Halo: Anesidora

2

jessia looked down the scope of her battle rifle at the Unggoy charging the defensive position set up in the new nirobi city hall building, from behind the sandbag barrier set up for the defense she was hard to hit with most covenant weapons, beam rifles and carbines excluded, she watched as the unggoy almost gleefully shot at the UNSC troops taking shelter at the building, then she pulled her own guns trigger, sending three rounds straight into the grunts head, she began scanning the battlefield for another target before spotting another grunt, after taking them out she had to duck behind the sandbags as a few stray plasma rifle rounds found their way towards her spot.

more and more covenant drop ships were dispensing troops into the fight now, which jessica guessed meant things were not going well up in space for the UNSC. she flinched slightly when she saw a fuel rod gun round hit the scorpion that was supporting the UNSC forces, the thing had taken one too many hits at that point, so the thing blew up in a large fireball of tank parts and plasma, hse quickly located the grunt that had fired the round and put an end to him, but she didn't doubt there was more of them out there

"Son of a bitch..." muttered a marine near to her "they keep this up, and we'll all be over ran within the hour"

she unfortunately couldn't help but agree, she fired some more at the covenant, but there were just so many of them. the marines couldn't hold out for much longer, assuming they didn't run out of ammo she was sure they'd over run them with superior numbers, or just bomb the building. she watched as a phantom bringing down more reinforcements came down, but paled when she saw what was on its underside, the compliment of the dropship jumped out, and as they did that, a wraith decoupled and dropped to the ground as well, turning to face the humans defending the building.

the marines near her shouted, and one ran to grab a rocket launcher from the nearby stockpile of weapons, but was hit in the back of the head by a jackal sniper, and fell to the ground dead, she scanned the area, before spotting the sniper on a balcony across the way, she knew she didn't have the right weapon to hit him from that distance, so she didn't try, instead she turned to look at the rocket launchers, the wraith fired, and the whole building shook as the round hit the side of the building, killing several people, jessica quickly bolted from her hiding place to the rocket launchers, she heard beam rifle shots hit near her as the sniper took potshots at her, but she safely reached the launchers, grabbing one and some spare rockets, she ran back to her cover, and took a moment to compose herself, checking if it was loaded, before standing up, she looked down the sights of the rocket launcher, before firing both rockets at the wraith, both shots connected with the wraith, not destroying it but severely damaging it, she began to reload the rocket launcher, when she noticed the elites piloting the wraith climb out of it just in case, with the wraith down she felt a little more confident, but that all changed in the fraction of a second, when an elite fired a fuel rod gun near her position, it hit the roof above her, and rubble fell down, one particularly large chunk falling right on her head, knocking her out.

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Above the planet...

the UNSC-concord faced it's opponent head on, the covenant corvette it was fighting had been a tough foe for the halberd-class destroyer to take on, but now it's shields were down, and it was vulnerable. Admiral steven cross stared at the ship, watching as it moved to attempt to get into position for a broadside on the UNSC vessel, and smiled slightly when he finally spoke it was with the same authority he always commanded

"juno, fire the MAC into that bastard, bring him down"

the holo projection of the AI next to him nodded, and the Concords Magnetic accelerator cannon fired into the corvette, punching right through it's hull, the ship then began to explode, taking out several nearby covenant fighters.

Cross put his hands behind his back, watching as his foe went down "excellent shot juno, i see we were right in letting you have control of the critical weapon systems"

"thank you admiral, that appears to be the last of the covenant vessels in the concords immediate airspace, longswords are mopping up the last of the banshees and Seraphs" responded the AI, looking to the captain, she glowed a bright orange, and appeared as a woman in a UNSC military bodysuit, a dark leather jacket covered in various patches and set of hiking boots over the top of her suit with long unrulily hair going past her shoulders.

"i need a damage report for the concord" said the admiral

"we have hull damage in several places, but it is mostly superficial, there are a few fires, response crews are working of putting them out, we also lost three point defense guns, and two missile pods" responded the AI quickly

"hmm... that's not bad, all considering... the loss of most of our point defense guns is a problem, but it's one we'll have to deal with later, what's the status on the ground?"

"those covenant fighters and dropships that managed to break through the line have headed straight for new nirobi, and have been assaulting city hall and other crucial locations for the last hour, they've been getting reinforced by dropships dispatched by the covenant destroyers that broke through the lines near station 6, the york and flame of alexandria have moved to engage but we're outnumbered both up here and down there admiral"

the admiral nodded quietly, staring at the wreckage of the covenant corvette as he thought, finally he spoke again "the Concord will be staying here to do our best to repair, move her closer to the nearest super MAC station if you can. then i think it's time we do some reinforcing of our own. activate the internal PA system juno"

the AI nodded and began to do as ordered

"Jason-076, please report to the bridge"