-=/-\=- Einhoften, Kill Zone -=/-\=- "The hell with this", Cortez said firing a few more shots towards the approaching bad guys. The group of Jem'Hadar were slowly making there way down the wall and towards Cortez, Pateli and Jones. If they made it, they would also be directly to Walsh's flank, and that couldn't be allowed. "Pateli, Set a booby trap", he looked down at the wall "Right here". Suddenly Jones spoke up, "Sir, we've been ordered to retreat", he exclaimed while listening to a communicator in his hand. "Walsh sais to fallback to way point Beta". Cortez poked his hand over the wall and saw Walsh's team already beginning to pull back. They were leapfrogging back towards the tree line, but in the opposite direction from where Cortez and his two squad mates were at. "OK, prepare to move out, " he said ducking his head back down, "Pateli, wheres my booby trap?" "Right here sir", the young private said as he finished setting up some futuristic version of a claymore mine. "They wont know what hit em", he grinned. Richard then pulled out a grenade from his pocket and set it for level five, "OK you two get going, back towards the treeline, meet up with Fabrini, I'll be right behind you". "What about Allen", Jones said as he lay down a few more shots towards the approaching Jemmy's. "Take him with you", Cortez ordered. He had no intention of leaving one of his own behind, even if he was dead. "Aye", Jones said then moved over towards Allen's body. With help from Pateli he hoisted him onto his back and the two began running towards the tree line as fast as they could. Cortez continued laying down as much phaser fire towards the enemy as he could. He had to buy Walsh and his squad as much time as possible. Then checking the air to make sure that all the nerve gas was gone, he flipped off his mask and tucked it back into his satchel. He could see much more clearly now that his vision wasn't obscured. Switching the grenade on he quickly stood up and tossed the weapon towards the Jemmy's and began running at high speed towards the trees. The explosion immediately killed two of the Jem'Hadar warriors and knocked three more to the ground wounded. It was a direct hit. It didn't take long for the Jem'Hadar to over run the position and they immediately began chasing after Cortez. Pateli and Jones were about halfway through the field when they heard the explosion, turning around they saw Cortez hightailing it towards them with a few random phaser blasts flying over his head. Jones then pulled out the trigger for the mine and pushed it. Sending a few more Jemmys to there graves. "MOVE!" Richard screamed as he came running towards them. As they reached the trees, Fabrini jumped out of nowhere, "What the hell happened out there", he said as Richard Lent him his shoulder to lean on. "There were too many of them", Cortez answered quickly in between gasps of air, "We need to get out of here before they come looking for us". Fabrini nodded and the four marines moved out slowly. Way Point Beta was the teams emergency fallback position, one of three places actually. It was located about 2 miles east, on top of a small ridge line. Richard was glad he studied the maps of the area, nobody ever expected that the Jem'Hadar force would be this strong. Suddenly a loud streak of light zipped over there heads, followed by a loud thunder. It was a small shuttle. "Search party", Cortez said to himself as it flew off into the distance. Luckily it kept going, either its censors were offline, or the team had finally caught a break and it had missed them. Either way it was finally a stroke of good luck, and the marines continued on. Defeated, but with every intention of returning, next time prepared. -=/-\=- End Log -=/-\=- Second Lieutenant Richard Cortez Assistant ODA Commander USS Chimera