War To Peace

by Corgi King

Chapter Four: A War Rages Above

Dear Humanity,
We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!”
—Sergeant Major Avery Junior Johnson, 2552

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***Four Years Ago***

I smile taking out a pocket watch 0700 hours, any second now they will be here. I stare eagerly at the door, any moment the boys and girls of Spartan Team Foxtrot would come in, as if on cue the door was pushed open and four short figures ran in. A short one ran in and gave me a fist bump, smiling wide i ruffle his hair much to his discomfort. He slides out of my reach, hiding behind his team

Giving a small laugh is begin to speak my thick British accent coming through quite loud, "He guys how are you doing? I bet the DI's give you only MREs and other crap... maybe you would like something better." Moving to the side i revile a large table with a white table cloth, on it a high stacks of pancakes and other tasty treats, sitting in one of the five chairs and look up seeing no one followed their eyes were almost as big as plates laughing the one named Tom spoke up.

"Doctor Angus, is this for us?" he asked staring at the pancakes drooling a bit, give a small laugh.

"I don't see anyone else in the room." smiling I pat the seat next to me. Much to my delight they all ran up taking their seat to the far left was Holly not much one to hold a grudge, to the right of her was Mark he never did talk much, to my right was Tom the closes thing i had to a younger brother, to his left was Kelly the one who had a way with words. Looking over his friends as then dug into their pancakes they were going to be Spartans, as much as i hated injecting kids with the drugs to straighten, enhance reflexes Smarts, and "under pressure thinking." I knew this was going to be the very thing that saved them.

I give out a stiff sigh which Tom picks up on "Everything okay Doc?" he asks gulping down a large bite of pancake.

"Ya Tom everything is fine, are you ready for the "operation" today?" giving a small smile.

"Yep! I did everything you told me to do; trained extra hard on the battle field, did extra push ups and sit ups, and got plenty to eat." He say nodding proudly.

"Good job sport!" Looking at the others as they wolf down the pancakes, after about thirty minutes of constant eating i stop them telling them to go get ready and meet me in the medical wing, I watch them leave with bright smiles on their faces.

(In The North Medical Wing)

I look over Tom making sure everything was going on plan, switching drugs at the right time making them pumping a different color into Tom, sighing as i place the last one in I sigh "One hour." I mutter to myself, the waiting room was small the minuets felt like hours, the hour turning into a day, I smile going back to Tom's side i notice the liquid was all gone, only a day before he wakes. \

Lets make that day count. I move to my lab fixing the modified armor the black paint job going as near invisible if in the dark of night, the back started to smoke as i tried to switch it to go with another paint. I cursed under my breath, the mother board was fried. Sighing a large sphere appears out of thin air, It has a white glow making everything turn into shadows.

"Doctor, you should rest you have been at this for about five hours." It said a feminine voice.

"You know Luna, your right, wake me thirty minutes before Team Foxtrot wakes." Nodding I move to my cot, my AI was right i should sleep but it never came I just laid there with my eyes open staring at the armor, groaning i walk back over tapping on my data pad.

"Doctor, you said you would sleep." The sphere was back but smaller and not as bright.

"I know what i said Luna, but sleep has not put its claim on me so I shall work till I pass out, this could save our solders."

tisk tisk tisk "Doctor it's not wise, Foxtrot will wake up in about an hour and you should get a little bit of rest."

"Very well Luna, lock up the armor and place it in the container. Oh and wake me in thirty." I walk out of the large office and move up to the Spartans and sit by Toms side. He is larger than before he had grown a lot he was now two and a half meters tall and could bench at lest five hundred. Smiling down i sit next to him and pass into sleep.

Smiling Luna drops her magic, she had been helping this, human, with his study's for some time now. Forcing him to take naps and to eat, she never had reviled what she was he all ways called her an "AI" but in doing so she had all accesses to everything the humans had; folders, emails, rosters, computers, cameras, star ships. She knew almost everything but could not get into the "TOP SECRET" files, as much as she would like to she just ignored them. Moving from her desk to her large king size bed adorned in blue sheets, she fell on them with a thud laying down she soon found sleep.

"Doctor, one minutes till Spartan Team Foxtrot will be awake." I nodded wiping my eyes from my short and uncomfortable sleep.

"Okay, thank you Luna, but i thought i said thirty minutes."

"Sorry Doctor but i thought it would be better to let you rest, you need your sleep." The orb vanished leaving only me and Tom, placing a hand on his shoulder and sigh.

"Come on Tom, wake up."

Tom's eyes opened slightly sending a horrible pain to his head his body burned, feeling as if it was on fire he could hear frantic beeping above him looking he saw me smiling softly, laying back down he stared up and the ceiling groaning.

"Welcome back, champ. I have to go check on the others, don't move and please try to rest." I move in and out of the room checking on Mark, Kelly, and Holly telling the same thing after a couple hours they were go to go. They fell a lot trying to get use to their taller and more muscled bodies, giving a small laugh i help each one and teach them how to walk all over again.

"Hey Doc." Asked mark he was still on wobbly legs. "Um are we going to have to re-learn everything?"

I nod getting groans from all of them laughing I look at all of them, Kelly was leaning on tome for support, Holly was just fine, and Mark was still trying to get his legs to stay in one spot. "But this time it will be easier you are faster, smarter, and better at quick thinking, that reminds me... the Commander asked me to tell you guys he want seven laps around the base. Now!"

They all shot up and started sprinting stumbling and falling but on their second la they were running like pros, and faster than them as well. Laughing I clap every time they past on their last lap the did an all out sprint moving faster and finishing in half the time. When they got back I had Meals waiting for them they eat them with hunger.

"Well Spartans you have earned rest, got to your rooms and don't come out until tomorrow. You will sleep." Nodding the ran past me to the barracks. They were Spartans, I was so proud that when Luna sounded behind me i nearly had a heart attack.

"Doctor, when will the next batch of Spartans be in?" she asked the orb moving to his lab.

"There will be no others, FLEETCOM has shut it down. They are the last Spartan-III's." I said proudly moving back to my cot to get so much needed rest. "Luna why don't you go and look into why the armor is acting up." with a short sure the orb vanished yet again leaving me in the dark, I lay down my head and sigh happily every Spartan-III had survived the augmentation. Closing my eyes i search for rest, but it it found me i drifted into blackness.

***Present Day***

Rtas was growing impatient it had been nearly an hour travailing through slip-space, he pounded a fist on his chair "How much longer, I grow restless to feel bones splitting and cry of pain to fill my ears!"

The pilots looked around waiting for someone to say why. Rtas growled "ANSWER ME!" slamming his fist down he dented his metal chair. Many Elites mumbled something under their breaths, he sighed "I should paint the walls with your blood. Tell me."

The minor from before steps up "Sir, we have only five more minuets. Forgive us." Rtas growled but said nothing, sitting back and staring at the screen engulfed in the slip-space tunnel.

"Ready the cannons and shields attack when we exit, leave no survivors." there was nods with he quick tapping of keyboards.

This was it, the humans were dead. There was a bright flash then open space with a single planet and a UNSC Battle Cruiser, in a flash the bright cannons fired a thousand small plasma rounds all heading for the UNSC ALBATROSS.

"They shall die, FOR THE COVENANT!" Rtas shouted hearing battle cries he watched the plasma round fly in space.