User:DeionMcEwan/Retribution

The Scarab fired another burst of green plasma from its main gun, taking down another Pelican and sending it careening into a building, taking out the front wall, leaving a gaping hole to mark its passing. The fuel cells ruptured, and connected with a sparking wire. The whole thing exploded and sent down more debris on the contingency of Marines that were scrambling for what little cover the abandoned street had to offer.

The Scarab's secondary gun charged, and fired a three round burst of plasma at a few incomng VTOLs that were bold enough to make an attack run on it.

Two of the three plasma shots hit their targets, and the chassis of the wrecked Hornets plummeted to the Earth like stones. The final shot went wide, but forced the remaining Hornets to break off.

A giant, armoured leg smashed down on a car, crashing through the roof and sending Yaxley face first onto the tarmac.

Damn it he thought This just aint my day He picked up his BR55 Battle Rifle and jumped through the already chattered window of a shop, its contents either stolen or littered accross the floor.

He sighted through his scope, and saw two Grunts operating Plasma Turrets on the left hand side.

He fired two shots, both hitting home and nearly decapitating the unprepared Grunts. One of their body's fell off, and was squashed by another armoured Scarab foot.

Another Hornet flew over the Scarab, distracting its guns for just long enough for a second Hornet to send two Scorpion Missiles straight into its back, and the one that had distracted the guns quickly spun around and fired another two.

The Scarab was surrounded by smoke, and a peice of metal hit the outside wall of the shop, sinking it a good 3 inches in the wall.

The smoke finally cleared, and there was the Scarab. Dented, with a smoking hole on its back, but no futher damage.

Alpha, Bravo break off, fire ineffective repeat, fire ineffective. Yaxley keyed the warning through his COMM unit, and the Hornets flew away from the Scarab before it could take them out, using the human dwellings as cover.

The Scarab continued its inexorable advance though the city, occasionally firing at a group of Marines trying to get out of the way of its crushing feet. One group made a run for it to a peice of fallen debris from the Pelican that had crashed, but the green plasma ipacted the position, burning everything and leaving nthing but a 3 metre wide crater of glass. Yaxley heard the screams.

Yaxley sighted through the scope again, but there was nothing to shoot. How could you fight a twelve metre high gun platform with armout that no human small-scale weapon could penetrate?

You couldn't.

This Scarab was one of fifteen dropped in the city, and they all seemed to be heading in the same direction. Towards the city centre.

Three of them had been destroyed by either Longsword bombers, Orbital MAC rounds, or, if the rumours were to be believed, a squad of SPARTAN II's. Yaxley dismissed these thoughts, pushing them to a quiet corner in his mind where they stayed. He had to focus on re-grouping his scattered squads, and getting to the city centre, and finally, finding a way to take out the remaining 12 Scarab tanks.

The Covenant had entered the system of Leonis Minoris at 23:34 Local time. The UNSC Local Fleet had tried to defend one colony world, but failed miserably. The Fleet destroyed and the world Razed. As night fell on Yaxley's planet, he could see the explosions rippling along its surface, as it was the neighboring system of the world he was on now, Gamma II.

Now, The Covenant were here, and then they would move on the Gamma III system, and probably glass that too.

Bastards He thought quietly to himself while he watched another trio of Marines get blasted to ashes before they even rose from their cover.

As the Scarab dissapeared around the corner, Yaxley hopped out of the shop window, and all over the street, Marines were getting out of abandoned cars, crawling out from under rubble, or just getting up and grabbing their weapons after feigning death.

They regrouped at the centre of the street, around 20 of them left out of a contingency of around 40.

They had been set up with 50 Cal, rockets, the works, but nothing except Scorpion missiles even made a dent.

The Marines gathered around Yaxley while he called in for Evac.

This Is Marine squad Foxtrot requesting evac to Firebase Bravo. He said through the COMM, and the static was replaced by a stoic Female voice that sounded like she was tired of the job not facing and Alien invasion

Take a number man. came the reply The Scarabs are busting through everyones lines we hardly have enough Pelicans as it is.

Yaxley cursed. Well, how about re-routing some Hornets to get us...

No. came the sharp, almost instant reply All VTOL's are currently engaged with Scarabs all over the damn city.