Chapter 2: First contact

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Kilo jumps from the rear of the pelican, 10 ft from the ground and lands with a hard crunch. Marines look at him as the dust settles and with a new found hope fight harder than before. Looking at the marines kilo notices one laid, arms folded. Another sits beside him, the bandages covering his eyes.

A marine notices Kilo and points toward the two injured and mouths for him to get them, he nods and slowly makes his way to them. Moving forward swiftly he tells them to get to the rear as Goose brings the pelican and within seconds marines pile in, some stay to fight on and defend the large aircraft. Suddenly a marine is violently jerked upwards as an elite general materialises.

Kilo sprints towards the elite and smahes it into a wall, the Marnie chokes on his own blood as some sprays from his chest where the elite penetrated it with its energy sword. The elites head is repeatedly smashed off the wall slowly turning Kilo a purple colour, mainly streaking across his chest plates. The elite goes limp in his hands and Kilo drops it and kicks its head, just to make sure.

Kilo turns to the two injured marines, the one who was sat sits with his head limp to one side. Moving closer he notices that the elite had clawed his throat open. He takes the marines tags and pick him up, placing his body over shoulder. The other marine, awake by now, was staring at Kilo. "Don't move I'm coming back" Kilo says as he hefts the marine on his shoulder before jogging off towards the pelican

"Kilo we need to get out here, ASAP!" Goose shouts over the radio, Kilo puts the dead marine on the edge of the hatch and turns to go back. Two Jackals stand over the marine who be now was trying to not move and alert them, Kilo pulls his assault rifle from his back and runs towards them. Instantly they activate their shields which do little to stop the onslaught of bullets that come from the rear of the pelican.

By now the jackals were dead and Kilo had just reached the marine who was shaking violently "Marine!" Kilo shouts with no answer, he picks the marine up and sprits off towards the pelican, its nose raised ready to rocket skyward. A marine shouts at kilo to hurry and he picks up speed dramatically. Kilo sees a Wraith appear from behind a wall and fires a large blue bolt of plasma straight at him, he throws the marine into the pelican and leaps after him. Hanging onto the edge of the pelican he shouts into the radio "Goose! Let's go!" The pelican lurches forward nearly making Kilo lose his grip and fall off but the holds firmly, a game appears in front of him and he takes it as he's pulled up by a marine. The hatch closes and Kilo looks around at the marines, some laid on the floor, others sat in jump seats. The marine he threw was being attended to by a medic, looking beside him the fallen marines were laid, white sheets covering them.
Looking around he sees the marine who must be acting squad leader, without saying a word Kilo places the tags into his hand "thank you, we all would've died without your help" he looks up at Kilo as he removes his helmet. "No problem, I'm sorry about those two" he says solemnly. The Marnie nods and looks over the tags, wiping the blood off them both human and alein.

Kilo walks past the marines, jumping over one who had fell asleep out of exhaustion. He enters the cockpit and stands beside Goose, who was struggling to avoid the heavy incoming fire from a pair of banshees which had dived in from behind. "Get those marines into their seats, now!" Kilo dives through the door and shouts "everyone grab a seat, things are gonna get a little, bumpy!". Instantly marines were diving for seats and pulling the restraints down over them.

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