The Start Of Something Great

Bloodied Sand

Carver's POV: 0917 Jan. 8th

The rest of team Inferno was somber these last few days. We all were hurt when we heard Simmons was dead but I think Buck and Micky were hurt the most. Micky had be distant from everyone and Buck has been spending his spare time training and practicing. Today was no different, we couldn't find Micky anywhere and Buck was cleaning his weapons, getting ready for the next attack on Sentinel and the IMC. We had just gotten the mission brief, we are heading back the Erberus to attack the second base and destroy it. I.C.0.N are leading the attack in their Titans. We follow right after in droppods to avoid the heavy turrets on the base. I.C.0.N are to fight off any titans that come out to fight us. Us ODST are to get to the control room and grab any data on the IMC's new warp drive core technology. Turning the corner, I smacked into someone knocking them down. "Whoa." I look down and see Ray on the ground. "Sorry about that Ray." Sticking my hand out for her to grab, with a smile she grabbed my hand allowing me to help her up. "It's ok Carver, you almost ready?" She asked, turning so she can walk by my side. "As ready as I can be." Taking another left turn we reached the droppods and armory. The door opens with a slight *hiss* as we walked through and towards the armory on the left side of the room. The armorer heard us approaching, lifting his head up and looking at us he opened both of our lockers and went back to whatever he was doing before we walked into the room. Grabbing my guns I made my way over to my pod, setting my guns inside in their respective holsters in the pod. Grabbing the handles on either side of the interior of the pod and stepping inside, turning around and sitting down. I hear footsteps infront of me, looking up Ray threw my helmet at me hitting me in the chest with a *thump* as I reached up as fast as I could and stopped it from falling out. "Dick." Saying that to Ray just prompted her to flip me off as she got in her pod. Hearing the door *hiss* open again and looking up, Buck, Heavy, Jean and Caleb came in and got ready heading to their respective pods. Our hatches all closed as the pods turned around, moving forward to the deploy position allowing me to see the white planet below us. A robotic voice came on over our speaker's. "Dropping in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." After saying one, a sudden jolt happens as the planet starts to get closer to us as we were now dropping down towards Erberus.

Needle's POV: 0900 Jan. 8th

Hearing the sand crunch under my titan was music to my ears as it signified that I was on the surface of Erberus. Looking to my left, the base came into view. There were a few titans coming out to intercept us. A loud *Boom* went off next to me letting me know that Idiot has made it to the ground and is already enjoying himself. An Ion Titan came into view towards my left, taking a closer look and realized it was Chuck who had just pimp slapped a Legion Titan. Charging forward into battle, rasing my rifle, seeing the mag rotate and glow orange signaling it was ready for a powerful and piercing shot. Pulling the trigger I felt the gun recoil back as the round went through a brute titan and into the Ronin behind them. Gaining both of their attention they charge at me shooting both of their guns, dashing too the side barely dodging the missles from the brutes gun. The Ronin took the opportunity and shot me with his leadwall doing minimal damage to my shields only making them flicker. Spinning around another barrage from the brute and bringing my hand up and swinging it with the spin, *crunch* my titans had connected with the brutes hatch smashing it and destroying the plating. Seeing sparks come from the hatch and a fire start on the back of the titan told me that the pilot didn't have much fight left in him. Taking this opportunity to finish him off I bring my rifle up and thrusting it through the cockpit of the brute and charging another shot, seeing the mag and barrel glow orange I pull the trigger, *Bang* the round goes right through the brute titan and connecting  with the Ronin. Seeing the brute burst into a ball of flames and shrapnel was like looking at art, the sound it made was even better, the sound of metal and flesh ripping apart was always music to my ears. Looking at the Ronin it has sparks coming out of it's left arm socket where a arm used to be attached at, they slowly reached up, wrapping their hand on the handle of their sword, unsheathing it and going for a swing all in one quick motion. The swing caught me by surprise allowing the Ronin to land the hit. Dropping my railgun I grabbed the arm of the Ronin, hearing the roar of my thrusters come to life as I use them to lift off the ground bringing my feet up and kicking into the chassis. The arm made a snapping sound as it was ripped out of the arm socket. As I put my feet back down on the ground the thrusters disengaged. Walking Infront of the Ronin, bringing my right hand up as high as possible and bringing it down as hard as possible, my hand went straight through the hatch allowing me to wrap my hand around the piolt and rip him out. Looking at him I could see him struggling to break free, that was futile as my next course of action was to crush him in my hand. The sound of bones cracking and popping as my hand crushed him was like music to my ears. I felt happy doing this to IMC pilots they deserved this for being the terrorist they are. The sand underneath my hand was now caked in blood.