It's been years since he's seen chief or even been in contact with blue team and with nothing to do he's become bored. The year is 2526 and spartan 189 also known as Drake has been held from any missions that come up for several weeks now and is anxious. He's knows that the higher ups are keeping him available until they can enact something big like assassinating a covi leader deep behind enemy lines. Now he knows something is wrong when he finds a buried file saying Chief is in cryo sleep, the rest of Blue team has been deployed elsewhere, and he's being deployed to a new team. This doesn't please him that he's being kept in the dark and when he's told that it's nothing important, which is quite obviously not true, he must find answers. So when he finds that he's been put in a situation where he might not come back he must do as he's always done, survive.