Halo Knights

Episode 1

"Spartan 116 report!" My hands, these were not my hands, but I saluted with them none the less. Today my team would be arranged, and I knew who my captain would be already. I was proud to work for him, he was a good captain, he would live up to his title.

"Spartan 117," the new Spartan 117, we all knew Master Chief to be dead, "your team has been assembled." My captain, behind his visor, I knew, he was giving us a cold, dead stare, what he did best. The Commander read off names and numbers in order from highest to lowest rank,

"117, Captain Jackson L. Drake

116, First Corperal MaryAlice Kottan

114, First Private Chanise Norris

166, First Private Redfield King

123, Second Private DavidJohnson Julius

121, Second Private Nicholas Hart

and your pilot, 102, Second Private Daniel Winter"

Nobody really liked Danny, he wasn't supposed to be here, like me, and captain, he was one of the original test subjects. Me and Danny, we ended up with a screw loose, but the injections and experements preformed on captain? Perfection! And that was why he was the new 117 and our captain and my captain, too.

My best memory of captain, was the last day of training as Spartans (Generation 4.3). I had thrown some sort of explosive. It had hit something, bounced back, and fell between me and captain. Captain had a permanently cracked helmet, and I got a bump to the noggin.

After that, few trusted me with such explosives, and not only that, my hit to the head was so hard that I was given a little brain damage. I am one of the only personel to wear a 'Mark VI Operations Plate' on the back of my helmet. Without it, I can barely remember a thing (post accident of course).

Now here it comes, nothing big, our first mission as a team. Danny takes us up in the pelican, and for almost a second, I realise something. I am a soldier now, something I never wanted to be. I wanted to be a chef, a chef, goddamn it! So what now, roll with the punches till its all over? I don't know. The best thing I can do is hope, hope for a future.

"You OK Corperal?" the captain asks me.

I cannot reply, it's too loud now, we're landing.

The End