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"3…..2…..1….Launch!" was the last transmission i got from the intercom of the UNSC Frigate OUT OF TIME before I felt my SOEIV being launched out of the drop bay and towards our target...Reach.

(flash back)

2552: UNSC FRIGATE "OUT OF TIME" IN ORBIT ABOVE EARTH,:BRIEFING ROOM :3rd PERSON POV

"Where the hell is he?" says a graying man with captains bars on his shoulders. He looks to atleast be in his late fifties with his gray/white hair and brown eyes. As the captain is pacing back and forth in front of a big gray steel table you could clearly hear him muttering small curses at the man he was waiting for. "He was supposed to be here five minutes ago!" he yells angrily.

On the other side of the room stands Anton Sartini,he looks to be of Russian descent and is dressed in normal army BDU`s. For a little while he is just watching the captain as he is taking out his frustration on the little thin gray hair the captain's got left. The captain continues to pace in front of the table but when the decides that there had been enough hair pulling, He intervenes and goes to calm the old captain.

Sartini puts his hand on the captain's shoulder and gently shakes him while saying

"Dont worry he'll be here" to calm down the distraught captain.

And as if on cue the blast door to the briefing room opens, and in steps the man in question,an Orbital Drop shock trooper, suited up in the standard issue black odst armor (basically The Rookie`s armor)with his helmet strapped to his combat belt so you clearly could see the man's had blue eyes with brown/blondish hair and just by looking at him you could see that the man was very muscular. There was only small exceptions on his armor and they were the white patch on the right shoulder where it proudly stood 11th battalion in big black letters and the extra combat knife that was strapped to his hip. so instead of just carrying the one he carried two of them.

When the odst walked in he saw the only two people in the room and walked up to the captain and speaks. "Sir, you asked for me?" the odst asks as he saluted the navy captain. In answer the captain just looks at him and asks "Where the hell have you been?!". The odst answers vaguely with "There were something i had to deal with".

The captain looks at the odst as if expecting him to continue,when he doesn't he sighs and leans on to the steel table and tell em what they were gathered here for"Well it doesn't matter now anyways,we have new orders from Highcom,we are getting deployed."

Sartini then decides to ask the question that no one in the UNSC armed forces want's to hear an answer to "Where to sir?" the Captain just looks at the and answers grimly "Our destination is REACH,its been attacked".

Sartini slumps together in one of the chairs in the room not saying a word while the ODST closes his eyes and answers with a quiet "Fuck". The captain nod as to agree to what the odst silently said and continues to speak "we are one of the many ships rushing to the Epsilon Eridani system as we speak. Our orders are to help the remaining ground and navy forces to fight back the covenant."

"Yes sir" the odst answers back as the captain continues "We are to do anything in our disposal to halt the covenant invasion." The captain motions for them to look at the table as the captain asks the ship's A.I Cohen (he had taken the avatar form of a Japanese scientist that were in his late thirties) to bring up a holo map of the surrounding area of the Orbital defense platform generator Facility A-412.

"The plan" the captain says "Is for Eagle Company of the 11th ODST battalion lead by odst captain Blackwood to go in and hold the line until reinforcements can be sent down. The reinforcements will be from Sartini`s 51st Infantry Battalion" the navy captain says as he looks up at the and ODST Captain Gray Blackwood. "Understood?" the captain asks.

"Yes sir!" both Sartini and Blackwood answers back. "Good, then move out and get your men ready" the captain says a little louder as to emphasize that there is still hope to push the covenant back.

After the captain is done speaking the colonel and the odst both turnaround and walks out the door to warn and get their men ready to fight. Wen the blast door closes behind the two soldiers the captain sits down with a heavy sigh and mumbles quietly some incomprehensible words about 'blue little alien shits' or something similar. He sits there for a few minutes, just enjoying the calm before the storm until cohen speaks up "Captain you're needed on the bridge". The captain looks at the table were the A.I was formated and answer back with a "I`ll be right there" as he begins to head out for the bridge.

POV: ODST CAPTAIN GRAY BLACKWOOD

As I walked out of the briefing room I stopped and called out to the ship's A.I "Hey! Cohencould you tell my company to get to the drop bay for a briefing?" After I asked that I couldn't help but thinking how weird it's got to look, a full grown man going around talking to himself. 'If anyone outside of the UNSC would have seen me they would have taken me for a crazy person,it's not that I'm not a bit screwed up in the head,because well if I wasn't I would probably shit my pants every time I made a combat drop. I mean who completely sane would willingly drop down from a spaceship from high orbit in a metal coffin? But I guess seeing someone talking to themselves in a empty corridor you would be taken as a crazy person. Well that is until I got an answer from out of nowhere "Right away Gray" said the voice of the ship's A.I.

I started to once again move towards the dropbay and as I was halfway there the voice of the ship's A.I sounded again "it's done captain" said the voice of cohen. "Thank you cohen".

It wasn't long before I stood at the blast doors leading to the dropbay. I took a deep breath and walked inside,'This will be tough news for everyone,for some it would be the thought of their family's being in danger and some would fear the end of the war beginning,with them attacking reach wich was so close to Earth.' So the information that the fortress of humanity was under siege would probably make the most of them outraged and pissed of,and while most would not admit it some would be a little scared.

And while it was a good thing to have a company of pissed of ODST in the battlefield,it would not be fun for the rest of the sailors on the way there,but they'd just have to deal with it. It was just a couple of hours until we were in the epsilon eridani system anyways.

As i walked in the first thing i heard was the voice of my second in command yelling loudly "Captain on Deck!" Second lieutenant Myles Everett. He has been my second in command for quite some time and we'd known each other for even longer.

We were buddies back in highschool and decided to join the core is the kind of person you always could trust to have your back,out on the field as well as in the pub.

I sigh annoyedly and quickly say "dismissed!" After I said that everybody went back to what they were doing and I turn towards Myles and says with a half serious,half annoyed tone " I told you you didn't need to do that every time I'm around! I'm not some damn Swabbie who need his ego inflated every time he walks into a room!"

Myles simply shrugs and says with a big smile "Protocol" I just glare at him and just say "Whatever" with a mildly defeated tone. I look at my men and think 'well let's get this over with'.

I walk to the front of the room and motions for Myles to round them up. Myles that was standing to my right takes a step forward and yells so loudly it would have made our drill Sergeant proud.

"Company formation!" After that was said the odst's of Egle company scramble to get into neat rows,standing at attention.

Myles steps back and I take a deep breath,exhale and start talking."As some of you may have noticed,we have gone into slipspace and are on our way to our next Campaign." all of the Company soldiers looks at me with indifference as i continue my speech. They knew what they signed up for,this was nothing new and they have become well aware of the risks of battle at the deployment rate we are having,so that they are going to some other colony to fight the covenant was not unexpected.

I look at them for a few seconds and figure the easiest way of telling them would to just be blunt. "The covenant have found Reach". As I said that I could almost hear the wince coming of my men as i said that. I continue,and say with a conviction that would shock most people when hearing the news that the most important colony had been attacked by the unstoppable force that is the covenant. But I mean you got to boost morale some way right?

"But! That is something they will come to regret! Reach is the most heavily fortified planet behind earth and the covenant will finally get a taste of the true military might of the UNSC! We will kick the ugly as motherfuckers back to hell where they belong!" After i had said my little speech I could feel that the mood had been raised and the company cheered in agreement as loud as they could.

After they had calmed down I continued "We will be deployed in a couple of hours so if you have any unfinished business then now is the time,dismissed!" I got answered back by a chorus of "yes sir!" as i moved to my locker to take of my armor and get some well deserved rest before the battle begins.

2552: UNSC FRIGATE "OUT OF TIME"SLIPSTREAMSPACE:ARIVING AT REACH:ODST QUARTERS: GRAY POV

I woke up to blaring alarms and the Captain's voice coming out of the ship's speakers yelling out "ALL HANDS TO BATTLESTATIONS! ALL GROUND TEAMS PREPARE TO BE DEPLOYED! I REPEAT ALL…."

I got out of my bunk and quickly put on my black undersuit before i ran to the ODST drop bay. Halfway there i meet up with Myles and we continued to run towards the drop bay.A few moments later Myles and I got into the drop bay to see that the company were already gearing up!picking weapons and checking their pods for any malfunction. I quickly go to my locker to put on my odst armor. After I'm done with that I sheath my two combat knifes and continues on to the gun rack. I take a quick look at the rack and decide to take my usual load out. I took the standard issue caseless Sub Machine Gun with a silencer,which i strapped to my left hip and a BR55HB SR which I put on my back with a strap, an M6C/SOCOM which i strapped to my right hip as well as two grenades and two blocks of C12(plastic explosive).

After i was done picking up my ordnance SGT Kelly Lanford came up to me and gave me my backpack filled with supplies;extra ammunition and standard survival gear. "Thanks" was all i said in return.

People from other companies would probably have thought the action weird but our was different. I had invented the pain in the as of the company Pack Duty! I always had a couple of men on it,they hated it but it was efficient.

After I put on my backpack i noticed that the ODSTS were already done and waiting for orders outside of their pods. I took a quick look at the countdown before the drop and noticed there wasn't much time left so I said "pods! now!" after i said that all the odst quickly got into their pods. I put on my helmet and got into my pod as well. After I got in the pod doors closed I decided to check the comms" Myles com check?" I waited for about ten seconds before I got a reply" everything looks good " Myles answered back.

"Alright" I said to myself before I opened the company wide com and asked loudly "Eagle Company! How do we go!?" "We go feet first Captain!" was the loud answer i got from every single man and woman in the company. "Damned straight!" I said back before the voice of Cohen came over the com "Ten seconds to drop" after that was said I took a deep breath and waited until the launch.

"3…..2…..1….Launch!" was the last transmission i got from the A.I of the UNSC Frigate "OUT OF TIME"when i felt my SOEIV being launched out of the drop bay and towards our target...Reach.

So that is the end of the first chapter! Please drop a review and tell me what you think! The plan is for this to eventually have some romance in it so... Look forward to that! :)

This is Fire W0lf signing of!