Aftermath of the Assassination of the Prophet of heian. O'Brien continues his status as the best sniper near Eridanus through the halo games 3 to 5. After so many years he finally has gotten taller and still continues on as an ODST. Due to his status he still keeps his youth through the use of cryogenic pods. He has been offered to become a spartan 4, but has declined like many other ODST's before him. (Please do watch the Halo Legends short film, "The Babysitter," it will help you understand the character's back story! And remember this doesn't belong to me, this character actually belongs to Microsoft, and 343!)

Many thanks to the reader who informed me on the first upload of this chapter's bugs, thank you!

When i'm asleep I sometimes dream the Brute killing me instead of Cal, I wonder if she would have died after the mission anyway. But I always think of these scenarios of her getting praised for killing the prophet. And yet the worst one was me getting to know her more after the mission, i'm embarrassed that I think of her that way. Yet I still regret what happened to her, all I was is a cocky hell-jumper who thought he was the best. Now I am the best, and I've grown taller strangely. I was 5'9 before the mission, over a couple of year and cryogenic sleep has apparently made me bigger. I'm 6'7 and have honed my snipping skills. I've been offered to be a spartan several times by the Unsc, and even Halsey herself. After giving the pictures of the strange ruins that turned out to be Forerunner installments or bases, but Halsey gave me the chance to become a Spartan 3. Everyone thought it was ridiculous especially me, but Halsey said I could make a valuable asset. I never thought of myself as to becoming a spartan but she did. After the city of mombasa being glassed and the Master Chief ending the Human Covenant war I finally could get some rest. But soon after I would find myself fighting the last of the Covenant and even Forerunners. I can't believe how we came from fighting aliens to alien robots! The Covenant seemed so easy long ago before these guys came along. This all made me wake up and realize that I would be fighting something serious. Maybe something more serious than me.

After the founding of the Created by Cortana, an AI who has left the Unsc, many people have been tasked with facing this new enemy with Forerunner technology. Which reminds me of my current orders, i've been told to report to a certain someone. I walked down the halls to also see some spartans following me along. It didn't take me long to understand that we were going to the same place, as it only took about maybe 5 minutes to get to the briefing room. It felt weird to be in a room with more spartans than marines, and it sure did feel weird to get all these confused looks from them. I was wearing the usual odst combat armor, and I was shorter than most of them, only one of them was as tall as me. Two male spartans, Jethro the team leader, Georgie, or george was the tactical and heavy weapons expert. As for the other two ladies, Dalina was the scout, and Sasha the one who was my height was the team's basic infantry. Apparently their last sniper died in combat, which is pretty sad to for a sniper to die that way. The commander who briefed us introduced me to the team, "Welcome everyone, this is your new team sniper, O'brien the best sniper i've known in this part of the galaxy. Excuse the fact he is an odst, and please do take care of him when he needs your help most desperately." It irritated me to hear him talk about me as if I was a handicap, sure I can snipe really good but, that doesn't mean you have to say i'm what they have to take care of. "Your mission is to escort this female sangheili who is willing to teach a few of our troops how to effectively use covenant weapons were ever found. But due to the fact that she is breaking tradition as an ex member of the covenant she is breaking many laws to her culture. "So we free her from oppression! Just kidding, this feels like something funny we could see from the history books. Like the snowflake generation." Said Georgie surprising me with his knowledge of history. After the joke I felt like I could tell who was like what. Jethro was the quiet one who only spoke when spoken to or if he wanted to know something. Georgie was a history buff, as well as obviously being the funny one, and Dalina was mischievous but also mysterious, and also Sasha the one who was easy to get along with on the team, she also seemed like someone who grew from my home world. But I soon awoke from lala land into reality once the commander said, "Funny joke Georgie but as we all know this is an ancient culture so please do be respectful it's not very common that women in their society can do such feats. But as for some key things during this mission besides escorting and protecting, you will also be training under her once in a safe zone." Everyone grew quite not understanding what he meant by this, I then proceeded to ask, "What do you mean sir? We are already trained for combat?" The commander responded with, "Not you son, you will be on guard 24/7, these four had a recent incident with their last mission, no one can really teach them how to use non unsc weapons due to the fact that we don't have someone aboard who can teach them what each weapon's function is." This surprised me the most. I knew how to shoot a beam, and a carbine rifle, even the needler and a lot of soldiers say that is one of the hardest to aim with since it feels like an smg on steroids. "Your all dismissed to get your gear ready you depart in an hour," Said the commander. I then proceeded to walkout to be stopped by the commander,"Don't let them give you to much trouble I know they're bothered by the fact that your not a spartan but you are one of the best so don't let them take that away from you," Said the commander, I then turned around towards the door to be stopped once again by these words, "And another thing….. Make sure you keep your eye out for the Sangheili, her name is Khuhe Tastumee just so you know." After these last words I departed from the room to be stopped again by Jethro this time, "You better not screw us over helljumper… I don't want the rest of my team to end up like cal 141, who was even a spartan 2, some of the best spartans the unsc has seen," he said after pushing me to the wall. I made my way to the armory to get some of my usual gear, a sniper rifle with 5 extra clips to carry on me, and the Hell jumper's favored silenced smg. I would carry all the ammunition I could for that weapon due to the fact that snipper magazines are some of the largest magazines someone can carry on their person. The most important piece of equipment I could carry would be the knife and some grenades. I was able to carry 3 frags on my person, and a bowie knife. While I was there I looked to see if I could grab anything else and to my surprise I met Dalina She stood tall over me bye one foot or two looking over me with her helmet on. As a matter of fact she was the only one wearing armor in the briefing, why I didn't take note of this before I don't know. Maybe it's because i'm more used to seeing spartans wear their armor all the time unless they're resting or off duty. "So what is a little man like you still doing around here? All dressed up as a helljumper ready to jump foot first into hell." She said, as for me I responded with, "I just don't want to be a spartan never liked spartans before and I just don't care about all the cool superhuman things you guys can do."

"What about me, what do you think of me?" She asked mesmerizingly.

"Well your wearing some eva armor I can tell," I said flustered. She stood over me with my back on the wall, it seemed like everyone wanted something of me on this team. She had her arm over my head, it reminded me that not so long ago was I this small compared to other odst's and spartans. "So do think anything naughty under that helmet," Dalina questioning me. I panicked under my helmet looking down to the grown trying to find a way out. I then took a right since her right arm was above me, so it made better since to go that way. Boy was I wrong she grabbed me by the wrist and drawn my attention to her and asked, "What's the big hurry we have 50 minutes!" This can't be happening, i'm being asked for sex by a spartan way out of my league and yet i'm getting ready for a mission here. I then shake her grip off my wrist and walked away from her, now what was I doing as I wandered down the ail of weapons to then remember what I was looking for. I was trying to find the invisibility armor upgrade, I walked quickly towards the armor abilities near Dalina but avoided her in case she tried to get me again and grabbed the armor ability as quickly as possible back to the front desk to check out the gear I picked for the mission. "Alright you're good to go just make sure the weapons make it back!" The armorer said behind the bars, in response I said, "I always bring back the rifle!" I then left to the hanger which took me a good 15 minutes to get too. After going through hallway to hallway and elevators I made it to the hanger and easily found the ship I was loading on. No one else was their except for me, so I set down my stuff and sat in one corner to take a nap ready to go, but little did I know I was going to be sleeping the whole trip to some desert like planet.

Thanks for reading! Please do stay tuned for more ODST adventures with O'Brien! And Remember I do not own any rights to making money off of halo.