Naruto: A New Beginning

by DimensionalJumper

This is a story of an alternate universe where Jiraiya actually survives his battle. At the end of the battle Shima and Fukasaku reverse summon Jiraiya to mt myoboku just as Pain was going to finish him. The result of this was his survival and the ability to continue training Naruto, but with the knowledge Naruto now has he makes a grave mistake. (Editing in progress, thank you)

16. The First Mission

Naruto: A New Beginning

Chapter 16

Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Halo or Naruto.

Authors Note: This chapter took a little longer to write because it is my longest chapter thus far, also all you halo fans that have played halo reach would recognize that I'm using the first mission as a baseline for my story, do not fret my readers, I will continue to be as original as I can but I need help sometimes and another form of help that I have come across is your reviews. So don't forget to review at the end of this chapter, Thanks.

(Date: July 24, 2552. Location: Epsilon Eridani System, Planet Reach)

(Reach Surface Location: Montez Military Training Academy, Military Reservation 01478-B)

It was very early in the morning when Drill Sergeant Condor received the daily reports from ONI Sword Base that keep him and his ODST training academy up to date. He ignored all the other reports of security risks and insurrectionist moles and directed his full attention on a UNSC property violation. He read the report and nodded to himself when he realized a training opportunity had arisen.

"Edna" Sergeant Condor called his office assistant from one of his intercoms.

"What can I do for you sir?" He heard the young voice of his assistant through the speaker of his office intercom system.

"I need you to patch me through to ONI Sword Base." Sergeant Condor answered.

"Right away sir . . . okay your on channel 3, sir." Edna connected Sergeant Condor to a secure communication line.

"Thank you Edna." Without waiting for a response Sergeant Condor switched the Communication channel from 1 to 3 and he waited a couple of seconds for the static interference to subside.

"Drill Sergeant Condor, how may I assist you today?" A strong voice that belonged to a middle aged man was heard through the com speakers.

"Lt. Manson, I need you to connect me with the person who is in charge of ordering investigative troops to the Visegrad relay outpost, I have an important request to make."

"Hold on . . . alright I have authorization to connect you to Colonel Holland, reconfigure your channel to 7 for a direct link communication." Lt. Manson informed.

"Thank you Lt. Manson." Without wasting time Sergeant Condor switched his channel to 7 and was immediately connected to Colonel Holland without any static interference.

"This is Colonel Urban Holland, to whom am I speaking to?" The deep voice of the Captain resounded of the walls of Sergeant Condor's office.

"Drill Sergeant Devon Condor, sir" Sergeant Condor replied respectively.

"Ahhh Devon, it's been a while since I've heard from you, why so formal?" Colonel Holland asked.

"You know how it is Urban, military protocol and all that good stuff has been conditioned into both of our minds." Sergeant Condor said slightly sarcastically

"That's very true, but still we both went to Corbulo at some point so you and me have a different relationship compared to the rest of the people under my command." Colonel Holland reminded.

"Great now you're creating waves of nostalgia . . . heh, remember that fight me and you had in the middle of a simulated fire fight, by the time the other Drill Sergeants came to put an end to it they found us both out cold on the floor." Both Drill Sergeant Condor and Colonel Urban Holland were grinning in remembrance.

"I can't even remember what we were fighting about." Colonel Holland said.

"I think I started it because I was pissed off at you're battle strategy." Sergeant Condor said amusedly.

"HAH! Ha Ha Ha Ha" Colonel Holland let out a boisterous laugh that died down into a chuckle. " Yea I remember now, but I apologize for this, were gonna have to cut it short Devon, we can talk later but I have some very important business to attend to soon." Colonel Holland explained.

"I understand." Sergeant Condor empathized.

"What was it you needed Devon?" Colonel Holland asked.

"Well I was trying to contact the person in charge of the Visegrad relay outpost incident and it turned out to be you, what I want to know is if you already have someone scheduled for an investigation on that area?" Drill Sergeant Condor asked.

"Well, you're lucky this is within you're jurisdiction, to answer your question, yes I already have a team of Spartans ready to investigate where all the noise is coming from." Colonel Holland informed.

"Spartans? Don't you think the higher ups in ONI are going to pester you for a misallocation of valuable resources, I mean you could have just sent a squad of Marines." Sergeant Condor replied confusedly.

"The problem is I did send a squad of Marines as soon as I learned of the Relay's connection flat lining, but we haven't heard from them for four hours so we assumed the worse, you may think that a team of Spartans is overkill but if I recall correctly a insurrectionist group pulled this same stunt in Harmony to cut off our eyes and ears and they stole two freighters from dry dock, I can't let something like that happen again." Colonel Holland said with the utmost seriousness.

"Understood sir, but back to what I was getting at before I knew of your Spartan team, if you are not aware already you will be now, I am currently training an elite group of ODST candidates and I was hoping to send them off on that mission as a training mission with your authority, I have never gone through such great lengths as this for ODST training before because I never had such promising candidates." Sergeant Condor informed.

"Interesting, if what you say is true than maybe I could pull back the Spartans and replace them with your team, I know for a fact that no academy trainer would do this without reason and consideration of his trainee's skills." Colonel Holland thought out.

"I would be very grateful if you could do that for me Urban." Sergeant Condor said.

"(Sigh) I want to do what you asked but the risk is very high Devon, the possibility of doing what you want is slim to none." Colonel Holland said in a slightly repentant tone.

"Crap . . . what if? . . . What if we sent both teams under the guise of a joint operation, I'm sure that would work." Sergeant Condor said hopefully.

"Hah! Didn't you just finish telling me that sending Spartans on a low caliber investigation was over kill, now you want me to send a fire team of Spartans and a squad of ODST's. Now that's just laughable." Colonel Holland said in amused tone of voice.

"Come on Urban, I'm trying to give my team a real field experience and if they are being ordered around by Spartans then I'm sure this would prove to be a good training exercise for them, besides if you do this I'll owe ya one." Sergeant Condor said pleadingly.

"(Sigh) You and me both know the bad blood that exists between Spartans and ODST's, this mix up still might not be a good idea." Colonel Holland said, still hesitant.

"I assure you that, that is not the case with my ODST's, only the lemmings in the ODST branch follow that tradition without even knowing what truly happened, and to top it all off they are the most capable group of individuals I have ever seen excluding the Spartans, you should give them a chance to shine Urban and when you do you won't regret it, I promise you that." Drill Sergeant Condor finished his argument with that last attempt hoping it would be enough.

"Fine, I'll give them a chance, but if they screw up I'm pinning this on your head Devon." Colonel Holland acknowledged.

"They won't screw up and you won't regret this, never have I had such faith in a group such as this . . . and thank you for trusting me." Drill Sergeant Condor said seriously.

"Back to the matter at hand, now that I have authorized you're group I need you to prepare them for a Pelican pick up in fifteen minutes. The current time is 0600 hours and the Spartans are meeting up in a small communication outpost an hour from now on the border of Visegrad, tell your team to go fully equipped, there is the possibility of hostile resistance which is why I was hesitant to give your rookie team this assignment, you will also inform them that the entire team of Spartans are in full operational control of this mission." Colonel Holland debriefed.

"Thank you Urban, and hey who knows, they might prove useful to that Spartan team of yours." Sergeant Condor said with a smirk.

"Who knows . . . well I'll talk to you when I can Devon, I got another channel I need to switch to, hah and its ONI, maybe they are gonna pester me like you said." Colonel Holland said amusedly. "Goodbye Devon." He said this in a friendly manner.

"We'll catch up later Urban." Drill Sergeant Condor replied and when he finished the channel was cut off and there was only static.

He got up with purpose and walked very swiftly to barrack 333 where his favorite trainees were still blissfully unaware of what he was about to drop on them for today's training exercise.

Sergeant Condor walked through the flap and without any hesitation alerted his trainees to his presence.

"ATTENTION!" He said in his loudest voice.

As practiced but with more sluggishness everyone peeled themselves out of bed at this godforsaken hour and got up to perform their most crisp salute possible on such short notice.

"SIR YES SIR!" Everyone replied in unison.

"At ease" everyone dropped the salutes and relaxed their stiff postures, some of them even sighed because of how comfortable they felt, but then the immediate strain of getting up had them feeling lethargic had left them yawning. "That was pathetic, if I had the time I would have drilled all of you one hundred times on getting out of bed and saluting you're superiors, fortunately for you there are more pressing matter." Drill Sergeant Condor noticed a couple of them snapping out of it slowly as they stretched and reawakened their bodies.

"You all have eight minutes to get prepared and fully uniformed in your ODST armor, along with real deployment equipment, that means weapons of choice in the armory, meet me on the track field when you're done, GET TO IT TRAINEES!" Everyone scrambled to their lockers and started putting on their armor quickly, some finished faster than other's. Right now the ODST candidates were running on auto-pilot as their brains only registered what the Drill Sergeant was saying, soon though when they all made it to the armory and got their weapons of choice did they start mentally waking up.

Riley, Earl, Ice, and Rob all picked up the regular loadout of an M6G-Magnum and a MA37-Assualt Rifle along with two grenades. Camilla and Kate being the self-appointed snipers picked up the SRS99-Sniper Rifle for long range and a MA37-Assualt Rifle for close and middle range along with two grenades. Jasper, Hunter, Misha and Julius all picked up the M392 DMR Rifle and a M6G-Magnum along with two grenades. Mathew and Naruto both picked up a M392-DMR Rifle and a M45 TS-Shotgun along with two grenades. In addition Naruto had his ninja pouch strapped to his right leg and above his right leg on his waistline sat a holster with a M6G-Magnum.

In short this team was ready for war.

Within the time limit they made it to the track field and ran into a Pelicans open hatch where Drill Sergeant Condor was already waiting for them in front of the cock-pit.

"Let's go!" With that signal that Sergeant Condor gave, the pilot gave the console a slight push and the Pelican was already off the ground and flying in the air. "It's obvious that you are thinking what the hell is going on and where are we going, well allow me to explain." Drill Sergeant Condor started. "You may ask me questions at the end of my debriefing." He informed.

"To begin with I have had you all authorized to join on an official mission as a training exercise, but I do not want you treating this as a training exercise, I want you treating this as is If it was a suicide mission with all of your teammates lives on the line, in other and less extreme words you are to treat this assignment with the utmost seriousness and professionalism, failure is not an option." Drill Sergeant Condor said with all the seriousness he can project.

The trainees all had their eyes widened within the confines of their helmets.

"We are currently headed towards a small farming village in Visegrad, where you will meet up with a fire team of Spartans and perform a joint investigative operation that they are in full control of. You will listen to every word they tell you and you will obey every single command they verbalize to you, IS THAT CLEAR!" He yelled out for verification.

"SIR YES SIR!" They all yelled back in unison, even though they were listening some were having a little bit of trouble processing that they will be working with the legendary and revered Spartans.

"Good! In addition to everything I have told you, you are to be mentally prepared for a hostile attack for this is a likely situation, you will do what you were trained to do and follow the specific orders of the Spartans when given. I have high hopes and absolute faith that you will not fail me, that is why I have went through such lengths to provide a team of trainees with such a mission as this, you will all learn from this and you will grow . . . Now, any questions?"

"Sir, just to make super, ultra, positively clear, you said a joint operation with a team of Spartans, right?" Kate asked disbelievingly.

"Yes trainee, I did say that, any valid questions." He indirectly jabbed her intelligence.

"Yes, can we get some more details about this assignment, like what exactly are we investigating for and why?" Mathew asked.

Drill Sergeant Condor told them most of what Colonel Holland told him about the flat lining of the Communication Relay.

"Is everything clear now?" Drill Sergeant Condor asked after answering Mathew's question.

"Sir yes sir!" They all said in unison.

"So no other questions?" He asked just to make sure.

Everyone waited for a couple of seconds for someone to speak up, but no one did.

"Good, in another half hour we would already be in Visegrad and you will all meet the Spartans in a small Communications outpost on the border of Visegrad, I will be leaving you all in their care until the end of the mission where they will give me a report on your performance, understood?" He asked.

"Sir yes sir!" They agreed.

Soon the thirty minutes was up and they were already passing over a long stretch of land that had a single dirt road meandering through it. As they followed along this path they eventually caught up to two UH-144-Falcons in the air and one transport warthog on the ground. It was now approximately 7:28 when the Falcons landed and the Warthog stopped at the small Communication outpost. The Pelican with the ODST trainees also landed outside the small base.

"Alright trainees, you'll stay here while I'll help the Colonel debrief the Spartans." Drill Sergeant Condor got out of the opened Pelican Hatch and walked towards the base just as a Spartan with white armor and a recon helmet like the ODST's also stepped out of the passenger seat of a warthog and walked towards the base ahead of Drill Sergeant Condor after saluting him briefly.

"Contact with the Visegrad Relay was lost last night, all signal flat lined at twenty six hundred hours, I responded with trooper fire teams which has since been declared as MIA." Colonel Holland informed a Spartan with blue armor and his helmet off showing his tan face and military style cut hair.

"And now you're sending us?" Spartan Carter asked rhetorically.

"The Office of Naval Intelligence believes deployment of a Spartan team is of gross misallocation of valuable resources, but I disagree." Colonel Holland said just as the Spartan in white armor entered the small base.

"Commander?" A female Spartan with light blue armor and a robotic right arm said. Her name was Kat. She was trying to get Carters attention to the new Spartan.

Another much larger Spartan wearing orange and red armor turned towards her location and noticed the new Spartan.

"So that's our new number six?" His deep voice reverberated, all the Spartans eyes were now on the white Spartan labeled as six and they watched as he stepped up to their commander Carter who is one. This Spartan was Jorge.

"Kat, you read his file?" An intimidating Spartan with an EVA helmet that had a ghostly skull painted on asked, he was also sharpening his kukri knife on his shoulder pads as he asked this. This one's name is Emile.

"Only the parts that weren't covered in back ink." She answered.

"Anyone claim responsibility sir?" Carter returned his attention to Colonel Holland.

"ONI thinks it might be the local insurrection, five months ago they pulled a similar job on Harmony, hit a relay to take out our eyes and ears then stole two freighters from dry dock, that cannot happen here, Reach is too damn important. I want that Relay back online Noble One." Colonel Holland ordered Spartan Commander Carter.

"Sir, consider it done." Carter reassured.

"Then I'll see you on the other side." Colonel Holland responded.

"Sir." Carter replied as he walked away from the monitor.

"Colonel Holland" Everyone re-directed their attention to Drill Sergeant Condor who was waiting for Colonel Holland to finish debriefing Spartan Carter before he made his presence known.

"Sergeant Condor, glad to see you here" Colonel Holland responded.

"Of course, wouldn't want to miss the party." Drill Sergeant Condor said while smirking as he made his way to the computer monitor and was now standing in front of the monitor that Carter was just at communicating via video feed.

Carter turned his attention back to Colonel Holland.

"Is there something else I need to know?" Carter asked Colonel Holland.

"Yes, I failed to mention this earlier but I have authorized a joint operation between your team and Sergeant Condor's ODST candidates." Colonel Holland briefed additionally.

"So were baby sitters now?" Kat asked out loud.

"Essentially yes, but Sergeant Condor urged me to give them this opportunity as a training mission with the elite and more experienced Spartan team, he has high hopes that they will learn and grow from this experience and he has also informed me of their impressive capability to work in perfect cohesion and also how even before they were trained they were already just as capable as a regular Marine." Colonel Holland explained.

"That's pretty impressive if you ask me." Jorge commented.

"No one asked you big man." Emile responded to his comment.

"So, do you think this is too much for you to handle Commander Carter?" Colonel Holland indirectly goaded him.

"No sir, I'll make sure they learn a thing or two during the mission, are they aware that I have full operational control?" Carter responded.

"And then some, I told them that you and your Spartans are all higher ranking so anything you ask they are to perform, in addition they are aware of the risks and do not need to be debriefed on this mission." Drill Sergeant Condor told them.

"Good, about how many ODST's are we talking?" Carter asked Sergeant Condor.

"A squad of twelve highly skilled individuals that hold no grudges or ill feelings towards Spartans and they are all emotionally stable and conditioned to follow orders without hesitation, also I believe that if the situation were to call for it you might be impressed with some of their individual skills." Drill Sergeant Condor replied informatively.

"Perfect that puts me more at ease until I actually field test them . . . is there anything else I need to know about Colonel Holland?" Carter asked the monitor with Colonel Holland's face on it.

"No, the mission is now a go Carter, Sergeant Condor, we'll talk later. Holland out." Colonel Holland ended the transmission with a nod.

"Lieutenant" Carter faced away from the monitor and Sergeant Condor and turned to look at the white armored newcomer.

"Commander sir." The white armored Spartan responded.

"I'm Carter, Noble team's leader, that's Kat-Noble 2, Emile and Jorge Noble 4 and 5, your riding with me Noble six." Carter informed the newly named Noble Six.

Kat, Emile, and Jorge all walked out during this interaction followed by Sergeant Condor, then Carter and Noble Six stepped out as well.

"I'm not gonna lie to you Lieutenant, your stepping into some shoes the rest of the squad would rather leave unfilled, me I'm just happy to have Noble back up to full strength." Carter said as they were walking towards a Falcon that was parked next to a Pelican.

"Commander Carter!" Drill Sergeant Condor caught Spartan Carter's attention as he was about to enter the Falcon.

Carter walked the short distance to the Pelican where Drill Sergeant Condor was waiting for him with the Pelican hatch open.

"Yes what is it Sergeant Condor?" Carter asked as he was facing the Sergeant with his full height and armor, helmet included.

"I would like you to briefly meet my team of ODST's." Sergeant Condor said with a small smirk.

Every single one of them got up excluding Mathew and Naruto since they were standing already, and saluted Commander Carter respectfully.

"It's nice to meet all of you, my name is Carter, I need all of you to create a link to my helmet so we could share data easier." Carter issued his first order to the ODST candidates.

"SIR!" They all acknowledged and did as asked.

Carter did the same. "Alright I uploaded the tags of my Spartans, if they feel like it they will introduce themselves regardless . . . ok good I have you're tags as well, now when we look at each other the tags should pop up above someone's head on your HUD. Now, you will be taking specific orders from me since I am the Commander of the entire operation and team, but also when one of my Spartans orders you to do something that is Command specific from what I ordered, you are to follow for it will always be to the benefit of my Command or the mission itself, is that clear to all of you?" Carter asked with Commander mode in full swing.

"SIR, YES SIR!" They all acknowledged in unison.

"Good, the mission is now officially in progress, I'll see you at the landing zone." With that Sergeant Condor and Commander Carter exchanged miniscule pleasantries and Carter was off to his Falcon again without interruption.

Sergeant Condor also entered the Pelican and sat at the passenger seat in the cock-pit.

Commander Carter entered the Falcon and resumed his break down of what he wants from Noble Six.

"I've seen your file, even the parts the ONI sensors didn't want me too, I'm glad to have your skill set, but were a team, that lone wolf stuff stays behind. Clear?" Carter asked Noble Six.

"Got it, sir" Noble Six acknowledged.

Just as the Falcon was taking off a Spartan with green armor and a small piece of green fabric around his helmet area welcomed Noble Six.

"Welcome to Reach." Jun greeted. Then they took off the ground fully with the Pelican full of ODST trainees trailing behind them slowly.

Back inside the Pelican the ODST trainees were conversing moderately among themselves.

"Honestly I half expected a Spartan to be anti-social or something but that Carter guy seemed pretty cool." Jasper commented.

"Yeah same here." Hunter agreed.

"Looks like were not gonna need those armor indicators so we don't get confused, you know since we all have tags floating above our heads now." Julius reminded everyone.

"These suits just make life easier mate, not like that low tech stuff the Marines get." Riley commented on Julius's statement.

"Hey if you look out the Pelican's hull you can see the other's Spartans name tags, you can't really see who it belongs to but still, those are some pretty normal names."

"You all make it sound like they're desensitized machines or something." Naruto commented.

"Well, when you hear the rumors and how efficient and brutal they are in the battle field those kinds of misconceptions start popping up." Rob put in his two cents.

"I guess you're right . . . I can't wait to see what the rest of his team is like." Naruto said excitedly.

"Don't start getting too excited trainees; remember what I told you, the utmost seriousness and professionalism." Drill Sergeant Condor reminded them.

"Yes sir." They all replied normally.

After about an hour of flying they were starting to cross mountain faces that ended on the ocean, along with that they saw these odd double helix structures that are comparable to slightly compressed DNA strands and were colored white, they were also spinning slowly.

Within the Falcons Noble team suddenly made a Com connection with Sergeant Condor's team, they purposefully made their conversation known.

"Listen up Noble team, I also patched through Sergeant Condor's team as well, were looking at a downed relay outpost fifty clicks from Visegrad, were gonna introduce ourselves to whoever took it out and then Kat's gonna get it back online." Spartan Carter spoke to everyone through the linked com's system.

"Get me under the hood Commander." Kat retorted to his order.

"Sir why would rebels want to cut off bridge from the rest of the colonies?" Jorge asked curiously.

"If you get a chance maybe you could ask em Jorge." Carter replied.

As they got closer to the spinning white structures Kat informed the team of something troubling.

"Sir, we just lost our signal with HQ." Kat informed.

"Can you link us through any back up channels?" Carter asked.

"Searching . . . Nada, can't say what's jamming it." She answered confusedly.

"You heard her, dead zone confirmed, Command will not be keeping us company on this trip." Carter told everyone.

"I'm lonely already." Emile said sarcastically.

"Hey, how are you ODST's holding up back there." Jun asked out of the blue.

"Were fine sir, just waiting patiently for something to happen." Earl answered for everyone.

"Good, hey you guys don't hold any ill will towards us Spartans right?" Jun asked this because he wasn't in the debriefing room with the other Spartans and Sergeant Condor.

"No of course not" Camilla answered sincerely.

"We all think it's a stupid grudge that holds no merit, it's as if the ODST's who follow this tradition are the type of people that need someone to target their anger on, its unfounded and doesn't make sense." Mathew elaborated.

"Oh wow, that's great; we'll all get along just fine then." Jun replied back as they were flying by houses that were built on the edges of the mountains and then they made a sharp turn and flew over them.

As they were about to land on a clearing Jorge points out something in the distance.

"There's the communications outpost." He pointed out to a large satellite behind a valley that was pointing at the sky.

"I'm picking up a distress beacon." Kat informed.

"It could be the missing trooper's, alright Team, let's get ready to move out." Carter told everyone. "Put us down on the bluff."

The Falcons landed first followed by the Pelican as they landed on a high grassy clearing that descended towards another house where the distress beacon was located.

"Sergeant Condor, I need you to give me a team designation." Carter asked Sergeant Condor.

"Hmmmm, call them . . . The Rookie Twelve." Sergeant Condor's grin was about to split his face, especially when he heard Naruto almost choke on his own spit.

'Damn, am I gonna keep running into coincidences like this during my time in this dimension?' Naruto asked himself as he was now having a nostalgic moment as he stepped out of the Pelican and onto solid dirt ground, he was remembering his moments with the Konoha Rookie Twelve and laughed silently to himself as he remembered some really fun joint missions he joined on with most of them.

"Rookie twelve it is, I input you're designated numbers chosen at random, from now on I will call you by Rookie and then your designated number." Carter informed. "For example, you there" He pointed at Naruto. "You're Rookie nine; I'll probably just call you nine since you're not on the same numerical spectrum that my team is in, one through six." Carter told him.

'Seriously, Kurama are you noticing this or are they just simple coincidences?' Naruto thought to himself. "Sir yes sir." Naruto acknowledged.

"Good, you'll see the rest of your numbers on your Heads up Display." Carter told the rest of them. "Alright, Noble Team move out, Rookie team stay behind us as over watch, the more eyes we have around the better chance we have at spotting an attack." Spartan Commander Carter ordered. "Stay focused and watch your sector's, Sergeant Condor I can take it from here." Carter informed.

"Heh, make sure they all come back with some form of knowledge and experience of how military operations are run, they're skilled, all they need now is a real field test . . . I'll be back for all of you when the mission is declared officially over, understood team?" Drill Sergeant Condor spoke to them through the Pelicans com's system.

"Sir Yes Sir." They all responded back.

"Good, now focus and do what Commander Carter orders you to do." And without another word the Pelican disappeared into the sky along with both Falcons, except the Falcons were on a closer standby as they were going to be needed later, Spartan Jun stayed behind on one of the Falcons as aerial over watch.

Noble team moved down the hill very quickly and was already at the end of the hill in a matter of seconds as they came upon a vehicle wreckage outside a civilian farmers home. The Rookie twelve right behind them.

Everyone stopped outside the farmer's home where the vehicle was a burning husk, The Spartan with the E.V.A helmet and skull painting drawn on the outside, named Emile, moved up to a pile of wood that was once a crate pallet. He lifted the debris and grabbed hold of a red device.

"Found the Beacon." Emile said blandly as he stood up and through it towards Kat for her examination.

"Make out any I.D?" Carter asked Kat.

"Negative, but it's military." She answered.

"So where are all the troopers?" Jorge asked in a slightly confuses manner.

"Ummm, excuse me but isn't there supposed to be some explosive residue, I mean this so far points to an insurrectionist attack but there isn't any residue of any UNSC archived weapon grade." Jasper's voice resounded within everyone's helmets.

"I was going to ask the same thing myself." Kat said as she curiously crouched on the ground in search of any kind of miniscule evidence.

"Noble Three, can you confirm any amount of E.X Residue in the area." Carter asked Jun since he was able to scan the entire area using a special camera located on his helmet.

"Hmmm, negative sir." Jun replied.

"Huh, plasma maybe." Emile said, giving everyone a concerned expression at what his statement implied.

"Can't be, not on Reach." Jorge said with disbelief lacing his voice.

"Did he say plasma?" Kate whispered to herself.

"That shouldn't be possible, at least not yet." Earl tried reassuring himself and in extension everyone else.

"Prepare your self's for anything, we could be dealing with insurrectionists that still have modified weaponry from the Kig-Yar scheme on the rubble colony." Carter informed everyone of how Insurrectionists had made trade deals with the jackal race and used the tech the jackals gave them to modify UNSC weaponry, the Jackals were trying to use this as an opportunity to find more human colonies by going over the data that the insurrectionists had on their ships.

"I find myself hoping that that's what we're dealing with." Mathew said without any real optimism.

"You're not alone on that one." Jorge agreed with him. Emile walked around doing some more visual scanning.

"There's a lot of blood on the ground closer to the entrance." Emile commented.

"Alright, Noble team, Rookie Twelve, let's move out, there's nothing more to see." Carter ordered as he left the area and started jogging down another hill while being followed by both teams to a hill that split off into two roads, one that went to the right and was open for passage and one that curved to the left that was blocked by a large metal gate.

"Smoke at the next structure boss." Kat pointed out towards the other side of the metal gate.

"Circle west and we'll check it out, Noble team you have permission to engage, but be selective, we don't need to telegraph our presence, Rookie team same goes for you unless there is an obvious hostile presence aiming to kill us, shoot it but if there are other means of handling them more quietly, try doing that first." Carter ordered both teams.

After that both teams took the path on the right side and started walking along a road that was built on the mountain side, as they were swiftly walking two screeching Moa's ran out from that direction and towards the teams, both Moa's circled around the team avoiding them.

"Those things look like ostriches." Naruto commented randomly.

"Hey Naruto remember that stew I made you when I found you and you were really hungry?" Camilla asked Naruto for verification.

"Oh yeah, you called it Moa stew or something like that, it was pretty good." Naruto admitted. 'Not as good as ramen though.' He comically told himself mentally.

"Well those were a pair of Moa's we just passed." Camilla informed Naruto.

"Huh, they look pretty normal to eat, kinda like chicken, when you told …." Naruto was suddenly interrupted by Emile.

"You know one thing about rookies is that they make a whole lot of radio chatter." Emile commented on them, implying that they were still on air and that both teams were listening to their conversation as they walked along the road that narrowed down to a passage that then led into a stairway towards another Farmer's home that was built on the edge of the mountain.

"Heh heh, sorry." Naruto sounded a little a sheepish.

"It won't happen again." Camilla reassured quickly.

They came upon the entrance of the Farmers home once the narrow stretch of passage had ended.

"Noble Six, move into the house, go in quiet, were right behind you." Carter ordered their newest member.

The Spartan entered slowly with his MA37 assault rifle aimed directly in front of him as he swept the house with his vision and walked towards an exit that led to the front of the civilian farmer's home.

Suddenly they also came into contact with the Falcon Jun was on and Jun himself as he had come off the Falcon to report his findings from his aerial scanning.

"Sir, I'm detecting heat signatures on the house ahead." Jun informed everyone about the other home that was seen once they exited the farmer's home they entered and swept for any enemies.

Suddenly the sliding doors of the farm home opened and a civilian came out quickly with his hands up in the air in a subdued fashion while spouting words in a different language.

"Move!" Emile yelled while pointing his shotgun at the civilian. "On your knees now!" He said quickly and forcefully.

"They're not rebels, they're farmers." Jorge clarified for Emile. "Look at them."

"Ask them what they're doing here." Spartan Commander Carter ordered Jorge.

"Mit kresh diken?" Jorge obeyed the order and asked the question in the same language they spoke.

"Halum miktuken halien." The civilian farmer answered back nervously.

"He said he's hiding sir." Jorge translated to Carter. The civilian took one step forward and he franticly continued to explain to the best of his ability.

"Sen dai rit tokama, sen hos sudum shikolloasai raviche." The Farmer continues to speak in his native tongue.

"He said last night, he heard screams, gunfire, stopped around sunrise, he said something in the fields . . . killed his son." Jorge translated when the farmer finished the rest of his explanation.

"He said something." Carter emphasized the word something.

"Commander be advised, I'm reading heat signatures directly east of your position, Over." Jun's voice was heard once more as he had left some time during Emile's excessive force session, and was doing aerial scans once more.

"Copy, Jorge, get them back inside." Carter acknowledged Jun's assessment and reacted accordingly by keeping the civilians safe from a possible fire fight.

"Hon monton betelly, gerink." Jorge said out loud and the farmer entered his home again with all the civilians there waiting for him, and they closed the door for safety.

"Alright let's move out, Jun was kind enough to put a waypoint on our HUD's." The Spartans jogged down another hill followed by the rookie team as they made their way across a small white bridge fit for vehicular crossing.

"Noble Team, Rookie Twelve, I need you to double time it to that location, let's go!" He ordered and started sprinting at a moderate pace that everyone followed along with.

The came across many rock formations on the mountains surface and entered another dirt path that seemed to lead towards another farmers home, they entered the home eventually and found the gruesome sight of a dead and mutilated marine that was hanging on the wall, along with another sprawled out dead on the floor.

"Damn." Emile commented.

"Fill me in Commander, what do you see, over?" Jun asked.

"We've got military casualties, two of the missing troopers . . . looks like they were interrogated, its messy." Carter informed Jun. "Let's keep moving." He ordered as he walked up to a entrance in the home and entered a large room that split into another room and a ramp.

Suddenly some sounds were heard in the air vents.

"That's not normal." Naruto commented.

"No, it's not, keep an eye on your motion trackers." Carter told everyone. In the meantime as they slowly made their way through the house, Naruto reached into his pouch and took out a Kunai with his right hand while holding his Shotgun with his left hand. He continued walking alongside Mathew as they were the ones taking point for the ODST's in the house. Soon they came across another exit that led to the outside where another stair case was located and was going towards another farmer's home they had to go through.

Suddenly Naruto pointed his Shotgun to the vents that were to his right on the roof of the farmer's house they just exited. He had noticed and felt the movement on his motion tracker and with his ninja skills.

"Sir, we were being watched." Naruto informed Commander Carter.

"Just keep moving forward, were headed towards the location Jun provided for us." Carter told Naruto as they entered the other farmer's home in a single file line with Noble Six and Emile taking full point while Riley and Earl covered the back of the line, as they were entering the next home they would perform sweeping motions with their MA37 Assault Rifle's pointed towards both buildings roofs in case something decided to start watching them again.

"Thermal's clean Commander, Rookie Nine must've imagined it." Jun said over the radio.

Naruto snorted, knowing what he felt was real. Regardless he continued to walk in front of his team with Mathew at his side and was silently watching how the Spartans would move and sweep the area with just a glance and continued to move on. Suddenly Jun's voice was heard over the radio again.

"I see movement, outside your structure." Jun informed them hastily.

"I need everyone to take defensive positions immediately; I'm getting signs of movement all over my motion tracker." Carter told everyone.

Jorge immediately went towards the exit of the structure and he covered himself on the wall beside the exit, he leaned towards the exit to safely take a peek at the exterior surroundings and noticed something he was hoping he didn't have to see so soon.

"Jorge what did you see?" Carter asked Jorge, Spartan Jorge just ignored him and stood at the entrance with a lethal stance that showed he was ready to strike at this very moment.

"No . . ." Jorge said in disbelief as he stood at the exit of the farmer's home. "This can't be . . . NOOOOOOOOOOO!"

"JORGE!" Carter yelled towards Jorge.

"RAAAAAH!" Jorge hefted his large machine gun turret and started spraying the outside surroundings of the structure.

"What's going on?" Misha asked as she was crouching under a window after Carter ordered them to take defensive positions.

"I don't know it looks like that Spartan just lost his marbles." Riley commented from behind her.

"Is he shooting at the rebels?" Hunter asked from in front of Misha.

"G-guy's" Everyone heard Jasper's quivering voice over the radio.

"What is it Jasper?" Kate asked curiously.

"It's, it's the . . ." Jasper didn't get to finish as something impacted the glass that Misha, Riley and Hunter were hiding under and shattered it.

"JORGE GET BACK HERE NOW, THAT'S AN ORDER!" Carter yelled at Jorge as he was still exhausting his weapons ammunition on the as of now, assumed enemy.

Emile had enough of Jorge and tackled him towards cover and away from the entrance as the enemy decided at this point to attack his previous position with deadly force.

The first assault started with green blobs that went past the entrance and hit a wall making them melt instantaneously and as an after effect they expanded and created an electro-magnetic pulse disabling the nearby Spartan's shields momentarily.

"Shit my shields are down!" Emile yelled In surprise.

"Ugh mine too." Kat seconded his annoyance.

"Damn, I'm sorry Commander . . . I just, I couldn't control myself when I saw them." Jorge told Spartan Commander Carter with regret filling his voice.

"It's okay Jorge, next time pay more attention to my order's, you could have gotten killed." Carter told Jorge quickly and seriously.

"Yes sir." Jorge agreed.

"GET AWAY FROM THE! (BOOOOM!)" Emile didn't get to finish his sentence as an explosion of some sort flash melted the wall he was hiding behind and he was blown back from the force, the only thing that saved his life was the halfway point his shields regenerated to.

"EMILE!" Carter yelled out towards his comrade.

"I'm fine sir, (cough) just a little scratch." Emile reassured.

"Alright no more sugar coating it." Carter said as he peeked over the wall and through the window. "There's no going around it, the Covenant is on Reach!, I repeat to all who think they misheard. THE COVENANT IS ON REACH!" Carter yelled that last part loudly and with the utmost seriousness.

"THOSE FUCKERS ARE HERE!" Ice peeked over the window too and had to duck quickly as he saw a damn Jackal on the roof of a shed. "OH SHIT, THESE MUTHAFUCKA'S ARE ATTACKING US, OHH HELL NO!" Ice yelled out angrily as he was getting ready to rampage on the Covenant force attacking their position.

"Calm down rookie and listen to my orders, me and my Spartans are going to charge through and direct their fire towards us while you all get them while they're distracted, this should be a simple task for a team of ODST's, is that clear soldier!?" Carter ordered and asked for clarification from Ice and in extension the Rookie Twelve.

"Yes sir!" Ice said forcefully and with seriousness he only displayed while training.

"On my mark, are all of you ready?" All of the ODST candidates nodded.

"This is what we trained for guy's, I'm ready to kill some Covvy scum." Hunter commented.

"Hell yeah let me at em!" Naruto yelled, just itching to start throwing around some techniques, instead he would hold back for now and test the strength of the enemy.

"Alright on my mark . . . MARK!" The Spartans all ran through the exit and made it to different areas of cover as the enemy tried tracking them, but they were too fast to track and the enemy just started peppering their cover with suppressing fire. "GET THEM OFF OUR BACKS NOW!" Carter ordered the ODST trainees under his Command.

The Covenant squad that was firing upon the Spartans cover were unexpectedly blindsided by a frontal assault located inside the structure the Spartans exited.

Misha initiated the assault by aiming her DMR towards a jackals head that was located on the roof of a shed. She fired and the jackals head imploded leaving nothing but bits of brain matter and skull fractures splattering on the ground. Once that happened every single ODST got up at the same time and started their own assault with force.

Ice was spraying Jackals that were hiding behind their energy fields while Hunter and Julius picked them off with their DMR's. Mathew started picking off a large squad of Grunts that were charging towards Kats position behind a vehicle wreckage she used as cover, there were too many for him to pick off at once and he was about to ask for help when all of a sudden a whooshing noise was heard and a sharp black object seemed to land in the middle of the squad of fifteen grunts. Not even a second later they were engulfed in a large explosion that can only be rivaled by two fragmentation grenades blowing up at the same time. During this in complete simultaneity Kate and Camilla blew off two Jackal sharpshooters that were located on top of another shed to the left side and one hiding behind that sheds wall that was getting ready to shoot through someone's cover with his beam rifle. The shots were so clean and powerful that the Jackals only had two high caliber holes going completely through their cranium and exiting with the same force to continue on for a couple of miles or until it hits something else.

Naruto didn't stop there as he had run out of the exit speedily to flank the troublesome Jackals. The reason this was necessary was because the four remaining Jackals had set up a mobile energy shield cover that couldn't be penetrated through conventional means. Soon Naruto was upon them as they were the ones peppering Carter's cover, he ran past Carter and decided on a frontal assault instead, he was exactly in front of them now and he performed the amazing maneuver of a front flip over the Jackals that had them slowly reacting in surprise as they were now easy pickings for Naruto and his crew.

Naruto didn't even give himself a chance to land as he was now upside down in the air midway through his flip and shot two jackals at the same time splattering gore all over their shields from the collateral shot of a single shotgun shell.

When he did land and pump his second round In the chamber for a second blast, the jackals had already turned around to shoot him thus exposing their backs to his team where they would then shoot the remaining jackals to death.

Naruto nodded at his team in thanks, and then quickly rolled to the side while taking out his pistol from its holster and shooting a pair of skirmishers that were falling from the sky as they had jumped really high to try and ambush him.

But with Naruto's ninja sensing powers and his reflexes he was able to easily shoot both of them in the head. Making them land in a boneless heap, dead.

Soon they were all scanning the surroundings again in search for more of the damn aliens and found none.

"Clear." Naruto said softly though the radio.

"That was quite impressive." Kat complimented Naruto.

"What the hell did they put in those grenades of yours?" Emile asked Naruto in a shocked kind of manner.

"There's no time for chit chat, we have to warn everyone now that the Covenant is on Reach. Come on we've got to get a move on, there's bound to be more."

"Right boss." Kat agreed.

"Alright let's move towards the relay." Carter started jogging away from the farmers home and towards another hill that stretched towards the ending of a waterfall that fed a river.

Suddenly Jun's voice was heard over the radio again.

"I've got Banshees on my six!" He informed everyone in a slightly panicked voice.

"Come towards our area, I can get them off your back if you fly directly over my position!" Naruto told Jun as he was looking quite nervous at the sight of Jun being chased by a pair of Banshees.

"If you think you could get them off me then be my guest, piloting really isn't my forte." Jun told Naruto as he was hanging onto a handle located inside the passenger bay of the Falcon. "Those Banshees could easily down this bird with one of those fuel rod cannons it has." Jun reminded everyone.

Naruto saw Jun's Falcon change direction quickly with the Banshees right on his tail, as they were getting closer Naruto prepped another paper bomb and rolled it up into a ball, sticking it inside the small hole of one of his shurikens.

The Spartans on the ground were simply staring at him as he did this.

"What the . . ." Emile didn't finish his comment as Carter held out his arm to shut him up, Carter wanted to see what the hell rookie nine was about to pull off.

Naruto threw the shuriken when the Falcon Jun was in flew overhead, the shuriken spun rapidly in the air as it quickly and with deadly accuracy came in between the pair of flying Banshees.

'Seal:Release!" He yelled that mental command just as his shuriken reached the middle of the banshees formation and detonated immediately afterwards with a resounding boom that reverberated across the sky, it seemed like the very air itself was vibrating with the resulting shockwave of Naruto's explosive tag in alliance with the two Banshees exploding plasma battery cells, that also made for an impressive fire work show.

"What was that?" Kat asked with a mixture of curiosity and some disbelief.

"There's no time for explanations now, don't we have to keep moving forward." Naruto retorted.

"He's right let's keep moving, we can't lose precious time over questions that don't matter currently, Noble Team, Rookie Twelve let's keep going, we still need to get to that Relay Outpost so we can connect with High Command." Spartan and Rookie Twelve Commander Carter ordered everyone with seriousness and authority.

Everyone in the Spartan team acknowledged his order in their own unique way while the ODST Candidates all yelled sir yes sir in unison.

They started jogging down the wide expansive hill that wasn't very steep, with many trees coating the area, and a shallow river they had to cross. They immediately crossed while Carter told Noble Six to take point.

"Hey, is it okay if I go ahead and take point too, I could use my explosives to take out large groups of those aliens." Naruto volunteered.

"If you feel you could handle it I'm not going to stop you, go ahead." Carter acknowledged Naruto.

"Thanks." Just as Naruto started jogging ahead Noble Six alerted them of another Covenant presence.

"We've got Spirit Drop-Ships inbound." When he said that everyone looked towards his direction and took notice of the Drop-Ships appearing from behind a curve in the mountain side.

"Everyone find some cover!" Carter said quickly and loudly.

"I'll handle this!" Naruto said out loud.

He took out two Kunai and two exploding tags rapidly and wrapped the exploding tags around the Kunai's handle and then put one Kunai in his left hand and immediately readied the Kunai in his right hand.

He threw both of the them quickly and each one cut through the air towards their targets as they finally made it to the destination of the middle of each Spirit Drop-Ship, and exploded in a powerful show of concussive force as the compartment holding all the Covenant's infantry in each arm of the Spirit Drop-Ship was forcefully ripped and propelled hundreds of feet away until it fell of the mountain surely killing any Covenant that were inside.

"Alright let's keep going." Naruto reminded everyone.

"HELL YEAH THE COVENANT CAN'T MESS WIT DIS TEAM RIGHT HERE!" Ice yelled out excitedly.

"You're gonna have to tell me what the hell that shit is made of." Emile pointedly looked at Naruto.

"Maybe some other time." Naruto said hesitantly.

"Heh, my ass, you're definitely gonna be questioned regardless of what you're thinking." Emile threatened Naruto.

"You think I'm just gonna standby and answer questions for people I don't know." Naruto shot back angrily.

"Naruto it's not about knowing them or not, its about what rank you're in and respecting your superiors." Carter in all technicality just agreed with Emile.

"That's not gonna stop me, trust me." Naruto said with serious confidence.

"Ohhhh scary." Emile mocked.

"Let's keep moving team." Carter ordered everyone.

They started to move down the hill again and eventually came upon farmers vehicles that were parked all around the farmer's home.

Noble team and The Rookie Twelve all decided to put them to good use.

"Alright these trucks can hold about six people each, move it were commandeering these vehicles.

Noble Six, Carter and Jorge all took a truck that was parked outside the structure and hot-wired them easily to ignition while Kat, Emile and four ODST's took the backside of the other truck located outside. Two other trucks were inside of a garage that was closed at first but discovered by Hunter.

The rest of the ODST team commandeered the two remaining trucks and found the keys hanging in a metal box bolted to the wall, and took the keys and quickly turned on both trucks. They roared to life without protest and the entire team was now driving down the hill towards a small bridge that led them to a curve where they heard the sounds of a fire fight in progress.

They finally came upon the expansive scenery of a squad of Covenant troops with a Spirit Drop-Ship firing upon a fire team of Marines that were hiding behind a shed that had a concrete wall.

The wall couldn't really sustain that much plasma damage and as a result, was about to completely collapse.

This is what Naruto and Noble Six saw first, and they both acted immediately afterwards. Noble Six started peppering the exposed Covenant shooting upon the Marines and quickly took out all the Covenant that weren't shielded with energy shields, And he quickly suppressed any fire from the two Elite's that were armored in white spec ops armor.

While that was the first thing Noble Six did impressively well at, the first thing Naruto did was simply take out another Shuriken and loaded it quickly with another explosive tag, and with the flick of his wrist he sent the shuriken speeding towards the Covenant Spirit that by now had tried to change it's turret fire but was too late as Naruto had released the Seal with a simple mental command of 'Kai!', and the explosive tag engulfed the ships cockpit and a segment of its troop compartment bays.

Naruto and Noble six then at the same time ran towards the large spear rock the two elites were hiding behind, Noble Six let Naruto go ahead while he shifted his position to take the left and Naruto assumed the right.

Naruto made it behind the rock first with a sideways dive that had him directing his aim at an Elite that hadn't reacted to his presence quickly enough. Naruto expelled a slug of jagged Titanium alloy birdshot that ripped through the Elites energy shields and its armor with ease and a loud thunder sound from the force they were ejected at.

The Elites partner turned around to see what had happened and that was the exact moment that Noble Six struck his blow.

It was brutal and graceful at the same time, its like Noble Six was just playing with his enemy as he spun around the Elite in a crouching position and quickly assassinated him with a large kukri knife buried in the Elites throat.

"Damn, for the second time today." Emile couldn't help it as he noticed the quick and merciless destruction of the small Covenant force attacking the four Marines.

"Shit, those two muthafucka's don't play, Yo we gotta keep up with them or they're gonna hog all the kills." Ice commented.

"It sure as hell makes me feel a lot better knowing people like this exist on our side." Kate Commented as well.

'I'm so glad I found you on side of that road Naruto, what kind of team has a teammate like him.' Camilla thought to herself in an awed fashion.

"Alright, I need transport for the remaining troopers and my team, Rookie twelve can take the ground vehicles while we give them air support, clear?" Carter asked for the necessity of clarification of his order.

"Yes Sir!" The Rookie Twelve acknowledged at the same time.

"Got it." Jun appeared with one of the Falcons and seconds later the other Falcon appeared that was trailing them safely from a distance ever since they realized that they wouldn't be able to contact HQ due to the dead zone they were in for communication signals.

"You know, if you guys need it you could wait for a Pelican to come by that we ordered for EVAC, they'll be here within the minute." One of the Marines informed they're rescuers.

"Hey, thanks for the offer were taking you up on it." Carter told that Marine.

"Rookie Twelve we'll wait here while the Pelican arrives, it's better we go in this together." Carter informed everyone.

"Alright cool so that means we got a minute to talk." Emile said as he relaxed his stance and walked casually and with confidence towards where Naruto was standing.

"Fine ask me what you want and you'll get a straight answer." Naruto told Emile seriously.

"Yeah I got a question for you alright . . . where can I get me one of those things man!?" Emile surprised Naruto with the enthusiasm Emile showed for his explosive tags.

"Ummmm, well, heh heh, there's really only one place and only one way to use them and you won't be able to do neither of those things without the proper training." Naruto said truthfully.

"Oh, well damn, I was hoping I could use one of those." Emile sounded dejected at not being able to use destructive equipment.

"Yep sorry about that, but . . . hey look the Pelican's here." Naruto distracted everyone from an awkward silence by using the perfect timing of the Pelican to distract everyone.

"Alright Noble team let's get ready to move to that Relay Outpost and take out any Covenant along the way." Carter ordered everyone.

Some of the Spartans got inside one Falcon while the remaining Spartans and Marine Trooper's got inside the other Falcon. Leaving the ODST candidates to the open hatch of the Pelican and with pleasant surprise to Jasper it included a Machine gun turret, all of the ODST candidates of the Rookie Twelve entered the Pelican and Jasper had entered last since he wanted to man the turret.

The Pelican ascended in the air using it's Vertical Take-Off and Landing capabilities and waited for the two Falcons to take point.

"Alright were moving out." The Falcons with the Spartans and Marine Troopers inside, started heading towards the large Relay satellite dish that was located in the distance of the vast mountain range of Visegrad. The Pelican trailed the Falcons tails in a slow glide compared to its top speed ability

With this new obstacle that came upon the ODST trainees, newer and much tougher challenges await them, and soon Naruto is going to have to choose whether he shows his full potential immediately or gradually. The decision's he has to make are not simple for him since he doesn't know how they would react to him being from another dimension, but regardless of things like that he is aware of how many lives he can save should he choose to use his powers when they will be used to save those lives. In theory he will be using his powers soon and this will possibly unbalance the scale of technological power the Covenant has had over the UNSC and humanity in its entirety. Naruto's future holds many hopes of him being the savior of this universe, and he will meet those expectations eventually, although he may be choosing to taking it slow and cautiously so he won't deal with too many consequences later.

Authors note: Ugh, I feel like this chapter wasn't that good, I took so much time changing it and trying to make it entertaining but I don't feel too confident in this chapter. The truth is this chapter is necessary for the next stage of evolution this story is going to have, regardless leave a REVIEW and tell me what you think of this horrendously late chapter that is decently long. So yeah, here's a feel good moment though, The story is going to improve dramatically because I have all my ideas outlined for the next chapter, so this time it won't come out so late and you all wouldn't have to wait so long. Anyone I'm preparing myself to answer to some flamers LOL! PEACE OUT FAMILY! REVIEW!