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"Chief wake up" was what the Master Chief heard as he woke up. The door to his cryo pod hissed open releasing a cloud of mist into the eerie empty ship. He opened his eyes and saw his long time partner and one of the few people he trusted with his life, Cortana.
"Cortana is there a rescue coming?" asked Chief as he slowly exited the cryo pod.
"Negative Chief but we appear to be closing in on a planet that has a breathable atmosphere" Chief then reached into the weapon rack next to his cryo pod and pulled out his assault rifle he turned on the LED counter and it read 32. He then pulled out the clip to make sure that it was indeed full.
"How long until we arrive?" he asked Cortana as he moved to take her chip out of the pedestal. He then put the chip in the slot on the back of his helmet.
"We have one hour until we enter the planet's atmosphere" they then spent the next 45 minutes loading all of the remaining supplies into a number of albatross heavy transports. As soon as they approached the planet chief moved into a specially designed pelican. He moved around the lone cryo pod that was in the troop bay. The glass was fogged up so the Chief could not see her face but he knew who was inside of the pod. She was Captain Miranda Keyes in the same cryo pod that Johnson had put her into after she was shot in the back by the Prophet of Truth.
All of the transports launched at the same time and streaked towards the planet. The planet had many island all but the transport Master Chief was in landed in the water. Chief continued on to do some recon and get in touch with his surroundings. Once he was done with his recon flight he took a UNSC standard sniper rifle and his assault rifle he then jumped out of the transport on a ridge. The copy of Cortana flew the pelican away.
Master Chief was about to move out when he spotted a transport in the distance. It hovered over a beach then a number of figures were dropped from the bottom of the transport. Then Chief saw something that made his blood boil as he saw a weapon on the front of the transport started to spin red bolts of energy then shot at the defenseless humanoids. Four of them were cut down three were able escape the cannon fire.
Chief followed the orange skinned humanoid as she ran he saw one of the others get sniped by a reptilian humanoid the other alien started to run away but she two was shot by a sniper. Chief looked back to the orange skinned alien to see she was hiding with three other aliens that were covered in dirt. Chief watched through the scope of his sniper rifle as the hunters flew away. He then slowly followed the group of humanoids to a cave.
He moved onto the top of the entrance to the cave he turned up his armors audio scanners. He and Cortana listened intently to the conversation.
"John should we help them" Cortana asked him once the Jedi Padawans had finished their conversation.
"We will not help them right now let's see what their plans are and then decide" Chief replied. He sat on top of the cave for the rest of the night and scanned the area. In the morning he followed the orange skinned Jedi who planned to try and fight the hunters. As they followed her they saw the others following her from a distance. The orange skinned Jedi got into a fight with one of the reptilian aliens the alien was shoved off of a ledge and was impaled by a number of spicks that stuck out of the ground.
"Chief look over to your left" said Cortana. Chief quickly looked to see two of the aliens on a hovering platform one of them was holding a sniper rifle aimed at the group of Jedi. Just before he fired on the group Chief hit the pilot of the ship making his shot miss and skimmed the shoulder of the Jedi with pale skin. One of the aliens pulled a knife on Master Chief. Chief blocked the knife with his assault rifle lining up the barrel with the pilots head he then opened fire. The shots impacted his head and torso he fell onto the controls making the vehicle suddenly spin Master Chief than fell off onto the ground.
He quickly went prone aiming at the flying platform before he could get a shot off it flew away. He then saw two contacts approaching from his right he spun quickly aiming his assault rifle in the direction of the contacts. He did not shoot when he saw it was the two aliens he had helped save from the hunters. The pale one was holding her shoulder were the shot had graze her.
"Who are you?" asked the Orange skinned alien both were weary of his presence as well as the fact that he was holding a rifle at them. Master Chief noticed this and slowly lowered his rifle.
"Master Chief Petty Officer Spartan-117" said Master Chief to the two aliens.
"My name is Ahsoka and this is Kalifa" said Ahsoka.
"Let's regroup with the others and decide what to do about our new friend" Kalifa whispered to Ahsoka unaware of the fact that Master Chief could easily hear them.
"Follow us please" said Ahsoka as they started to walk back to the cave that they hid in the night before. As entered the cave the others were glad to see them but they were quick to spot the Chief.
"This is Spartan -117 he saved us from being sniped by some of the hunters" said Ahsoka to the others.
"So he is on our side?" whispered Jinx still unaware that John and Cortana could hear them.
"I think he is on our side he did kill one of the hunters, so I don't think that he is on their side"
"Ok we will trust him for now but we must be cautious if he is an enemy then he might just be using us and could turn on us any moment"
"Ok we can try to attack the next transport that comes to drop off prisoners if we can hijack it we might be able to escape onboard it" said Ahsoka louder now so that Chief was part of the conversation.
"I agree" said Chief after he consulted with Cortana. Once they had decided upon a course of action they went to sleep once the others fell asleep Master Chief took off his helmet and pulled a MRE from his rucksack and quickly ate.
Ahsoka woke up in the middle of the night to see the Master Chief remove his helmet and she saw that his head and face was covered in scars she also noticed that he had unusually pale skin. She observed him for a minute and noticed that he was a professional soldier similar to the clones. As she reached out with the force she realized something puzzling she sensed two beings one was the soldier but the other one was a women.
She decided to ponder this at a later time once they had escaped the planet so she decided to go back to sleep. Chief finished his meal then put his helmet on then he leaned against the wall and went to sleep. He was roused by Cortana after six hours of sleep. They all moved to the beach where Ahsoka was dropped in at. It was late in the day and the sun was setting fast.
The transport came in to drop off its load of prisoners as soon as it was close enough Chief jumped onto the ship landing silently on the roof he then moved over to a hatch in the top of the ship. He looked at the hatch and saw that it opened in he checked his assault rifle and thumbed off the safety. He looked to his left and saw the Jedi getting ready to attack if he needed help. Each Jedi holding a combat knife the Master Chief had given them from his rucksack.
Master Chief held up three fingers as soon as he made a fist Chief kicked the door as hard as he could the door swung inward followed quickly by Master Chief as soon as he was inside he shot a quick burst that took out the copilot. The pilot turned around and was able to get off a shot but it was blocked by Master Chief's shields he returned fire with a quick burst of assault rifle fire he made sure to not hit the controls to the ship.
The alien fell to the ground the ship started to veer to the side but it soon was stable as Ahsoka jumped into the pilot's now empty seat. Once the others came inside they closed the hatch and they flew away from the beach.
"We should find their base of operations and eliminate them permanently so they cannot capture and hunt anyone else." Said Master Chief the others agreed with him but they decided to check the prisoner bay before they attacked the base. Once they walked into the back Master Chief saw a tall humanoid that was covered in fur. And to his surprise he also saw an ODST, and then Chief ripped the top off of the cage. The ODST, a Private, he saw that he was a sniper because he had the sharpshooter add-on attached to his helmet.
"What's your name Private?" asked Master Chief once the ODST had regained consciousness.
"Curtis Dodds, sir" replied Curtis.
"How were you captured?"
"My ship was damaged in a fight with a Covenant Destroyer I got into cryo to wait for help but the reactor was dying and my pod automatically unfroze me they came out of nowhere just after I got my armor on."
Once Curtis told Master Chief how he got captured they freed the only other prisoner in the bay. It was a tall humanoid covered in fur it made a low growl but they had no clue as to what it meant so they all when back to the pilots cabin. After a few minutes of Ahsoka translating for Chewbacca he agreed that they should eliminate the hunters once and for all.
Before they attacked Ahsoka was able to get in contact with her master who was about one hour away as soon as she told him were they were they had immediately left to come to their aid. But just after they had finished the transmission a large ship came from above and fired on them the shots hit their engines and they fell from the sky.
"Follow me" shouted Master Chief as he ran jumped out of the ship landing on the beach followed closely by the others. He then leapt into the water making a large splash as he hit followed closely by the others. Once they were underwater they all saw a pelican the bay doors open once everyone swam inside the doors closed and then the water was pumped out of the troop compartment. In the middle of the bay was the cryo pod that held Commander Miranda Keyes.
"What is this and who is that" asked Ahsoka gesturing to the pelican that they were standing in as well as the cryo pod that held Commander Keyes.
"This is a Pelican drop ship and that is Commander Keyes" replied Master Chief.
"Why is she in that pod?"
"She was killed by an alien known as the Prophet of Regret"
"But why would you keep her body in that pod?"
"As long a she is in that pod she will not decompose so it will be as if she had just died"
"So you are keeping her body for what?"
"Our Medical technology is advanced enough that it is possible for someone to come back from the dead" Cortana knew that if they got back with Commander Keyes living then Doctor Hasley Would be very happy to know that her daughter was still alive.
"Is that even possible, bringing someone back from the dead?" Though Ahsoka.
"Can we please talk more about this once we make it out of here?" Said Master Chief with that the conversation ended Chief then walked over to a weapon rack attached to the front bulkhead. He pulled out a Sniper Rifle and held it out to Curtis.
"Is it Christmas already?" said Curtis with a grin from ear to ear. After he got four spare clips from an ammo case next to the weapon rack then he moved into the cockpit and started the preflight checks. Master Chief looked at the timer on his HUD that was counting down to the arrival of the republic forces it read 15:45.
"Ok we have 15 minutes until backup arrives so for now we wait they get here to attack" Said Master Chief the rest of them agreed that this was the best plan for the time being so they sat around for the next 15 minutes. But as soon as the 15 minutes were up they powered up the engines and launch out of the water sending up a large spray of water into the air in the distance they could see the hunters flying base. Curtis flew high above the flying fortress and then opened the rear door Master Chief walked over to the edge grabbing a plasma grenade he then jumped out the door this surprised the Jedi.
Once he was about halfway to the ship he primed the grenade and threw it hard at the AA turret on top of the ship there was a brief pause before the turret exploded. Before they knew what had happened the Master Chief it the deck hard making two large footprints in the metal 2 feet deep. The aliens on the deck looked to see a being in green armor aiming a weapon at them and that was the last thing they saw before they were killed by two quick bursts of automatic weapons fire.
The other aliens heard the sounds of gunfire and quickly grabbed their weapons they all came out onto the walkway above the Master Chief aiming their weapons at him all firing at him. But all the shots hit the spot Master Chief was standing in just half a second before we was a blur as he ran straight for them jumping high into the air and landing behind them and opened fire taking down all of the hunters. All of this happened in the span of five seconds the Padawans all stared on with their jaws dropped at what they had just seen. The Pelican touched down a moment later and they all walked out the pelican then flew away piloted by a copy of Cortana. Then they heard the sound of ships approaching.
A small group of white gunships came down and landed on the lower section of the flying base. Around 50 men in white armor came running out of the ships also a man with brown hair and blue eyes came out as well he look around and his attention was caught by two large indents in the platform. Upon closer inspection he saw that they were footprints before he could ponder this he heard a loud shout.
"Skyguy!" yelled Ahsoka Anakin looked up to see his Padawan along with two other Padawans and two men in advanced looking armor. The Padawans jumped down using the force to slow their fall they landed silently on the ground followed by a loud thud as the man in green armor jumped from the platform. Anakin noticed that the mark he made when he landed was almost identical to the other marks he saw but they were not as deep meaning that he had hit the ground going much faster.
They then heard the rumbling of powerful engines they all looked into the sky spotting a green transport that flew over to the other soldier who then got into the transport. It flew down and landed next to the republic gunships and out came the other trooper who walked over to the group of Jedi standing next to Master Chief.
They had agreed to explain once they had gotten back to the republic cruiser in orbit. Once they had all got on their respective gunships but before the doors to the republic gunship closed they saw many more transports different from the first rise from the water and followed them up to the republic cruiser and they all entered the hanger. Landing in a group on the far side of the hanger everyone watched as all of the green transports landed and expected may people to come out but to their surprise to see only two people walk out of the mass of transports.
"Are the other pilots coming out of their ships?" asked Anakin once he walked over to them.
"They are all automated" said Curtis they then walked to a meeting room once they got into the room they explained the textbook history of the UNSC. And they also explained the full brutality of the Human-Covenant War this subject surprised the members of the Republic were surprised at the brutality and length of the war. Once they had finished explaining the UNSC's history the people from the Republic had only one question.
"What is the coordinates of your home world" asked Anakin since they had never said anything about their home world.
"That is classified information" replied Master Chief since neither of them knew if the Cole protocol was still in effect or not so they had agreed that they would still follow it to the letter as they were about to finish the explanation on the Republic's history when an explosion rocked the entire ship.
"CIS battle ship has just jumped in next to us, Battle Stations, its General Grievous's flagship" came over the loudspeaker. They all ran for the hanger the Jedi had just finished explaining who General Grievous was so the members of the UNSC knew who he was and the threat he posed they were quick to get to the hanger going to one of the albatross transports to get some supplies for the fight.
On one thigh Master Chief had an energy sword and on the other thigh was a magnum on his back he had a battle rifle and in his hands was an assault rifle. He also had two Plasma Grenades and two Frag Grenades.
Curtis had an assault rifle in his hands and a sniper rifle on his back in a sheath on his shoulder was a standard issue combat knife. On his hip were one plasma grenade and one Frag Grenade. They quickly boarded the pelican Curtis jumped into the pilot seat and powered up the engines quickly flying out the hanger. As they flew towards the ship three clone fighters flew with the pelican giving it an escort but they were soon destroyed by a large group of 30 CIS fighters. Master Chief hit a button on the wall and the back doors opened up he then walked over to the left row of seats were there was a large rocket sitting.
Chief unhooked the archer missile from the seats and then shoved it out of the open doors once it was near the mass of fighters Cortana sent the detonation code that wiped out all of the fighters in a flash of light.
Once they were five minutes from the hanger another group of ten fighters came behind them and started to shoot at the pelican Master Chief quickly opened a weapon box pulling out the mounted turret and setting it up at the back door of the pelican. Chief turned the turret towards the fighters and opened fire on them taking down eight of them before the turret ran out of ammunition Chief hit the button that closed the rear doors of the pelican chief moved to the co-pilot seat.
"Hold on to something" Said Chief as he took over control of the ship before Curtis could ask why he blacked out from the g-force of Master Chief making the Pelican do a full 1800 turn. Once the pelican was facing the remaining two fighters Chief hit the trigger for the dual 50 caliber auto cannons reducing the fighters to floating debris.
As Curtis regained consciousness the pelican landed in the enemy hanger. He looked to see Master Chief getting up from his seat checking his assault rifle. Once he was up and got his weapons Curtis moved towards the back door to the gunship looking through the camera they saw the ship was surrounded by CIS battle droids. They both pulled back the slides on their assault rifles then Curtis hit the controls for the door as it slid open they expected to be shot at but all of the droids were looking in the other direction.
Chief motioned for Curtis to quietly follow him over to the wall of the hanger ere there was a computer console. He then touched the console to allow Cortana to access the ships systems she could not initiate the self-destruct sequence from this terminal but she could access the hanger controls including the command to explosively decompress the hanger bay.
Cortana told Master Chief her plan and he agreed with it Cortana then remotely flew the Pelican out of the bay it moved just above the entrance seconds later the entire hanger bay exploded outward everything got sucked out of the hanger except Master Chief and Curtis who clung to the wall as well as using the magnetic soles of their boots to stay firmly planted on the deck.
Once the hanger bay was empty of all hostiles the pelican flew back inside and landed next to them
. They then moved over to the doorway it soon opened once the hanger bay had repressurized they quickly rushed through the ship towards the bridge. Curtis opened the door and a lightsaber swung out and would have killed him had The Master Chief not pulled him back. Curtis yelled in pain as his visor exploded then he fell back onto the ground dropping his assault rifle.
Before Curtis's rifle hit the ground Chief grabbed it and shot at Grievous with both his assault rifle and Curtis's. Grievous jumped back to dodge the bullets once both rifles were empty Chief then dropped both guns. He pulled the energy sword igniting it and bringing it up to block a slash from Grievous before slashing for one of his arms. The slash connected to one of Grievous's four arms severing it. Grievous started to swing his remaining three lightsabers at Chief in a wild frenzy but no matter how fast Grievous swung he was never able to land a blow.
The fight had been going on for three minutes now and Grievous was down to one arm. Chief reached down with his other hand and grabbed the magnum from his hip and pointed it at Grievous firing two rounds into his chest plate the first shot was stopped by the armor but the second shot made it through. He then threw his lightsaber at Master Chief causing him to duck giving Grievous enough time to run to his fighter. Chief shot at the fighter as it flew from the hanger the shots bouncing off of the fighter's armor.
Master Chief then moved back towards the bridge once he got to the bridge he quickly scooped up Curtis off the ground and slung him over his shoulder. He quickly moved into the bridge and took down all of the droids in the room after setting Curtis against the wall outside of the command room. Once the room was cleared of all hostiles Master Chief grabbed Curtis moving him to one of the chairs in the bridge. Master Chief then placed his hand on the main computer console he felt Cortana leave his armor and then a second later her avatar appeared human sized in the middle of the bridge.
"I'm setting the ship to explode in three minutes" said Cortana as Curtis started to stir in the chair. He brought his hands up to his face causing him to yell in pain as he touched the glass in his face. Master Chief walked over to Curtis and pulled out a needle of morphine putting the needle into his neck this numbed the pain. Curtis reached for the sniper rifle on his back as he pulled it into his arms he looked at it saddened to see the barrel was bent at a right angle.
Master Chief handed Curtis his handgun as he touched the panel transferring Cortana back into the armor. They both sprinted down the hallway Master Chief slowing down substantially so that Curtis could keep up with him. They quickly arrived at the hanger and ran aboard the Pelican they pounded up the ramp Curtis moving to the pilot's cabin and closed the door to keep the vacuum of space out since his armor was still compromised from his helmet visor being destroyed.
The engines gave a powerful roar as the pelican flew out of the bay once they got halfway back to the republic cruiser the CIS warship exploded in a massive fireball that eliminated many enemy fighters. Once the pelican landed in the hanger Master Chief quickly moved over to one of the albatross heavy drop ships and grabbed a field medical kit he then returned to Curtis who was sitting down in one of the pelican's crash seats. Master Chief first took off Curtis's helmet carefully so as to not cause more damage to his head.
Once his helmet was on the ground Master Chief took out a pair of tweezers and started to pull the glass from his face. After a minute all of the glass shards were taken out of his face then Master Chief stood up and walked to another albatross to grab another helmet for Curtis to use. When Master Chief left to get a replacement helmet Curtis put some medical jell on his face that numbed the pain as well as speeded up the healing process.
Master Chief then returned with an identical helmet to the one that was destroyed by Grievous. Curtis put on his helmet and they started to move towards the bridge of the republic ship. They arrived at the bridge at the same time as the Jedi. The ship had taken very little damage thanks to Master Chief and Curtis blowing up the CIS ship. The Jedi were surprised to hear that Master Chief was able to best Grievous in a fight.
In the next hour they cleaned up the remaining CIS fighters as well as repairing the slight damage from the space battle. They then jumped out of the system on a course to Coruscant for the members of the UNSC to talk to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine. Anakin walked to the room that the two members of the UNSC had been given. As he was about to enter he felt something that was puzzling, he was able to sense the two men but he also felt the presents of a women.
He then knocked on the door when it opened he saw both men still in their armor the smaller man had his helmet off and he was sitting on the bed with a small pile of cards. The other soldier was standing against the wall.
"We will arrive at Coruscant in one hour" Said Anakin he was about to leave when the larger soldier asked him a question.
"Can your medical facilities heal severe burns?"
"Yes if you would follow me I can show you were the med bay is located" they then both left the room and walked down the hallway to the medical bay. Once they arrived at the medical bay Anakin motioned for Master Chief to sit on the bed. Instead of sitting on the bed he started to disassemble the top half of his armor.
Anakin was shocked to see that Master Chief's entire chest was covered in third degree burns. How he was able to beat Grievous with such serious injuries spoke volumes of how deadly he was. The medical droid came over to Master Chief and gave him a shot of bacta his chest then healed as if it had never been burned. All of the scars he had acquired over his long career as a Spartan were still there.
He then started to reassemble his armor and then he walked out of the medical bay towards his room once he got into the room he sat against the wall and decided to catch some sleep before they got to Coruscant. Curtis continued to play solitaire for ten more minutes before going to one of the albatross drop ships. He stared to look through the crates he found the one that had some food in it he grabbed two MREs and two bottles of water.
He then walked back to the room and opened the door walking in seeing Master Chief leaning against the wall. Curtis was not sure if he was asleep or not so he set one of the MREs and one of the bottles of water next to him on the floor. Curtis then went over to the metal desk in the corner of the room. He then started to heat up the MRE and then he started to eat it.
Master Chief was woken up after just under an hour of sleep he then saw that Curtis had brought him an MRE and a bottle of water. He quickly opened the MRE and quickly downed its contents as well as the water in the bottle. He then stood up and walked over to Curtis waking him up then they both walked towards the bridge of the ship.
They arrived on the bridge moments before it came out of lightspeed. They were surprised to see a planet that was more of a giant sphere shaped city than a planet. Anakin and Ahsoka approached them then they all went down to the hanger Anakin and Ahsoka as well as the other Padawans that had been saved from the hunters boarded a LAAT gunship and they flew out of the hanger followed closely by Master Chief and Curtis.
Cortana was flying the pelican Master Chief and Curtis sat in the troop bay waiting in the crash seats. Both transports landed outside of the Jedi Temple all of the passengers got out of their respective transports then they proceeded to enter the temple. Master Chief felt all eyes were on him but he did not care he was used to getting stared at by most if not all people in the UNSC.
They walked to a pair of large doors Anakin entered before the rest of them he then came back out and beckoned them to enter the council chamber. Curtis entered the room first followed by the Master Chief who again felt all eyes on him. He looked at everyone in the room carefully taking in the details of everyone in the room. He only moved his eyes so they could not tell that he was studying each of them.
After the introductions the Padawans and Anakin were asked to leave the council chamber. Once they were gone it was just the two members of the UNSC and the council members the council members felt the presents of the two soldiers as well as the presents of a woman.
Yoda was able to locate the source of the female presents it was coming from the taller male's helmet. This baffled him so he decided to ask the men if they knew were the presents was coming from.
"Feel a women's presents do I," he said to the two men, "Know where this presents comes from do you?" after a brief conversation between Cortana and Master Chief they decided to reveal her existence.
Master Chief then walked to the center of the room where there was a holoprojector built into the floor. He reached down and touched it seconds later a figure of a women appeared codes scrolled across her form giving the hologram a form of cloths.
"Hello I'm Cortana, UNSC Artificial Intelligence serial number CTN 0452-9" the council members were surprised to see a computer program that acted so human. As Yoda was deep in thought with the Force as he thought the only thing that made sense was that this AI had somehow gained sentience.
In the next hour they explained the history of the UNSC they did not reveal anything that was even remotely secret. Before they left they made sure to tell the members of the council that Cortana's existence must remain a secret. Both soldiers then started to walk around the temple as they walked around they saw many different alien species.
They arrived at the sparring area and decided to spar even though Curtis was at a major disadvantage due to Master Chief's augmentations. After they had spared for an hour Curtis was out of breath were as Master Chief was not even sweating. At that moment Master Yoda entered the room followed closely by a group of Jedi younglings. They started to spar with one another as they spared with one another Master Chief walked over to Yoda.
"Master Yoda," He said with a slight bow ", I would like to spar with you to see how your skills compare to my own." Yoda thought about this for a short while before he accepted Master Chief's challenge. He walked over to a nearby rack that had many training lightsabers on it. He took two lightsabers from the rack.
He then walked over to Master Chief handing him one of the lightsabers they both preceded to the middle of the room and both gave a slight bow before they started to fight. Yoda jumped into the air using the force to move faster but Master Chief merely raised his lightsaber to block the blow to his head. He then quickly slashed at Yoda who was taken off guard at how fast Master Chief was moving.
He blocked the strikes then slashed towards Master Chief's legs. He jumped over the slash at his legs and quickly knocked Yoda's saber from his hands and held his saber pointed at Yoda's neck. All who saw the fight was amazed as very few could match Yoda's skill let alone disarm him.
Master Chief deactivated his lightsaber and walked over to Yoda's lightsaber offering it to Yoda who took it.
"Ready for round two?" asked Master Chief to witch Yoda gave a nod and they both started to fight when Master Chief felt himself starting to get lifted off of the ground. He then realized that Yoda was lifting him into the air although it took some considerate effort on Yoda's part.
Master Chief then threw his saber at Yoda who dodged to the side losing his concentration temporarily. Master Chief hit the floor with a loud crash he charged forward in Spartan Time he dodge Yoda's attacks quickly grabbing his saber from the floor activating it just in time to block a strike from Yoda.
Master Chief who was still in Spartan Time easily dodged all of Yoda's attacks. He then kicked the lightsaber out of Yoda's hands it flew from Yoda's hand and landed on the ground with a clatter. Master Chief held his lightsaber to Yoda's neck ending the second round of their sparing.
After the dual Master Chief returned to the council chamber to ask the Jedi to lend him a ship to go to the planet that they had met up with them at. He hoped to go and retrieve a few things he had not been able to take with them when they left the Dawn.
Master Chief and Curtis were soon walking towards the outside of the Jedi Temple to where they boarded the pelican and soon set off towards the nearest shipyard where there was a ship waiting for them to take them to the planet.
They landed the Pelican in the small hanger of the ship and were met by two Jedi Padawans Ahsoka and the other one they had not yet met. He introduced himself as Taran Cyneran (this Character belongs to the user cdog1917 he has given me permission to use his character if you want know the full history behind them. But they are dating and Taran is the avatar from avatar the last airbender universe but the planet has joined the republic.)
They soon entered lightspeed as they told the members of the UNSC about their many adventures together. Master Chief could tell there was something going on between the two of them. But it was not his business so he did not ask them about it.
They left lightspeed and flew to the other side of the planet were they eventually found the Forward Onto Dawn's wreckage. Next to the wreckage of the dawn was also a space station that was smaller than the remaining piece of the Dawn. Master Chief told them to keep the ship were it was and then Master Chief and Curtis walked towards the hanger boarding the Pelican flying out of the hanger and heady towards the forerunner station.
They entered the hanger of the station and as soon as they exited the Pelican they saw a monitor that looked like guilty sparks but instead of glowing blue this monitor was green.
"Welcome reclaimers I am 636 Unyielding Core I am the monitor of this installation. This installation is a shipyard as well as an advanced medical facility."
"How advanced are the medical facilities?" asked Master Chief
"This installation has a record of bringing back 34 beings from the dead"
"We have a body that has been suspended in cryogenic freezing just after death could you use this installation to bring her back?"
"There is a 95% chance that it will work but it will take one week to prepare the procedure."
"Will you be able to repair our ship that is floating outside of this installation?"
"Yes but it will take a month by my calculations to rebuild the ship."
"If you rebuilt the ship around this installation how long would it take?"
"I Estimate it would take roughly a week to complete. Is there anything that you would like to have modified?"
"Would you allow my AI to direct the reconstruction of our ship?"
"Yes I can also give your AI a number of upgrades if you would allow me."
"Ok I agree to allow you to upgrade my AI."
Master Chief walked over to a nearby panel and inserted Cortana's chip into the panel. Once he was sure that Cortana was safe he got into contact with the republic ship and told them that they could leave the system and that they would return to Coruscant in one week. The ship turned and jumped out of the system.
It had been one week and they were now aboard the newly rebuilt Forward Onto Dawn the major upgrades to the ship was it had three shield generators to provide three layers of protection. All of the titanium-A armor plating was replaced with a stronger titanium alloy that was a combination that was a mix between titanium and the metal that was used in all forerunner building. The ship's MAC Gun now mirrored the one that was on the Pillar of Autumn. The ships reactor also mirrored the one used on the Autumn. The ship also had a teleportation grid that could teleport the crew to the ground from the ship or from the ground to the ship
Cortana had been given upgrades to make her a contender class AI so she was now able to do more tasks as well as being able to store more data. Cortana found an interesting project in the stations archives and that was to make a human body that had implants in the brain so that an AI could control it as if it was human and not an AI.
Cortana's new body looked like her avatar but without the blue hew. Her hair was brown but her eyes were the same color as her avatar. She also had an implant in the body's index fingers that would allow her to access a computer network remotely. She also gave her "body" the same level of augmentations as John and the others had gotten.
She then made a set of Mjolnir armor for her to wear. It was identical to John's armor in every way except her armor did not have the scratches that his armor had gotten from years of service. Cortana was in Master Chief's armor and was testing out using her new body from his armor as they walked towards the area were Commander Keyes was going to be revived.
They stood on either side of the bed they waited an then the body started to take slow rasping breaths and then Her eyes opened and she sat up with a jerk quickly getting her bearings and seeing them to imposing figures before her both saluted her. She returned the salute and then both figures removed their helmets Keyes recognized The Master Chief but she did not recognize the other one until she focused on her eyes.
"Cortana?" asked Keyes Cortana nodded her head and then once they had given Keyes a chance to change out of the hospital gown into her usual outfit. "Johnson?"
"He didn't make it ma'am Sparks turned on us and killed Johnson" they then walked into one of the many conference rooms on the ship and explained all that had happened since she had died up till how they got were they were now.
They decide to go to Earth before returning to the republic they moved to the bridge Keyes took the command chair and Master Chief took a seat at station that they had added for a person to access all of the other stations data.
They got the ship prepared to jump into slipspace moving next to a small asteroid field they quickly opened a portal into slipspace as the ship was getting pulled into the portal a small object that was around half of the size of a warthog. The object shot a yellow beam at the portal just before the ship was pulled. As the ship entered slipspace instead of a slight vibration going through the ship the entire ship was shaking left and right.
"Cortana what's going on?" asked Commander Keyes.
"I do not know Commander something went wrong with the slipspace portal as we entered it."
"Ok Cortana pull us out of slipspace right now"
"Yes ma'am" in front of the ship they could see the opened portal to real space as soon as they exited slipspace Cortana ran a full systems check on the ship. "The ship is undamaged by whatever caused the slipspace anomaly."
"Cortana look at what the cameras saw before we jumped into slipspace" Cortana brought up the images from a camera on the rear of the ship. They looked at the monitor and saw the beam hit the portal. Cortana sent the video to Core who looked at the video he then sent Cortana a data stream.
"Ok Core says that it was a forerunner slipspace core that was damaged and reacted to the opening of our slipspace portal. I'm finding our location out where we are now" said Cortana
"Good job Cortana, go get Curtis and get him up here."
"Ok" she left the bridge and walked down to Curtis's room and opened the door to see him slumped against the wall. She moved over to his body and felt his forehead and found a small bump she figured he must have fallen and hit his head when the ship shook. She threw him over her shoulder and walked up to the bridge when she was in the elevator he regained consciousness just before the doors opened to the bridge.
"According to the star charts I have in my database we are approximately one hour from Earth" said Cortana from her body that she was controlling from her chip that was in the main computer of the ship. She was able to control her body from anywhere due to the modifications to her chip.
"Alright Cortana let's head back to Earth set the coordinates and get us under way as soon as possible" said Keyes. Cortana gave a nod and seconds later the ship was entering slipspace.
"Commander I suggest we exit slipspace before we get to Earth and approach with our sub-light engines" Cortana said when they were ten minutes from coming out of slipspace at Earth.
"Alright Cortana take us out of slipspace and power up the shields once we exit slipspace just in case we get a nasty welcome"
"That is a sound idea Commander, exiting in 3….2….1….mark" with that they exited slipspace the lights dimmed slightly from the massive amount of power drawn by the three shield generators and the slipspace drive all running at the same time. Cortana quickly scanned the area of space around the Dawn with the upgraded sensors that now rivaled that used on forerunner ships.
"There are no threats in the area of space around the ship, orders Commander?"
"Fire up the engines and set a course for Earth" The ship was soon underway Cortana diverted power from two of the shield generators so that they could arrive at Earth in 24 minutes.
On the way to Earth they launched a Longsword to fly ahead of them to give the defenses that would be around the planet a message. The Longsword flew around the edge of the moon and what the members of the UNSC felt was not happiness that usually came with seeing the home world of humanity they felt confusion.
There was nothing that was there when they left to go fight the final leg of the war. There was no Orbital Defense Platforms; no wreckage from the first and second Battles of Earth, the most noticeable was Africa half the area had been glassed by the separatists to keep the flood from gaining a foothold on Earth.
"Cortana I want to know what's going on here, start hacking into any satellites and move us to the dark side of the moon" said Commander Keyes who was still shocked and confused by the events that took them here to this Earth.
It had been three days since they first arrived at this alternate Earth and they were sitting in a briefing room Cortana was telling them about this new Earth the most surprising was that on this Earth there was costumed heroes that had superpowers and a number of mythical beings both good and bad. (ok look I'm sorry but I don't feel like describing all the heroes in the Marvel universe if you want to know look them up)
After the discussion in the briefing room they decided that since they were stuck here until the AIs could find a way to get them back then they should set up a cover on Earth as well as a hidden base to store any gear they might need.
They bought a small warehouse that would be their home and business. They had a large amount of money to start out with because Cortana had covertly hacked into the accounts of a number of criminal organizations and had not left any trail to lead back to them.
For a legitimate source of money they decided to open up a custom vehicle repair shop (I know some other authors have used this as a cover for Chief but this was the first job that came to mind). As part of their cover John and Miranda were half siblings, Curtis's cover was that he was a friend and coworker, and Cortana's cover was that she was married to John at which Miranda had gotten a good laugh at the surprised look on John's face.
John and Cortana were currently in one of the warthogs that had the gun removed they had also painted it black to give it a more civilian look. John was driving the warthog as they went into town to get some supply's that they needed such as food and cloths. At the moment they were both wearing UNSC workout shirts that had the UNSC emblem removed. To go with their cover story they both wore a ring on their hands but the ring also had an extremely powerful GPS chip inside of them so that they could be found at a moment's notice by Keyes.
They went into the store and enough food to last them around a month. They then went and bought a number of cloths for Himself and Cortana as well as cloths for Miranda and Curtis. Once they packed all of the shopping goods away in the back of the warthog. Once they got in the hog John held his thumb on the fingerprint reader that started the warthog the reader would only start the hog if Miranda, Curtis, Cortana, or John tried to activate it anyone else would get a mild shock that would leave them paralyzed on the ground and if the person tried to access the hog again then the person would be unconscious.
Once they got home they brought in all of the food they had gotten as well as the cloths. They stored all of the groceries in the large freezer that would keep their food fresh until they ate it. They left out the food that they were going to eat for dinner. By the time they all finished their meal it was nighttime Cortana was still for a couple of seconds.
"We may have a problem," she said all of a sudden ", apparently a S.H.I.E.L.D. long-range observation station has suddenly gone offline, getting a live feed from the Dawn now." The TV on the wall which was wired to the Dawn through a secure frequency a picture of the area were the station once was and all they saw was a pile of flaming rubble.
"What happened?" asked Miranda but before Cortana could answer they saw a part of the rubble started to move and they saw a large alien robot stand up from the rubble. It then started to walk through the woods as it walked across a road a car hit it the man in the car jumped out of the car moments before it was shot by a powerful laser.
"We need to get there as soon as possible" Said Miranda. As soon as she had detected the explosion at the observation she had immediately prepped a pelican for immediate insertion. The pelican was screaming towards their base of operations. They all boarded the pelican which had been installed with active camouflage that was at the same level as the forerunners had been developed but was not able to get past the prototype stage by the time the halo array was fired.
As the pelican flew through the sky towards the Dawn they were going over plans. They decided to send John and Cortana down using HEV pods because do to the danger the alien robot presented they doubted that the standard ODST armor would provide effective. As soon as the ship landed they sprinted to the armory quickly suiting up and grabbing weapons. John and Cortana ran as fast as they could towards the section of the ship were the HEV pods were stored. They locked in their weapons and then hit the button that launched the pods.
Miranda and Curtis ran the other direction towards the Hhanger boarding the Pelican and with Miranda at the controls they launched out of the hanger bay and started descending towards the location Cortana had given them.
Meanwhile on the ground the Avengers were attacking the robot and making little process. As they fought the robot it shot a large number of high explosive rockets at Wasp but they were blocked by Antman putting his hands around her the resulting explosion knocked him unconscious but he was able to protect her from the explosion.
The robot then sent out a powerful sonic pulse that stunned everyone. Before the robot could exploit this it looked up into the sky. The heroes looked up and saw two balls of fire plummeting towards them. They hit the ground with two loud booms everyone looked at the cloud of dust. As the dust cleared they all saw the two fireballs were actually to human sized pods.
"Oh great, now what?" groaned Ironman before anybody could reply the doors of both pods exploded outward and two figures in armor appeared holding rifles in their hands and on their backs were a large square piece of metal.
The figures quickly opened fire on the robot the bullets putting dents in the robots armor. The heroes quickly got up and started to attack the robot deciding to find out just who or what the two figures in armor were. Ironman flew into the air shooting his unibeam at the robot. One of the lasers shot by the robot got lucky and hit one of Ironman's jets causing him the spin out of control and hit Thor knocking out the asgaurdian.
"John this isn't working we need to switch weapons" said Cortana over their private COM. John nodded his head as he put the assault rifle on his back and pulled off the Spartan Laser. He dropped to a knee and aimed the weapon at the robot. It charged for five seconds before a massive crimson beam hit the robots head. The robot stopped moving because the laser had completely melted the head.
Hulk jumped onto the robot and ripped a large hole in the front of the robot. Captain Marvel quickly ran up to the nega bomb. And started to detach and attach wires as the bomb pulsed a blue color as he was doing this a transport landed next to the pods that the two armored people had come down on. Out of it came two soldiers who wore armor that looked advanced but not as advanced as the other ones in the green armor.
"I can disarm the nega bomb in five minutes, but it will go off in three" said Marvel.
"This is all your fault" said Wasp.
"I know" he said grabbing the nega bomb and flying into the sky.
"Marvel, no that's not what I meant" As soon as he started to fly into the sky John ran over to the Pelican and in the back was the engine block from an EVA thruster pack that was converted into a backpack that would allow a Spartan to quickly make his way into orbit. He also grabbed a zero-g maneuvering thruster pack. He then launched into the sky with a tremendous boom.
He was followed into the sky by Thor, Ironman attempted to go with them but when he tried to fly he flew out of control and hit a tree due to his thrusters being damaged. As he flew into space Marvel began to freeze as the cold vacuum of space took its toll on him. He then fell unconscious from the cold and then both he and the bomb began to fall back towards Earth.
Thor caught Marvel and Chief caught the bomb after detaching from the EVA thruster pack. He flew with the bomb in hand and it soon stated to pulse faster and faster. At that point Chief threw the bomb as hard as he could it got around 30 yards away before it exploded. The explosion launched him towards the planet. As he entered the atmosphere his shields stated to flare from the heat of reentry. John held out his arms to slow his fall.
"Thor come in, Thor can you hear me?" Ironman said into the Avengers COM system. They all looked up and saw a meteorite flying towards them.
When The Master Chief was about to hit the ground he pressurized the hydrostatic gel to maximum. It felt like a thousand tiny knifes stabbing into him. Then he hit the ground with a loud earth-shaking impact.
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