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 Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:47 pm
It wasn't too long before all the members of alpha squad were found. All ODSTs except for the one marine medic that had been attached to the squad. Everyone in his squad was ready, now they just needed to be put to use.
Captain Twombley had no idea what would happen on their next assignment, but he didn't want to stop and think about it for one moment. He would simply do what he did best, command and fight. Get the job done so he could move onto another mission. When he first joined the UNSC the thought of death hadn't crossed his mind. Not until his first combat mission had he thought about dying. There had been nothing in his training that could have prepared him for what war was really like, it was something that had to be learned through actual combat.
Its what made a fresh rookie like he was, into the hardened combat veteran he was today. Not to mention the rank he's achieved over the years as well.
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Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2006 8:05 pm
Mathias layed down in his bunk, armor and all, setting his helmet down on his stomach while he looked over the squad roster again. 'At least they're experienced, and a medic too.' Mathias thought, his blue eyes still staring down at the roster. He wasn't sure of the survivability of the Marine Medic in combat, he was uncertain how good of an idea it was for command to attach a medic to his squad, the Marines needed as many medics as they could get. "We'll see how things go..." The Captain said aloud.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:01 am
*Linda noded in silent greetings at the ODSTs and opened her book to a bookmarked page and started to write in it, recording all that had happened this latest flight mission and the destruction of Halo. She sighed tiredly at all that has happened in the last few days. It seemed another life time ago when she was ferrying supplies and troops on that accuresed ring.*
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:50 am
All was quiet in the barracks, everyone was asleep except for a small few. Michael began to talk as if talking to a friend of his. "You know, sometimes I wonder why we're even here. Why we're fighting, but then I just say to myself, It's because we're fighting for survival. Well, the more I think about it, the more I come to realize that we are only really pawns in a giant chess game (if none of you know what chess is then come to me.) I'm an ODST and I'm damn proud to be one, I follow my orders and I fire my gun. But I just can't stop wondering when my time is going to be up. I keep thinking maybe the next battle will be my last. And it isn't even a battle, it becomes a war. Now that we're right smack in the middle of it all, there is nothing we can do except for fight. And I'm damn ready to take on any covenant b*****d or creappy piece of s**t that threatens the Human race. ********. Them. All."
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:59 pm
Mihaii All was quiet in the barracks, everyone was asleep except for a small few. Michael began to talk as if talking to a friend of his. "You know, sometimes I wonder why we're even here. Why we're fighting, but then I just say to myself, It's because we're fighting for survival. Well, the more I think about it, the more I come to realize that we are only really pawns in a giant chess game (if none of you know what chess is then come to me.) I'm an ODST and I'm damn proud to be one, I follow my orders and I fire my gun. But I just can't stop wondering when my time is going to be up. I keep thinking maybe the next battle will be my last. And it isn't even a battle, it becomes a war. Now that we're right smack in the middle of it all, there is nothing we can do except for fight. And I'm damn ready to take on any covenant b*****d or creappy piece of s**t that threatens the Human race. ********. Them. All."
*Linda looked up from her book at the words and called out to him.*
"Well said, Sarg! If we are in a giant chess game, then this is one fraken bloody game. Some of the way the people were killed is just..horrific. My home planet was glassednear the middle of the war; my Parents were killed before they could get to one of the few surviving transports that made it out of the System."
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:11 pm
Michael nodded at the girls words, keeping his eyes closed. His thoughts raced back to when he was about to evacuate from reach, the visual of his drill sergeant being ripped limb from limb. "I was on reach during the war. And I evacuated just before it was glassed." He reached down towards his duffle bag and opened it, dumping out the contents of the rifle. He then began to assemble it, piece by piece.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:15 pm
Mihaii Michael nodded at the girls words, keeping his eyes closed. His thoughts raced back to when he was about to evacuate from reach, the visual of his drill sergeant being ripped limb from limb. "I was on reach during the war. And I evacuated just before it was glassed." He reached down towards his duffle bag and opened it, dumping out the contents of the rifle. He then began to assemble it, piece by piece.
*Winced in apperecation then asked.*
"Did you lose anyone you were friends with?"
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 8:26 pm
Michael nodded his head silently and then spoke again in his battle scarred voice, "I lost everything." He heart had gone ocld that day and his mind and spirit had fully matured. He was Master Gunnery Sergeant Michael R. Hammer. And he would fulfill his duties until his last dieing day. He would fight until he had lost every breath of air in his lungs.
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:31 pm
Mihaii Michael nodded his head silently and then spoke again in his battle scarred voice, "I lost everything." He heart had gone ocld that day and his mind and spirit had fully matured. He was Master Gunnery Sergeant Michael R. Hammer. And he would fulfill his duties until his last dieing day. He would fight until he had lost every breath of air in his lungs.
"It...must of been horrific to expereince."
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 10:48 pm
Chath Tiu Mihaii Michael nodded his head silently and then spoke again in his battle scarred voice, "I lost everything." He heart had gone ocld that day and his mind and spirit had fully matured. He was Master Gunnery Sergeant Michael R. Hammer. And he would fulfill his duties until his last dieing day. He would fight until he had lost every breath of air in his lungs. "It...must of been horrific to expereince." Michael looked over to her and said, "Maybe sometime I'll show you that little piece of history I hacked."
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Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:05 pm
Mihaii Chath Tiu Mihaii Michael nodded his head silently and then spoke again in his battle scarred voice, "I lost everything." He heart had gone ocld that day and his mind and spirit had fully matured. He was Master Gunnery Sergeant Michael R. Hammer. And he would fulfill his duties until his last dieing day. He would fight until he had lost every breath of air in his lungs. "It...must of been horrific to expereince." Michael looked over to her and said, "Maybe sometime I'll show you that little piece of history I hacked."
*Noded and turned back to her book. She scribbled somthing down, paused and looked up, thinking. She resumed her writeing and didn't look up again.*
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:51 am
From his bunk, Mathias had heard Michael. He didn't exactly want to hear it, but he heard it anyways. The Captain didn't say a word of input into the conversation between Linda and Michael, he stared unblinkingly for moments at a time, at the bottom of the bunk above him. His right leg fell off the bed and hit the floor with a metalic thud. It didn't take long before his eyes fell shut. If anyone needed him, they could wake him...
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:24 pm
Mathias' dreams flashed him back to when he was still in highschool. He had changed a great deal that time. He used to be rather scrawny, but since boot camp he packed on alot of muscle. Memories flashed past him, the girlfriends he had, the football games, the baseball games, his friends and his family.
His dreams flashed forward, to when he was graduating from bootcamp and be sent off to tech school, where he learned to be a combat infantryman. Tech school was one of the highlights of his Marine life. All the new friends he had met, all the new skills he had learned, and eventually being given his first duty assignment. He had also learned early on in his Marine career never to get to attached to his friends, because of the fact that they would usually get separated, and many of the friends he had made in tech school had been killed in various battles across the universe.
The Captain's dreams then flashed into the last battle he had been through on Theta Halo, only images of his fallen comrades were visible, and the Flood. The Flood were demons, more terrifying then anyone back at home could imagine. The Halo Rings was the hell from which the spawned.
Images of the flood, poured into his dream, before it was too much for his mind to handle and he awoke suddenly. Finding himself still in his bunk and the UNSC Titan. "I shouldn't be allowed to sleep anymore," Mathias said half serious, half jokingly.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:40 pm
Michael had popped on his old marine helmet and was looking at something on the screen. A distant memory that had changed him forever. He happened to be there when the transmission came in, he was there where the thing actually happened. He had been wounded. He was looking at the old Reach file. The one disclosed to the public.
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Posted: Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:58 pm
Mathias sat up on his bunk, making sure to avoid hitting his head on the bunk above. He rubbed his eyes clear up sleep, even though he had only taken a power nap. Captain Twombley's eyes fell upon the floor, staring at the slightly blue tinted face mask on his helmet. He sighed and picked up the helmet, and set it on his bunk beside him.
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