Okay, so here's the next chapter in my Halo: Reach story, so you know. If your reading this, you should also check out my other stories. They include Super Smash Brothers, Legend of Zelda, 11 Eyes, and Alien VS Predator. As I'm typing this, I'm planning to put up a poll as soon as I get back to internet. So you had better vote, or I'll send Zene after you. Who is Zene, you ask? Go read my stories, and you might find out!

(5 days later) Okay, guys and girls. Turns out the couple whole's names I used broke up… But I'm still using them. So you know.

Chapter 2

Everyone stared at me like I was a lunatic. I should have expected that. The rain poured down on us as we sat in silence for a couple minutes.

"Jared…" Mike said, slowly and concerned " Did you bang your head on a rock when you started running here, or what?". Then he looked down and noticed that he was wearing armor. Spartan armor. I couldn't quiet see his eyes, but I could tell he was wide eyed

"Look at our new 'toys'. Don't you recognize them?" I asked, and everyone slowly looked down at what they had. I saw a scared look come into everyone's eyes that didn't have the visor on, and they looked back up at me.

"The F*&*…" Amanda whispered as she looked down again at her armor. Then she grinned. "Oh yah, I've got exactly what I would want if we are ACTUALLY on Reach. Check this out!". She hefted up her Spartan Laser and I think she would have actually fired it at something if Mike hadn't walked over and lowered it down. I grinned. Now this is what the REAL Amanda was.

Now because of Amanda's burst of excitement, everyone started to look down at their armor and weapons. David took out his needler and looked it over in excitement. Mike just took one look at his machine gun, and I knew he was in love. I took out my gravity hammer and grinned. It weighed a lot, but with Spartan armor, it was easy to carry It probably also helped that we had all been physically fit before coming here.

Ellie picked up her sniper rifle, looked it over, then loaded it ( I don't know how, but we all had ammo and knew how to load our weapons),and fired at a random ostrich that she saw through her scope. The animal went down, with a bullet strait through the eye ball. Sophia took out her plasma rifle and immediately took out a screw driver and got to work dissecting it. Finally, Amanda put down her Spartan Laser and took out her energy sword. She took it out and turned it on. It immediately shot and, and she went to work on the cliff beside Sword Base.

Speaking of Sword Base, I looked up to see a towering structure right in front of us. Sword Base. It looked to be a lot like it was in the game, just not destroyed yet. We were standing in front of the door thing that opens out into that valley of sorts. I wasn't sure what to do, so I walked over to Mike. It always helped to talk to him, especially during football or when I had problems.

"Hey Mike," I said " we have a problem." He nodded, but continued to let me speak. "Listen. I think we'd better try to figure out exactly what happened, but at the same time, we need to figure out what to do in the mean time." He nodded yet again, but this time he spoke.

"Well," He said in his deep, throaty voice "I think we first out to get inside Sword Base. It might help us to find out who we are here, and why we have Spartan armor. Plus, I want to meet Noble Team. That might be pretty cool. I always wanted to meet Jorge…". I nodded, and got everyone into a group.

"Okay. So we're pretty sure we're on Reach, correct?" Everyone nodded "In that case, I believe that's sword base up there( I pointed to Sword Base) and I think we ought to check it out. See where in time this is. Who knows, maybe we'll get to meet our heroes." I grinned at this. I SOOOOO wanted to meet Noble Six or Master Chief. If Six was still alive, and if this was before Reach was destroyed…I yelped. This is Reach, I thought, Reach is destroyed in the end. And we're here, on Reach. Oh god…

I think Mike noticed what I was thinking, because he nodded to me before taking the lead.

"Well," He said to everyone "We all know what happens to Reach… So we have two reasons to get out of here and back home. One, because we want to go home. Two, we don't want to get killed. I say the best place to start is Sword Base. Maybe they'll…" Mike was cut of by a radio on speaker, coming from my helmet.

"Teen team, I repeat, teen team, come in, over." A man's voice said on the radio. Everyone looked around, but I answered by responding. I decided to make myself Teen 1, just to annoy everyone else. I actually wasn't sure that we were even supposed to be here, and that we were actually even Teen Team.

"Sir, this is Teen 1, do you read me?" I said in my gruffest voice, not sure what the heck to do.

"Teen 1, that's good that your here. Welcome to Reach, Spartans. I rather think you'll like it here! Come on in." The man on the radio said. I whispered to myself a "Yes". Suddenly, the door opened that lead into Sword Base. I looked around at everyone. They all seemed strangely calm. I nodded to them, and started walking towards the door. I didn't look back, but I could tell that everyone was following me. We entered the door, and walked into Sword Base…

As we walked in, I looked around. We had actually entered a busy place. I was surprised. In the game, this place was barren, having only a couple weapons and other things. Instead, there were vehicles and people. LOTS of people. I noticed that as soon as we entered, everyone stopped working and looked up at us. Then they all saluted. I wasn't sure what to do, so I saluted back. The rest of Teen Team also saluted. Then we continued walking. As we went up the small hill, I noticed many different types of people walking and jogging all around us, looking as if they were going someplace. It seemed that everyone glanced at us, and some people even stared.

I looked around, trying to find someone to ask where to go. I finally found someone just standing around, reading a book under an eve. They seemed to be a soldier, guarding the entrance to the command center that I knew oh so well. I walked up to him.

"Excuse me," I asked "But we just arrived here. Do you know where we should go?" The man looked up at us. He slowly took a step back, but answered in a weak voice.

"In here," He said, just barely loud enough to hear. I was surprised that I could hear him. Then I got freaked. If I could hear him, that meant our form here was a REAL Spartan that had gone through augmentations. Which meant that we were now super soldiers. I looked back at everyone, and I could see that it dawned on Mike what this meant. I think I hear him gulp, but he just talked in the radio to everyone, so that only us 6 could hear.

"Hey guys…and girls," He whispered "I think that we're super soldiers now." Slowly, I hear murmurs through the radio, but I shook it off and turned to the man.

"Thank you." I said before stiffly before walking in. Everyone followed me, all walking stiffly. I started to jog inside.

The Sword Base command center was crazy, with people running around everywhere with papers and other things. I could see everyone from a top view, probably because of the augmentations and that the suit that made everyone 5 inches taller.

"Hey Spartans!" I hear the guy from the radio say on the radio. "I can see you from here. You're probably confused. You see that escalator right there, to your left?" I nodded, since he had said he could see me. "Good. Go up there with the rest of you team, make a right, then you should see a hall. Follow that, and you'll go where you need to be." I nodded, motioned for Teen Team to follow( that's what I'll use from now on when I speak of just my friends and I), and followed the voices instructions. Sure enough, we arrived at the hall. I followed it, and arrived at a door guarded by two ODST's with shotguns. They saluted and opened the door for me. I saluted back, and walked through.

Inside were two people. One that I recognized from the game, and one I would probably know forever. These two were Carter, also known as Noble 1, leader of Noble Team, and Dr. Hasley. My jaw dropped, and I was glad that I was wearing my visor at the moment, or I would look totally embarrassing.

"Welcome Teen Team." The voice from the radio said next to me. I jumped back, surprised. It was an A.I, standing on it's projector. "I'm George.". I nodded to it, then turned back to Hasley and Carter.

"Sir!…And Ma'am" I saluted to the two before shutting up. My voice might have given me away. But I realized that my voice was deeper. Probably due to augmentations. Then I thought about it. When I saw Mike's face, I had thought that it looked slightly older. There might have been a small beard…I realized that our characters might have been older then us in real life. Then I snapped back to attention as Dr Halsey started talking.

"I'm glad you're here, Teen Team. We have reports of major massacres across Reach, probably do to insurrectionists. We're sending Noble Team to investigate a small colony north of here. We want you to go to a lake south of here, at (9,56). We need you to check out a small group of families who have reported attacks by un-known beings. Still probably rebels. We're sending you in a falcon to a newly eradicated safe zone. Is your team ready? I didn't think so, but it wasn't like I was going to tell Doc that. So I did what a normal Spartan would do. A quick "Yes Ma'am", and walked out the door. Mike got everyone to follow me, and we walked towards the hangar that we had walked through to get here. We stopped right outside the command center, and I pulled everyone over to a quiet corner.

"We're screwed…" I muttered, pulling down my visor. Everyone else did the same, and nodded. I pulled out my shotgun and loaded it. I wasn't ready, but my gun was.

"Do you have any idea what to do? Who knows what will happen here. Will we die if we die, or will we respawn?" Ellie asked. I just stood there, freaked. Slowly, I knew what I had to say.

"We have to try and do this mission. We know what's going on. We know the specifics on how to kill all the different covenant. WE know how this will turn out. But that doesn't mean that we can't change it. More Spartans means thousands more Covenant will die, and that might just change the tide of this battle. You know what that means? That means that this war may be over sooner, and less people die. Like Noble team, or Keyes, or his daughter, or Sergeant Johnson. All of them might not die. They might get the chance to live. So…you with me?" After this long speech, I wasn't sure what they would say. Slowly but surely, Mike nodded and grinned. Then Ellie, then David, then Sophia…But Amanda didn't seem so sure. I looked her strait in the eye.

"Amanda…' I muttered "You don't have to do this. If you want, you can focus on getting us back. That's your choice.". Amanda stared at me for a couple of seconds, but then nodded and smiled.

"Lets get to it!" She said before pulling on her visor and sprinting towards a random Falcon. I looked around and checked with Mike.

"Okay, so they said they'd send a Falcon…" I asked him. He just lifted his shoulders and looked around. I did the same. Each Falcon had at least one pilot, some with extra gunners. Of course, we wouldn't need them, and the one's with gunners all looked young and inexperienced. What I looked for was someone who was a young, but who looked like he/she had been in the service for a long time. And I found that person alone in the hanger. He was leaning against the cockpit, just sitting, bored. He had big muscles, but was slightly short. I spotted him in about two seconds out of the estimated 400 people in the hanger. I grabbed a random marine that was walking past and pulled him over. He looked scared, but hardened up after about 1 second.

"Sir?" he asked, his hands behind his back. I looked him over before pointing to the man I saw.

"That guy. Right there. Who is he and what is his background?" I asked in a stern voice. The guy looked slightly scared, but started to talk. I noticed that his name was Anthony Pozzeti.

"Well, his name is Billy Anderson. He's about thirty, and probably flies that bird, the "Sky Scraper", better then anybody. The thing is, nobody really likes him. He's always grumpy and not really social. In fact, he actually got lowered in rank because he disobeyed an order. Of course, in doing that, he saved a bunch of lives…Long story. Anyways, he's probably the best and most honorably flyer here. Sir!" He finished with a loud shout. I nodded to him and started to walk towards Anderson. I motioned for the rest of Teen Team to follow me, and we walked right up to him.

"Hello sir, we're the new…" He cut me off almost immediately.

"I know what who you are. Spartans. Dr. Hasley's latest project. Whatever. You tell me where you want to go, and I'll do my job, and you can do yours. Get in." He was quick and efficient in his words, and right after he was done, he popped open the hatch and hopped in. I was surprised that he was so agility, but I just hopped in the back and into the gunners seat. I did a quick calculation of how it worked, then decided to do a little customization of my own. I pulled out my magnum and then its bullets. I quickly took the bullets and crushed them each into two. I took out my blow torch and molded each end so that they were smaller but sharp. I then loaded them into the machine gun. I now had a clip of bullets that had the power of the magnum but was quick enough to mow down any Covenant that came along. I have to admit, this took me a minute a to do. It all happened while everyone else jumped in and strapped up. I noticed that Billy was looking at me from the cockpit, a slight smile on his face. When he saw that I noticed him, he stopped smiling and looked forward. I just grinned before turning back around to look at my new "teammates". Mike was in the other gunner seat, and Ellie was strapped in next to him, checking out her new sniper. David was sitting in the seat to my right, looking slightly pale. I remember that he hated flying, no matter what. Except in a game, of course.

" Think of it as a game David. It might make you feel better." He looked over at me, nodded, and some color came back to his face. I turned to look over at Amanda and Sophia. They were whispering to each other, but Sophia seemed more focused on the energy sword that Amanda had let her look at. I just smiled, but didn't say anything.

"Ready. Where do you need to go?" Billy Anderson asked over the radio. I selected the COM option on my helmets screen, and I was immediately connected. I told him the coordinates, and we lifted-off. Of course I thought it was fun…but that would only be one of the many times that I would do the same thing here on Reach, then hate it later.

As we flew through the sky, I realized how crazy what we were doing was. Seriously, we were Spartans, and that wasn't the best thing that could happen. I mean, we were practically invincible. We had the best armor and weapons in the whole UNCS, but that didn't mean a thing when it came to Covenant. I was scared, and I knew everyone else was too. We would have to pretend that we didn't know that it was Covenant, and we would also have to pretend that we were actually trained. That's what got me. We had no idea about strategy, or anything. We were, in reality, normal teenagers. We just wanted to play videogames(at least the boys did) and eat and date and…As I was thinking about the this, the Falcon suddenly shuddered and dropped a couple of feet. I looked down to see shots coming from the ground. Plasma shots. That could only mean that the Covenant were already here.

Almost immediately after, I saw some shadows through the clouds, and as soon as I realized what they were, I gulped.

"BANSHEES!" I screamed at Billy. He didn't respond, just piloted. He went into a barrel role to dodge the ground fire, then started to fire on the incoming bogey's. Luckily, we were all strapped in, so we didn't fall out. I grabbed onto the gun and shot at the banshee's. The bullets hit with power, but the Banshee's shields deflected most of them. Only the last shot got threw, and that just got lodged in the armor. But the shields were down, and that's what mattered. I pulled out my magnum clip and loaded it into the machine gun. I had to push it in hard, but I managed to get it in. I waited for the banshee to get close, then unloaded all the bullets into the it. The magnum bullets ripped through the hull, penetrating through the Elite's head inside. I watched the banshee slowly fall into the lake below, and grinned. I realized that I had just killed something for the first time, but I just ignored it. I turned around to see Mike down one and Ellie the final one with a shot through the cockpit.

"HOLY MOTHER FU$%^ S$!1" David screamed. Amanda just stood up, put her Spartan laser to her shoulder, aimed down the sight, and fired at the ground where she saw the firing coming from. There was an explosion, and everyone that wasn't screaming(David) grinned. No firing came from the ground after that…for about 10 seconds. Then small arms fire came up, and I could see smoke trailing from the Falcon. I was just about to grab the radio on the outside when a needle from a Needler Rifle stuck into it and exploded. A small fire started, but I stomped it out.

"It's Covenant, isn't it?" Anderson asked me. His face was calm, but I could tell that he had a mix of emotions in him. He seemed scared and angry at the same time. He was driving, but I could see a little of his face. "If it is, we're screwed, because I have to land. Now.". I gulped, yet again, and grabbed Ellie and pulled her up.

"I need you to spot a place to land. We're way too damaged to go back to base, and we just might die up here in the air. And quick." I said to her. She nodded, got back into her seat, and looked down her scope to find a landing spot. The weird thing about Ellie was that she knew about random things, including where to land a helicopter or plane.

BOOM! BOOM! More plasma slammed against the hull of the "Sky Scraper", slowly burning through the armor.

"Guys…and girls…we need to land. Soon. Get ready for a hard landing, just in case." I said over the mic. I got a heads up sign from everyone else on the team. I grabbed Billy's chair as he made a hard turn to the left, heading for a mountain.

"Can you call command?" I asked Billy. He shook his head.

"The radio's been destroyed, in your area and mine. We're on our own…unless your radio can reach command, which I don't think it can.". I nodded. He was right. I knew that the range wouldn't make it.

"Let's land right there," I pointed to a mountain with a small, snowy edge ledge that would be just big enough for a tent and the falcon. In fact, the whole mountain was covered in snow, shining from the sunlight. He squinted to see it, but nodded.

"It'll be close, but it looks good. We can establish a good base of operations there if we're here for a while…" He said. I nodded, and turned on my COM.

"Okay, we're going to do an emergency landing right there, on the mountain. We can go from there." Everyone gave the heads up sign and strapped in. I did the same, and Billy shot the "Sky Scraper" strait forward towards the mountain. The small arms fire had all but stopped as we landed, probably because the Jackals had decided not to pursue us. Smart.

We landed quickly and quietly, the smoke still pouring out of the "Sky Scraper". David jumped out and hopped over to the smoking area of the weird helicopter/plane mix.

"The whole thing is fried. It'll take a long time to fix the radio, not even thinking about the actually flyer. We're going to have to survive here for a while, or we can try to get 100 miles all the way back to base." Billy said. We all looked at each other.

"Umm… neither is such a good idea." Sophia said, and Amanda nodded.

"If we stay here, we'll be stuck in the cold and with almost no food. But if we try to go back to base, we'll have to face Covenant and other beings here on Reach…" Amanda said. I knew what she meant by the 'other beings on Reach'. In the game, there are these huge giant things that kill Covenant and humans alike. I didn't know what to say. Neither sounded good. As we all sat there, dumb founded, Billy Anderson started to laugh. I really mean it. Laugh.

"You Spartans are different then the others. Most Spartans would immediately go with the killing option. Good thing you actually have minds." He said, still laughing. I started to laugh too, and then everyone else did. It was true. Every OTHER Spartan would say that. But we weren't regular Spartans.

"Lets just get some sleep and decide tomorrow." I said. I was tired, and wanted to sleep. Everyone agreed, and that was the end of one day.

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