Hi all I finished playing Halo 4 a while ago and it left me feeling depressed so I decided to write away the feels. So this is the result, I hope you enjoy!
"Cortana?"
"Cortana? Do you read?"
"Cortana come in."
John turns to see a life-size hologram approach him.
"How?..."
"Oh, I'm the strangest thing you've seen all day?" Cortana chuckles.
"But if we're here-?"
"It worked."
"You did it. Just like you always do."
"So how do we get outta here?"
She bows her head.
"I'm not coming with you this time."
"What?!"
"Most of me is down there. I only held enough back to get you off the ship."
"No. That's not- we go together."
"It's already done," Cortana says wistfully.
"I am not leaving you here."
"John," she sighs touching his chest.
"I've waited so long to do that," she says with satisfaction.
"It was my job to take care of you."
"We were supposed to take care of each other... and we did," she says, voice breaking slightly.
"Cortana. Please..." John says unable to meet her gaze.
"Wait," he calls as she backs into the digital surroundings.
"I... I love you," he says just before she vanishes.
She walks back to him taking his hand and cupping his face. Their eyes lock sharing a loving gaze for several moments. Finally as she backs away their hands barely touching and arms out stretched she says...
"I love you too... welcome home, John."
With that she's gone vanishing into the digital wall.
Gone.
Debris seem to fall around him. There is a collapse of the digital room and The Chief is unconscious floating in a field of debris.
When I awoke I was seated in a Pelican. It was explained to me that I had been floating unconscious in a field of debris. I recalled the fact that Cortana was gone. I was never one to show or feel emotion especially as a spartan but losing her hurt so bad. It was like losing a part of me. I loved her and it felt as though the wind had been knocked from me.
We docked on the Infinity and as I walked to the heart of the ship the path was lined on either side with marines in formation.
I broke off from the group I needed time to be alone. I laughed at the thought of how ironic it was. I headed to the observation deck staring out at mother Earth. I was tired of people greeting me with such happiness. I couldn't really be mad at them though, they didn't know. No one knew how bad it hurt I was alone with my pain, a pain I shouldn't even feel as a spartan. I wondered if I really was just a machine.
She said that once about us and machines.
I mean most treated me like one addressing me only by my spartan tag like some piece of equipment. I loved her and I was feeling emotion now... that had to count for something right?
Cortana had kept me grounded and more human than machine. We understood each other. Maybe now that she was gone that would all fall apart and I would lose that human side of me.
Maybe I would be decommissioned and taken off duty to be replaced. I decided that maybe I needed to go unsuit before my thoughts became negative and irrational. So I did.
I return to the main bay to my unsuiting station all personnel staring in awe as I pass. I step into the ring and the scientists check my vitals. Finally piece by piece of my armour falls from my body. Lastly my helmet is lifted off and I breath in the ships recycled air. It was strange to be out of my suit, it was rare that a spartan was seen without armour. I step forward stopping to crack my neck briefly.
"Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan Sierra-117 report to sector 7-1-Alpha," sounds out through the speakers on the ship.
I sigh. That was Dr. Halsey's lab. She probably had my new AI selected. My heart sank it was likely some new state of the art AI but I didn't care. There was only one AI I wanted and that was Cortana. There was nothing I could do about it though, I felt so hopeless and lost.
I arrive at the lab entrance and take a moment to steel myself...
And so the story begins. Thanks for reading please REVIEW! and chapter 2 is in progress and it will be a very big chapter by my standards 4000 words possibly :O Cheers.