Chapter 1

Project Arrowhead's owner The Commander was sitting in his office, looking over the files of the two new recruits to Alpha Squad. Nick(dirty blond hair and blue eyes), codename Red and Kourtney(Brown hair and blue eyes), codename Hawk Eye. Both were good solders and would make good additions to the squad. The Commander reached a hand over and tapped the intercom, a voice spoke "Yes Commander what do you need" asked the voice "Tell Grizzly and Echo to come to my office as soon as they can, would you?" said the Commander. " Right away sir". With that The Commander sat back in his chair and awaited for the two to come to his office. Zack( straight black hair and blue and green eyes) was sitting in the lounge, legs propped up on the table, he was wearing his skin tight nanosuit , a pair of black pants and his half face mask that covered his neck, mouth and nose. He was sharpening his Black Combat Machete, running the smooth stone up and down the side of the blade. Ty( short brown hair and eyes) was sitting in a chair wearing his army Regs, next to Zack reading a book. " God something needs to happen around here and soon, I'm bored out of my mind" Zack said never taking his eyes off his task. " Quit bitching we will get a new mission soon. It's only been four months since our last mission" said Ty never looking up from his book. " True but it's just so damn boring, there hasn't even been any prisoners for me to torture" said Zack as he put down his machete on the table. Just then a man walked into the room. " Grizzly, Echo. The Commander wants to see you both in his office, now" said the man. Ty and Zack looked up at the sound of their names. " Well Zack looks like you got your wish" Ty said as he and Zack stood and walked to The Commander's office.

They reached his office and knocked on the door. " Come in" said The Commander. Ty and Zack entered the office. " Sir" Said Ty "Sup Boss" Zack said. Ty smacked Zack in the back of the head " OW you ass" shouted Zack " Show The Commander some respect" said Ty. " Enough both of you I have some news for you two" spoke The Commander. Both Ty and Zack stood at attention as fast as they could. " What is the news, sir" asked Ty. The Commander spoke " I am adding two more members to Alpha Squad" " WHAT WHY... are we not doing a good job? Is there something I fucked up on the last mission?" Zack asked worry in his voice. "Calm down Echo there is nothing wrong with the work you have been doing... but I feel that find that if Alpha squad had two more members the missions will be easier" said The Commander as he pulled out two files and handed one to Ty " Nick codename Red, his Father won the Medal of Honor for saving his squad on a mission. Nick joined the Army soon after wanting to live up to his father's name. Since then has served five tours of combat killing at least 500 enemy troops" Ty said reading the file aloud. Zack grabbed the other file " Kourtney codename Hawk Eye. On her last mission her squad was killed in front of her. She went into a blood rage killing and scalping 50 enemy troops. Upon her return she was put into an insane asylum, she just got out" Zack finished reading. Ty looked over to Zack " She scalped 50 enemy troops... Damn Zack she may give you a run for your money on the crazy scale" Zack narrowed his eyes at Ty and spoke " It's one thing to do that kinda thing once it's another to do it every chance you get... Plus she only did that cause her squad got killed, I would scalp people for looking at me funny". They put the files back down on the desk and The Commander spoke " They're in the locker room getting ready for your next mission". " Where are we going to now, sir?" asked Ty. " We don't know but the scans did show a high amount of natural resources and as you know we always need more of those so go get ready." said The Commander "Yes, sir" both Ty and Zack said in unison and walked out of the office to the locker room.

" Sirs" both Nick and Kourtney stood at attention and saluted as Ty and Zack walked in to the locker room. Both were already in their combat gear ( MICH 2000 combat helmet, OE Tech Interceptor Plate Carrier, Condor Hard Knuckle Combat Gloves, Army Combat Uniform,M16A2,WASP combat knife it's a big knife that at the press of a button blows up the blade with CO2 ,M9 pistol...same as Ty's gear, except his M16 has a grenade launcher). " Hear that Ty? We are "Sirs" now" Said Zack as he walked to his locker. " Calm down. You two, no need to get all formal" said Ty walking up to the two new comers. Both Nick and Kourtney eased up and sat back down. "Oh sorry" said Kourtney. Nick looked over to Ty and Zack who were getting their gear on "Uhhhh... Echo what are you wearing" said Nick. Zack turned to Nick, all of his Blood Dragon armor on but the helmet. " It's called Blood Dragon armor got it on a mission along with my nanosuit, Ty had a chance to get a suit of armor made for him but he said no says earth weapons work just fine, I don't think the same so on our first mission I got new weapons and armor." Nick and Kourtney looked at Zack like he was talking crazy " You make it sound like there are aliens out there that gave you this armor, We don't even have the tech to leave our solar system" said Kourtney. Zack looked at her and spoke " You have no idea what Project Arrowhead does do you" She got a smug look on her face and said " I know what we do here, we get resources and share them across the world" Zack nodded " Very good but do you know where we get these Resources" said Zack . The smug look on Kourtney's face vanished " Ah that's what I thought. See this planet's resources aren't going to last forever, so The Commander told the nerds to find a way to solve that and what did they come up with... not even going to guess fine I'll tell you they made a wormhole machine thinking hey lets go to outer space to find more resources...but these wormholes didn't go to outer space they went to different dimensions... Yeah I had the same look on my face to but then I got paired up with Ty and went on our first mission and well seeing is believing right" Zack finished his speech with both Nick and Kourtney with looks of disbelief on their faces.

By the time Zack finished his speech both him and Ty and gotten their gear ready and Zack had put his helmet on. The intercom buzzed "ALPHA SQUAD REPORT TO THE PLATFORM" Alpha Squad got up and went to the platform. The Commander was waiting by Alpha squad's digital camouflage Humvee with a Mark 19 grenade launcher. " So how did the introductions go Grizzly" asked The Commander " Well sir the recruits didn't know what Alpha Squad was made to do." said Ty walking up to The Commander. The Commander moved closer to Ty and whispered " The less they know about order 35 the better don't tell them about it until you have to give the command understood" "understood sir" said Ty. "Alright Red, Hawk Eye welcome to Alpha squad, let me tell you what your mission will be on this trip... I take it from the look on your face's Echo couldn't keep his mouth shut... Shocker" Said The Commander turning and facing the rest of the squad. Zack laughed and rubbed the back of his head "Well you see what happen was..." The Commander turned to Zack he had look in his eyes and spoke "Quiet Echo" Zack Snapped to attention "SIR" Zack said and didn't move. Ty looked at The Commander and said "One of these days sir you are going to have to teach me that" The Commander spoke " Ah Grizzly that is a lesson for another day... Now then for the new comers your mission is easy find the leaders and offer a trade agreement between their world and ours...Think you guys can handle that" Nick and Kourtney nodded. The Commander smiled "Good now get ready your mission begins soon" and with that Ty, Nick, Kourtney all went to get in the Humvee. Zack was still standing at attention, rooted into place. The Commander turned back around and said "Oh almost forgot at ease Echo" Like someone had cut the rope holding him in place, his body eased up and he started moving again and he spoke "Thank you sir" and then moved to the Humvee but stopped in front of the passenger side door " Kourtney... the fuck are you doing?" Said Zack. Kourtney looked to Ty and Nick then back to Zack then spoke " I am sitting in the Humvee" Zack opened the door and said "Well I can see that but you're in my seat" "oh come on does it really matter " she said "Yes now get your ass in the back noob" said Zack. Kourtney knew she wasn't going to win and got in the back then Zack got in his seat next to Ty in the driver's seat. The Commander moved off the platform and the intercom buzzed again " PORTAL OPEN MOVE THROUGH NOW" and with that all of Alpha put on gas mask all but Zack because his helmet already filtered the air around him. Once they were done they drove through.