Board Thread:Role Playing/@comment-24217012-20171114133558/@comment-24852191-20171119060108


 * Several UNSC marines in EVA suits take cover behind several rocks. Several knights rush the platoon’s position. The marines put up a withering fire of 7.62mm rounds from their MA5Cs and MA5Ds. But, with the odds stacked against them, they only delay the inevitable. One marine, Lance Corporal Zwinston, ducks down as he reloads.

Zwinston: Why the hell are we still here? Everyone else is already pulling back to the Golden Gates!


 * Another marine, Corporal Wilcox, looks at him.

Wilcox: Hey! Some one’s gotta look out for everyone else!

Zwinston: Yeah, but these “things” are putting up a hell of a fight! How many in the company have been lost sergeant!


 * Sergeant Volkner kneels down as he reloads his MA5D.

Volkner: The other three platforms have been wiped out. So have the other companies. The Monitor went down about 20 klicks north of here. Apparently these knights or what ever too her down when she was covering Charlie’s deployment.


 * Just then a knight unleashes a blast towards the marines. They are sent hurtling in the low-g environment. Zwinston looks up as he catches his balance. Volkner is decapitated and Wilcox is spewing blood into the vacuum of space. Several other marines are shot out of the air or are stumbling up as they attempt to return fire. Zwinston looks to what of his platoon-mates.

Zwinston: Clax! Cover me while I retrieve Wilcox.

Clax: I got you covered.


 * Clax takes his position behind Zwinston and provides covering fire until he returns with the corporal. Wilcox screams, but his sounds reach no one’s ears as his communications package was damaged in the blast. Zwinston grabs the tourniquet from his medical kit. He wraps it above the stump that used to be Wilcox’s right arm and tightens it high and tight. Once down he grabs Wilcox and, under the cover of the remaining platoon members, carries him to a wrecked Scorpion MBT. The marines retreat to the tank as the knights advance. As they watch them come, Clax looks at Zwinston with a frantic look.

Clax: (Bleep) I think this is it man! I don’t want to die! Not like this in some God forsaken universe we don’t even belong to!


 * Zwinston stares at Clax as he struggles against the shock and fear that has come over him. He takes a deep breath and looks at Clax.

Zwinston: Look, we aren’t going to die here, not now! We fought the Covenant on Earth! The Marine Corps is not about to lose a battle to these (bleeping) knights! Now pull your self together and man the 7.62 on the tank and let’s give them hell before we regroup there!


 * Clax tries to breath normally. He regains his composure and nods to Zwinston.

Clax: Right! Hell it is!


 * Clax turns and clambers atop the decompressed tank. He pulls the body of a dead crewman from the bow gun’s turret. Her body gently rests on the Scorpion’s mangled engine deck. The marines continue they hell fire of bullets into the 32 knights before them, but it does little to delay their ultimate fate.

Zwinston: Die you mother...


 * A blast knocks him off his feet. He struggles to get up. Instinctively, he begins to low crawl back to where he thinks the tank was, but instead he finds a carter. He rolls over. The tank is floating through the low-g environment of the moon. Where Clax and the turret was is cut in two. “A quick death” is what Zwinston thinks. The other marines are shot dead around him before they manage to recover their weapons. Zwinston, tries to look around, but instead settles his head on the ground. He just wants to go home, away from this accursed universe. After hopping through universes with the UNSC 7th Fleet for so long, he never thought it would be this one to get him. He wants to be in his bed waking up from this nightmare. He wants to stop fighting now. Just then, a knight walks up and looks down at him. It’s masked face is lifeless as it peers at him. It rises its pike to impale the wounded UNSC marine. Just then, it hits him. Zwinston remembers. He is a UNSC marine. An elite soldier sworn to protect Earth and her colonies from threats, both extraterrestrial and domestic. With that thought, he reaches for his M6G sidearm, but he doesn’t feel anything. He now realizes, he has no arms. He cusses and screams with furry as he realizes his pain, but more so that he is unable to shot the lifeless creature on top of him. Just then, the knight drives the energy pike through Zwinston’s heart. A quick death. Coronado Zwinston died at the age of 29 on November 18th, 2017 in the Guardian Universe. Along with him the entirety of Delta Company parished with him as did Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Echo of the 1st Battalion of the 48th Infantry Regiment.


 * This is but one example of what was considered a common occurrence during the Great Moon War of late 2017 (GU) or 2556 UEG time. The Great Moon War has been costly for the UNSC as the famous Fighting 7th Fleet has suffered nearly a third of their forces in the first 48 hours of open conflict with the knights. It is a truly gruesome fight.