RE-EDIT 2

THREE MONTHS BEFORE THE EVENTS OF HALO 1

It was just another hot day on a barley UNSC controlled alien planet. The planet is a very unimpressive one by planet standards. It has strange... everything going for it. The planet's surface is riddled with small pockets of forests, woods, swamps, open fields, mountain ranges, jungles, and few beaches. But what takes a good portion of it is it's desert, rocky wastelands, and a huge frozen tundra.

The huge tundra is located what you would call the lower backside of the planet where the desert and rocky wastelands is in the front. Very little lives on this strange planet and there are only a few UNSC bases and outposts on the planet. What also makes it worse is the plant is on the edge of UNSC charted space. Making it difficult to get supplies or radio UNSC command.

So it's pretty beyond the outer colonies. Well what's left of the outer colonies. Since a good chunk of them have been wiped out by the collective of alien races known as the Covenant. This planet was ignored do to how obscured it is.

On the rocky desert part of the planet is a box canyon. The place is called Blood Gulch Out Post Number One. In the box canyon are two bases of unknown origin, said bases are now inhabited by two different armies. The Red and Blue Armies.

Red Base houses five soldiers. Three of the them are actually either on the roof or inside the building, while the other two are outside. Inside of the base is a soldier sitting down and cleaning his BR55 service gun. Better known as the battle rifle in the military. Said soldier, is a 15 year old white kid. He has dirty short-messy blonde hair, greyish blue eyes, and his armor color is the combination of the of the two colors orange and red. Though this combination of colors never had have a uniqe name like other mix colors. So they just call his armor color orange-red. Not very creative.

Now for the soldier's name. His name is Blake Ryan. But he prefers Ryan, since everybody here calls each other by their last names. Hell, because of this, he assumed everyone was being called by their first name. Excluding their leader.

Ryan's story is that he signed up for the UNSC when he turned 15, there was a program they held for people that young to enlist into it the military. Ryan always wanted to be in the army, and help people in need. He signed up for the UNSC Army division instead of the poplar Marine Corp. He figured it won't be as health threating.

However Ryan didn't get what he wanted, very few people his age signed up and it really didn't impress the higher ups. Though the problem is that Ryan's name is on the military record and they couldn't do anything about it.

So instead of letting him go to the army he want to be in. They told him with fake smiles he picked up on and said he's being transferred to the Red Army. Now that, even to this day, still confuses Ryan. The teen has never heard of a Red Army or their enemy's. The Blue Army, he wanted to plead with them to change their mind.

But they care not of what he said. They made him get on a transport ship and send him to a planet that was and is training red soldiers. After a month of training, the teen was then transferred to a place called Blood Gulch.

Ryan finishes cleaning his gun and places it next to him along with his helmet, he could here the other two soldiers who were on the base talking about god and if they left this place the Blue team will have two bases in a empty box canyon. The two soldiers names are Dexter Grif, a guy in orange armor and Richard simmons who had maroon armor.

The two of them, mostly Grif gave Ryan a hard time due to him being a kid, and saying he won't last long. But for the past two weeks, Ryan proved him wrong, at one point Ryan held off the blues who were attacking the base by himself by hiding near a rock and firing when necessary.

He was able to get the Blues running. This impressed their commanding officer a lot. "Well lets ask him. Hey Ryan why did you sign up for the army?" He heard Simmons ask him.

Ryan came back to reailty and looked up to see Grif and Simmons looking down at him through the hole in their base. He took a moment to speak. "I signed up to help people who really needed it, you know, be that person who is willing to put his life on the line for others." He answered, but after a few seconds of silence he continued "And also to fight aliens, not fight a bunch of Blue guys."

"Exactly thats why I signed up for," Grif corrects himself by muttering "Well, more of drafted." Then continued in a normal speaking tone "But instead I'm stuck in this canyon, fighting a bunch of Blue guys." Said Grif.

"What's even the point, all of these weapons to fight Blue guys for this base in the middle of no where. We should be using them on the Covenant. We're currently at war with them." Simmons then pictures himself after a huge battle, standing over a huge pile of alien corpses. Behind him are thousands of soldiers. Cheering his name, then comes the women.

Grif slaps Simmons on his shoulder "You're having the day dream again." Simmons turns to his fellow trooper. Orange visor staring into orange visor. "So what, let me dream for once." The fat soldier shook his head with a small smirk, "Sorry. I'm afraid that if I do. You'll slip into it and ever come out."

Ryan snickers a bit, he loved this guys. These two always made him laugh, though not all the time. Most time he got annoyed at their antics and banter. "Ladies, front and center on the double." A loud voice ordered them from the outside.

"Fuck." mumbled Grif, "Yes Sir." Simmons said in exciment. Ryan got up, grabbed his gun, and placed it on his back. Then he grabbed his helmet and puts in on. Ryan's helmet is the same as the others. Along with the armor, MARK V. This greatly surprised Ryan when he first got his armor. At first he was super excited to get the armor that the Spartans wore.

He remembered seeing the Spartans on TV a few years ago. From what he gathered by seeing their advanced suits of armor. This guys were top secret and not meant to be known by the public. But moral was low and the people needed something to change that.

Once getting feeling the metal in hands. The teen starts day dream of having the strength of ten men, no, ten bears. Doing cool flips, flipping cars with his bare hands, and having energy shields to protect him. Although his little spark was snuffed out by the man who gave him the armor.

Telling him that while the armor looks like what the ones Spartans wear. It's not as advance. The man explains both the Red Army and Blue Army received a cheap version of the MARK V. So no shielding, no increase strength, and no flipping cars.

While a disappointment, Ryan did get to like the suit. Once the helmet is securely in place, his Heads-up display activated. Light blue icons stared appearing, on the top left corner shows the amount of bullets and ammunition he has, along with a grenade counter. The right showed his vitals. 100%.

Doing one last check to make sure everything is fine. He heads for the nearest exit to see what their commanding officer wants them for. "Probably to yell at Grif some more."

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