Halo: Second Chance

chapter 2: A New Beginning

"Captain Borius is waiting outside for you." Atriox says pointing back at the entrance. "He'll take you to the armory to get you new armor."

Looking at my own armor on the way out I could see its old silvery sheen had been lost.  It was covered in dirt and grime as well as being covered by many dents.  I can't believe that is still works.  As the door opened and I started to take my leave Atriox says one last thing,

"The training camp starts tomorrow and your instructor is Captain Democritus."

I walk out of the dark room into the light of outside and saw a large form of what I can now assume, a Jiralhanae.  He wore blue plated armor and stood a foot taller than me.

"You must be Borius." I said

"That's Captain Borius, Sangheili!" He says looking down at me, "Show some respect.  Let's get you out of that scrap.  Follow me." He starts to lead me down another dirt path and I follow.  The Captain leads me to another green tent like structure.

"This is where we store armor for troops." The Captain says, "Go ahead and go inside and take off your scrap and get some new armor."

"Any type?" I ask

"As long as you fit in it!" He says and I go inside.

Inside was a moderately lit room with light filtering throw open windows and the Tent's fabric.  Also inside were armor stand with different sets of alien armor on them.  Walking past a few I found one that caught my eye.  It had a sealed helmet with my current design and all of the plates were white with red lines marks on them.  A black undersuit lay underneath it and the gauntlets had a little apparatus on the top, as if something could jut out of them.  I began taking off my dented, battle worn, silver plates on my current undersuit and started attaching the new ones and as I put on this new helmet, words and numbers started to flow across the interface initializing all the systems.  After that, a pale green bar indicating my plasma shields started to steadily build up to full.  I made my way back outside where Captain Borius was waiting for me.

"I'll take you to where you and the other recruits will be staying." He started walking down a dirt and near the edge of camp, near an open field was yet another large green tent.

As we walked in, Captain yells, "Hey listen up!" And an assortment of Unggoy, Kig-Yar, Sangheili, and Jiralhanae got up from bunk-styled beds and stood at attention.

"You all have a new recruit in your squadron so get familiar." Borius says to the others before he left, leaving me with the others.  Most went back to what they were doing, but when the Captain left an Unggoy with a bright red methane tank and mask covering his whole face walked up to me.

"Oh boy! Hi there! My name's Pap-Pap! So cool to see you!" He says to me in a squeaky voice, "You get the bunk above me! What's your name?"

"None of your concerned.  Where's my bed?" I say annoyed.  Unggoy can be very annoying sometimes.

"Oh! Uhh ok! Follow me!". He started leading me toward some bunks in near the back.  All of a sudden, a Kig-Yar rolls out from under a bunk, blocks Pap-Pap, and snarls at him.  This Kig-Yar was an Ibie'Shan, a more reptilian subspecies of Kig-Yar.  It stands up menacingly at Pap-Pap

"You think I didn't notice you stealing my Jaw-Jaw fruit this morning?" He snarls at him in the Kig-Yar's chittery barking language, bearing his teeth.

"Li-Listen!" Pap-Pap shrieks as the Kig-Yar snarls at him and steps closer, "It was just one fruit! I didn't know you would eat it!"

"Enough! Both of you!" I shout. I was getting fed up with these two. "Do you think in-fighting will make you gain points with the higher ups?" I say and the Kig-Yar looked back at Pap-Pap.