Hey guys time for chapter 1! Now this is going to be my final copy of the story until I'm finished with at least Rise of the Ancients, but it's looking good so far so ENJOY!

Chapter 1

A New Mission

Perspective: Justin Smith

I walked down the hall of the training facility, I hadn't seen this place in over a year.

I entered the training room.

"God damnit!"

The recruit yelled.

"Don't be too hard on yourself, I don't mean to sound like a stereotypical fighting teacher. but, you lack discipline."

A deep, rough voice rumbled.

"General, or should I say sensei?"

I said.

"Smith, you've risen through the ranks rather quickly since you left my tutelage."

He replied.

"Well it tends to do that when you're trained by the deadliest soldier in history, named General "Night Terror"."

He chuckled.

"What can I do for you my old student?"

"It's been three years since you were introduced to the battlefield, you're twenty-three and you're in the prime of your life-"

"I'm retired."

"A waste since the augmentations rendered you practically immortal and stopped your aging process."

"That part was replicated remember? Immortality is commonplace."

"This isn't the kind of mission you'd think."

"Then why do you need me?"

"Your astounding intelligence and the fact that you were previously studying paleontology. Look at these scans of the skull cavity in this Tarbosaurus. Do you know what this means?!"

"It means you came all the way out here for me to tell you that your scanner is broken."

"Trust me we checked on dozens of other scanners."

"Okay it's a possibly sapient dinosaur, why do you need me?"

"We want you to tutor and train it till it grows up and then bring him back once he's old enough for us to make an identical fossil skull so it will be discovered in the first place."

"You want me to go back in time and be a parent to a dinosaur for 25 years?"

"Hence the immortality. We've outfitted the space cruiser 'Venator' for the mission, if you take the mission then not only will you get your cybernetic, demonic looking exoskeleton back but the ship will belong to you."

"Venator? The indestructible mile long starship?"

"Yes, because you're not just a deadly fighter but a brilliant tactician."

"So I'd be fighting again too."

"After the mission."

He sighed.

"You'd better be right about this."

I smiled.

There we go! I'll upload chapters as soon as I finish them. So thank you guys so much for reading, please feel free to drop reviews and PM me, and I will see you (hopefully) for chapter 2!