It's reader again! I have to say, I made a mistake. When I referred to pelicans in the previous chapters, I meant Hornets. Sorry about that. I'm a little forgetful. Anyways, on with the show!
Chapter 5
The next morning, I woke up to the sound of someone talking on the radio. I sat up, and saw Amanda with a walkie talkie, frantically giving orders. I jumped up and pulled off my sleeping bag.
"What's happening?" I asked her. She mouthed "Banshee's", and I was up, shotgun in hand, and running in the direction she pointed.
BOOM! I heard the plasma shots and return fire go. This made me fear the worst, and I hit sprint. I was over a ridge and ready to rock and roll when a plasma burst hit the area right next to me. I literally flew thirty feet and hit the ground before starting to skid down the hill. I managed to grab and rock and jump(I did a flip) and start heading back up the hill until a Banshee floated up over it. I started zigzag maneuvers and blasted away with my shotgun. None of the shots really did anything except distract the pilot before I jumped right onto the cock pit.
"Austa la vista, baby!" I shouted inside before I filled the glass, or whatever it is, with shots. Blood splattered inside, and I realized it was Elite blood. "Better quality then quantity!" I shouted before jumping off the now tumbling covenant fighter and in the direction of the battle. What I saw sickened me.
On the ground below me, many burning human bodies were scattered around, and the survivors of the attack were slowly starting to retreat as a covenant transport started dropping of troops. I wasn't completely sure what to do, so I did the thing I had burned into my memory, Charge.
BOOM! Sizzle… shots rang out all around me as the grunts that were dropping out realized I was a Spartan, and the main target. I preferred that to them shooting at the retreating regular humans. As I neared thirty yards away from the drop point, I felt as if something had taken a sledge hammer and hit me five times in One fifth of a second. I dropped to the ground, but managed to see that my attacker was a jackal sniper that still sat in the drop ship. I was ready to get running over by the mass of grunts that were charging me when the entire first wave blew up. I'm not kidding, a humongous explosion, then grunt, jackal, and even some Elite body parts starting raining down on the ground. I looked around until I saw the reason. Sitting on top of a the hill I had charged down was Ellie and Sophia in the warthog that I knew all too well. The one that Sophia had invented to hack Halo Reach to win the game. It had saved my video game character once, and now it was saving me. I grinned, and watched as, about two seconds after the explosion, my attacker, that pesky sniper, got stabbed through with an energy sword and shot in the head by a sniper rifle before falling to the ground. The once invisible Amanda now gave the thumbs- up sign to every one before jumping off the ship just as Mike, who appeared next to me, shot a couple of grenade launcher rounds, used armor lock right in front of me. The explosions hit the ammo inside, and presto, bye bye baddies. Metal and otherworldly pieces of ship rained down, but since Mike was almost on top of me, nothing really hurt us. The ship crashed to the ground, and cheers rang out from all around as the other humans finished off the remaining Banshee's. Mike turned off armor lock and grinned at me. I grinned back before he helped me up. There we stood in the greatness of the moment, before I was hit with another wave of the opposite emotion.
"Look at all the bodies…" I whispered, almost ready to actually cry. I'm not kidding. It was so sad, seeing all those bodies. I didn't care whether this was real or not. The destruction caused me to change from sadness to anger. I walked up to an Elite's head, who's body lay thirty feet away. I pulled out my gravity hammer… and starting smashing away. The head was splattered and crushed on the first strike, but I kept swinging until Mike came up from behind me and pulled my gravity hammer out of my hands and threw it with one hand, then lifted me up on his shoulders before dropping me. I slowly got up and looked into his eyes, crying, and said "I'm going to fuck up every one of those bastereds until they're all DEAD." Mike slowly nodded, then put his arm around my shoulder, and we started to walk up the hill, towards friends, and away from enemies..
A very action filled chapter, don't you think? Don't worry, I think I'll put the drama in the next chapter. Until then, Austa la Vista!