I'm going to bold my notes to distinguish them from the chapter now, but anyway how bout some opinions on the title anybody thinks it's kinda I dunno overdone or well I was going to call it pretentious lol. Also anybody else wonder if the actual authors for these stories ever check out what's being written on this site?
(Disclaimer I don't own any of these 343 is Halo and Mr. Weber for the Honorverse) Or do I? lol nope
The door slid open, shocked honor hesitated for a moment until a voice, clearly feminine called out.
"Don't worry if we had meant you harm you never would have gotten this far."
"That's not very reassuring" Honor grumbled quiet enough she thought the other woman couldn't hear
"Now that's not very nice, surely your treecat, Nimitz, has conveyed that we mean no harm"
A different voice, male, this time "And if that's not enough I will swear on my life that you will have safe passage."
Steeling herself to enter honor moved, stiffly at first, but gradually more naturally as Nimitz's presence and her own natural authority returned, the lights once more turned on as she approached and before long she reached a larger room what was obviously a gathering place, perhaps a CIC (Command Information Centre) of sorts judging by the computers that lined the room though none were active. Though whether this was because of age,disuse or disinclination to have them active she did not know. At the end of the room she finally saw the being that had called her here and it appeared to be a man. Though the being was still shrouded in shadow which suggested the lights didn't work and neither did the computers, she could see that it was above average human height, practically enormous at least 2 meters, (200cm) and clad in a type of battle armor she had never seen before. Coming to a halt facing her, she relaxed slightly at the lack of weapons present so they were most likely not planning on killing her, at least not immediately her mind treacherously input.
"Glad you could make it Admiral Harrington."
She snorted slightly "It's not like I had much choice"
"Not true Admiral you could have turned back anytime." the womans voice sounded amused
"Truly?"
"Yes" This came from the male voice
Despite herself she found herself tensing slightly as he shifted his stance just a little, scolding herself on the inside she says "Though you seem to have the advantage of me, you know who I am but you have not yet introduced yourselves."
This drew a giggle from the female sounding voice as she answered "Good point though I doubt the Chief will give you his true name right now, I am Cortana and the big lug next to me is the Master Chief S-117"
"A pleasure Ms. Cortans Mr…."
"Just Chief is fine ma'am" the male voice supplied rather gruffly.
"Chief then." She finished, though it wasn't obvious, slight hesitantly before continuing "Now if you could tell me why you had Nimitz bring me here I would be quite grateful."
"Of course Honor, is it alright if I call you Honor, titles just get so stuffy." Honor nodded slightly stiffly not quite sure what to make of this woman, this cortana, the chief was obviously military but she was a mystery. "Please follow our tale is rather long and a good host would never leave their guests standing as she gestured towards a fairly well lit hallway. (I couldn't think of a better adjective for something that wasn't bright but wasn't dim so sue me lol) As the apparent Master Chief strode away Honor folllwed certainly not wanting to be left behind she found herself curious almost against her will bot on where this ship had come from, how long the vessel had been on sphinx and their connection to the treecat clans.
After about a minute they arrived in what was obviously a briefing area of some kind, though going from the lockers and weapons she could sort of half see in them, it had probably been meant for the marines stationed on the ship.
As they sat down the woman, cortana, spoke once more, "So honor you must be very curious as to why we are here and how we got here."
"Of course it is not often one sees a vessel from one of earths first spaceborne governments let alone so far way from earth." slight exasperation evident in her words.
"Alright," cortana said "This is our story, but we would like you to hold any questions you may have until we are finished."
"Of course." Honor replied
I gotta say what have you done to me fanfiction 2 chapters in less than a week, albeit one was the tech which was long not hard lol. I never realized how much there was until I started it OMG lol, so I think I'm just gonna have little blurbs at the bottom or top of chapters that have something new in them makes it much easier and not as much information at once to take in.
