Instead of just ODSTs it will be a combo of both ODSTs and Marines..
Prolog
Corporal Jackson was on one of the seat of a pelican. To his left sat his best friend Lance Corporal Jones. To his right sat his Sergeant, His name was Henry. In front of him was the raido man, Private Mark.
"This is Echo-42, enroute to the rallypoint blue with Delta Squad over" Said the Pelican pilot into the com. He began lowering the thrusters and opening the bay doors
"Roger 42, proceed to the landing pad with your package, control out" Responded a voice.
The pelican landed on the pad and the squad moved out. Jackson looked around and saw sergeants drilling their squads and men working on the campsite. A sudden red alarm triggered and every marine stopped and looked for their weapons.
"Red Alert Red Alert, brutes inbound, this is not a drill" Yelled the megaphone on top of a pole.Jackson cocked his Battlerifle and slamed a new magazine into his sidearm. "This is where the fun begins.." He thought as marines went to their battle stations
Chapter 1-Ambush at Road 77
Jackson hurried to the last tanks seat as they began to head to one of the supply depots. Finnaly he got there and started breathing hard form so much running.
"So, fresh off the chart then?" Said Gunnery Sergeant Peter's, he was one of the war vets that most of his company knew. He was equiped with a portable M247 GPMG.
"Yea, got to corporal in resuceing some civlians and holding a few grunts at the same time" Jackson replied. He looked at the ammo meter in his Assualt Rifle. The tank halted to a stop and Peter told him and the other 2 passengers to follow him. They went up to the front tank and saw the problem. A downed ghost stood in the way of the road and the grunt was barley alive.
"Hey, theres something stuck in his leg..," Said one of the Marines "Lemme pull that out for ya.." As he pulled it out everything went slow-mo. It exploded and the marine was thrown back with several spikes in him and one of the tanks blew up. Jackals began sniping the convoy and banshees begain strafing runs. Another tank blew up by plasma motars, Peter shook his shoulders and Jackson snapped out of it. Sergeant Henry came up to the men with a couple spikes in him.
"Jackson, Jones, and Peter head to the those motars and take them out!, Mark get some air support over here!, Lark and Ben support fire for the wounded! And can someone get me a medic!" Bark the Sergeant
The squad moved into the cover of the forest. Jones grinned at him and began saying that even injured Henry can still Bark orders. Jackson laughed and little even Peter smiled.
"Heck, I bet if he was in a covenant prison he would bark orders-" He said but was cut off when a motar came flying out above them.
"Must be getting close scine it looks like it just came form the ground" Peter Began to state
"What was your frist clue? the roar of a brute? or the Shades over there..". Jackson sighed and this was going to take a while...
Chapter 2-Nightfall
Night had erupted bur Jackson could still hear the rounds of motars, hornets providing cover, and yells form the marines. Peter was on a rocking resting and Jones was figedeting with his rifle. Peter regained his breath and they began to walk again. A couple minutes later, after climbing a large mountian, saw the whole motar camp. 2 Dug in motars underground, a few shades by the cliff, grunts getting gear form a phantom, and to top it off a brute cheiftan.
"We dont stand a chance agansit those guys" Jones whispered wide eyes. He face was grim and was going pale by the second.
"Yea, then all we gotta do is throw this beacon I carry for this occasion" Peter pulled out a flare gun with a blue ammo. Jackson reconized it form the ship, it was stantered requlation for Heavy weapon units to carry. The beacon was a mac beacon and had to be manully deployed."Jackson cover me, Jones start carrying my stuff down hill with the pack" Jackson nodded and slamed a new clip in his rifle.
"Ugh, this stuff is heavy, meet me by the rock we were at earlier" Jones groaned and heaved the pack over his shoulder. He started to climn down the mountian. Jackson took a deep breath and pulled out one of the grenades on his chest. He pulled the pin out, and chugged it at the cheiftan. Peter began setting the beacon infront of them while Jackson supperesed the fire on the cheiftan. The cheiftan became invincable and charged them. Jackson turned his attetion to the grunts and took them out. "Take as many out before you go" He thought and the cheiftan grabbed him by the neck not noticing Peter.
"Ha!, is this the best the humans can send?" The Cheiftan said in clear english
"Unforntanly, yes but iam surpirsed that you lost so many battles agansit the elites when you out number them 3 to 1" Jackson smirked back at him. He heard the beeping noise of the beacon and Jackson knew what he had to do.
"Funny human, but you wont be so funny without a head would you?" The Cheiftan replied now pulling out a knife.
"Yea,well neither will you!" Jackson yelled as he pulled a grenade form his pocket and chuged it in the cheiftans mouth. He let go of him and began trying to pull the grenade out. Jackson jumped away form the cheiftan and slide down the mountian twigs hitting his face and dirt smearing his body. He stopped, no lethal injuries but his legs were killing him. Peter grabbed his shoulder and pulled him toward the rondevo point. As soon as he got there he saw Jones watching the Mac fire upon the motar postion. Jones saw Jackson and pulled the FR out also know as the free raido. He commed a medical hornet and in a few seconds a medic was strapping him in the hornet. That was all he saw as his vision began to blurr
Chapter 3-Heal then Fight
Jackson woke up to a bright light shinning in his face. "What, wheres Peter and Jones are they dead?" Jackson blurted out. He looked at the nurse, and locked eyes with her. After what a felt like hours she muttered yes and that you didnt recive any serious or lethal injuries. Jackson dropped his head on the hard pillow. The blanket felt itchy too, and when Jackson began to look at his surrondings. He realized he wasnt at the normal fort or a city hostipal, instead he was at a field hospital with only tents as its cover. A Marine came in and had a sergeant insigna.
"Hello Ma'am my name is Sergeant Grey, Jackson is to be heading back to duty as of right this minute." The Marine said, he threw a marine uniform infront of Jackson. He quickly put it on and left the tent. Grey handed him a SMG, while explaining what happened.
"As your squadmate Jones called in support the nurse you saw dressed in a medic uniform and was sent to you in a matter of minutes," Grey scracted his shoulder and contuined "I was on alpha squad at the moment and our tank was the frist to go," Jackson recalled the moment when the wraith fired on them and the squad getting off just in time. "Anywho, we got posted here scine the tank was down and the didnt want snipers picking us off," A pelican lowered it thrusters and landing pads. Grey sat in the back turret and Jackson sat on one of the seats near him. "Control moved us back in action and but no pelicans were avalibale and all hornets were picking up wounded or supporting convoys. A couple more marines came on the seats. The pelican closed its landing gear and slowy descending off the ground.
"Echo 24 taking off with full squads, heading to convoy 002." The Pilot said as 2 support hornets came up as escorts. Jackson's comm came to life and Mark was speaking
"Yo Amigo, when you get back here tell Jones to stop saying without him all of you would be dead and stuff" Mark said in the Comm and laughed a little
"Yeah, he helped by being a good packmule and taking the stuff down hiding like a scardy cat." Jackson replied as the other marines laughed. The pelican hovered above the convoy and stoped a inches above it.
"Alright!, hustle your bustle off this pelican and knock some heads for me!" The pilot yelled form the front. Jackson jumped off forming up with delta squad..
Chapter 4-Death of a Soilder
Jackson sat in the back of a troophog. The convoy was in line formation with a tank in the front and one in the back. A few more memebers had joined. Jackson sat next to one, his name was Private Parker equiped with SMG. Jackson was given the new Battlerifle. Nightvision, more ammuntion, nightvision, and a grenade launcher attached to it. Jackson also had the ODST suite on scine the hud was connected to the rifle. The convoy halted to a stop and the marines got off.
"Parker, Jackson, Jones, and Mark on me!" The sergeant yelled as squads began to form up. Major Henderson got the companies attetion and began to say orders.
"Alpha, and Bravo take the SAM missle building so phantoms cant drop off grunts," He said as Alpha straighten up at the mention of Alpha "Charlie take the landing pad so pelicans can drop off Company 552," he turned his attetion to the tanks "All tanks take out the covenant reistance in the city," he breathed in "Gamma support the tanks, use half of the squad to guard one and the other to guard the second tank," he looked toward Zulu Squad now."Zulu use the troop hogs to transport men to places and act as medics," He turned to Jacksons squad "Delta, theres a small airfield that house 2 longswords and 1 shortsword, take it." Then major got in the seat of one of the tanks and Delta was on there way
7 Minutes later..
Delta squad was halfway to the field when the ambush happened. A sniper shot right near Jones head and a spirt came dropping off a large grunt squad. Jackson slide to a blown up car with Jones and supperesed enough fire so the squad could find cover. Jackson shoved a grenade in and fire at the grunts taking out 1/4th of them. Mark shot a grunt with a magmum but a couple grunts jumped on him and he heard a terrible scream. In less then a second all the squad opened fire on the grunts attacking Mark. Jackson narrowly avoiding plasma fire and went to Mark seeing a beat up soilder. Mark looked at him with a grim face.
"Not gonna make it am I?," He coughed out "Tell my sister, to be good.." Marks hand fell and Jackson checked his pulse. He felt a tear drop on his visor and the atomatic visor cleaner cleaned it off. Jones yelled to Jackson and the fire fight raged on..
Chapter 5-Boom.. or wait Boo?
Jackson shot the last grunt in the face. "Sarge, Phantoms inbounds!" He yelled as 2 phantoms hovered above the squad. He ran to the building and saw the Sergeant raidoing for air support. "Always a step ahead of me.." Jackson muttered as he went to get Jones. Jones sat there fumbling with a new magazine. He grabbed his shoulder and pulled him to the building while suppereing fire.
"What the hell man!?" Jones yelled pulling away form Jackson's grip. He slammed the new magazine in and cocked the Rifle. A beam slide past his head. "Man I must be one lucky son of a gun!" He yelled as he dropped to the ground.
"Well you know the saying, if your ever being sniped stop, drop, and pray to god that sergeant gets air support soon" He joked as he too had layed down on the floor.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1" Henry muttered as he layed agansit the wall. A huge explosion happened and there was silent. Jackson stood up and went outside to see a short sword fly over them and leave. "Boom.." Whispered Henry as the squad came out. Jackson saw a blur and told Jones to hit the deck. He wiped out his pistol in no time and shot the brute that was stalking Jones. Suddenly 5 Brutes circled the squad. He felt his heart miss a beat, and heard the chicken dance song.
"What the?" He wondered out loud. Suddenly, a Scorpoin with a vulture came out. Jackson pushed Jones inside, but Henry didnt need to be told. When he turned around he saw a fury of missles go in the stalkers. He got pushed agansit the wall and a stalker appeared infront of him holding his neck. Jones tackled the brute and shot him in the mouth.
"Boo..." was all the Marine managed to say...
Chapter 6-The Calm before the Storm
Once again Jackson sat in the passenger seat of a tank. He looked up to the sky and saw banshee's and hornets dogfighting. He looked at his tank and saw a dusty nameplate. Jackson rubbed the plate off and it was "Hammer of Justice", he grinned a little at the thought of how many battles it must have been in to earn that name. He checked the ammo in his Rifle and saw it was almost out. He opened his Magazine pack and slammed a new magazine in. "Pretty quiet..." he muttered as the city felt like a ghost town. The tank stopped and the marines got off. Private Walker stood next to him with two SMGs.
"So that the airfield?, looks more like a squadron docked on a concerate to me"
"Shut it Walker, this place was bombarded as soon as the covenant came to Africa" Snikered a Specialist named Ben. The raido came to life and one of the vulture pilots spoke.
"This is Delta 221, we have a visual on Objective and are enroute to its loctaion over, requesting recon," The vulture pilot's name was accuatly Gunnery Sergeant Cole, and his gunner was Lance Corporal Turner.
"Roger 221, Recon 76 on your way hang tight." Replied control. Jackson shoved another grenade in his launcher knew a fight was to come to them at anytime as a counter attack. They waited and waited, and the recruits became a little anxouis. But after what seemed like an entirinety, recon responded back.
"221, light infantry, no armour, and only two banshees, but there is a Anti Air gun, and Anti Personel gun too, so I recommend to attack those frist then aim for the little guys." Recon whispered into the comm knowing that if the grunts see them it would turn into a firefight they were well to lose.
"Copy Recon, Delta squad, Move up!" Yelled the Sergeant as Delta squad shifted to attention. Jackson grinned at the sound of finnaly moving. Scine they had a much larger squad now they were divided into three teams, Jackson leading one. In his team was Private Ben, and Private Walker
"Hey Cole!, drop down one of those weapons crates will yah?" Jackson yelled up above. A crate came down and when Jackson opened it, it had a two assualt rifles with a few magazines, and a portable M247 GPMG. He threw the GPMG to Walker, and the Assualt rifle to Turner. Suddenly the ground rumbled and phantoms began to drop off brutes. Brutes, he hated brutes..
Chapter 7-The Airfield
Jackson shot another brute in the face. More and more reinforcements had arived for the covenant but they had somehow managed to hold them off. Walker fumbled with a new clip as a brute appoarched him. Suddenly a fury of bullets went into the brute by none other than Private Ben. Walker slammed the clip in and turned to another brute. A vulture flew above them and took out 2 more appoarching brutes. Finnaly the Sarge yelled to press foward and Jacksons team fell behided the tank. Useing it as cover they slowly advance toward the control tower and the team left the saftey of the tank and began to clear the tower. Jackson ordered Ben to set up the gun on a sandbags near the door. Henry came and told them to clear the building while they hold out here. Jackson tossed Ben a SMG and they breached the door.
They silently walked up the stair way and made their appoarch on the towers controls.Ben took point, and began to breach the door. As soon as he placed a breaching charge a brute kicked the door down and Ben went flying toward the wall. Walker fired at his head but was pushed aside like a chew toy. "Bye, Bye..." Jackson calmly said as he shot a grenade at the brute exploding him. He check if Ben was alive..no such luck. He turned to Walker and saw he was coming in and out of death.
"Sergeant I need a medic up here ASAP!, I have 1 WIA and 1 KIA and I dont want him to go KIA as well.." He yelled into the comm. He turned and took a deep breath. He entered the room and saw two jackals sitting up there. He shot both with his Rifle and turned on the underground hanger. A squadron came up on an elavtor and Jackson dropped in one of the chairs knowing he finnished his mission....
Chapter 8-Rememberance
That had been Jack's last mission before he retired. Now the Covenant-Human war had stopped, the Prophet killed, and the flood werent a problem anymore. He layed on a couch and watched the local news. The Rebel Wars started and this time with deadlier weapons "burrowed" form the covenant. The update was on the New Harvest campaigns where Rebel extremist had started a riot and killed 5 marines and 8 civilans. A door bell rang and Jackson was so surprised at this he fell off the couch. "Weird, no one was supposed to be here" He muttered as he opened the door. Infront of him stood a officer with 2 marines flanking him.
"You Jackson Smith?" The strange vistor said.
"Yea, who's asking?" Jackson replied still looking at the Marines
'"Lt.Marksmen, CO of the ODST 34th Airbrigade and were resigning you to Delta squad." He replied with a hint of pride. Without hesitanted the Marines grabbed his arms and pulled him to the SUV parked outside. Inside sat his old friend Jones, and at the famliar face he grinned. His face was grim when he told him the news
"Sergeant Henry stayed, and his new squad was massacared by rebel resitance, so its just me and you," Jones sniffed a little and contunied "My wife, Jane, was shot when we went for a walk down the park," He saw a tear drop down his eye's "We were ambushed by Rebels and when she refused to be captured they shot her in the face in front of me." He stopped down and started to cry harder. Jacksons grinned turned into a frown. The SUV stopped and they arived at a landing pad. A pelican was on the pad with its thrusters still on. Jackson, Jones, and Marksmen got in and took off...
Chapter 9-Charlie Foxtrot
Jackson was aboard the "Hammer of Justice" for preperations for the big operation. He opened his locker and there was a ODST suite, A BR99 with a grenade attachment. Jackson was told that all the reigments suites were based on the Spartan Suites only cheaper and less abilities. He quickly put the gear on and before he knew he was on a pelican heading for a rebel fort..
Total there were about 15 pelicans for the whole operation. 3 held scorpoions, 5 held hogs, and 7 of them held a full load of ODSTs each suite similar to Jack's. His HUD held info about his whole regiment and his BR99 was hooked up to it with nightvision, heatvision, radar for about 25 meters around him, and a recording camera so they would be able to see form all sides. The pelican shook and Jackson would have fell off it wasnt for the strapes. He switched to the pelican HUD and saw a line of AAs set up along the beach.
"This is D1, appoarching charlie foxtrot with multiple AAs, permission to abort?"
"D1 this is control, your orders are to drop your squad off, not abort because of a few AAs..."
Jackson felt the pelican shake again, and this time the pelican's thrusters came off. Jackson unstraped himself and told the other squadmates to do the same. The other thruster came off, and the pelican was losing air fast. He helped a ODST unstrap his seat and then ran head frist into the water. The others followed the lead and jumped. When he came up he saw that the pelican squadron had only managed to have 3 Hog transports, and 5 ODST transports survive, he guessed the scorpoion transport didnt make it due to its weight. He turned the raido on and heard the news.
"Rebels putting up strong reistance commander, they have a combo of AAs and Cobras along the beach requesting MAC shot at the beach"
"Copy Alpha Squad, just sight the laser on the target and we will commence firing"
"Sir, thats the problem too, the sighter was with Delta Squad's frist team. They were shot down and assumed dead"
Jackson saw one of his squadmates bodies and slung around it was a box with a strape. He swam to it and saw it was the laser everyone was talking about. He looked in the box and saw in bionacler view alpha squad being pinned by 3 scorpoions and a few rebels. The raido chatter was still going on
"Bravo Squad is falling back to the islands forest to regroup with any survivors form the Cobra Company"
"Bravo Squad this is Alpha, the other Delta Team as arivived form the beach any word form Delta-1?"
"Negative, I'll report to you if they do"
"This is Quax Battlion form the 23rd Infantry Reigment, were proceeding to Charlie Foxtrot with reinforcements, we need you to take the AA's out."
"Quax, this is Alpha-1 we are pinned at the beach at the moment and strongly advise you to halt until we can deal with those AA's"
Jackson, by now, had a laser on a AA gun and pulled the trigger. He turned to see the rest of the squad pull the raft up and heave him up.
"Roger Delta, MAC is on the way"
Suddenly, 12 MAC shots came screaming out of the sky, bombarding the rebel defense and clearing the path for quax battlion. A pelican shortly arivived after the bombardment picking the squad up and taking them to the rally point...
Chapter 10-Wounded Guardian..
After they assembled at the rally point, Lt.Carther took charge and stood up on one of the warthogs.
"Delta, take the road to the rebel hanger, Alpha make camp for the company, and Bravo stay in the pelicans and be ready to be sent off anywhere where you are needed."
That was all before they split up again Jackson this time was in D-2 or Delta 2. They soon saw that the terrian was desert/tropical type. Jones sat in the passenger seat of the LAAG infront of him, with a cap instead of a helmet. It soon got silent, too silent. A LAAG hog soon halted to a stop. When they got out to check what it was, spikes...
"Wha the-" Suddenly the ODST was shot in the neck and fell instantly to the ground. A few rebels came out and ambushed the squad. The Hog infront of him floored it and his was on the move too. He looked back and shot about 4 more rebels before they got out of the ambush. Jackson reloaded and filled the launcher. They soon passed a sign that said Road 23. Jackson saw 3 troop hogs in the horizion with a small roadblock. The rebels without heistanting opened fire on the squad and the front hog soon drove into a speed limit sign. He turned to the road block and told his squad to open fire. 3 Grenades flew into the barrier and destoryed the road block with only a few survivors. He ordered his squad to take the small reistance out.
"Medic!" Jackson turned to see one of the ODSTs siting next to the crashed hog, and he raced to it in a instant. He lifted the helmet off and saw Jones face. His face was pale and had blood all over it, and he held his stomach. Jackson saw the hog was filled with bullets, and everything was broken besides a raido. Jackson didnt think it was the speed limit sign, maybe he under estimated the rebels. The medic asked what happened to Jones and the wouned soilder replied.
"Landmine, and heavy MG fire.. the driver was shot and the gunner fell off, the hog fliped over and fell ontop of me..," he turned to Jackson "Jackson, tell...tell Jen that I wont be home for Madisons brithday.." Jones hand fell and his body stood motionless. Jackson pulled his eyelids down and walked away...
United we stand, Divided we fall...-Cpt.Minime
