User:Deion Mcewan/Broken Glass

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Broken Glass-By Deion McEwan The Pelican dropship accellerated through the dense atmoshphere of Dosiac, and as it sped up, it created a burning fireball in the sky that was visible for thousands of miles, and it was soon joined by at least 6 others, as the invasion force made their way through the atmosphere and past the hordes of banshee fliers that tried to drop the pelicans before they touched down.

A banshee flier made an attack run, firing its fuel rod and catching a pelican in the engines, that caused it to pitch into a steep nosedive until the fuel cells ruptured and the thing exploded, creating a fireball that stayed still.

the other pelicans made it through the atmosphere, and Longsword bombers flew down, picking off Banshee's and engaging them in dogfights that nearly all the Longswords came out of alive. One banshee got hit straight on, and got sheared in half by the 50mm cannons on the Longsword fighter, then the two halves plummeted towards the dense jungles and impacted through the trees creating two wide craters.

the Pelican's rapidly descended, leaving the battle between the Longswords and Banshee fliers behind up in the atmosphere, the landing gear deployed, the 6 remaining Pelican dropships landed in the dense jungles, dropping off 150 marines that filed out in a wide circle around the pelicans, that soon took off again and flew upwards, pursued by more banshee fliers, and a few Seraph single-ships. a pelican took a plasma bolt in the nose, and dropped below the tre line, that was soon replaced by a raging inferno marking the passage of the pelican.

another pelican down sir lieutenant Franklin said, as another picture of a pelican flashed red, then got struck out by a black 'X'.

The bridge of the Dawns Chorus was unusually quiet given the drama of the situation, and the Captain of the ship was ready to send ODST's down if necessary, but right now he was just standing there, puffing on a Sweet William cigar, watching the Helmet Camera footage of a Marine as he walked through the jungle with his MA5C shouldered, and a bush started to rustle, and he trained his weapon on the bush, 2 other marines did, and a brute cheiftain rushed out, accompanied by 3 others with Brute shots, all rushed them, brute shots firing at the marines camera, and it shut off, static filling the scene. William is down sir, and i'm reading 3 more, wait, 4 more down the Captain took the cigar out of his mout go to the next marine he said

The veiwscreen filled with another marines footage, and it showed a brute hefting a marine, and using the blade of his Brite shot to slit his throat. The body went limp, and the brute threw it to the side, and the body hit a tree. The camera showed a MA5C being hefted by the marine, and a full clip impacted the brute, catching him in the eye causing him to scream in pain, and causing lood to gush out of the eye slits in his armor. the brute fell, and it was replaced by anothe weilding a spiker. the Brute Cheiftain hefted a gravity hammer and, using the blade, decapitated a marine. the head flew into another that was hopelessly firing at the cheiftain with a pistol. the cheiftain went off screen, and the spiker filled the veiw screen and fired once, causing the thing to go static

5 more gone sir! they're dropping like flies down there the veiwscreen got filled by another camera footage of the marien that was on the floor. the pistol was still strobing at the cheiftain, who's sheild was flaring, and it died, but it raised its hammer and brought it down, but the brute got tackled by 3 other marines, so the hammer dropped next to the marines face, and one marine pulled out a knife and sank it to the hilt in the brutes neck, the brutes arms flailing, then stopping forever.

the other brutes, witnessing the death of their leader, went mad with rage and began charging the marines, firing spikers and brute shots, and slicing with the blades. 2 minutes and 13 more marine deaths later, the brutes were subdued, with only 22 marine casualties, and 13 brute deaths.

the Captain watched the whole scene, but the Lieutenant still gave him the full report of contact on all sides, and strafing from banshees. total brute casualties: 34. total marine casualties: 56.

set up a mobile command post there, and we'll send Anti Air guns down later, but right now focus on defending that base static washed over the comm, and Lieutenant George Sampson replied and said 'yes sir, but we could use some ODST motion trackers down here to moniter the perimeter another burst of static and the Captain said roger that, an ODST squad is en route to your location with motion trackers

thank you sir George said, then switched off the comm. he turned to his marines and said get those turrets set up i dont want any surprises the marines nodded and rushed about setting up turrets around the perimeter and soon, 12 ODST drop pods smashed into the clearing, and the ODST's got out with motion trackers all set up around near the turrets, and soon, the base was all set up with tents, turrets and even a communications tent, protected by marines with SPNKr missile. a few banshees made an attack run, but two got destroyed by the rockets from the marines

The day soon turned into night, and the LT stayed awake thinking of their objective: as the brutes had been a major millitary force in the Human Covenant war, and the Great Scism had split most of them onto two sides, the brutes had been forced back into a pre-industrial age, but because of all the Covenant Technology left behind, they were making advancements quickly, and the UNSC didnt want them to get their hands on covenant weapons or ship-scale plasma and sheild weapons, so, the Dawns Colours had been conscripted to go to the Brutes homeworld of Doisac to blow up a ship building yards. they couldnt take it out from orbit because of sheilding, and the Anti Aircraft guns were protecting the sight from any air attack.

it was a dangerous mission, and the marines that were there were classed as an invading army, but it was very hush-hush by the spooks at ONI, and the marine casualties were already high, and there was only one frigate in orbit so if the brutes did have space worthy craft, the Dawn's Chorus couldnt stay in combat for long.

The LT stayed awake all night, watching the turrets move and strafe the perimeter, it was oddly soothing watching the 40mm cannons train on targets and move from side to side. he found himself drifting into a deep sleep.

he awoke with a start as the brute roared in his face, the spittle from the roar setting deep into the stubble of his beard. he quickly reached for his MA5C, but it wasnt there. there was only a rocket launcher, and at such a close range, neither of them would survive the blast.

he drew back his fist and swung his arm with all his might. his fist connected with the brutes face, and a satisfying crunch could be heard, but it was from the LT's hand, coupled with the resounding slapping sound from the face of the brute. the LT was already crawling backwards in search of a pistol or something, but the brute had got over the shock and, spiker drawn, he ran forward towards the LT, who had managed to secure a pistol, and he span and fired and hit the brute square in the forehead and fell and landed on top of the LT.

he looked around and saw that brutes were all over the base, grabbing marines and shooting all over the place. he tried to push the brute corpse off of him, but he couldnt muster the strength, and the brutes around him were ignoring him for now. his hand was starting to hurt more every second, and soon it was unbearable. an ODST fell next to him and handed him a SMG, then got run through with the blade from a Spiker. the SMG still in the LT's hand, he began to fire at the brute with the SMG, and a repeating sound of wet thwacks echoed around the base.

Another brute charged another marine, who barely had time to raise his weapon before the spiker blades stuck in his abdomen and he was lifted up by the brute. the marine had a look of pain on his face, but also a smile as the pins from 2 grenades fell to the floor, and an inferno replaced the two figures that were shadowed by the white light on the scene.

the last brute charged the LT, who raised his SMG and began to fire, but the brute sidestepped and swung a brute shots blade. The LT ducked and rolled under the blade, and stuck a knife in the brutes leg. the brute yelled in pain, and the LT brought the knife down in the brutes neck, and blood gushed from the wound. the brute breathed no more.

the marines regrouped, 80 left in total out of 150, including 9 ODST's, ready to push on to the ship building yards 20 miles away. they could just make out the faint blue shimmer of the top of the energy sheild covering the ship building yard, but as they set out, a rumbling made them look up, and a ship nosed its way out of the sheild and directly up, breaking the gravity well. it was a CCS class battlecruiser, and more than a match for the Dawns Chorus.

Dawns Chorus made a slingshot orbit and came about to become face to face with a CCS class battlecruiser, one of the Covenants most common ships, and also more than a match for the Dawn, so they either had to chance an engagement which they was more that certainly lose, or retreat and get reinforcements from the Fleet.

The ship continued towards the Battlecruiser, and the CCS started to power up its plasma weapons, and asers discharged along its length and peppered the Frigate with a hundred tiny holes. the Dawn vented atmosphere and fired its MAC cannon.

The MAC round tore through space and impacted on the Brute ships sheild. it flared a silvery colour, but it held. Plasma discharged along its ength as well as 34 more pulse laser shots. more atmosphere vented from the Dawn, and a plasma torpedo impacted it in port, burning away the titanium A battle plate, and destroying hundreds of Archer missile pods.

The humans frigate turned around and the Captain took his cigar out of his mouth and put it out against the railing and sighed. take us into slipspace lieutenant he said. the Lieutenant looked confused, but he keyed in the calculations, and the frigate turned and, engines flaring, jumped into the event horizon of Slipspace just as another 2 CCS Battlecruisers came around from the darkside of the planet to join the others

Down on the ground things wern't going well either. the marines that managed to survive the two Brutes seige were now at the mercy of the Nature of Doisac. Sturmbeetles - massive beetles as big as the humans themselves with massive pincers where a sting would be on a scorpion and claws the size of a small bush- attacked them, pincers flailing and catching marines, and crushing them with their massive mandibles.

massive mosquitos attacked as well, with stingers and mouth parts as thick and long as the LT's arms. one managed to get its pincer through a marines arm, and dragged him off screaming, while the other marines fended off the other fly's.

the contingency of marines came out of the jungle 43 strong, ready to attack the shipyards. until the 3 ships that were in orbit began to sail down through the clouds, unmistakeablt heading towards the remaining marines and ODST's.