Chapter 2
A new home
Date: 4-14-2552. Time:13:00 Location: Earth, Dry dock. P.O.V: Squad commander, Matteo Jameson… Ready to start.
"Buckle up back there." said Tina.
"Were coming in." I walked to the front of the pelican to see what was going on, and thats when i saw it. The U.N.S.C Guardian, our new home. "Nice ship huh?"
Tina whispered "Nice!? shes a beauty!"
"Ya, armed to the teeth, its even got a few prototype systems, my favorite is the new wargames simulator." "Wargames?" I asked.
"Its a brand new spartan training system, it creates a holographic Battlefield in which spartans can safely fight each other for practice."
"I'll have to try it out when i get onboard." i replied. "Speaking of which, now you really have to buckle up!"
"Alright." i replied
"Oh and I'll be at the mess hall if you need me." said Tina.
I started walking toward the back of the pelican. The door opened and I put my hands behind my back.
"Pathfinder! ready!" I yelled
"Sir!" replied the team as they all stood up into a ready position.
the door began to open letting out pressure from inside the Pelican. And we began to shuffle out of the pelican and out of the landing zone. the docking bay was huge and open, with flood lights all over the ceiling. We could hear the echoing sound of the speakers mounted all over the walls and all the machinery running throughout the room, as well as voices shouting orders in the distance.
"Eh ehm! Are you pathfinder team?"
"Excuse me?" I said as I turned around.
"Are you pathfinder team?"
"As a matter of fact we are." I replied
"I'm Commander Lowery, Cara Lowery. First officer on ship and manager of all the fire teams onboard."
"Commander on deck!" I shouted.
The whole team stood in attention.
"As you were." She said.
"I'm just here to make sure we didn't get the wrong fire team."She continued, as she was pacing back and forth.
"We good?" Joked Allan.
"I hope so, otherwise you four came all this way just to go back." She said in a very stern voice.
"Anyways, you should probably go check in with the captain."
Just then the speaker sounded: "Pathfinder team, please report to the captain's ready room immediately. I Repeat Pathfinder team please report to the captain's ready room immediately."
"hm, well there ya go, better get going" She said in a rude tone. as she walked toward an elevator
"So now what?"asked Nombeko.
"Well we should go see the captain, then… I don't know. we'll figure something out" I replied.
We walked over to one of the elevators, the door opened revealing an area just big enough for about 10 people.
"Bridge."I said.
the elevator doors closed and we began to move.
"so… what do you think about the ship so far?" Downie asked.
"Well I don't know about that Commander Lowery." replied Allan.
"She's probably just got too many delinquents on her hands *Cough Cough* Allan *Cough Cough.* I replied in her defence.
"BUUUUT, other than her, its a great ship." Allan continued.
"Well we haven't met the captain yet so dont get too comfortable." Said Downie.
We could hear the elevator coming to a stop. the door opened into a short hallway. it was relatively quiet other than the humming of electricity flowing throughout the ship.
we continued walking toward the end of the hallway and into the bridge. The room was quite dark with blue lights lining the walls. The shape was a rectangle with rounded corners it was deep in the center and higher up along the edges. there were about 10 consoles on each of the sides. in the center there was a holographic projecting table and in front of that was the captains chair facing a screen. One of the crew members saw us
"Ah you're here, the captain's ready room in just to the right of us." He said.
We walked over to the door it opened up to the captain yelling at someone he was talking to via long range coms.
"excuse me sir?" i said.
"oh you're here!" He hung up the call and asked us to sit down.
"Pathfinder team correct?"
"yes sir." i replied.
He looked under his desk and pulled out a pad.
"Squad commander… Matteo Jameson. Date of birth… May 23 2510. Birth place… North America, Washington.
LT. commander... luis Nombeko. Date of birth… November 2 2512. Birth place Africa, New Mombasa.
LT. Sergio Allan. Date of birth… june 5 2512. Birth place... North America, Texas. LT. Hayley Downie. Date of birth april 26 2516. Birth place… Europe, Berlin. Am i correct on all of those?" "Yes Sir." we all said
"I'm Captain, Connors, Dylan Connors. I presume you've met commander Lowery?"
"yes sir." We said.
"You'll get used to her, so you were sent here by… Colonel… Joseph?"
"Yes s-"
"Look commander, relax you can drop the formalism for now."
"ye-, Okay." i said.
"So did Colonel Joseph fill you in?"
"Unfortunately no, Captain." i said.
"Well then allow me, you four have known of the forerunners correct?"
"yeah" "Well, then you must recall installation 04, the halo ring that master chief found. anyways we've found another ring."
We looked around exchanging looks.
"according to the felis, the ship who found the ring its installation 07, You're here because-"
"Let me guess, the covenant." said Allan.
The captain leaned back in his chair and said
"Any questions?"
"no" I said.
"alright then you're dismissed."
"Hes not a bad captain at all." Said Downie as we were walking out
"So, again, now what?" Asked Nombeko.
"Well i don't know about you but i'm gonna check out the gun range." Said Allan
"Speaking of guns theres a new spartan training/practice system called Wargames, you should probably check it out." I Replied
"I think I'll go see if i can get to know some people at the mess hall." Said Downie
"I'll come with you." I replied "I'm getting hungry anyways."
"I'll stay here and go over the schematics for the ship." Said Nombeko
"Ok, see ya luis!" Said Downie
We walked into the elevator leaving Nombeko behind.
"Wargames." Said Allan
the elevator doors closed and we began moving back down.
the room was in a rather awkward silence. the door opened and Allan walked out.
"See ya guys." He said
"Mess hall." I said.
the doors closed and we began to move again. moments later the elevator came to a stop the doors opened and we walked out.
"Whoa!" I said "Its kinda crowded."
"Oh it will be fine! come on!" said Downie
"Downie… you know how i don't like crowds."
"Matt… It will be Fuuuun! come on!"
"...Fine. BUT only if we get a quiet table.
We saw Tina over sitting with a bunch of other people who seemed to look like pilots. we found a spot, sat down and waited. I ordered some food and downie went over to meet some people not much happened for the next hour or so. so I decided i would head for my quarters.
"Downie!" I said "I'm gunna go to bed."
"K good night." She replied
I walked over to the elevator and got in "Pathfinder quarters" i said the elevator doors shut and i began to move. Surprisingly the door opened right across the hall to our quarters. i changed out of my spartan armor and got into bed i immediately fell asleep.
BEEEP...BEEEP...BEEEP. i looked over by my desk and saw the coms were activated i pressed the button and speaking on the intercom was captain Connors.
" All hands this is the Captain Prepare for slipspace. were headin out."
2nd chapter YA! Not much to say right now just thank you for reading! please post your thoughts and suggestions. 3rd chapter will be out wednesday.