Chapter 2

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"Air pressures?" Jakes began to call out.
"Unchanged." Another kid operative said.

"Sky pressures?"
"Unchanged."
"Water halting walls?"
"Wall number 3 on the north side is being repaired from last week's storm."

"Noted."

"Let's move on," Lenny said, sitting in swinging chair.

"Citywide defense systems?" Jakes said, calling off the last check off as I studied the planets space sectors. For some strange reason, it kept, glitching.
"They are down sir. The Defense Station is working on getting them back online. It's like..... we're completely defenseless..." Operative Siobhan said. She was a transfer from planet five. Her mom and dad worked with the Chancellor and Council Members. She had dark red hair and blue eyes.
"Well. If there's a fire, we'll be ready haha." joked Lenny.
//
Uhh!

I've here for 2 hours. I'm used to being on starship not in a study room. I'm so BORED looking at the screens.

"I'm going for a walk lunch break," I said and got up, heading to the door.
"Will you require a seen escort guard, sir?"

Oh, right. I'm still the President's son. I thought.

"No thank you. I'm not going far. Just down to Grass Grounds Park." I said giving a half smile, then walking out.

//
Once I made it to the park, a couple of people came up to me and asked for stuff like pictures, or a hug, or just a smile, I put on my royal act at these times. A lot of the people liked me cause I made an organization for helping the lower districts of the nation I don't do it for the popularity through. I just like helping people and being nice. Most of the times. Once everyone in the park was used to me, I relaxed and watched this little girl play with a toy starship, It's was just so peaceful here.
Suddenly, It looked like she saw something from the Corner of her eye. The girl slowly turned to look up at the skies and it looked like she was about to cry. I narrowed my eyes, confused turned to the skies above me to see what she saw.
It was horror on the skies.

//

The Reapers ships currently filling the skies over Metric City bear a superficial resemblance to a cuttlefish or squid. They had a bulky semi-cylindrical body, a tapering plate over the rear and five tentacle-like "legs" or arms extending from its front end, in addition to six jointed legs extending from its body. The rear-most of the larger legs has crescent-shaped extensions. The devastating ship was colossal in size, known to range from 160 meters to over 2 kilometers in length. My eyes widened as I saw the ray beams ray down on buildings and ships, sparking fires and black smoke.

 My eyes widened as I saw the ray beams ray down on buildings and ships, sparking fires and black smoke

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My planet was at war for the first time in centuries.

Everyone around me looked as shocked as I did. The Reaper ship closest to the Park fired a thick red ray close to us.
"Everyone get down!" I yelled right before the explosion, then everything went black.
//
I grunted as I slowly got up. It was a good thing I activated my Tron armor body shielding on. Still, everything hurts... I forced myself to get up. I pulled out my hand pistol fusion handgun from my leg holster and began sprinting back to Starfleet.
As I ran, I saw all around me surrounding ears in devastation. At the compound, half the landing pads were crumbling, windows on battered buildings were shattered, and UNSC ground vehicles were upside down on fire.

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