User:Avileader2/Jeremiah-A053's Journal

July 24, 2552
It was a bright noon. We were being informed of our next job to do by Colonel Holland. I took the place of the previous spartan marksman. I had to change my color scheme to something I don't like, but it's something I can live with. Jacob walked out of the base and into a warthog with the rest following in another. Luckily, my seat was with Amanda. She's a mute and I don't mind that plus I saw her as a sister.

Stress filled my head with thoughts of failure. It was my first mission with Able Team. What if I screwed up my shot and got one of them killed? I ignored these thoughts and focused on the road that slid below my feet with the revving of an accelerating jeep driven by Amanda-G329.

July 25, 2552
Early morning dawn beat my visor with sunlight as I loaded my standard issue sniper rifle and took a deep breath. We pressed slowly on into the local town. I can't remember what it was called. All I remember is that there was something we had to see and something bad happened the second we saw it.

"Be careful Able. There has been recent activity with the Insurrectionists." Jacob-G128 said with caution in his breath as we walked down the main pathway of this poor town. The civilians seemed alarmed by our presence. It disturbed me, it actually gave me fear. Something I haven't felt in a while. I never felt this fear in the augmentation procedures or the rigorous training my company was famous for.

All Issac-G204, our heavy weapons specialist, could say after taking a glance at an alien body was, "Well look at that."

"Is it Covenant?" Jacob asked and I gave him a nod. They called those things "Skirmishers." It was creepy and better off dead anyway. Movement was shown on my motion tracker and I looked as the other three Spartans joined pulling up their weapons. At first, it seemed like it was just a rat running out into vision, but the red light left the tracker in a different direction. I turned the corner to only see two dead children burned badly in places. "That's it." Jacob said, "Rebels don't leave plasma burns. We need to notify Holland immediately."

"Too late, we've been engaged!" Issac yelled firing off his chain gun towards covenant forces as we followed. The local civilians fled from the battle as I took an elite and two grunts down before I did the same for cover to let my energy shields recharge. When that was finished all we had was our ammo and devastating information.