It has been two days since an all out evacuation order had been called. OPERATION GREY AXE was a total disaster, and the UNSC forces left stranded on Oman were as good as dead, for there would be no pick up, and no further evacuations. It certainly did not help that she and Jackson-D468 were only what's left of Fireteam Cerberus. The Fireteam was to provide escort and guard alongside a company of UNSC Marines to an armoured column on route to a major battle down south. The journey had been rather uneventful for more than half of the way before a whole fleet of Covenant Banshees showed up in the air, and the shit hit the fan.
The attack had come all of a sudden, and without warning, and the entire mobile armoured column that had been caught out in the open were completely and utterly obliterated. The major battle down south would be getting no armoured reinforcements. Many of the marines who had gathered close to the vehicles were thus thoroughly massacred. Their Staff Sergeant, Catherine-D614, was KIA after taking a direct hit from one of the payloads who went astray. D614 was not the only casualty of the massacre as the Sergeant Major, Xavier-C614, who also happened to be the Fireteam leader was critically injured when the right portion of his body was exposed to the blast that killed his second-in-command. His injuries proved too severe, and he eventually succumbed to them, being the second team member to be KIA. Being on the opposite end of the column was what saved the remaining Spartans in Fireteam Cerberus as they were simply thrown back several feet, concussed with their armour slightly blackened, but otherwise alright. What was left of Cerberus had then recovered and moved on towards their initial target until the order for an all-out evacuation was given to all UNSC forces on Oman. They were pulling out.
Unfortunately, with many of the allied forces stuck in engagements that made an hasty retreat mostly impossible, a large amount of UNSC forces were thus left stranded as such on the planet, abandoned. Now it was just the two of them wandering around Oman. "Nadia, our best best is to look for other UNSC forces. I'm damn sure that there are still whole Fireteams of Spartans out there. They all can't be as lucky as us can they?" She stifled a snort as she knew that her friend was only joking, trying to keep their spirits up as high as they can to avoid falling any longer morale-wise. "Yeah, that's the plan Jackson. Let's keep any eye out for other Spartans. I wonder how many of us are actually still alive?" Cera then piped in, taunting and teasing her while at it. "You're alive, I'm sure that means that there'll be others too. After all, you were never the lucky sort." There she went again, the AI of hers, which always seem to tease her of her ineptitude, although she wouldn't consider herself too bad. Cera knew, that was without a doubt, but she just simply loved to make a dig at Nadia whenever she could. And this was one of those times. She just knew how to pick them it seemed. The Spartan pair continued wandering, hoping to chance upon other Spartans soon enough. There had to be some of them still alive. Nadia was sure of it.
Qia
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