Noble six couldn't remember her last hot shower. Fuck noble six couldn't remember her name or a bunch of other important things about herself. But that didn't matter, she was walking into the divisional command post and going straight to the shower. She stepped into the door of the bathroom and removed her helmet, then the gauntlets, collar, and breastplate, then she released the shin guards and kneepads. Sitting on the bench she removed the arm guards and finally the gel underlayer of the armor. Her dogtags hung around her neck, brushing the top of her breasts. She couldn't remember the last time she had done that either. She found herself turning on the shower and laying flat on the bench. Closing her eyes and remembering, her childhood, her immediate past and what the future might hold for her.
"Hey three twelve!" The boy called her name in the woods, it was another one of mendez's stupid tests, three twelve alaways got the tests done right, the spartan three trainees had been dropped into a forest east of camp currahee on onyx. They had been given nothing but the clothes on their backs and were told to meet at a rondavous point on the ridge and they had to do it while squads of marines did their best to keep them from reaching the ridge at all costs. The boy who had called three twelve was ash. He remembered his name. He jogged to catch up with her. She turned her head and gave the signal to stop. Ash stopped, three twelve slowly walked over to a position within a foot of him, she picked up a rock and threw it at the ground five feet or so in front of him. The tripwite was broken and something exploded sending leaves dirt and rocks flying at the position where he would have been standing. Ash looked down and said "wow, would have never noticed that" three twelve turned around and walked away silentley her strawberry blonde hair drifting in the breeze. Ash quickly caught up with her and said "hey guess what I found!" He reached into the waistband of his pants and withdrew a UNSC combat knife. "Yeah! I got in a scuffle with some marines and palmed this off of one on the way into the forest. There was a shot fired a booming echoy sort of reverberation filled the silence which followed. Ash fell.