No Gods, Nor Masters

Bungie

While air wings dropped precision munitions from above and advancing armored columns brought ruin to the Empire's many defenses, pinning the enemy against a wall they could not climb, destroy or sidestep, the infantry pushed the envelope in terms of combat. Lead among these units of the UNSC were the Warrior Bunnies themselves. A US Marine fireteam supported by around five Army Paratroopers and a single engineer now faced a squadron of over two dozen Insurrectionist troops, taking fire from every direction.

Caught up in the middle of this firefight was a trio of Warrior Bunnies with Delilah in the lead. The woman, now a UNSC Staff Sergeant, twirled her blade in one hand and snapped off shots with the other. She ducked behind the cover of the wall and looked back at her team. Their Medic, Sarah, was tending to one of the wounded Marines utilizing the stuff in his IFAK.

The other, Mirela, hefted her DMR over cover and fired back at the Innie task force. She huffed as a bullet scraped an inch too close to her face, before huffing, which pushed a strand of her long golden hair out of her eyes. She felt her helmet, a standard-issue UNSC one, modified specifically for warrior bunnies to allow them to fit their ears comfortably within the helmets, then nodded, "Bullet didn't even scrape me..."

"Good," Delilah replied, watching the Marines bring up their SAW Gunner to the top floor of the defensive position. She looked back to Sarah and asked, "How's he doing?"

"He'll live. Bullet barely punctured the SAPI plate," She replied as she stuffed the injury with gauze and put his hand on it. It was a stomach injury, so nothing lethal, one would think. Right? She patted his hand and said, "We'll get you outta here..." before grabbing her MA40 and standing up. She joined the girls by the window just as the USMC SAW Gunner dug a hole into the wall to their right and slid the LMG through, opening up. She spoke to Delilah in a whisper, "If we don't get him out of here, he'll die of blood loss."

"I already rang up CASEVAC. Word is they're sending a Tank unit toward the village where we are," Delilah replied. She poked out and threw a fragmentation grenade. Hearing the cries of Insurrection soldiers, she poked out and snapped off a shot from her Magnum, before dipping back into cover. She had gotten one man and injured two more with that stunt. Once the grenade went off, anyway.

"How long?" Mirela asked, before blasting another Innie in the head. She saw a squadron of Mages charging toward them as well, with one of them raising and firing a bolt of lightning their way. The attack hit the house's side and burned a hole about an inch away from her face, close enough for her hair to stand on-end. Delilah lifted up three fingers and Mirela nodded.

"What about the Civvies we rescued?" Sarah asked.

"The UN troops coming to pick us up said they have enough space in the backs of their transports..." She replied, then hummed and smirked, "We just have to clear the path for everyone to get out of here alive. Switch to CQC weaponry, girls. We go in for the kill against these Innie bastards..." before she looked over her M6G. The other two nodded, both of them holding their guns with one hand and drawing their curved blades with the other.

The Marine lieutenant walked up to her and asked, "You girls gonna need covering fire?"

Delilah nodded, "Suppress the bastards. Let us get in close..." and she looked outside. A bullet punched through the windowsill and hit the front plate of her armor vest. She scoffed, then chuckled and spun her pistol around her finger, before looking to the Lieutenant. The man nodded and called up three Marines, one of which had the M240 Bravo of the squadron. Mounting it and punching another hole through the wall for it, the M240B Gunner and spotter/loader got to work spreading hate.

Delilah nodded and cried out to her girls "Uukhai! Uukhai! Uukhai!" before they charged down the stairs and through the door, which Del kicked off the hinges. Ahead, Insurrectionists and mages took to cover, suppressed by automatic fire from two Machine Guns and a bunch of assault rifles. The woman charged in first, followed by Mirela and Sarah behind her.