(Hey guys I only have a few days to finish this fic before I ship off to Basic Combat Training. I'm gonna be concentrating mostly on this fic. I have a Resident Evil fic that I'm almost finished with so I'll work on that when I have a chance.)

Lieutenant Chambers woke up and headed to the training room dressed as a Private and waited to Jack. Jack walked in dressed in a pair of sweat pants and a t-shirt.

"Ok you're gonna start by running on that trainer for 5 miles like in basic." Jack said.

"Yes sir." Chambers said and started running.

Jack sat back on a stool and watched Chambers sweat. Chambers was into his 3rd mile when the overhead same to life.

"Attention Lieutenant Chambers please come to Colonel Caraway's office immediately."

Chambers stopped the trainer and got off.

"Did I say you could stop?" Jack asked.

"Sorry corporal but I'm being called." Chambers said.

"You're a Private not a L.T." Jack said.

"I like to walk around dressed as a Private to see how a ship runs." Chambers said.

"So…Do I salute you?" Jack asked.

"Only if I'm in proper uniform." Chambers said. "Well thanks for the workout but I have to go."

Jack watched Chambers leave the training room then sat on the stool.

'I'm a dead man.' He thought.

Sara and Ellis's room

Sara was lying in her rack looking at the ceiling thinking about her baby. She had one hand on her stomach and the other behind her head. Ellis was still sleeping but was starting to wake up.

"Hey Ellis are you awake?" Sara asked.

Ellis just rolled on her side facing her back to Sara.

"Ellis." Sara said throwing a pillow at her.

The pillow flew through the air only to be caught by Ellis and thrown back. The pillow smacked Sara in the face and she fell on her bed and laughed.

"The only way to get the drop on me is if I'm dead." Ellis said.

"I'll keep that in mind." Sara said. "Any way I'm gonna go talk to my father about helping you. Do you want to go?"

"Yes." Ellis said standing up.

She put on all oh her armor and her helmet and picked up her spear.

"We're not going to fight him." Sara said.

"This is customary." Ellis said. "When seeking help you must show that you are not helpless and that you can stand on your own."

Sara nodded and got dressed. They walked down the hall and were met by Colonel Caraway and L.T. Chambers coming out of the Colonel's office.

"Well speak of the devils." Caraway said.

Sara and Ellis walked up to them and stopped.

"Sara this is Lieutenant Chambers he's taking command of the 128th in your place." Caraway said. "And Ellis I have good news. The Generals have agreed to help you're people."

Ellis put her hand to her chest in a salute and a thank you.

"Well L.T. if you'll excuse me I have to announce the change of plans." Caraway said and walked away.

"You were the one with Corporal Dallas in the mess hall right?" Chambers asked.

"Yes." Ellis said. "I thought he called you a Private." Ellis said.

"I was acting like one for the hell of it." Chambers said.

Sara looked at the new guy and could see that he was as green as they come and snickered.

"So L.T. how many mission's have you been on?" She asked.

"Over 300 in the simulator this is my first real mission Sergeant but I assure you I have had run-ins with the Xeno's." Chambers said and removed his hat.

Most of his hair was missing and his skull was a little deformed.

"Acid blood?" Sara asked.

"Yea." Chambers said. "I was in a shake and bake colony when I was a child. We were attacked by the Xeno's when we were eating dinner in the mess hall. A guard shot one of them with a pulse rifle and its blood sprayed on my head and melted most of my scalp. I lost my whole family in that attack and joined the corp. soon after."

"I lost a boyfriend to them 3 weeks ago." Sara said. "My mother 9 years ago."

"Your father told me." Chambers said.

"I figured he would." Sara said. "Well sir if you'll excuse me I'm gonna go pick on Corporeal Dallas."

"Have fun." Chamber's said walking past them.

"Oh sir what's your name?" Sara asked. "We call each other by first name in the 128th."

"Kenneth." He said with a smile and continued walking.

"You're body heat is rising." Ellis said looking at Sara through her helmets heat vision mode.

"Mind your own business." Sara said and started walking.

"You're attracted to him aren't you?" Ellis asked.

"What's it to you?" Sara asked. "He's cute yes…but I don't want to sleep with him."

She was lying and Ellis knew it from her body heat but dropped the subject. Sara knew she really was attracted to him but her heart wasn't gonna open up so soon. They were walking through the hall when Private Johnson was thrown out of a room and crashed into Ellis who only took a step back.

"Now what are you doing?" Ellis asked pushing him off of her.

"Getting my ass kicked." He said. "Now if you'll excuse me I have lots more to go through."

He walked back into the room leaving Sara and Ellis standing in the hallway looking at each other.

"What the hell?" Sara asked walking into the room with Ellis behind her.

Johnson was being pounded by several Marines and Sara saw a girl in her late teens being held in the corner.

"What the hell is going on?" Sara yelled.

The men stopped beating Johnson and looked up at her.

"This doesn't concern you ma'am." One of them said.

"This man is in my unit." Sara said. "So it does concern me. Now what's going on?"

"Well ma'am Private Johnson here was caught sleeping with a girl in my unit." A man said.

"That's legal on this ship." Sara said.

"Yea but not in my unit." He said.

Ellis was standing next to Sara and was moving for her spear. She knew what was happening and her honor would be tarnished if she didn't help. She had her hand on her spear and just waited for the right moment.

"I'm gonna tell you this once and only once." Sara said. "Let him go."

"Or what ma'am?" The man asked. "We're all off duty so we don't have to listen to you."

"You out number us 3 to 1." Sara said. "But we'll still kick the shit out of all of you."

The men in the room laughed and let Johnson go. They stepped forward ready to fight.

"All of that armor isn't gonna help you." One of them said looking at Ellis.

Before he knew it Ellis had pulled her spear and hit the man over the head with it and he dropped. She looked at her spear then dropped it and raised her hands. The 8 men still standing in the room rushed Sara and Ellis. They made their way to the middle of the room fighting back to back and even though Johnson was to beat to help the girl he was sleeping with did. The commander of the unit was sneaking up behind Sara with a metal bar in his hand. The girl picked up a pulse rifle and fired 2 shots into his back killing him instantly. That ended the fight and they all hit the ground leaving Sara and Ellis standing. The girl was standing near the back of the room in shock at what she had just done and Sara walked up to her.

"Hand me the weapon Private." She said.

The girl handed Sara the weapon and she cleared the ammo and dropped it on the floor. The girl ran over to Johnson and knelt down.

"What's gonna happen to her now?" He asked Sara.

"Nothing." Sara said. "We all saw what happened and she acted the way she was trained."

"I can't stay with this unit." She said. "They'll kill me for sure."

"I'll transfer you to my unit." Sara said.

She walked over to the intercom and called the MP's. All of the men were placed under arrest for assault and the body was taken away. Johnson was taken to the infirmary with the girl by his side. Sara and Ellis stayed in the room and gave a full report on what happened to the MP's and Colonel Carraway.

"I hate to see one of my men killed." Caraway said. "But he would have killed you so it's justified."

Sara and Ellis walked out of the room and headed to the showers both silent. Sara was upset that the fight had gotten so far out of hand that a man lost his life over it. Ellis was thinking about how her culture would have handled it.

'We would have executed him publicly.' She thought. "An unfair fight was bad enough but he was gonna use a weapon and kill Sara. I used my spear to hit the first gut in hopes that it would end the fight before it began but it didn't work.'

The talk in the shower room was about the fight and no one blamed the girl for killing the man. They were almost finished with the shower when the intercom came to life.

"This is Colonel Carraway. I have no doubts that you all have heard about the death onboard today. The killing was justified and no criminal actions will be taken. In regards to the young woman that killed him if I hear any reports on her being mistreated I will put this whole ship on 24 hour watch. Now on to business. Most of you have seen the young woman named Ellis walking around the ship dressed in armor. She is a representative from a planet far away and has asked for out help. After talking with my Generals on the subject it has been decided that we will help. It will take us 3 months to reach the planet and all non essential personal are to enter hyper sleep at 20:0010:00pm). We will run on a skeleton crew until 1 week before we reach the planet. This planet is in a lot of trouble and we are going to save it. That is all."

Ellis looked at Sara and smiled.

'I hope we make it in time.' She thought as she walked out of the shower room.