteen Litchs arrive, supported by three unidentified transports that are little bit bigger than the Litch. The Frigate opened fire with its Archer Missiles and MAC Gun, and the unidentified ships opened fire. The plasma weapons hit the Medieval Night and drop the shields only a fraction of an inch, while the Medieval Nights MAC rounds obliterate two of the new enemy ships. Phantoms and Sprits landed to Evac the Covenant troops before they could get thrashed by the UNSC reinforcements. The Covenant troops on the opposite side of the river begin retreating to their pick up points to be evacuated. Phoenixes, Pelicans, and Falcons all land and deposit their troops, including Lieutenant Colonel Thompson and all of Georgia Company. Pelican gunships provided air cover while Georgia Company, along with other UNSC soldiers, were mopping-up any Covenant stragglers. Copperhead Squad was assisted Colonel Thompson. The bodies of the fallen troopers were the first to leave the battlefield, followed by the wounded men, then the rest of the men, including Lieutenant Colonel Thompson. Jack and the others couldn't wait to get their injury's checked up upon by the nurses and doctors back at Fort Atlanta.

New Oreland, USA:

The UNSC had no clue that a Covenant Battlecruiser had infiltrated the URNA and setup a base of operation in the abandon city of New Oreland's. The Sangheili Field Marshal tasked by the Supreme Commander to take out the URNA received the reports from his forces sent to distract the UNSC so his troops could fortify their base since he knew that there secret won't last forever.


Author Note: Thank you for reading this story. i like to think everyone who have reviewed, favorite and follow this story. I would also like to think my beta-reader thearizona for his hard work. if you haven't reviewed the story or favorite or followed please do so. I'm looking for names for Covenant Ships and new vehicles and weapon ideas for both the UNSC and the New Covenant Empire.