Platoon. SabEzra FanFic

The Drop

October 20, 2552- U.N.S.C In Amber Clad Stationed In Earth's Upper Orbit.

It's been less than two months since Reach fell to the Covenant. Sabine and Ezra barely made it out alive. They were one of the last few to leave the doomed planet. They lost a lot of good friends there, but there squad was still mostly intact. They were set to get some R&R soon and were looking forward to it. The squad was in the drop room checking over their gear, they were sure the U.N.S.C. would want to strike back soon so they needed to be ready. Jackson was at his work bench trying to make up some C4 packs. Sanderson and Laklan were over at the weapon lockers cleaning and maintaining there weapons, Sanderson with her M7S Smg, and Laden with his S99D Anti-Material Rifle. Sabine and Ezra were sitting at the data table which displayed the whole fleet. They weren't talking just looking at the table,there held each others hand under the table, this was the only intimacy they could show, it was against the rules for two squad members to have a relationship but that didn't stop them from trying. Everything was peaceful until a blaring alarm went off. "General quarters, General quarters, All Hands Man Your Battlestations. This Is Not A Drill." The inner comm yelled out. "What the hell is going on Gunny?" Sanderson asked confused. "I dont know....i'll head to the bridge to find out, in the meantime suit up." sabine said then with ezra ran to the bridge. "Commander what's going on?" Sabine asked. "Gunnery Sgt. prepare your men to drop the covenant fleet just arrived and is heavily engaging the fleet." Commander Keyes said. "Yes Ma'am." they both said and ran back down to the drop room where every O.D.S.T. onboard was at getting geared up and ready. A few minutes later the O.D.S.T.'s were ready and in there pods, they are tasked along with the rest of the O.D.S.T. units to drop on New Mombasa. Over the inner comm they could Hear Gunnery Sgt. Buck call out. "We are droppin' into Hell, troopers! Time to grow a pair!" Just as he finished there Pods dropped. Sabine quickly realized only her squads pods were dropped from the In Amber Clad, no other squad dropped, but it was too late to ask questions now they had to land and get situated. As they approached the outer portion of the city the pods were hit by a massive shock wave. The covenant Supercarrier just slipspace jumped in Atmosphere setting off a massive radiation burst.Sabine watched in horror as almost all of the Other O.D.S.T. Pods From the Main Drop Companies over the city go crashing into the water. As her pod hit the ground she quickly got the hatch off and her MA3 out and ready. She looked around and only small city streets could be seen,all abandoned and empty. She tried her comm. "First Squad Sound Off." she said. They then began sounding off. "Bridger Up." "Laklan Up." "Sanderson Up." "Jackson Up." The whole squad had made it. "There is a police station on 79th street, Rally Point on that Location." Sabine said and moved out to that location. "Copy that." they all replied. As sabine made her way over to the station she noticed plasma burns in the walls and shell casings everywhere. As she made it to the station she could see the rest of the Squad already there. She quickly ran over. "Is everyone okay?" she asked. They all nodded. "We really shouldn't stay here sabine..... You can smell the cordite in the air, and there is blood and bullet casing everywhere. The cops here didn't look they made out to well." ezra said quickly. "Okay we need to get more into the city and see if any other units made it to the ground." she said earned her with all confused looks. "What are you talking about?" sanderson ask. "You guys didn't see?" sabine asked. They all shook their heads no. "After the burst just before i hit the ground i saw most of the pods go into the drink. I saw a few hit the city." she said they all had daul faces. "Let's move." she said. They all activated there visors and moved out in single file. They quickly move down the street meeting no resistance as they moved closer to the city center where the Office Of Naval Intelligence Alpha Site was located at. There would for sure be marines there. As they made there way in they started hearing gunfire in the distance. As they got to one of the sealed street doors they stacked up and opened it. As they walked though they could see marines in contact. They quickly ran to them and started firing on the brutes and grunts there. Sabine ran over to the Sgt. that was behind some cover. "Where the hell did you guys come from?" The marine asked. "We dropped in over and hour ago.....what's the situation here?" sabine asked quickly. "Well we are spread thin in this sector.... We are engaged all over the city. We were order to hold here to try to slow them down from reaching the O.N.I. Alpha Site building." he said as he shot back at the enemy. "Lucky for you that's where we were going to head to, but it looks like you could use some help. First Squad Defensive positions, let's help out these marines." she said as she started shooting as well.

After almost 2 hours of non stop fighting the shooting died down. "Headcount....Whos still up and what's your ammo status." sabine called out. "Bridger Up....have two mags left." "Laklan Up...Down to my last rifle mag." "Sanderson Up...Three mags left." "Jackson Up... two mags left." They all called out one at a time. Her squad was all still up but the marines didn't fare as well as they did. When they arrived there were almost twenty-five to thirty men, now they were down to around ten or so men. "We need to get to an ammo depot or another checkpoint. Sergent you do not have enough men to hold this position anymore, come with us and we can hold a little bit longer then." sabine said. The sgt nodded. Sabines squad moved out now accompanied by a few marines. They need to get to a defensible position. They were moving down the road quickly. There was a U.N.S.C. Outpost set up not to long ago in case something like this was to ever happen, and they were only a few blocks from it. As they started getting closer they started noticing a lot of dead covenant all over the place, the only weird thing about that was that there wasn't a bullet casing or dead marine anywhere in sight. "What the hell happened here?" Laklan asked. "I don't know but it looks like they were killing each other." Ezra said. They got a few more streets down, ezra was on point and was about to round the last corner to get on to the street when a round hit the wall right next to his head. He dropped back not knowing what happened. "What the fuck was that?" he asked scared half to death. "I think that was a S99D round that just landed next to you." Laklan said. "HELLJUMPERS!!" Sabine called out to direction of where the shot came from. "HOORAH!" someone yelled back. Sabine shook her head and went around the corner, everyone followed as they moved up to the outpost, lucky it was still had marines at it. "Sorry about that Gunny.... We were ordered to shoot anything that moved." a lieutenant said. "It's fine LT.... we just pushed out of our position a few blocks up the road." sabine said as everyone got inside. "That shooting was from you guys? You guys held out a while." he said. "Yes sir.....you haven't seen or heard from any other O.D.S.T. unit by any chance have you?" she asked. "Yeah a platoon came through here about three hours ago, they landed near by and held up here for a bit before they pushed to an OP ten blocks east of here." he finished. "Thank you sir...mind if we get some ammo before moving out?" she asked. "Yeah no problem....and good luck Gunnery Sgt." He said and walked back over to his men. A few minutes later sabine and her squad moved out, freshly stocked with ammo they were ready to go. The marines stayed behind to help the out post. Sabine and her men moved down the street quietly, they didn't see any hostiles. As they reached the OP there were dead covenant everywhere. As they moved in the building they were finding more and more dead trooper. As the got up and into the OP they found what looked like a massacre. Dead O.D.S.T. were everywhere but the strangest thing was that there were dead elite laying right next to them as if they were fighting together. "Gunny....What's going on? Why are O.D.S.T. fighting alongside Elites?" Jackson asked. "I don't know Corporal....i don't know."

Part two will out soon.
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Camie