"State your name soldier" were the first things I heard when I stepped out of the cryo tube "Spartan 936, spirit of fire, reporting for duty…. Heheh duty… Where the hell am I?" I responded as I looked around dazed slightly.

"You're on Korhal son, your cryo tube and two others inside a pelican crashed into a house yesterday, now I've got some questions for you before I unfreeze your buddies here, first off, why is a Spartan this far out of UNSC territory and second we found this in your hand before you woke up fully what is it"

"I do not know how my cryo tube made it to Terran territory sir but what you have there is my AI and I would like it back" I say calmly as a I grab his wrist and remove the chip from his hand "now I answered your questions, unfreeze my teammates"

"forceful aren't you, oh well we could use that against the zerg" then turning to a scientist in the second story he yells "unfreeze the other two!" the scientist nods in response and begins typing away rapidly

What the hell are the zerg I think to myself as they unfreeze my allies

"State your name and position then step out of the cryo tube soldiers"

"I am Kale, SSgt 3rd rank, explosives and vehicle expert"

"I am Tsume, ODST, sniper, medic, and hacker"

"Alright then you three, if you will follow me we will get you briefed on what's going on as well as something to eat while we contact UNSC HQ to find out what to do about you"

"yes sir" the three of us say simultaneously as we begin to follow him I take the AI chip in my hand and slide it into position in the back of my helmet I can feel a cold chill run down my spine as she reconnects with my suit

"God finally you wake up khel" is the first thing she says

"Oh, no how are you? For all you know I could have freezer burn Nagi"

"Scan indicates no problems, anyway, what's going on?"

"Just shut up and listen were about to be briefed while they eat"

about 30 minutes later were each told to go outside when we finally get out there the commander is waiting "The UNSC gave me full control over you three to help with our… issue… my name is Jim Reynor but you will just address me as commander, I'm assigning Gui Montag and Alexei Stukov to your squad you will be given your first mission tomorrow, I suggest you get some sleep for now, follow Alexei to the barracks"

Getting up feeling a bit stiff I stretched out before walking outside they had apparently already been briefed and told me "ok now that your up we can go" Tsume says "were being sent to retake a zerg infected city our access to weapons is limited to what we had in the pelican though, we already grabbed our stuff and we grabbed you a few things, catch" he says before tossing me two small metal rod looking objects and an assault rifle.

"Perfect I was looking for these" I say as I activate the plasma swords and take a few practice swings, then deactivating them, I put them on my sides next to my incendiary grenades and the assault rifle on my back, alright so what are we taking to get there?"

"Alexei and I are taking the grizzly, you three get the warthog, while were gone they are gonna try and get the pelican up and running."

"Okay then" I say turning around to the warthog I jump in back on the turret "Gui your on passenger kale you drive, Nagi we could use some music" as I say so the speakers start blaring Numb from Linkin Park Gui and Kale hop in and suddenly we lurch forward a bit before taking off at top speed Tsume and Alexei not to far behind in the grizzly suddenly these strange creatures that I don't recognize at first but then suddenly realize are zerglings from yesterdays briefing begin rushing at us, pulling on the triggers to the chain gun (one for rotation, the other for firing) I feel it begin to vibrate and then shake fairly hard as the bullets fire out of the gun at its nearly 300SPS (shots per second) as the bullets sink into the zerglings they collapse onto the ground with a screech and explode into a puddle of blood and guts.

"Kale! Head towards that huge structure over there! The one with Mutalisks all over the place" I say pointing towards what turns out to be the zerg hive and a huge mistake

as we spin around heading directly at the building a huge tentacle looking thing comes out of the ground knocking the warthog and the grizzly into the side of a building, and the only thing not covered in creep all of us knowing its our only chance sprint up the stairs, reaching the top we slam the huge stone doors behind us, the sound of zerglings pounding on it can be heard on the other side of it

"Great were going to die in here" while being what we all thought Tsume was the first to vocalize it.

Groaning as I flip the lights on my helmet on "shut the hell up Tsume we'll know if they get in, but for now were going deeper, Nagi contact base and tell them we ran into some trouble"

Kicking a rock down the stairs in front of us I see it fall, waiting to hear it stop, after a few minutes I finally hear it hit the bottom "damn guys sounds like a llllooooonnnng way down… I'm going on ahead, take care getting down" before I'm even completely done I leap off the stairs hitting terminal velocity as I fall for nearly 5 minutes I finaly hit the ground making a huge crater in the ground standing up and stretching I groan "gah that kinda hurt slightly"

"WELL OF COURSE IT HURT YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU JUST JUMPED ALMOST A THOUSAND FEET!" nagi screams at me

"yeah yeah yeah just flip on the thermal imaging nagi" I say as I grab my sword "id kind of like to survive long enough to get out of here at least"

the lights on my helmet then switch off as the visor turns a light red before glaring up showing the general temperatures of everything around in the far distance I can see a huge heat source emanating from what is I assume is the hive, radioing in to my team I tell them "hey guys hurry your ass up this place leads right to the hive" then walking towards it after a few moments I feel myself step in something squishy and a little slimy looking down I back up a little, " great creep… must be closer then I thought…"

I could hear them not to far behind me so I decided to scout ahead after about ten minutes of walking through the creep I saw something dart across the hall in front of me, it was vaguely human shaped so I didn't just open fire as I would have with anything else just as the black mass approached me I felt a sharp pain in the back of my head just in the exposed part where the helmet stops and the torso starts and fall unconscious…