Chapter 2: A blast from the past
"Well done team, you have brought us some very important information that will help us in this war. Ghost, you will need some time to heal, so no missions or gunfire for the next week or two." "Yes sir" "Dismissed" As I walked out of the control room all I could think was "Finally, some relaxing time." We may be fighting a war but I am still only 16, I need my rest. You're probably wondering how a 16 year old girl became one of the top snipers in the UNSC, well let's start from the beginning.
My name is Melody Holt AKA Ghost and I'm 16 years old. My family owns a major gun shop and most of our guns are sold to the military. My mother died when I was 6 in a car crash so me and my dad own the shop. We always went hunting on the weekends and I always hunted with a sniper rifle. One day one of my dads friends that works at the gun shop heard one of the generals say they needed to train some new snipers. Hearing this he recommended me to the general. After some testing they said they wanted me to become a special officer, AKA a Spartan. I couldn't believe it, at the age of 16 I was going to become a Spartan!
I quickly started my training, but you may not know i'm a Spartan just by looking at me. Probably because I don't wear armor, only if it's an end of the world mission. Which has only happened once since I have arrived. My armor is orange and black and it is nothing special, just standard Spartan armor. My sniping skills have increased immensely over the past few months and I've already become a Grade A sniper.
Some of you may have heard of Master Chief and his AI Cortana, well I also have an AI. Her name is Beta, and she is a chip that has been implanted within my neck. She is connected to neural implants that go to my brain. That's how she differs from Cortana, Cortana is a key card that is in Chief's helmet and the chip can be removed at anytime. Beta however is permanently in my neck. A few weeks ago an elite damaged the chip, it was fixed but Beta had to power down for a while to do some internal repairs. If she wasn't offline she could have warned me about the elite that was behind me and I could have avoided getting my armed stabbed.
Two Weeks Later
The wound in my left arm has finally healed and Beta is done with her repairs. I'm kind of glad she is back, I like silence but we share the same mind and it was getting a little lonely without her. It's a Monday morning, the first day without a stupid cast on my arm. "RISE AND SHINE!" I jerked awake and see Beta standing on my bed."Oh great, Beta's back," I thought. For those of you that are confused, Beta is about 6 inches tall. Unlike Cortana, Beta doesn't need a computer to project herself. So she can become a hologram whenever she wants. "Did you have to wake me up so early." I said whining. "Yes" Beta said "You have to start training again."
After a couple hours of sniper practice, and Beta getting used to being back online. We head to the bridge because the commander wanted to speak with us. "You wanted to speak with us sir?" I say as I entered the bridge. "Yes, I know you just got your cast off yesterday but we need you to go on a scouting mission. We believe the Covenant are planning an attack on one of our outposts on Reach. We want you to be a scouter in front of the outpost and to warn them if the enemy does attack." "Should I engage the enemy if I spot them?" I asked hoping I could. "Yes, you may shoot when you are given the order to." By now I had a huge smile on my face and Beta was trying really hard not to laugh at how dumb I looked."You two are dismissed." the commander said with a small smile on his face.