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Journals of the Doomed: Part 4
Posted By: Gasmask
Date: 28 December 2001, 5:21 pm
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Journal of Private Salak,Robert A. 96 hours after the landing of Halo December 1, 2889
Journal, I am shivering around a small fire inside our cave. The weather has made a sudden turn for the worse, as our mission today seemed to do. Today, I, David, Thomas Johnson, and Al Shepherd were on our way to support the Master Chief, when we were engaged by Covenant Banshees. Banshees are sleek attack fighters used by the Covenant. Anyway, we went down, and the Master Chief worked his way down to us by going through the Super structure on his way to the control room. Before we went down, our pelican dropped of our Scorpion tank, and we jumped out for dear life. Sergeant Hawk was there with us. We held our position, waiting for the Master Chief, when suddenly another Banshee appeared. Thomas grabbed the Jackhammer (a.k.a. "Spanker") rocket launcher, and nailed it. That brought a little bit of trouble. Elites in Ghosts and a swarm of grunts showed up. I jumped in the tank's gunner port, and shot down two ghosts with the main cannon. David nailed six grunts with two sniper shots (good, isn't he?) while Thomas, Al, Srg. Hawk and I took out the rest of the ground forces. We kept waiting, wondering if the Chief was dead, when he showed up. The Chief could man both the driving and the gunning of the tank because of his suit, so he was in the tank, while the rest of us hopped on. We drove on to the next partition, where another large force appeared. Roughly 20 grunts, 8 elites, three manned turrets, and two Covenant death tanks. The M.C. took out the tanks and ran over a bunch of guys, while the rest of us moppe up. We drove down a large corridor, and the Chief hopped out. "Stay there," he ordered. He activated a holo pannel, which opened a 25 meter high blast door blocking our way. We drove through the corridor, keeping constant vigilance. There was a chasm with enemies on our side and on the other side. There was one bridge between it. There were also two plasma turrets on either side of it. The Chief took them out with the main turret, while we marines concentrated on the little scum. David was in his element. He sniped three elites, ten grunts, and a hunter from across the bridge. We crossed, and met enemy fire. The chief ran over the other hunter, and just oblitterated the last group of enemies with the main cannon. We went through another long passage. We had several other skirmishes, until we got to a point where we couldn't drive the tank anymore. We hopped off, and ran through the obstacles. There were hoardes of enemies over the next ridge. The Master Chief had picked up a rocket launcher earlier, and took out turrets and aliens. We gave him backup so he could flank and surprise his targets. After what seemed like an eternity, we moved into the building. We had several other skirmishes, and we finally found the controll room. Or, I should say, the Master Chief found it. He ordered us to stay behind and wait for pickup. We were picked up 20 minutes later, and were taken back to H.Q. I had frostbite in my fingers, and the med techs fixed me up. It's rather cold, and it's my night for watch. I'll right mor tomorrow.
>End Transmission<
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