Chapter 2
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The first thing I did after being excused from the CO is to go to the medical wing of the outpost, by medical wing I mean a small room at the back of the outpost. It had only a few basic medical equipment, upon entering the room I could see a young woman working on a marine who had a plasma burn on his arm. She put some burn gel on it and some gauss cloth and a bandage, after she finished on the marine and excused him she finally looked to me only just realizing my presence she began to get nervous. I noticed her fidgeting and decided to make her feel better " the CO told me to see you, need a check-up" she nodded and ushered me over to a small bench. I told her " I need to remove my chest piece off to check my ribs and torso." Again she nodded I reached around on my back to remove the small hard case which holds the tools needed to do a field repair, well for this instants to check my health. I opened the hard case and instructed the medic how to remove the chest armour, " I need you to grab the wrench, there are 2 bolts on either of my shoulders" the medic carefully started to undo the bolts "like this?" asked the medic. I simply nodded and she continued, after a couple minuets she finished with the bolts, " there are another two bolts down the bottom of my torso" I said calmly. She again nodded and undone them bolts, I told her to take a step back. Once she complied I activated the inner seal with my HUD I grabbed the front part of the chest armour as it came free, as for the back armour it clattered to the floor with a loud metallic thump. After carefully placing the chest piece onto the floor I began taking the upper part of my skin tight under suit off revealing well developed muscles and a multitude of scars, one particular large jagged scar that ran diagonally down his back from one of the Spartan training mission gone wrong. I then removed my helmet revealing my stark white pale face, piecing brown eyes, sharp jaw line and nose. Placing the helmet carefully alongside the chest piece, I turned to the medic noticing the shocked look on her face. I couldn't tell whether it was due to my scars, face, or just the massive black bruise that was still very much sore. Finally snapping out of her stupor the young medic began to examine my chest first my placing her hands onto my rib cage and applying pressure to see if any bones were broken. " Ii appears there are no broken ribs, but I can make a bet that some are fractured if not cracked" the medic informed me, " I figured as much" I replied with my slightly gravelly voice. I grabbed my under suit and secured it back into place I then placed my helmet on my head, then I hefted the back piece of armour and placed it onto my back. Then the chest piece though I had to stand slightly bent forward so that the back piece wouldn't slip off again I finally placed that chest piece back on I activated the internal seal, finally standing back to my full height I once again instructed the young medic the do the bolts up. She complied and after only a few minutes the torso armour was nor fully secured, "thank you for the help?" "rose" I nodded and thanked her again and made my way to the small vehicle depo to help out with the supply loading and weapons check. After only a relatively quick couple of hours all of the vehicles where all loaded with the appropriate supplies I looked to see my internal clock read 11:37, wondering when we all where going to leave for the Pillar of Autumn today or the next I did not know. I soon got my answer, this is major John Smith mount up we leave in half an hour for the asod ship wrecking yards.
Around me I saw the various personnel get ready for the move to our location, all In all there where only around 74 people to be moved. The ship wrecking yard was around 30 km give or take, the half hour time was up in that brief time everybody was prepped to move out. I jumped into the drivers seat of a standard armoured scout vehicle or warthog for short, i started the engine and gunned it out of the depo and out onto the streets along with various other loaded hogs ranging from the transport to the standard and even a few gauss as well. My estimated time to get to our destination was about 1 hour 20 minutes since it was slower in the city that is if aby covenant don't show up that is. But things never go as planned, 33 minutes later the convoy has been hit. As I was driving suddenly 8 ghosts whirled around a corner from upper head heading in our direction, I could hear the rumble of a few mounted machine guns from the hogs. The ghosts noticed the fire the front one being to slow to avoid the barrage of lead, exploded in a shower of purple sparks the rest however split into groups deciding to concentrate on one hog. They opened fire on the lead hog nearly destroying it, more scout hogs moved to the front and started mowing down the remaining ghosts finally starting to best the stupid little creatures driving the "stupid grunts" I thought to myself. as a last ditch effort the remaining ghost turned around and boosted straight towards the damaged warthog it was to late to move out of the way, the ghost collided with the damaged side of the warthog exploding into a cloud plasma from the impact which enveloped the warthog and its occupants. All that was left was the destroyed body of the 2 vehicles, after the initial shock the other marines began to move along. I started driving again behind the rest of the marines getting every closer to our location the Autumn. I started thinking as to why there hasn't been so much covenant activity as of late, I mean sure there where a few around well more like stragglers, it just bothers me not to see the covenant not swarming everywhere. Then again a month ago they would have already combed through, they have already glassed certain places of the city so I suppose we are the resistants, the leftovers. Then my eyes widened a bit at my supposed realization that hit me, the Autumn is likely one of the only vessels left on the planet. I could only imagine how many covies there are going to be there. After another hour more hors of driving and more little resistants the convoy stopped outside to location, pulling up and shutting the engines of my hog down. I got out and began to scout the area ahead I then went over to a couple of near collapsed building and looked out across the slightly indented area in front of me, what I saw made me angry and frustrated. Out in the distance was the Pillar of Autumn, also numerous dropships and a covenant cruiser in the distance. Nothing is ever easy especially when it's the covenant involved I thought to myself, I activated the com link with the Major ´sir your not going to like this" I replied.
AN please R and R.