Simmons stumbled out of the ship once it touched down on the familiar ground before their base. They were all finally home after their shenanigans on the other planet.
"My head is still throbbing." Simmons groaned.
"I think I'm gonna be hungover for days." Grif chuckled as he followed along with Simmons.
"No limpiaré más vómito/I'm not cleaning up anymore vomit." Lopez commented as he hustled into the base.
"You're all a bunch of wimps! Pathetic." O'Malley cackled as he carried his bag over his shoulder.
"We were rocking in the shower for 20 minutes." Doc replied.
"Quiet!" O'Malley snapped.
"I'm going to take a nice siesta." Sarge yawned as he cracked his neck.
"Oh, God... my head... a nap sounds nice." Wash groaned as Ten helped him into the base.
"I think Wash is the biggest lush out of all of us." Ten said in a snide tone.
Everyone chuckled and walked into the base. They found in the living room that Kaikaina was asleep on the couch with a blanket thrown over her. Her hair was disheveled and her leg dangled out from under the blanket.
"Awww, my sleepy princess." Tucker grinned as he went over and bent down next to her. He scooped her up slowly into his arms and kissed her over her eyebrow.
"Nighty night, sister." Grif smirked as he patted her on the head as Tucker walked by with her cradled into his chest.
"Seems like the ladies had a fun time, too." Donut smiled as he walked by everyone. "I got a message from Dr. Grey and Kimball that they're at home safely, and very..." Donut's voice trailed off.
"Very...?" Wash asked.
"Veeery... out of it." Donut chuckled, knowing he had to censor what they had both really said.
"Welcome home!" Caboose came out of the kitchen, holding a cup of chocolate milk. He was smiling brightly and looking to be in one piece.
"Hey Caboose, you look to be in one piece." Doc said as he looked over the blue comrade.
"Why would I not be? Should I be more than one?" Caboose raised an eyebrow, looking at each of their faces.
"Well, you went out partying with the girls. We weren't sure you'd come home sick like the rest of us." Simmons said.
"Nope. I'm fine." Caboose shrugged and sipped his chocolate milk. "I'm gonna go watch T.V."
"Ugh... I'm gonna go lie down." Wash gave a half-heartedly wave and walked down the hallway. He ran his hand along the wall as he made his way to the bedroom. He clicked the button on the automatic door opener with his knuckle and the door slid opened.
Wash smiled as he entered the room and found Carolina asleep in the bed. She was wearing a comfy pair of pajama shorts and a tank top. Her red hair laid over her face and lightly fluttered with each heavy breath she exhaled. She was even snoring, and Wash couldn't help but stifle a chuckle.
He crawled into bed behind her and put an arm around her waist. His lips pressed against her neck and he found himself quickly falling asleep.

Simmons made his way to his room and opened the door. He saw Virginia tucked into the bed with the blankets up to her neck. She almost resembled a cocoon.
Simmons removed his shirt and tossed it on the floor. He paused for a moment, and then picked up the shirt, rolled it up and tossed it into the chair.
Virginia murmured in her sleep, causing a smile to spread across Simmons face. He stepped out of his pants and crawled into bed.
He tugged at the blanket, but it was tightly bound to her. He examined her, finding the blanket corner and pried the blanket from under her body.
She smacked her lips and quickly threw her arm over Simmons chest and buried her face into his neck.
"Welcome home, hun." Virginia mumbled. Simmons kissed the side of her face as he pulled the blanket over the both of them.
"Good to be home."

Donut and Doc sat on the couch with Caboose, each holding a gallon water bottle. Michigan came into the room and plopped onto the recliner and reclined the chair back.
Ten, Nevada and Oregon could be heard scuffling in the kitchen, opening the cabinets and refrigerator.
Sarge huffed and walked along the back of the couch and made his way to the adjacent recliner and leaned it back.
Lopez mumbled in Spanish and wandered off into the base as the television clicked through various scenes.
"Caboose, pick something!" Donut whined, trying to urge Caboose to stop changing the channel.
"Oh, fine!" Caboose pouted as the channel stopped on the news channel.

"It's been a month since the attack on the UNSC base that devastated-,"

"Oh, more about that attack." Doc said, leaning forward inquisitively.

"They mysterious attackers have yet to be identified. In other news, Dr. Albert Raini has yet to be apprehended due to his illegal involvement-,"

"Man, I'd really like to see that guy behind bars." Donut huffed.
"Agreed." Doc added.
"The bars are too good for him." Sarge huffed as he crossed his arms over his chest. "Dirtbag." Sarge's head began to lower as a string of incoherent murmurs escaped his lips. His eyes shut and he nodded off into a nap.

Perun, Bast, Mars, Virtus and Ares stood stiffly with their arms at their side as Dr. Raini tapped furiously at his tablet.
"Everything is running smoothly. The UNSC on Earth has been brought to its knees. Now, we have a new mission." The doctor held the tablet out in front of me, letting a planet materialize in a hologram. "We're going to pay Chorus a little visit..."

Carolina was the first to wake. She heard the notification of a rhythmic ringing to signal that somebody was calling her. Carolina rolled over a sleeping Wash, scooped up her helmet and fitted it over her head.
"Hello? Carolina?!" It was Kimball.
"Hey Kimball. Recovered from your-?" Carolina was quickly cut off.
"We're under attack!" Kimball screamed. Carolina's stomach sank as she never heard Kimball sound so panicked.
"What's going on?"
At this time, Wash had heard Carolina and now was reading her face, waiting for her to explain what was happening.
"Those soldiers that attacked the UNSC, they're here on Chorus!" An explosion rattled off in the background.
"Kimball!" Carolina screamed. "We're coming!" The static hummed into her ears as the call was disconnected.
Carolina quickly scrambled to her feet and began piecing together her armor.
Wash leapt to his feet and began to dress in his armor, as well.
Carolina stormed down the hallway, screaming for everybody to assemble.
Simmons and Virginia poked their tired heads out from their bedroom.
"What's happening?" Simmons inquired.
"Chorus is under attack! They need us! Suit up people!" Carolina barked.
The familiar sound of armor stomping down the hallways came to meet up with her as everyone eventually met her at the entrance. They raced to the Pelican with their weapons bared.

The Chorus army spread along the main streets in front of the Capital. Explosions went off in various directions. Gun fire erupted as a few shots were broken by surprised screams.
Perun, Bast, Mars, Virtus and Ares rushed into the blazing fires, leaping into groupings of soldiers.
"This isn't looking good." Palomo whimpered as he re-loaded his gun with ammunition.
"No negativity, Charles!" Jensen snapped with her lipsy tone. "We got to keep pushing!"
"This is fucked!" Bitters growled as he peeked over their protective barrier and fired an alien rifle into the direction of the enemy soldier.
Perun looked over at the oncoming alien blast and ducked under it.
Bitters whimpered as he saw Perun walk slowly towards him.
"You made it mad!" Palomo yelled.
"No shit!" Bitters whined.
"Get down!" Smith yelled as he grabbed Bitters by the back of his armor and yanked him down behind the protective barrier as Perun came rushing in.
As Perun leaped into the air, raising his fist back and descended onto the lieutenants, a purple blur came flying at Perun and sent him skidding several feet away into the gravel.
"Good job, Matthews!" Jensen said as Matthews hovered in front of his comrades on a vehicle known as the Ghost.
"I think I'm getting the hang of this thing." Matthews gulped.
"Incoming!" Kimball suddenly screamed as she leapt over several barriers and chucked a grenade at an oncoming fighter.
The lieutenants rushed to Kimball as Mars backhanded a grenade away from his head; allowing the grenade to curve upwards into the sky and explode against a skyscraper.
Kimball felt the nervousness rise in her. Her eyes scanned the battlefield, seeing various soldiers falling.
"F-Fall back!" Kimball ordered and started ushering the lieutenants backwards. All the soldiers turned to run back towards the base.
Kimball waved her arm and a long line of soldiers armed with rocket launchers stood at the opening of the base.
"All soldiers, FIRE!" Simultaneously, an array of rockets launched through the air towards Bast, Virtus and Ares. Mars and Perun rushed to the side of their fellow soldiers and all at once, they rose their hands.
A light shield — connected from shield to shield — glowing with a lime green hue. The rockets impacted against the light shield, and everyone held their breath, waiting for the cloud of dust to dissipate.
"Direct hit?" Smith asked with a hint of hesitation. Kimball took a few steps away from the base entrance and tried to see through the cloud of dust.
Silhouettes slowly emerged from the fading cloud and Kimball had to swallow down her worry.
"Oh, shit...," Palomo gasped. Kimball quickly stepped back behind the row of rocket launcher holding soldiers.
"Get ready to fire again..." She stated through gritted teeth. The soldiers inhaled a breath, steadying the rocket launchers as they prepared to fire again.
The enemy soldiers stepped closer, keeping the light shields up for protection.
"Kimball... we can't damage them when they have shields up!" Smith said.
"I know!" Kimball snapped. "We need to somehow through them off and get them to lower the shields..." Kimball began to panic as the enemies quickly began to close the gap.
Synchronized, the enemy soldiers began to hurry their pace.
"Oh, fuck! Incoming!" Bitters yelled.
Perun, Bast, Mars, Virtus and Ares began to run, when a fuzzy, sapphire blue pulsating orb attached to Mars, in the middle of the grouping.
"15 POINTS YOU DIRTY WHORES!" Came a familiar scream.
The enemy soldiers slid to a stop, quickly dropping their shields and attempting to disperse as Mars exploded.
"Heck of an arm, Donut." Oregon complimented.
The Chorus army looked over to see their allies standing on top of a parking garage.
"Oh, thank God." Kimball whispered. "FIRE!" Kimball ordered.
The rocket launchers went off as Perun, Bast, Virus and Ares attempted to disperse.
O'Malley cackled as he lifted his own rocket launcher and fired into the

area where the soldiers were once standing.
The Reds, Blues and Freelancers rushed off of the parking garage and quickly surrounded the area, aiming their weapons in preparation.
As the cloud of dirt lowered, they saw that Perun, Bast, Virtus and Ares had ducked onto their knees and held up their light shields.
Mars was in a crater, part of the spartan armor splintered.
"What the Hell?" Wash said as he squinted his eyes.
"That's... not human." Carolina gasped.
Mars slowly sat up, and they saw chunks of metal crack and fall away from an exo-skeleton of metal. A series of wires sparked and sizzled as a red, glowing eyeball stared at them from half of the helmet.
"Oh fuck! It's a Terminator!" Grif screamed.