Yea new chapter. Thanks for the OC's. Read and review. I'm sorry if your OC didn't make the cut I plan on using the extra ones in a different way. I will try to update ASAP.
Chapter Two
"Alright Spartans this is going to be a fun day." Officer Mendez said sarcastically then laughed to himself. I had a bad feeling in my gut.
"Today you will learn navigation. We are dropping you off somewhere on Reach. You will have to head north there you will find a pelican. The last one to make it to the pelican will be left behind and will be picked up later and given punishment." He said.
He became quiet and let us think to ourselves which was like a punishment of its own. I looked over at Jai and he met my eyes.
We were dropped off and forced outside the pelican. It was ice cold, my skin was stinging. The pelican took off and and we could see Mendez smiling and waving at us from the window.
We stood in silence. They very first thing we were trained was to be silent, but right now silence wouldn't help us. "Who knows which way is south?" Someone asked.
"The sun is that way." I said. "And it's still morning."
"So that means this way is south." John said. Since no one had any better ideas we followed him. The cold was like knives digging into our skin. We stayed close together to conserve warmth.
We followed John who had been almost an elected leader. We walked for hours when we saw the pelican ahead of us. Then we sprinted remembering Officer Mendez's threat. "STOP!" Yelled John. We all stopped.
There were armed men around the pelican. We couldn't tell if they were UNSC or not. We waited and watched. "Alright it's better to be safe then sorry." John said. "Let's sneak up behind them and knock them out."
"Alex follow me." Jai said. We crept up behind a guard. I held up my fingers and mouthed, "Three, two, one, GO!" We jumped the guard. I jumped on his back and got him in a chokehold, and Jai pulled his legs so he fell on his face. We were stronger than many adults even if we were only nine years old.
"Help!" He choked out but all of the other guards were down as well. When he was unconscious I grabbed his assault rifle. And watched over him waiting to see if he would get up.
We got in the pelican and I searched for anything to tie them up I found a few pairs of hand cuffs and some rope. "Let's bring them in here and tie them up." I said.
After we tied them up we got in the pelican and took off. I watched all of the guards. We reached the base before any of the guards woke up. When we got out Mendez was waiting his smile faded when he saw the guards tied up. "Spartans, why are those officers tied up?" He asked.
"We didn't know if they were friendlies." John answered. "We took them out for our own safety." Mendez gave us, but mostly John, an angry glare he walked off.
Dr. Halsey came to us and told us it was time to go to bed. We walked to our beds I felt relief to be back home.
The next day we awoke with a note on our beds every Spartan had a note. Mine read: Alex-007 you have been assigned to Gold Team report to training hall 6F by 5:00a.m. for your briefing. "Hey Alex." Jai called.
"Yea." I replied.
"I got assigned to Grey Team. Are you on my team?" He asked sadly.
"No sorry." I replied. "Gold Team."
"Oh ok." He said looking down. I finished getting ready and went to the training hall I was assigned. I was sad I wasn't with Jai anymore. He was my best friend. I pushed those thoughts aside.
When I reached the training hall two people were already there. I walked in and they looked at me. "Hello. I'm Alex-007 and I've been assigned to Gold Team." I said.
"Ha join the club." The boy said. "I'm Richard-077, and I'm supposed to be on gold team too." The boy had blonde hair, blue eyes, and a small scar on his lip. He wasn't short but he came up to my eyes.
The other person was a girl. She had long brown hair I guessed it was longer than regulation. She had brown eyes and she only came up to my shoulder. She stared at me. "I'm Adala-014." She sighed.
"Wow you can talk." Richard said in mock amazement. She gave him an angry glare. The room was quiet for a second when another boy walked in. He was tall and lanky. He was even taller than I was. He was Asian with short black hair parted to one side.
"Gold Team?" I asked.
"Yea." He replied.
"Great. I'm Alex-007, this is Richard, and Adala." I introduced.
"I'm James-055." He said and held out a hand to me. I shook it and we all sat down. We waited for a few minutes in silence except for Richard who felt the need to tell us the story about his life. When he was interrupted by the door opening one more time and Dr. Halsey walked in.
"Good morning Gold Team." She said. "The rest of this week you are going to practice together as a team. Work on strategies and other stuff. Then starting next week you will begin to battle other teams in war games. We have set up the teams to specialize in different situations, for example Gold Team specializes in close quarters combat and infiltration."
"So let's get your team set up I made a few notes on your teams skills and I have made the decision. Alex will be your Leader Gold One, James will be the second in command Gold Two, Richard is the infiltration and stealth expert, and Adala is the teams sniper."
"Now your first training session in in one hour. You may go to the mess hall for breakfast and then report to building 25D. Thank you. You are dismissed."
Thanks again. I will hopefully update soon. Please review (I accept constructive criticism.) sorry it took so long to update this chapter I have been playing way too much Halo 😀
