I'm been thinking about his for sometime and I've been planning to write this for awhile.
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Prologue
Earth
HIstory Class UNSC Acdemy
"Much of the war we were on the defenesive and we losing ground faster then we could recruit. Though we created next soldiers like the Serra 117 and the Sparatan II we were on the losing end of the war," the teacher said. Andrew looked around the room. Several Elites and hundreds of humans. There was even a grunt. He looked at the board.
"From the Elites and Grunt side of things it looked like there was a hersy of aliens to be delt with. Though the Great War was only 28 years, the longest conflict in human history and possible the most costful for the Elites and Grunts as well, more 100 trillion lives were lost on both sides," he said looking at his watch before continuing, "Class is excused for the day, you may go."
Everyone stood up exept three men and an elite. As the soldiers left Andrew stood up and looked at the elite. It nodded its head at him. Andrew nodded back and started to walk down the row between The other two humans stood up and step in his way.
"Where you going Johnson? You have to do something to night," one of them said. Andrew looked at him. The alliance of the Covenat and Humanity had left a few veterans bitter, but it was good thing though. Though the Brutes were still then enemy of the Alliance, the jackals and drones had joined them on the outer edges of space. A bitter war was being fought with them at this time and some humans now were begining to think of rebelion was the only viable option. These were two of them. Andrew snickered.
"And what will you do if the rebellion fails," Andrew said looking up at them. The two men looked at one another and laughed.
"And who says were part of the rebelion," the other boy said. They turned around and left. Andrew looked back at the elite.
"And since when do you carry a Plasma Pistol?" Andrew asked. The Elite stood up and walked up beside him.
"How long have you known?" The elite asked. That was another thing that upset the Veterans of the war. The Alliance was trade and protection agreements. Tech was not allowed to be shared by the Covenant. So humanity stayed with Balistic weapons and the Covenant or what was left of it was plasma and light weapons.
"Since the beginning of class today," Andrew said, "But thanks for backing me up if there was trouble, Shel-tasn, I owe you again." The elite nodded and sighed.
"You only owe me your freindship, my freind. And maybe a meal," He said with a chuckle. They laughed as they walke dout of the class room. They walked out of the acdemy and saw the last of this years trainee's getting ready for their graduation. Andrew walked down the path to a group of trainee's and looked at them.
"You guys ready for grad?" he asked them. They looked at him shurging there shoulders.
"Well you gauys have it easy compared to teh elites and Grunts, they have to rehearse- uh what was it called again Shel-tasn," one of the humans said.
"The Oath of Honor. Its about three pages long in your contents but about six lines long in our language. Well if you'll excuse me, I have to head for home and get ready," Shel-tasn said saluting them. He walked away queitly as another human spoke.
"So Andrew me and Hasn-tal will be in a squad together, one of the first squads to be command by a Elite. Thats pretty good there aye to be stuck with a buddy," He said wrapping his arm around an Elite.
"Well it will be good. But I still don't have a squad disicnation yet," Andrew said, "You two are lucky, and you'll proably be assigned to reach for the constrution of the joint-military base there." Though the war was over, Humanity had lost some systems for specfic reasons. Reach and several other systems had become Joint-military bases for both Humanity and the Covenant. But other than that Humanity had regained all of the systems it lost. Andrew looked at the six soldiers. Then spoke, "Whatever happens we'll all meet agian, Promise."
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Six months later
Unknown system
Andrew crouched with a battlerifle in his hands two jakcels walked in fron of him and didn't notice him and his squad mates. They had recieved a distress signal from the system, but no one knew who it was. The saw the ship when they llanded and it toke them nearly a week to reach the ships wreckage. Andrew stood up and spirted across the opening. To a door of the ship. He pressed several buttons and waited for it to open. It didn't, but he ran across the opening again to his commander, Seargent Harly.
"Sir it won't open. I think it maybe one of the older ships. We may have to blow the hatch off to enter it," he said. The Seargent nodded and looked at a hunter. He made there hand signs and pointed at the door. He turned to the rest of the squad.
"We;re going to supply protection that means breaking our cover. Understood?" He asked everyone nodded. He stoodup as and stepped out into the open and fired on a group of Brutes. The hunter rushed to the other sided of the opening while the squad cover it. It hit the door abruptly and tore it open. The seargent ordered everyone to move with his hands as the door was opened. Andrew caught a glimpse of the name of the ships name. UNSC Dawn o. The rest was to chared fo be read.
One thing about war, even if its just or holy, no one wins even the victors lose.