Chapter 4

1700 Hours, Boot Camp, February 11, 2552

When they put the suit on me I looked around and saw others being put in black armor with no helmet…and on it said "MARINE" so I guess they were going to be Marines. The suit was uncomfortable until they turned the power on it and it slowly compressed on my skin to form my exact outer shell sorta. I moved my hands as they told me to and it moved with lightning speed and I could run faster then anybody else I knew. When I finish this I can go to school and show off during Recess and race everybody if I can keep the armor, I grinned. They also handed me 2 SMG's

Which are these to assault rifles also like a pistol. They pointed out that I had ammo but I knew that… I'm not THAT stupid. So, I tested out all the stuff I had to do and they finally let me go. They also put me and my friends on a mission to see if we were good enough to be real SPARTANS. The mission was to go into enemy bases which the enemy was the so called "Covenant" and bring back a prophet. Didn't seem too hard, but I was wrong…very deeply wrong. We boarded a Pelican and lifted off to enemy territory. There was a Covenant ship blocking the way so I yelled, "Brace yourselves!" I packed some grenades onto my belt and got a thruster pack. When we were close enough to the ship I discovered the ship had a shield! I ordered everyone to pack their weapon of choice and 4 grenades and a thruster pack.

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