Ok so here's chapter 2 hope you guys like it.

Chapter 2

Oriental. Drop. Shock. Void. Trooper.

We started training. In a new section of camp that reminded me of a military base. And we started training like modern day soldiers. We trained for what seamed like weeks. On fitness, close quarter combat, metal alertness, and drill. When they finally sent use to bed we all in a co-ed bunk area which I liked seeing as by now we were a tight group who got along well for the most part. And I finally didn't feel alone. We were all exhausted so we crashed into our respected bunks. I had a peaceful dreamless sleep unlike I did on earth. Training continued.

Each day got more and more intense, at camp we had touched on firearms training but noting like this! These automatic weapons were incredible! They held 80 rounds per magazine which were the size of a regular magazine on earth, and had an incredible fire rate. And they accurate! The recoil is minimal so that you can tell it fired but it doesn't affect your shot.

I may have sucked at archery but dame was I good at this! I crushed every fire course we did. Fast and accurate. Speed and precision. Eventually Shari who turned out to be a great and caring person, Just not during training hours. Oh and you didn't hear me say that. Told us "Ok ladies and gentle men to day you are no longer recruits you are cadets. And drop training begins. Today we train you to be void jumpers!" (so they are basically ODST members. Same armour and purpose different name.) From here on the training got a bit to... oh what's the word? Well theirs no polite way to say this so shit got real.

We would get inside a black metal pod that would "drop" aka shoot us into a black portal, and we would drop onto a planet from the outer most part of its atmosphere. All I can say is avoiding the sky for my whole life, and then shoot through it in that pod at a rate of 100 – 150 meters per min on a rocket like trajectory, and impact... well I won't lie. I may have soiled my armour once or twice... the first couple times. But I got past it, and really started to enjoy it.

Well we had our final mock combat drop. Where we would drop onto a planet and fight other cadet platoon. Today's victims were lemma company, I was sitting in my drop pod taking a quick pre drop nap. Hey once you've had the Achilles curse you can judge me on sleeping. Any way i was enjoying my nap when Amanda walked up and hit me with her rifle.

I woke with a start. "hey snooze head come on we're running over the battle plan." I growled and stood up in my jump armour. (odst armour.) I stood and walked over to the 3d holographic display as Amanda drowned on about properly switching between arrow head formation and diamond formation when I stopped her.

"Amanda. I know you make the best strategies. But this won't work..." I say after analyzing the battle field lay out, and our strategy. Honestly if I was back on earth Athena wouldn't recognise me.

"oh!? Well what do you suggest then Percy?" she asked staring daggers at me. now Amanda and i had a wired relationship. She hated me because of Annabeth, and that I'm a son of Poseidon that can some times be smarter then her in battle. She trumped me in regular book smarts. But I look out for her and act as a big brother. Who she likes to annoy and pretends to dislike. But in privet she treats me as a big brother.

"well seeing as we are on even dead lock terrain and Lemma is a ghost drop group that likes to blend in. We'd be asking to get slaughter in any attack formation..." i say running a small battle simulation on the hologram. "we are the best but lemma likes to surround and box in concept." Showing them the hologram play of the forest box which is where you advance quickly and quietly to no-man's-land and blend in to the enlivenment. As a small attack group advances slowly. As our mock group in diamond formation advanced into the middle of their ambush to attack the other force. Our hologram attack group even when in diamond formation just can't stop the ambush.

"So here's what we do. Both teams have huds that will register on the min scan. But that's only because of the transitions coming from our helmets." I said looking at her as she studied the simulation realising she overlooked how the enemy does like this formation. "so we take off our helmets set up around them and when lemma thinks they have the drop on us we sneak up and take out the assault group quietly. Neutralizing that threat. Then we advance quickly to the objective in your selected formations..." I say pausing to look at Amanda and she seamed to see how the rest would play out.

And she jumped in. "then as we approach their camp the back of the diamond formation flank in opposite directions and blitzes the defence from behind as the arrow head formation attacks the camp." She says smiling.

"Exactly!" I say.

"Not bad for a kelp head." She says. An alarm goes off and Shari stepped into the room. "Alright! That's the music time to dance! Drop pods lets go!" we walked over to our drop pods and I tapped the C carved into my pod and sat down with my helmet in my lap. And I reached under my breast plate and took out my old camp necklace and rubbed the beads remembering each summer as my pod door closed. I thought of Annabeth and how far id come from then. Sure I missed her but I wasn't a hero any more... I was a void trooper. With that I put the necklace away and put on my helmet. Then the pod shot into the back abyss of the portal. And I shot to wards the planet.

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