Hmmm, let's see, my excuse for this story. I got nothing. I felt like making it so too bad if you don't like.

My first thought was cold. I opened my eyes and saw the inside of the cryopod I was in. I remembered what happened, our ship was attacked and another spartan had shoved me into the cryopod. Unfortunately that was all I remembered. The pod opened and I stepped out, my boots making a loud banging noise on the floor. I looked around as my helmets hud and flashlights turned on. There were three other spartans in cryopods, they weren't thawing out though. Maybe mine had been defective? I walked through the ship towards the bridge, on the way I noticed my life support was on, that meant there was a breach somewhere. I arrived at the bridge and turned on the computer. It came up on the last file it was on. 4 pictures came up. It was me and the other 3 spartans. Me in my hellcat armor, and the others were wearing rogue, raider, and tracker armor. My armor was pure black, the rogue armor was blue and red, the raider armor was pure yellow, and the tracker armor was pure white. Under each picture was listed the details, including names, gender, and what they are capable of. I was good with any weapon and a leader. Lida, the one wearing rogue armor, was an expert with any kind of explosive weapon or item. Rex, the one wearing raider armor, was an expert with most weapons and was an expert at close combat. Alvinia, the one wearing tracker armor, was a pinpoint aim and a master with any kind of sniper rifle. I pulled up the layout of the ship, there was a major breach in the side of the ship, other than that the ship was fine and gravity was on. I couldn't remember why I was on this ship, or who I was, the file helped me a little bit but that was only my name and what I was capable of. A beep from the holopad sounded behind me. I turned and faced it.

"suffering from memory loss?" a female voice said, the sound coming from the speakers on the holopad. An avatar popped up, it was a spartan without a helmet. She was wearing classic Mjolnir armor, she had shoulder length hair and a young face. Her whole body was glowing white.

"yes, I can't recall anything from my life." I replied. I started walking back to where the others were. "what is your name?"

"rosy. I already know yours, Eliot." she said, her voice echoing from the speakers in the ship.

"I would prefer not to be called that." I said, the name felt unfamiliar.

"what would you like to be called then?" she asked.

I stopped walking and thought for a moment. "black, that is my name now." I continued walking.

"why black sir?" she asked.

"easy to remember, and the color of my armor." I replied. I arrived in the room with the other spartans. They were still in the cryopods, I went over to the control panel and started the wake up process for each of them. "one more question rosy."

"yes?"

"did you wake me up?"

"yes" the pods hissed and opened, they didn't move, the other spartans.

"why aren't they moving?"

"sir, these are only prototypes. There's an after effect of these. You don't wake up immediately, it usually takes a few hours."

"why did I wake immediately then."

"I don't know sir, something in your augmentation made you immune to the after effects. Your augmentation was different then the others. Your file has been blocked to me. That is why I woke you up. So I could learn about you."

"I'm going to repair the breach, get me when they wake up."

"yes sir"

While I was repairing the breach I had rosy read me files about the ship, this was an experimental vessel that was carrying over a thousand prototypes. It's name was the carrier of spirits. I was part of a group of spartans called reapers. They were suppose to be better than other spartans, but only in a certain ability. For example, rex was specialized for close combat but was like a normal spartan with everything else. There was even prototypes made specifically for him. It was surprising how many materials were on the ship and how big it was, it had took me a bit to find the breach.

When I was done I went back to the cryopod room. The spartans lay still in there open pods, still unmoving in there armor. I walked to the bridge, I got there and rosy appeared on her holopad, a smile on her face.

"take us to the nearest planet."

"yes sir." I heard the rumbling of the engines as they turned on. I turned to the computer, I pulled up my file and read through it. A bunch of things were missing from it but it did give some details.

"I thought you said my file was blocked."

"it is sir, that is why most information is missing." I noticed the green outline of a hand on another screen. I raised my hand up to it. "Please remove your glove." Said a robotic voice.

Before I could do something rosy spoke "message incoming sir."

I pulled my hand back and responded " pull it up on screen." It came up on screen. It showed a man with black hair and a beard, he looked like he was in his thirties. He was wearing some kind of grey bulky armor. His surprised face stared at my me. (It's Raynor by the way)

"what do you want" I said.

His expression turned serious and stern "what are you?"

"what do you mean sir"

"you don't look like a human, zerg, or protoss. So what are you? And what's that thing behind you?"

What's a zerg or protoss? "sir, I am human."

"prove it."

I turned to the holopad "send him what you can of my file." She nodded and disappeared. I turned back and saw him on some kind of device reading my file.

"seems human enough, I'll meet you on the surface so I can prove your not part of moebius corps."

"surface? Who the hell is moebius corps?"

"the surface of the planet we are above. And the other is another army that's a pain in the ass."

I nodded. "I suppose it is right to let you decide if I'm an enemy or not." The transmission closed "rosy, where's the armory and launch bay?"

I was on my way to the surface of a colonized planet. I had an assault rifle in my hands and a DMR on my back, two grenades and a pistol on my waist, and a knife and sheath on my left shoulder. I felt the engines groan at entering the atmosphere as gravity came back. Through the pilot window I saw a massive city and some kind of ship hovering above it, it was a tenth of the size of the carrier of spirits.

"rosy, find a place to drop me off."

The pelican approached a large cleared out area and hovered above it, the back opened and I walked over to it. The ground was solid metal and it seemed that the entire city had a solid metal floor. I dropped down and looked up at the sky. A box shaped ship landed in front of my pelican, the pelican raised its ramp and flew off. The back of the ship opened and several red, bulky, armored suits stepped out, the man I talked with right behind them.

"marines, surround the target." They broke into a sprint and surrounded me. I dropped my rifle and looked around. There were ten of them, not including the grey one which was still standing in the dropship. Each were thirty feet away.

"I thought you were going to test me or something?" I said to him "and I never learned your name either."

"it's raynor, and you can stop pulling the act now. We know who you are." He said back.

"do you now." I pulled my knife out and they fired, my shield flared as all the bullets bounced off and started piling at my feet. They stopped firing and stared at me. I sheathed my knife as a small pod came down from the sky in front of me, it opened revealing a rocket launcher within it. I grabbed it and aimed it at raynor. I fired the rocket at his feet, it hit and he flew back into his ship. Good, it worked. I had planned on them being aggressive. The Marines around me held still not knowing what to do, there guns were still pointed at me. I looked at my shields and saw they were at half percent.

Time slowed as I felt the bullet break my shield and graze my helmet. I turned around and saw the air moving a few hundred feet away. I sprinted towards it and dropped the launcher. I tackled the disturbance in the air, hitting the ground while on top of the person. The air shimmered and revealed a blonde chick holding some kind of sniper, I pushed myself up and pinned her with my hands and knees.

"your are going to find out what happens when you fail to kill a spartan." I raised my fist to punch her. Her leg slipped out of my hold and her knee connected with my groin. Pain coursed through my body and my limbs went slack, she pushed me off and stood up.

"and you are going to find out what happens when you mess with a ghost." pain erupted in my head and I blacked out.

Still don't have an excuse, I made it, I regret nothing. I'm stuck on my other stories, that's my excuse.