1. Halle, New Recruit
By Rurple101
Chapter Eleven
Halle had been shocked to see activity over near the Blue's base after a week after Lopez's arrival. She and Donut had been having their talk on the roof of the base and then seen the flurry of movement in the distance.
"What's going on over there?" Donut said as he cocked his head in that direction.
Halle glanced up from her cleaning of her Battle-Rifle and rose her eyebrows.
"Let's go check it out!" she said, snapping her rounds in her gun and sliding her helmet on her head easily. Donut copied her and they went downstairs.
Simmons met them downstairs.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked, eyeing their covered heads.
"Target practise" Halle lied and Simmons nodded and walked away.
"Seriously?" Donut asked in excitement. Halle chuckled in return.
They carefully walked towards the base and then crouched behind a bolder and sat down, keeping their heads round the corner so they could spy on the Blues.
"I don't think I've met the Blues" Halle commented thoughtfully. "Can you remember them?"
Donut nodded. "There's Caboose" he said, ticking them off his gloved fingers. "Caboose is the dark blue one and he tends to seen as an idiot as he sounds really dumb. But I like him; he's loyal and is really kind all the time, despite them telling them that hate him."
"Poor Caboose" Halle said sadly. Donut nodded in agreement.
"Then there is…I think his name is Tucker" Donut said carefully. "He's the teal one who is a bit of a dickhead. He's always thinking about sex and women. Ridicules!"
"Then there is Church, who acts the leader and bosses them around. But there are a lot of mysterious things surrounding his background and the adventures we've had with them before. He dated this girl who was also a freelancer, black armour and ect. I cannot, for the life of me remember her name. She stuck a grenade to my head when I was new, and then I got her back!" he stated proudly.
"Anybody else?" Halle asked.
"Nah, that seems to be it. We team up with them sometimes, but Grif really hates them, mainly because that includes a lot of hard work. But since you came her, he's been pitching in more, only slightly. It's good to know that he's growing up for once. Grif was always the typical slacker."
"Why was he a slacker?" Halle asked in a soft but curious tone. She'd never really heard more or a lot of Grif's background.
"Well, he always insulted Sarge, never did any work, and liked teasing me about the pink armour, always the one for sarcastic jokes and witty comebacks. Yes, that was Grif."
Was, Halle noticed. How much had Grif changed? A lot by the sounds of it.
Suddenly there was a rustle of leaves from behind their rock, and u-thin kingly Halle stood up while Donut stood up and grabbed her wrist.
Church was standing there, looking smug with himself as he raised his sniper rifle towards Halle's face.
"Who the fuck are?" he demanded.
"Shit!" came the reply.