Naruto: A New Beginning
Chapter 15
(Date: July 16, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)
At this very moment Drill Sergeant Condor was walking to barrack number 333 for early morning training, only this time he had different plans instead of the regular routine.
He entered the barrack with his eyes closed getting ready to shout his usual good morning.
"WAKEUP TRAINEES TIME FOR SOME TORTURE!" when he opened his eyes he was quite surprised at seeing his trainees already up and saluting him respectfully. "Now that's what I like to see, alright follow me to the armory." He left the barrack again showing no room for hesitation.
They followed him through the main building and entered a hallway that eventually led to another corridor filled with labeled doors. They walked down the corridor until the Drill Sergeant stopped at one room labeled armory.
He input the passcode to enter and when the door opened he walked in followed by his trainees. The armory was huge, it was a room as large as there barrack with lines of shelf's filled with all kinds of UNSC weaponry. They followed the Drill Sergeant to the back of the room where a metal wall was located with segments going through it as if indicating something is hidden behind here.
Drill Sergeant Condor turned around and faced his trainees.
"Prepare to meet your battlefield savior's." After he said this he walked to a panel that was directly in front of him and input some more passcodes.
Suddenly the metal wall turned out to be mobile panels that were concealing what was behind the wall, each panel opened like a door and slid back into the wall showcasing the fresh ODST armor that was hidden behind them. It was a pretty glorious sight to see such cool looking armor, they were all the same besides the fact that some varied in size. Regardless the trainees were awed with the armor, they were all colored black and had the flaming SOEIV symbol on the right shoulder pads. In addition they all had recon helmets with blue visors. In essence these armors looked badass and the trainees couldn't wait to try them on.
"Damn Sarge, this is the best early birthday present anyone has ever given me." Jasper commented first.
"Well then consider it your one and only, your all going to get used to moving in these, your all going to learn how to maintain them, and your all going to learn the advantages you get while having a helmet with a fully operational visor." The Drill Sergeant took silent delight in watching their thrilled faces react to his news. "In addition you will be using these now for your early morning workout sessions, active immediately." Some of them couldn't hold it in when they sighed.
"Well here's a manual about how to put them on and in what order, it's really simple so hop to it and meet me in your barrack when you're all done." Drill Sergeant Condor left them all alone in the armory without any advice and only a manual.
"This is one of the coolest things I have seen so far." Naruto commented with an awed voice, still mesmerized by the sheer awesomeness that these suits project.
"Well I saw the manual and it's like the Drill Sergeant said, it ain't hard to put on. You just gotta put on the jumpsuit that has all the appropriate clamps and hooks and BAM! You're wearing the embodiment of badassery." Jasper said while looking at the suits.
"Hey look, this one has a sticker with my name on it." Rob said as he walked up to one of the suits that had a small white sticker on the left shoulder pad. "I guess you guy's should look for yours as well, except Mathew, we already know which one belongs to him. HAH!" Rob grabbed the suspended pieces of his armor and took them to a bench. He took off his woodland camouflage pants and left his white t-shirt on and proceeded to put on the full body suit that had attachments where the armor pieces would go. Everyone soon followed his example with the girls going to a more private area to put theirs on.
Sooner rather than later they all had their armor and converged on a single position in the armory to meet.
"Damn son, I feel so fucking unstoppable in this armor that I wish the Covenant was here just so I could fucking cap their asses." Ice said while moving both of his arms and hands in front of his face testing the mobility and the feel of the suit.
"I'm sure these would have felt heavier if we wore them in the beginning of our training." Kate commented.
"Awww man, I wish I always had one of these." Naruto said while bouncing one his toes and throwing some punches here and there.
"They do make you feel unique." Mathew also added.
"Well come on mates, you know how the Sarge gets when he's kept waiting to long." Riley reminded everyone.
"Damn Riley, we were all still having a moment." Earl said while looking at where Rileys voice came from within the group.
"You know were going to need some form of identification so we don't get confused, like painting a certain color on the armor or something." Julius input his own valid point.
"Hey guys we should really go now, we could talk about your idea with the Sarge later Julius but for now let's not keep him waiting any longer." Rob cut in.
"Agreed." Camilla said this and started walking towards the exit followed by everyone else.
Soon they made it back to the barrack feeling like a boss the entire way there.
Once they entered they saw Drill Sergeant Condor there waiting for them.
"So . . . how do you all fell wearing that armor?" The sergeant said with a smirk.
"If there were to be a Covenant invasion right now I feel like our team would be sufficient enough to make them run with their tails in between their legs, sir." Hunter answered for the entire team basically.
"Hell yeah what he said." Misha agreed.
"Nah, ya'll niggas could hang back while I take the entire invasion force by myself. Cuz that's how much of an unstoppable gangster I feel like." Ice said in a very cocky manner.
"Well ODST armor does this to recruits, it's a mental disease that no psychologist can cure due to how badass it really feels like to be in one of those suits." Drill Sergeant Condor commented. "But I'm going to make you into even more effective badasses by making you feel like this armor is just your second skin." Drill Sergeant Condor said while smiling widely. "SO GET TO TROOPERS, DOUBLE TIME IT TO THE OBSTACLE COURSE! I'll catch up in a bit." Without hesitation everyone started running along the dirt path to the obstacle course with Drill Sergeant Condor right behind them now on his mongoose.
Soon the day was over and the trainees were more tired than they have ever felt before. Twice they had to train in those suits today and twice Drill Sergeant Condor denied them the liberty to use the air coolers located inside the suits armor. When he said he wanted them to get used to it he meant it. So now the trainees excluding Naruto; were all lying down in their beds groaning slightly from their sore muscles, waiting for sleep to come so the nasty nutrient packed food could kick in and they wouldn't have to feel like this in the morning. Naruto himself was just sitting on the side of his bed twirling a kunai in his index finger.
"That's it!" Jasper yelled out. "Naruto simply is not a human being, all those in favor say Aye" Jasper said while laying down.
"AYEEE!" Everyone besides Naruto chorused at the same time.
"And those opposed say nay." Jasper said to be fair.
"Nay." Naruto said meekly.
"Opposition overruled. Naruto you are hereby declared as non-human, I would also like to announce that if he starts shooting energy beams out of his hands no one is to be surprised, all in favor say aye." Jasper was being really casual and comical about this but Naruto for the first time in the academy was sweating bullets and not out of fatigue but out of a fear.
"AYE!" Everyone chorused tiredly again.
"And those opposed." Jasper said now smiling out of enjoyment.
"Are you being serious about this Jasper?" Naruto tried not to sound nervous.
"In a way I am being serious Naruto, it simply is not normal for us to have two training sessions in one day while wearing ODST armor, and get super tired and jelly muscled only for you to look like you just had a walk in the park. Seriously man now that's just plain suspicious." Jasper was now sitting on the side of his bed overlooking the resting form of Earl and straight at Naruto.
"Well it's like I said before it was all because of my ninja training beforehand." Naruto answered truthfully.
"I still feel like that isn't justifiable enough." Jasper said with a small glare and a frown.
"Fine, I'm from a different dimension, is that good enough for you." Naruto said with a full blown grin.
"You know what yeah, now it all makes sense. HAH! Good one man but in all seriousness what kind of training did you really go through?" Jasper asked, even though everyone was almost ready to sleep they were also listening in on the conversation.
"Well I did start training heavily when I was four years old." Naruto said while scratching the back of his head sheepishly.
"Damn dude, what you lived in the woods or something for you to be doing that at such a young age?" Jasper asked although not to seriously, just in a probing manner.
"Actually yeah, I'm an orphan and when I lived at the orphanage they kicked me out at a young age cuz I would always play pranks on people." Naruto half lied.
Jasper's eyes widened along with everyone else that was pretending to be asleep.
"I . . . I'm sorry I didn't know." Was all Jasper could say.
"Of course you didn't know, I never told you until now." Naruto said while smirking.
"Shut the hell up man . . . well anyway, I guess if you started at a really young age it should explain you're endurance, but still it's almost inhuman." Jasper added.
"Yeah I get that a lot." Naruto said in an attempt to diffuse the conversation.
"Well, talk to you tomorrow I'm off to bed. Peace out Naruto." Jasper said with a small nod of his head, and then proceeded to lie down and pull the covers over himself.
"Yeah, Goodnight" Naruto said slightly melancholic in manner.
Soon everyone besides Naruto fell asleep.
'I don't really feel like sleeping right now, I guess I could meditate or something.' Naruto thought to himself. He went into the meditation stance taught to him by the great elder sage toads at Mt. Myoboku and in a matter of seconds he was already in sage mode.
'Woah' Naruto thought as he felt the natural surroundings and the natural energy that seemed to fill this planet. He achieved sage mode just as fast as he would back in Konoha which is surprising to him considering all the settlements on this planet, but then he mentally justified it as having a lot more people than the elemental nations and it was a larger planet from what he learned in class with Mrs. Frankenfield. Reach had a bunch of land masses while his planet had one large super continent and no other known land masses.
As Naruto continued to revel in the feeling of nature's power he decided to use his sensory powers on his teammates.
'Damn, this sucks. I guess because they never used their chakra their coils locked in enough just to stay alive and operate. I was hoping I could show them how to use it at some time.' Naruto though sadly.
"Seeing as they have went hundreds of years without discovering it's existence I would say they have evolved to not need them at all, and only produced enough for motor and brain functions. I bet were you to even try and get a child to learn it would be all the same." Kurama intervened on Naruto's own thoughts.
'Yeah I guess you're right Kurama.' Naruto thought. 'Ugh there's really not much to challenge me right now so I'm off to bed. Goodnight furball.' Naruto said while smirking outwardly.
"If I weren't behind these bars when you said that I would have already been chewing on your burnt corpse like a piece of beef jerky." Kurama said calmly which was scary from the seriousness in his voice.
'Yeah sweet dreams to you to.' Naruto said back sarcastically. Soon he himself also fell into the mental confines of sleep, waiting for what tomorrow may bring.
(Date: July 17, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)
Today went by just like yesterday, with the excessive lethargic feeling of overused muscles and the need for rest that accompanies it after a hard day of training and learning.
It was late in the afternoon when Drill Sergeant Condor made his way into the barrack without any previous warning of his arrival.
"Trainees, Attention!" He yelled out moderately.
Even though everyone was tired as hell with the exception of Naruto yet again they all still got up as quickly as they possibly can and stood in front of their bunk beds while saluting.
"I have some bad news regarding our war efforts and the Covenant that I feel you should all hear." Drill Sergeant Condor said normally while standing with a neutral look on his face. Everyone's eyes widened slightly at this while they were still at attention, this is the first time they were ever being debriefed on the current events of the Human/Covenant war.
"At ease" everyone relaxed their postures after dropping their salutes. " It has come to my attention that the Covenant has attacked Sigma Octanus IV, I was informed by ONI that they were after some kind of religious artifact. Miraculously the planet and its seventeen million inhabitants were not glassed because the attacking Covenant force tried following after some UNSC vessels that reclaimed the artifact before they can. Thus Sigma Octanus IV was spared."
"Sir!" drill sergeant Condor's attention was drawn to Kate. "How recent was this sir?" Kate asked in a subdued tone.
"This all happened today trainee." Drill Sergeant Condor said honestly.
Everyone was relieved they didn't have to hear another human colony was destroyed by the Covenant but judging by their outward nuances they were still angry with the Covenant. This was shown by the shaking fists that portrayed Naruto's anger and the stony faces of Mathew and Ice and the rest of the trainees.
"I'm going to be honest with you all, you're going to have to work as hard as possible to get stronger because I don't think we might have months of training anymore. There is a very real possibility that that time frame was cut in half and gods forbid even more. So I need you all to go that extra mile and try your hardest to become the best damn ODST's you can be." Drill Sergeant Condor was also very stony faced but that's the only way you're going to know if he's angry or not for he has always been able to hold his composure in any situation that deems it necessary.
"Sir yes sir!" Everyone responded in unison.
"Excellent, now everyone rest. We have a big day tomorrow." Drill Sergeant Condor said cryptically. When he said that he left the barrack without another word leaving the trainees to think more on what he said.
"Shit, the Sarge is right, we better start giving it our all because if the Covenant is actively searching for these artifacts then there's bound to be one here on Reach." Rob informed his teammates.
"Don't need to tell me twice." Earl commented as he walked back to his bed. "Regardless I'm going to bed, I don't like the tone of voice he used when he said we had a big day tomorrow." Earl commented with a droopy eyed expression.
"Yeah, baldy's right." Kate said while smirking with that same droopy eyed expression.
"Ohhhh were doing nicknames now, well than Kate if I'm baldy your cheeks." Earl said once he laid down and got comfortable.
"Ummm why am I cheeks." Kate asked slightly peeved.
"Cuz uh dat fine ass yo momma gave yah girl." Ice said while looking at Kate as he was laying on the bed with a toothy smirk on his face.
"Ugh whatever I'm going to sleep." Kate said exasperatedly.
"Night everyone!" Naruto said.
"Night!" Oddly everyone said this at the same time but no one paid it any mind.
(Date: July 18, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)
When Drill Sergeant Condor walked into barrack 333 he already saw his trainees were prepped and ready for training, at the moment they were just talking.
"Attention!" With practiced ease everyone stopped what they were doing and stood in front of their bunk beds with a stiff posture and the military salute. "At ease." They all dropped the salute and relaxed their postures only slightly.
"Today we will be performing another joint exercise with Drill Sergeant Stoner's team, he has informed me that he will like to begin the war games and has also informed me that he has given his team ODST armor for training purposes just like I have with you. So as a result I told him I did the same, we will be going back to his sector to initiate the war games where you will be utilizing a forested area that has been specially constructed for these war games . . . any questions?" Drill Sergeant Condor briefed them.
"What weapons will we be using?" Of course Jasper the gun fanatic asked this.
"You will be using regular paintballs and wherever you're hit you must stop using that part of your body unless it's a kill shot, in addition there will be paint grenades." Drill Sergeant Condor said seriously. "Any other valid questions?" he asked.
"I didn't quite understand if you implied that we will be using our ODST armor?" Misha asked.
"Yes, to make it clear you will be using you're ODST armor, if anyone has any other questions it must wait until we get in the Pelican, suit up and meet on the track field." Drill Sergeant Condor left the barrack without any room for more questions until the specified location.
While everyone was putting on their armor some were thinking out loud.
"Can't wait to cream those smug bastards again." Earl said out loud.
"Hell yeah, they were saying really mean things about all of us back when we were in pain land." Naruto agreed.
"Did you hear anything in particular Naruto?" Camilla asked neutrally as she put on her arm gauntlets.
"Well I don't like to use this kind of word but one of them did say we look like a single file line of pussies. That pissed me off." Naruto said with a frown on his face as he locked on his chest plate.
"Well you all may think this is a bit queer but I kind of take that as a compliment." Riley said with a shrug, everyone stopped for a moment to look at him.
"What the fuck." Ice commented.
"Do you mind explaining yourself Riley?" Mathew asked as he put on his helmet.
"Well yea of course mate, well ya see, the way I see it is that you know when one bloke see's another bloke doing something bat shit crazy or brave or some dumb shit like that." Everyone nodded hesitantly. "And that one bloke said, hey man you got some balls doing that shit, and the other bloke is like yeah man you saw that. Well I think it's stupid, because when a woman does something brave or bat shit crazy they don't say ohhh man you got some pussy, that's just not right mate. SO my point is what people are saying when someone does something brave is, ohhhhh man you got some flimsy reproductive organs that only take a single kick to bring ya down."
"Damn as weird as this is it's starting to make sense." Rob commented.
"So men have the flimsy reproductive organs that is used in context with being brave while woman have the tougher reproductive organs that is used in context with cowards. It just doesn't make any sense mate." Riley said with a wave of his arms and a shake of his head as if presenting his point.
"Shit Riley that made so much sense it scares me, so what you're saying is that you're a pussy?" Ice asked with a weird look on his face while he was holding his helmet with his right hand.
"Damn straight I'm a tough ass pussy mate, I mean what does a ball sack do when ya put it in water . . . it shrivels up and hides within itself mate. Are ya starting to see the contradictions mate?" Riley asked seriously.
"Hah haaa, you go ahead and stay on that wave nigga I'm gonna continue to debate this in my head." Ice said with a smirk at the end followed by putting on his helmet.
"I swear that's one of the weirdest conversations I have ever heard in my life." Naruto said with a dead pan stare at nothingness.
Within a couple of minutes everyone was up and moving to the Pelican waiting outside with their ODST armor donned on.
"Damn look at all of you, even Pussy's turn into badasses when they wear the armor." Drill Sergeant Condor said from the Pelican hatch as he watched them walk towards it.
"THE CONTROVERSY!" Riley yelled out randomly.
"The hell…" Drill Sergeant Condor muttered to himself.
Once everyone was in the Pelican Drill Sergeant Condor made the signal for the pilot to take off, and off they went as the Pelican picked up speed and everything it traversed went by in a slight blur.
"Hey Sergeant Condor." Camilla spoke up to catch his attention from the cock pit.
"What is it trainee?" Drill Sergeant Condor asked while looking at the person who said it.
"Are we going to be facing the very same men that we did in pain land?" Camilla asked.
"Actually yes, I thought I made this clear already." Drill Sergeant Condor said with a frown on his face.
"Yes I know but they are a team of nine while were a team of twelve, is that fair for something like the war games, I mean the obstacle course is understandable but there is an advantage to greater numbers." Camilla retorted respectfully.
"Ah yes, there will be three veteran marines that will join their team for equal grounds fighting, I'm sure that even though they have the experience advantage if you guys are clever enough you can win." Drill Sergeant Condor advised.
"Count on it Sergeant." You can't see it because of the helmet but Camilla was smiling. 'This is what I've always wanted, finally something productive, something that will get me recognized, and something that will allow me to help others to a greater degree.' Camilla thought to herself.
Within a couple of minutes they had arrived back at the Military Reservation sector where pain land and the war games are held at. They landed and just like last time Drill Sergeant Stoner was there waiting for them with his trainees and three Marines standing behind him. His trainees were also decked in ODST armor while the Marines had their own armor that was colored in desert camouflage and they looked slightly bulkier.
Drill Sergeant Condor stepped out of the Pelican hatch first followed by his trainees and both Sergeants saluted each other.
"I told you Sergeant Condor, we will be seeing more of each other again and here we are. My men kept pestering me for some kind of rematch with your trainees saying they really didn't get a chance to display their own skills." Drill Sergeant Stoner said with his head raised slightly and his eyes closed about halfway and a smug smirk was also plastered on his face.
"Of course, I never doubted you in that regard Sergeant Stoner. Now would you like to show us the way to the war games zone so we could get this show on the road." Drill Sergeant Condor said seriously without a hint of emotion on his face that made Sergeant Stoner frown.
"Well it seems like your eager to lose today Sergeant." Drill Sergeant Stoner said trying to at least get a rise from the stony faced Sergeant Condor.
"No, I'm eager to see what my ODST's in training are capable of now after refining them for half a month." Drill Sergeant Condor said without his expression changing.
"Fine, follow me and I would lead you to the split." He said this as he started walking. This time Drill Sergeant Condor stuck a bit closer to his team while he let Sergeant Stoner take the lead. "One team will take the left road while the other team takes the right, each starting point has its own advantages none greater than the other. When a team arrives at one starting point they are to shoot a flare located in a locker that has been bolted to a wooden pole at the entrance of their starting point indicating that they are ready, and when the other team does the same the war games will begin. Let it also be known that we will be watching your progress on quad rotor drones that will be flying above you, do not disable them or you will be disqualified." Drill Sergeant Stoner informed everyone. "Regardless this is a no holds barred game, you can use everything to your advantage besides the drones of course and you are to stay within the playing field, that is all." He finished.
In less than a minute they had converged on the split dirt path that indicated the separation of both teams to their starting points
When no one was looking Kate had turned on her com's system and enabled sound dampeners on her helmet.
She created a link with the rest of her team and communicated what she had in mind.
"Hey guys, turn on your sound dampeners." She whispered.
Everyone pressed a button on their suit that allowed this and then they enabled voice command.
"Hey what's up cheeks?" She heard Earls voice through the interior speakers.
"Shut the hell up baldy I don't have time for this, when that DS tells us to go we should all make a run for it to the right, that way we can get a head start and analyze the terrain better." Kate told everyone.
"That's a good idea Kate, everyone should do what she said, understood." Mathew's voice echoed in everyone's internal speakers.
Everyone agreed in their own way and then bought their attention back to Drill Sergeant Stoner.
"….and in addition to that if you are to sneak up on someone do not maim them, you must incapacitate them through un-harmful means or through killing gestures like a knife on the neck, when this happens the opponent is to immediately give up no questions asked and head back to their teams starting point until the game is over." Drill Sergeant Stoner scanned his lethal audience. "Is that clear?" He asked sternly.
"SIR YES SIR!" everyone yelled in unison.
"Good, you may begin to head to your starting points where you will find the necessary equipment inside of a shed." Drill Sergeant Stoner informed lastly.
While Sergeant Stoners team started walking slowly with the veteran Marines leading the pack, Sergeant Condor's team broke into a dead sprint towards their starting point.
"What the hell got into them?" Max asked out loud to no one in particular.
"I don't know man but I do know that this isn't a race hah!" Vasquez commented on his question.
"Hey, I'm only gonna tell you shit heads once, do not underestimate the enemy, it's just plain dumb and reckless." Tony said from in front of the two without looking back.
"Yeah yeah" Max waved him off.
Back with Sergeant Condor's team.
"There, I see the wooden pole. Jasper you grab the flare while we look at the shed." Kate ordered.
"Yes ma'am" Jasper said pompously.
This right here shows the progress they have made so far, they are listening to each other's opinions and they are working as a team, they also just ran for a couple hundred feet without even breathing hard while wearing ODST armor.
"I'll scan the terrain." Misha volunteered.
"Alright let's go." Kate said as a starting point in their own team's mission.
Jasper stopped at the wooden pole at the entrance while everyone ran passed him and opened the metal box taking out a orange plastic one shot flare, he immediately shot it into the sky ejecting a red flare that showcased there early arrival.
Kate afterwards ran up to a white aluminum shed that had manual sliding doors, she opened the shed and was delighted to see all the blue colored paintball guns and a shelf full of paint grenades that were colored white and were modeled after the UNSC's fragmentation grenades.
Everyone stocked up while they waited for Misha to come back from her scanning vantage point. After thirty seconds she had all the information she needed and walked up to the shed taking her gear as well.
"Alright listen up, from what I could tell they have a snipers vantage point at their starting point so were starting on low ground, but we have good hiding places to shield ourselves from their view, I even saw marksman platforms built on some trees closer to our position, I don't know if they will be useful but they could prove well for a distraction if needed. Plus they have better cover points and could push forward far faster than we can to them, they most likely will take this advantage and underestimate us a little bit, if not they also have the option of leaving some sharpshooters on higher ground while the more up close and personal guys move up."
"Wow, that was a lot of useful information you got from just thirty seconds of scanning." Rob commented on Misha's ability.
"Yeah my dad taught me how to always assess the situation quickly." Misha said with a nod.
"Alright they shot their flare everyone get into a hiding position as fast as possible." Naruto told everyone since he was facing away from the shed and his peripheral was close to the sky range of the other teams staring point.
The entire team complied silently and followed after Naruto down the small hill that lead to the beginning of the playing field for them. Everyone took a varied position a good distance away from their starting point while Naruto being the fastest person on the team went ahead and hid himself in one of the trees that contained a marksman platform. He was standing atop a large branch that was five feet in the air away from the unprotected platform and simply waited behind the trees camouflaging leaves for a sign of the enemy presence.
Back with Sergeant Stoners team.
"Alright the plan is simple." One of the Marines started first once they shot their flare. "Two men are going to stay on high ground while we split up into two teams of five and take the left and right flank, it seems we have the most cover to hide behind and if we cover up both of our flanks they can't surprise us, alright lets go." Ordered the un-named veteran marine.
And without debate the ODST's in training on Sergeant Stoner's side obeyed.
As the entire team was moving down their hill dotted with various cover spots, two men Vasquez and another unnamed stayed in the middle of the hill behind a cracked concrete barricade.
As the rest of their team progressed down the hill they finally came upon a point where the ground evened out.
"Alright Rick on me, Martinez you stay with the other group, you three also come with me were taking the left flank." The same unnamed Marine ordered his known comrade and three ODST's in training. The team split into two groups of five covering both left and right flank.
The playing field was very wide littered with craters blown up husks of vehicles and concrete barricades along with knocked down trees and trenches that can be crawled through.
Back with Drill Sergeant Condor's team.
"Alright guys I see em, I saw ten of them split into two groups of five and now they're seemingly covering their flanks, and I can't see the two missing members of that team." Naruto informed everyone from his position by talking through the com's system.
"From what you see what do you suggest we do?" Naruto heard Camilla ask through her com's system.
"Hmmm, alright Mathew you're almost directly under me, I input some trajectory directions and a waypoint on your Heads up Display, you're going to throw a paint grenade on that trajectory and run as quickly as you can towards the deepest trench I can see which is what the waypoint is, in the meantime this short distraction will allow Misha to sneak up and scout any sharpshooters ahead. Misha stay within the gaming perimeter as you move through the trees and bushes located on the perimeter, but also move into cover when the option presents itself."
"Understood" Mathew said.
"Got it" Misha came afterward.
"On my mark you start the plan Mathew, in the meantime I will rendezvous with the rest of the team behind the fallen tree behind Mathews destination. Copy?" Naruto asked.
"Copy" Everyone answered back.
"Alright and ready . . . MARK!" Naruto signaled.
Mathew immediately went into action, he threw the paint grenade towards the designated trajectory and heard a series of surprised yells. During the distraction he ran from his hiding spot into the trench in front of the fallen tree seconds after a small explosion sound followed by a splattering sound.
"DAMN IT!" Already one down from that grenade.
Simultaneously when Mathew ran forward Naruto jumped onto the marksman platform and immediately jumped off converging on his predetermined rendezvous point where some of his team members were already waiting. Soon the rest of them were all there.
"Everyone, the split teams are about to move up again, I suggest suppressing fire." Misha told everyone.
"You heard her, SUPRESSING FIRE!" Naruto yelled as he got up from his cover and started shooting randomly past various other cover points along with the rest of his team.
With Drill Sergeant Stoners team.
"Shit! I need the two sharpshooters on the hill to move up, were pinned under heavy fire and we need a bead on their position." One of the Marines names Rick ordered.
"Got It!" He heard Vasquez say over the com's.
Vasquez and his partner started moving up and noticed the location of where the rain of paintballs were coming from with their vantage point.
"Alright we see em, sending you trajectory data now for a grenade barrage." Vasquez informed.
Suddenly,
(SPLAT) . (SPLAT) Two red colored paintballs impacted both him and his partner in the head, both shots came from their right flank.
"SHIT!" Vasquez yelled while throwing his paintball gun on the floor.
"Goddamnit!" His partner yelled out as well.
They scanned the area where the rounds can from and saw a helmet peek out from the bushes located on their flank, the ODST in training gave them the peace sign and got out of the bushes to move in behind the rest of their teams men.
"How the hell?" Vasquez asked questioningly.
"Any day now trainee, it's only a matter of time until they grow bold and charge us, WE NEED THAT TRAJECTORY DATA NOW!" Rick ordered only to receive no response since by all means Vasquez and his partner were dead.
"Shit their both out of the game somehow." Max said over the com's while the sound of paintballs bursting around them and on their cover was happening simultaneously.
"What now?" Martinez asked over the peppering of the opposing team suppressing fire.
"Shit we need to cause a distraction of our own somehow." The leading Marine said.
Meanwhile.
"Alright, right now I'm hiding behind a warthog and I can see most of the team scattered in different areas of cover, sending grenade trajectory data now." Misha used the voice command to order her V.I.S.R what to do and sent the trajectory data to everyone's heads up display.
"Alright pick your targets people." Jasper said as he got up and shot randomly.
"Aight, me, Riley, and Naruto can take the scattered muthafuckas on the right, this nigga Mathew could take the middle, son you got the perfect angle on this pocket group of niggas a couple of feet in front of you, and the rest of ya'll niggas can take over the left flank." Ice felt like a fucking crime boss ordering his people around.
"Yeah what Ice said." Naruto agreed. "Lets do this on my mark again, help us out with any stragglers Misha." Naruto ordered.
"Will do." Misha complied.
"Alright, ready . set . MARK!" Everyone through a grenade at very close intervals and they noticed some of the opposition jump out of cover out of reflex and those were the ones peppered by Naruto and Ice's combined assault while Riley exhausted his grenades on any trajectory point that wasn't used or that he deemed didn't have enough grenades thrown at.
"Surprisingly I got two stragglers retreating through a trench under a fallen tree, I got this though." Misha informed everyone.
The last sounds of the battle field were Misha's two precise shots towards the emerging heads of two ODST armored trainees.
(Fwoomp, Fwoomp) That was the sound of the paintball exiting the barrel being propelled at 500 feet per second by compressed tanks of CO2. (SPLAT,SPLAT) "Fuck" "ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" and that was the sound of two pissed off ODST's getting shot in the head and be marked by red paintballs.
"Damn, that was so easy it was sad." Earl commented after a couple of seconds of radio silence.
They saw Misha pass the two ODST's in training on Sergeant Stoner's side, and they noticed the faceless glare that they gave her when she passed them. She eventually arrived at their location.
"Wow that was fun . . . what now though?" Misha asked calmly.
"Now I think we go back to the beginning where we left the Sergeants." Rob answered for them.
"Yeah let's do that." Camilla agreed.
And that was the anti-climactic but victorious ending for Drill Sergeant Condors team as they all jogged back to the splitting teams point of the game.
Soon they all met up with the opposing team and the Drill Sergeants.
"I had faith you guys would win again, impressive teamwork by the way, never ceases to amaze me." Drill Sergeant Condor complimented them.
"(Sigh) Yet again you're team beats my supposedly more experienced one, and by an embarrassing landslide they won. I'm very disappointed in all of you, they weren't training to be ODST's for as long as you were and yet you still lose with all the strategy's and counter-strategies drilled into you're heads, although I will be a bit more lenient on you since you still lost with veteran Marines on your side, regardless that doesn't make up the fact that you all barely put up any resistance, that was the most pathetic war game I have ever seen. In fact I repeal my leniency, you should all prepare your self's for even more intense training because of this embarrassing failure." Drill Sergeant Stoner scolded his team.
"Well Sergeant Stoner I'm off now, I need to see to the continued training of my team, don't need em going soft on me now." Sergeant Condor started to walk away when he was suddenly verbally stopped by Drill Sergeant Stoner.
"Sergeant Condor, I'm interested now, what is it you see in this team of yours?" Drill Sergeant Stoner asked with that same up tilted head and slightly closed eyes pompous type look.
With his ODST's walking ahead to the Pelican while conversing, Drill Sergeant Condor stopped and without turning around he answered Sergeant Stoner's question.
"Willpower, Determination, Teamwork, quick critical thinking and lastly is the bond they have all developed by going through the same hell." He answered and started walking away again without stopping and soon stepped on the Pelicans outstretched hatch and walked towards the co-pilot seat while passing two of his standing ODST trainees, most likely Naruto and obviously Mathew again. The hatch closed immediately shrouding the team and the Sergeant behind the metal doors of the aerial vehicle and within a moment's notice took off into the sky headed towards the track field located in front of the Montez Military Academy.
Thus when they arrived Camilla and Naruto were greeted by Chaser, and without warning Drill Sergeant Condor Yelled at them to get their asses moving to the obstacle course like they do every morning, and with this the rest of the day's routine continued until eleven out of twelve trainees laid down In bed passed out from fatigue. With Naruto staying awake a little bit and playing with Chaser for the dog's sake since no one has had time to play with him only feed him or pet him while he went off on his own or joined them while they were doing aerobic exercises.
Soon Naruto joined everyone else in dream world and this was the ending to another day.
They continued the same routine with some variety here and there until a very special day arrived with unexpected packages from ONI's research labs.
(Date: July 23, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)
(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)
For five day's straight the ODST's in training would go to the simulation rooms after class to learn how to pilot different UNSC vehicles in various 3-D interactive simulations with the exact platform and control system every vehicle had.
They learned how to drive warthogs effectively, they were taught all the driving mechanical nuances of driving the M808 MBT-Scorpion, they even learned how to fly a UH-144-Falcon.
If necessary they will be able to use these vehicles whenever available, right now though they didn't have their official UNSC licenses to pilot any of those vehicles were they in a combat zone, but you're supposed to get those at the end of training.
In addition to this the simulations had extensive data in piloting T-32 RAV-Ghosts and T-26 GSA-Banshees, although they had complex looking controls and language they were quite simple and easy to use, these were the only two Covenant vehicles the Academy had enough information on to pilot and drive them safely, they were still researching the other vehicles to put them on simulations as well but theory suggests they aren't any different than the Ghost or the Banshee.
At the end of the second grueling training session of the day as they were walking back to the barrack with Drill Sergeant Condor leading the way for some reason, A Pelican suddenly appeared in the horizon. Soon it landed and the Drill Sergeant gestured for everyone to continue following him.
When the Pelican landed and the hatch opened a Marine soldier came out while pushing a wheeled crate. He left the crate a short distance away from the main building and walked up to Drill Sergeant Condor. He took out a PDA and asked him to sign at the X for verification and also handed him a stylus.
"Is this the weapons cache I ordered from the ONI research facility?" Drill Sergeant Condor asked for his verification.
"Yes sir, everything is there." The courier soldier verified.
"Good job soldier." Drill Sergeant Condor freely complimented.
The Courier Marine Saluted and thanked him, then entered the Pelican again and left.
"Hey mind telling us what's in the box Sarge." Jasper asked first since he heard the words weapons and cache.
"No I do not mind, in fact come and take a look for yourself." Drill Sergeant Condor said as he walked up to the elevated crate on wheels.
Everyone followed and crowded around him and the crate as he prepared to input a passcode to automatically open the crate. He input the code and suddenly the hissing sound of depressurization and the cold and visible CO2 that accompanies it escaped from the confines of the crate as it slowly slid into several segments making it look like a portable store shelf with candy lining each row, except instead of candy these rows were lined up with different Covenant weapons.
"Hooooleeeeey Shiiiiaaaaat." Jasper said first.
"Goddamn, ONI's salvaging Covenant weapons?" Ice asked rhetorically.
"It seems so." Rob answered regardless.
"For the rest of the day you will familiarize yourself with what we have available here, there are manuals and I will be assisting and supervising all of you as you attempt to learn how to use Covenant weaponry, if you are to run out of ammo and you see one of these on the floor from your last kill, pick that shit up. I encourage you to look at Covenant troops as mobile weapon caches." Drill Sergeant Condor educated his team. "A Soldier has to be flexible and versatile in their use of weaponry, with the knowledge of how to use these it will save your lives and countless others on the battlefield, understood?" He asked for clarification of people listening to him.
"SIR YES SIR!" They all said in unison.
"Good, now one of you take this and push it towards the shooting range." Drill Sergeant Condor ordered.
"I got it sir." Naruto volunteered since he wasn't tired.
Drill Sergeant Condor started walking with Naruto trailing behind him and the rest of the team trailing behind Naruto as they made their way to the shooting range. Once their they stopped at the white table where Naruto threw his explosive tagged shuriken.
"Alright, I will go over what we have." He took out a small sidearm looking Covenant weapon. "This little bird shit right here is a real nasty killer just like every other Covenant weapon, they as in ONI named this thing the T25 DEP-Plasma Pistol, it has two very prominent uses, one you can hold the trigger to shoot an overloaded plasma round at an enemy with energy shields and it will completely leave them vulnerable to weapons fire because one overloaded shot of this completely drains their shields, TWO! And the most important in my opinion, you can shoot an overloaded shot at any enemy vehicle and it will act as an electro-magnetic pulse disabling the vehicle for a couple of critical decision making seconds." He put down the pistol on the white table. "Second gun I have here is the weapon of choice for those energy shielded bastards, the elites, they call this one the T25 DER-Plasma Rifle, it has a high rate of fire and is perfect for bringing down enemy shields or mowing down a group of grunts, but don't get too trigger happy or this piece of shit will give you plasma burns from overheating." He placed the Plasma Rifle next to the pistol.
"Now I'm sure you have all heard of the pink suspenseful evil that is called the needler, right?" His trainees nodded. "Good, I didn't feel like explaining that one." He set it down with the other two Covenant firearms.
"Now throughout the years it wasn't that hard to collect these pain promising weapons favored by the Brutes. They call this crap the T25 C-Spike Rifle and as it's name implies it shoots super-heated spikes of unknown material. It also has an attached melee weapon because the brutes are always up for an up close and personal fight." He placed the Spike rifle down as well with the other Covenant weapons that now littered the white table.
"Last and definitely not least is the Terror inspiring T1 APG-Plasma Sticky Grenade, the name said it all folks."
Everyone took a gun from the cache and examined it themselves.
"I will go over the manual with you guys and we will not sleep until you are able to at least shoot the damn things."
So for the rest of the day Drill Sergeant Condor had his team learn how to use a few forms of Covenant weaponry and succeeded in teaching them how to use it and to the greatest effect. He told them the other capabilities each weapon might possess like the plasma pistols capability to leave a Jackal defenseless and without its energy shield gauntlet. By the end of the day they knew how to use each of the guns displayed along with the couple of plasma grenades that ONI provided for training purposes.
Soon the day ended though and everyone immediately fell asleep without even saying goodnight, Naruto himself was mentally exhausted from the learning he had to do in Mrs. Frankenfields class and then the hands on introduction to Covenant infantry weaponry. So he also succumbed to sleep quickly, throughout the last few weeks he had made new bonds and learned many things that never would have existed in his dimension until maybe the far future, he even acquired an awesome suit that he hoped to keep until the day he found a way back to his dimension so he could show it off to his friends and granny Tsunade, also in case they didn't believe his story when he got back, and with Naruto's drive and determination he will go back . . . eventually.
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