Chapter 1
Its been years since we made contact with the alien race known as the invid. what a faithful time that was at the battle of harvest....but we held our own and no a war like no other, the damn invid spread like wildfire! it was hellish though the first years, but we now have a chance. my unit has been deployed to Sigma Octanus IV for a counter attack on a invid strike force. my name is Jeremiah, im a soldier in the UNSC Marine Corps. and we have a war to win.
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It was a bright sunny day, almost good enough to take some R@R, but the invid would not be in such a mood. moments before the battle begun, our dropship toched down at the field base where our forces braced for battle, trenchs were set up, couple of Cougars moving to the forward positions, we were ready for what the damn invid were gonna hit us with.
When we landed, my unit rushed out to quikly get into position, our commander had not even given an order, but we well know what our purpose was. but one was sure of victory, our commander is a Spartan, his name was john and he was quite the fighter in the early days of the war.
The base commander up to us gave a saluted to our commander .
"Sir, we have prepared our defences" the FC said, he was a bit nervous though. "Though recon reports a large force of invid and we spotted a group of Terminators scouting ahead of the enemy main force.
The commander stayed slient till another voice was heared, a female voice. the voice of cortana, an advanced A.I. the UNSC developed years ago.
"If the invid are sending scouts, that means have no idea of our pressence. it gives has a tactical advantage in the battle"
The cheif soon spoke. i was next to him as his escort. " lets get some men to catch the scoUts before were spotted,. ill lead the team personally.
"But, sir?" the commander questioned. we might ned you here. our forces are not fully prepared yet.
"No, its alright" cortana said. me and the chief will handle this, you get the men ready, commander.
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A few hours had passed and i was laying around in our barracks, some of the men were playing cards and such, i was wasting the day just lying there. one of my squadmates came up to me, my old time friend, Ray Jefferson, he's a sergnant major in the unit were in.
"Slacking again are we?" he said, he's always been the funny guy.
I just got up and gave him a smile. "You know me Jeff, always sitting around"
"Well, get geared up, i dont you to die if we get attacked al the sudden. your lazyness would be the death of you today"
"Ya, ya sure thing buddy. well, i should get back to my post"
Ya, we go way back, at the begining of the Human-Invid War, we were kids back then. we played around my treehouse back on Reach. we used to get in all sortsa of trouble, haha. but it was over that day...when the invid found reach....
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Three hours later...
Jefferson begun breifing our squad on the coming battle, he always was a different person when he's on-duty.
"Ok, recon has found the enemy fleet and they are landing troops as i speak. our job here is to hold the trenchs for as long as we can after our fleet evacs the civilian Population of the city to our east. once the area is cleared, command has gven orders to retreat for an orbital bombardment. are we clear?
"Sir! yessir!"
"Good now lets-
But it was too late...the invid came with no warning. a blast was heared from the frontlines, as we ran up, we saw a linebreaker flew over us and it begun destroying the base, but we had tanks, as soon as they fired at the invid machine. more enemy troops emarged and attacked the men at the trenchs, Invid troops charged with plasma fire going off. they swarmed us like bees...
"Alrght men! lets roll"