Second Chance
New Cairo Jericho IX
June 24 2552
{Screen brightens to reveal a SPARTAN recon helmet with a large crack spanning its visor}
{Heavy machinegun fire and plasma explosions are heard in the background}
[Chatter overheard from VISR headset] "Yankee Bravo One Niner come in over" {there is a brief pause} "Yankee Bravo One Niner do you copy?"{An ODST speaks [voice is labored] he bleeding from his chest plate} "This is Yankee Bravo One Niner[he coughs] go ahead over. [The chatter responds] thank god you picked up I'm not getting any response from Sierra One five what happened? Over. {The ODST removes his helmet revealing a young man with tearful eyes and a dark scar between his eyes}{ the screen shifts to the body of a young women in Mjolnir armor lying with her back against a wall There is blood trailing from the edge of her mouth she appears as if she is smiling} [He responds choking on tears and blood] she's dead over {his eyes shut}. [Under breath] I'll kill them all. [The chatter responds with static] you're breaking up repeat over. {His eyes open now blood red and with slit pupils} {View changes to the tags around the trooper's neck, it reads DINN DINAME}[His voice deepens there is hatred and malice within it] { he grabs the SPARTAN's battle rifle and begins cycling it's bolt as red steam and an eerie hiss forms out of the puncture holes in his armor} This is Yankee Bravo One Niner { the screen fades to black as the bolt cycles forward } Give em hell out.{ the screen fades in to the soldier clutching at his heart and holding a missile launcher in the other hand he is breathing heavily he is again coughing blood he sits next to the SPARTAN's body and turns her head to face him, he grasps her hand and kisses her} [Dinn whispers with all hatred replaced by sadness and regret] I'm sorry, I couldn't keep you safe again.{the screen shows the sky now dancing with the colors of Jericho's sunset as a banshee flies across and is destroyed by the Dinn's rocket}{view changes to Dinn and the Spartan, the arm that is holding the launcher becomes slack, the camera view changes to view the rocket launcher as it hits the ground. View changes back to the sky.}
[Dinn Voice-over] They say that just before you die your life will appear before you. All of your memories both the ones you cherish and those that you have sealed away. I see her die in my arms for the second time on the same day ten years apart. Fate has stolen the women that I once thought of as a sister to me, and as a lover the next. I failed to protect her I thought if I had one more chance to make things right maybe it would turn out differently. With my final breath I pleaded "I just want one more chance." {view shifts to a covenant super carrier charging it's mining laser, preparing to glass the planet. the laser fires and the screen goes black.}
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