Second installment
By: Natination
Disclaimer: sorry though I wished I did own something of halo, but I don't. Everything else like characters is of my creation.
Author Notes: Well our two Spartans are now learning how to cope with little kids of all ages.... Which they weren't exactly trained to do... Maybe Mendez should have put that in the training manual? P on to the story.
Alexia moved though the thick forest of some planet they didn't know. They were in the middle of the forest with no food, water or supplies except their clothes. Animals and insects hissed all around the air as she remembered the Spartan's words before the drop off: We did this with our group, now it's your turn, good luck and see you all at the LZ
She and the two Twins had gotten off as a group, The Spartans deciding that groups were better for now. Pairing smaller kids with older or bigger kids. They had said the older and bigger had to look out for their team. Meaning the bigger ones couldn't ditch the little one which would mean a mission failure if even one little kid got lost.
They were split into twos mostly, except for her group. Odd numbers demanded that one group was three. The Twins were quiet as they looked out for the others. She had gathered some of the tropical fruit that hanged from the trees that would be out of reach for the twins. They munched on ΒΌ of the pieces while she had one half. They thanked her and moved on.
"What's our plan?" One twin asked.
"What are your names anyway?" Alexia asked.
"I'm Colin." The Twin said. He had a small scar on his knee that designated him from his twin. He had blue eyes with long wavy hair that seemed to have grown over night. He had to have his hair cut every two weeks or so that he stays in military hair growth.
"I'm John." The Twin said. Having the same features it was differ cult to tell them apart except for the scar on Colin's knee.
"I'm Alexia." She said. They continued to walk as they ran into two more kids who without hesitating, when onto the flanks of the group together more people.
Nate watched the little blips move around on his scanner, which had a 10-mile radius. A simply jog around a block for him. Sam looked over his shoulder as the blips started to head towards the main group forming, Alexia's, a few split off to search of others.
The Marines seemed to like the kids a lot, well maybe being boarded up for 6 months will do that. The ships here were at ambushed once, and so they were split up. There was still a carrier, and two frigates out there somewhere. He had left a squadron of marines without uniforms with traq. Pistols. No reason to use live ammo yet. The Marines didn't wear any uniforms. He made sure of that, wanting to see what would happen. The 25 blips all converged on the LZ.
The Spartan III trainees moved silently as they went off tree to tree, in a 4 by 4 cover formation. They were approaching the LZ, where the map said there pelican would be waiting.
Alexia moved without making a sound, making sure not to step on any twigs or such as she moved closer to see the pelican.
It was armored and there was several marines guarding it or something. A squad with pistols.
"Lets go home everyone." Alexia said. They all walked out of the forest towards the pelicans.
The marines all yelled shit, there early, or started to stash their card games. They were out of uniform, which meant something to Alexia, but what. She couldn't figure out what.
They approached slowly, unsure of what to do since the Spartans had said nothing about when meeting them there.
"Get them!" The marines pulled out the pistols and opened fire. Alexia dodged one as she hit the ground as others. The open field they were just about to cross hiding them. The Marines walked forward, looking in the grass for them.
"Ben and Jacob has been hit, traq darts." A boy named Andrew said. Two darts stuck in the chest of each boy, their chests slowly going up and down. "Some kind of knock-out poison or something."
Andrew had mud covering his face but two hazel eyes glared out.
Footsteps were heard, very close. A step landed centimeters from the marine. She grabbed his leg and rushed his legs out from under him. Her fingers gripped him as she sped between his legs, grabbing each shin to bring him down. He gave a startled cry and vanished from his friends.
"Fred? Fred? Where the hell are you?" The marines called. They spread out heading for Fred's last position.
Alexia jumped up several feet from Fred's knocked out body. She held the gun and pulled the trigger, nothing.
"Lassie, that won't work for you, you got the safety on." One of marines growled as he moved towards her.
"I know that, I'm just a distraction." Alexia said. Nodding behind him. 3 groups of 4 kids grabbed 3 of the marines and they vanished. The marines looked around, startled by the swarm of kids.
"Shit... where are they?" One of marines said. He was quickly gave a yell as he was grabbed and tripped falling to the ground, and knocked out.
"Shut up every, hand signals, no talking." A sergeant said. Only 6 of them were left, and they were in the middle of god dam field with a good 10 meters to get out, but the kids were surrounding them probably. They swung up out of the grass tackling the 2 marines, one of the marines fired two shots, one hit a kid.... And the other hit the other marine.
The other marines were quickly disarmed as the remaining 22 kids grabbed the 4 reaming marines easily.
"Gather the marines, get them onto the pelican, we're getting the hell out of here." Alexia said.
They all climbed aboard the pelican and Alexia turned on the autopilot for the pelican programmed it to return to base. The exercise was over and they won.