Chapter 18 2552 Town of Reach One and a half klicks East from ONI building.
"***!", Matthew swore through his teeth as his assaliant swung the energy sword in front of him, it cut with silent grace through a rocker chair in front of Matthew. He was lucky enough to roll again and dodge the blade of energy once how long could he hold against an elite. It had the advantage, Matthew knew it and so did the elite.
"Come on you split-chin *** lets see with you got!", Matthew swore at the elite, it took the taunt and what seemed like chuckled. Matthew was crouching in a right knee down position with his SC sniper rifle leveled to the elite, aiming straight for the stomach. At this range the sword was very deadly, but so was Matthew's sniper rifle, one good shot and the elite would be weakened or better yet killed. Matthew was hoping for the second one.
Again as the elite took a step Matthew's VISR flared with static it screwed with his vision. The elite reeled its sword arm back in a 90 degree angle, it swung down on Matthew its sword in a thrusting motion. Matthew rolled sideways. Before he looked up again he reflexively kicked the elite in its leg by one of the knees. Matthew then proceeded to stand up a little more, but he did not dare move from a somewhat crouching position.
The elite was just about to take the sword out of the ground when Matthew saw his chance. He instantaniosly raised his sniper and fired straight into the elite's body. In a flash the elite managed to raise the sword to delfect the bullet. The elite's sword flared as the handle took the bullet, overloaded and was about to explode. The elite at the sight of this threw the sword at Matthew. The sword exploded a few meters away from Matthew, the detonation of the energy weapon messed up his VISR mode it overloaded, then failed.
Matthew stood paralyzed with fear. His sniper was out, and so was his VISR. In this darkness all he could see was the elite's plasma rifle glowing a evil deep blue. It was a good four meters away from Matthew, but if he was any closer the elite would have probably cracked his skull into his body with that dangerous club of a weapon. Matthew pulled out his BR55 and clicked the safety off. The elite at the sound of this fired its plasma rifle where Matthew was.
Matthew rolled out of the way as boiling plasma washed over his upgraded suit. He swore at the elite as he rolled. His suit was crackling and popping from the blobs of plasma that had contacted with his suit. Matthew did not hesitate he saw the plasma rifle had overheated from the multiple plasma blobs it just regergated at him. He fired his BR55, one burst hit the elite, the other missed. The stealth elite had moved with lightening speed and concealed its own plasma rifle to not give away its location.
"Clever ***!", Matthew raised his voice out of sheer anger. The elite swiftly turned, it fired, Matthew fired. One blob of plasma had hit Matthew straight in the left hip as he leapt out of the way. It burned and hissed as the plasma bore its way through the titanuim plating of his armor. He yelled, it had burned past his armor. A little bit of the plasma had begun to dig into his skin.
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Egna Moramee was inpressed at this human's simple attempts at survival. This black shoruded trooper was not like the easy prey he had killed before. This human was a lot tougher, Egna felt it. When Egna had fired and leapt out of the way of the human's rifle shots it had hit the human, he heard it yell in pain. Egna quickly rolled again and took cover behind the door leading to the room where this human was. He felt something warm and moist on his hand, he lifted his hand off his left leg and felt it. He was injured. The human had took his shields out and get a shot in, what a little vermin Egna thought to himself. He heard then the human swear, Egna knew he had injured it.
Still the battle raged on for a good two more minutes. Shots were exchanged and both soldiers had taken some of the shots. Egna did not like this at all his battle was raging on, and with no clear victor. It was a tie, a stalement, he was matched evenly with a human. Egna honored this human warrior it had been completly matched with him. At the same time Egna thought of this as herasy being equally matched with a human, that was not even a demon. He felt the human breathing heavily, it was winded. This was Egna's chance to kill him and honor his name once more, but he felt himself as well in the same state of exhaustion.
Egna Moramee quickly thought if the human was evenly matched with him in a firefight, he would lose in a hand to hand duel with him for sure. Egna was inraged, he knew he should not have played with the human, in this toying he had lost his sword. Egna quickly threw a plasma grenade around the corner and hid behind cover waiting for the detonation. He heard the human yelp like a weak animal with surprise. The room was flared with a blue light. Egna saw his cloaking disactivate from the EMP of the grenade this was his chance. He sprinted into the room forgeting about his injured leg and rib.
The human was excpecting him, Egna was not surprized to see the human had survived the grenade. He felt a good contact occur between him and the human's weapon. It had hit him square in the rib where he was shot. Egna spit out blood but not before slamming the butt of his mighty plasma rifle into the humans chest. Egna felt the human grasp onto his armor harness and keep balanced from the blow. Egna felt another blow to his face from the humans fist in his left-lower madible. It hurt he felt the teeth and gums bleed. Egna ignored the pain and headbutted the human that was hanging onto his harness. He had dealt with his kind before ODSTs they were called. They were a lot better then the regular marines he slaughtered easily, they fought more savagely then their counter parts.
The human stumbled back and fell, Egna began to raise his rifle to the human's body. He was going to enjoy shooting this honorable oppenent.
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Matthew fell, but not before activating a trap he had thrown a concussion grenade off the ceiling and next to the elite's feet. Matthew counted till the grenade went off so he could roll out of the way. He say that the elite's camofluage was reactivating and so was its shield.
"Three!!" Matthew screamed at the top of his lungs and rolled as a shockwave spread throughtout the room. He rolled twice and stood up off his knees and bounced himself into a standing postion. He whirled and aimed his rifle, dazed but ready.
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Egna felt a blast wave hit him. He was disorientated. Whatever the human did it had outsmarted him in the end. Egna managed to stumble out of the room, he heard more humans enter the building. The cloaking on his suit reactivated and Egna Moramee stumbbled out the exit door. He ran to shadows.
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Ace jumped onto the second story ladder off the dumpster. The hunter had run right past him. He took a breath and jumped down. He landed directly behind the golden monster, it had noticed him. In a few seconds Ace was rolling and dodging for his life.
"*** hunters I hate them!!", Ace screamed as he rolled again underneath the hunter's shield and fired a burst from his MA5C into the hunter's side. Ace thought he had it, but this hunter was smarter then that. Ace quickly felt the underarmor of the hunter come crashing down on his helmet. It hit him and he fell to one knee.
He rolled again away from the hunter and ran down the side of the alleyway were Peter lay unconscious. Ace ran up turned to the hunter and lobbed a grenade straight at the hunter's legs. It exploded a second or two later. The hunter stumbled, it was trying to reoriontate itself. Ace took this chance he reached into his grenade pouch and pulled out a napalm grenade and threw it straight at the hunters chest. It hit and erupted into a volcano that began eating away at the hunter's chest plate.
"Hell Yeah!!", cheered Ace as he helped Peter up. Peter began to cheer to. It was to soon for that thought the hunter stood up while still afire and fired a green fuel rod blob at the two ODSTs.
"Look out, Lad!", Peter yelled this as he tackled Ace away from the green blob and into the ground. Peter lifted Ace and both marines turned to the hunter. It slowly began to approach the lone ODSTs. The hunters chest plate was completly burned away and still burning. This Ace thought was their chance at surviving.
"Fire into its chest!", Ace screamed with the air still left in his lungs from dodging so much. Both troopers opened fired at the approaching hunter. The spray of bullets penetrated the last thin layer of armor the hunter had left around its chest. The fire and bullets ripped into its bare mass of writhing worms. Ace heard squeals from the worms in the hunter's chest as they fell on the ground dead.
The hunter had not been downed yet though Ace and Peter could see that it was a golden hunter for a certain reason. It fired another fuel rod blob at Ace. He rolled out of the way just in time, but the blast still propelled him in the air and he flew over and past the hunter. He skidded and hit his helmet on one of the dumpsters. Ace rolled over on his back just in time to see the hunter raise its shield and slam it into the wall. The alleyway wall was crumpling and falling. Ace watched without twitching a muscle as the hunter fell straight through the wall. Ace could not see Peter.
Ace stood up and coughed. The wind was out of his lungs, and for a few seconds which felt like eternities he could not gulp in the air his body needed so badly. At last his lungs opened and he chugged huge gulps of air. Ace quickly relising he was not going to sufficate to death, came to his senses.
Ace screamed, "Peter, you alright!'. Ace ran over and seeing it the ODST was still alive. He saw and arm sticking up out of the rubble, it was moving still. Ace with relief helped the ODST out of the pile of bricks.
"Thought you were dead", Ace joked as he raised peter's right arm over his own shoulder.
"Not in your dreams laddie I ain't gona die that easily ya know.!", Peter answered in his heavy Irish accent.
The ODSTs quickly got into the building where Matthew was, both of them were in horrible condition they could not hold the alleyway. Ace felt he could not hold the alleyway even against a pair of grunts, and Peter a was little worse. As Ace and Peter got to the second floor they heard a grenade go off somewhere down the corridor.
"Stay here I will go check it out, OK?", Ace spoke this as he set Peter down in another room and handed him his BR55. Then Ace made his way down the corrider he saw a cloaked figure mysterously fled the room, he fired at it but it was already gone. Ace feared for the worst.
Ace whispered, "You better be alive Matthew you better not die on me!'. As Ace turned the corner he saw a dazed Matthew sitting in a darkened room. He was wounded.
"What happened in here!" asked Ace as he lifted Matthew and helped him down back where Peter was. He had seen the dead ODST.
"Stealth elite got him, I managed to scare it off it I don't think it will be back." answered Matthew in a hoarse voice, the fight wit the elite must have gotten to him. Peter overheard and gave a deep meaning full sign for his squadmate. All was quiet in the apartment building. Ace had collected the ammunition off the ODST's dead body, no use letting it go to waste he thought. He also got the helmet, hip plating, and shoulder plating for Matthew who had lost a decent amount of plating with that tussle with the elite. After some help from Ace Matthew had installed the new plating and helmet. It fit.
A couple of sounds were heard and all three ODSTs looked up ready to fight. Ace had moved into a postion of fire.
"Hey anyone home!", the comm broke and seargeant Addison voice was heard. Ace, Matthew, and Peter all let out a sigh of relief.
Ace replied, "No one is here!". This little joke was very funny, for only a second.
"Listen we have lost three men already and there is only seven of us left here, quit your joking trooper thats an order!", Seargeant Addison spoke with a metallic voice. Ace's face gloomed over more in his helmet.
"No sir we have lost altogether five men, we lost two men.", Matthew's voice broke over the comm. Seargeant Addison, Jack, and the the rest of the sqaud had made their way up the stairs and sat down. They all looked very weary and covered in blood from their own bodies and from alien bodies as well.
"Well we are stuck here, we managed to take out the wraith, but the troopers down the street cannot advance to us because the covenant own half of the road!", seargeant Addison spoke very madly and with a high tone of giving up. The troopers rose and began to walk around to make sure no covenant had infaltrated the building yet.
"Sir, can't we call in for extra support!", hope flared from an ODST who was standing next to the door ready to fire.
"Negative we cannot, because time is on the essence and the troopers are about to fall back, we have no choice but to stay here and die!", Seargeant Addison spoke with a very hoarse voice, it was shrill and quiet.
"Contact!", the ODST next to the door yelled he fired twice from his M7S in bursts and three little thuds hit the floor. All the troopers jumped to their feet, except the ones who were to injured to move.
"Phil, move up and check the hallway and see if it is clear, everyone else lets move so we can get to better postions to hold them!", the seargeant of the other squad barked the orders and everyone mechanically obeyed.
"You two injured troopers try to reach help if you can!", the seargeant was now barking orders to the injured troopers as well, everyone obeyed.
Jack and Ace moved to the staircase there were three jackals moving up the third flight of stairs, with their backs completely exposed to the troopers. The bullets quickly dropped the jackals in an instant. Jack moved up pocketed one of the shields, put the other on, and tossed the last one to Ace. Ace caught it and slipped it on.
"This is nice I like this!", said Ace with a happy tone in his voice over team comm. The troopers had held out in the building for a good fifteen minutes. All the covenant were sending in were jackals and grunts. No elites, or brutes yet. Matthew and Peter were still trying convince the ODST on the road to push up and help them, but it was a lost cause.
"Ace how long do you think we are going to hold out?", Jack asked the deep question.
"I don't know, but I am sure as hell not going to die before you!", Ace kept trying to keep everyone in high spirits, it was working...for now.
The comm broke and a new broadcast wave opened up on Jack's HUD.
"This is spartan 029, we heard you troopers were pinned down and need assistance, we would be happy to help.", the voice of a spartan was broadcasting on this new channel. Ace and Jack looked at each other. Spartans helping them, they actually had a chance to prevail and live to tell the tail. Both ODSTs watching the staircase reloaded and flared on their shields, they were going to survive till help came. Even if that killed them.................
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