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Star Wars/Halo story: The Next Journey
Prologue: A Deserved Rest
December 13th, 2552. Location Unknown.
"Chief? Can you hear me?"
The familiar feminine voice called to Spartan-117, the Master Chief. Quickly regaining all his senses after hearing the voice of Cortana coming inside his helmet. Seeing the interior darkness of the Forward unto Dawn, Chief moved his hand up on the side of his helmet, turning on the flashlight to illuminate the darken halls.
"I thought I lost you too." Cortana sighed in relief, seeing him alive. The Master Chief still observe his surroundings. He saw how damaged the interior of the Forward Unto Dawn.
"What happened?" Chief asked, pushing himself from the nearest wall toward the split end of the Dawn. Withdrawing a MA5C assault rifle he saw floating.
"I'm not sure." she replied, "When Halo fired, it shook itself to pieces, it did a number on the Ark. The portal couldn't sustain itself, we made it through just as it collapsed." she paused, "Well, some of us made." In a somber tone. As the Chief reached the broken half end of the ship, he stared outside, seeing nothing but the stars, and blackness of space.
A deep well of sorrow forming in his gut. John frowned behind his helmet, and analyzing their situation. Both him and Cortana were drifting in deep space without power to the Dawn's engines and perform a slipspace jump to Earth. The communication on board the Dawn wasn't in reach for radio contact with any of the UNSC outer colonies. With limited choices, Chief decided to there could be one solution. He headed to the cryo room.
Using the rails and the walls as support, Chief navigating himself in a smoothly manner, floating through the hallways of the ship. Reaching the cryo room minutes later, the Master Chief found a terminal for Cortana. Ejecting her crystal data chip, Chief put Cortana in the cryo room's terminal.
"But you did it," she complimented, "Truth, the Covenant, the Flood, it's finished." as her holographic figure appeared, looking at the Chief.
Remembering the fight on Earth, stopping the Flood in the process of stopping the infection of the planet, going into the portal to discover the Forerunner Installation 00, the Ark. Finding Truth, and witnessing the Arbiter piece his chest with his energy sword. And finally losing a soldier he still holds respected for, Sergeant Avery J. Johnson, killed from 343 Guilty Spark and had the pleasure of destroying the Forerunner AI. The war really is over, for 27 long years. Now here they are, standard in space. How fitting for a Spartan to die like this, but not today.
"It's finished." he responded, turning away to the nearest cryo tube, placing the assault rifle he found inside.
"I'll drop a beacon," Cortana said, "but it'll be awhile before anyone finds us, years even." Quicking concluding of what the Spartan's plan was.
The Master Chief nodded in acknowledgment, finish preparing the cryo pod for himself. Climbing inside the pod, positioning himself and waited for the door to seal itself.
"I'll miss you." Cortana said looking away, as the pods door began closing.
"Wake me, when you need me." Chief said.
Hearing the words that sounded like a promise, Cortana watched as the cryo pod began to start, freezing the Master Chief's body in mere seconds into cryo stasis.
Remembering the last words she heard from him, she stared at the Spartan for some time, her digital codes on her body ran little quicker than normal realizing she'll be alone for long time. She put her emotions aside and calm herself down, and activating the beacon like she said she would. After finishing her objective in less than a second, she would hope that the UNSC, or the Arbiter's fleet will find in time before her rampancy came, endangering John from her. All they have to do was to be patience, and wait.
Author's Note: This is my first attempt of writing a Star Wars / Halo crossover story. As our favorite Spartan II and snarky AI, are going to a galaxy far, far away, but not so long ago. I had this idea in my head for months since The Force Awakens, then something else pushed me to write this story, (stares at The Last Jedi) but throughout reading some stories of UNSC, going up against the Republic or Empire, I wanted a slow approach, where Chief and Cortana are going to changes thing within Star Wars, not Rian Johnson bullcrap change, but changes that I hopefully change exploit and show. So this is all I have to say