"Wake up Spartan" A voice called to him, letting his eyes open slightly and let in the bombardment of bright light into his life. He raised his right arm and grabbed onto the steel drafters in front of him, letting them lift him up from the cold floor. His back ached as he readjusted his posture and stood up completely, the members of Gold Squad were no were to be seen. Lucifer coughed loudly as he looked down at the soldier who had woken him, it was the ODST; Robert, who looked genuinely concerned over the massive black Spartan.
"What the hell happened to you?" Robert asked hurriedly as the large warrior affixed his back and twisted his wrists so they woke up.
Lucifer grumbled, "Training exercise", he quickly checked the assessed time sheet on his HUD and confirmed that he had less than ten minutes to get to the pelican and start his objective, the battle between the UNSC fleet and Thunder was about to go underway.
"Really? It looks like you got beat the hell up." The concerned ODST led him to the closest doorway and started escorting him quickly to the destination hanger bay.
Lucifer mumbled as he travelled quickly, he felt both furious and embarrassed over the events of the training room, although the fight was extremely unfair against him, leaving him in the training room without help or support was a low move.
"Anyways, I've got to go Lucifer; I'm called to drop in soon" Robert nodded to him, "I guess its game time."
The Black Spartan IV stopped and turned around so he faced the underling hell-jumper before he spoke, "Thank you, for getting to me in time." Something caught in his throat as he finished the statement; it was if he had never said such things before.
The ODST nodded again and left the black warrior to enter the hanger bay and face against his 'team-mates', the soldiers of Gold Squad were waiting for him.
Indeed they were waiting for him, three golden super-soldiers and one warrior on the side of the large UNSC vehicle; not a word was spoken until Lucifer grabbed his familiar BR5 Battle Rifle from the side of the room and cocked it roughly.
"I guess you finally made it." North snorted out of his nose, finding amusement in his victory and the newcomer's lateness.
"No help from you." Was all that Lucifer replied, he was already sick of this squad and if he didn't have orders then he would have probably beaten them beyond the point of submission in the arena pit. The white Spartan was a different case however, he had never spoken or made an aggressive move against any of them unless he was called to do it; he was an anomaly.
East spoke up roughly from inside the vehicle, he was holding a USNC grenade launcher in his arms and an arrogant tone on his voice, "You mind hurrying this up? That city isn't going to save itself."
The leading Spartan IV nodded and sat down inside the vehicle, he patted the seat next to him for West to sit down in but she decided to sit on her own; the tension between the entire group seemed to be escalating.
"We've got reports that the Covenant Assault Carrier target 'Alpha' has been shot down over the city of new hemisphere, however the last ship known as 'Razor' appears to be functional and still unloading hundreds of Jiralhanae into the city" The Admiral's voice issued over their radio headsets as soon as they all sat down, "Your current objectives issue through the general protection of the civilians, kill any storm you find and make sure we get our people to safety."
"Affirmative sir" North quickly added to the Admiral's monologue, then the golden Spartan reloaded the large DMR in his hand and spoke to the rest of the squad, "Alright ladies, follow strict procedures on this mission; I want all of you under my eye and following commands without complaints ok?"
They mumbled their consent slowly, all except Lucifer who kept silent and South who merely nodded without a word to be said.
And then the Black Spartan spoke up, "How many of you have been in combat before?" the seriousness in his tone was tough enough to rip through granite. The golden squad looked at each other awkwardly without commenting before finally South nodded to him and confirmed himself as the only Spartan on gold team to have actually seen battle before.
"I thought so" Lucifer shook his head in disgust, he was surrounded by a team of trigger happy bullies that thought battle was a well thought out, scripted and heroic tale to be sung; but when they found out the brutal truth of warfare they would truly be in for a surprise.
And it may even kill them.
