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Author: Bobbish

Rated: T - English - General - Reviews: 10 - Published: 02-21-11 - Updated: 03-02-11

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HALOME crossover: Now you see me now you don't

Chapter 1: Discovery

The bridge was in chaos. Emergency lights flashed as men and women shouted orders and counter-orders.

"Sir!" Someone called "The CCS-Class is bearing down on us!" I ran a few calculations and came to a conclusion. "Captain, the 'covies will be in weapon's range in about 60 seconds! I recommend we slip out-system immediately." Captain Smith replied "Will the anomaly affect the jump? "Look" I replied "The way I see it, we have two options; one, stay here and get blasted into slag by the 'covies…. Or we could jump on a random vector that could take us somewhere totally awesome. It's your choice."

"Captain! They're charging their plasma cannon!" The crewman yelled. "Josh, get us the hell out of here!" Smith Bellowed "Spinning up jump drive" I replied "Hold on to your hats people!" With that the prowler blasted into slipspace.

As we hurtled through the void of slipspace, I Sighed inwardly; we had made it. "That was too close for comfort." I thought. "Josh!" a gruff voice yanked me from my thoughts. "How're we doing?" Smith inquired. I replied "The slipstream is slightly unstable. It may have been that anomaly."

"Will it be a problem?"

"No sir, I don't think so. We should be fine… I hope." Smith grunted. "We have no idea where we're 'gonna come out. We should activate the stealth systems before we transition." I smirked "One step ahead of you."

A few hours later, my sensors started to read energy cascades that kept increasing in intensity. "I wonder what's going on." I thought. All of a sudden, there was a huge radiation flare. The last thing I saw before my sensors were shut down was the sight of the entire crew slumping over at their workstations.

After hurriedly rebooting all of my systems, I heaved a (simulated) sigh of relief. Then I noticed that the entire crew was comatose. Frowning, I activated the neural stimulator's that are implanted along with the neural lace. These stimulators allow me to speed up the recovery time of my crew if they are rendered unresponsive. I knew that it would still take a bit for them to wake up.

With that piece of business taken care of, I took a moment to take in my surroundings. I gasped. An unidentified ship was approaching the Now you see me …. And we weren't cloaked! The ship was about the size of a UNSC corvette, except smaller… and sleeker. The strangest thing about it though, was the markings on the side of the ship, in clear English, SSV Marathon. Clearly named after the battle of Marathon. This meant it was a human ship, but this ship didn't match any known human ships. How odd. I decided to hail it. "Maybe they're friendly. Then again, maybe not. Aww hell, it's worth a shot."

I established a COM with the strange ship. "This is the UNSC now you see me now you don't. My crew is unresponsive, we are requesting assistance."

"This is the SSV Marathon…"

"I already know your ship's name."

"….How?"

"I looked out a window and read the words painted on your goddamn hull!"

"But we're outside of visual range! How could you do that?"

"I used my cameras to magnify your ship."

"A-Are you human?"

"My creators were human." I replied "He seems a little worried." I thought.

"Creators? Are you some kind of VI?" He replied. There was assort of hopeful tone in his voice. "What's a VI?" I wondered. Quickly thinking, I hacked into their data base. It actually had some pretty good security, but it was no match for a smart AI. As I read through their "Codex", my thoughts grew more and more worried. "I probably shouldn't tell them I'm an AI. It would probably freak them out. Alright I know what to do."

"Yes, I am an experimental Smart VI. My name is Joshua, but you can call me Josh." "Not entirely a lie…. Well, most of it is, but that's not the point!" "Oh, good, I was worried for a minute I was talking to one of those illegal AI's. Anyways, what do you need?" By that time I had finished hacking their star charts. "Actually, the captain's just waking up. We don't need any help." "Just the captain? What about the rest of your crew?" "I am perfectly capable of flying the ship alone." "Then why did you need the captain?" He asked. "He tells me where to go. My job is to help navigate the ship as well as advise him." There was a pause "Before you go, we need to check your credentials the term "UNSC" does not show up in any of our databases, well unless you were sent by the old United Nations Security Council, which I doubt."

My sensors indicated that Smith had woken up. "Did you hear all that?" I inquired

"Yes. Ohh… my head is killing me! Why did you have to use the neural stimulators?" He complained. "You were unconscious." I said simply "What should we do?" His mouth stretched into a wicked smile "Let's ghost 'em!" I laughed "Right away sir!"

Meanwhile, the Marathon's Captain, Looked at the strange craft. It was about the size of a frigate, or maybe a small cruiser. It was either a large frigate or a small cruiser. He couldn't decide. It had two segmented "wings" jutting from either side. It looked rather stealthy. The bridge was up in front. It could've been a minelayer, but he wasn't sure. The captain turned and ordered "Bring them in for suspicion of possessing an illegal AI." Then he looked out the window again and gasped; The ship had simply disappeared.

I hope you enjoyed chapter two of HALOME: Now you see me now you don't. I'm still trying to think of a good title for this. If you have any suggestions, please… err suggest them.

Bobbish out.

Edit: I fixed the ship size issue, thanks to Robo Reader 21 for pointing out the problems. By the way, I would really appreciate it if you people would review more often. Don't be shy!