Altarus and his team ran over the hill to launch his attack. Grunts and elites were startled by the attack yet they were prepared. Altarus set a bubble shield on the ground for some cover, Hardware and Des did the same. After Des set his shield up he ran up to a advancing elite and spun a 360 to put his wrist dagger in the elites torso then taking a step to judo throw him. He took a hit yet his shields kept up. Every so often marines would pop out to shoot then run back to the bubble for protection. Altarus ran out shortly after Des stabbed the elite to shoot a couple suicides to prevent them form reaching Des and the shields. A suicide grunt ran to Altarus, to close to shoot him, so Altarus side stepped and used the butt of his gun as a golf club and hit the grunt into another group of grunts, exploding, killing a couple grunts in a row.

Des watched what happened, “Now that was sweet!” he muttered.

Hardware in the mean time was keeping the shields charged and keeping grunts and elites away from the shields. The Covenant made trenches and Altarus knew that if they were going to have a chance, they would need to take control of those trenches. Des tossed a frag in the trench in front of him clearing it out.

Altarus ran back to the marines, “I want you guys to surround this base, go left and right till you make a full circle then move in clearing the trenches. Go now and lets finish this!” Altarus said.

Altarus ran back stepping on a grunt and leaping over a trench, rolling to break his fall and standing up to strike a elite with the butt of his gun leaving purple junk on his gun and purple mist in the air. The elite fell yet he was still trying to get up. Altarus kicked him in the face and shot him three times with his assault rifle.

“Hardware, Des, were going in!” Altarus said rounding up his team.

The were under fire as Des placed a frag charge on the door. They backed off to let it explode and then swarmed it in their. Three elites stood near the core. Altarus shot one of them down aimed for the next one and his gun clicked empty. He switched to his SMG’s so he was no longer Running On Empty and shot the swords out of the elites hands who were running towards them. The stopped and they bend over to pick up their swords and when they stood, Altarus was their a SMG’s in both of their alien mouths and fire spraying their face all over the floor.

“Damn Covenant juice better not clog my gun.” Altarus said and turned around to see why Des and Hardware did not assist him.

He could almost tell that they had their mouths open through their helmet.

After a awkward silence Des spoke up, “Damn Ghost, your a killing machine!”

Hardware stepped in, “That was pretty sweet.”

After some kicks and grins they walked to the core.

“Alright we got to deactivate this core, Des how do we do it?” Altarus said and Des replied “Toss a frag in it.” Hardware slapped him in the back of the head and said, “You wanna kill us? Place a plasma charge on the control panel, get out, and blow it.”

Altarus nodded and place the charge. After it was ready they walked up the hall and out to be cheered by the surviving marines.

Altarus stood up waving his hands down so they would quiet down, “Lets move out, and get off that warthog, its for us.” Altarus said kicking three marines off the warthog.

After they got over the hill and on the way back to the pelicans Altarus pressed a button and a loud explosion was heard sending flames into the sky making all the marines fell prone to the ground. Altarus laughed and kept his warthog moving. After the marines realized that it was just the Covenant base they got up, had a quick laugh, and kept moving to the pelicans.

To Be Countinued…