Editing The Glassing of Djangoris Alpha IV (section)

==Thunderous Flight of the Basilisks==

[[File:Elite concept art halo reach.jpg|300px|thumb|right|[[Imperial Guard|Imperial Guardsmen]] [[Sturnn|doing what they do best]], [[Pretend|they die]] [[Rape|"Standing"...]]]]As the orbital defense fleet were all but crippled, the Xeno fleet shifts its attention on the planet itself, and unleashed a swarm of Banshees that blackened the sky of Djangoris Alpha IV, like locusts spreading like wildfire during a time of harvest. As the swarm of Xeno fighter crafts loom ever closer, the Anti-Aircraft gun batteries from ''Majectis City, Data City, Olephus City, Summer City '' and their surrounding protectorates unleashed a torrent of missiles and flak rounds, with a sound of vengeance, the defense batteries shattered the weak and vulnerable Banshees like glass. In return, the Xeno fighter crafts released their plasma cannons, however, like a rain on a windshield, their weaponry proved all but ineffective to the strong Void Shields of Djangoris's vast city complex. Troubled by the stronger defense of the Human cities, the Supreme Commander of the Covenant Navy, regrouped his forces, and tasked his subordinates to construct additional relay beacons on the more rural places on the planet, so that he can teleport the Covenant's ground forces for a surprise attack. However, Imperium intelligence, collected by a scout team of SPARTAN II's doing reconnaissance, had alerted the Djangoris High-Command and ordered the 112th Djangoris Basilisk Battalion, to secretly move eastwards and bombard the organizing Covenant ground forces 20km from the outer city boundaries. The resulting bombardment severely crippled and startled the invading Xeno forces, twisting and shattering the Covenant armor and blowing apart and scattering Covenant infantry. As the surprise attack falled into disarray, the Covenant, frustrated at this, decided to face their adversary head on. The commander of the 112th Djangoris Basilisk Battalion, knowing that grouping all of Djangoris's Basilisks in one area could make an easy target for Covenant space bombardment, to combat this, he ordered his Basilisks to split into four main groups and to protect the entrance gates of Djangoris' cities. Additionally, he also asked 4th Company Captain, Benedict Amanos with his battle-brothers to aid his assistance and protection of the Basilisks, as well as a fair amount of Guardsmen with Leman Russ support and over 200 SPARTAN II's.

As the Covenant started mass teleporting 5km outside of the city gates, Benedict Amanos, now in charge of this defense force, ordered all four Basilisk groups to release their payload on the Covenant, causing casualties and chaos amongst the Xeno ranks, while the Guardsmen and their Basilisk support help clean up any stragglers. In order to stop further losses, the Covenant then decided to redirect some of the Banshees that were harassing Djangoris's defense batteries and destroy the Basilisk threat once and for all, as well as tasking several highly trained Spec-Ops teams to sabotage and cause chaos behind Imperium ranks. As the Basilisks continued to fire at their trajectory, Benedict Amanos including his battle-brothers and the SPARTAN II's, spotted a black haze of Covenant Banshees heading towards the positions of all four Basilisk's. Immediately, the Super-Soldiers ordered a full scale Basilisk retreat, unfortunately, due to chaos and miscommunication, the four main Basilisk groups were too slow to react, and was quickly enough. Even with their superhuman accuracy, picking of the Banshee's pilots flying at full speed, there was too many of them, eventually the Banshees has caught their prey and blasted; reducing the Basilisks into a melting, twisted husk. Now without the Basilisk irritant, the Covenant fleet then decided to release all their ground forces on Djangoris Alpha IV. As hordes of Xeno's started appearing out of thin air, Benedict Amanos then regrouped all of the Guardsmen and tanks to form a defensive perimeter. As the opposing forces grew near, all hell broke lose. Guardsmen were unleashing torrents of bullets while the Leman Russ tanks were blasting holes into Covenant forces. Respectively, the Xeno's released a hail of Plasma, zipping across the city gates as it becomes a battlefield, balls of searing heat from Covenant Wraiths left melted steel of once Human tanks and irradiated ash prints of once Human Guardsmen. While the battle raged, the SPARTAN II's were quick into action, sprinting and dodging Covenant attacks with relative ease while shooting down the Xeno's with neigh impunity. The Rainbow Warriors under Benedict Amanos, were also causing casualties, firing their Bolters and swinging their Chainswords which spilled and sprayed blood of blue bioluminescents and indigo-purple from Covenant Unggoys and Kig-Yars. However, Covenant Spec-Ops, clad in purplish-black armor and wearing a cloak of near invisibility, caused chaos within the Humans, as their traps, assassinations and sabotage caused a sudden fatal loss in both Leman Russ tanks and leader of the Djangoris 468th Shock Troopers.

However, even with all their superhuman strengths and brilliance, numerous SPARTAN II and Rainbow Warrior casualties were present in the battlefield. Over 120 SPARTAN II's did not made it, either due to being bogged down with repeated Plasma fire, or sniped by Kig-Yar Snipers. Nearly all of the Tactical Marines under Benedict Amanos had fallen mainly due to Covenant Anti-Armor weaponry such as the Fuel Rod and battling foes of equal experience, such as the Covenant Spec-Op teams or Sangheili Zealots. Examples included battle-brother Ignosis Banjuctus, who was cleaved in half by a Covenant Locust as he was attempting to flank an Unggoy Lance and SPARTAN Ackeral-133, in which he was stabbed through the neck by a sneaking Sangheili Spec-Ops member as he was attempting to assassinate an unsuspecting T'vaoan Commando. Even Benedict Amanos himself, if it was not for his quick thinking and reaction time, was nearly caught at the spike end of a Brute Shot. Fortunately this was not the case, and ducked down and rolled over from a raging Jiralhanae before slicing the giant Gorilla-esque Xeno in half with his Power Sword that was taken from the ground of a fallen Rainbow Warrior.

But as the battle dragged longer, with both sides inflicting severe casualties, the Covenant saw through a weakness in the Void Shields of the Hive-Cities. Initially, the Covenant decided to break through the city defenses and shields by bypassing it via the use of Scarab mining, noting that the Titans in Djangoris Alpha IV was still under construction and was not yet suited for battle, due to this the Covenant initially decided to flank the Imperium forces by digging right under the Forge Factories and destroy the Factories and Titans itself before they become a threat. However, Covenant Intelligence found out that the Factories itself can self-destruct, taking along with it, the Covenant's much valued Scarab Legions. Therefore, the Covenant decided a new tactic that is often rarely used, using Slipspace itself as a weapon, turning it into a giant EMP that would shutdown all technology and devastating anything that surrounds the void of space. Taking note on this advantage, the Supreme Commander of the Covenant Navy then ordered several Covenant Light-Cruisers to hover right above ''Majectis City, Data City, Olephus City'' and ''Summer City''. 1st Company captain, Eximus Secarion and his Terminators, were baffled and startled on why the Xeno's would place their ships into direct line of fire. Then all of a sudden, a bright flash appeared that was so bright that it looked like Djangoris Alpha IV suddenly had multiple suns, only to follow a dark, blackish void to suddenly and quickly engulf each major Hive-City. Eximus Secarion, reacting to this shocking situation, immediately tasked every single Human on Djangoris to take immediate cover within the well-fortified bunkers, but most importantly, pleaded Benedict Amanos and his fellow battle-brothers to run away from the Void as fast as they can. The deafening screams of War all of a sudden...became silent and eerily quiet. As Eximus Secarion and the other Terminators began to reign in consciousness and try to comprehend on what had happened, all he saw around him, was twisted steel and ferracrete that was once the gleaming towers of Djangoris Alpha IV. He looked at the back, and was relieved that not only did his fellow brother survived, albeit knocked out, but the valuable Forge Factories and Science Laboratories still stood ground. But something still did not felt normal to Secarion, and as he peered ever so closer to the world outside, reality hits him. With his help of his specialized HUD, and seeing through the dust, he shifts his head to the left and was given a rude awakening. In the south where ''Olephus City'' was meant to connect with ''Majectis City'' through rail cables, there was nothing but a sunken sinkhole filled with dirt, as if...someone had grabbed an entire Hive-City and placed it somewhere, disappearing without a trace. Secarion then looked to the west and north-east where ''Data City'' and ''Summer City'' once stood, and all was left of them were the colossal 15km Titanoris-Class Hyper-Heavy Bucket Wheel Excavators, which was curiously, cleaved perfectly in half without exploding. Bewildered by this situation, Eximus Secarion quickly talked to his comms towards Strike Cruiser ''Crystal Reverence'', since it was docked in one of the docking bays within ''Majectis City'', to allow the civilians to quickly evacuate. But all Secarion heard were dust and echoes filling up the empty Void.