97th Mechanized Infantry Brigade, 4th Battalion, "W" Company, Fourth Platoon, 2nd Squad
New Alexandria Starport // August 23rd, 2552
"Corporal I get you're exhausted but that can be said for everyone, so catch your breath and get back in the fight." The words echoed through her head as she continued panting, her legs and arms shaking from overworking and somehow remaining true to the mission, despite the screaming of her body to release the load that was so much larger than her, the only thing keeping her moving seemed to have been adrenaline and her overwhelming need to survive, knowing that if she fell behind from the Spartan too far, gave up, that she'd be left behind and at the mercy of any Covenant squad that discovered them. So she kept pushing, ignoring her body for as long as she could, until she got Ataboyev to safety, or at least to the waiting arms of a Corpsman.
"Yeah......yeah..." She whispered between heavy breaths. She rose from her prone position that she had kept after falling, her aching arms shaking as she did, pushing herself from the ground to her back against one of the walls facing towards the enemy. She reached out and retrieved the MA37 that had fallen from her grasp earlier, immediately checking the ammunition counter displayed. The same fourteen rounds left as there'd been before. She checked her chest pouches. One mag left. As she regained her breath, she maintained a watch over the Corpsman as she did her work, a spike impacting the concrete just on the other side of the wall, where her head would have been. With her hands shaking, she rose up just enough to expose her head and rifle, releasing the fourteen rounds at the Brute that fired his round at where the Medic had been. In a span of seconds, her weapon replied with a click and she quickly dropped back down, pressing the mag release button, allowing it to fall to the ground, clattering. "Last mag!" She called out, ripping the magazine from it's pouch and sliding it into the rifle, giving the mag a bump and allowing the bolt to feed the next round into her weapon, her ammunition counter resetting.