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Seth's heartbeat quickly returned back to normal. "That's good news." Seth said it in a very strange tone.
It was good for them...But it could also bode poorly. If the Covenant or the Flood somehow accessed a vital system...But no, no UNSC officer would be so foolish as to leave any back doors into retrieving important deleted material.

"Get that material sent to all the officers Karr. We need to make sure this is legit." It could have been a trick...unlikely but it could have been.

After a moments pause Seth looked at Karr at the terminal, "What do you think Karr? See anything particularly appealing?"

"I'm with you." Seth said patiently, looking at the map through his HUD. This was definitely an improvement on their situation.

Winter sat, his HUD flashing maps, it could be worse. Actually it wasn't half bad, he'd been in worse. Sadly it was earth, this planet held a special place in each of their hearts. You fault for more here, you fought for much more. This wasn't just another planet, even a heartless b*****d like himself new that.

"Well.. Save." The file disapeared, the image leaving his HUD till he needed it again. Self updating? That worked.

Seth had told him, 'gunny', a name he didn't mind to belay the order. So he sat, turning to Lee, wanting to jump onto the job. A helper? Help out those in distress, maybe they'd seen his record. This boy was willing to put fellow soldiers out of their misery and keep them from jumping back up. As soon as the flood, those ******** bastards got a hold of a marine that marine was something different, a new mutated creature that needed to be put down.

Flicking on his COM he welcomed himself into the throng of conversation, "sir, then what should we do about this? More men, good, still want me to follow Captains Lee's order and get this place secure? Sir." The last bit was for Seth, what were his orders? He'd jump on the train and start up, kick some flood and Covenant a**.

As him and his 5 men trudged their way to no where, he started to feel worried, and he got a weird feeling, like help wouldn't be coming, and possibly, trouble would be coming. Finally, after heading north for a while, Ari and his men heard some language, in a foreign toungue, obviously covenant, so he told his men to follow behind him a few paces back. And he went behind some cover, and looked in the direction the sound was coming from. surely enough there were 2 jackals, an elite, and 3 grunts. It was probably a small patrol group, but they could have radios, so Ari had to be careful on how he dealt with them, luckily, him and his men had a very good vantage point, so he quickly ordered for them to aim at each of the Covenant's heads, and then they fired. The elite, 1 jackal, and 2 grunts fell instantly, but the 3 left, quickly started running to what appeared to be a small radio, so they open fired, killing the 2 grunts, and the jackal held up it's shield while slowly moved back to the radio, so Ari quickly moved, steathily behind the jackal, and knifed it.

After searching the area, one of the men brought Ari a damaged holographic map, part of the image was distorted, but it told them where they were, they were surprisingly only 1 and a half from Fox Hole 2, but it was stll a long walk, and they still had no form of transportation other then their tired feet. So Ari and his men rested for a little while, then got a move on, taking the radio with them.

After a while they reached an area that seemed like it had been a fight, so they went and inspected, finding horribly that it was no fight, that it was a massacre, a whole bunch of about 20 marines had been killed, it seemed like they were a forward recon squad, judging by their equipment, so Ari had his men dig a large whole, and he took their dog tags, then they threw the bodies in the whole, marking it with helmets, taking a moment of silence, then getting on their way again, after about going a half a mile, a third of the way to Fox Hole 2 Ari and his men, slept for the night, agreeing to continue in a few hours, since they didn't want to stay in one place too long.

((Sure hope this doesn't screw with your plans, if so, I'll change my post.))
"Sir!" Jono screamed as he dashed towards Winter and his group just before they left. Out of breath, he quickly issued a crisp salute edging out, "Sir, Lance Corporal Jono Akako requesting permission to join you." As he stood awaiting an answer, he tried to take deep breaths through his nose and attempted to make eye contact through the black visor.

"Yes s-sir" Jono stammered out quickly hiding his hand in shame. He began to move with the group as he thought of Winter's words, take down your own man if they get infected.. Jono had seen a fair amount of battles and he had no problem mowing down the Covenant, but taking down a fellow Marine might be another story. He was highly unfamiliar with Flood and finally asked, "So how long do we have once a Flood attaches itself to somebody to take 'em out?"