Coming down to the ground level, where the rest of their companions were, they headed over to the gauss hog, and the scorpion, ready to kick some Covenant flank.
Hopping in the tank, Chief signaled Arbiter to drive the jeep with the rest of the comrades, he signaled back with a salute of his hoof, and then the marines got in the warthog, and accompanied the tank, by sitting on the wheel covers. Rocket launchers loaded, gauss fueled up, all tanks filled with gas, and batteries up and running, the warthog took head, and shot the jackal sniper tower a few times, making explode and blow them to smithereens. Tank took a long shot toward the group of brutes, making them also a pile of charred debris. The warthog spotted a wraith up ahead, so they did what they did best, and the Marine in the passenger sniped the grunt that was occupying the turret, leaving the rest for the scorpion to catch up, and have fun with the explosions, so the warthog backed up, not looking for a fight with the large hulking wraith.
Tank quickly pulled around the corner of the glacier, and popped the wraith once, dodging the enemy's shots, and loading with the superior auto-load cannon. Getting ready for another shot, Chief aimed right for the hatch, letting the Marine aim for it, and hopefully getting a lucky shot with the rocket.
The gauss hog drove around the tank by drifting, and the turret-man shot the brute inside of the wraith, therefor killing him instantly with the heavy hit. The Marine on the tank saw a ghost fast approaching, so he instead aimed for that, and blew the grunt up, making him fly approximately 50 feet in the air, from his oxide tank exploding. Marine next to him gave him a hoof bump, while saying, "awwwwww yeah!"
The crew drove down the glacier formed cliff, then spotted two more ghosts, instantly taking them out with the superior tank and warthog. Getting close to the current objective, they saw the next: The last tower, where the crazed Prophet was, where he was practicing his religion of lies.
Chief, as the quiet stallion he was, did the most repetitive thing in his life; signaled Arbiter, to stay in the tank. Arbiter didn't know what he was up to, but he knew that he had his reasons. Arbiter agreed, and stayed in the tank. Chief knew that they wouldn't just leave the Prophet's building so unprotected. As he traveled closer to the building, him and his pilot companion heard a large thump sound behind them. Turning around, the two saw what he knew was coming. Two extremely hulking scarabs turned their anti-air guns towards the two hornets, opening fire at them as they pleased. Aggressively dodging the bullets, they tried to figure out a plan in their heads to defeat the massive obstacle
Arbiter saw what was going on with the scarabs so he aimed for the weak spot for the guard of the heart, making it explode, and leaving Chief to figure out what to do next.
Chief flew over to the scarab, flying down to it's knees, and shooting them to disable it, to get a clear shot with his missiles into the heart. The scarab then bent down, losing power to the legs, and stopped to regain strength and power: Chief on the other hand, was about to stop all power. he shot the shield on the heart, then firing his missiles into the soft tissue, making the scarab lose all it's power, and the reaction made it explode.
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"Hornet down, hornet down! Repeat, I have been hit, and quickly descending!" Screaming and yelling, the hornet pilot was hit by plasma damage, and was unable to control his flying vehicle.
Hearing this, UNSC took this as a warm welcoming space command. Commander Keys ordered the pilots of Forward Unto Dawn to fly overhead the war-zone, and drop ODSTs on the current location of the scarab, so that they can take it out from the inside.
"We're supposed to land on a scarab?!"
"Why not? They kinda need our help against the flood and Covies inside the tower too, right?" The Captain of the Crescent Moon Squadron knew this was a good and tactical idea, it's just that it was a little too risky.
Private Scolly (AKA Shivers), was in with the Captain, it's just he was just as scared as he was, but he kept that to himself. "Alright sir', I believe in you: You've pulled us through more than one crazy firefight."
"How could you doubt me?"
"That's the point I'm giving sir'!"
Ordering Whisky, Shivers, Olive, and Muscles to get in their pods, Captain Maverick (AKA Brains) got in one too.
*Beep, beep, beep, beep*
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Chief was in dire situation. Arbiter had a tank jam, because the shaft got frozen, so the brass wouldn't pop out the back. Looking at the Forward Unto Dawn, he saw five little black dots, and from his experience, he knew that those were drop pods: They were going to save the day completely and utterly. Without even having to think about it, Chief headed over to the arbiter, to get him and a Marine on the hornet. They were going to down the scarab to make it easier to land on, and hopefully it would work just in time.
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"So what's the plan, are we going to attack the bottom, the left, or the right first?"
Brains was always uptight with his men paying attention to detail, just like they told him as a Marine, "did you even listen to the tactics meeting that we held in the holographic room?"
"Sorry sir', it was too much like D'n'D, and I don't really care for the orders that we plan ahead: Always in the moment."
"That's why we call you Whisky, 'cause you're tactically drunk: Always in the moment."
"And that's why we call you the Brains!"
"Shut up Whisky."
"Yes sir'."
Almost at ground, the five ODSTs got prepared for impact, for they were about to hit a one peg table with a hammer.
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Chief saw the flames emitting from the Drop pods, as they passed the thermosphere long ago. Narrowing down their position with the small jets to get head on targeting, they got spot on with the scarab, so they unleashed their metal parachutes, before they were torn off from heavy air-blow, as expected, and hit the scarab head on, all five Drop pods making a distinctive 'u' shape.
Popping the hatches, Muscles hit a grunt on a turret with his door. Olive, Whisky, Brains, and Shivers followed after, grabbing their preferred weapons of skill. Olive felt as flame inside of her gut, and the feeling to kill as many enemies as possible, saying, "alright boys, lets kick some Covie ass!"
"Ooh-Rah!"
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Shivers and whisky took their right, Brains and Olive took left, and Muscles... Let's just say he's going to enjoy his turret while he has it.
Arbiter and Chief both saw that they had themselves covered, so the headed over to the light-bridge, awaiting the Guilty Spark.
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Whisky and Shivers double teamed the large brute, while Olive and Maverick did the same. "Hey Scolly, would you go and find me a Covie plasma pistol, for your Captain?"
"Uh-uh, yes sir'."
Returning the requested item, from a dead grunt body, Maverick overcharged the protective shields over the soft muscle heart that made up the core of the scarab. "Yeah, you really are the brains..."
"Whisky, what the hell did I tell you about shutting your Celestia damned mouth?"
"..."
"Exactly."
Meanwhile, Muscles and Olive were teaming up in the Scarab bay, taking down the brute chieftain, after massacring the rest of the wild and ruthless creatures. Swinging his Gravity hammer, Olive rolled and dodged the shot, getting out of the way for Corporal Jubilee to fire his Rockets at the massive chieftain, blowing him back against the blue panel, which broke and electrocuted his shields, then to death. They felt a shaking, like of an Equestriaquake, then jumping out the opening of the bay.
"Why won't this damn thing wor-... Guys, you may want to bail!" Captain and the rest of the men jumped off of the scarab, rolling in the snow to soften their fall. They galloped across the field, hearing an ear-shattering explosion behind them. They resorted their strength for the final fight, and just quickly trotted instead. Catching up to Chief and the others, the five ODSTs were pretty tired already, and driven of fatigue.
"Good fight out there, it's better to be on your side," said Chief.
"Mmmmmmm hmmmmm hmm hmmmmmmmm-. Oh, you're ready for the preperation?" Flying over to the group, 343 traveled over the hardlight bridge that extended over to the doors, then turned around, and wasn't seen at the moment. Trotting over to the doors Chief slowed down, and became a little paranoid for a bit before they reached the doors to the elevator.
"Chief, you all right?" Olive seemed a bit concerned, just as the rest of the group, except the Arbiter. He just nodded back in response.
Reaching the elevator, Master Chief got a call from Keys, "Chief, how close are you?"
Looking at the captured Sgt. Johnson, through the hardlight projection TV, he replied, "not close enough."
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Taking this as a sign to act fast, Miranda Keys asked for a pelican.
"But ma'am, that's too dangerous, you need somepony else to com-."
"Just get me a pelican."
"Aye ma'am."