Chapter 3: The Scout
"Here's a good spot, right up here on the ledge." I said to Beta who wasn't quite paying attention. I quickly laid down on my stomach and set up my sniper rifle. "I'm booooooooored!" I heard Beta whine behind me. "Well then since you're so bored, why don't I give you a little extra work to do." I said smirking. "Pff" Beta said as she looked away pouting. "Ghost to Outpost, targets spotted. 5 waves of Covenant troops heading south to your position. 2 Wraths and about 5 Ghosts." "What are the species of Covenant?" "Mostly Grunts and Elites." I said looking through my scope. "It's going to be a long day." I thought to myself.
"Try to take out the Wrath Pilots, then move to the Elites." "Copy that Outpost, Ghost out." As I said that I aimed my sniper to the closest Wrath pilot. "Taking the first shot in 3...2...1 BOOM!" The Wrath automatically shut down when the pilot was killed. "Moving to second Wrath, BOOM!" By now the Elites had an idea from where my shots were coming from and started firing in my general direction. Luckily they weren't that good at aiming. I lined up my rifle to the third Wrath pilot, but honestly it was a little difficult to aim with hundreds of bullets being shot at me. BOOM! I barely hit the pilot but the shot managed to kill him. "All Wraths destroyed, can't take out the Elites." "You've done enough Ghost, head back to the outpost and get ready for battle." "Copy that." I put my rifle on my back and got out my magnum. "You should get going! Multiple targets coming up the north side of the mountain!" Beta said as I ran down the side of the mountain toward the outpost.
"BEEP..BEEP..BEEP..BOOM!" Me and Beta were almost to the outpost when suddenly a bomb went off near the front gate. "What was that!" I shouted over the ringing in my ears. "Bomb went off about 20 meters ahead. You should get going." Beta said as the Covenant started to push ahead towards the outpost. We came just in time to see another bomb go off toward the south side of the compound. "Beta, scan the outpost for anymore bombs!" "There's one in the barracks!" "Then let's hurry!" I said as I broke out in a full on sprint.
We made it, we made it before the bomb went off. We ran into the barracks and told everyone to get out. "Beta, where is the bomb?!" I said looking around the room."It's in the vent over there!" Beta said pointing towards a bed on the far side of the room. I ran over and pushed the bed out of the way and saw that the bomb was about to go off. "Beta, can you disarm this thing?" "Yeah. Just give a minute." "BEEP..BEEP..beep." Then the bomb shut down. I sighed in relief just as the alarm went off. "Oh come on!" I said as Beta laughed at how irritated I was. Some Covenant troops had gotten through our defences and were attacking the people inside the compound. I ran to the entrance where the Covenant were attacking, I ran into the room and everyone started saying "Look a spartan!" "We're saved!" I got out my rifle and started to shoot as many Grunts and Elites as I could until reinforcements came.
I shot down elite after elite, but they weren't letting up on their attack. We had multiple wounded and were low on ammo. Suddenly we heard a voice through all of our communicators "Attention all UNSC soldiers, reinforcements will be coming shortly. Please hold out a couple more minutes!" With that the communication cut out and we continued to fight with all of our might.
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