Frozen Hell part 2: The Siege
Every story is supposed to have a hero. A protagonist. Some one that's always sure of himself… Some one that knows what their doing. But, put yourself in my situation. Men that you cannot lead surround you. An enemy that is not only a monster but also one that's a planet itself. Not only are you fighting to survive, but to die a much more honorable death. Now lets get back to the story.
"Okay boys I want us to set up camp in front of the ship until we get the call from command." I ordered. Then being the rookies that they are they all went to grab their gear.
A couple hours later… "Okay marines I want you all to get a good nights rest. We have a long day a head of us." I said. "I'll keep the watch." I said. Those words I said will haunt me forever. I never should of said go to sleep. I should have told them all to go to sleep with a gun fully loaded under their heads. That way they would have been ready.
As I sat there in front of a fire one of the soldiers started I wondered what would happen tomorrow. And as I slowly drifted asleep I had no idea what would happen next.
A sudden scream of one of my men awoke me. My eyes quickly opened. I saw some tents a blazed. Then a sudden blue plasma shot came from out of the night striking one of my men. Followed by an army of elites walking out. Then I quickly looked around for a weapon. Anything would work. Then a plasma shot hit a rock behind me I heard the quick sound of the bolt wiz right by me. I quickly jumped down to the ground and started to crawl. Then I saw it just lying there. A fully loaded battle rifle and a shit load of others. I quickly got up and grabbed one. Then I looked into the crowd of elites and them killing my men and aimed. I fired my first shot the gun quickly kicked back but the shot hit an elite right in the head and killed it.
"Grab a weapon marines!" I ordered. I kept shooting into the army of elites. Then only seconds later another marine joined in on the shooting, then another and another. Soon we had over half of all the men shooting into the elites the battle was almost won. Until two banshees swooped down from the dark sky shooting their plasma shots at the ground hitting some marines. "Marines keep firing at those bastards." I said. Then I quickly looked around for something that could help then I saw it, a rocket launcher. So I dived for it and grabbed it. Then I looked to my right and saw a marine. "Can you work a rocket launcher son and take out those banshees." I asked
"As long as it has homing sir." The marine replied then point up in the air and shot the banshee right out of the sky. You could here the sound of the rocket exploding inside of the banshee frying everything inside. One down, one more to go, then the marine turned the other way and shot at the other banshee but the banshee did a barrel roll around it and it missed. "I got one shot sir." The marine said.
"Hold on I got a plan." I said. So I aimed up at the banshee and started to shoot at knowing that it wouldn't do much. Then the banshee noticed my fire and started charging at me. I had one chance I thought. So as the banshee almost touching the ground to ram me I jumped up over it. "NOW!" I screamed. And the rocket shot, hitting the banshee just barely leaving from beneath me. The explosion went off and I dropped to the ground. I got up and saw the tents a blaze and almost all my men dead. I thought to myself, is it to late? Then I looked and saw all of what's left of my team shooting, and then I realized that we still had a chance. "Marines we can still win this. Just keep shooting and we got this." I said. Then just then a sniper shot went right by my foot. "Oh shit we got snipers."
"AAAAAAAAARG! SIR I'M SHOT I NEED HELP!" a wounded marine next to me said. "YOU NEED TO BRING ME TO THE MED TENT!" The marine whined.
So I knelt down next to him and said. "I need you to keep fighting marine, one shot from your gun could save a dozen marines. That way you can die knowing that you saved lives today."
"Sir please hand me that sniper rifle." The marine said.
I handed him a snipe rifle lying on the ground. "Kid what are you doing?" I asked.
"Saving lives Sir." The marine replied. Right then I saw him aim in the direction of the sniper and fire at the same time as the other sniper fired. I saw the shots passed right by each other. The marine's shot killed the jackal. And the Jackals shot hit the marine right in the head. As the body lay there on the ground I bent over and made the cross sign. "You shouldn't have been a hero." I whispered.
"SIR! What are those things!" The marine yelled.
"What are you talking about?" I asked then looked up and saw a wave of drones flying straight for us. "OH YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!" I said. Then a drone flew straight for me and tackled me. The drone pinned me down so as it struggled to keep me down, I slowing reached for my pistol laying two feet from me and grabbed it. "You know you really are one ugly son of a bitch!" I said then fired a pistol round right through its head. "Okay marines finish off the elites. I'll take care of the bugs." I said then picked up two SMGs. And I ran into the swarm of drones firing at the drones, one by one they fell to the ground then one knocked me over and pinned me down once again but then I saw that the whole swarm surrounded me. So as I lay there thinking that this would be my grave, a sudden round from a battle rifle hit the drone above me and the swarm scattered.
"Well the elites are gone so we decided to help you." A marine said.
"I owe you one." I said to him. Then I got up and saw all the drones' dead. Thanks guys I thought to myself. "Yeah. I think were going to need some reinforcements." I said as a looked upon the dead bodies of both human and elites while are tents were on fire.
Least the one good thing about the battle was that there was a really beautiful sunrise.