"I understand that, Matt, but you also need to keep in mind that they're not at their best right now. You remember how awful it was after our augmentations. None of us were ship shape for weeks afterwards."

Unfortunately for both of them, it was only a matter of months until graduation. Kurt knew he could buy some time but not a whole lot of it. Ackerson would want his numbers in a relatively timely manner and he suspected the man wouldn't be willing to accept the excuse that they needed some time to fine-tune unit cohesion.

The other Spartan couldn't contain his smile when Matt's stomach suddenly rumbled loudly.

"Good, at least you hopefully won't become too bored here."