Halo: Cloak and Daggers
By: Natination
The 3 pelicans dropped down onto the wet mud as the rain poured down all around them. Three men from each pelican then exited and went to secure the perimeter before the rest walked out into the rain.
"Wow this stuff is hard as hell." One private said he emerged from the pelican to the sound pinging metal.
The ODST next to him said. "Obviously you haven't been to the Planet Verna. The stuff is 10x harder then this."
"Really? Wow." The private replied; he was fresh from boot among 6 others. The rest were hardcore veterans.
"Yeah well you couldn't see shit in the rain like this anyway, we got to stick close to each other or else we're going to get lost." The ODST remarked. "Butch, get Echo to get the comm. up and running to tell Ackerson that we dropped in."
An ODST with his helmet on said a quick yes sir and dashed towards the pelicans. As the rest of the men gathered. There was 24 marines including 7 fresh from boot and 12 ODST's assigned to take on this mission with the support of the marines.
"Ok Ackerson wants us to identify the people that decided to live in one of our old outposts." The ODST said. He pointed at one ODST. "George here is point."
"Hold on one second there." Will said as he sat on a chair in the visitor's quarters. "Your name is George?"
"Yes sir." The ODST said.
"Ok, continue." Will replied. He looked at the pictures that George had done as he narrated the story.
"Let's move out!" The squad leader yelled.
Everyone spread out into a rough diamond shape as they made their way though the tough jungle terrain in the heavy rain. Visibility was down to 10 feet.
"I bet bullets would drop to the ground after we fire them in this stuff. "
"Cut the chatter marine." The squad leader the over radio said. After they traveled 1.5 kilos to the outpost there came a call for silent movement. No unnecessary noise was to be emitted.
They were trained well and moved about quietly glancing left and right to make sure they were still with teammates. It would be easy to become lost in the heavy rain and jungle. 4 ODST's dashed forward to check out the outpost and move quietly about. That was when 6 contacts on the motion tracker came on red signaling enemies.
"Stay alert marines, incoming." The squad leader said.
The red dots fell back as soon as the squad leader said as if knowing that they were alert.
George glanced at his motion tracker as he quickly moved forward to take position against a tree. He looked in all directions but only saw three of his teammates taking up positions behind him.
"No contract." George glanced all around him and continued to monitor his motion tracker. "I think they know our radio frequency sir."
"We hold position here, no chatting and no moving." Squad leader said. "Be alert till the 4 scouts get back. All teams change to Alpha 6."
Everyone twisted a knob by their ear 6 clicks to the left to the channel 6.