Captain Benjamin heard the sounds of plasma fire.
His drop had been pretty rough, the carrier had exploded in low orbit and sent several drop pods off course a well as destroying several others. He had managed to find and rally the remaining troopers, and after a series of vicious fire fights there were about twenty-five ODSTs left. To say they were well equipped would be an understatement; they had SMGs, rocket launchers, a Spartan laser, shotguns and a handful of assault rifles.
He signalled to his group to send a five-man scout party. The squad left then a couple of minutes later the rest of the ODST's moved on. A runner came back,
"Sir" he said panting heavily "there's Spartans sir engaged with Covenant"
The Captain smiled then said, "Well I guess that we'll have to bail their sorry asses out"
He turned to his men and shouted, "come on boys we gotta bail out some sorry ass Spartans". There was a roar of approval and his troops sprinted after the runner.
"Good" thought Benjamin "a bit of motivation never hurt anyone".
The troopers filed into a building with an overlook. The Captain looked down; five Spartans were battling what looked like a small Covenant army, one of them was battling a massive hunter, then a sniper shot came out of nowhere and hit it in the back.
The Captain opened his COM "wait a couple of minutes then fire all the rocket launchers into the enemy, then we'll take everyone down and give em a good old hose with some SMGs".
"Hoora" shouted the ODSTs
Benjamin watched the Spartan he had watched before draw out a shotgun and let it loose on the Covenant, the Captain held up his hand to signal weapons ready, then he brought his hand down.
Conar and his nine other elites in his infiltration squad had gone into camouflage mode blending into the scenery behind them, they were at least twenty metres away from the other elites from the camp when it happened.
Several of the human's explosive projectiles flew at his elites spewing fire behind them; there was a huge series of explosions as the rockets all exploded in the group of elites. When the flashes had stopped very few of their Sangheli brethren remained. Conar roared in rage, there was still the Legiko.
Captain Benjamin called out "come on ladies, let's show these Spartans who the real pride of the UNSC is"
"Hoora" the marines called and the began to rappel down to the ground to help the Spartans.
Sean watched as several rockets collided with the main body of elites killing the better part of the force, then he watched as twenty five ODST troopers rappelled from a balcony overhead and unleashed a hellish barrage of SMG fire on the Covenant hunters, the bullets ricocheted off of their main shields.
Captain Benjamin ran over to Sean,
"Where do you need support?" the Captain shouted over the roar of SMG fire
"Left flank" Sean replied, that was where the remainder of the elites and jackals were congregating. The Captain nodded and directed his troops towards the left flank.
Though the hunter's shields were nigh impenetrable, the shields couldn't protect the huge hunters from all angles.
Sean nodded and directed Jack, who was carrying the bomb towards the centre of the camp. The rest of his squad followed closely behind. David fired his last fuel rod barrage at two hunters, the shields were strong, but the force of the fuel rod shots were stronger, the hunters were blasted back then fell to the ground, dead. Niall's sniper cracked again and another hunter fell, Ed's Spartan laser blasted through another bond pair, Troy rolled forward and unsheathed his sword and charged in front, and Sean accompanied him. They both rolled under a hunter swing, Sean fired his shotgun into it's back, Troy lunged at the other, his sword left a scar across it's shield, he then rolled again, side-stepped a smash at the ground then slashed at it's unarmoured mid-section, it fell to the ground with a tremendous crash.
Slowly, the combined forces of the ODSTs and the Spartans were pushing back the hunters, but the Covenant began to adapt. Sean shot gunned yet another hunter in the back, then turned to watch the hunters fall back into a large line, they brought their shields in front of them and levelled their fuel rod cannons, they glowed green with charging energy.
"Take cover" Sean shouted, the Spartans dove back behind the wraith, the ODSTs began to fall back but they weren't quick enough. The hunter's fuel rod cannons discharged and huge beams of green light was blasted towards the Spartans and ODSTs. Most of the ODSTs took a full blast and there was only black smouldering piles left, some managed to jump to the side and avoid the huge beams. Several of the huge beams his the wraith wreckage the Spartans were crouching behind, the wreckage began to move back, the Spartans pressed their weight against it to steady it.
Conar smiled, a sense of immense satisfaction spreading through him as he watched the humans become obliterated by the hunter's powerful energy beams. He then set a waypoint on the HUD of his infiltration squad, "yes" he thought as he stood up and started to crouch towards the waypoint, "they would catch the humans by surprise just as they had done the same to the sangheli". He smiled once more then continued to the waypoint.
The wraith stopped shuddering, Sean looked up over the top of it. A huge row of hunters faced them, there had to be at least thirty pairs, there was also a small collection of elites behind the hunters. Burnt cinders of ODSTs littered the ground, their bodies black and charred, still smoking from the blasts.
Sean noticed that Captain Benjamin had survived the barrage by rolling towards the wraith, he was one of the few, there was probably only ten ODSTs left plus the Spartans, those weren't good odds, even for Spartans. The Captain sprinted for the wraith, the hunters just watched, waiting for them to attack. Sean let the Captain into the Spartan COM.
"So" the Captain said over the COM "any plans?"
There was a pause, and then the Captain said, "Well I've got one"
"Go on" David said
The Captain looked towards Ed and David, "how much ammo have you in your heavy weapons", Ed checked his counter and David check his rocket supply.
"I have three shots left in my laser" Ed said
"I have no fuel rod and four rockets," David said
"Right" the Captain, said "you two will co-ordinate with my ODST troopers to keep up a heavy weapon assault, to distract the hunters", the two Spartans nodded and headed towards the remaining troopers, "we'll need cover from your sniper"
"Got you covered" Niall's voice came through the COM
The Captain nodded "meanwhile" he said, "you remaining three Spartans will protect me, I'll have the warhead"
Sean nodded, the Captain knew that he and his ODSTs didn't stand a chance of making it out alive, the odds were stacked against them, and the Spartans would be put under severe pressure, even with their abilities.
The Captain holstered his SMG and lifted the warhead onto his shoulder.
"How much ammo we got left?" Sean said
"I have two more battle rifle clips and an SMG clip," Jack said
Troy tossed Sean two clips of assault rifle, "I won't need it," he said, holding his sword aloft. Sean nodded and slapped a clip in his ma5b. He only had four more clips and seven more shotgun shells; he loaded another couple of shells into the gun.
"Green light to go" Sean said over the open COM so all the Spartans and the ODSTs could here. There was a pause, the atmosphere was electric. Sean put a hand on the side of the wraith and flashed his green light.