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The black helmet wavered, a nod, simple and sweet. "Works." The ODST didn't see it like a challenge, they were landing, perhaps landing hard, so what? That was his job, to get into hot places and melt them, to live, to get the impossible done. To go past what a normal human could do, the hormone built soldier clasped his assault rifle swinging the bolt back, hot, and ready.

Private COM flipped on, within his dome of his helmet, filled with screens appearing and disappearing displaying glowing blue information across his HUD he called up Shelly who had been busy going through base files 'copied' before they were whipped away.

"Anything interesting?" Smith asked. "Not really, just don't get yourself killed hon, my escape rout is.. Patchy.." Latch onto a sat, perhaps infest a enemy vehicle till she could clamber her way back to the UNSC? Maybe jump from soldier to soldier, he didn't know, the amazing thing about an AI like Shelly is that she could pull it off.

A chuckle left his mouth, a shake of his head turned a queer look of soldiers as they wondered what the 'crazy' was up to, probably talking to himself, or an AI.

"Lets kick some a**. Watch my back Shelly."

Voi was no better off than anywhere else on the god-forsaken continent of Africa. The Covenant were everywhere, and this time they had Voi all to themselves with the exception of a single Marine unit. The 77th Infantry Battalion had been garrisoned in Voi awaiting deployment when Reach was glassed. After that it stayed there, an extra level of defense. When New Mombasa went up, they fought alongside their fellow man. Now they were the only ones with real military training left to defend the ports at Voi. There were also the civilians, but they were not marines. Most of them had never held a weapon before. There was no time for proper training, most instructions were simple. Point at the alien and pull the trigger. There were little to no problems and everyone graduated with flying colors.

Easy Company had gone from the frying pan and straight into hell. The urban fighting was more intense than anything in recent history. The Marines were out-manned, outgunned, and surrounded, but they still put up one hell of a fight. Reinforcements from Crow's Nest were slow, and the supply convoys along the Tsavo Highway had all but stopped. Lipton knew it was because of Brute blockades, but there was nothing he could do about it. The Covenant had already established an AA battery along the ridge of the enormous crater they were digging. He could see a storm brewing above the massive cloud of dust and fog, but nothing else. They were literally on the edge of the Covenant dig site, and the Covenant didn't want them there. The lake that once connected Voi to Mombasa was gone, replaced by wet mud and massive cliffs. The Covenant had AA Wraiths anywhere they could place them, and the Marines didn't have the firepower to deal with them.

The Commanding Officer of the Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Forster had been killed in an explosion a few hours before Easy showed up, which meant that Lipton and Major Bisley were in charge of the defense. Easy was placed around the Eastern perimeter with a few men assisting what was left of the 77th at the Southern defenses. The 77th Infantry Batt. was composed of five companies and an HQ detachment, of which only two and a half remained. They were in a bad way and contact with Crow's Nest was sporadic at best due to the atmospheric interference from the storm.

"Copy that Victor Seven-Zero-Five. Bravo out."

Anthony could feel the Pelican's begin to slow. Outside the open bay doors, the scenery pass by, and the horizon, soon rising to the edge of the Pelican's ramp.

"Alright boy's, we hit the dirt in five. Dansmith, get the rest of them a quick patch and grab your gear. Willows, your with me on my a**. Dansmith, get cover from Anselon."

Winter flew from the pelican before it even touched. The ODST hit hard, taking a fast roll into the spiraling pilers of dust flung through the air as the pelicans engines roared flaring up a new hurricane of dirt and sand.

"We've hit the dirt, we've hit the dirt. Thanks. See you." Smith sprung quickly to the COM link to the pilot, ripping open the open channel with or without her approval. Hey, a perk of being him, a Master Gunnery Sergeant with a crafty AI within his helm.

The area swiftly with the swivel of his assault became clear, for now. Through his HUD he watched the bleeping orbs of fell soldiers and the void of red of enemies. Where were they? They had to be close..

"Lets kick some Covenant a**."

Above, the sound of Engines rocked the foundation of evry soldier; Longswords.

The 2 Fighters dropped their payloads onto the enemy encampment, striking it in the heart and destroying a few things in the process.

With the confusion, Anthony took his Chance.

"Ok! Lorraine, Mendez, Skyper, Garcia, Chen, Adile, and Krustovitz, your on my a**, were gonna make a rush ahead a few paces to atleast the gap in the street,"
He brought out a paper map of the AA Cannon.
"Alright, This is the plan. Up ahead about 20 yards, is a low cut wall. They haven't gotten up that far. At the lowcut wall, there is a flipped Hog with a Machine Gun already mounted and ready to go. We're going to establish a base of fire... while everyone else moves into position. We cant move that tank forward without some damned help. You guys... on my mark..."

Anthony was primed and ready to run. In his mind, he planted himself where he wanted to be, and was ready to run for it.

"GO!"

His feet started, and so did the other marines. Everyone made the dash, past the rounds and the Plasma in the air. Anthony saw the target, he knew what to do... but it seemed so far away, and his shoulder hurt like a mother ********. He slid into the wall, took cover and counted the rest of his men.

"Ok, Open it up. We're giving the signal!"

Anthony motioned for the rest of the Company to follow him to the Left flank. Setting up a line could help their situation. "We're holding here!"

Matt moved up next to Karr. He say an brute sticking his head up, and matt poped the brute right through the eye. Out of the corner of his scpoe, matt saw the brute commader and out of 3 shots nailed him once in the chest. Matt ducked under cover to reload, and he noticed Karr looked like he was in pain. Matt yelled to him," Sir, are you ok"