enjoy... and my condolances to Virgina Tech... my heart and prayers go out to you..

We went up the stairs and went out the door. And I saw the Master Chief right in front of me.

"Did you clear the rest of the homes?" He asked me.

"Yes sir, did you get the artillery?"

"No not all of them, there were more then expected about 10-15 more all out on that field about 50 or so clicks from here. So..."

The Chief gave me some bombs.

"...here I need you to help me out and get rid of those guns. McKinney I need you to regroup with the squad and play distraction."

"I got it Chief." Mckinney asked and ran off.

I then ran with the chief to the field of artillery. The problem was the the brutes stationed there did not get the bait. And we faced a helluva lot of brutes and some other covenant. I loaded the HK 416 and started shooting. A couple of Grunts went down and it took a whole clip to get a Brute.

"Kid I'm placing a charge! Cover me!."

I then turned around and started shooting. A ray of bullets got every grunts, a couple of jackles, and another brute. I then ran out of bullets in yet another magazine. But then 10 spiker grenades. "CHIEF WE BETTER GET OUT OF HERE STAT!!" I yelled as I ran as fast as I could as I reloaded.

BOOM!!!!

The gun we were next to blew up and started a chain reaction. More grenades came at us, the nades blew up, and I dropped the 7 charges the chief gave me when running. The charges blew up and that process made every gun blew up while we were running our asses off. We finally came to a safe distance and just looked at the destruction.

"Well not the way I would of done it but it least we completed our mission."

"um...yeah."

I couldn't relax tho, my mind was still focused on that blond chick and Durga.

"Sergent Chung!" Corona scared me yet again

"What is it Corona?"

"I received a transmission from the admiral, the covenant is on a full on retreat mode. You have a liberty pass until 1200 hours tomorrow, and the Master Chief is needed back at the school."

"What about a transport?" I asked her

"I'm getting a pelican now at our position."

"Okay corona I guess I won't be seeing you till noon then."

But I was wrong, then I felt a electric sting on my chatter and saw a hologram. It was a green figure and looked like a girl. She had long hair and was smiling at me.

"Oh no you ain't gonna get rid of me this easily. I maybe a military A.I but I'm not going to be bored out of my mind in that helmet."

"Okay fine, you can stay. Just stay out of my files, okay?

"Done." the hologram then collapsed into the chatter

I then sighed a big one. And the pelican came to pick us both up. I then got up, jumped in and sat down. The Chief sat right across from me. It was kind of weird you were cramped in a plane while you have nothing to look at except out the plane.

"Hey kid!" the Chief said "Let me see that gun!"

I looked at the 416, I then stood up and gave him the gun. I felt his fingers while giving the gun. They were of course covered but it felt weird. The black gloves that covered his hands, it felt rubbery but hard like metal at the same time.

"Nice gun." He said

He gave me back the gun and I sat right down. And the pelican started descending on the parking lot. I got off the pelican and saw my mom again. I took off my helmet and then she rubbed my hair. "Good job kid, I'm proud of you."

"Um Thanks mom, can you take me home now, I still can't drive."

She started to laugh, "That's cute son, but you have to stay here and sleep here for the night since our house is still part of the enemy territory."

"Oh, okay I guess I'll help out the students." I then gave my assault rifle to my mom. And strapped the HK 416 on my back. And I started off to the bomb shelter. I helped some of my fellow students by bandaging them up. But it felt really weird helping my teachers. After I was done with that, I finally noticed I was hungry. I got some lunch, just some soy milk with some soy burgers. You know the usual. I then started to talk to my friends, talked about sports like football, baseball, and hockey. We compared to this years teams to the very greatest teams of the 21st century. We talked about girls, laughed at dumb jokes, ripped at each other, and played some games with each other on the chatter. But for some reason, it didn't feel the same as a normal day. Maybe it was the fact that they found out about Corona, or that I was in the Military, or maybe it was the fact about the covenant. I dunno but I still had fun with them. After that I left them and met Hyo-Jung. I was pretty tall for my age I was about 6 feet for a freshman. And she was looking up at me.

"Want to get out of here?"

"Um...Sure."

She then grabbed my hand and she was taking me to a empty classroom. Then there was silence.

"SO..." I said as I was trying to break up the silence.

She then stopped me and said, "I wanted to thank you for what you did for me during the morning."

"Oh that... It was no problem really."

"No it's not. I just didn't know what to do then." She then started tearing. "And after I saw you fighting the aliens.." She then paused trying to say something.

This was embarrassing for me to go through so I decided head towards the door. "Listen I got to report back to my commander." I lied. I then faced the door. But then a hand grabbed my arm, turned me around and Hyo-Jung gave me a long kiss. I just stood there shocked. Hyo-Jung and me were friends when I started first grade. She was a 2nd grader and we became friends after I saved her from bullies. But this felt weird, I WAS KISSING MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND! I finally got out of her lip lock and faced the door. I was too embarrassed to look at her. "You know we can't be like this. We've been friends for too long." I then ran out of the door before she could talk. And I finally noticed that she was my first kiss.

"I think she likes you." corona said jokingly

"Shut up."

I then ran across my mom.

"Hey kid." she then ruffled my hair again. "Here's your helmet back." She gave me the battered helmet. "That thing was a mess. I mean the wires were burned just after one battle. But no worries the tech guys fixed the helmet."

"Um Thanks mom." I wore the helmet and started walking toward the parking lot.

"Hey Mike! The pelcans are gonna go soon! So you better hurry up!"

I was shocked as I started running. How did she know I was bored out of my mind so I was gonna go on patrol? It was like she was reading my own mind. And I passed the master chief who was walking pretty calm.

"So. Did you decide on the battalion to pick up Cortana yet?" Maria asked the Master Chief

"No I'm not sure yet. But I think your son might surprise people." the Chief replied

"What do you expect? I was a Spartan, He's got my genes plus the 'extra stuff' we got." Maria said smiling.

"Do you think he can go well in the SPI Mark II we got?" Maria continued

"Yeah, I think I'm request form for him." John said as he started to walk away.

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