ODST: Line of Fire:

Chapter 2

He woke up hearing a rumbling noise. He had a pretty good idea of what it was. It was more than likely a Phantom. What else would it be, a pelican. He still hadn't opened his eyes yet he was lying there still trying to wake up. He eventually opened his eyes and what he saw made his heart skip a beat. 

He was INSIDE a phantom! This can't be happening. He tried to rub his eyes but he forgot he had his helmet on. He tried to pinch himself but he had his armor on and he couldn't feel it through his body suit. He convinced himself that it was real and turned on his VISIR again, he had turned it off when he went to sleep last night, because it was pretty dark inside the Phantom. Once it booted up, he glanced around. He didn't see any enemies from what he COULD see which was next to nothing. He then checked his motion sensor and could see only two red blips. By the way they were moving it was behind him and they were most likely grunts. 

He checked his weapons and, not surprisingly, found none. He did however, have his bowie knife which was pretty surprising. He then realized that he wasn't restrained of chained to the wall. It was probably the brutes... scratch that. If it were up to the brutes, he would have been eaten alive. He wondered why he still had his bowie knife. He thought about this for awhile and gave up on it because it didn't matter along as he had it.

All of a sudden there were were four blips moving towards him. He wondered what he could do. He didn't think it was safe to jump because, if the doors were open, he wasn't sure what altitude they were at. There was no where to run and he wasn't sure if it was brutes or elites coming towards him so he decided that he would just stay put and hope for the best. He closed his eyes and focused on his breathing. He was trying to calm down. Who could blame him under the circumstances. 

The four blips split up and were went tow different ways. Two towards him and two back where they came from. He prepared himself for what was about to come. The two blips rounded the corner and greatly surprised him. The two blips were grunts. Two grunts. He decided he was going to assassinate them. He slowly crawled towards the door and readied his bowie knife. As they walked passed, he waited for the second one to pass and then he struck. He dove out and clamped his hand over the little lowlife's mouth to smother any screams and positioned his knife on his throat and proceeded to slide the knife across his throat very fast. One down. He laid the dead body down and set it to the side because he would need it later. The other grunt hadn't seen or heard what had just happened. He almost rounded the corner when Johnathon dove on the grunt and quickly penetrated his skull with his knife. Two down.

He brought this corpse and the other one back to where he woke up from. He checked the bodies for weapons. One had a plasma pistol and the other had a needler. He clipped the plasma pistol to his thigh because it was magnetic and scavenged the rest of the needles from the grunt. He guessed that he had about three rounds of needles plus the ones in the gun itself. He also found two small blue spheres. He guessed that they were grenades but he has never seen a grenade like that before so he tossed them to the side. 

All of a sudden he heard a machine gun, a turret in fact. He then felt the phantom rock back and forth. He finally put two and two together and realized he was either being saved or the phantom was being shot down. He jumped up and found the doors which were open. He looked out and saw that they were quickly loosing altitude. He had to do something. He looked out some more and saw three pelicans. The pelicans were carefully shooting at his phantom. It was obviously a rescue mission. He wondered why nobody had come to check on him. 

Just then, two elites came in and grabbed him and took him towards the door. He didn't try and reason with them, like he could. They were going to kill him by throwing him out. At that moment a violent explosion rocked the ship and threw the three of them out. After three seconds of falling, the elite landed first and then he landed on top of him, it. The other elite landed next to them. The wind was             knocked out of him and it took him about thirty seconds to start moving again. Judging on how the elite didn't throw him off, the elite was probably dead. Just as he got up, the other elite got up. He couldn't believe that either himself or the elite wasn't dead. He couldn't worry about that right now because he had an elite to fight.

He pulled out the plasma pistol and started firing it at the elite. He missed about all but four shots. The elite was about 20 yards away and closing fast. The elite fired his plasma repeater at him in short bursts. On shot hit him in the shoulder knocking him on the ground. As he lay there, he saw three phantoms screech overhead. He tried getting up but he was still recovering from the fall. The elite was now about 10 yards away when he grabbed a blue sphere from his belt. The blue sphere started glowing and then he flung it at him. He realized that the blue spheres he saw on the grunts were grenades and he was about to experience one first handed.