Snippet #1311916

Damien had not yet fought beside a Spartan, barely even glimpsed one in passing, and he had been expecting... Well, not quite what he got if he was honest with himself. Far from the insightful, inspiring warriors of legend he found them to be cocky and arrogant. Boasting about better armour and training? Bullshit was the first thing to fly through Damien's mind, they were genetically modified; that didn't mean they were better trained. He himself devoted every hour of his day that wasn't spent fighting to training and prided himself on it. And his armour might not be as good but he was still kicking and screaming after all this time. Maybe the Spartan stories were just that; damned stories... he thought, keeping his composure perfectly. If there was one thing he could do above all else it was keep any and all emotion showing on his face.

He let his gaze drift casually from one Spartan to the other, standing at ease, as the conversation flowed on around him, finding himself ever more eager to get down and start the fighting to show that him and the other ODSTs would not mess things up down there. They may not have the skills of a Spartan, but he'd pick being an underdog over an asshole any day of the week. Thouroughly disappointed with the 'super soldiers' attitudes, he let his mind play out what he imagined the defenses to be like on the ground as their friendly exchanges took place.

Damien Hollus was far from the type of man to judge what he didn't know but his instant vibe from the Spartans was one that he couldn't help but take a disliking to. Regardless, they were his superiors and he'd had to deal with taking orders from people like them before so he could do it again, so long as they just gave their orders and left the talking at that.

Dragging himself away from his thoughts back to the matter at hand, Damien found he did have a question. "What about reinforcements Sir?" he asked. "Not for us, but are we expecting phantom drops on the ground? And for that matter, what else of resistance in the air?" There were many things about the covenant that he couldn't stand but those banshees were a real pain in the hole if you weren't ready for them.