Yeah, so I'm sorry that this isn't a chapter update, I'm sorry. The reason for this update is because I found out from the Halo channel Halofollower of the Rookie's fate and the reason why Buck is with Osiris instead of his ODST squad. Now according to the Halo wiki, he dies in 2554 in the novel Halo: New Blood. Now I originally wrote this fic in November of 2015 and didn't read the extra source material for events leading up to Halo 5 or a fair chunk of the events between Halos 3 and 4 (the only ones I did read were Glasslands, Thursday War, and Mortal Dictata) so I really had no way of truly knowing the fate of the Rookie. Going off of that last tangent here's what I want to know: on my profile I have a poll for you guys, would you rather see me still kill off the Rookie, keep him alive and stray from Halo canon, or delay his death? It's a fairly simple poll and a question that's really keeping this from moving forward to a second chapter, so you guys need to let me know what you want from these three choices. Please do not leave reviews on this "chapter" as it will be deleted at a later point in time and do not want to lose any reviews if you leave them here instead of on chapter 1. But anyway, please go vote and once the votes have been tallied I'll have to make a call on what to do. I mean I want to adhere to canon for at least Halo 4, but not really for Halo 5: Guardians as, personally, it wasn't a good story. 4 was decent but 5 was a complete letdown and a lie from what they were marketing to us. Again, I apologize that this isn't an actual chapter update but I need your guys' help on this. Thank you for taking the time to do this.