NOTE: This story is based on a story written by freelancer92 titled: I Want to be a Spartan. It chronicles the events of my character before he ends up being involved in the events of freelancer92's story. Enjoy
Chapter 3
1045 Hours, November 11, 2552(Military Calendar)/
/Central African Republic, planet Earth
Sol system
The wind blew on the side of Walter's helmet as he accelerated his Mongoose All-Terrain Vehicle. He and the rest of his squad were dropped off four miles away so that they can get into the camp set up by the Covenant in this area. Risking an air drop or landing a dropship in enemy territory would have been a foolish thing to do if a squad is using SPI armor, and walking on foot would take a long time.
Their first objective was to soften up any hostiles in possession of the designated area. A Marine fire squad is expected to come to their aid and secure the area. Basically, the Spartans will do what they are best: take the initiative and cause chaos among the enemy.
"Lets try to not to be greedy. I think the marines may want some action too" said Walter. Achilles replied "But if the invitation is available, it would be damn impolite not to accept the chance to kill them all." They all chuckled, and quickly refocused on the mission at hand.
Walter knew everybody in his squad, except for Achilles. He remembers meeting Josh in the Bungie forums when Josh announced his machinima series there. Through Josh, he met Michael Thomas, along with Kat and Tamara.
Walter was aware of his teammate's strengths and determination. They will not fail.
The all the vehicles came to a stop. "We are about one mile away from the camp site. We should get there on foot from now. Go COM silent." ordered Achilles. They all obeyed, and activated their active Camouflage.
The houses here were abandoned. "Since this is a different time period, then I guess this area is not as advanced as the rest of the world, but it is more advanced than my time period." thought Walter. Many houses were burnt or demolished.
When they got there, many plasma turrets were set up. Each turret was accompanied by a pair of Grunts; most of them were asleep. None seemed like they were alert to the presence of the Spartans at all.
However, Brutes and Jackals occupied the camp as well, so stealth won't be as easy, and might not even help if they were going to do this operation as quickly as possible.
With quick, swift motions with his hands, Achilles gave them all their orders. Josh and Kat were to get rid of the Jackal Snipers and Grunts with their Sniper Rifles, everybody else had to engage the Brutes without exposing themselves too much.
Josh fired the first shot. A Jackal spun around, and before it collapsed, his comrades were killed, missing their brains.
Everybody opened fire. Brutes started to get on rooftops to gain higher grounds and fired their weapons at the snipers. Unable to get clear shots or to avoid getting hurt, Josh and Kat retreated, found other spots to snipe and resumed sniping again.
Walter went inside the building, hoping to find a way to get to the roof top. He entered through a door and found two Brutes, one wielding an M90 Close Assault Shotgun.
With no time to think, Walter reacted. He used his left hand to move and grab the gun away from his direction and with his right hand, inserts the barrel of his assault rifle into the left eye of the brute, and fires.
Without bothering to make sure he finished him off, he ducked to avoid any possible haymaker strike that would be impossible to block effectively. He rises up, strikes the brute from behind, backs off and uses the captured shotgun to kill the brute.
He hears gun fire from behind, and sees that a brute was standing behind him. His head was almost missing, except for the skull and the skin still left from all those armor piercing rounds delivered to him by Michael.
"Thanks" said Walter. They headed upstairs.
They have the higher ground now.
Achilles had the same idea and was standing on the rooftops opposite to them, with Tamara. Kat and Josh had killed of all of the Brutes that were foolish enough to remain on the rooftops. Achilles points to other buildings and Walter notices that the Brutes were retreating indoors.
Before Achilles used his SQUADCOM, the marines arrived to provide the real attack, or they would have if Team Phoenix did not wipe almost all of them out.
"They are inside these buildings" said Achilles. He uploaded the location to the Heads-Up Display of each marine. They understood, and went on to each building.
They threw flash-bang grenades, followed by many fragmentation grenades inside each opening they found.
Walter could not find out how anybody can live through all those explosions. They entered and finished of whatever Brute remained alive. Some Brutes retreated into the rooftops, but were quickly killed off by the Spartans.
Minutes later, Walter's COM crackled "First Lieutenant, I think you need to see this."
After hearing this and seeing his commanding officer go into a building, Walter was certain he was not going back to the base any time soon.
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