(I think I'm going to alternate perspectives at least until one catches up with the other, oh and usual disclaimer Halo belongs to Bungie and the Honorverse to Mr. David Weber)
…ief wake up …. ake up … wake up … Chief!
He woke with a start recognizing the voice that had been calling him as Cortana's as he came out of cryo sleep.
"What's wrong?" He asked his voice hoarse from being freshly woken out of cryo and what felt like disuse.
"What no hello, how are you Cortana?" the AI asked sounding slightly miffed "You nearly gave me a heart attack there chief, that is if I could have one." Her tone shifting to teasing as she continued
There was a brief pause as the chief got his head together and brought himself up to speed. "Sorry Cortana, nice to see you too" He said smiling faintly behind his visor.
"Glad to see there is still some measure of manners left in you" Cortana teased as her avatar smirked at him. "Sorry if I was a bit snippy it's been a while since I had anything besides my own thoughts for company."
"It's alright cortana, but why did you wake me, is there a rescue party incoming?" the chief asks as he works the kinks from his body from apparently being in cryo for quite a while.
She looked slightly crestfallen "No chief, there is no rescue party however our half of the dawn is on a collision course with a planet; preliminary scans, with what sensors are left on the dawn, have shown that it is capable of supporting life but I cannot say more than that right now but I am going to try to land the dawn it would be better if the dawn were stationary, relatively at least, it will be easier to find this way."
"I see, what are the odds of a successful landing then?"
"Depending, of course, on the exact gravity of the planet, what angle we come down on and how much abuse the engines and superstructure can handle. My simulations show anywhere from 8 to 80 percent."
"Hmm better than our usual odds, I'll give you that." The chief said with a slight chuckle.
With a smile cortana replies, "Yep now how do you want to do this?"
"There are a three remaining, functional, life pods and even a pelican or you can gamble on being able to land the dawn, I would recommend loading the pelican and taking it to the surface I can leave an automated program to bring the dawn in."
"Then we'll go with that, what do we have left for supplies?"
"Because of the damage from both the battle over the ark and being cut in half I don't have a full inventory but there is a secondary armory on the floor below us and supplies within what is left of the hangar, also there are some odd energy readings coming from the starboard cryo bay."
"Then we'll have to check those out, is that everything?"
"Yep, well except that we've only got 3 hours till atmospheric re-entry, pull me chief." She stated with a bit of her customary snark.
As the chief leaned down to pull her chip he could have sworn that right before cortana looked nervous though the moment was so brief he dismissed it and the thought to bring her up again and ask her was immediately squashed, if there was something wrong she would have told him.
(Finished Halo 4 NOOO, Bungie why!?, finish halo 4, curl up, try not to cry, cry a lot)
(Constructive criticism welcome and flamers BRING IT ON! lol if I miss anything blatant don't be afraid to call me on it though will fix so long as it's not someone just nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking)(also anybody else think these are really short? was thinking about it even with my notes is short jeez ah well there isn't alot to describe right now may get better later, anyway good day ya'll lol)
