Marathon cruiser Iroquois 0900
Simon Baker's POV:
You know being an ODST I never thought I would be here playing babysitter for a politician an INNIE on top of that, weird times we live in, I guess I should be happy we have gotten way worse assignments beforehand, but did they really have to use a old cruiser? We had to make so many pit stops in between jumps it was aggravating.
" He is taking a while in there isn't he?" Miranda commented my squadmate that I have been through hell and back for the last ten years.
" He has been in there for 1 hour, 22 minutes, and 42 seconds." The AI Dot said, always telling us useless information as per usual. "Thanks for the information as usual Dot." I said sarcastically making Miranda chuckle.
" Is that the human sarcasm I hear of?" She questioned, I just sighed in response, I am too tired for this.
" Anyways Miranda I rather wait here than fight Brutes any day, we are not dropping into hell for once, and are given an Escort assignment." I told her. Ignoring Dot's question.
The other ODST took off her helmet and rolled her eyes at me. " That is exactly the problem I signed up to be a Helljumper not play babysitter." She responded us both ignoring the AI's question. I just shrugged.
" Plus isn't this work meant for contractors heck they really could not find anyone else to do this boring assignment." She asked.
I took of my helmet off so she could see the face I was giving her. " Listen Wright." I said calling her by her last name earning her attention.
" You know that due to the war there has been a problem in manpower, you should know fighting it and all, plus I for one, and sick and tired of killing." I lectured her.
" That is a good point, your average UNSC soldier only had a 40% chance of surviving when fighting the Covenant" Dot added agreeing with me
Miranda frowned because she knew I was right. " So Miranda I would just sit back and relax and make sure anything doesn't bad happen to our VIP, as he is the only one that could accomplish this peace deal." I finished.
She just nodded in response, she didn't need to say anything else. I smiled that she would now stop complaining. The door then opened making us put our two helmets back on. Out came Artyem the VIP we were escorting alongside two other escorts belonging to his faction. The gear they wore was not as good as ours but it got the job done. Just black Versions of the UNSC Army's Uniform, with a trident patch and armbands. The other three were what I assumed to be aides. One of the guards motioned for us to follow him. "Team 1 on the move." One guard said.
"Team 2 in position." Another said on the radio
" Team 3 and 4 in position." Another said. Fighting alongside Innies who would have thought.
" What is on today's agenda?" Artyom asked.
" We have an important meeting with the other leaders within a party, also a representative of the United Rebel Front it is Zahkeav." One of his aides answered. Making him sigh with annoyance. " Why did they send him Chen?" he asked. The woman just shrugged her arms.
" Out of all of them, Zahkeav is the most annoying and bloodthirsty." He rubbed his temple. We kept moving through the ship to the meeting room we then Stopped with more guards and their commander Vasili. "They are waiting for you inside sir." The commander told him. He simply nodded.
Suddenly two women appeared in front of them" привіт
Батько" One of them said, I could not understand what she was saying but the language sounded Eastern European. " Hello to you as well daughter." He responded in English he said giving her a hug and a kiss on the head.
The other women who looked to be in her forties then approached him. " Always lovely to see you, my beautiful wife." He said kissing her.
" Likewise." She said. Right this was his family we were introduced to them when we first came.
" The UNCS bucket heads are making sure you are safe and sound." The older woman insulted us.
" Bitch" Miranda whispered to me over commes causing me to chuckle, glad I was wearing a helmet. " Come now don't be like that, as a sign of goodwill the UEG sent their finest to make sure I get to Earth safe and sound, treat them with respect." He asked her.
" Whatever you say, husband." She responded.
" Sir they are waiting for you." The commander told him.
" Alright I must go I will see you two at dinner." He said giving each of them a kiss.
" Why is Zahkeav here you know I have a distaste for the man." His daughter asked.
The father smiled, probably happy his daughter dislikes him as much as he does.
" You already know the answer to that sweetie." He responded making her scoff.
" Anyways I must get going." He finally said. The two women then left along with ten guards. The wife gave us a cold and Icy glare, fucking Innies I thought to myself. A guard opened the door for us, and here we were in the meeting room.
At the table sat 10 people of high importance. On the other side of my room, my squadmates stood guard. Mike Sanchez and Travis Holden are their names.
" Gentlemen what is in today's agenda today." The VIP asked, right politics.
" We are here to discuss the upcoming meeting with the UNSC leadership." He nodded.
" Right, and I hope this peace agreement won't be one-sided and you sell us out." A thick Russian accent said. That must be Zahkeav, he looked younger than I thought. He then looked over to me with disgust.
" And you have a UNSC escort I should not be surprised." the Russian continued.
" I already want to punch him in the face." Miranda said over commes making the three of us laugh.
" They are a sign of goodwill nothing more, listen, ladies and gentlemen, for the past century humanity was at war with each other, and later the Covenant nearly wiping us out, the time is now for peace, enough bloodshed we should work with our former enemies instea– Minister" Zahkeav interrupted. " Making peace with the UNSC is one thing but with the Covenant, my party won't stand for this they wiped out billions of us and we are supposed to hold hands and now sing kumbayah" He ranted.
As much as I hated this man he did have a good point.
" We win by becoming friends with them if we don—-" The Prime minister was interrupted by sounds of gunfire and gunshots, Making the guards unsheath their weapons, with my squad and I joining in
" That is gunfire!! Team 3 Report!!" The commander screamed into the radio. " Hijackers are attempting to take over the ship, they breached the cockpit!!" A guard over the radio, the alarms then started going off blasting into my ears I swear to god I am going to go deaf before I retire.
" Mr. President get down!!" I told him using the desk as cover the other individuals followed suit.
" Team 3, report!!" The commander yelled.
" WE NEED BACKUP!! OH GOD!!, WE GOT MORE SHIPS COMING OUT OF SLIPSPACE!!" they responded.
This was going to hell real fast. Mike and Travis took positions alongside the door, here we go.
" Damn it team 3!!, Everybody get down!! protect the minister!!" He then aimed his sidearm at the door.
" Code red, repeat—-[BOOM!!] The door blew open and men in green camo armor rushed in. The commander reacted quickly twisted the arm first one who rushed in disarming him, and shot him with his own SMG. My squadmates easily killed his two comrades.
" We need to get the minister to the safe room!!, Miranda, Baker take point!" The commander ordered us.
We went out of the room passing some dead guards we kept moving through the Hallways of the ship, Mike and Travis followed behind us. We move through the corridors of the ship following the guards. We entered a hallway straight into another firefight.
" Travis!! throw a grenade over!!." I yelled.
" Got it" The ODST ran into cover and tossed a grenade over killing two. My squad and the Guards finished off the rest of them. Miranda finished one off by landing a shot in the head piercing his helmet. " Thank you ODSTS." One of the guards thanked us. " You got it." Miranda responded.
Commander Vaseli then went to one of the doors to and tried to get it open. To his annoyance it did not budge, must of gotten damaged from the firefight.
"Can one of you get these doors open?" Vaseli asked.
"I got it" One guard responded, going to the door.
" Damn, who the hell are these guys?" Mike asked. Good question
" Dot, assessment?" I asked the AI looking at one of the bodies.
"Analyzing." She responded
The rest of us were wondering the same thing. Travis then took the helmet off one of them. " Jesus Christ." He said disgustingly.
" What is it... Oh shit." Mike was just as shocked as Travis. Miranda and I looked over and saw why they were bewildered. The man had half of his face tattoed what looked to be a skull and on his neck was an eagle, Not the UNSCS but below it a circle, and what looked to be a strange symbol, a Swastika I think it is called, remembering that for my time in history class.
" According to ONI archives, this is an elite special battalion unit belonging to the Resurrected "FLP" Freedom and Liberation Party they are ideologically a NEO-Friendenist party." She told us.
" Neo-what now?" Travis asked being a meathead as usual. Miranda rolled her eyes. " Neo-Friendenist, you know Fascism you don't remember learning about that in history class" Miranda responded.
" Ohh right" Travis responded making Mike Snicker.
" It should also be noted that many of their members and battalions are Neo-Nazis, this unit being one of them, highly dangerous and very fanatical caution is advised." She finished.
" Great a bunch of silly mustache-loving fanatics, this day keeps on getting better and better." Mike responded Sarcastically. The comment made us chuckle beside Travis as the joke went over his head.
" Got it, doors open commander." The guard said opening the door.
Vaseli nodded and turned to us. " Alright, ODSTS clear the way you three stay here with the minister." He ordered us. We all nodded and did as we were told. Taking point we went through the corridors, before coming to another door. " I got it" Miranda said. She pressed the button to open it.
Revealing once again another gunfight, I swear I could go a day without them. One of the Innies tossed a grenade landing and killing three guards.
" It is killing time!!" Travis rushed forward with his shotgun blowing one's head off, and giving the same treatment to his comrade. The rest of us took positions from behind and started laying down fire. " Goddamn Moron!!' Miranda said.
" Not that I am disagreeing with you, but focus on the task at hand right now!!." I told her. We kept on firing eliminating a lot of the Innies. However, another Boarding craft plunged itself into us. What the hell! that is Covenant tech I thought to myself. Everyone was just as equally surprised, but we had no time to think about that as more borders flooded out of it. Travis retreated back to us.
" What the!! How in the world did the Innies get their hands on that!?" He asked crouching next to me.
" Travis, I am wondering the same thing but now is not the time!!' I yelled back. Man, I sometimes wonder how my squadmates passed training considering how easily they get distracted.
Miranda tossed a grenade. It exploded taking out 4 of them, I aimed my BR at one of the officers and shot him in the head, causing some disarray. " Everybody push up!!" Vaseli yelled. One of the loyalists on my left moved up only to get shot in the face, his blood splattering all over my visor. " Shit" I muttered to myself wiping the blood off.
" SCREW THIS!!" Travis yelled, throwing two grenades.
The explosions killed the rest of them.
Vaseli motioned everyone to move up. We passed the bodies of the dead insurrectionists some of their armor shattered revealing even more of their lovely tattoos.
We kept walking through the corridors. " All Teams this is team 4!! the daughter's safety at risk they got us pinned down!!" A security guard yelled over the radio. Shit, we then started to double-time it. " Team 4 where is your location!!?" Vaseli screamed.
We are just a few blocks from the meeting room!! they got us pinned!!" They responded.
" Son of a bith you fu—" Never thought I would see someone swear so much and be very creative, since I graduated from basic.
We kept running through the ship, we then stopped at a locked door.
" We have no time for this!!' Travis screamed shooting the locks off with his shotgun.
We entered the other room passing more dead loyalists, we then came behind a bunch of innies who were shooting at what looked to be the remains of team three.
" Hold your fire, someone get those turrets back online" Vaseli whispered.
" On it" Miranda responded. She went to the nearest computer and pressed a few buttons. The sentry turrets above then came online and immediately started firing on unexpecting innies. Joining the turrets we then started to open fire. The boarders caught off guard and half of them taken out started to retreat but were cut off as more loyalists came out of an elevator finishing them off.
Vaseli ran over to make sure the two women were ok. A few scratches but they were okay for the most part, The worst I've seen is a few marines impaled by whatever those spikers shot, or even worse when a brute went on a rampage, and would tear marines in half
" You two, Travis and Miranda, Escort the daughter and her mother to the safe room." He ordered them.
They both nodded and took the two women and what remained of their security detail into one of the elevators.
Something else then struck the ship causing some more Turbulence.
I looked out the window and saw more innie ships come out of slip space with a lot more boarding craft disembarking. To say we were fucked was an understatement. " Uhm dot assessment?" I asked her.
" I detected at least 22 insurrectionist ships." She said.
" That is not good." Mike added. "Yeah, no shit." I thought to myself.
My thoughts were interrupted when Vaseli picked up his radio.
" Commander Vaseli, they are just outside of the bridge they are trying to break through the door!!" The guard panicked over the radio. This day keeps on getting better and better. " Copy that team three we are on our way." the commander responded. Baker, Troy on me the rest of you secure this area" He ordered.
" Take the elevator on the left it will cut your time in half." Dot advised.
"Copy that Dot" I responded.
" Need a ride." A guard asked us when the elevator doors opened.
" Take us to the bridge." Vaseli ordered. The guard pressed a button taking us to the cockpit. It took us a few minutes until the elevator finally stopped. And to my surprise when it opened it revealed, you guessed it another firefight, I swear just my luck you know they are not good for your health. Nevertheless, the security detail was not doing so hot well three of them and one on a turret just got blown up into oblivion, as soon we exited out of the elevator. Just leaving the four of us and 2 surviving guards that making 6 of us vs 30 or more innies along this corridor, and I see at the very end they were trying to break into the bridge.
I took cover and started opening fire killing a few Innies immediately shifting their attention to me. I took cover not liking getting shot, Mike threw a grenade taking out a good portion of them and causing the remainder of them to pull back, we pushed up opening fire on the retreating innies, while Vaseli was radioing for reinforcements. More Innies came out of cover and started to return fire.
To make matters worse at the end of the hallway the innies finally broke into the bridge where more gunfire ensued.
" Commander they have broken through!!" The guard radioed us.
" Hold on team 3 we are coming!." Vaseli responded. I then noticed security turrets above us that would help.
" Mike we need to end this quickly!! Get those turrets back online!!" I yelled. He nodded and went to the nearest console activating the turrets who quickly went online and started cutting down one innie after the other. Mike and I pushed forward with the innies distracted by the turrets, it was like a turkey shoot, I rushed forward with Mike taking out one rebel after the other. Once my SMG ran out of ammo I switched to my pistol and knife.
I killed one after the other until my mag finally ran out. One innie to my right got out of cover to try and shoot me big mistake. I quickly disarmed him and stabbed him in the neck. Despite having high-end armor they were not as good as ours. Some of his buddies shifted their guns to me thankfully their now-dead comrade provided some good cover, with one hand I reloaded my pistol and with the help of Mike, we finished off the remainder of them. With all the innies dead, the only thing left was to clear out the cockpit. With the hallway clear Vaseli and his men moved up.
" Nanite kotoda, I am glad you are on our side." A guard said with a heavy Japanese accent.
" If you think we are scary you should see the Spartans." I told him throwing the body I used as a shield to the ground, I then grabbed a Ma5 assault rifle off of one of the dead innies. While Mike pulled out his shotgun, we both nodded to each other and made our way to the cockpit.
We stacked up at the entrance I threw a flashbang we advanced. I took out three innies before one recovered from the effects. He aimed his rifle at me but Mike quickly cut him down however in the process of getting shot his rifle discharged shooting the ship's control system causing more alarms to go off.
The guards finished off the remaining innies. One of the bridge officers ran up to the controls and slammed his fist. " Flight controls are done for, in 10 minutes we are going to enter Eiros atmosphere!!." He ranted.
" Well that settles it, we are abandoning ship!!, Team 2 Team 4!!' Vaseli radioed.
" Yes sir!!." both team leaders responded over the radio.
" Flight controls are fried, we are abandoning ship, get the minister to a life pod." He told them.
" Got it sir!!" they responded.
All right time to get going. " Dot can you access the PA system." I asked her.
" Got it, Attention all personnel abandon ship." She said on repeat. All of us then booked it trying to find the nearest life pod. " Dot!!' I yelled for her trying to find the nearest life pod. " Give me a moment... take a left." She told us. " Now a right." The group of us turned to the next corridor.
" All right where to next?" I impatiently asked.
" Take of a left, where you will see three life pods." She told us. Out the window though just our luck two life pods launched. " Correction one life pod." I rolled my eyes at Dot's sarcasm. We made our way to the final life pod to be greeted by a bunch of innies that had the same plane, we immediately opened fire on each other. " Assholes had the same idea as us." Mike complained.
I took out my final grenade and threw it at the group of innies. It exploded killing half of them, the rest of us took out the remainder of them with ease I finished off the last one by emptying my entire SMG mag into him.
" Hey Sarge we are going to have a problem here." Mike told me.
" What is the problem now" I asked walking up to the ODST. He pointed to the lifepod and I figured out what the problem was.
The damn Pod could only fit half of us. " I am sorry looks like a few of you are going to have to stay behind." Dot told us.
" So it is going to be like that huh." I grimly said. The pod could only about 8 people and there were 12 of us. " All right, Mike and I are going to stay behind 2 more need to volunteer to stay on the ship."
" Me and Yuri will stay with you." Vaseli said. With that settled the rest of the bridge crew and a few of the guards went into the pod. The door closed and we watched the pod launch.
" Alright, what now." I asked Vaseli. The commander just shrugged his shoulders. " I guess we will wait until the ship crashes into the planet." He responded.
" Dot any more life pods?" I asked her.
"Analyzing... There are some left it would take about 20 minutes." She answered.
" Commander Vaseli this is team 2 we have a problem" The radio went up.
" What is it?" The commander asked.
" We were able to get the minister's wife off the ship, However not the minister and his daughter." The guard told him. Making Vaseli facepalm
" Sir we also got separated from team 2 and the daughter" the Guard also added.
Vaseli slammed his fist into the nearest wall, and cursed more.
" Baker, Sanchez, Yuri with me, We are going to save their asses!!" He yelled. We started running down the hall with me taking point.
" Dot find us a route!!" I told her .
" Analyzing, take a left on this corridor." She told me.
" Got it" I responded. The group kept on running down the corridor to be met with a elevator.
" Take this elevator two floors down." She told me got it.
My squadmate, Vaseli, and Yuri got into the elevator.
" You go Commander we will secure this area." One of the guards said. Vaseli nodded, due to how small the elevator was it could not carry the rest of us. I pushed the button and down the elevator went.
It took us about 2 minutes to finally reach our destination, I took point once we exited the elevator to be met with dead bodies of Loyalists and Innies alike. Gunfire was heard.
" Go down the hallway and take a right, and there you will find the minister." Dot told me. Following her directions passing more dead bodies. We were met with another firefight, there were only 4 guards left and they were getting hammered hard. Well, time to get to work. I immediately unloaded my SMG into them killing two with ease, Mike opened fire with his shotgun and took the initiative to go on the offensive his armor easily absorbing the incoming fire. Vaseli rushed over to the Minister to check if he was still alright
I threw another grenade killing three unlucky innies. One of the innies armed with a shotgun emptied 2 slugs into one of the loyalists, half his face getting blown off.
"We are entering Eridanus atmosphere in 5 minutes!!" Dot told me, great just got to keep on stacking the problems
Mike with his shotgun returned the favor. I continued firing my SMG as more innies came around the corner.
" We got more contacts, lots of contacts." Mike screamed jumping behind cover. The security turrets finally overheated, from firing so many rounds. When I ran out of ammo for my smg, I grabbed an MA5B off a dead Innie, I ducked behind cover, I checked the ammo counter, nice 60 round magazine my favorite. I popped out and unleashed hell alongside Mike who pulled out his pistol, killing a few innies.
" Team 2!! get the minister back to the safe room!!" Vaesli yelled. The 4 remaining guards retreated back with the minister in tow.
One of the Guards shoved the president back into cover" Minister!! Get down ahhh!!" he said, only to be shot. " Provide covering fire for team 1!!" Vaseli yelled again. One of the innies rushed over to chase after them. Oh no you don't. I rushed out of cover and tackled the Innie onto the ground I grabbed my combat knife and yanked his helmet off and stabbed him in the neck. Great this guy just has a Swastika tattoo on his face nice."
Disgusted, I pulled out my assault rifle and started firing on the remaining innies.
" Man fuck this, DIE YOU UNSC LAPDOGS!!" An innie screamed pulling out two grenades, charging forward. " Mike!!" I yelled.
" Don't worry I got him." He responded. With his magnum he put a round through him. Both the grenades dropped into a fiery explosion killing any unlucky rebels that were too close.
" Push up!!" I yelled. The remaining innies then started pulling back , we pushed forward securing the corridor.
"Team 2 get the minister back to the safe room!!" Vaseli yelled he turned to the rest of us. " Simpson, Sanchez, Yuri, go forward" He ordered. The three of us went down the corridor, we turned the corner and were immediately met with fire. The four went back to cover. We were stacked up against the wall, the Innies kept on suppressing us. I took out a flashbang and tossed it,
" Flashba– ahh!!" One rebel yelled. The four us jumped out of cover and easily gunned down the blinded Innies. However more of them came, and we were in another ensuing gunfight. We took positions on both sides of the corridor, " Yuri can you close those blast doors!!" I yelled.
" I can't the controls are damaged!!" He yelled back.
Hi sighed in annoyance. " Dot, can you close those doors!!" I asked reloading my rifle.
" That is not going to matter we are going to crash in 10 seconds." She calmly told me
" Wha–" a huge thud cut me off, and everything started going to shit, I heard a huge tearing nose and I realized that half the ship was tearing part.
" HANG ONTO SOMETHING" Mike yelled. The ship rocked, and the Innies started panicking. I watched as the other half of the ship ripped apart as we skid a long the plains of the planet. I hung onto the cover I was behind trying my best not to get sucked out. I saw a couple of the rebels fall of the ship, poor basterds but not really, fascist shitheads. Debris went everywhere when we were crashing down. I looked over and saw Yuri and Mike desperately hanging on as well.
I looked up and and saw a piece of debris heading towards us
" Look ou–" The metal piece slammed into us knocking me out.
Several moments later
Ahh man everything hurt I opened my eyes and I was surrounded by what remained of the ship debris littered the grounds with spots of fire and broken wires. The wreckage that hit us fell out. What was revealed was the planet of Eridanus. It was snowing heavily. I heard some tussling in the back causing me to turn my head around. It was Vaseli a little bit banged up. He was holding his side.
" Get up Hell jumper we need to find the minister." He said. He pulled me up to my feet. I saw that Yuri and Mike were starting to wake. Vaseli rushed over to help Yuri up he was just as badly battered as well. I grabbed a Ma5 off the ground
" Corporal Baker you alright?" Dot asked.
" I seen better days, can I get a sit rep Dot." I asked the Ai.
" We crash-landed on Eridanus." She told me.
" I know that, what about Trevor and Miranda?" I asked with concern
" Miranda was able to escape via lifeboat, I am detecting Travis's signature outside the ship" She responded.
I sighed in relief and walked over to Mike and helped him up. " You alright bro?" I asked with concern. He nodded. " My head is killing me I think I got a concussion." He told me. That's not good.
" Hey man were Hell Jumpers we been through worse." I told him.
" Yeah, still hurts though." He responded.
" Hey you two get a move on." Vaseli ordered. Well duty calls.
We followed the commander through the wrecked ship, the elevators rendered useless, We past by the occasional dead body of Innies and Loyalists alike. We went down a hole to the bottom if the ship that lead us out.
I was met with a sight of Loyalists desperately trying to regroup with many injured on the ground with the few medics trying their best to ease the pain. I then spotted Travis helping the ministers daughter she was freezing.
One of the guards grabbed a blanket and wrapped it around her.
" Travis you alright?" I asked him.
He turned to me and nodded. " I am fine but we are in deep shit we need to send a SOS back to the UNSC." He told me.
" Yeah, Dot can set out a distress signal?" I asked her.
"I can but it will take some time for the UNSC to respond." She told me. A nice way of saying we are fucked.
Our local commes then flared up.
" All teams, this is team 1 the minister's safety is in danger we got multiple contacts closing in!!" The Loyalist screamed.
" Baker, Sanchez we need to move!! The rest of that can fight on me!! Travis stay with the minister's daughter get her to a secure location and rendezvous with the wife!!" Vaseli ordered.
I pulled the Ai chip, and handed it to my squadmate. " Take Dot with you see if you can send another SOS." I told him.
He took it and inserted it into his helmet. " Make sure to come back alive." He told me.
" No promises." I joked back.
" Baker we need to move!!" Mike yelled. I nodded and moved up, I looked behind me and saw Travis a long side 3 guards disappear into the tree line. Mika and I moved forward with Vaseli and his men. Passing us were a few wounded being carried away. I looked up and saw another guard with a SMG searching around. A piece of metal then fell down revealing a rebel, but before he could shoot the guard unloaded into him, well he is dead.
We kept pushing forward, finally I heard gunfire. We moved into position using the debris as cover, time to get to work. We pushed forward with relative ease. We dealt with what remained of the boarding party.
Mike and I gradually chipped away at their numbers until.
" Warning drop pods incoming." Dot said over commes.
" Are they friendly?" I asked.
" Negative no UNSC signatures detected." She responded. Well this sucks. And just like she said multiple drop pods landed the doors shot off and out came out ODSTs, wait what? Yeah I am just as confused as you are, accept I noticed a certain innies symbol on their armor.
" Damn Innies got our armor!!." Mike yelled enraged.
Yeah, only true helljumpers get to wear that. Vaseli and his men stunned at Innie ODSTS, quickly regained their composure and immediately started firing.
The Innies shot back but they were far more deadly than the previous soldiers we faced. The battle was only just started and Vaseli's men started to dwindle. Mike and I did our best to cut our losses but we were simply outgunned and outnumbered more drop pods came, and the more the Innies laid the hurt on the loyalists.
" Baker, we need to end this quickly!!" He yelled.
Despite our losses, we pushed through a bullet ricocheted off my helmet I rolled into cover. I immediately spotted the shooter I returned fire killing him. I walked up to the corpse " You don't deserve that armor." I said spitting on him.
Mike tossed a grenade. It exploded killing five their armor no match for it.
" Baker" Mike screamed.
I turned to his direction and he tossed me an LMG. I put my rifle on my back and looked at the machine gun, belt fed this should make things easier.
We continued with Vaselis's men taking heavy losses, but I returned the favor thanks to the machine gun, only handful of the rival ODSTS remained. Mike rushed forward with his shotgun making quick work of them with the help of Yuri, once they were all dead, We kept pushing through and we finally laid eyes on the minister who was pinned down. I opened fire with my LMG massacring the unaware Innies.
" Minister is secured." Vaseli said over the radio.
Out of nowhere a pelican then came into view and started to land. " Where is my wife and daughter?!!" He asked.
" They are being secured sir but right now we need to get you to safety!!." Vaseli said taking him to the back of the Pelican alongside a few others.
I followed behind them but when the back doors opened, we were ambushed by innies. One of them shot me with a shotgun knocking me down, Mike and the Loyalists were cut down Yuri got shot in the neck, I watched in horror as Vaseli was shot down. He desperately crawled to his weapon but was then shot in the head. The minister looked on in shame seeing the commander get killed. I turned my attention to what I assumed to be the leader, who had a beret on.
"Dot, save my feed and send it to ONI." I coughed out.
" Got it Corporal Baker." She responded.
Two Neo-nazis grabbed the Minister by the arms to introduce him to their leader. The man had multiple scars and was average in height, from what I could see had dark hair and looked to be Eastern European.
" You know who I am?" He said with great authority.
" I do" the minister responded.
The leader then evilly smiled " Then you know exactly what I want, give me its location." He said.
The minister scoffed. " You are a mad man, you have any idea what you are messing with, you will kill more than the Covenant ever did."
" Perhaps, but regardless tell me its location." He added.
The Minister shook his head " You will never get it" He answered.
" Every man has his weakness find the girl." The Innie leader ordered.
More ships then followed and Pelicans. Two Rebels shoved the president forward into the back of the ship. " All teams Mother and daughter secured I repeat mother and daughter secure." My commes went up.
The leader then looked down staring at me aw crap, he kicked off my helmet, there was so much coldness in his eyes was he even human?
The man gripped his pistol and pointed it at me well this is it, and pulled the trigger.