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Chapter 1
I groggily opened my eyes and slowly looked around the burned scorched battle zone of Reach, all I could remember was the gravity hammer slam into my chest. After that I blacked out presumably after I slammed into the wall of a nearby building. By the way my name is James 1308 I am one of the Spartan II commando unit that was deployed for a assault to repel the covenant invaders I was with a squad of 15 marines that were tracking through the city looking for some covies to illuminate. We were moving out across the city when we were suddenly ambushed and all the marines were slaughtered from the jiralhanae the chieftain charged at me last. But before I could react it was to late… Back to the problem at hand. As my brain began to return back to the world off consciousness the first thing I felt was the massive pain in my chest, most likely where the grav hammer hit my chest. I started to move around to see if anything was broken. Nothing felt broken but there was probably a couple of cracked or fractured ribs, suddenly I started into a coughing fit I suddenly unlatched my mark V helmet before coughing up a couple large wads of blood, after around 5 minutes of coughing I felt the bio foam injectors kick in. I suddenly felt thankful just another perk at having Mjolnir armour, I steadily got to my feet grabbing a nearby wall for support I finally got to my feet in just a few minutes and surveyed the surrounding area. Noticing the thick clouds of smoke looming all in the sky all over the place, "the covenant really are pushing hard" I muttered to myself suddenly coming back to my senses I looked around to find my MA5C assault rifle 10 meters away so I started to walk towards it in a few seconds I picked it up and put it on my back, it magnetised to the magnetic place to on my back. I started walking north to try and link up with any surviving UNSC forces, on my way I came across little resistance apart from a few skirmishes which were eliminated quickly.
I could still fell the discomfort of my damaged ribs but I persevered, I was only 15 miles away from the outpost that is in the northern part of New Alexandra. I eventually arrived at the outpost after 2 hours of carefully trekking through the city, I found it strange that there was not overly many covies in the I trekked through. I walked up to the fortified doors and knocked three times each 1 second apart from each other, this is a sigh for people on the inside to know when there are friendly units outside. Not that there was probably surveillance outside, the door suddenly opened to reveal a terrified private standing in the doorway. His eyes instantly lit up with hope upon seeing me, he snapped a sloppy salute and said "sir follow me to the CO" I obliged and became following the marine to his commanding officer. There where a few marines in our way but they moved back arfter seeing my massive bulk and height fill the small hall way. After a few minutes of silently walking we came to the door of the commanding officer, the marine opened the door and led me to the CO upon entering the CO turned around, his eyes wise at the sight of a Spartan. I snapped a crisp salute whilst also saying "Sir" at ease Spartan " I am major john smith" he extended his hand and I gently shook it not wanting to accidentally crush his hand. "sir do we have any orders" "yes Spartan we are to evacuate the city and we are supposed to board a halcyon class cruiser pillar of Autumn for our retreat" " sir with all respect we can't just leave reach to the covies" "I know spartan but the planet is lost they have already been here for months as is, its lucky your still here. There is no point I wasting blood on a already lost world, are you with me?" "yes sir" I replied "good we are packing supplies onto a convey, we a to go to the asod ship wrecking yards whenever we are ready we will leave" "yes sir."