[Hells Sniper]

Harrison watched as the fleet began to move in on the Covenant. The Covenant didn't expect such a strong reaction from the weakened Covenant fleet, and their cruisers weren't prepared for the attack. By the time they could react, their support cruisers had already lost their shields, along with the major assault carriers. Harrison: Signal the other task forces to break off, focus on the corvettes and escorts. Harrison stood straight. Harrison: Arm Shiva pods one through three, fire at the escorts guarding the main cruisers. On my mark... Harrison waited til the cruisers guarding their major targets were in defensive positions. They were lined up in front of the three major targets. Harrison smiled. Perfect. Harrison: Mark. Fire the nukes. With that, the Vigorous Inferno fired off three nukes at the main group of escorts. The combined fire from Captain Reynolds and Captain Burke caused the shields of the escorts to fail. The nukes did the rest, as the widespread zone of destruction from all three engulfed almost all the escorts of the three major cruisers. The escort ships in the middle were completely destroyed from the fight, and the ones on the outlying area began to lose power from the other ships attacks. Harrison hit the button for the Eclipse Task Force, the one he was leading. Harrison: Raging Elephant, Saint's Society, form up on our starboard and port side. Captain Reynolds, Captain Burke, zone is hot, move in, drop your soldiers and clear the area. Harrison turned to his helmsman. Harrison: Take us LT. The helmsman nodded and corrected the heading for the Vigorous Inferno. They moved into the hole that the Shiva nuclear weapons had cleared, followed by the Mind's Attrition and the King Raven. The Saint's Society and Raging Elephant formed on their left and right, as they provided covering fire. Harrison: Murphy, arm our point defense guns! If anything gets too close, blow it out of the sky! Harrison paused. He brought up the holomap of the rest of the fleet. The two main battle groups were punching holes all over the place, with their escorts taking down anything that got too close. The other battle groups were just causing widespread havoc and alarm to the rest of the Covenant fleet. They had managed to bring down several cruisers and escorts, before they were even hit by Covenant fire. Harrison knew the plan wouldn't last long, he would eventually have to pull the fleet back to their safe zone. He hoped that he could get his men on board and lighten the pressure on the ground. Harrison: Once we're in position with the Mind's Attrition and King Raven, give the green light. I want all teams dropped as soon as possible. Have security teams standing by for any possible recursion by the Covenant. Harrison only hoped the fleet could hold on. Meanwhile: Dangerus knew his brutes were getting itchy, they wanted a fight. He would ultimately have to oblige. He turned to his packmates and bodyguards. Dangerus: Begin the attack...grunts and jackals first. Meanwhile at the spaceport: Jacob nodded, he grabbed the assault rifle and slid it around his shoulder for safe keeping. Jacob: We're all distracted Tye... Jacob began as he picked up the sniper rifle on the ground and began to check it for inconsistency. Jacob: We all have other things on our minds...other people, other soldiers, family. Jacob pulled back the stock on his sniper and slid the first round into the chamber, he turned to Tye. Jacob: But we all know what needs to be done, too. You know it more than anyone...and I have full faith in you...take that as you may, but I am here, Tye. We are still fighting. Jacob paused and approached the crate Tye was standing on. Jacob: If there's one thing I learned...distractions are sometimes Godsends. They can take away from what you should be thinking about, but in the end, we're all trying to distract ourselves from this. Jacob shrugged. Jacob: I just use them to my advantage...focus on what life was before the Covenant. Focus on what you want. Jacob looked around, he saw several marines scrambling around trying to grab gear and weapons. He looked at Tye and lightly punched him in the shoulder. Jacob: Now...we have a spaceport to defend. Shall we go?