OKAY THE HIATUS IS FINALLY OVER, SO LETS CONTINUE

LOCATION: Beacon academy, Vale, Vytal, Remnant. (UNSC DESIGNATION:Eden)

Date:2554

There was a silence in the air after Cortana told the group about what she thought the true Reclaimers were, Isaac had a wry grin on his face, obviously he enjoyed hearing the news.

"So, what you're basically saying is, the Faunus are entitled to a bunch of futuristic space weapons, because an ancient race experimented on humans millennia ago?, I'm beginning to like these forerunners." The Hyena-Faunus asked/stated.

Cortana simply held up a hand. "Look, Isaac," She began. "I know this is big news, but it is just a theory, I need time to confirm it, that alone will take at least a week."

John looked at her, confused. Not at her wanting to confirm her theory, but why it would take her so long to do so, it should take seconds for her to do that. She understood Johns confusion.

"Chief, I'm running at minimal capacity in order to prolong my rampancy, we don't know how long we'll be stuck on this planet... No offence." She said to the group.

"None taken." Ozpin said as he dismissed the comment.

"And I'm trying to make sure that I can not go insane in a year, by my calculations if I stay at this capacity I've added another 1.25 years to my operating cycle, plus answering this theory will keep me busy, so there's that." The AI said nonchalantly.

"Very well." Ozpin began, signalling Team KIJU to leave. "Miss Sabre if you and your team are dismissed, however the information about the Reclaimers and the forerunners and so on... I can trust you to keep this a secret until the Master Chief and Cortana announce this." The group all nodded.

as KIJU left Isaac was the last through the door. He turned back around to the hologram. "Cortana, for whatever it's worth, about the Reclaimers... Thanks" after that he left.

Prof. Goodwitch looked at the armoured behemoth and then at the AI. "Did you really mean what you said?" She asked in a slightly caring manner.

the AI figited with her hands. "Every word, but I never told the whole truth. The Fuanus are 99.996% identical with humans, even down to the DNA. Both Humans and Fuanus are Reclaimers... I just read up on the history of the planet... His kind deserve so much more than what they get." Cortana said sadly. Both Ozpin and Goodwitch nodded their head in acknowledgement.

Ozpin did raise an eyebrow. "It's a funny thing about human nature,Cortana." He began. "Humanity will always be its greatest enemy, but when there is one simple difference, you can see how things change. Be it with us and the Grimm or you and the Covenant, you can see how quickly humans will collectively join together to try and rid themselves of a threat."

John then decided step in. "A very extreme difference in both of our cases, professor, but I can see your point."

Ozpin decided now it would be a good time to change the subject. "Now then, since you don't know how long you will be stuck here for, you are welcome to stay at beacon for the time being, however, everyone of our staff and students earn their keep."

John looked at Cortana, she simply shrugged her shoulders in a way that said. 'What have you got to lose?'

quietly sighing to himself, the Master Chief shook the headmasters outstretched hand. "Very well then sir, you have a deal."

The headmaster smiled. "Good, one of our combat instructors recently got sent to intensive care after all her hair was burnt off and her back was broken, don't bother asking... However you seem to be extremely over qualified for the position but that's not a problem."

The Spartan simply nodded. "Is there anything else you need, sir?"

"Three things actually" Ozpin began,as he listed each one off on his fingers. "One: I will need a Profile photograph of you for Staff ID, Two: I will need your name, no offence but Sierra-117 isn't the most inconspicuous name in the history of the spoken word. And thirdly... How do you take your coffee?"

Out of all of those questions, the last one was the most unexpected. Cortana also looked quite shocked with the question aswell, there was a smirk on her face though. "It's black with two sugars." The AI said without thinking, he now put the Data chip back into his head. "As for a name, chief, why not Mendez, he trained the SPARTANs, and you're passing his training onto these hunters..."

John thought the idea over for a moment, he agreed with her. "Very well, my name is John Mendez and..." He raised his hands to his helmet and took it off, a 'Snap hiss' noise appearing as the seals broke.

Goodwitch couldn't help but stare at the man, dark brown eyes, brown hair, scars over several parts of his face. The thing that Glenda couldn't get over was how pale the man was, it looked like he had never seen Sunlight In his life. all in all he looked the part of a true veteran.

Twenty minutes later John had all the ID he needed to be an instructor at the school. He was currently flying back to the Dawn in order to secure all the weapons left on the ship... Also the fact that there was a nuclear warhead with enough power to wipe out a large city

When the Chief was making his way through the wreckage he did notice that the Auto defences were still working, especially after he came across a bakers dozen bodies all presumably belonging to an organisation of sorts, it was a wolfs head with three scars through it, Cortana told him that it was this planets version of the insurrection, the white fang. None had managed to make it into the armoury though, a relief, especially due to the fact that if a group of terrorists and extremists got their hands on covenant tech... It's better left not to think about it too much.

3 DAYS LATER

Ruby and her team, along with the others in her year were eagerly waiting the restart of Combat training in the school, due to the fact that Ruby had destroyed the manhood of one instructor causing him to resign and Yang Paralysed the other one... Yeah, it was a welcomed relief, one could only endure so much of Professor Ports stories. He reminded her of that talking sword off that show she used to watch when she was younger, soul... Something or other.

Her train of thought was interrupted as she saw professor Ozpin walk in, with a six and a half foot tall man in military fatigues followed behind him, a pistol in a leg holster and a sheathed combat knife attached to his belt. Ruby took notice of how pale the man was and immediately put 2 and 2 together, this was that man in the green armour.

The Man was built like a tank, he looked like he had never left the gym in his life. Ruby also noticed her sister, and quite a lot of the other girls in her year start to blush as they looked at him, whilst the men in the class were too busy looking at their own muscles and then made a defeated groan.

"Students, this is your new combat instructor, Mr Mendez. I will not lie to you, he has not taught before and he is not the talkative type, so don't try to talk to him about anything outside of the subjects at hand, his partner Cortana is the one to talk to if you have any problems." Ozpin turned to Mendez "The class is yours." He said as he left.

Mendez made a quick observation of the class, he had a certain look in his eye. Ruby knew what he was doing, he was looking for potential, getting a quick reading of what the students personalities were like just by body language alone, he also looked like the type of person who wouldn't even forget the smallest of details.

"My name is John Mendez, but You can call me Master Chief or just Chief, either is preferable." The girls noticed his voice, deep and gravely, it sounded like someone who thought talking was just a waste of breath, but was full of authority and demanded respect.

The Master Chief then done something nobody was expecting and pulled something out the back of his head, it looked like a computer chip except it had a blue glowing centre, suddenly to the amazement of everyone. (With the exception of CDNL who were half asleep in farthest corner of the room.) A hologram appeared, it was an image of a young woman wearing a cloak and a sort of battle dress underneath.

"And this is my partner." He said

"Greetings everyone, my name is Cortana, the Chiefs Personal AI and partner..." The hologram continued to speak, except Ruby was no longer listening, she was in shock, her eyes were widened. She knew that voice and thought she would never hear it again.

"Mom..."