A few hours later
Cory and Maria walk out of the barracks "How do you feel?" Maria asks, Cory looks at her "Better the weight of it has been lifted off my shoulders. We are probably being transferred here though so are the Avengers and the rest of our team" Hill looks at him "When did this happen?" Cory looks at the sky "After our first mission Keyes decided to send us away from that combat zone." "Ok, so we came to check out the area ahead of time." Maria responds "Yeah…" Cory looks down at the ground "…we have to hold here because they want Jun away from New Mombasa so the last few Spartans are not all in one area." He looks up at Maria "The only reason we are away from the fighting is he wanted us to go and wouldn't leave without us." Jun walks out and looks between Cory and Maria "I suppose you told her then." Cory looks at his friend "Yeah she was wondering when the Avengers would be here." Jun looks to Maria "Tomorrow. Get some rest you two we have to do recon in the morning." "We will in a few minutes, Jun." Cory says "Alright, I'm going to check the perimeter." With that Jun walks off. "Maria…" she looks at Cory "I want you to stay here during recon tomorrow." "What, why shouldn't I go?" "I don't want you to get hurt even Spartans aren't invincible. Did Jun ever tell you about Noble?" Maria looks at him "No…why?" "I never met them but they were Spartans, super soldiers he's the only one who left Reach." Maria looks at Cory "There were six of them Jorge sacrificed himself destroying a Covenant super carrier, Kat was killed by a sniper in New Alexandria, Carter, Emile and Spartan B312 were killed while delivering a fragment of the AI Cortana to the Pillar of Autumn so the UNSC could get her off the planet. The Spartans only had each other and so when his team was gone he felt alone. That's whe we met and he saved my life." Maria looks at the young man and says "I understand what you mean but I don't want to lose you either so I am going with you." Cory looks at her and smiles "The Avengers will be here in a few hours we should rest." They get up and walk back to the barracks.
