A/N
1) I am so sorry about taking so long I've had a lot on my plate with Graduation finding a new job moving half way across the country for it and getting settled into it. But I know that is one big excuse for me being a procrastinator, but I haven't given up on this fic so don't worry about that I do have three chapters for you though finished and will have the next two up soon after this one is posted. Again sorry for such the delay.
2) getting a little flak from my last chapter and giving him the force my explaination for that is that I did that whole chapter to show that the forerunners had found a way to combat the flood and the forces origin. So his force stuff is more of a minor thing, so no OP'ness like ripping ships out of orbit or force lightning. Mostly better reflexes and spatial awareness
CHAPTER 9 Haunted Past
Kira walked through the halls of the ship toward the training area where she had heard that Azoth had been for the past five hours. She walked into the training area to see Azoth fighting five clones at once in hand to hand combat. She waited and watched as he took all of them down without any problem.
"Hold." She said as she walked up to him and the clones stopped and looked at her
"Sorry I just got to into it." Azoth said "I just can't seem to calm down."
"I think I know what is going on." Kira replied "Follow me." she said as she walked out of the training room.
"And what is that?" Azoth said
Azoth followed her into a room that had two round cushions "What is this?"
"This is a jedi meditation room." Kira said as she walked over and sat on one of the "Well you just got an over dose of Midi-chlorians and they are connecting you to the force and increases all your senses, reactions and other abilities, and to help control all this we meditate to calm our minds and our bodies."
"I know how meditation works." Azoth said as he turned to leave. "Friend of mine tried to teach me but I can't sit still long enough." He shrugged.
"I can teach you jedi meditations and help you calm your mind so you can actually get some sleep and judging by those bags under your eyes you need it." Kira said getting him to stop.
"Fine." Azoth said as he sat down.
"However there is a price." Kira said.
"There always is." Aztoh sighed
"These are secret jedi meditation techniques I shouldn't be telling you any of this." Kira spat back. "And I agreed not to tell any one about what happened on that… what do you call it? Forerunner facility."
"Fine what do you want as compensation?" Azoth asked already having an idea of what she wanted
"I want to know more about you and where you come from." Kira replied.
"Figured as much." Azoth sighed "I can tell you some, but nothing classified."
"Fine now you said you were from another galaxy." Kira said
"That is classified." Azoth replied getting her to get agitated
"You said before you were a recon ship here for colonization." Kira remembered "Now is there any other intent from you people or not?"
"I'll tell you what I told Kenobi and the others we just got out of a very long war and are not looking to start another one." Azoth explained
"Very well, now you have to relax and let me connect with your mind." Kira said "before I could barely feel your presence now I can't not feel you."
"so you are feeling me?" Azoth said with a chuckle getting Kira to go even redder in the face than her normal pink color.
"That is not what I meant you perv." Kira flustered just giving Azoth a smirk
"Just too easy to tease ya." Azoth chuckled "Anyway I'll try to relax and let you in. But just stay out of my memories I am blocking, you won't like what you see."
"I can't read minds just persuade people with weak minds to reveal their secrets, and read their emotions." Kira said as she began to probe his mind.
Azoth felt something weird as if something was pushing at his mind and he let out a breath and let it go.
"Wow all I feel is pain." Kira said
"A life of war leads to that." Azoth replied
"You said that before, your people were in a long war." Kira said
"Yeah the covenant war." Azoth said "It started before I can remeber. But when I was five the war came to the little back water of my home world."
FLASHBACK
A five-year-old boy and girl walked down the side walk. "So Kylar you want to play in the woods?" the girl asked
"Sorry Chelsea I have to get home and get my chores done." Kylar replied
"Oh come on that is no fun." Chelsea groaned "You can do them when we are done."
"Well." Kylar began but was cut off by the loud scream of a siren. "What is that?" he asked confused as he saw people begin running around in fear yelling 'They are here.' That was when they two of them looked up and saw a strange smooth curvy ship high above the city and a massive amount of smaller ships descend upon the city. Just then one of the strange ships landed down the street and strange creatures came out and began slaughtering anyone that came close. "Run!" Kylar yelled as they ran into the closest building they could find. The pair found a small corner in the warehouse that they had run too. The two of them hid in the corner behind some barrels. They stayed there for what seemed like forever till they heard the sound of people running and they saw a group push their way into the building.
"Oh thank you." Chelsea said as she got up to go to them but Kylar grabbed her and just as he did the door they had come through exploded in blue light sending the people they had just seen flying around, and a group of three elites came through the door holding plasma rifles and began to search the area. As the trio began searching for any survivors they would blast the bodies as they pass them.
Kylar held Chelsea close as he felt her shaking and heard her small whimpers as she was crying knowing this was the end. But just then two men in all black burst in through the door and began to fire causing the first elites shields to flare and his blood to spray and they turned to the second one but it was too late as he fired on the first helljumper and killed him but was too late to engage the second helljumper as he emptied his weapon into him killing the elite and then scanned the area, and lowered his weapon.
Kylar jumped out yelling "There is another!" Just as he said that an energy sword erupted and the elite dropped his cloaking and swung at the helljumper as he let off a burst from his assault rifle taking down the elites shields but his rifle was cut in half by the plasma sword sending the trooper on his back.
Kylar looked around and saw the dead helljumper was at his feet he reach down and picked up the assault rifle and held it at his waist and pulled the trigger. The recoil of the rifle sent him falling backwards and killed the elite.
The helljumper got back up and pulled his pistol and put an extra round in the head of the elite for safe measure then walked over to Kylar and picked up the assault rifle and helped him up. "Good work kid where did you learn to shoot?" he asked
"My dad was a marine before he got hurt." Kylar explained "He showed me how they work."
"Well sure he will be happy to know his son is a devil just like him, think you are the youngest person to get a confirmed kill on an elite." He said with a chuckle. "What's your name?"
"Kylar, Kylar Azoth." Kylar replied
"Well Azoth you just saved my ass thank you for that. My name is Major Thorne." Thorne introduced himself. "Now let's get you to an evac station."
"She comes with." Kylar said walking over to their hiding place
"Well of course can't leave such a cute thing behind." Thorne said taking a knee rustling up her hair and stood up and turned to leave with them following.
They followed for a while till they came to the city hall where an outpost had been hastily put together and troops had begun offloading, and civilians had been loading up to get out of there. They walked up to one of the platforms and they loaded up on to the bird and looked back at him.
"Now may the Night Angels guide you through the darkness." Thorne said as the doors of the pelican closed, and they took off.
END FLASHBACK
"That was when the war came to me, and I got my first kill. After that Chelsea's father who was the commandant of a military academy took me in and I stayed there till I ran off and joined the corps." Azoth finished his story.
"Wow and I thought the war here was bad." Kira replied.
"That isn't even scratching the surface of it." Azoth replied.
"General Yugan we are coming up on the Natz system." The com system chimmed as the two of them got up.
"Thank you we are on our way to the bridge now." Kira replied as her and Azoth walked out of the meditation room.
"So, we are investigating a possible research facility?" Azoth asked as he stepped out the door.
"Yes, we will take a recon team out soon as we establish an orbit." Kira replied
"Alright I'll go suit up and meet you on the bridge." Azoth said as he started to walk down a separate hall, "Oh and thanks that did seem to help calm myself down it seems." Azoth added.
"Of course, anytime and it was nice learning a bit about you as well." Kira replied
"However, it was a bit weird connecting our minds like that." Azoth replied
"Yes, it was the first time I did that and it seemed like I was experiencing your memories through you're eyes, somehow." Kira replied.
"Well any way like I said thanks it really did help." Azoth repeated as he headed down the hall toward his room.
After Azoth suited up he walked onto the bridge to find Kira looking out the window at the planet below.
"So there is supposed to be some sort of research facility down there?" Azoth asked "Any idea what they are cooking up?"
"No idea, and no idea where it is our scans are being jammed. So, there is definitely something down there." Kira replied, "I already have teams prepped and ready to deploy for recon missions."
"Alright I'll go with one team and you…" Azoth began
"No, we are going down together to establish a command center down there." Kira replied
"So, us on the same drop ship?" Azoth asked
"Yes." Kira asked confused at his question
"Yeah put the entire command structure on one ship heading down to an unknown enemy planet, yeah nothing going to go wrong with that." Azoth replied sarcastically "But whatever I'll see you at the drop ship." He finished as he headed down the hall.
After a little while Kira walked onto the drop ship where Azoth, HK 47 and a squad of clones were waiting for her. Once she entered, the ship lifted off and headed down toward the planet's surface. on the way down to the planet's surface Azoth just stared out into the black.
"What's on your mind?" Kira asked
"Just thinking." Azoth said
"About what you shared with me?" Kira asked
"No, it's about how different you guys conduct war than us." Azoth replied
"How so?" Kira asked
"Well we are supposed to be a recon unit." Azoth replied "And we just showed up here in three massive capital ships."
"Yes and?" Kira asked
"If anyone out there looks up they will know we are here. If it was my military, we would have a stealthed ship and have it packed full of sensors as well as a contingent of helljumpers to get eyes on." Azoth replied as they came into atmosphere.
"Well we don't have that great of stealth technology." Kira replied
"Well that is probably because it was stolen and then stolen again by us." Durzo chimed in "It was a massive hit to their stealth program, most of it was destroyed in the raid by the thieves
'And unlike us their focus is on slugging it out with their enemy since they are on equal terms unlike us and the covenant, so they haven't put too much focus on it.' Azoth replied to his AI
"We are coming up on the landing zone." The Pilot said "Oh shit hold on!" the pilot yelled as the ship rocked to the side. "We have two bogies on our tail." That was when the shipped had a major hit and began to plummet to the ground.
"Brace for impact!" Kira yelled as they hit the ground hard tossing everybody around in the troop bay.
After a few minutes Azoth began to wake up and look around the troop bay "If you ain't dead sound off." Azoth called out.
"Response: I am still functioning master." HK called out.
"Anyone else?" Azoth called out just to hear a groan and looked around to see everyone laying on the ground.
"My sensor indicates the clones are dead." Durzo reported as Azoth found Kira and turned her over.
"What happened?" Kira asked
"We got shot down." Azoth replied
"Well that is obvious." Kira said as she tried to get up, but the pain was too much.
"Report: sir we must move we have a separatist drop ship coming in." HK reported.
"Shit." Azoth said as he looked over Kira's injuries and found she had multiple broken ribs and other contusions across her body.
"Damn't this may hurt but we need to get out of here." Azoth said as he scooped her up as she winced in pain, and they took off from the crash site. They made it over the ridge overlooking their crash site and watched as the droids searched the ship and only gave a small sweep of the surrounding area and left.
"Observation: it seems they believed everyone died in the crash." HK said
"Yeah that was a rough one how is it you are unharmed?" Kira asked holding her side
"It isn't the first time I have been shot out of the sky, also my armor is better than the clones guessing the force is the only thing that saved you from dying." Azoth replied
"Yes I tried to help cushion our landing with the force but was only able to save myself with it." Kira replied. "We need to contact the ship and our scout ships to get us out of here."
"Negative we don't know if they are able to find out where we are if they intercept our transmissions, so radio silence for now." Azoth replied as he picked her up and headed toward what seemed to be a cave. Night began to fall as they reached the cave and fortunately it was empty. Azoth walked out to the mouth of the cave where HK was standing watch.
"Assessment: she is seriously injured if we…" HK began
"We are not leaving her." Azoth shot back at him.
"Yes master." HK replied
"I am reading an energy spike." Durzo said as a light began to glow in the distance, and began to get more intense.
"What is that?" Azoth asked
"It is a weapon of some… it is targeting the ship in orbit!" Durzo reported in haste
"Shit, Daedalus come in they are targeting you with a surface weapon get out of there now. Get out of system and get back up!" Azoth called over the radio as the weapon fired and he looked up to see one of the ships explode when the weapon impacted it. That was when Azoth looked up and watched as the two remaining ships jumped to hyper space. "Oh thank god." Azoth sighed
"Concern: master breaking radio silence like that could have given our position away." HK said in a berating tone
"Yes but it gave our ships a chance to escape and return with reinforcements. Giving us a better chance of rescue." Azoth replied only to get a nod from HK "Good now I'm going to check and see how bad her injuries really are stay here and watch out for any hostiles."
Azoth walked in to where Kira was laying down propped up against the cave wall and he took a knee next to her and began to examine her starting with her head and then began to work down once he got past her shoulder she pushed him away.
"Hey what do you think you are doing trying to get fresh with me?" Kira asked as she stared at his blank face plate.
"Hey I have had more medical courses then you can count and have dealt with more combat injuries than you can conceive. I need to assess you to see how bad the damage is." Azoth shot back as his face plate depolarized and she saw legitimate concern on his face.
"Sorry." Kira replied as she laid back and let him finish his assessment.
"Well it seems you have multiple broken ribs a concussion and some decent lacerations I can only hope there is no internal bleeding or punctured lungs." Azoth said
"Didn't you grab the scanner from the medical kit in the drop ship?" Kira asked
"No if I took anything they would know we survived the crash." Azoth replied as he pulled out his personal first aid kit and began wrapping up her lacerations, and then flopped down next to her on the cave wall.
"What about you? You couldn't of walked away from that completely unscathed?" Kira asked
"A few cracked ribs." Azoth replied "after the ODST and Spartan augmentations I am pretty durable."
"What kind of Augmentations?" Kira asked
"Most of it is classified, but let's just say I feel more like a weapon than a human anymore." Azoth sighed as he took off his helmet.
"That is horrible and no one should have to go through that." Kira said
"We had just finished a war that nearly wiped out the human species in our galaxy, we were not going to let that happen again." Azoth said with a bit of anger in his voice. "And after what happened with my squad it was the only way they would let me continue fighting."
"What do you mean?" Kira asked
"Never mind I don't want to think about that right now." Azoth said pushing it to the back of his mind.
"Then something else then?" Kira asked "Like what happened to you and your young friend after you escaped your planet."
"You really want to hear about that?" Azoth said.
"Not like we are going anywhere till reinforcements get here" Kira replied
"Fine after that, like I said her father was the commandant of a military academy but her parents were divorced and her mother had custody so she wasn't supposed to go there but that changed after the attack, and we both were accepted and grew up there until we were fifteen." Azoth began.
FLASHBACK
A fifteen-year-old Azoth was running at the side of a formation of cadets about his age.
"Alright." Azoth called out as the formation slowed and came to a stop and they turned to him. "Go hit the showers and changeover we will be going to the rifle range after chow, dismissed."
"Yes sir." They all said as they broke off and headed inside and one of the guys walked up to him.
"Pushing them pretty hard today." The boy said.
"Well squad competitions are coming up, so we need to be the best if we want to win, Benson." Azoth replied
"Yeah but we are just first years the seniors always win especially in the combat test." Benson replied, "And no offense but most squads have an older squad leader I know you were one of the top cadets in primary academy but it's rare for a first year to be a squad leader."
"Well I earned it as well as know someone, even though I don't like to take something if I don't earn it but if it helps me so be it." Azoth replied "And as for the seniors I am going to show them age has nothing to do with willingness to fuck their shit up."
"Well I can see you will be one of them that goes for infantry officer's course." Benson chuckled
"Hey it means I get to head to the lines after senior year when I'm eighteen instead of twenty after finishing courses." Azoth replied
"Well most people try to avoid that for as long as they can." Benson said as the pair began to head to the locker room.
"Well one way or another I'll be there no point in avoiding it." Azoth replied
"I guess." Benson sighed as they entered the locker room.
After chow the squad had formed up at the rifle range where two adults were waiting for them, with multiple rifles on the table.
"Alright cadets I will say this is a first." The women said, "Never had a first-year squad take advantage of our Friday class."
"Well we need every edge we can get over the seniors, ma'am." Azoth replied
"Well this is an ambitious one." the man said walking up to him.
"Whatever helps me kill those split chin bastards better." Azoth replied
"Already thinking about killing covies, yeah you are ambitious." The man said then looked at the rest of the squad. "I am Master Guns O'Rielly and this is Gunnery Sergeant Tills, we are the head marksmanship trainers here at the academy. Your Squad leader here talked us into taking your free class day this week to teach you how to properly shoot, on top of your normal weapon handling course." O'Rielly said as he walked up to the table with the different weapons on them. "Alright I know you had to qualify with the standard MA5B so I will move on to some of our other weapon systems." He said as he walked over to a battle rifle and DMR "These are your two mid-range rifles first is the M392 Designated Marksmen Rifle or DMR it is used as the name says by a designated marksman for longer distance shooting reaching out to 900 meters depending on the shooter. It is very reliable and very good at what it was designed for, it is mostly issued to ground forces and the army. It can fire in both automatic and semi-automatic however it is very difficult to control in full auto. The other is the BR55 Battle rifle, this has range of 750 meters you may give up a little range but you gain a more compact weapon system that is easier to use in tight quarters and has a burst fire mode instead of full auto, so it is a preferred weapon of Marines and ODST's. it is easier to use on ship as well as gives a little extra room in drop pods." O'Rielly explained as he began to show them the different manipulations for the rifles. Once he was done they all walked up and picked up each of the rifles to see how they felt in their shoulders.
"Alright grab a DMR and step up to a target position." Azoth called out as his squad did as they were told and grabbed a rifle and two magazines each then stepped up to the firing line.
O'Rielly walked along the line and called out "Range is hot fire when ready!" he called out and the line erupted in gun fire. He continued to walk the line till he got to Azoth who was taking his time with each shot. He stopped for a second to watch the cadet and watched as the target fell down and come up again three times. "Good shooting." He complemented
"Thanks Master Guns" Azoth replied
"Let's see how you do at two hundred." O'Rielly said as he activated the two hundred meter target and Azoth shot it as well, he then increased it to five hundred and Azoth dropped to the prone and hit that one as well. After they had finished their ammunition they went and switched out for the Battle rifle and O'Rielly watched as Azoth continued knocking down every target put in front of him. Once they finished firing they cleaned the rifles and headed out.
Later that night after training Azoth walked toward his room to run into a familiar blonde "Oh hey there Chelsea." Azoth called out waving over to her.
"Oh Kylar, how was your Friday course?" Chelsea asked
"Good I am really happy that I can choose what to do with my squad on Fridays" Azoth said
"Yes my father said it has been a good moral boost as well has helped with test scores." Chelsea said
"Yeah what you doing this weekend?" Azoth asked
"Me and some of the girls in my squad are heading into town to see the newest movie." Chelsea replied
"Actually I wanted to ask you something." Azoth said
"Oh really what is it?" Chelsea asked
"Well after the competition I was, I was… wondering if you would like to go to the ball with me after the squad comp?" Azoth asked in an embarrassed tone with a small blush.
"Oh ah." Chelsea said "Well I guess we could go as frie…"
"No." Azoth cuts her off. "I mean I want to go with you as more than friends, as an actual date."
"Oh then I am going to have to say no." Chelsea said "I just feel it is too early to start dating someone." She explains feeling a bit bad at shooting him down
"Oh well yeah ok guess I can understand that." Azoth says in a faked optimistic tone
"Well as long as you understand, any way I have to get going and catch up with my friends." Chelsea says as she turns and leaves.
"Yeah sure." Azoth sighed as he walked away, but when he turned around he ran into another cadet.
"Cadet Kylar Azoth." The cadet said in an annoyed tone.
"Cadet Derek Jackson." Azoth replied in just as an annoyed tone.
"You better lose that attitude when talking to a superior, Kylar." Derek spat.
"We are both squad leaders, so we are of the same rank, only difference is you're a senior." Azoth replied.
"You better just drop out of the squad comp, no first year is going to get past the first stage if I have anything to say about it." Derek replied. "or I am going to humiliate you, and you will be the laughing stock of the academy."
"You honestly think you can intimidate me?" Azoth chuckled "you're just a little mama's boy who is hiding away at this academy to avoid the war." At this Derek began to fume.
"I will show you why low bred filth like you don't belong here." Derek said as he stormed off.
"Yeah go cry to your high ranking mommy and daddy." Azoth called after him.
Azoth and his team where moving through a forested area in the training area. "Keep your eyes open."
"FREEZE!" Came a loud new voice causing the squad to stop and raised weapons and another squad with blue markings came out of the woods.
"Hold steady." Azoth said to his squad.
"Surrender, your surrounded and outnumbered." The leader said
"Don't think so Derek." Azoth replied as their leader walked up to him.
"Come on there is no shame in surrender." Derek replied "Especially when we both know you only got this position because you know the commandant." He whispered
"And you're only here because you mother is an admiral and your father a general." Azoth replied, "Because you would never get here on your own especially when you can't even count." He said with a smirk as Derek looked at Azoth's team in confusion and realized there was a fire team missing.
"Ambu…" Derek yelled before he was cut off by a training round hit him in the head and his squad swung around to look for the threat, as they began to fall one by one, and the rest of Azoths team that was in the enemy's ambush opened up on the blue team.
"Any one hit?" Azoth called out.
"Simons is down." Benson called out
"I got winged." Griff called out.
"Alright, Benson you take third team and Griff to our base for evac while we push on to the enemy base." Azoth ordered as they pulled out a stretcher and lifted Simons up and headed back to their base, while the rest of the squad began to head out.
Azoth stayed back for a second and squatted down next to Derek. "When it comes down to it you don't try to humiliate the covenant or offer them surrender you take the shot without hesitation because they will do the same to you." And he stood up and walked away, patting him on the helmet.
After the competition the academy stood in formation with Azoths' team standing at the front stage.
"We are here to award the top team from the squad competition, led by team leader Kylar Azoth." The Commandant said then turned to Azoth and handed out the medal to his entire Squad. "For the first time in academy history a first-year squad leader has won the competition." He added as he shook Azoths hand "You deserve this you definitely earned that spot as squad leader." He said quite enough only Azoth heard it.
"Thank you, sir." Azoth said as the Commandant turned back to the everyone in formation.
"Now as per tradition the annual ball shall take place tonight at twenty hundred hours, now go enjoy yourselves that is an order. Dismissed." The commandant called out, as they all snapped a salute and marched off.
Later that night Kylar walked into the ball with his squad following all heads held high but then he saw something that made his blood run cold. Chelsea arm in arm with Derek, and she was smiling.
At seeing this Azoth sat down next to Griff who was sneaking something into his drink.
"GRIFF!" came Bensons voice knocking Azoth out of his stupper "You know that is contraband."
"Come on Sarge." Griff said mockingly "We are top dogs we need to celebrate accordingly, like our military brothers before us, with alcohol."
"He is right." Azoth said as Benson got a smug look on his face, but it turned to shock as Azoth grabbed the drink and downed it "Sometimes do call for alcohol." He said as he put the cup down "Another." Griff looked at him in shock but didn't argue and went to get another drink.
"Ok man what's the matter?" Benson asked then followed Azoths eyes to see the couple that was making him upset. "Oh, well they are both from high ranking families maybe her father pushed it on her." He offered just grunt from Azoth as Griff came back with the drinks, and Benson walked off patting him on the shoulder.
After a few hours and a few more drinks a group of girls sat down at the table next to him.
"My god I can't believe Chelsea snagged Derek, she has been after him all semester." One of them said
"Yeah I heard he didn't even ask her till earlier tonight after the competition." Another said as realization struck him, and he saw Derek head over to the punch bowl.
"I'll get the next round." Azoth said as he grabbed his cup.
"Hey man." Griff said with a slur, but he was already gone.
"I know what you are doing." Azoth said, as he stepped up next to Derek.
"Oh and what is that?" Derek asked
"You are using Chelsea to get to me, and I don't like it when people use my friends like that." Azoth said
"I did say I was going to humiliate you." Derek said "And this seemed like the best and easiest way to do that." He said with a smirk but out of no where Azoths fist made contact with his with his jaw breaking it, then he grabbed the back of his head bring it down and smashing his knee into Derek's face breaking the nose. As the ruckus goes down arms come around grabbing Azoth pulling him away from Derek who was on the ground bleed from his mouth and nose.
"What the hell are you doing Kylar?!" Chelsea demanded as she got down to help Derek.
"Don't trust him he is only trouble." Azoth says, with a bit of a slur.
"Have you been drinking?" Chelsea asked
"Well…" Azoth began.
"No you are the one that is trouble and I don't want to see you again." Chelsea shouted as she turned and began helping Derek, getting a wave of depression to flow over him, and his body slacked
"Fine." Azoth said as he pulled away from Simons and Benson, as the MP's came in and took him away.
It had been a week since the ball, and Azoth was reprimanded for drinking and assaulting another cadet. He was stripped of his rank and squad was taken from him. He even requested to drop out of the academy and enlist but the commandant wouldn't sign off on it. He hadn't seen Chelsea at all, she had been completely avoiding him.
Azoth laying in his room staring at the ceiling waiting for dark. Once the clock struck 2200 he got up and slipped out of his room. Moving out of the building was easy enough once he got out to the perimeter fence was when he ran into the first patrol and easily hid from them without them noticing him at all. He picked the area nearest the swamps it was the least guarded due to all the bugs that swarmed the area.
"Well never belonged here anyway." Azoth said as he made his way over the fence into the swamp and trekked his way through the swamps and took most of the night to reach the town on the other side.
It was just after sunrise when Gunnery Sergeant Wilcox walked up to the recruiting center and saw a teenage boy that was wearing a uniform from the academy covered in mud sleeping in front of his door.
"Hey kid wake up." Wilcox said as he kicked the kid, who shot straight up to attention.
"Yes sir, cadet Azoth ready to enlist sir." Azoth snapped
"Damn't it's to early for this shit." Wilcox sighed shaking his head "Come on in and let's get this squared away." As they walked into the office.
(END FLASHBACK)
"After that it took some finagling but I was able to enlist as a marine and quickly made it into the ODST's." Azoth explained "I know the kid gets heart ripped out and joins the military is cliché or over done but I was young and stupid."
"Only difference now is you're are not young." Kira chuckled wincing in pain.
"That is what you get for laughing." Azoth shot back at her with a smirk.
"Well did you ever see her again?" Kira asked
"Twice, most recently she was stationed on the ship I came here on from my galaxy." Azoth said
"And the first time?" Kira asked
"Story for another time." Azoth said as he stood up and put on his helmet "We got company" he finished as he walked out of the cave.
"Inquiry: Master are we going to take out those meatbags?" HK asked
"No you stay here I'm going to see what they want." Azoth said "If I start firing you can have fun."
"Excitement: I hope to hear your blaster master." HK replied as Azoth walked into the tree line and activated is camouflage.
Azoth moved around and found a man in mandalorian armor behind a tree looking at the entrance of the cave. Azoth snuck up behind the mando and placed the barrel of his blaster at the base of neck.
"Kinda late for a stroll." Azoth said.
"You are good don't think anyone has snuck up on me like that since my old al'verde." The Mandalorian said
END CHAPTER 9
Mandalorian
Al'verde- commander
A/N alright I know a lot of flash backs in this one but I wanted to get some more into Azoth background, that I wanted to flush out. Please read and review let me know what you thought of it.
