Three miles from Voi, Kenya, Earth

Gunnery Sergeant Hemin, Leroy J.

November 17th, 2552

7th Shock Troops Battalion, 105 Helljumper Division

Orbital Drop Shock Trooper of the UNSC Marine Corps

"Wraith, everybody down," said the point ODST quietly. A moving mortar platform or Wraith as we called it was moving towards our position. Naomi leapt up to our surprise and jumped towards the enemy vehicle. Since she was too close the Brute onboard instead fired its plasma turret at her. She jumped up onto the Wraith, but the Brute got out of its position and punched her off.

The Wraith speeded up until it had reached its maximum potential towards Naomi. She activated her bubble shield and the Wraith, at full speed, crashed into it and flipped in the air exploding and landed somewhere else about 500 feet from its original position.

"How'd you plan that perfectly?" the ODST next to me asked the Spartan.

"Actually, I guessed and hoped for the better. That right there was just luck. I thought my power lock would push back the Wraith if the bubble shield didn't and if neither worked then it would've been you guys taking care of it."

"Gunny, look!" yelled the ODST next to me while pointing up in the sky. A fireball of epic proportions was falling from the sky. A second, but smaller fireball was right below it, going slowly, and was looking as if it was headed towards the jungle near Kilimanjaro.

"Let's take a look," I said to the soldiers.

Jungles near Mt. Kilimanjaro, Earth

Gunnery Sergeant Hemin, Leroy J.

November 17th, 2552

7th Shock Troops Battalion, 105 Helljumper Division

Orbital Drop Shock Trooper of the UNSC Marine Corps

While wading through the ocean of vegetation in the jungle, we came upon a large melted piece of metal.

"What happened here?" I wondered. Naomi took off her helmet and for the first time, I saw her battle scarred face. She looked like she knew what had happened here. For a moment, I thought she whispered the name John.

"Naomi?" I asked, "Do you know what happened?" She looked at me and plasma fire sprayed through the jungle at our position.

"Contact!"

"Where the fuck are they?"

"Come on you bastards! Fight us in the open!"

Fire and plasma was hitting the ODST's and the Spartan's shields. Naomi was firing her MA5B at the vegetation hoping to hit any enemies in her way. Grunts and Jackals then poured out onto us with hand-to-hand combat. We gained the upper hand until the Brutes showed up. They picked up the ODST's and threw them onto others. Blood of all sorts was painting the landscape of the jungle. Naomi took out her knife and threw it into a Brute's eye killing the son of a bitch. One ODST fired repeatedly into four Grunts, two Jackals, and five Brutes. He managed to kill them all except for two of the Brutes when they picked him up and ripped his neck off from its socket. I threw my knife at a Jackal, killing it, and then a Grunt jumped on my back. While it was ripping my back to shreds, I pulled the knife out of the Jackal and stabbed it in the Grunt's head, killing it also.

I looked around and saw a lone Brute running towards me. I threw my knife at its chest and, still, it kept on running. I then, in all my strength ran towards it and slid under its feet. I jumped onto its back and grabbed the knife and repeatedly stabbed it in the head. He pushed me off him and onto an assault rifle. I fired at its body, finally killing it. God, I hated these creatures I thought.

I looked around and saw corpses everywhere: Grunt, Jackal, Brute, and human. And in the midst of a mound of Brutes, Naomi was standing there.

When the smoke cleared, I knew only me, Naomi and a fellow ODST, who I refused to learn the name of due to more deaths, were alive.

I tore off my chest armor and saw a spiker round embedded in my abdomen. I took it out and poured loads of bio-foam into the wound. But I did not tell my fellow soldiers. We continued on our way, after we all cleaned our wounds and Naomi recharged her shields, but ended our trek once we got word that the battle for Earth was over and the survivors were heading towards Nairobi, finally. We called in a Pelican and it took us on our way to Nairobi.