Disclamer: I don't own Halo. Any OC's ARE MINE though.

Authors Note: While coming up with the story, I noticed that dispite this story violating canon, It at the same time fits canon. This will be explained later on as you read. Also, I will have a first person chapter for Six later. To clear up any confusion anyone may have, the documents are written by Captian Zhan of ONI, not Cmdr. Hoff. Also, Zhan is Section 3, and Hoff is Section 0 (ONI's EXTREAMLY Black ops, as in the stuff that won't see the light of day EVER and internal investigative section, which explains Zhan reffering to Hoff with a respectful 'Sir', even though he outranks Hoff) If your wondering why I put OPERATION FIRST RESPONCE, and OPERATION PAYBACK in Six and Jun's service records, it is because they are my name for the operations during Regrets ill fated first assult on Earth, and Truth's compleate and utter curb stomp of the UNSC when he arrived (FIRST RESPONCE), and the events around Halo 3 (PAYBACK)
Anyway, apoligies in advance for spelling errors (using the word pad program to write this) please read and review or I will find you, using military satilites and my robotic legions of doom. You have been warned. (Seriously though, all input is welcome, except for insults involving my mothers promiscuity, wieght or appearence, my promiscuity, wieght or appearence, what you think my sexual orientation is ( Just for the record, I am straight), or the good old stand by "You suck".)

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Sir, you may be wondering why and more importantly HOW S- B312 is still alive after having been declared MIA with S -A266 on August 31. Personally, I am astonished my self. The details are EXTREAMLY classifed (So you already probably know them), but *NAME REDACTED* said that you were to be given at the very least a summary of the files by myself. As you obviously know, Noble suffered a casualty rate of 66% with Nobles One, Two, Four and Five all dying during the fall of Reach. Jun and S - B312 were separated by Dr. Halsey at CASTLE base when Noble was ordered to recover data from the site. In any event, After the deaths of Noble One and Four, Six met up with S - B344 and continued to the final fallback point for all SPARTAN - III operatiors on Reach, only stopping temporaraly to scavange a HAVOC tactical nuke from an armory on the way. This delay actually saved thier lives, as when they reached the rally point, they discovered no survivors, and a Covenant hunter - killer force in the area.

Setting up a defensive perimeter and scavanging armor and weapons from thier fallen comrades, S-B312 and S - B344 monted a defence for (Note: According to Six's mission clock, You will see how this is relevant later) seven hours, only stopping to reload and clean the blood off of their gear. This valient effort ended when S - B344 was mortally wounded saving S- B312 from a group of elite zealots. During the engagement, S - B312 was also badly wounded, suffering mild plasma burns on his right side and three cracked ribs, as well as a dislocated sholder.(Note: S - B312 lost his helmet when he took it off due to damage to its visor during the scuffle, and also lost apparently, Noble One's Tactical Pad, (Rumored by Noble Three to have quote: "Interesting pictures of Noble Two") the dog tags of at least 70 service men and women, and most devistatingly to us ONI desk weenies, 700 minutes of combat footage and several terrabytes worth of recon data obtained during the conflict on Reach by Noble team.) S - B344 ordered S - B312 to evacuate the area. Within 21 minutes, Six had gotten out of the blast zone, and S - B344 detonated the HAVOC, earning the post - humous distinction of having the largest estimated body count of any known UNSC soldier during a single operation.

Six then continued on to CASTLE base regrouping with S - A266 at, according to his clock, 0239 August 31. (Note: This may contridict what you heard from the misson logs of OPERATION FIRST STRIKE, and for good reason. The leading theory on this, put forward by an ONI specialist in theoretical physics, is that the Forerunner artifact found by Halsey under CASTLE base, was by sheer coincidence, located just under the final fallback point. This artifacts ability to warp space and time were well documented during FIRST STRIKE, and this change in the space - time continuinum located around S - B312's location probably lead to Six's mission clock being ahead of all other participents in FIRST STRIKE. Do dumb it down a bit if the words don't make sense, a magical ancient dohicky that Six was near caused time to go faster. Yeah, this doesn't make much sense to me either, but its better than nothing.) The other surviving S - II's on Reach arrived one hour after Six entered CASTLE base.

Six and Jun then assisted S -117 and the other surviving S - II's in OPERATION FIRST STRIKE by repairing weapons and vehicles, sharing intel they had gathered with Dr. Halsey and being generaly useful in non-combat roles, this last one at the insistance of Dr. Halsey and Cortana due to exaustion and injuries the two had sustained during the fall of Reach. They arrived at Earth on September 24, 2552 with all surviving participants of OPERATION FIRST STRIKE, with the exeptions of Dr. Halsey and S - 087, who went AWOL later in the mission. Col. Ackerson was (Thankfully) not informed of S - B312's arrival back on Earth, due to the highly confidential nature of OPERATION FIRST STRIKE.

A/N: Whew! Took me a good three hours to finish writing this chapter down on paper, and now that it's all typed up, I can take a break for the day. Next update will be in at least three days, And will be the first person perspective of Six during one of the missions of FIRST RESPONCE. Please review!