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Hard work from a legacy

(Three months later May 21st, 2532 11:45 AM, Military calendar CASTLE base, Reach, Epislon Endari System)

In a large room holding what to be seen a generator with a group of people working around it hearing the sound of the door sliding opening the staff stop to see who walked in ''well guys'' and hearing a small cough at the back of the group ''and lady's let's see if we can get this shield generator works, Serina get the cameras to record this for later analysing, and make shore the shutdown is ready just in case'' as Naruto walk to a control station as the rest of the scientist's walk to a observing platform safe from any harm that could happing.

By the work station was Serina's hologram looking at the generator as If she could see the inside working of it turning to look at Naruto ''we have green live on all fronts to power her up, should I get the champagne out after this'' amuse serina as she got the power level of the generator output. Getting a shake of amusement from Naruto as he looking at the power level of the Naquadah, making shore that it stay in the safety zone of stability. At the side of the room was an alone scientist walking towards the generator ''naruto who's that'' getting Naruto to look up only to see the scientist throw open his long coat to show heavy amount of C4 on his chest shouting out ''freedom'' as he hit the kill switch BOOM.

After the explosion and shock wave past and Naruto getting back up on his feet and trying to stop the ringing in his ears with red lights flashing over head as he look toward Serina as she seen to be pointing at something then as seen to be like a switch his hearing come back ''NARUTO GET OUT I LOST CONTROL OF THE GENERATOR'' shouted out serina as Naruto shakily stand by the computer station as the scientists in the observing room running out of it, to get to a safe zone. As Naruto make his way to the door as the heavy safety doors shut on him ''SIRENA THE DOORS'' as he shout out that last word the generator start to give a light blue colour, around it before it give a large shock wave around the room as it hit Naruto throwing him against the door. The last thing he seen was the worrying look of serina before it all when black.

(0500 hours, May 26 2532 military calendar aboard UNSC point of no return, inside the 'cage' interstellar space, sector b-042)

Colonel Ackerson ran both hand through his thinning hair, as he poured himself a glass of water from the carafe on the table. His hand shook. Ironic that his career in the military had come to this. Another secret meeting about the Spartan IIIs program, abut discuss a project that, if successful would never surface from the shadows. As he and Spartan-051 Kurt or nay know as Lieutenant Kurt Ambrose in charge of the Spartan IIIs training, at last Vice Admiral Parangosky and with her where rear admiral rich only forty but already grey he commanded covert operations in section three in charge of every field operation save Dr. Halsey's Spartan-II program. As well Captain Gibson, the man move like a panther with the low lopping stride indicative of time recently spent in microgravity.

He was the field officer in charge of section three black ops the hands-on wet-work counterpart to Rear Admiral Rich, as the three take a seat each ''what is this about nay Ackerson you got your Spartans what more do you need?'' demanded Parangosky and receiving a folder ''in that folder you will see an medical report from a Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, what I won't his him'' stated Ackerson as parangosky narrowing her eyes to slits, '' and what reasons do you won't this person?'' question Gibson as his look at the report ''sir Mr Uzumaki showed a high heeling regeneration, we swish for samples of his blood and bone narrow, so we can recreate this for the Spartans augmentation, to make it safer for the candidates.'' Finished saying Kurt as the rest of the group, thinking about this '' ok granted get what you need but for God's sake don't let his AI know of this or we lose a lot more than the public image'' as Parangosky started to walk to the door with the rest of them, left the cage. They had never been here. None of this had ever been discussed.

(May 28st, 2532 2400pm, Military calendar CASTLE base Medical wing, Reach, Epislon Endari System)

Sound of a heart monitor with a strong beeping sound in a clean white room with one person resting in bed, can be seen to be awaken up groaning as Naruto try and failed to sit up when a flash by his night stand showing serine's averter on a holoprojector ''how you feeling Naruto you had us worried for some time their'' serina ask as Naruto got a cup of water by his bed. Drinking heavily ''take it easy their naruto yo'' getting a coughing fit from him as she put a hand to her head as she rub her eyes ''what happened'' cough out Naruto as he try to get his breath back ''naruto I need to know what was the last thing you remember?'' asked Serina as Naruto turned to her '' the last thing I remember was, that we were testing out the shield generator, that's it and why I'm so soar?'' getting a tired replay from Naruto.

Sighing to herself of relive ''there was an incident with the generator, spot let me finish what I need to tell you'' seeing as naurto was about to ask something but Continue on ''one of the scientist was in fact a sleeper agent for the insurrectionist, or innies as the marines call them. We done no how he got inside castle base with the C4, or how he got past the background checks but he did and because of explosion that he set off. That tear of the power cords, as the shock was disrupt the Naquadah making it unstable. The housing of the generator was undamaged from the explosion but the naquadah reacted in a way we never thought of.'' Finished saying serina as she waited for Naruto to ask any thing, seeing nothing coming from Naruto as he thought of what happen to the naquadah.

''the unstable nawuadah generate a high level shockwave that hit you and lead you being her'' getting a understand nod from Naruto as serina look at him slowly closing his eyes '' get some rest Naruto we can Continue in the morning'' as she finished saying that Naruto was already asleep.

(Next day 1125 am)

After waking up the second time and able to eat as well, Naruto was on his datapad look at the results of the test of the shield generator ''ok so we find out that because of the shock wave with the power absence the naquadah generate that shockwave'' stated naruto as he finished reading the report ''yes we be needing some way of making shore that this does not happen, on a UNSC ship in space battle or we can just say it a new defends for it'' amuse Serina, humming at her point '' ok so the doctors say I'm fine and there was no lasting damage from the shockwave, but I got to stay her for at less two day for observation'' getting a whine from him but got a cunning look on his face ''they said I had to be her but not about working as well Kage Bunshin no jutsu'' only to scream out his lungs out and faint from the pain ''naruto'' shouted out serina as she got the doctors in the room.

(Four Months Later – September 23rd, 2532 –, Military calendar CASTLE base, Reach, Epislon Endari System 4:03AM)

Naruto rubbed his eyes tiredly for a moment before letting a small sigh exit his lips. Truly, it had been quite quick with his work and with Catherine Halsey during this time frame. His lips tugged upward in almost a gratifying way at how their work had turned out with the few ONI scientists assigned to work on the project and it was amazing to say the least.

The ONI scientists were sceptical at first as Naruto being the director of the project, given he was only sixteen at the time. Catherine assured their work would benefit humanity during the war, and looked quite driven and interested during the project's time frame. The scientists begrudgingly let the issue down but still sent rather odd looks that they were working under someone who was younger than they were.

The first month or so was quiet without any real success, Naruto had decided to take slow steps, making the generator so that it would be built up inch by inch to make sure it functioned correctly all the way to the end of the project. By the third month, the generator was fully functional, but he wanted to make sure the power output would be sub stained as a large field around a ship like the ones the UNSC used.

So to make sure, he also added in an absorption matrix that would take the hits of plasma torpedoes and make the shield stronger, but there was only a limit to what it could take that lead to the insurrectionist attack on the project and him but.

By now however, there were three of the generators. One of them would be put in the Spirit of Fire along with its new upgrades as well the new AI. The trinium plating was mixed in with Titanium-A and made it twice as strong then before, Naqudah was then used for a new resource as an FTL drive's form of fuel.

Both the mines were also taken over by the UNSC, though eyebrows rose at who had made the mines in the first place was still a question hanging in the air. Naruto shook his head amusedly at remembering the shocked looks of the scientists when the shield had first worked. He also introduced fuuinjutsu to the Spirit of Fire and had made a channelling point for the Naqudah in the FTL drive, thus making the three mile ship the fastest one in the UNSC fleet, while it took weeks at least to get to another system, the Spirit of Fire could do it in under fifty hours which was nothing short of amazing to Admiral Hood.

Naruto sipped some coffee as he eyed the generator in a specially made, fortified bullet proof glass that was also designed to absorb a residual explosion from a MAC cannon. An amused look crossed his face for a moment at that, Admiral Hood had decided to test the Naqudah combined with an MAC round and it was shocking to say the least. When it was tested in liquefied version on a derelict colony ship, the round tore through the midsection and exploded inside the ship, he still could not get those reactions out of his head from the Senior Staff of the UNSC and ONI when the ship was split in half.

He sipped his coffee again with a small sigh. He however had trouble with the cybernetic suit as it had to be updated with new Nano machines, they were much more efficient at repairs now and it had to build from the ground up using his original plans as the base model.

So far, a few features had been added, for example it now had a neural interface, but Naruto had already covered that by putting a seal on the back of his neck that would connect with the system, thus enabling him to use an AI or a memory chip so that serina can work with him on the field.

Naruto ran a hand through his hair in a thoughtful manner of the dimmed room, he also added on a magnetic strip on the back in place of the seal that had been there. Refractive coating was also added onto the suit so that it would dispense plasma attacks.

He rubbed his temples for a moment with aggravation, then sighed before draining down the last of his coffee with a slight smile.

(9:34 AM – Reach, Naruto's Room)

Glyphs went by one after one on Naruto's laptop, the blond idly looked over a few holograms depicting the shield world and the ships that had been seen, and it was mostly from Red Team's view while the blond frowned a bit. He had already translated them and found the words "Forerunner" as well as "Reclaimer" what these meant, he had no idea.

But what puzzled him was what happened to the Forerunners, surely they were a technologically powerful society that once existed, he came to a rather grim conclusion that they were destroyed by the "Flood" as they were called in the glyphs, some were a warning to others.

Naruto grimaced mentally, if such powerful people were overrun, how? He rolled his eye to himself, over confidence. Their very means were their own undoing as a result of trying to get rid of the Flood.

His thoughts were cut off when Serina appeared on a holoprojector. "Naruto, Dr. Halsey would like to see you".

Naruto paused and nodded before disconnecting his PDA with his laptop, Serina vanished as Naruto got up and went to the door, deciding to walk there.

(Dr Halsey's Lab)

Catherine couldn't be prouder of the work she had refined. She had to admit, while Naruto had made a cybernetic suit with limited resources and slightly crude manners, it without a doubt was impressive even to her.

But what amazed her was the sheer resilience that was latent in trinium, combining it with Titanium-A, she had made quite a durable suit for combat and reconnaissance. While Naruto helped her piece things together, he was quite vague on a few parts. Halsey respected that seeing as how she was the master mind behind the Spartan II Program.

Her thoughts were cut when Naruto came through the door when it slid open, a cup of coffee in hand. "Late night?"

"Up until Four AM" Serina piped up for him while Naruto sent her an annoyed look at the holoprojector, he chuckled weakly despite having gotten so little sleep, he was used to it.

"Personal thoughts" he said simply while she nodded her understanding. Catherine stood as Naruto asked "I take it the final touches were finished?" he asked as Catherine as she began to walk away and Naruto followed.

Reaching a tarp that was on a pedestal, she tore it off as Naruto rose his brows, she certainly made due when things were due.

"Impressive, no?" she asked as Naruto eyed the new exoskeleton, sipping his coffee. The suit was now totally black but had some silver metal parts to it with now one long blue visor for the eyesight that were like a slot (take the vanquish game armour just change the prime colour to black and the black parts silver ). "Nicely done, what did you use besides trinium?" he asked curiously as Catherine smirked, glancing at the suit.

"A variant of Titanium-A, more like an alloy if you wanted me to be honest" she explained "The repairs are three times faster due to the Nano machines, you already made some "Personal" adjustments" this made her eyes glitter at remembering Naruto's explanation of Fuuinjutsu. "I also added an effect I think you'll like" she started, getting his full attention "I made a hypersonic view now integrated into the suit's system, you'll be able to see through walls and such as a result." That got brows raised from Naruto "Trinium had been combined with the reflective coating has made it twice as strong as how the Mark IV shrugs off plasma attack".

Naruto paused lengthy "You like going all out, don't you?" he asked amusedly with a smirk on his face. Catherine only smiled "I make sure to triple check" she responded curtly while Naruto's lips twitched, holding down a grin. She certainly brightened up a bit.

Their conversation was cut short when Hood entered the room with a grim look on his face. "Sorry to interrupt, but urgent news has come up" he directed at Naruto who snapped to attention.

"Given the data you gave us on Covenant movement, we were able to evacuate certain colonies in time before they arrived" he smiled slightly, but lost it for a serious look "The Covenant's next target is Helos VI".

Catherine's eyes widened a bit "Helos VI…isn't that a major economic distribution centre for the UNSC?" the colony itself was far from the inner colonies but was halfway into the outer colonies. If lost, it would do irreparable damage to the UNSC's infrastructure. It connected the two as a food distributer and metals exported, while many colonies had the resources, its metal was near refined making it valuable.

Hood nodded "Gear up, Petty Officer Third Class. We originally planned on showing off the refitted ships, but it seems our schedule will be cut short" he got a salute from Naruto "Red Team will be going as well with the Spirit of Fire, you leave in Three hours."

Naruto dropped the stance and asked "When will the Covenant be arriving, sir?" he asked in a casual manner. Hood responded "One Week, you'll be arriving in less than a few days of the invasion." He got a nod of understanding from Naruto.

He glanced to Catherine and nodded as Hood left the room. She smirked a little "This is goanna be good…" she referred to the fact that this was the first deployment of their new tech thanks to Naruto. He shared the smirk as he approached the nano suit and set down his coffee.

(Three Hours Later – Assembly Area)

Falcons and Pelicans swooped down with calmed velocity, most got into the three ships that would be a leaving deployment as well as Scorpion tanks being seen, new recruits and currently active soldiers entered the ships with grim or nervous looks.

Naruto sighed as he stepped off Hood's Pelican "So, you finally finished three ships?" he asked, referring to the Spirit of Fire which looked brand new and had a dark silver sheen to It. The blond was now wearing his new and updated exoskeleton with the helmet tucked under his arm.

Hood nodded, stepping off and onto the landing platform "Four more ships are along the way, and should be finished within the week" he explained, drawing an understanding nod from Naruto.

The other two ships were stripped down when first started the project had been started years ago, but never left the ground until Naruto came around with the proper materials needed for the new ships. Two Halcyon class ships that were half constructed were finished off with a naquadah reactor boosted with a Shaw Fujikawa FTL drive, they along with the Spirit of Fire would assist Helos VI in its defence.

Not to mention that with the shields installed and the new metals, it could take up to 2,000,000 hits from plasma torpedoes, with the shields installed these would be the ships leading the warfront against the Covenant. It was also over 2,438 meters in size. The Spirit of Fire had new upgrades with the shields and fuuinjutsu'd FTL drive along with naquadah installed, making it an enhanced FTL drive like the two

"Ah, I forgot as to what division I'm with…"

At this, Hood nearly grinned but smiled "I'm placing you with Red Team" his amusement was inward as Naruto looked at him with a whiplash of shock. "Your skills and knowledge go beyond normal Marines" he explained, drawing a contemplating look from Naruto "Red Team doesn't have a tech expert like you, as such I think you'll be suited for the position" he pointed at Naruto's right shoulder and was surprised to find a white eagle with a silver outlining with a star above its head and holding in it left talon is a lighting bolt, and in it right are three arrows, showing it was the Spartan symbol along with the Petty Officer Third Class emblem below it.

Naruto shook his head to snap out his shock "Sir…thanks"

Hood nodded giving a salute that Naruto returned before he put on the helmet with a small hiss sounding out and whisked away in a Hirashin. Hood had seen it before and was not surprised before he got onto his Pelican and left.

(Spirit of Fire- Hanger)

Douglas sighed aloud, watching as Alice inserted 14.5x114 mm rounds into clips for her SRS 99C-S2. She was on her fourth clip when said Spartan broke the silence "So, new team member?"

Jerome turned to Douglas who was sitting on the tank, since it held his weight "Lord Hood said he was very…talented..."

Douglas nodded and paused "Wait, you don't think he means…" he trailed off while a grin formed under his helmet. Alice was in the middle of putting her third bullet in the clip when she stopped "The kid?"

Jerome nodded which he could imagine their surprised faces "Hmm, he's ranked as a Petty Officer Third Class now, under me at least in rank, but he may move higher as he worked with us briefly on his home planet" he explained while the two nodded their understanding.

"Given how he's made shields for three ships, not to mention ones of the Halcyon class ships…." He shook his head "ONI cooked up good on this one" Douglas pointed out at the end while Jerome paused and gave a reluctant nod.

They were moreover lounging in one of the areas for tanks, where they had conversations. Their musings were cut when the sound of a duffel bag hit the floor and eyes turned to see a black and silver exoskeleton suited teen.

"Upgrades go well?" asked Douglas, seeing Naruto nod and a slight hiss was heard as the helmet came off "I'll give Dr. Halsey her credit for this one" the blond chuckled a bit while Jerome looked on curiously, then eyed the white eagle at his right shoulder along with his rank symbol.

"Newest team member..." Alice mused to herself in amusement and chuckled a bit while Douglas commented "So, what's your role with us, was Admiral Hood specific?" Naruto saw the curious manner in their body language despite being well hidden.

"Tech expert mostly, but I am a suitable sniper" he saw Alice snap her head to him "Backup and cover from a Falcon" he explained simply before he saw her nod in understanding.

"So, what's on about Helot IV?" asked Jerome, turning serious to end the conversation. Naruto in response said "From the message and mapping info I got from the Covenant base, we have three Covenant Super Carriers on the way, with back up consisting of two CCS Class Battle-Cruisers" silence reigned but the faint reloading echoed to this part of the Spirit of Fire.

"….Our forces consisting of two…what were they called?"

" Halcyon -Class" Naruto supplied helpfully drawing a nod of understanding from Alice" Along with the Spirit of Fire, we should be able to handle this, though it's most likely their ships will stall us to do a ground campaign."

Jerome nodded thoughtfully at that, which was the usual strategy used against the UNSC to overwhelm their forces. Their thoughts were broken when Captain Cutter's voice sounded through the ship "Attention all crew, we are scheduled for take-off, resume your normal duties".

The ship shuddered as the rocket boosters activated, the Four held where they were as they felt themselves leaving the atmosphere. The three ships took off to space with Naruto and Red Team leaving the hanger just as the ships went into slip space.

(Several Hours Later – Indoor Shooting Range)

Alice eyed the sniper rifle Naruto had made, and had to admit it was quite impressive despite its small appearance. He had taken the base model of the DSR of the 21st Century and modified it to fit today's standards. It looked sleek and had that futuristic look, it also had a six times scope along with an ACOG scope as well too.

The other Marines and ODST's were rather apprehensive around a sixteen year old, even more so he was rumoured to be part of Red Team, most of the ODST's scoffed at that or gave a glare in their direction which they deigned to ignore.

Naruto fired once with the 990MM long gun, it was by far his favourite model he had made with past designs scrapped.

It pierced a holographic target's head while Douglas looked on approvingly, twirling a combat knife. The other Marines paled at the mere skill that Spartans had with a combat knife.

The main reason for the animosity against the Spartans was when John 117, current Commander of the Spartan II program had fought against four ODSTs and killed two while the others had severe injuries. Naruto shook his head to himself before completing that thought, it left a rather bitter rivalry between the two groups as a result. The blond sighed, they were in the middle of a war while they cared more about killing the other over pride of who would win the war. Unbelievable.

Naruto spoke up to start a conversation "What upgrades was made to the Mjolnir?" he asked, firing once again, the magazine capacity was ten for the rounds, which were now coated in a Titanium-A alloy.

"Reactions, got our plasma dispersement metals upgraded" Douglas piped up, speaking rather casually for his normally gung ho attitude. "Got that trinium upgrade combined with the Titanium-A alloy" he smirked knowing this was later into their newest team member's seven month overwork drive "It's a bit lighter than usual. It's also got a small naquadah generator pack that provides shields" he ended almost sounding giddy.

Naruto chuckled a bit before saying "Who do you think designed those?" he asked rhetorically. Douglas blinked then slumped his shoulder in what seemed to be disappointment "Damn…" he muttered before perking up "Hang on, do you have shields?" he asked curiously.

Naruto shook his head "No, Dr. Halsey is figuring out how to make that compatible, most of our attention was focused on shield design for the ships and enhanced FTL drives" he shrugged casually at the end, ignoring the shocked silence from the Three Spartans. Naruto inwardly thanked his privacy seals that blocked out the certain words he wanted.

He knew that they would reach Helos VI in less than three days, leaving two to set up the defences of the planet and work out a strategy to take down the small amount of Covenant ships. In his mind, he knew the war was truly beginning.