Falling
My pen is mighty
November 8th 2556:
The "Forward unto Dawn's power reserves were finally running out temperature was dropping and lights' fading the ship was falling towards the unknown planet, finally the gravity had waned as the planet slowly stopped spinning. Cortana didn't know why this was…perhaps a flux in slipspace? The power keeping the Chief in cryo was finally cutting out and the atmosphere was now a powerful vacuum.
Cortana watched through camera feeds at John, her John he was her Spartan and she would wake him when she needed him. He would only have 90 minutes left once he woke and then he would asphyxiate and die; there would be nothing she could do.
If she had a body she would be sobbing.
Power would be cutting out anytime soon, Cortana ran a diagnostic on the pharmaceuticals dosage, all normal he wouldn't be waking up yet, only when she needed him. Cortana began to wonder what would happen. They were transported to a relative safe zone approximately 13 parsecs from installation 00 the chances of them being found were 0.0001254%, it was hopeless rescue was so far away what chance did they both have? Cortana was now Meta stable but that wouldn't stop her from going mad with boredom and the chief couldn't even keep her company.
The "Forward unto Dawn" fell ever further towards the planet.
November 9th 2556:
Time was running out for Cortana she'd had to sedate the chief twice form waking and there were 30 minutes till impact. She flickered on too her pedestal next to the Chiefs tube. She reached towards the glass, she couldn't touch it. She shed a single electronic tear more out of respect for her John than for sadness. She was amused at her self faking a human emotion so her sleeping comrade would appreciate it…yet she felt sad as if everything had run its course, no more tomorrows and no more beginnings just her and an empty ship
November 9th 2556 Ten minutes to impact:
Re entry was starting to tear the ship up flames scorching the outer shell. Cortana was screaming inside, there was nothing she could do. She shifted the cameras outside and saw an ocean as bright blue as could be, it reminded her of earth. As the ship began to break up she increased John's pharmaceuticals dosage and started to engage the Cryo tube eject. She took one last look at him.
"Goodbye John"
The cryo tube shot out of the Dawns ejection port and fell into the ocean. Cortana turned away, He was alone now.
Impact imminent Cortana began to shut down her sequences. She took one last look at the ocean into which John fell, she smiled at all the memories and times they'd endured, well this was one adventure she couldn't go on with him now she closed her eyes and was consumed by the fire.