"Xepo," Ludo selected. "Target that Shade gunner."
"On it," Xepo said.
The Plague lifted the carbine scope back up to his eye and saw the cliff rushing by. He was waiting for the small, perfectly round head of his own enemy Shade gunner to enter his reticle. He concentrated and controlled his breathing, tightening his finger on the trigger.
Easy...just a little more...almost...
The Grunt gunner came into view and the butt of the carbine bucked against Ludo's shoulder. The Grunt twitched, then fell out of the Shade in a slow tumble. Soze in front of him opened fire and decimated the Jackals' shield wall with full auto plasma fire, tearing through their ranks and ripping into the Grunts that were now fleeing and shooting wildly behind them. Ludo looked to Itan and pointed a finger up, then arced it toward the ledge and repeated the motion.
In response Itan primed, reared back, and quarterback tossed two plasma grenades from the Phantom into the heart of the enemy. One landed next to the unmanned turret that a desperate Jackal was struggling to climb into, while the other stuck onto one of the Grunts, who panicked and ran straight into the two Brutes that were apparently leading the haphazard lance. The bombs erupted in two blue flashes that cracked the Shade in half and sent bodies and debris flying off the ledge.
Soze angled his turret to the left, changing targets and yelling, "Enemy Banshees!"
Ludo ran out onto the extended bay door where Soze was. There were at least six Banshees zipping around and it was hard to tell which ones were theirs. One of them was dipping low for a pass at the Hunter Generals while two others sped toward the Phantom.
"Bring him down!" Ludo shouted, pointing at a specific Banshee.
Soze tracked it through the air with an endless line of fire until he trapped it near the cliff and shredded it out of the sky. Ludo signaled for Itan to come spot Soze, then sprinted back inside and across troop bay to the Phantom's port side.
A/N:
Hey everyone! Sorry I've been gone for awhile, but it seems that the strict posting schedule shoved between work, sleep, and entertainment for little to no engagement was simply a recipe for burnout. I've decided to get back into the swing of posting again, but it might take a while before I feel committed enough to post on schedule again. I've written about fifty free stories and in a chapter to review ratio, it's like 22-1, if that. I don't get paid for this so the least I can hope for is the opinions of the readers. My traffic analytics keep me up to date; there are quite a lot of, and recurring too.
Anyways, happy sabbath and I'll catch you guys sometime in the future.