Hello, internet, this is my first fan-fic, so please bare with me, This is the 'unofficially-official' sequel to Brothers in Arms by thearazona, Please be sure to go read the OG story if you haven't yet to catch up.

Halo is the copyright of Bungie, 343 Industries or Microsoft, The Original Bia Characters are thearazona's (well minus one or two), but any new characters and further story are my own.

Prologue

April 15th, 2550

Aboard the UNSC Midsummer Night

Gunnery Sargent Jack Price

We watched the last civilian vessel go into slip space from the bridge of the Midsummer Night, and I swear less than a minute later an ONI prowler fell from slip space less than a kilometre from us, The Captain seemed a little unnerved from this arrival, but was pleased when we were relieved from our post and were free to go, The Captain insisted we were the last relieved ship to leave system. After the other ships left it was just The UNSC Constellation, the prowler and us, we bid the Constellation good luck and Jumped away, The Captain soon dismissed up and encouraged us to get some cryo-sleep, so we headed down that way.

"Hey Jack, " William said with a quiet tone, "I think I should get more training in, so I am going down to the gym"

"alright, after the others settle in I might come down and join you" I replied, He smiled warmly before changing direction mid-stride

"What is he planning on doing" Dmitri said sombrely

"putting a little more work in, I think he's taking the joining Carnage thing running with it"

when we entered the cryo-bay most of the 829th were already in their tubes, Folster stood against his, reading from a tablet "Morning Carnage" he said without looking up

"Folster" Dmitri said while approaching and opening his pod, the others made vague sounds of acknowledgement, before climbing in their own pods, I sat next to him and glance at what he was reading "That's a little old for you is it not?"

Folster 'mhmm'd' before continuing reading "you not tired Jack?"

"after all that I could sleep the whole trip, but I made an at odds promise William I'd train with him, it's" I said with a small stretch.

"The other William..." Folster said with a slight smirk

"Right, Sorry William it's just we normally call you by your last name..." I said trying to apologise

Folster laughed "I was only joking Jack, sometimes you're too serious"

"Yeah I know, but anyway, I'll catch you later, Ok?"

He 'Mhmm'd' again and I left towards the gym, when I got there William was tightening his arm bandage from the glancing shot he took just a few days ago, but when he saw me he jumped up, finishing off the knot he was tying, and said "glad you could join me" before he sauntered over to the weights, taking up a set of 30's "Jack, to be honest I don't know where to start in the training, all I know is I am ready to be worked into the ground, will you create my regime?" he said dropping the weights.

"Alright, If you're willing to be reworked from the ground up, we'll fix you," I said with a Crack of my Knuckles

-Fifteen Days of Later-

I had woken up Dmitri to help me with William's training, to my surprise William took quickly to the sleep when you can because I swear in the last fifteen days he's had about 60 hours of sleep, he may have snuck some naps in there but that's alright too, to boot Mandy has been in a low activity state, and the ship was running on a skeleton crew I think only a dozen people are up, making the ship feel awfully empty.

"Sir?" William asked looking at me head slightly tilted to one side

"Sorry, what was that" I replied

"I asked how was that," he said pointing out the display showing '13.125 seconds'

"That's good, better than over half the team, Connors got it down to 11.98 seconds, and Stein got 12.79 as his fastest"

William smiled, holding his knees "Good because you've had me running this 100 metres for the past 3 hours, can I have a drink and a break now"

I nodded, as Dmitri walked up and said "Not so fast Tadpole, One 800m less than 90 seconds, No retries if you don't get it, No break"

William's face Dropped "Can I get a drink first... Sir" He said standing back up, holding his hand out to him, Dmitri handed the bottle to him and he basically downed the half bottle, before moving to the starting position, the countdown started '3...2...1...GO' and he bolted off, we watched the seconds tick up, I swear he was running like he had a pack of hungry jackals on his six, and when he finished he dropped.

"89.71 seconds... You get to have your break, go get some well-deserved rest, after a shower OK" Dmitri said

we looked at William due to his lack of response to find him in amongst the mats "looks like we didn't have a choice even if we wanted to work him, he's not going anywhere" I said jokingly, to which Dmitri smiled

"You don't crack too many jokes," he said

"That's your job" I scoffed before laughing

"What are we gonna do with him," Dmitri said nodding his head at William

"I think he's ready for whatever the guys will do to him, I say we put him in his tube, and see where we end up, Mandy still won't tell me where we are going, so only time will tell" I said moving to William "Grab his legs, unless you want to carry him"

Dmitri grabbed William's legs, and we lifted him to the cryo-bay and got him in his tube with little effort then we climbed into our own tubes and went to sleep

Thank you for reading, Please leave a review, tell me how it went I appreciate any input, No planned date for chapter one but, it's on it's way.

Semper Fi,

LoyalODST a.k.a William