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Shane backed as close to the wall as he could and then rolled to avoid the blast radius of the plasma. It was warm... a feeling Shane hadn't felt in a long ass time. He reveled in the heat and switched hands as the grunt wave came upon them. He switched hands on his battle rifle and started shooting as a reflex. Grunt after grunt fell to his shots, though many returned fire. They missed, barely in some case and by a large margin in others. As he was killing, he saw a massive hulk nearby.

It was the Major.

Dodging a plasma grenade, that exploded and sent another wave of heat over him, Shane slowly worked his way towards his C.O. "How bad is it, sir?" He asked, as one grunt tried a kamikaze attack and was shot before it could even get ten feet from the edge of the trench.

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Jack looked up in time to see the plasma. As it was, there was only one way to be safe from the artillery. "Into the hole! Now!" The squad of Hellbringers raced back inside and waited for the bombardment to be over. Looking over his squad, Jack ground his teeth together.

If that was how the Covenant was going to play it...

He motioned for the squad to go back outside and stood at the ready. The grunts were getting close. Too close. Just as he was about to disobey orders and signal his squad to counterattack, he heard the words he was dying to hear. "Carter! Now!"

"Okay boys, form up and light 'em up! Remember our equal opportunity policy with the Covenant! Every last one of these motherfuckers dies here!" The squad formed a wedge with Jack taking point, Beam and Noble to either side of him and Barnes and Daniels taking on the outside part of the wedge.

Jack started walking out towards the enemy, leading his men to the very front of the wave of Covenant forces. As soon as he saw the first grunt get close enough, he started spraying napalm, bathing the alien force in the liquid fire. To both of his sides, his squad was doing exactly the same. Not even the prowlers were safe as Barnes sprayed the brute occupants of a couple of them. There was no need to do much in the way of dodging. The wedge was creating a protective 100 meter radius of fire that obscured the group of Hellbringers from view, so most shots went wide or could be dodged by spreading out the formation a little before tightening back up.

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Shane stiffened, shocked by the destructive force the Major had just ordered onto the battlefield. The fire melted the snow and the napalm stuck to the ground, burning fiercely until the water from the snow put it out, only to be replaced with fire a little further than the last line in the snow.