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The RP topic for this: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/434014.page
Have fun!

Revre slowly crawls to the blown window on the second floor of the department store. Revre pulls up his DMR and checks the ammo indicator, 15 shots it read and he muttered "Well thats good, I just need 20 times more to survive in this crappy place." Revre hears foot steps behind him and flips around to see a grunt opening a door. Revre shoots the grunt but doesn't hear the crack he is used to. He hasn't used the silencer he recieved in the last resupply since deployment. The grunt fell to the ground and Revre picked up it's 2 grenades and the plasma pistol it had. Revre turns around again and crawls to the window and peers out looking for anything that moves.

In the small town of Rockrise, on the outskirts of New Alexandria, hid a man named Kenny Brovic. Kenny crouched in the shadows, in an alleyway leading towards the post office. In this alleyway there were also two covenant soldiers, a grunt, almost halfway through, and a jackal, further back. They both faced away from Kenny, and he stalked forwards towards them, muttering, "Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary,"
With line he took a step.
"Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,"
Step.
"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly came a tap, tap, tapping,"
With each repetition of 'tap' he took a step.
" 'Tis some visitor' I muttered 'and nothing more"
He was within grabbing distance of the grunt, and prepared to strike.
"Only this and nothing more,"
He leaped forward, catching the grunt from behind, and tearing off it's methane mask. It struggled to call out to its ally, but Kenny held it down, silencing it. He muttered down close to its face, "Only this, and nothing more"

Icewolf was perched about 50 metres above a convoy of grunts and jackels that was moving slowly through a rocky basin. He had his dmr scoped in and was looking calmly through it at the positioning of each foe. He noted the three jackels with long range weapons, the others had needlers, the grunts with plasma pistols and the elite with a plasma repeater. The spartan gradually curled his finger around the trigger, inhaled and held his breath sighting along the barrel. Then squeezed the trigger.

The harsh crack that came from the weapon was like the end of the world for the poor grunts who started screaming and running around, preventing the elite from figureing out where the shot had come from. One of his jackels was down and a coupl of seconds later the elite heard anouther shot, he spun around to see anouther jackel downed. He turned once more to see his last needlerifle carrier take a bullet through the side of his powered shield and go straight through the jackel's skull, splattering purplish blood over the rocks. The elite looked up and brought his weapon to bear but it was too late.

Icewolf had taken the three shots then stowed his Dmr and pulled out his assault rifle and combat blade, then jumped. He fell a good 20 metres before twisiting slightly in midair and ripping of a burswt of assault rifle rounds that ate thier way across the elites face. Icewolf landed heavily and felt the rocks cracking beneath him as he came out of his crouch and sped forwards activating his armour's sprint function. He felt the armour take over pistoning his legs allowing him to concentrate on the elite holwing in outrage. His arm came up to try and ward a blow from the spartan but Icewolf had gone low his combat blade slipping underneath the elites guard and puncturing internal organs. Icewolf wrenched the weapon free and kicked the elite hard in the chest which sent the alien sprawling. Icewolf leapt forwards and fired a controlled burst through the elite's eye socket killing the covenant.

A hale of plasma pistol plinked across Icewolf's shield and he heard his suit's semi pleasant woman's voice saying.
"Shields low, take cover Terrence"
Icewolf ignored the voice and spun into a crouch, avoiding a second volley as he sheathed his combat blade bringing his assault rifle up to his shoulder and emptying the clip into the five remaining grunts. He ejected the clip with a sharp gesture and hammered nouther home in time to see a stream of needles flying towards him. Icewolf heard his suits now sarcastic voice again
"I supose you want those to hit you as well?"\
He grunted and dived out of the way rolling to come up behind a rock. He heard the needles sinister detonations against it. He rose from his cround and leapt ove rthe rock, annihilating two of the jackels midflight with a short burst, then dropping the assault rifle and allowing it to hang on its grav harness as he lands, pulling the combat blade from its chest sheath and stabbing it straight through the center of the last jackel's power shield and through its chest. The Jackel fell with a gurgle and Icewolf straightened thumbing his radio.
"Targets down. Next objective?"
The voice that came through the radio was a gruff masculine voice that belonged to Icewolf's seargeant
"Sir anouther spartan landed about 2 klicks north of your position and has holed up in a sniper's nest. Make contact Sir. There is a strong covenant strike force moving on foot through the area and the two of you could deal with them as a team better than solo. Guvvy out."
"Thankyou seargeant, commenceing radio silence."

Icewolf took the plasma grenades fro the corpses snapping them to his belt hooks and reloaded his DMR and AR. Then started to move off in the direction of the settlement. He could make the distance in about 20 minutes on flat ground, here it could take half an hour. His trip was uneventful and felt long as he allowed his suit to do the running for him. Occaisionally taking control to correct his route. A couple of times he had to scale cliff faces to get out of the canyon. Once out however he quickly spotted the colony where the sniper would be. And began to make his way towards it.

(Note you would be able to spot me now)

Forward he crept, towards the covenant sniper, still muttering Poe under his breath. The jackal suddenly turned, and screeched out in it's alien language. It made an attempt to raise it, but Kenny perforated it with his pistol, howling out, "Nevermore!" He danced over to the corpse, and was about to liberate it of its rifle, when the footsteps of its out of site compatriots sent him skittering back into the alley. He stuck close to the wall, and several grunts led by an elite moved through the alley, and past him. He held his breath, and when they passed, Kenny whispered in relief "Not fear. Fear has a countenance,"

Kenny made his way to the post office outside the alley, and up the marble steps. The door swung open silently on its hinges, and he peered inside. The lights were out, and the sun stretched his shadow into the building. His footsteps on the cold, clean floor rang out like gunshots, and Kenny flinched with each step. He hauled himself over the counter, and wandered aimlessly in the back, picking up and discarding pieces of mail that would never be delivered. Finally, Kenny rolled into a hamper half filled with letters and packages. He pulled them over himself in a decent enough disguise, and drifted off into garbled dreams.

Revre hears gun fire to the north but his view is blocked by an ONI office. 3 marines move through the stree in front of him and he watches them. 2 ghosts being ridden by elites swooped in, their first burst cut 2 marines down as the elites stopped and one of them took up the third marine inhis hand and began interrogating him. In 5 minutes the marine was dead with a plasma hole through his stomach. He elites moved on their patrol and Revre waited for his rendevous.

As Icewolf approaches the colony and drops to a prone position as he crawls through the rocks. His line of vision is parially obscured by a slope of scree but he begins to see the outlines of ghosts and other covenant vehicles before long. The city is clearly consumed with conflict and as well as flashes of muzzle fire and the sounds of heavy guns Terrence can hear the screams of dieing civilians in the midday sun. Icewolf curses and draws his DMR sighting along the barrel as he shuffles forwards for a better view. He notes a line of tall office blocks in the middle of the colony where a thin gunsight reflection can be seen. He opens a secure channel after locking onto the Spartan's radio.

"This is Spartan Colonel Blackwood designation Icewolf. I am about 300 metres from the city limits, westwards of your position. I am going to make a beeline to your position and need assistance in the designated destruction of these targets."
Icewolf sends a pict of the two ghosts and thier coordinates.
"Please Respond over"

Revre hears the call on the radio. "This is call sign Falcon, meet at Rendevous 2 for details on situation. Hold out side the city limits by the bar on your side of the town. I will meet you there in 3-0 mikes"

"This is call sign Falcon, meet at Rendevous 2 for details on situation. What is your position?"
Terrence listens to the radio message and rises into a crouch, sending a data stream with his coordinates. He recieves one pinning the Rendevous point on his hud and he begins moving through the darkness. The ghosts move on as he moves through the darkness and do not bother him. Icewolf stays low to the ground and in the shadow's as he moves through the city to the Rendevous. He avoids conflict as much as possible not wanting to raise an alarm of his prescence, but is forced to make several tactical takedowns with his DMR. He moffles the shots in allies where the sound will not carry and moves on. Eventually he reaches the rendevous and with his tactical display notices the camoflauged sniper.
He unseals his helmet taking it off to show short cropped dark briwn hair and startling blue eyes, his face is tall and gaunt, drawn as if through hunger or hardship, but his blue eyes are very much alive and as he talks in the darkness his voice is steady.
"Falcon, this is Icewolf, what is the situation?"

"Local police forces are overwhelmed and gone. UNSC is trying it's best but are being pushed back. We have 10,000 MIA currently. I have a mission we are assigned to. i will fill you in at the rendevous; maintain radio silence so we can't get tracked."

Icewolf nods once,
"Dont bother with any of that Sir business either. We are all equal out here. Corporal"
Terrence puts his helmet back on and pulls his DMR off its harness and to his shoulder
"Lead the way"

"Roger, we are heading to a weapons locker in the ONI building. number 1774. We have to pick up some weapon plans for the higher ups. I reconed the area and it is heavily guarded. Most of the defenders are jackals with some elites around."

"10-4 spartan lets move"
Icewolf takes a line somewhat parrallel to the sniper and moves quickly through the undercity his DMR's scope sweeping trough the gloom. They take backroutes and allies to get to the oni building. When they get there Terrence switches to his AR but lets the sniper take point.

"Hold here commander" whispers Revre. We're getting deep here. I will scout it out and report back. Revre activates the camoflauge generator and sneaks off into the highly urban area.

5 minutes later Revre reports back and is holding a large weapon. "The covenant have new tech. This plasma weapon shoots fasterthan the rifles and the plasma is higher-yield. One of these things could give us a run for our money. We need to be careful. Other than that we are clear to withing a klick of ONI; that is where the real fun will be." Revre turns around and leads thebpair deeper into he city.

Icewolf was perturbed, the covenant were producing higher yield weapons? That was never good. He kept his AR shouldered as he followed the sniper in the half light of the now setting sun. Eventually the sniper had them stop again.
"This is the building commander"
Icewolf looks up at the imposing structure and grimaces, it felt like a trap. But he had to get into that building so he unlatched one of the plasma grenades from his belt and held it loosely in one hand, his AR in the other.
"I will take point Falcon. The locker number was 1774 wasnt it?"
The sniper nods
"Good then lets start moving. Set the plasma grenade up on a trip wire, we downt want anything following us in."

Terrence makes a few steps into the building and then waits as the sniper follows him and sets up the trip wire trap. Then the two start moving into the building. Icwolfcan hear the flitting of something small and winged, but he cant see it. Then all of a sudden as they come out into the main foyer a hail of plasma shots rip through the darkened building from the roof area and the Spartans dive into cover. Terrence switching to night vision only to see a large swarm of flying covenant hailing the room with plasma shots.
"Falcon make a move for the elevator, this is was a trap. Stay calm these thigns dont seem to be able to see well int he dark. Only fire as a last resort."

The two spartans make thier way cautiously from cover to cover as the plasma shots still hail around the foyer. Icewolf's suit making course suggestions in its female tones. Eventually they make the elevator but the moment Terrence touches the call button the swarm turns towards him.
"Oh for the love of earth. Steady Falcon, controlled bursts, and pick up a plasma weapon as soon as possible, we dont want to waste ammo here."

'Communication is shot down' one of the marines said. 'No way to get out of this damn place.'
'Crap,' Pete said, 'why did they made those ONI headquarters so big anyways?'
Just as he grabbed his battle rifle from the ground, a marine shouted.
'Incoming!'
Loading his gun, Pete saw them. Elites.

Revre hears gunfire from deeper in the building. After he sets up 2 trip wires he and icewolf start moving toward the combat zone to se what is going on

Terrence breathes a sigh of relief as the elevator pings and the two men scramble into it, the swarmers firing indiscriminantly against the door but they are well cear, rocketing up to the higher floors. When the elevator stops they get out, the colonel hears the same gunfire as the falcon does and takes point, making a clear gesture for Falcon to give him cover with his DMR as they move up the stairs. Icewolf immediatly spots the conflict. An odst trooper and several marines were in a gunfight with half a dozen elites. Icewolf nodded once and then moved forwards. DMR shots wizzing over his head and straight into the back of the farthest elite's head. Icewolf went straight for the closest one.

A crack saw the head of the Elite Pete was fighting explode in a shower of purple gore, he looked down the corridor to see a Spartan sniping downrange. He was never happier to see a Spartan... wait two Spartans, he noted a long combat blade protruding from the neck of the elite at the back of the corridor, anouther elite fell to the marines and Pete concentrated on the remainders.

Icewolf had moved down the corridor in a quick burst of speed, his Combat blade already out and moving. It had pierced the elite's neck before it realised what was happening. A quick burst of AR fire shredded anouther elite's back. The ODST trooper took down anouther and the marines managed to take down the last two. Icewolf stepped forwards taking off his helmet.
"This is Colonel Blackwood designation Icewolf. good to see you ODST, marines good work. Falcon and I just reached the building, theres a swarm below us in the foyer. What's your situation?"

Revre reports in over the radio box. "I am going to scout out the area and see what is around here. I will keep radio channels open."

Mikhail could barely hear his breathing above the screaming of the drop pod.
5 minutes ago, he and his squad were prepping for their drop when the hull of their ship violently shuddered. Alarm klaxxons broke out, and the equipment room was suddenly bathed in red light. The Covenant were already at Reach.
"MOVE, HELLJUMPERS!" the Staff Sergeant barked. "GET YOUR ASSES IN GEAR! EMERGENCY DROP!" Mercifully, Mikhail had just finished suiting up for the drop, and had only to grab his DMR and sprint to his pod station. The hull shook two more times. He could faintly hear secondary explosions detonating elsewhere. The aliens were beginning to fire on the transport, hoping to blast it from orbit before delivering its payload. The drop-troopers would have to evacuate fast before turning into more star dust.
Mikhail barely fastened his safety harness in place before the drop pod closed its hatch. After a few tense moments, the small vehicle was shot out of the holding bay and into the void of space.

'All communication is jammed. We are going to look for the source and stop it. Thanks for the help. So, what's your situation?'

Icewolf looks around the corridor at the six dead elites and then speaks
"I'm sure you could have handled these soldier, you seem capable enough. But there is no cause for loss of friendly life and your amrines arnt so durable. Regardless our objective is a weapons locker furthur up the building, we will go with you and assist. There are still civilians around. We need to get them to safety, so after this we will head out in the Falcons that are usually in the hangar's of the ONI buildings and make a dash from there. There are strong prescences of anti personnel light vehicles moving through the streets. The Falcons should take care of them." Icewolf notices the sniper coming back
"Ah speaking of Falcons, what did you find spartan?"

"We have a hunter pair in the Control Room and three elites spread out around the armory. Jackals are scavenging, counted 9. They aren't aware of our presence as of now. He hunters are locked in right now and don't know it but they can and will blow their way out when we start shooting. I think you should take a few marines head through the middle, the ODST and he rest of the marines move left and I will go up in the vents. Plan?"

Bane looked at the phantom and the troops inside. He had handpicked these jackals for their deadliness, 15 jackals, 9 with Needle rifles, 4 with needlers, and two with beam rifles. He was only tagging along at this point, he was supposed to get them to the ONI building then meet up with 4 other elites.

Green light. Suddenly the doors opened and the Jackals began to drop down onto the street. Bane leapt out with a loud battle roar and began to charge the marines barricade, and with a massive leap, hurtled over the make shift wall. He hit the ground with a thud, and before the Marines could react he lunged towards one and sent his energy sword through his skull, and ripped upwards, turning the mans head into mush. Needle fire tore into a few men as they began to try to hit the massive alien, but Bane was quick, and hit cover. After de-activating his sword he pulled out his plasma rifle, but before he could the force was down, due to massive and accurate Jackal fire. He walked out into the street and kicked one of the bodies that was on his stomach, once he rolled over he plucked a grenade from him. Bane orderd the jackals do the same. Bane repeated the process until he had 3 frag grenades, and tested one out. Chunking the grenade through a window to tests its weight and time until explosion. Now bane had 4 plasma grenades and 2 frags, but he was not done. He stripped the marines rifles of all ammo and proceeded to empty the clips onto the ground.

After a short walk they could see the omni building. "Zealot team, copy, zealot team do you read?" Bane said into the mic, he needed the zealot team with him when they moved through the building. He saw a pair of hunter hulking in the street and brought them into the squad. He was ready to attack the omni building.
(Most of this happened before the omni building was attacked)

'Mike,' Pete said, 'see that elite there?' He pointed towards one of the elites. 'On my mark.'
The others had already taken their target. 'Now.'
Just as he finished his words, marines began firing, and an ODST dropped on an elite with his knife.
With a enormous sound, the door to the control room exploded, the Hunter pair leaping out of it.
'Crap.'

Rifle shots cracked out from the ONI building and Bane was hit by one of them, his shield held strong,but not realizing that they would fire shook him. The barrage took out 4 of his jackals, 1 of the Rifelmen, 3 of the Needlers. He shot back with his plasma rifle when he heard an explosion and light from the rifle men.
"Move!" Bane yelled as he ran up to the door. He broke through the glass and saw a group of marines DMRs and assault rifles. He mode a barell roll to the left and landed behind a desk, but the combined fire ripped his shield to gak. THe jackals rushed in a suppressed the marines, but 2 more riflemen died, leaving bane with 9. He let his shield recharge a little bit and hopped up with his plasma rifle ready and a frag grenade in his other hand, and tossed it over the room.
" Grenade watc-" Then the explosion and silence. The silence lasted for about a second or two before Bane blew them away with his plasma rifle.
"Up the stairs! Get to the armory!" Bane shouted kicking down the maintenance door to the stairs. He saw two men at the top of the stairs before they realized they need to shoot, the first was run through with Banes sword, bane grabbed the other by the neck and threw him down the stairs. He continued up until the armory door, in which he began to cut through the lock with his sword. He heard movement inside and a man shouting out orders.
"Get your grenades ready, as soon as these doors open" He grunted has he cut through the thick lock " throw them in, then unload your clips into the smoke, when you are done reload and wait until the smoke clears"

Bane could feel the lock break, but waited. "Zealot team, respond!" He shouted into the mic, "Zealot team!" He needed them to help launch the assault, and be shock troopers. "I need a spec ops team to drop onto the ONI building NOW"

"Roger that,3 43rd Company spec op troopers launching now, time of arrival 30 seconds, team aimed at ONI buildings roofs. "
"Feels good to be in charge" He said to himself.

The hunter pair burst through the door and the two of then walk out and begin striding towards the marines and ODST. Revre is in the vents and ready and leaps out ofthe vent and lands stealthily behind them. Revre pulls out 2 plasma grenades and sticks both of them to the hunter in the rear of pack. The Hunter feels it and turns around andfharges is fuel rod but the grenades explode and the hunter is blown apart and dies. The second hunter hears it's mate's death shriek and turns around and flies into a rage swinging and charging at Revre. Revre activates his winch system and flies into the vent and quickly moves away. Right behind him plasma blasts hit the vent and it melts quickly and steadily. "The first hunter is down. It's mate is ragin though. Extreme caution; ODST watch your back and your fire I am going to link up with you." Revre slides out of the vent in a different room and begins making his way to the ODST.

(Just asking, is bane a brute or an elite?)

Icewolf bursts through the wall next t the hunter having come along a parrallel corridor and leaps onto its back. He brings his AR to bear and fires a heavy stream of shots straight into its head armour. Then dropping the AR into his grav harness he stabs down with his Combat blade enlarging the hole made by the bullets. The Hunter is screaming and bucking trying to throw the Spartan off but Icwolf has a firm grip with his thighs and the creature cant throw him and deal with the incoming fire from the marines. ICewolf finishes with the knife, stows it and then pushes his last plasma grenade into the hole and activates it leaping clear. The hunter explodes messily and Icewolf ducks behind cover, slamming anouther clip into his AR
"Marines move forwards, ODST cover them, Falcon see if you can get a bead on those elites.

Hale points into the large open room ahead of them and down at the pack of elites moving towards him.
"ODST grenade into the middleground on my mark.... three, two one, mark!"
The ODST throws the grenade and it explodes throwing the elites backwards and draining their shields whicha re then picked off by Falcon the marines spread out and annihilate the Jackel's while Icewolf coordinates thier movements and provides supporting fire with his AR. Then he heard the lock break on the room behind them. They had neatralised the targhet's in the open room so Icewolf made a snap descision.
"Marines throw grenades at the door, all of your grenades in two volleys on my mark. ODST get into cover, Marines drop back once grenades thrown. Falcon get into supportive fire position, something big is coming."
Icewolf dropped back to the first line of cover in the room and brought his DMR to bear.
"MARK!"

(Not giving you time to open the door on your own lol)

To call the scene behind the plexi-glass window chaotic was a gross understatement. Massive Covenant ships prowled the space above Reach, unleashing barrages of energy weapons into the straggling human ships, ripping them to shreds. The UNSC ships fought back, but to little avail, and were beginning to target the Covenant transports, trying to delay the ground forces of reinforcements.
Mikhail saw all this, though it was a shaky vision, as the drop pod plummeted to the surface.
Sweat began to trail down his shaved forehead. He was focusing on his heartbeat, trying to steady his breathing, all the while watching as the massive starships jockeyed for positions and blasted each other into oblivion.
A warning signal appeared on the side, indicating the pod entering the atmosphere. He could faintly see flames licking up from the bottom, hungry to consume the entire vehicle. He knew he would be relatively safe until he finally hit the ground. Then, the real danger would start.
After a harrowing ten minutes, the flames died down, and he could see the blue of Reach's atmosphere, though it was tainted by billowing smoke from below. Then, the pod's rockets kicked in, slowing the craft's descent. This was it. His first taste of combat, and his chance to avenge the death of his father. Mikhail fumbled with his restraints to unfasten them, when he felt the pod come to a sudden bone-shaking halt.
The pod opened its hatch, and Mikhail leapt from it, searching for his squad-mates.

(Ive only been in a few RPGs before so Ill do trhe best I can to keep up with you guys!)

Conrad skulked through the empty alleyways of the settlement. Things were heating up fast. Covenant dropships were going somewhere. Wherever they were going, it sounded like on helluva fight.

He checked the scope on his DMR and cradled it like a baby as he did a quick field check on the weapon.

Conrad wished his squad wasent dead, they were some of the closest friends he ever had... He had been with them ever since Paris Island and Reach was starting to feel like a lonley place... He tryed to keep his mind clear. "Ive got to get to those allies." He murmured trying to keep himself focused.

It wasent long before he was there. The place was crawling with Covies and he was having trouble staying unoticed. He found a building over looking the ONI building. A great vantage point. He slinked silently into the building and set up his rifle.

CRACK! A grunt dropped, its life extinguished by the DMRs round. CRACK! Another one dead. CRACK! and another... He sure hoped this was helping whoever was inside that building...