Chapter 8: Welcome to Reach
As the Strident frigate travels through slipspace, the Captain looks through the map on where to strike once the war is out. "We can strike the slave trade system of Amedium, can be helpful to our war effort" he wonders. Soon a crewman came in, "Sir, we had a breach" he say. The Captain looked up, "How bad?" He says to him, the crewman rubbed the back of his neck.
"Well, some prototype Railgun had breached into the Mess hall, along with the damages to the upper wall" he says. The Captain grab the temple of his nose, "I bet it was Frank, he really think it's fun to do something dangerous on this ship" he says.
"Any other damages that we need to fix while we are at Reach?" The Captain asked. "Not that is found, maybe the bed needs replacement after what happened a few hours ago" the crewman says. The Captain tries to forget what happened a while ago, mostly by how close his quarters is to them. "Don't remind me" he says
Sam woke up and feels another body on him, he looked over to see a naked Ahsoka on top of him sleeping. He gently rubbed her mortal, he smiles and tries to get up. Once he tried to get out the bed, she was awoken by his movement.
"Hey Sam" she says in a tired voice, he turns to her and smiles. "Hey, how did you sleep" he asked before kissing her. "Fine, even after that night" she laughs after say it, Sam soon remember the night they had.
"Yeah it was fun, I hope I was careful" he says. She nods and gets off the bed, Sam put on his undersuit and armor. "Well, I got report that we are close to Reach, so get ready to leave" He says. Sam then came up to her after she puts on her clothes, "Stay safe for me" she says and left the room. As Sam, walks through the corridor, he sees something out for the side of his helmet. He looks around and lost sight of the figure, he shrugged it off and continue to the bridge.
As the frigate jumps out of slipspace, I was blocked by two Marathon-class cruisers. The comlinks soon boomed, "This is UNSC Cannon, state your name and intentions" the Cruiser demanded. The Captain steps up, "This Captain Lucas of the UNSC Strident, we have a prisoner to deliver and in need of repairs" he says. The Cruiser Captain became quiet and soon spoke again "You may pass, welcome back Lucas" he says.
As the ship gets close to the drydock, Sam and his team took a G79I Pelican to the surface. "Alright team, we are here to give the governor to Reach Military Police, could be helpful against the ISR" Sam says. The governor turn to Sam, "Soon, you will all burn for this. Darth Aliest and Darth Noir with make sure of this" he says.
Sam grew concern while Ryan just want him to shut it, "Look bub, if someone want the UNSC to burn, they will be crying home to their Mommy when we get done with them" Frank says.
"Hoorah to that" Lilly responded, "Don't encourage him" Ryan says. Once the Pelican landed, the governor was given to the Reach Military Police and they took him onto a Warthog and left. Once the Pelican return to the ship, Sam feels something was off.
As he travel through the corridors, he notice Ahsoka was not in the hanger. When he check the log for the use of the three pelicans docked, Sam notice his Pelican was the only one that left the ship. He continues searching until he was told by a officer that she didn't leave, only went to explore the frigate. So he took this time to train in the training room, he grabs his DMR and head there.
Ahsoka traveled throughout the ship, looking throughout the corridors of the frigate for something interesting. She soon came across an old photo of Blue Team, something she find a bit odd. She didn't notice the Lucas has came behind her, "As you can see, that is the old Blue Team. Made in 2524" he says.
She jumped then relax when it was the Captain, "Who are these people in the picture?" she asked. The Captain soon looked to the picture, "The normal looking one is Frederic-104, the second in command". Lucas soon points to the redhead "That's Kelly-087, the Rabbit" he adds. He then points to the sniper, "Linda-058, Sam's mother and great sniper" he says. Lastly then he points to the man in the helmet, "That is John-117, Blue Leader and Sam's father" he says.
Ahsoka can only stare in amazement to how Sam's parents used to be Spartans themselves, "I heard that due to their argumentation and cyro sleep that they can serve longer, What happened?" she asked.
"Well, like the Spartan 1s, they became obsolete for war. John even showed it when Cortana changed sides and try to wipe humanity and he wanted to convince her to be with him" he says, "But after he finished her off by destroying the core, a year later, he and Linda fell in love" he continues. He soon walks off, leaving Ahsoka in interest of the Blue Team's achievements.
Once Sam returns from training, he sat his DMR down and removed his helmet then look through some files. "Let's see if there are any files about ISR commanders" he says. Soon every image of Sith commanders and specialist comes up, even one photo that blew his mind.
"Jennifer" he says as he looks closer to the screen, "I thought she was dead, how can she be alive" he then see her companion "Ezra?" he says has he studied the male figure. He knew this is a big deal because for a year, he thought she was dead.
He continues to study the photos and locations they was in. By the looks of it, it was from every planet Strident has stopped after saving the slaves. He then feels someone watching him. He grabs a pistol but was flung to the wall, "Hello Love, I been dying to see you" Jennifer says. As she gets close she continues, "The UNSC was wrong in their beliefs of Freedom, and me and my Empire must destroy it" she says.
"Your Empire, Jen, why would you do this, even to me" Sam asked, she went to his ear "Because I know who you really are and what you will become, I'll be waiting" she says as she vanished. Sam was only able to stand there in disbelief, knowing one day he'll have to face her.
