Dude, i love matthew.

Thanks a bunch.

:D

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sp4rt4n:

I am a fine gentleman, im not going to lie.

iEchoic:

The last upgrade should allow them to shoot ninjas out of their flamethrowers.

GT-BaNiishED

Chapter 9

August 31, 2552 In Center of Town 50 klicks from Olympic Tower 2000

After the huge fight with the covenant in the center hill of the Town of Reach Usenski walked around policing the dead bodies of marines and covenant alike. He scavanged some ammo and a couple of HE grenades from a duffel bag off a dead marine. He took the marines tag name and went on with his search for supplies. The numerous engagments withthe covenant forces had crippled the rendezvous company of marines that were sent to help the retreating soilders. It was kind of ironic that they were saved by the soilders they were sent to help.

Then again Usenski thought they did have five spartans to help them and that evened the playing field for the UNSC ground forces by a lot. His thoughts were broken in by the corporal that he fought with to push up the hill.

"Hey meeting in five the Major and lieutenant want to talk about something.", informed the corporal.

"Thanks I'll be there in four, see you.", with that Usenski continued his search for supplies. He picked up a fully loaded SOCOM he emptied the clip and slid it his pouch for ammo. He went on with the search. He picked up a few more grenades, a couple of flashbangs, and a demolitions kit. This would come in use Usenski thought. He looked at the timer in his HUD and saw that he had only one minute and thirty seconds to high tale it back uphill and meet up with the rest of the company.

Usenski walked inside the building the charlie platoon marines gave him a nod of respect for helping them out. There were a good five or six hundred of them. Marines sitting together or alone. Major Ron walked up and began his talk with the marines this was a time for brainstorming and ideas for what they should do. Usenski walked up to the Major up on the third floor of the hollow building and waited for the Major and other high ranking soilders to come out of the meeting room. He sat down and waited.

Some good ten minutes later the doors opened and Major Ron, his lieutenant, some other high ranking officers, and five spartans walked out.

"Usenski what are you doing here?", asked Mthe Major.

"I would like to speak with you, Major?", asked Usenski. The spartans stood their while the other officers left to be escorted back to the ONI building that Usenski saw earlier on the outskirts of town by the Highland Mountains.

"Go on speak your mind son." replied Mojor Ron

"Sir I could not find my team permission to start a search party?", Usenski asked. The Major pondered the question and then came his answer.

"The spartans are going to go look for survivors at the rendezvous point they said that there are spartans still left by the rendezvous with some soilders that stayed behind to fight for a little bit longer and help hold off the main covenant ground advancment." the Major told Usenski

"Permission to come with them?", asked Usenski.

"Permission granted.", saluated the Major.

"Major before you leave to go to the ONI building I have one more question.", Usenski spoke as the Major was heading for the flight of stairs.

"Ask away Usenski you have earned it.", said the Major.

"Where was our help that we needed when the covenant were all converging on us?", asked Usenski. The Major signaled him to come over to him.

"The covenant presence on the hill was greater then I anticipated all three streets had a very large presence of covenant ground troops if it wasn't for the rendezvous team getting here to help us we wouldn't be here.", whispered the Major as he said rendezvous team he jerked his head towards the spartans. Usenski understood what the Major was implying and thanked him for an honest answer. Usenski saluted the Major and walked over to the spartans. He knew that ODST's despised spartans for what had happened twenty-five years ago. He personally liked the spartans they were respectful honest soilders that did what they were told and did it well too. As he walked towards the spartans he heard them talking.

"Reach isn't going to last much longer UNSC lost the space engagement and we are stuck here, by tomorow the covenant are going to come down hard to the surface and begin glassing it just like the other colonies.", the spartan gazed at the lone ODST that was standing there by them. Usenski felt the spartan was watching him through the gold visor. They turned to him.

"May we help you with something?", asked the first spartan with a determined tone.

"You saved my life sir, I would just like to thank you for it that is all.", replied Usenski. The spartan nodded.

"Anytime.", was the reply of the spartan. Usenski felt aquirt talking to the spartans, but repected them enough to break the wierd barrier between him and the super soilders.

"I hear you guys are going to go back to the rendezvous point to help the forces there, would you guys minded if I tagged along?", asked Usenski.

"Yeah we wouldn't mind the extra help.", the voice of a women filled the air and Usenski saw the spartan in the back talking to him.

"We leave in an hour, you can inform anyone that wants to come also to meet us by the North side of the hill. We are departing soon.", the spartans after informing him with detailed information on where to be and when left to go prepare. Usenski walked down the stairs. He met up with Matthew and the rest of Charlie platoon. He informed them and asked them if they wanted to help them. Matthew, seargeant Addison, and the rest of the marines were up for it, even the two wounded marines wanted to come. As they left to go prepare

he overheard one of the marines saying, "Fighting alongeside ODST's and Spartans some of the best soilders in the Galaxy, I actually feel sorry for the covenant." with that the marine and his buddy laughed and then were heard no more. Usenski was in his ODST Body Suit, the suit provided protection and increased egility and endurence to a point. He like his suit it had lasted him almost all his ten years of fighting in it. Their was only one problem he did not like about it. After prolonged use it became unbarable to wear and he had to take it off. He took of his suit laid it down neatly next to him inside the building. Put all his weapons away neatly. Afterwards when everything was neat and clean he put his head up against the wall and closed his eyes.

"Wake up Usenski!", was the response of seargeant Addison. Usenski's eyes shot open he looked around wildly looking for something to shoot. When he was satisfied he was safe he calmed down.

"Scared you didn't I?", luaghed Addison. Usenski luaghed with him and gave him a fist on his shoulder which meant "in all good fun".

"You did we better go get ready.", replied Usenski. After suiting up and turning his battle scared Body Suit on he picked up his weapons strapped them up. He then checked his BIO to make sure he was ready for another mission. It read that he was yellowish green. His shoulder bothered him, but not enough to keep him from looking for his team. He checked the rest of his BIO it read that he had second degree burns on his shoulder, his knuckles, torn calf, and broken foot were close to being fully healed. He looked into his ruck sack pulled one of the three biofoem cans he had, and wasted the one that was half empty on his calf and foot. He applied special ointment designed to relieve plasma burns on his shoulder and wrapped his shoulder up. He then suited back up. He put his demolitions kit he found in the ruck sack. He put the medickit away and stood up.

He ran with seargeant Addison and the corporal that he had fought with to the North side of the hill. Usenski saw that Matthew was already sitting with the other marines setting up equipment. He waved a hello to Usenski and Addison. The spartans had got some transportation for their trip to the rendezvous point. Three transport warthogs enough for twenty-three people and two regular warthogs for themselves.

"Shotgun!", yelled Usenski. Seargeant Addsion was to slow to call it.

"Oh dang it!", screamed seargeant Addison.

In the end after debating who got shotgun in the troop hogs it was Usenski, the corporal, and Matthew who were riding shotgun. They set out towards the North to help at the rendezvous point. Usenski put his head up against the seat and fell asleep. An hour and a half later he was woken up by Aaron. Usenski shook the sleep off and unpolarized his helmet it was cloudy and moody. In the distance where the Olympic Tower once stood was now a huge covenant ship bristling with plasma blue.

"Hey what happened to the Tower?", asked Usenski. Looking into the distance where there was a pile of rubble.

"It got hit just no less then twelve hours ago.", replied one of the spartans. Usenski had an idea if the tower was destroyed his team must come back to the rendezvous point and he could meet with them.

The outskirts of the town instead of forest was now half glass and huge covenant ships were floating in the distance.

"We have less time now.", yelled one of the spartans. Usenski looked out in the barren fields of glass, pine, and wood. There were marines and troops running along them. Retreating towards the rendezvous point. In a few minutes they set up the warthogs and buckled down with the rest of the rendezvous battalion. There were two highways into the city that ran paralel to the ground he say the sun setting in front of him. The highways were now orange. He saw specks of marines running towards the town. They parked their warthogs.

Usenski jumped out and ran a little forward. Seargeant Addison rallied the marines and gave them a speech about what to fight for. Matthew looked through his S99-C2 sniper and kept the spartans updated on the covenants movements. He searched with his BR55 scope for any sign of his team. They were parked on top of the huge hill that started from the center of the town and smoothly expanded in all directions. Usenski and the rest of the charlie platoon ran down and saw the defense they had against the covenant. Main battle tanks, hornets that were stationed on the ground, pelicans, nailed down guess turrets, M19 surface to air rocket launcher, and other support weapons.

He looked in the distance and saw an enormous covenant carrier drop a grav-lift by one of the highways and begin to deploy troops.

"Lets get down there and help those soilders hold off the covenant!", yelled one of the spartans

Usenski couldn't agree more

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Chapter 10

August 31, 2552 Two Import Highways Outskirts of Town. 50 klicks from Olympoc Tower 2400

Usenski got a ride to the second defense line of the highway where some troops where there to hold the line. There where seven defensive line on each highway. Usenski was on the second one that was going to get hit. He watched through his HUD while troops were running down the hihway and into safety. The highway curved up to the Town. The troops from Olympic Tower defense were running to the first defensive line. Usenski activated his zoom and went five times zoom and looked down the highway he thought he saw a glimpse of one of his squad members in the first defensive line. He watched as two spartans ran to the first defensive line with liquid grace they looked like they came back from hell itself. The spartans had been returning from the Olympic Tower that had been vaporized.

Usenski kept watching as marines and ODST's from down the highway filled in the defensive lines. There were two platoons per line of defense a good hundred or so troops. The closer the covenant got to the outskirts the more platoons they had to face for you see it started at two platoons at the first defensive line and then went three at the second and four at the third. It went on like that to the outskirts, which had at least a battalion of troops waiting all with missle pods, all three varients of rocket luanchers, M247 general purpose machine guns, AIE Heavy machineguns, mounted flamethrowers, rocket turrets, a dozen warthogs, hornets for transportation, Three main battle tanks in the back protected by buildings, even the brand new Nonlinear rifles(spartan lazers) were being used to help out against the vehicals.

Usenski was with eight squads of marines on the edge of the highway. He was with a squad of ODST's like him who sported BR55's, and some rocket luanchers. Their cover was a mixture of sandbags, broken civilian vehicals, and warthogs with gunners on them. The covenant would have to fight tooth and claw for every inch they pushed. Usenski mounted the M247 machinegun and atached the barrel with the belt fed rounds in it, cocked the mechinism and looked outward towards the cruisor. It dropped its troop through the grav-lift. Usenski flinched as the first thing it dropped was a scarab that stood there for a moment before turning to them and began to walk forward. Usenski watched as the cruisor dropped in wraiths, ghosts, and two battaions of troops who all wanted to rip them apart.

"Stand by, we set a little surprize for the covenant on our way here to the rendezvous point!", said a spartan that was part of the first defensive line. Usenski activated his zoom on his helmet and watched. A HAVOK nuclear warhead went off behind the covenant ship right by its backside. The covenant cruisor was engulfed halfway by the Nuclear device. The cruisor dropped its shields to drop the troops. There was a second detonation of the covenant cruisor went it hit the ground killing all of its troops that it just dropped a moment ago. Usesnki cheered as did the other marines.

A covenant carrier that was lured in by the explosion began to close in on the location of the redezvous point. Usenski held his breath. He knew that the carrier all it had to do was glass them from excistence. He waited as the carrier began to bristle with plasma. He waited as the carrier was about to fire it was now closer then the cruisor that has just been destroyed. The carrier was a good five kilometers away. Usenski waited for his demise a ship this size could wipe out three UNSC frigates with ease and probably more.

"Don't worry marines we planted a few more surprizes for the covenant!", the same spartan that just detonated the HAVOK was talking. Usenski watched as the covenant carrier started its deadly lance of plasma it. The beam started its way from two kilometers away, then another explosion went off and the carrier sputtered and lost altitude as a Fury tactical Nuke went off. The covenant carrier had dropped its shields to fire for a split second and that was all the spartans needed to detonate it. The carrier was crippled Usenski saw this as its beam dispersed and the carrier struggled to stay airborne. Another Fury went off and finished the job. The carrier was envolped in a blast and then head first crashed into the ground of Reach. It stayed nose first in the ground for two of Usenski's heart beats and then was gone in its own explosion.

No more ships approached the rendezvous point. They did not dare risk their ships. Usenski thought about it, but he knew that the spartans had pulled through and saved them all. If it wasn't for them he wouldn't be here. The three carriers other carriers parked right out of the distance of the the last few Furies that the spartans had placed and began to to lower their gav-lifts. Three scarabs and hundreds of banshees filled the air and began to approach the troops. Six thousand troops were being deployed by the three carriers. Usenski watched in horror as the juggernuat army approached. The marines stood at three battalions. The covenant stood six battalions with air support and vehicle support.

"We are not using anymore Fury's if we use them the covenant carriers will get close and glass us!", yelled the spartan over the COM. Usenski watched as the Scarabs approached the terrified marines of the first line. There were spartans there he knew, but how could three spartans in that first line hold against the banshees and scarabs. He saw the spartans take command of hornets that were giving them a lift. The scarabs targeted them. The banshees were still closing in, but a good two kilometers away. He saw as one of the passanger side spartans jumped off the hornet a good three hundred feet above the scarab.

Usenski watched in shock as did the other marines. The spartans in the passanger seats maganed to board two scarabs, and the one in the cockpit managed to crash the now crippled hornet into the last scarab. A few minutes went by and the scarabs stopped moving all together. Then they looked as they were rebooted and now under UNSC spartan control. They all turned back towards one of the carrier and fired their beams all on one. The carrier shield's burned with white as they held against the devastating beams of the scarabs. They failed and the beams tore the carrier apart. It exoloded midair as the beams hit its reactor. Banshee fliers were falling from the sky like flys the explosion had knocked them out of the air.

The other two carriers shield glowed from the explosion. One of the carrier's shields gave and disappered the spartan controlled scarabs took no time to target it cut it through it. The second carrier detonated and exploded in a firey wake. The last carrier fired a beam that burned one of the moving scarabs. The scarabs two left legs exploded and it fell on its weak side. The other two already began firing at the carrier. As the carrier fired the spartans knew that it had dropped it's shields. They fired at it and cut into it's reactor. The shields popped back into place, but not before the ship spun out of control and headed straight for the spartan scarabs.

Usenski knew that the spartans were dead if they didn't move. He watched a pelican whiz past him. It was by the two spartan scarabs in no time.

"Spartans get on my bird if you want to live!!", yelled a crazy pilot that was retreaving the spartans. Usenski zoomed on the scarabs. He saw the two scarabs had spartans standing on top of them. They quickly boarded the pelican. The pelican flew by the downed scarab and opened its hatch. Usenski watched as the spartan limped out of the downed scarab and jump on the pelican. The carrier was closing in fast. a fury went of in the distance. The carrier detonated before it reached the marines, about three kilometers out. Usenski saw that the pilot was having trouble controling the bird. He watched as it spun out of control and began to lose alititude. He saw the spartans jump from the pelican with the pilot. They deployed their parachutes and floated down by the forth defensive line. He watched as the pelican violently crashed in the mass of covenant troops that wee running down the highway. Usenski knew he was in for one hell of a fight, but at least now it was and even fight. If you count being even when fighting against six thousand pissed off covenant troops with armor and banshee support.

 

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You can't play halo wars until you see this video
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars
I've been perma-banned at bungie.net :(

Chapter 11

August 31, Two Import Highways outskirts of Town 0300

Usenski and The squad he was with watched as the wraiths hit the first line of defense and took out a warthog and three marines next to it. A second later a rocket streak was seen from the first defensive line and impacted directly where the hatch of the wraith was the wraith armor melted away and the elite inside was obliterated in a firey wake. Usenski saw the covenant troops engaging and trying to push foreward. Even with armor support and banshees flying over head the covenant advance on the UNSC was slow becuase of the well fortified line. Usenski was watching with his zoom what was going on as sniper shots cracked and rang all around him. The first defensive line was struggling Usenski could see this as three hunter pairs approached them and fired killing three warthogs and a squad of marines. Banshee fliers zoomed over the first defensive line in a v formation. Surface to air M19 rocket launchers flew into the first v formation. The first four banshees got hit and turned into flying wrecks. They exploded and took the rest of the first v formatino banshees with them. Usenski loosened up a bit he thought maybe the could hold out for another couple of minutes more.

"Fall Back Now!!", yelled a spartan over the COM. Usenski watched as the marines were being overwealmed by the covenant forces. The marines from the first lin ran full sprint to try to make it back to the second line. There were also warthogs that were falling back. The warthogs stopped a good round of banshees with their LAAG's. A lucky stray banshee fuel rod hit a warthog and it flipped. The warthog next to it got a melted tire and began to lose grip on the road and spun out of control. The marines of the first defensive line were being picked of by the now persuing covenant ground forces.

"Second line detonate those charges to give those marines a breathing space!", yelled the one of the spartans in the back of the fourth defensive line. Usenki watched a huge sun appear on the highway. It enveloped most of the covenant like the grunts, jackals, and elites. The behemoth hunter pairs turtled and advanced through the fire inferno. The stray marines that were running towards the second line were picked up on the warthogs. Warthogs that were designed to seat three had a good eight people on them riding back to the second line.

The covenant approached the second line Usenski kept an eye on them as he gripped his M247. A fleet of warthogs with injured marines made it back to the second line and stopped and parked sideways for more cover. They evacuated the injured back on the troop hogs they had left. Another round of banshees came closer to the second line almost in rage to open up on them. Rockets fled there tubes and collided with the second and third rounds of banshees and the air threat was no more, at least for now. A covenant Spirit dropped some more Covenant at the now destroyed first defensive line. A spirit made the mistake of getting to close to the second line and a rocket flew it and hit it dead on its side the spirit crashed into the ground and killed all of its passengers as well.

Usenski watched as a fleet of Spirits flew to try to drop off reinforcments. They paid the price as a volly of rockets hit them as they tried to drop of their troops. Ten minutes later the covenant gave up on dropping reinforcments of with spririts. There was Usenski saw now a graveyard of a good twenty spirits on the intertining highways. The covenant blew up the obstacle of spirits and began to advance again. Usenski watched as they approached closer and closer. He bagan to hear them howling for their blood. Usenski wasn't scared of this pathetic display he was ready to fight, readty to kill.

Usenski removed the barrel that was once full of amunition. The covenant first tried a bum rush of suicidal grunts with explosives strapped to them. That turned out to be a enormous failure as they exploded hundred of yards away from the second defensive line. Then they tried a slow advance of jackals that overlapped shields. They were dead before they got within one hundred fifty yards from the second line. Now Usenski thought as he fired his turret they were trying ghost. Usenski's turret ripped through two ghosts and they exploded. He went on to targeting the ghosts he didn't want to fire when they were to far so he waited till they were in range of his turret and let the bullets fly.

The ghosts fell pray to the rockets, LAAG's of the warthogs, turrets, and snipers of the second defensive line. All of a sudden two suns detonated on two warthogs and took several squads with them. Usenski turned in horror as he looked at where the squad of ODST's were standing just a moment ago. Nothing left except for one lone ODST. He ran up next to Usenski and his turret. He picked up a rocket as he came running to the cover of the sandbags.

"Names Ace it's just you and me now man!", he said as he plopped down beside Usenski who was turning a now couragous rank of jackals into piles of roadkill on the road.

"Usenski, nice to see a fellow ODST!", Usenski screamed over the beautiful sound of his M247 machine gun as it turned three lances of grunts and their elite masters into heaping piles of flesh.

"Say could you do something about those wraiths down the highway?", asked Usenski to the now trigger happy ODST avenging his fallen squad and brothers.

"Yeah I only have two rockets left thought!", replied Ace. He launched a rocket that screamed out of its tube and into the wraith eight hundred yards away. A overcharged plasma hit Ace in his gut and boiled away some plating.

"*** covenant!", he screamed as the last rocket escaped the tube. As Usenski helped Ace up the rocket detonated killing four lances of grunts as the wraith overloaded and erupted into a blue sun.

"Nice shot!", complimented Usenski as he help Ace rise to one knee. Ace nodded switched to a MA5C and began to tear covenant up who were foolish enough to approach his side of the cover. Usenski's turret clicked empty six minutes later.

"I'm out!", yelled Usenski as he pulled his trusty BR55 and began to pop heads of jackals and grunts. A stealth elite had approached Usenski from the side it popped its energy sword withing a few feet of Usenski. The ODST was looking the other way as he fired upon a red elite and killed it with a last shot to the head. Usenski popped his clip out and began to replace it as the elite raised its sword for the kill.

"Watch out!", Was the cry of Ace turning to see the elite raise its sword. Usenski was still reloading and was trying to draw his AutoMag. Ace slammed his rifle into the back of the elite. He hit its spine and without pausing to bring his rifle all the way back into firing position let the rounds of his MA5C tear through the elites back he didn't stop as he turned without letting go of the trigger at a charging minor elite. The wall of bullets slammed into the startled elite. Rounds ripped the sapphire elite till it bled purple. Ace dropped his clip as he hid behind the destroyed warthog and reloaded. He took a breath.

"I owe you Ace!", Usenski thanked Ace as he crouched up into a firing position and began firing. For another five minutes the covenant fouth to try to get to the two ODST's, but had no luck as they were either blown up by their grenades or torn apart by their rifles.

"We got to move!", screamed Usenski as he fired into a minor elite that collapsed a couple of feet to where they had been standing. Usenski loaded his last clip into his BR55. Ace finished off a lance of grunts and a major elite before reloading and turning to run with Usenski.

"I've got your back Usenski lets roll!", he spoke with revenge in his voice. They primmed grenades and ran. They saw the covenant were now ripping the marines and ODST's alike of the second line.

"Lets move it!", Usenski yelled to the marines and ODST's as he and Ace killed a rank of jackals with grenades and finished the unshielded elites who were standing to close to the jackals when the nades went off. There were no warthogs to help them make it back to the third defensive line. They had to run it on foot. Ace suggested a plan with the remaining forces of the second line.

"We ask for armor support and when they fire their shells we run, and in between shots we stop and fight!", he spoke to the troopers.

"Spartans get ready to blow the charges at second line and give us armor support as we run back!", Usenski screamed into the COM. If they did not hurry they would surely die. Ace just finished another elite major off with his clip and reloaded. He looked at Usenski and nodded. Ace was ready to run. The charges went off and the covenant were stalled for a minute in the sun of the explosion. As Ace and Usenski ran shells flew from thousands of yards away penetrating and killing ranks upon ranks of the advancing covenant. The shells stopped so did the troops of the second line. Usenski looked they were only four hundred yards away from the third line. He turned to see as a squad of marines were enveloped in a blue sun.

The covenant had armor suppost to. This was bad as Usenki ran with the remaing troops as shells hit the covenant troops behind him. Usenski turned with Ace and fired upon a Ultra elite who managed ride on his ghost all the way to them. Usenski saw that the elite ghost got flipped by a shell, but not destroyed. It roared a challange as it approached the two ODST's. It held a plasma rifle in its left hand and the energy sword in its left. Usenski knew it was just him and Ace against this Ultra the troopers of the second line were still running to the second defensive line.

"Lets kill this ***!", screamed Ace as he sprayed the Ultra elite. Usenski remebered the horror of when an Ultra killed five vetern marines. He wasn't going to die today. He screamed and fired with his last three bursts from his rifle. The weight of bullets slowed the elite but did not stop it. Its shields were still up. It was close enough to tear them apart with its sword. It fired rounds with great accuracy. Usenski Body suit was bathed in plasma that boiled away. His shoulder was now raw and reopened. Ace took some hits to the chest, but did not let up as the plasma boiled away his body suit chest plate as well.

Usenski BR55 clicked impty he knew he had to go hand to hand. Ace was still firing his clip into the elite as it came closer. As the Ultra raised its sword to cut Ace who was still firing wildly. Usenski knew he had to go close to save his fellow ODST. He ran up to the elite and threw out a bash with the butt of his rifle Ace who was now empty as well did the same. As the elite swung down a sniper shot tore into its sword hand. It roared in pain as its shields failed and its sword arm was blown clean off. Ace and Usenski both tackled it the the ground in unison. Usenski pulled out his trusty SOCOM AutoMag, and Ace pulled his M6J carbine variant of the M6D magnum. This M6J was more rifle then magnum and the unfortunant elite got to test the power of it as it tore into its head. Usenski's SOCOM and Ace's M6J tore into the Ultras brain and silenced it for good.

"Your lucky I saved your asses!", a voice said over the COM, it was Matthew's.

"Thanks!", replied Usenski.

"We could of handled him!", Ace bluffed over the COM.

"Sure!", laughed Matthew over the COM. As Usenski and Ace sprinted to their destanation of the third defensive line Usenski heard

"Banshees, watch it we can't fire our rockets because they could hit you two!", the spartan spoke over the intercome. Usenski woundered how spartans could keep their cool so well here in the thick of battle.

"RUN!", screamed a familer voice over the COM. A hundred feet was the distance for them to sprint. Usenski took three plasma shots in the back. One got his leg, the other two burned away what little plating was left on his shoulder blade and seared into the skin. Usneski held in his scream of pain. There was only anger now. He turned around mid-run and began to fire on the inclosing banshees with his MS7 sub machinegun in his right hand, and with his left he pulled his SOCOM out. Round ripped into the wingmans gravity pod and he crashed into another banshee and both fell on the ground yards away from Usenski. Usenski fired at the banshee that did not pull up and approached him, it fired its deadly twin plasma cannons. Usenski felt his boots on fire from being near the plasma as he backpeddled, his quad was hit with two archs of plasma. He screamed, but did not stop firing.

The banshee erupted in flames, but managed to realise a fuel rod bolt. Usenski saw this turned on his good leg and sprinted with all the might his burnt body would let him. He was thirty feet away when he felt a wave of heat hit him and he was flung into the air twenty feet by the blast. He landed on a broken warthog and bounced a up again. He landed with a terrifing thud. He was laying on his side and watching the third line of defense as they fought the banshees and tryed to get to him. His visor had a deep crack in it that ran from the top left corner to the bottom left. He saw blood on his visor as well. Was it his he thought. He saw Ace, Matthew, seargeant Addison, and even the spartans fighting to get to him. He even saw his teammates fighting to get to him. He thought he was begining to hullucinate. He began to feel cold. he lifted his hand up and tried to reach to the third line and where everyone was trying to get to him.

He began to try to crawl towards the line. He mustered all the effort he could. He saw as the whole third line began to push forward to try to get to him. He pushed as hard as he could, but then collapsed face first into the ground. He couldn't move. He had no energy. He felt as he was being picked up and thrown over the shoulder of a green gaint. He pulled his SOCOM out its holister and raised his head with the last bit of energy he had. He began to fire towards the covenant. He hit a three grunts in the head, two jackals, and with the last of his clip and strength he dropped a elite major which had its shields down from seargeants addison's shotgun. He then fell limp over the spartans shoulder.

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You can't play halo wars until you see this video
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars
I've been perma-banned at bungie.net :(

Its getting better and better.

Keep it up.

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UnfairBanana:

...If only there was a button I could push that punches faces through the internet...then I'd be happy lol

Yeah i agree, this is the best one yet.

Cant wait to see what happens.

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sp4rt4n:

I am a fine gentleman, im not going to lie.

iEchoic:

The last upgrade should allow them to shoot ninjas out of their flamethrowers.

GT-BaNiishED

This message is directed at the author, due to PM's crashing and not sending i find them no longer reliable.

I wish to know a few things about your FF/Novel to make a Datbase thread in which new readers can find your FF/Novel Easly and quickly, and make sure its the story for them.

• Name of FF/Novel:
• Author
• What the story is ablout breifly:
• Mainly focused around what universe:
• What race is the story about? Eg: If the universe is halo then "Humans" or "Covenant"
• Story Genre:

If you could supply me with this basic in it would be a great help, Please both PM and publicly  post your answers please.

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Lazyfrog.us - For all things Halo Wars

December the 15'th, go here! ^^

JumpingJet: Administrator, Co-Founder

Chapter 12

August 31, 2552 Two Import Highways Outskirts of Town 0600

Corporal Jack Copper and the rest of the second line fought to reach Usenski before the covenant got to him. Jack looked at the marines, ODST's, and spartans around him fighting to get to Usenski. Jack fired his MA2B a cut down version of the MA5B. It was like the MA5B obsolete, but the reason why is because is Jack used shredder rounds instead of the regular .390 caliber ammunition. His trusty MA2B ripped through jackals, and grunts the same with satisfing crunching and spliting of bones. The spartans were ahead of everybody and killing elites, ghosts, jackals, grunts like they were dolls. Jack ran beside a warthog and with Ace killed a elite major and kept moving to try to reach Usenski while Matthew's sniper called out from behind the cover of the warthog they just passed by. The spartans were near the downed ODST, one picked him up and threw him over his shoulder and continued firing while running back. The others gave him covering fire.

Jack watched as covenant hunters lumbered past the heaping rubble of the banshees that Usenski destroyed. They were down the highway fifty yards or so. Jack ran back not taking his eyes of the massive hunters who overturned destroyed cars, trucks, and rubble. They were now thirty yards away while the hunters were still in hot persuit. The beasts were gaining on them when a spartan spun still backpeddling and fired his Nonlinear rifle. The laser hit the hunter dead on and it was split in half while still running, the other was missing half of its upper torso. The red glare of the laser was bright, but Jack did not look away he was running spraying his MA2B while watching. The laser in the distence hit through a wraith and then passed on and made a hole in a Spirit. The next few seconds were not filled with explosions only the scream of the covenant as the UNSC bullets tore them. Then distant explosions rattled as the wraith overloaded and the spirit crashed into the floor exploding taking many covenant to their graves. The spartan kept running, but with a chuckle in his voice heard over the COM

"I gotta give it to those ONI intel they know how to make a weapon!', Jack spoke with deep respect for the spartan with his quivering voice filled with awe. Coporal Jack, seargeant Addison, Matthew, and Ace raced all the way back. Jack watched as the second line came closer and closer on his HUD. He saw the defense prepared for the covenant as he dove into cover. The covenant were going to pay, but before that he and seargent Addison moved behind a warthog and put their backs against it. Jack opened up Usenski's BIO's. They were flatlining or on the boarder of death. Jack got up grenade pinned and threw it into the advancing covenant ranks. Matthew and Ace were five yards to the right of them behind another car. Seargeant Addison stood upas the grenade detonated and fired his M90 shotgun the covenant were advancing and they were close now , very close. The seargeant ducked back down.

"On the count of three we leap up and throw grenades then we run like hell third line is done for!", yelled seargeant Addison with authority in his voice.

"Yes sir!!", was the reply unified response of the soilders in the third line even the spatans agreed. Jack ran hard when the grenades detonated behind him he heard screams. He sprinted as fast as his battle induced body would let. So did Ace, Matthew, and seargeant Addison. They made it to the third line panting and sweating in their armors. The spartans were there already planning on what to do next. Corporal Jack looked up and over the blockade of cement for marine designed covers. He watched in gratitude as the M808Bs or scorpion tanks bombared the covenant lanes and lines with shells. He turned back and walked up to the spartans who were tuning in their radio's.

"*** everything has been hit we have to fall back to the outskirts of the highland mountains it's our only chance!", spoke spartan two-five-nine with clear determintation in his voice to live.

"Yeah, but what about the others we can't leave them behind!", cut in spartan three-two-zero. Jack only new their ential three digits because of his HUD.

"Yeah that is true also, we have to go find them we'll take a couple of warthogs.", spartan two-five-nine with a pause. Spartan three-twenty walked back over to Usneski's heavily damaged body suit. She took out a medikit and began to treat him and his injuries as spartan two-fifty-nine continued.

"Alright here is the plan, we fall back to the rendezvous point, set off the nuke round operation with our FURY's, the marines and everyone else goes back to the ONI building on the other side of town, we go looking for other spartans who activated their beacon's we will track them where the signal transmitted last, then once we gathered as many spartans as we can find we go back and rendezvous with stronghold Highland that ONI building", spartan two-fifty-nine broadcasted over the COM he spoke with godlike authority over two thousand troops left. They listened and know one twictched even when the shells stopped raining. Everyone snapped back into gear.

"Pelicans come pick us up we are setting off the nukes and leaving!", spartan two-fifty-nine called over the COM with his voice of determination which only spartans had. Jack watched as the covenant advanced, but were shot down by the incoming birds. The pelican touched down ten yards away from Jack. He looked back one last time at the covenant controlled highway and ran to the back of the pelican and climbed on the hatch and buckled down. He set his rifle away and looked ready as he could. A bunch of ODST's entered the pelican all sitting down some standing because of not enough room. Ace and Matthew sat right next to Jack and seargeant Addison a seat beside Ace. Spartan three-twenty Jack saw carried Usneki's body into the pelican and sat down. She strapped the body into the seat beside seargeant Addison. She stood up and manned the turret that was nailed on the back of the pelican. Jack felt the pelican rise and turn. It then accelerated.

"Do you think he's going to pull through?", asked an ODST with sadness in his voice for a fallen comrade that fell in combat. Ace looked up, so did Matthew, and seargeant Addison. They had looks of uncertainty in their eyes.

"Yeah I know that marines tough as nails, of coarse he will!", replied seargeant Addison in a cheery voice that was covering the sadness.

"We all know he will!", said Matthew in a calm voice as he sniped covenant elites from the safety of the pelicans. Spartan three-twenty sprayed bullets from the back of the pelican. No one else spoke they just watched Matthew's sniping and spartan three-twenty's skills with the turret from far range. Matthew killed a good three elite minors, two majors, and an Ultra from the back of the Pelican before they touched down. While spartan three-twenty cleared dozens of the smaller covenant.

They hit ground and Jack grabbed Usenski's body along with the rest of the ODST's. They had respect for the ODST at least now Jack thought he could join his squad. Jack and the other ODST carried the body to a warthog. Jack sat in the troop hog waiting for the argument with the spartans came to a close and they could leave this rendezvous point before it was to late.

"We are fine with warthogs sir, we do not need a pelican and two warthogs!", spartan two-fifty-nine tried to persuade seargeant Addison that they really did not need the pelican.

"Nonsense!", insisted seargeant Addison. The other spartans tried to protest as well to support that they need not a pelican.

"Listen you guys are spartans and if you are going to go look for more spartans I suggest you take a faster and better way of traveling, we insist!", the seargeant had conviced the spartans to take the pelican. Although to Jack it sounded like he ordered them to take it. He looked over at Usenski's body which was wrapped in a thermal blanket. Ace and Matthew were sitting next to Jack in the warthog. They awaited for seargeant Addison to finsih debating with the spartans. The plan was simple they would blow the FURYs and began to head with the rest of the two battalions left to the ONI building. Seargenat Addison walked over to them.

"Alright girls we leave fifteen minutes before the two battelions to get a head start, because we have an injured marine.", seargeant Addison got into the drivers seat while Usenski was tied to the passengers seat. They began to ride off into the city. Twilight began to set in.

"Marines we are going to be arriving at the ONI building by 1200 hundred hours or at twelve midnight tonight.", seargeant Addison informed them.

"Well not if you drive like that!", boasted Ace. He laughed at the joke. So did everyone else in the warthog.

"Yeah sure like you can drive at all, you would probably flip us over!", laughed Matthew.

"Well yeah, but none of you guys can drive like I can.", Jack joked. Everyone was happy for the time being to mask the unpleasent effects of the war on them. The FURYs went off and a sound wave rippled through.Jack heard the sound wave pass by. Everyone in the car except Jack and seargeant Addison were asleep now. Jack tapped back into Usenski's BIO and checked them as the sound of the warheads disppersed and the town quieted. His BIO was a mess and very shaky he needed help. They were running out of time to save him. Every minute was a race.

"He'll pull through.", said seargeant Addison looking over to coporal Jack.

"Yeah I hope so.", replied Jack with a bitter tone. The air was not as crisp anymore on Reach. The warthog contiuned into the Town as the lights flickered into excestence. The warthog quietly zoomed past the streets and lights of the town.

 

 

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You can't play halo wars until you see this video
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars
I've been perma-banned at bungie.net :(

Chapter 13

August 31, 2552 Town of Reach unknown location 1000

The twenty-third battalion ran from the highway. They tried escaping in warthogs, pelicans, and mongooses. The covenant Spirits and Phantoms were now closing in on them. They cut off the front part of the battlion's only exit. The M808 battle tanks were burning and falling apart. One of the four tanks exploded. The covenant dropships dropped in the standard infantry, and new ones as well. The twenty-fourth battlion was massacered already. Nothing left, but bodies. The twenty-third battlion split apart in two, one tried to go left. The other right.

Private Feador Smith ran through the alleyway with his fellow ODST's. Two ODSTs fell from needler rounds lodged in their backs. Feador new he was going to die if he did not keep running. His only weapon left that was not destroyed or out was a covenant needler. He piveted on his left foot and fired with great accuracy on the encoming elites, and grunts. He aimed for a grunts Fuel Rod gun and fired needler rounds at it. They hit and radiation leaked and then blossomed into a green flower that set of plasma grenades and killed all covenant that were in the proximaty of the blast. He turned only to see a new Ape-like creature cleave his ODST bretheren with a gun with two blades on the edge. It saw him and ran at him, hoping for easy prey. He fired and screamed for his comrades the brute caught many needler rounds, but did not stop it drove its cleaves into his helmet it sparked and the blade was stuck in his helmet.

He watched as the blade cut his face and left a gash from eyebrow to down his cheek. He was in a huge rage he deactivated his helmet and slid out of it. The brute surprized by this roared and tried to pick him up. He rolled and picked up a fallen comrades combat knife he jumped up and drove the blade into the beast's eye. He screamed in glory as it sank deep and the brute went into a rage. It threw him off of him and ran at him. With the knife still in its eye. Feador didn't flinch he dove at the brute's feet and took him down. Playing football had payed off. He mounted the brute and grabbed the handle of the blade in the eye. He drove it so deep that he felt it slide past the brain and hit the ground on the other side. The brute registered the pain and twitched and died.

Feador stood up glancing around, he ripped the knife out the creature. He looked at the dead bodies of marines. He was boiling with rage more then plasma. He saw that marines were still running past the alleyway ten yards in front of him. Where he had been running to before. He ran without stopping picking up his helmet and putting it back on. He also picked up a random MS7, two grenades, and his helmet. He was still running the sound of his footsteps was unheard as the blood bath went on just outside the alleyway. He slipped on his helmet and sealed it it satisfied with a click and then the sound of his helmet as it compressed air tight on his neck. His helmet beeped one last time to make sure it was still operationable. He kept running his helmet with shattered visor on the left side of his helmet. Little glass shards were imbedded in his cheek. He reached the end of the alleyway, and turning to where the rest of the battlion was running followed suit.

The covenant were right on their tales with a many of baddies ready destroy them . As Feador ran he checked the MS7 he picked up there was still a full clip in it left. The needler had three more clips left. He kept up the pace he ran with beads of sweat trickling down his face , as the battle tried to catch him. He caught up to the troops of the battalion that were ahead. Actually the ones ahead were the only ones still left. Everyone else was being shot down and Feador knew it from the many screams that rang through his ears. He ran harder. He looked back quickly and saw ghosts and banshees closing in on them. He primmed a grenade it was hard to see with a hole in his visor the size of a tennis ball. He turned and lobbed a fast ball straight at a banshee in the sky his view of the battle was gruesome. He was still backpeddling mesmerized by the carnage the covenant enflicked on them.

The grenade exloded on contact with a banshee and took that banshee out and the one next to it. The banshees then crashed into a ghost and two brutes, and an elite. He did not care how much payback he got. All he knew he had to keep pushing, he surely could not die here. Besides he thought there will never be enough payback. Maybe only when the whole covenant was dead. He kept running when charges detonated behind him. He rolled to avoid the blast and shock wave. Stood back up. Looked at his body through his broken visor to check if he was green. Then proceeded to run. He ran for another fifteen minutes. His cheek was bleeding badly and he had to take of his helmet to not let blood get in his eyes. There were several other explosions. Even one of a FURY that was still back on the highway. They were right in the safe distance of three kilometers. The nuke had nutralized most of the persuing covenant. 

Feador sat down on the hood of a broken down car. He than began to clean out the blood off his cheek take out the glass, and than put medication on it. All that was left in his medikit was a can of biofoem, special medication to treat cuts and burns, and some medical bandages. He were doing extreamly bad on medical supplies. Feador managed to pick up some ammo from his fallen comrades, but only enough to last him through another ten minute battle maybe a bit longer. He was with a battle hardened war torn squad. He felt these were the best of the best that had made it though. All they had was three warthogs at their disposal and a tank.

Feador slipped on his helmet after satisfied that his wound was fine. He stood up looking around himself. Next to him sat some marines. They were all so weary from days and days of fighting. It was horrifing how long and hard they fought. It wasn't enough they killed many more than they lost, but when they losing  numbers that they were so few on already was devastating. He walked up to a sniper who was adjusting his S2AM sniper checking up on the covenant. None came.

"Sir, no pursuit we are in the clear, for now.", the soilder was speaking with a harsh rasp in his voice. Feador did not know from the fighting or an injury.

"Good job, Aaron keep me updated", yelled a Major who was missing his helmet. He looked weary and tired from the fatigue of battle. Feadore walked up to the tank pain filled his cheek, he ignored it. He got on with a bunch of the other ODST's on tank. They began to cruise down the street slowly. Feadore kept his eyes fixed on the pile of rubble waiting for Phantoms and Spirits filled with all kinds of aliens to be dropped and the fight to begin renewed. Nothing came. He removed his helmet. Tied himself to a grip of the tank, and fell into deep sleep. The battles he fought in these past few days had proved to be gruesome, but the toughest challange was still ahead. Aaron stared up into the sky thinking, how are we going to get off, will we get off. Night set in, the lights were dead. A breeze ran through the streets.

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You can't play halo wars until you see this video
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars
I've been perma-banned at bungie.net :(

Ignore

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Ukurse is Karl
2007, 1286, 150

IamUkurse:Ignore

Dude, stfu.

Go somewhere else, douch.

Oh and the last part of your sig, makes no sence.

Before, came? Wtf?

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sp4rt4n:

I am a fine gentleman, im not going to lie.

iEchoic:

The last upgrade should allow them to shoot ninjas out of their flamethrowers.

GT-BaNiishED

IamUkurse:Ignore

Hey man if you don't like my FF than do not comment on it. If you have nothing else to do but troll forums go get a life. People like you are ruining these forums

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You can't play halo wars until you see this video
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/645-Halo-Wars
I've been perma-banned at bungie.net :(

sp4rt4n:

IamUkurse:Ignore

Hey man if you don't like my FF than do not comment on it. If you have nothing else to do but troll forums go get a life. People like you are ruining these forums

He wrote something else and then decided to rewrite it. He wasn't saying ignore the FF he was saying ignore his post.

And Ukurse I don't remember seeing you back in the old days. Then again I wasn't nearly as active then as I am now.

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"Die?"Kurt laughed."Didn't you know?"he told the Elite. "...Spartans never die."

tmspartan:

sp4rt4n:

IamUkurse:Ignore

Hey man if you don't like my FF than do not comment on it. If you have nothing else to do but troll forums go get a life. People like you are ruining these forums

He wrote something else and then decided to rewrite it. He wasn't saying ignore the FF he was saying ignore his post.

And Ukurse I don't remember seeing you back in the old days. Then again I wasn't nearly as active then as I am now.

That conversation was funny. Good job on the story sp4rt4n

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A grenade need not speak, for when he blows up, a blast speaks for him
The assassin returns in Klone 666 2.0

Mhm.

Then i apoligize.

 

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sp4rt4n:

I am a fine gentleman, im not going to lie.

iEchoic:

The last upgrade should allow them to shoot ninjas out of their flamethrowers.

GT-BaNiishED