chapter 2

Unknown compatibility

date: September 24, 2015

location: IS Academy Chifuyus office, Japan

The day has been hectic for Chifuyu. First a unknown unmanned IS attacks the school and her little brother personally. But the most shocking thing she saw yesterday was at least a medium squad of armored soliders. Attacking a IS with conventional weapons such as small arms and grenades. Whatever that blue grenade did surely wasn't a normal one. But that wasn't the craziest. Some idiot who had the idea of videotaping the fight of a single armored man go toe to toe with a IS.

What was really interesting was the fact that one man could take down a IS with basically there bare hands. Thinking over of how the man literally ripped off armor plating that protected the IS core was really scary.

"*sigh* I need a damn vacation." she muttered under her breath.

She hates the fact that the person who did record the attack on there cell phone. Which she for some odd reason had on her during school hours. Decide to do a gutsy thing for snap chat. The girl decided to take a photo of her crushing the man in armor to death after the Unknown IS exploded causing him to crash into the wall. Which she has to get fixed out of her damn pay check again!

And if its one thing she hated was that when something like this happened she always loses a good chunk of her paycheck.

"I honest to god swear that the IS introduction to the world should have remained an idea. At least id only have to care for my brother and not worry about girls coming to a damn school to worship me like some fucked up goddess to eradicate men of the face of the earth!" she screamed in her mind.

Looking over paperwork and the days class schedule. She was teaching home room soon but had to check up on two injured students as well as any progress on those odd soliders.

"Chifuyu are you there?" Maya sensei asked. "Yes im here whats going on?" she asked. "Well Ichika and Rin are awake and heading to class after a late breakfast. However you might jave to come to the Hospital wing to find out more on the soliders that are knocked out." Maya replied. "Thanks. I'll be there in a moment." Chifuyu said as she got up from her desk.

She left her office and went to the medical wing. "Just what is going on here?" she thought to herself.

She eventually got to the medical wing amd opened the door. The doc in charge was a young fourteen year old Girl.

"Well Chifuyu-san haven't seen you in a while." the women said. "Naomi Mendez." Chifuyu greeted back.

"If your wondering about the mysterious soliders I had to get a concrete slab for the one in the high tech armor with a odd pack on his back. Oddly where having a problem with removing all there armor."

Chifuyu frowned." your curtain about that the other eight look like they put on that armor by hand."

"You be suprised its actually also vacuum and magnetically sealed. So unless we have the right tools we cant get them out of those armored shells."

Chifuyu thought of her options but was taken out of her thoughts when the door opened. She looked at the door and saw Houki in it.

"What are you doing here shinonno?" "I just wanted to thank the soliders for keeping me safe when i ran out yesterday." she replied.

"Which reminds me how the hell did you get the locks to the door offline?" "What you expect me to to just sit and watch one of my friends get hammered by a IS to the point of death."

"No I expect you to follow orders." Chifuyu said sternly. "My god I hate kids." she said to herself.

"*sigh* Come on you think i didn't learn a thing or two from my sister before she just ups and leaves?" Houki replied.

"Anyways now that your here maybe you can help with something." Chifuyu said.

"Like what ma'am?" "*sigh* can you call yoir sister we may need her help getting these soliders out of there armor." "oh ah sure hold on a sec."

Houki took out her phone dialed her sisters number. But of course Houkis sister Tabane was just as energetic as ever.

"THANKYOUFORCALLINGTABANETHE GENIUS! HOWMAYIHELPYOU!?" Tabane said loudly through the phones speaker.

"*sigh* I know where going to regret this. Hay Nee-san."

"HOUKI! IM SO GLAD YOU FINALLY CALLED YOUR BIG SISTER FOR ONCE!" Tabane said again loudly.

Houki and the other two women just facepalmed for the lack of control that Tabane has.

"Hay Nee-san ah Orimora sensei needs a bit of help with something."

"OHMYGODITSADREAMCOMETRUE! I CANT BELIEVE SHE ASKED FOR MY HELP!"

Houki looked at the two women with her and both sighed.

"This is probably the worst idea we ever had. Ever." Naomi said.

"AWW YOU HURT ME NAOMI!"

Chifuyu decided this was getting no where and decided to talk. "Tabane we need some help with some tech when by any chance can you come to the medical wing?"

There was utter silence on the phone till it disconnected from Tabanes. Then a large earthquake shock through the ground. A large carrots shaped pod popped up near Naomi's desk and expensive medical equipment. The door propelled open and a girl with light purple hair, eyes, and wearing a blue maid outfit launched out of it. The women that came out tried to grab Chifuyu but she moved out of the women's grasp.

"CHI-CHAN!!!!!" Tabane said as she tried hugging Chifuyu.

"Yeah I think where definitely going to regret this." Houki said to Naomi.

"Damn it! TABANE!!! That X-ray machine was expensive! Now its coming out of my check how am I supposed to pay my bills!!!!" Naomi shouted at Tabane.

But unfortunately Tabane wasn't listening at. And was rather busy trying to grop Chifuyu and say a bunch of random stuff.

"CHI-CHAN what do you need what do you want you want my Yaoi and or Yuri game collection? You want me to give you a make over of my personal expertise? Or you want me to marry you and have your kids?"

Naomi and Houki shuddered at she last sentence. As much as they don't mind homosexuals. But Naomi really wished she'd learn about that political correct shit storm when she was older. But Tabane didn't help at all when she'd sometimes downloads them on Naomi's personal devices.

Chifuyu having enough about whatever the hell Tabane was talking about. She wacked the side of her head with a titanium alloy clipboard she had on her for such occasions like this.

"Get a damn grip already! Im not playing this bullshit game. Now act like an adult before I wack you so hard with my clipboard your head will turn into scrambled eggs!"

Tabane who was still rubbing her head from the clipboard attack. Turned to her and whined pouted.

"Your such a buzz kill Chi-chan!"

Naomi whispered to Houki." Id think we'd be better off if buzzer was killed." she joked and the two girls laughed.

"So Chi-chan what do you need?" Tabane said in a normal if not scratchy voice.

"We need help with getting them out of that armor." Chifuyu said pointing at the nine people.

"huh this is odd. they all have he same armor type just different helmet visors and the amount of magazine pouches. but all in all the armor looks ugly. and I hate the color black." Tabane said but got another wack up side the head.

"I didn't call you to criticize the armor I need them out of it!" Chifuyu sternly stated.

"Your so mean Chi-chan." Tabane moaned in pain.

She then got her act together and snapped her fingers. A hardlight chainsaw appears out of nowhere as she was tested it with a good few swings. Only to have a now really terrible migraine from being hit by Chifuyus clipboard of metal death.

"Owi! why Chi-chan?" "I said get them out of there armor not hack off there limbs!"

Naomi now was starting to get irritated. She wanted to help these soliders get better once they woke up but cant tell what injuries they might have. But the fact that Tabane cant act like a damn adult and do this professionally then playfully would have made getting to her patients faster!

"Hay Houki remind me again how I know Tabane?" Naomi asked.

"Your older brother and I where best friends." Houki replied looking down remembering the good times they had together.

"Then explain to me how your parents raised a man child?" Naomi asked.

"Well lets just say she was a very rebellious child. And that she got into atuff that she wasn't supposed to by hacking or building her way out." Houki replied.

"I missed the peace days rather then this mess. And looks like your older sister owes me a new X-ray machine again." Naomi said.

Houki sweatdrops in irritation. "Yeah shes had a bad habit of doing that."

Finally Chifuyu strong wordedly to Tabane to stop joking around and start working. Calling her a buzz kill Tabane snapped her fingers and a keyboard popped out of nowhere. Further more quantum shift bracelets appeared on the nine soliders wrists each sporting the color thats painted in there armor.

"Quantum shift bracelets?" Naomi asked.

"Well i dont have the proper tools to release the locks on there armor dispite what Chi-chan claims that the other eights armor can come off at will yet still be stuck in place is beyond me. So quantum shift is the next best thing unless you want to saw off the armor while risking slicing open a to making one of the bleed to death." Tabane replied.

Naomi nodded as Tabane did her tech magic. Soon a bright white light incased the nine knocked out soliders. They where now wearing there bodygloves as there armor was gone. There faces shocked the four women.

The one in the higher tech armor looks like a late teen. But the rest look like ten to eleven year olds!?" Naomi said as she looked at all there faces.

Naomi was so confused at all there faces. But she had to get to work. Taking her medical data pad and made new files for her patients.

Patient 01: Male, red spiky hair, orange eyes, and tanned skin.

Patient 02: Male, Silver high and tight hair, orange eyes, lightly tan skin.

Patient 03: Female, blonde hair, lilac eyes, and lightly tan skin.

Patient 04: Female, black hair, red tipped highlights, silver eyes, and pale skin.

Patient 05: Male, blonde spiky hair, wisker like battle scars, blue eyes. slightly tan skin.

Patient 06: Male, blonde straight hair, darker blue eyes, slightly tan skin.

Patient 07: Female, navy blue hair, lavender eyes, pale skin.

Patient 08: Female, red hair, green eyes, slightly tan skin.

And finally

Patient 09: Male, black hair high and tight, light blue eyes, light tan skin.

Naomi looked at her last patient and thought something was off. He looked to familiar. Way to familiar.

"Naomi. Is there something wrong?" Chifuyu asked.

"No but this patient looks like. . ." she stopped her self.

"he looks like your older brother?" Chifuyu said while looking at a family photo Naomi had on her desk.

"yeah." she replied.

Naomi went back to her desk and grabbed her stethoscope and a floating machine and it powered up.

Tabane noticed something in patient 09s chest pocket that appears to be unquantum shiftable.

"Hay Houki can you be a dear and take whatever is in patients 09s pocket in his chest theres something in there." Tabane asked.

"ah sure." Houki replied.

She got close to the last patient as she reached for the pocket. She grabbed several strands of metal as well as some fabric of some kind. Whe she pulled them out of the pocket. She was shocked at the piece of fabric she saw. It was a red ribbon with black detailed design.

"Tabane can you quantum shift there black suits? theres no zippers on them to take em off."

"Okie doki . . . ah doc you might want to see this." Tabane said in a shocked almost scared tone.

Naomi turned around and saw why she was shocked. All of them had scares and battle wounds.

"its normal they have battle scars but there's line scar tissue. thats to clean and cut to be battle wounds." Naomi said as she looked them over.

"Why would these cover there entire bodys?" Chifuyu asked.

"Im not sure Chifuyu-san." Naomi said as she got her scanning equipment.

She then programed the machine to scan all the soliders. However something kept nawing at her. The ninth patients image kept coming back at her that its a older version of her older brother. She was then pulled out of her thoughts when a few beeps sounded. Looking at her pad she noticed something odd about all there bones. They glew brighter then any bone scan shes seen. But then Tabane said something that she never thought was possible.

" Augmentation. . ." Tabane said in sadness.

"What do you mean sis?" Houki said looking at the red ribbon still in her hands.

"Augmentations. They where putting stuff in there bodys whoever did this." Tabane said.

"Wait if what you said . . . " Naomi stopped mid sentence and looked through the files of her patients X-rays.

She nearly had a heart attack. Her tablet pen dropped from her hands in shock.

"That. . . that explains everything. Someone grafted there bones with a dense material!" Naomi shouted.

"Calm down Naomi what do you mean grafted?" Chifuyu asked.

Naomi sat in her chair in shock. "It makes senes the kids usually tall hight. Those to precise new looking scar tissue. They where apart of some sick twisted super solider experiment!"

Looking over the scans again she then noticed that the eight kids had fresher scars then the ninth patient.

"The kids augmentation look recent. About a month ago by the way they are fading." Naomi muttered out.

"Well lets just hope they wake up and tell is what happened. Houki leave those on the table. I have a feeling there important to the solider." Chifuyu said as Houki who finally took her eyes off the ribbon and set it down on Naomi's desk.

There was a horrible feeling all the girls had at the same time.

"Tabane how do you know about augmentations?" Naomi asked.

"Hacked into some servers in the German government. They augmented one of there special forces units with a enhanced eye." Tabane said. Feeling down trotted about knowing these things.

Naomi looked down at her scans of the soliders and also noticed something at the base if everyone of there necks. Somethings metallic by the looks of it. She was disgusted with all of this. She went to patient 07 and also noticed the exact spot of where the metallic piece is located.

"Houki can you help me real quick theres something the scanners picked up on there necks."

Houki nodded her head and help her move patient 07 to her side. Her suspensions where correct. And it angered and disgusted the two girls the most. On the back of her skull at the base low close to the neck. There was a chip like object that looks like it was infused to the back of her skull.

"Can we place her down! I dont think i can look at it much longer." Houki asked.

Naomi nodded and gently placed patient 07 down on her bed. They took a few steps back from them and tried to come up with conclusions as to what the hell was going on. Houki sadly had to go to her sink and return her breakfast.

"So whats the situation Ducky?" Chifuyu asked.

Naomi was used to being called ducky. Mostly because she likes watching a show called NCIS. The character Doctor Malard was her favorite and if you ever watched NCIS then youd know that his nickname given to him by his colleagues was ducky.

"Im suprised you ever still called me that Chifuyu-san. But from the looks of it. There beyond tired and stressed. Those knock out moments that happened yesterday was probably for the better these kids look lile there new to the military life of little sleep and always fighting." Naomi said while looking through her pads data scans showing there vital signs.

"Hiw long till any of them are up?"

"Uncertain Chifuyu-san. There also beyond malnourished and from the looks of there stomach contents they barley had a decent meal yesterday before showing up." Naomi replied.

Hearing Houki hurl for the last time Naomi went to her and used her stethoscope to check how shes doing.

"You okay Houki?" she asked.

Wiping her mouth with a nearby paper towel she looked at her dead in the eye.

"Who in the hell would do this to children? Who did it must have been insane or knew what she was doing and didn't even think about the moral high road!" Houki replied

"I dont know Houki. Whoever did this I hope is imprisoned." Naomi said helping her childhood friend up.

"Well then gets some rest ducky. I'll come by every once in a while to check up on them. Come on Houki your late for class. Tabane thank you for your help." Tabane said.

"Your. . . welcome Chi-chan." Tabane hesitantly said.

Chifuyu and Houki walked out to get to there classes as Naomi did some more digging. But was at a loss as Tabane picked up the red ribbon with the black detailed design on it. Naomi looked up from her files and noticed some distress on her face.

"You ok? You look like youve seen a ghost." Naomi said

"In a weird way i have." Tabane said.

They noticed that there where dog tages around there necks and decided to look at them. but all there is was the same word and a number code after it.

"Why would they have dog tages but no real names on them?" Tabane asked.

"Because the people who did this probably didn't want there real identities out and about. You know the If you het caught you dont exist."

"Yeah i guess. well ill be going then." Tabane said as she entered her carrot pod.

"Oh and ah ill have some new X-ray machines delivered to you when i get back. Sorry about breaking them."

Planet: Reach

Location: ONI building, New Alexandria

timeline: two months prior to new Noble team formation.

Date/time: August 24, 2552 25:55 hours

Jun looked out the glass windows of the ONI building they had just Evaced. he sighed in disappointment as all he sees is buildings in flames. The towers still standing lay empty luke a ghost town as Jun checked them out eith his thermal function of his binoculars.

"*scoffs* Used to be the crown jewel. Not anymore." He said as he turned to Raku. "Hay you made it." Looking at Raku closer he saw he had Jorges dog tags.

"*scoffs* its like a regular family reunion." Emile said holding onto his knife.

Raku held out Jorges dog tages to him only for Emile to stop him.

"Keep them. He gave him to you. I'll honor him my own way." he said.

"Jorge said he'd never leave Reach." Jun started.

"*laughs* The big guy was sentimental." Emile finished.

"He just gave his life thinking he saved the planet. Cant fault him for that." Carter said.

"Sir is that rumor true about Gauntlet and Echo teams are assigned to civilian evac ops?" Jun asked.

"Those are senior level communications." Carter said as he looked at Cat.

"I hear what i hear. Point is why put Spartans on defensive deployments?" Cat asked.

"I need that link to SATCOM Cat." Carter said irritability.

"Chasing it. But this consle has more shrapnel then transceivers." Cat replied. "You didn't ananswer my question."

"You want to know if where losing?" Carter asked.

"I know where losing! I want to know if we've lost!?" Cat replied. Soon the counsel lit up and a signal was found on the radio. "Its Colonel Holland hailing us!? What the hell is he doing on a open channel?"

"lets hear it." Carter replied.

"South west quadrant of the City over? Sierra 259. If you are receiving, I am authoring overriding security protocols to link to this channel." Holland said over the radio.

"How long for a secure link?" Carter asked

"Cant promise secure anymore." Cat replied.

"Can covenant trace it to us?" "I could. . ." But Cat was interrupted.

"Noble Leader. This is a priority 1 hail. If you are receiving. Acknowledge immediately."

Cat handed Carter a ear mic over her shoulder. "Make it quick." she said as Carter took it.

"Carter here.Yes sir"

"We got movement. Multiple covenant air vacating the area." Jun piped up. "And there in a hurry."

"How often do you see covenant retreat for no reason?" Emile asked.

"Radiation Flare BIG 40 million nutguns." Cat yelled.

"Just lost Holland whats going on?" Carter asked.

"Atomic excitement scrambled the signal 90 million now!" Cat replied.

"Source?" "Close! Airborne!" Cat said.

"How close?" Carter asked.

They then heard a ignition of a beam and it shattered the glass causing the air to forcefully get out of the building.

"That Close!" Cat replied as they grabbed there gear and headed to the elevators.

Cat and Raku entered one elevator and the other members of Noble team entered in another.

"First glassing?" Cat asked. "Mine to. Dont worry I'm on it. Our best bet is a fallout bunker in sublevel 2. 96 meters northeast. We get orders from Holland sir?"

"Where being redeployed to sword base." Carter said.

"Sword!? Covenant own it now!?" Jun ranted.

"Which is why they want us for a touch and burn op and keep Doc . Halseys excavation data from falling into enemy hands." Carter retorted.

"If it hasn't already." Cat piped in.

"Maybe. According to Holland the covenant are still hunting for something!" Carter said.

"When does he get calling about demolition being priority 1 Gahhhhhhhh!" Cat said as she fell.

A round from a needle Rifle shot her in the head. Raku caught her falling body. She was limp and didn't react to him holding her. Raku took her pistol and started firing at the zealot Elite. The reat of Noble team fired there assult rifles. However all in vain as there bullets didn't even penatrate its shield. The pistol clicked empty as Raku fired the last round and the Phantom left. He put it on his thigh guard as he dragged her body to the bunker.

"Come on, Come on get in!" Carter yelled.

"Leta go come on!" Jun also yelled.

The door closed and darkness followed as Noble team waites for the glassing to stop.

Date/time: August 25, 2552, 0300 hours

Location: entrance to sub level 2 fallout bunker

Planet: Reach

Noble team slowly came out of the fallout bunker. First Jun, Raku with Cats body, Carter, and last but not least Emile. Jun took a flare and popped it as blue smoke came out. He tossed it in hope a friendly vehicle came to evac them. As luck would have it a pelican spotted there flare and flew to them to pick them up.

Location: IS Academy Medical Wing, Japan

time: 12:35 hours

Naomi was looking over there vitals making sure that they are ok. Though she noticed that a couple of them had a spike in brain activity. Mostly by how there eyes moved they must be dreaming. Though Patient 09 seemed to be the most active of the nine in there sleep. She heard someone shifting and she looked to notice one of them was trying to sit up. Patient 04 was getting up rubbing her eyes then her head.

Naomi instantly went to her and set her back down.

"Hay take it easy you just came out of a coma." Naomi said.

The girl looked at Naomi confusingly as if she didn't understand her. But Naomi noticed that the girl was then shocked. As if she was missing something. Patient 04 looked at her hands then touched her face. However she was very shocked when she looked down only to find herself in a blue hospital gown and her standard issue black female undergarments. Her face lit up red like a Christmas tree. She was apparently embarrassed at her lack of clothing or rather armor.

Naomi just looked at her with curious eyes as the awake patient did everything she could to cover herself. She couldn't help but giggle at the girls innocence.

"Hay your ok. No one will hurt you here. Do you have a name?" Naomi spoke but the girl again only looked at her in confusion.

Naomi was puzzled at this. But then again the girl might not know Japanese. So she tried English.

"Hay do you have a name?" Naomi asked.

"Yes. . .Its Ruby. . . Ruby Rose." the girl responded.

"Ok language barrier solved. Now to get an idea how she got here and well everything else." Naomi thought. "Well Ruby can i ask a few questions?" she asked.

Ruby nodded yes but Naomi could tell that Ruby felt a bit uncomfortable. Naomi updated her pad and set the name of patient 04 to Ruby Rose.

"Well id like to ask where did you come from. Whens your birthdate? who are your parents and why did you come here in armor armed to the teeth. And how old are you?" Naomi asked.

"Well im from the planet Remnant before it was Glassed, I'm Ten years old. My birthday is April 10th, 2542. And my parents names where TaiYang Xio long, and Summer Rose. As for the armor amd stuff. Haven't you even been paying attention to the news?" Ruby asked.

"Well yeah buy the only thing thats of yet is a terrorist cell called Phantom Task. other then that its odd for the rest of what you said. And you couldn't have been born on the year 2542 because it's 2015." Naomi replied.

This shocked Ruby which Naomi could tell. Ruby looked around to see her other friends/family/teammates.

"I dont understand why are we here we should leave we need our armor and weapons!" Ruby said frantically and sacred.

"Easy sweetie. You just had a large amount of adrenaline in your system. Just calm down I swear that whatever was attacking you and your friends is gone."

"You dont understand we have to leave otherwise they will find us!" Ruby said worried because the women didn't even understand.

"Please calm down sweetie. Now tell me what was it thats chasing you as you say?"

"The covenant! They could come and kill us we need to evac this station now!" Ruby said.

"Its alright. Theres no danger here. And also your not in the place you call Remnant your on earth. In the IS Academy of Japan in fact."

Rubys eyes went wide at this.

"This doesn't make sense how can it be 2015 when its 2552. How can we be on Earth and not some other Colony from that teleporter on Reach?" Ruby started asking herself.

"Well um im sorry but those planets amd these supposed colonys you mentioned. They dont exist. Do you know what a IS is?" Naomi asked.

Ruby shook her head no. Naomi started to speculate that red portal that the staff in the arena control tower was a portal to another dimension. A hellish one from how scared the ten year old is. It was horrible to see such a young girl so frightened for her life. But the girls eyes lit up for realization.

"My helmet wheres my helmet and Phyrra!" Ruby asked.

"Phyrra?"

Ruby pointed at patient 08.

"Thats Phyrra! I need our helmets!" Ruby said frantically.

"Hold in let me explain first a second ok?" Naomi said concerned about Rubys mental stability.

Ruby nodded as Naomi explained what had happened in the past seventeen years from 9/11 to the introduction of the Infinite Stratos system or IS, the White Knight incident. And that she and her team was in there medical ward. As well as many men getting discharged from there military services dispite going to hell in back due to the wars in the middle east because of Islamic Terrorist organizations like Al Qada and ISIS. Even one Female terrorist group called Phantom Task that uses IS for war and killing innocent people.

"So what your saying is that these people. Phantom Task was responsible for this unmanned drone yhat knocked out me and my team?" Ruby asked.

"Its only speculation as of this time. But being that we have seen them use IS for war like that unmanned drone. Anyways my friend Chifuyu is on her way here to talk to you. So id suggest full cooperation." Naomi said.

Ruby was hesitant but nodded. Being that she was awake Naomi checked over Ruby like any normal physical. Doing all the necessary things and changing things to Rubys new medical file.

"You know your kind of odd for a ten year old." Naomi said.

"What do you mean?"

"Well for one im sure that being 5'9 at your age is impossible unless you grew up in a Oxygenated incubation chamber after you where born? As well as somehow grafting your bones with something not normal or the fact that you have scar tissue that still a bit bright meaning that someone gave you surgeries because most of the scar tissue on your body doesn't look like battle wounds. And those that do why where you fighting a war so young?" Naomi asked.

"Thats something od like to know as well." Chifuyu said coming into the Room.

Ruby took one look at Chifuyu and was a bit afraid. Chifuyu saw her get a bit afraid and smiled warmly.

"Oh sorry I didn't mean to startle you. So whats your name kid?" Chifuyu asked.

Ruby looked at Naomi and she nodded and smiled.

"Ruby. Ruby Rose, You can call me Ruby, Rose, Sierra 115, or Noble 2." Ruby said.

"Jesus whats is up woth this kid?" Chifuyu thought. "Well Ruby I'm Chifuyu Orimora. Im a teacher here at The IS Academy. As well as a instructor. Is it alright if i asj some questions?" she asked.

Ruby nodded as Chifuyu continued.

"Well id like to know how you managed to grow so tall?" she started.

"Im sorry but thats still rather classified. all i can tell you is that Im apart of the Spartan program of my own free will." Ruby said.

Ruby looked at patient 09. The back at Chifuyu. She picked up on this and asked.

"Why is Patient 09 important to you?"

"Because he took me in amd raised me as his own after my parents died."

"how did they die?" "Id rather not talk about that day." Ruby replied.

"If i can ask who did these surgeries on you? Its clear that who ever did this isn't human?" Chifuyu said in disgust at what was done to Ruby's body to get her into this state.

"Papa did." she replied.

Naomi and Chifuyu looked at Patient 09 then back at Ruby.

"Why did he do it!? This . . . this is just wrong to do this to children!" Naomi said.

"How do you think he felt when it was done to him. How do you think he felt about doing it to us. Dispite how inmoral the surgeries and stuff was. He gave us a choice. We choose. The Covenant took everything from us. Dont you think hed be worried we wont be able to care for ourselves. After he tried killing himself to protect us?" Ruby replied.

"But why?" Naomi asked.

"The covenant is ruthless. They kill all in the name of a ancient alien race known as Forerunners that believes they are gods when there not. There not. Just a Race of aliens that died thousands of years ago. Have you not heard of them?"

Naomi and Chifuyu looked at one another. Ruby looked at them puzzled.

"Have you not watched the news? How do you not know!?"

"Well Ruby id like to believe you but everything you said just doesn't exist. The only thing thats happening ia basically the threat of Islamic terrorism and another terrorist organization known as Phantom Task. There the only things causing chaos on Earth." Chifuyu said.

Ruby had confliction in her eyes. It was just to good to be true.

"I need mine and Phyrras helmets they have something i need to check." Ruby asked.

Chifuyu looked skeptical about it but decided to get the quantum shift bracelets that had Rubys and Phyrras odst helmets. After summoning the helmets she passed them to Ruby who had worry in her eyes. Ruby on the other hand checked the back of the helmets and pulled out two chips that had a light sky blue and a regular blue color to them.

"Please be ok." Ruby mumbled. "Hay dot new guy you there?" Ruby called out to the two chips.

Chifuyu and Naomi looked at each other with confusion. It was odd that Ruby cared about these chips. Not to mention she talked to them like she knew someone was in one.

"Listen kid i dont know whst those are for but." Chifuyu waa then cit off by the appearance of the two AIs.

"Jesus Christ! it looked like i was staring int the void. What was that shit!?" the blue colored AI in armor said.

"It appears to be called a Quantum shift physics. That put onto the void like a storage unit. Much similar to that of the Warp pack that you led us to RT-2701-R-2700-RTX." The AI that looked like a UI interface said.

Ruby sighed with relief as the AIs where ok.

"Anyway sup kid what do you need? Amd dont call me by my long serial number. Its boring as fuck. Just call me Church." Church said.

"Id highly advise against it. Though it appears we have some questions fue to our sudden appearance. Church." Dot said.

Church looks to his left and sees a Naomi with her mouth literally on the ground. And for once in her life Chifuyu was aww struck.

"Who, what, where, when, how?I HAVE DO MANY QUESTIONS!" Naomi ranted.

Ruby nervously smiles at the four in awake in the room.

"Yeah we got a lot of explaining to do." Church mumbled.

After Six hours of explaining. Dot and Church saw that both Chifuyu and Naomi where quite shocked at what happened in Rubys time line.

"This is so bad. Really bad." Chifuyu said