User:Ebon Shadowshot/Halo: Delta Drop

Halo: Delta Drop is a first person short story written by Gruntijackal, it follows the events of a squad of 7 Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, along with three seperate Pelican Pilots, on their drop into Installation 05.

United Nations Space Commands

 * Gunnery Seargent Edward Buck
 * The Rookie (name Classified)
 * John-117 (mentioned)
 * Commander Mirande Keyes (mentioned)
 * Captain Jacob Keyes (mentioned)
 * Cortana (heard)

Covenant

 * The Prophet of Regret (holographic)

United Nations Space Command

 * Bill Remok (mentioned)
 * Edward Flen
 * John Yorkfore
 * Unknown ODST 1 (me)
 * Unknown ODST 2, 3, 4 and 5

Covenant

 * Minister of Exploration (holographic)

Before the Drop
I stood at attention aboard the UNSC In Amber Clad, the First Battle of Earth was over, the Prophet of Regret had retreated, quickly followed by the In Amber Clad. Gunnery Seargent Edward Buck walked down the row of 6 ODSTs, Me, four others, the famous 'Rookie', the silent one. After walking and discussing with other officials, Gunnery Seargent Edward Buck finally spoke to us, "Gentlemen, our mission is simple, we are going to drop into Delta Halo's atmosphere and engage the Covenant while the Master Chief hunts down the Prophet of Regret. Some of the ODST's sighed with relief, a simple mission.

"However, our secondary objective is to gather intel on what the Prophet of Regret is doing on this ring. And we are to send the intel straight to Commander Keyes," Buck spoke.

"I suppose she would want to know considering the fact her father failed to so," another ODST said. Buck remained silent for a brief moment.

"We drop in five minutes, gear up ODSTs," he finished.

The four ODST's split up, to gather weapons. I quickly ran towards the weapons, I picked up a M7S Caseless Submachine Gun, and ODST's favourite weapons. I was also a sniper for long ranged situations, so I walked over, picking up a SRS99C-S2 AMB Sniper Rifle along the way. I also picked up M6C/SOCOM, one of the quietist weapons in the UNSC arsenal. I also picked up a simple knife. Along with a couple of M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenades for desperate situations. I was fully set for battle. I walked over to the other ODSTs, which had gathered weapons for their needs. Most getting a MA5B Assault Rifle along with a M19 SSM Rocket Launcher, due to their personality. The Rookie got excatly the same as me, except for the Sniper Rifle, of course. I didn't really like the other ODSTs, and would prefer to do what I need to fight, rather than listen to them boast about there 'couragous acts' when infact, I was the one who saved there sorry ass from death. I stepped into my pod, and grabbed hold of the handle. The pod then closed.