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Post by Alivon Drearnack on Oct 7, 2007 15:03:18 GMT -5
((for the sake of the rp, ill be the squad of marines that are going to attempt to take the AA gun. They will likely fail))
The marine squad moved around the corner and into a wide street, The AA gun was set up at the far end, giving whoever was defending it, a great view through a sniper rifle at this particular group of humans.
They slowly made their way up the street, being careful to stay as close to the walls of the buildings as they could, they'd found out that the sniper rifle that one of them carried was defective after it had backfired on the marine who had attempted to use it on some of the covenant on the AA gun, he was dead inside one of the buildings.
Alivon still sat in his pelican, waiting anxiously for something to happen, his hand was hovering over the control that would activate the drop ship.
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 15:18:35 GMT -5
The loud crack of a misfiring gun roused the Covenant defenders to full alert, and it was not long before they spotted enemy troops moving up the street. Quickly the Jackals opened fire with their plasma pistols. Three provided cover fire while two charged their shots for maximum effect. They lifted their shields to deflect any oncoming projectile fire. The Grunts with plasma pistols opened up on the marines as well, with the needler-armed ones guarding the vulnerable side of the gun.
"Kill them, squad! Strike a blow against the humans that dare threaten us!"
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Post by Alivon Drearnack on Oct 7, 2007 15:26:01 GMT -5
The marine squad quickly ducked behind vehicles, walls, and any other cover they could find, they tried peppering the AA gun with gunfire, but the jackals shields stopped any bullets that actually managed to reach the structure, the team was slowly starting to get picked off.
One of the marines looked over and watched his companions head dissapear as he was shot in the face with a plasma bolt. He blinked and ducked for cover, pulling out his comunications device.
"We're pinned down! We need help NOW!" He screamed into the comm. The marine stayed as close as he could behind the car.
The Marines Plea for help would be the whine of a pelican drop ship starting up in the distance, and an insane cackle over the marines comm unit. It is possible that the covenant defending the AA gun might intercept the frightening transmission.
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 15:33:45 GMT -5
Karj grinned as a marine fell headless to the ground. These humans were pushovers, hardly a threat to the Covenant! He merely had to keep his squad firing and in formation, while ensuring that the Grunts didn't do anything stupid.
"Keep firing, squad! Send these fools back where they came from in body bags!"
Just then, however, a plea for help was transmitted. Karj snickered until he heard the reply: the same sound he had heard only ten minutes previous. A dropship was coming, and the AA gun was facing the wrong way. His grin gone instantly, Karj started barking orders.
"You three! Keep the shield wall up! The rest of you and the Uggoy, help me swing this gun around! We have no heavy weapons, and a foul human machine is en route, so we must target it as soon as possible!"
The selected squad members leapt onto the gun platform and began to push it around, hoping it would be facing in the correct direction by the time enemy reinforcements arrived. The three Jackals in front kept up enough fire to keep the marines pinned down, though more casualties were unlikely.
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Post by Alivon Drearnack on Oct 7, 2007 16:25:41 GMT -5
alivon had a huge grin on his face as his drop ship rocketed recklessly through the city streets, narrowly avoiding buildings, street lamps, and the ground. He turned the pelican to the left, rolling it abit. The affect was that it came around the corner on it's side, and propelled itself forward off the building to it's left, the jet out take from it's engines smashed the building and super heated the metal.
The marines would look up as the pelican smashed the building at the end of the street, letting out a cheer before resuming fire on the AA gun.
Alivon saw the rapidly approaching AA gun, and clicked the fire button on the joystick, twin missiles launched out from the front of the pelican, streaking straight for the AA gun, while Alivon let out an insane laugh, trying to pull the pelican up in time
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 16:42:09 GMT -5
"Squad! Abandon your positions and retreat to the north! Keep the enemy under fire, but avoid the infernal machine at all costs!"
Karj managed to leap away from the AA gun seconds before its targeting array exploded violently, sending shrapnel in all directions. Quickly he took stock of the situation. He had lost three Grunts, two of them needler-wielding, and one of the Jackals had been severely injured by metal shards. The AA gun, deprived of its sensor systems, began to fire wildly, causing a nearby office building to collapse in a rain of human building supplies. Using the chaos as cover the group retreated, the two remaining Grunts carrying the wounded one while the Jackals fired wildly from behind their shields. They dropped behind a pile of debris and continued to fire at the marines, keeping them away from the damaged gun for as long as possible. While three Jackals kept up the cover fire Karj removed the metal from his trooper's wound, then seared it shut with the heat of an overcharged plasma pistol. The Jackal screamed in pain, but would survive if it could escaped. Karj joined the shield wall, firing in an attempt to keep the marines back, then had an idea.
"You, Uggoy, give me your needler! Now!"
The intimidated Grunt surrendered the weapon, and Karj dropped his plasma pistol for a moment. He aimed the needler carefully, for its ability to seek out enemy troops would not be helpful with his objective. He then fired several times at the missile turret of the Pelican, hoping that the glass shards might jam it, then damage and disable it when they shattered.
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Post by John Hendrix on Oct 7, 2007 16:53:49 GMT -5
"1st and 10th Squads, LAUNCH!" Hendrix ordered, getting in his HEV with his weapons and all, and launching with his A.I. 66 Hevs launched at once form the Marathon class cruiser, all heading for the first AA guns position. They would land everywhere, some behind the covenant squad and inside the covenant lines, and some on buildings, grounds, etc. Only 41 would survive, including Hendrix. They would be scattered in groups of 9, and have their weapons out. They would have BR55 Rifles, full grenades as well as a secondary weapon of a Combat knife and Assault rifle, but two out of each squad would have a sniper rifle insted of a MA5C.
They began to plummet like rocks of fire towards the location.
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Post by Alivon Drearnack on Oct 7, 2007 16:56:02 GMT -5
Alivon struggled to keep the ship under control as the building started to collapse, his ship banked to the right, almost crashing into another building. He only had a smirk on his face now. He started to look for new targets for his missiles, when the weapons panel blinked red, showing damage. The missile tubes had been damaged by the jackals needler...
"Damn it....gotta help the marines somehow...can't use the gunner with those needles around..." He said, looking around at his surroundings. "ahah..." he sent the pelican to wards the covenant position, and pulled up at the last couple seconds, hitting the disengage button. The warthog hurtled into the ground, crushing the front part of it causing the motor to explode, which caused shrapnel to fly around, the wheels flying off the vehicle.
"I'll get you some other time you damned covies!" He shook his fist in their general direction.
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 17:06:34 GMT -5
"Their missiles are jammed! We'll push them back yet. Squad, prepare to... look out!"
Just as Karj was beginning to shout orders the dropship rammed their makeshift barricade, sending debris flying over the little group. Most of the smaller fragments were deflected by the shields, but large blocks of masonry took their toll. The wounded Jackal, unable to move in time, was crushed by a falling block of stone, his hollow bones crunching under the immense weight.
"Abandon the AA gun! Retreat to the north, up the road. Get to cover as quickly as possible!"
Just then, things got even worse. Drop Pods fell from the sky, heated from their trip through the atmosphere, one crushing the unarmed Grunt. As soldiers began to emerge from them, weapons blazing, Karj gave the signal to break ranks and run. They were a bigger target when clumped, so spreading out reduced the chance of being hit. The remains of the squad fled up the north road, dodging Drop Pods all the way, and ran into the safety of the alleyways. Karj began to punch codes into his communicator, readying for a last blow against the troopers.
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Post by Zuka Zeemma on Oct 7, 2007 17:09:30 GMT -5
Zuka led his squad through the streets, much more quickly now that the AA gun had been destroyed. He looked around at his companions, three of the grunts were carrying plasma pistols, and two had fuel rod cannons. Two of the jackals had the arm shields and plasma pistols, and the last one held a beam rifle. The elites had switched their weapons to plasma rifles, excluding the major, who held a carbine. Zuka himself held a carbine.
As he approached the battle he heard the explosion of some sort of vehicle, and then the whir of the pelican dropship as it left the city. "hurry men! Let's catch the humans unaware!" he started running forward, and watched his squad mates follow.
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Post by John Hendrix on Oct 7, 2007 17:10:37 GMT -5
A soldier was hiding in the alleyways, he stepped out as Karj began to turn a corner, trying to slap him in the face with his rifle gun and fire at another jackal. Colonel Hendrix and 7 other ODST ran, trying to catch up with them.
Meanwhile, ODST that moved into a building saw a approaching covenant squad. Their snipers took aim, and tried to shoot the two unaware grunts in the head or a lethal area, the ones with the FRC.
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 17:22:15 GMT -5
Karj hit the ground hard, bruising his back on the rough road. Fortunately, it hurled him out of the line of fire, and it was another Jackal who howled in pain as his leg was shredded by bullets. Karj raised his needler and fired several shots into the chest of the trooper. The glass then burst, causing a sickening rain of blood to cover the ground in the area. The trooper hit the ground, breathing faintly and nearly dead of blood loss, and Karj leapt to his feet. Blood flowed from his snout, but it was only a flesh wound.
He ran over and grabbed the Jackal with the leg wounds, then fled as fast as he could into the alley once more. He climbed on top of a dumpster, then flung his load on top of a fire escape and climbed after it. Hearing movement behind him he swiveled around in time to help the surviving grunt up as well. They were the only survivors of the hasty retreat. The defense had been a failure. Even then, however, all was not lost. The partially functioning AA gun was reading Karj's codes, and seconds later its reactors overheated, causing boiling fuel to spill through the area. Satisfied with this last blow, he set about getting higher on the fire escape. If he could just hide his little group until Covenant forces arrived, he might escape.
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Post by Zuka Zeemma on Oct 7, 2007 17:42:19 GMT -5
Zuka blinked as the grunt's head that was to his left exploded, the other grunt had been lucky enough to jump back wards at the first sniper shot, and only had a small piece of armor chipped away.
"into the buildings!" He charged to wards one of the empty office buildings, his troops followed, and regrouped inside the large office building. "The grunts and jackals will secure a room in this building and stay undercover. While me and the other elites will head after the humans..." After saying this he activated his active camouflage, and become almost completely invisible.
"follow me my brothers, two of you on carbines, me and the major will use our blades...."
silently they moved up through the stairs of the building, moving to wards the roof, where they would be able to move from building to building mostly undetected.
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Post by [A]Dani[I] on Oct 7, 2007 19:30:19 GMT -5
Spartan III's don't have shields, and thats power gaming.
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Post by Lance Mendez on Oct 7, 2007 19:37:19 GMT -5
Spartan III's don't have shields, and thats power gaming. ((sorry, I deleted it))
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Post by Master Chief on Oct 7, 2007 19:51:06 GMT -5
Cief rapidlly boarded a warhog and scrambled toward the passanger seat. Two of team mates were at work driving and shooting the back turret the hog wildly towards the Beta AA gun to assist the trying UNSC to capture the Beta AA Gun. Cief signalled towards his teamates cramped in the Hog and said " Time to Lock and load boys" as he loaded his Assualt rifle. When they arrived 3 teamates and Chief moved foward towards the Beta AA Gun dodging and shooting like mad mans while the rest backed up the firing turret of the hog. Though Cief knew he wasnt suppose to interfear with the Spartan III's buisness but he didnt care he did what he wanted and no one could stop him. Chief rapidly fired his assualt gun taking down anyone he can as they pushed and pushed towards the gun. Soon Chief releaized that his team should get into the buildings to catch up with the covenant. He and his Spartan IIs jumped into the warhog and fired and drove rapidly up and down the levels of garages in the buildings waiting to really catch the leader of this covenant force protecting the Beta AA Gun
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Post by Karj on Oct 7, 2007 21:08:11 GMT -5
((For those who have just entered the thread, the area around the BETA AA gun is full of boiling fuel and the gun's reactors have overloaded. Its targeting systems have also been destroyed by a Pelican's rocket launchers. The gun is useless without major repair))
With the help of his Grunt companion Karj managed to haul the wounded Jackal onto the roof of the building they had climbed. They were safe, for the moment. Karj tore a bit of the other Jackal's uniform off of his armor and wrapped it around the injured leg, then applied pressure to it. The blood flow slowly stopped, but Karj tied the makeshift bandage around it anyway. He wanted to make sure the wound didn't get infected. Signaling to the Grunt to watch over their downed companion Karj moved slowly to the edge of the building. It seemed that he had been fast enough to confuse his pursuers as to his location, but he couldn't count on that. He was running low on needler ammunition, but he did have the Grunt's plasma pistol if worse came to worse. Through the window of a nearby office building he spotted the familiar form of an Elite, and his heart leapt. Covenant reinforcements had arrived, if not many.
The two uninjured soldiers carried their ally along a pipe network that led from the top of their building to the one next to the Covenant occupied office, going as quickly as possible. Stopping to rest, they discovered a grim fact: UNSC forces has arrived in even greater numbers than before, and they had some of the legendary "Spartans" with them. Hopefully the fuel leak would eliminate some of them, but it would not be long before it soaked into the ground. At least they had denied the humans use of the BETA gun. It now lay dormant, scored by small arms fire and singed by missiles and the reactor overheat. The bodies of several of Karj's squad lay dead on the ground alongside the marines they had managed to kill. A few overeager marines that had charged up to the gun the minute its defenders had fled were now being removed by field medics, their legs terribly burned. One or two weren't moving at all.
Karj began trying to signal to the Elite in the nearby building, but he abruptly vanished. Active camo, the Jackal guessed. He saw several Grunts and a few of his own kind still inside, but they didn't notice him. With only four shots left in his needler and a large number of human troops in the area, brute force was not an option. He would have to exercise stealth in order to reach them, which was difficult while carrying a wounded soldier. Difficult, but not impossible.
Karj crawled along the top of a cooling pipe for the office building, pushing the wounded Jackal in front of him. He had to focus to keep from falling to what would undoubtedly be his death, and the pathetic sounds of exertion coming from the Grunt behind him didn't help. At last the three of them made it to the top of the office building. They stopped to rest a moment, then looked around, trying to find a stairwell to take them inside.
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Post by John Hendrix on Oct 7, 2007 22:54:46 GMT -5
Hendrix and his squad get to the trooper. He was already dead, and they took his ammo and grenades, taking off his fisor, and placing his helmet on top of his gun, leaving it in his dead hands underneath him. They continue up on the rooftop, trying to find where the jackal could have gone.
** A sniper takes aim at the grunt, having lost the elite he had been staring down the scope at, and makes sure he has a headshot, then pulls the trigger, hoping to hit it(Unless this is objected too by Karj. I'll let the grunt live if he wants)
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Post by Karj on Oct 8, 2007 8:57:08 GMT -5
((Hopefully this won't be considered skipping, just a brief post to react to Hendrix's post.))
Finally locating the stairwell Karj began to descend into the building, his fellow Jackal in his arms. The Grunt behind him gave a tiny squeal of pain as a bullet ripped into its head, then fell from the building onto the street below. Karj ran through the door and inside the building, then shut it behind him and quickly pulled several desks in front of it. It was hard work because of his size, but hopefully it would delay the arrival of enemy troops. There were now only two survivors of his squad, including himself, and he was determined to keep them both alive.
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Post by Zuka Zeemma on Oct 8, 2007 9:09:46 GMT -5
Zuka made a running jump across the building, onto the one that the jackal had just moved into. Once across, he waited for his stealthed companions before attempting to open the door to the stairwell, finding it barricaded. He moved back, and made a run at the door. Zuka's Energy shields flashed as he came into contacts with the door and the desks, the door would push the desks out of the way, denting the door slightly. urging his troops into the door before anyone would be able to spot the camouflaged troops, he stepped into the stairwell behind them and proceeded down the stairs, looking for the jackal.
The elites Active camouflage deactivated, and their energy shields shimmered as they activated.
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Post by Sean Reilly on Oct 8, 2007 11:33:31 GMT -5
Sean and is team had started fighting at last
seeing some grunts hiding in a building by themselves they decided to take them down, the men with the rocket launchers made the building fall to the ground, but straight away there was a squawk in his earpiece telling them not to destroy buildings, oh well they, had taken out some grunts at least
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Post by Zuka Zeemma on Oct 8, 2007 12:23:15 GMT -5
Seeing how the building would likely not be taken completly down by rocket launchers because of how large it was, it came as no surprise that they'd survived at a back part of the building, the two jackals would form shield around the third while he stood out over the exposed, blown up, part of the building, firing at the rocket marines. The marines would unlikely be able to fire again without getting sniped.
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Post by Karj on Oct 8, 2007 13:56:18 GMT -5
The building next to Karj's hideout nearly toppled, hit by enemy rockets. The Jackal almost fell as cement bombarded the walls. It seemed, however, that the UNSC had not noticed the remnants of his squad. He had a little time to get the remaining Covenant forces away, but not much. He pulled out his communicator and began speaking into it, hoping there would be a response.
"Defense squad Templar 2 requesting immediate extract by air. We are pinned down in a damaged building, with only two squad members remaining. Another squad, possibly Templar 1, is here with us and under heavy fire. Proceed with all speed to our location. Templar 2 out."
In the distance the roar of Covenant anti-grav engines could be heard, restoring the Jackal's spirits. The transport would stay low, along the rooftops and out of the line of fire. They would escape and join the battle elsewhere, if all went as planned.
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Post by Nyne 'Rawatee on Oct 8, 2007 16:44:16 GMT -5
Over the ships communicator Nyne heard a jackal named Karj say
"Defense squad Templar 2 requesting immediate extract by air. We are pinned down in a damaged building, with only two squad members remaining. Another squad, possibly Templar 1, is here with us and under heavy fire. Proceed with all speed to our location. Templar 2 out."
He thought to himself "Wow, a jackal survived bombardment. He will be among the top of his race." Nyne looked at the screen infront of him and turned on the front view. He saw the outline of ((the city where Karj is)). He said "Don't worry brotherin we are coming.
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Post by Karj on Oct 10, 2007 9:09:56 GMT -5
((2 days of no activity, proceeding))
Karj ran up to the roof, where the Covenant dropship was firing madly at the UNSC troops on the ground. Its pilot saw him, and the ramp dropped enough that he could reach it by jumping. This was made more difficult by the other Jackal in his arms, but Karj managed to throw his ally onto the ship before jumping on himself. He spent the last of his needler ammunition firing madly at the humans, hoping to cover his retreat, then dropped the needler and pulled out his communicator, sending a last message to Covenant forces in the area.
"All remaining BETA defense squads, fall back to the dropship at my position. We are surrounded and cannot fight our way out, so we must escape by air. Hurry, we must leave soon!
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Post by Sean Reilly on Oct 10, 2007 11:18:34 GMT -5
Suddenly a cackling came over too the heavy marine squad
'There is a attempt of an escape via pelican, get over there and take it down immediately, all weapons given permission'
hearing this Sean Reilly and his squad went charging across town shooting anything that got in the way, a couple of grunts, with ease.
(( I assume that they won't destory the pelican, otherwise the characters will die, so please reply about what happens before i finish off the post))
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Post by Nyne 'Rawatee on Oct 10, 2007 13:48:35 GMT -5
((Just for future reference its a covie dropship not a pelican))
"Welcome aboard Karj" said Nyne "I hope your comrades will be able to make it to this ship." "Incoming human fire!" the pilot exclaimed. Just as the last of the covenant got onto the ship the pilot took off. The dropship shot at some of the humans but missed. "We may have lost this battle, but, more victories will rise out of our loss."
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Post by Karj on Oct 10, 2007 14:05:59 GMT -5
"We have escaped, and that is what counts. I am glad you were punctual in your arrival. If you had not been so quick our demise would have been certain. We are needed to fight the war elsewhere, so let us depart for the stars."
Karj stared out the back of the dropship as the city faded to specks of light. They had been forced to abandon their positions, but had struck a blow. The UNSC had taken the position, but would be unable to use the BETA gun. They had lost men and not entirely obliterated the Covenant forces. The day was a draw, for more reasons than one. Hopefully in the days to come Karj would be at least as lucky. The dropship docked with the Invulnerable Avatar, a large Covenant cruiser, which prepared for its slipspace jump. The jump would take it away into the infinity of space, to the next battle.
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Post by Nyne 'Rawatee on Oct 10, 2007 14:13:06 GMT -5
((Where should the next battle be? I'm thinking either Earth or Reach, that would be cool))
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Post by 681 Obedient Seer on Oct 10, 2007 14:17:23 GMT -5
((I don't know, we need an objective. We should also work it out with the humans. This is, by the way, my second account.))
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