A few things that I think you should know about whats going on in the story that is not said.
Infinity has Spartans like in Halo 4, there will be no requiem or new phoenix incident. there are more things, but I can't think of them right now.
Ask anything that comes to mind, I will give an answer, it just may not be the one you want. Please R&R
I was sitting on the bed holding a mirror examining my face, a gash from Daisys knife was on my right cheek, Cortana said that during the time that I was being moved to the medical deck, the skin and whatever got cut just... Dissolved into dust. The cut started to bleed a few minutes after I woke up. Destiny was still sleeping, Cortana said that she was up for the whole night staying by my side and that she had only gone to sleep about 20 minutes ago. My suit was in the other room being exam for anything that caused the trip, I knew otherwise. Halsey walked in wearing a lab coat and carrying a cup of coffee.
"So now I suppose that you believe me?" I ask her.
"If you mean what happened 26 years ago? Then yes, you disappeared right in front of my eyes, and I had a tough time believing that the kid that showed up in John's apartment was you." She answered.
"Mom, do you know why he was... stopped?" Cortana asked.
Halsey sighed and then said "Physical time travel is impossible, and my best guess is that your body here stopped until you came back. And I have no idea about what happened to your body in the past or how you got one."
I nodded and stood up.
"Whoa there cowboy, we still need to check those wounds out."
"The burn on my chest is from a prototype scanner that bounced off the dog tags I was wearing and the cut here" I point to the cut on my face. "Is from Daisy's knife."
"You don't have tags." Halsey said
"I know, but I had Dog tags with my name... at least till it got charred."
"Charred?" Cortana asked.
"Plasma discharge from a med scanner."
I hear her mutter 'Charred' again and see a slight jerk from her stomach like she would be sick. "Forget it for now; I am getting a headache from just thinking of this time travel." She leaves.
"Adam, take Destiny back to your room and let her rest, we need to free up room for the trainees John might work with." Halsey says.
"Trainees?"
"Infinity has a... interesting training room, join John sometime to see what I am talking about."
"Yeah, guess so."
Halsey leaves and I wake up Destiny and explain what I knew. After I got my armor on, I had to half carry Destiny to the tram station. After we boarded, she fell asleep while leaning on me. After the tram started moving, I noticed a pair of older teens staring at me, the boy had tan skin and his hair was in dreads. The girl had light skin and long dark hair that covered her eyes. I could not tell if they were looking at me or Destiny.
"Is there something you need?" I ask them.
"Umm... Aren't you the junky robot that fell on our planet?" The girl asked, she had a tiny voice that did not really carry.
"No" I tell them. They seemed disappointed by this; they must have been the kids from the Halo legends: Odd One Out I make sure to capture a picture with my visor to show Halsey later.
"How is mother?" I ask them wanting to know.
The boy looked down and bites his lip.
"She uh... she's gone now..." The boy said. The tram stopped and the two got off, I could hear the girl say 'Let's get something to eat...' before the doors closed.
After I got Destiny into the bed, I made my way down to the Spartan training area. I got a few strange looks, but I knew that was because I had older armor that was out of date, at least it was to them. My HUD informed me that I had a message from Lasky. He wanted me to meet a Spartan that would be under my command. The message stated that normally this Spartan would be in a headhunters group, but due to the fact that I flew through the grand canyon with a reentry unit. I might be crazy, smart or just plan lucky. We would meet on the bridge in about 40 minutes.
Just enough time to play a round of CTF. I walked into the armory and found about 12 other Spartans getting ready. I grabbed a Battle rifle, DMR, and 2 M6Hs and two Plasma grenades. Four weapons was odd, but not against the rules. DMR on my back, M6Hs on my thigh magnets, and the Battle rifle in hand. The others Spartans and I stood in the middle of the room that had a moving platform. The platform moved down into a room that was about the size of a school gym, it had blue grid lines running along the floor and the edges of the room on the floor and ceiling had not a corner, but a slant leading from floor to the wall.
The room then seemed to dissolve when the platform reached the bottom; it morphed into what looked like a rock quarry. I noticed that my armor along with the others had changed color, a closer look at my now blue armor reviled that it was a projection over my normal armor. Half the group was red, and the other half was blue.
A recorded voice told the teams to go to the corresponding base and wait for the round to start. I did a light jog to the blue base and made sure the weapons were ready. There was a countdown and the match started with an echoing male voice announcing, "Capture the enemy flag to win!" After the short wait, the round started. The Spartans ran out into the battlefield and began to take strategic positions; I was behind a barrier when a sniper round fired and the voice announced "FIRST STRIKE!"
The Spartan that was taken out raged over the comm that the red team got the sniper. Almost immediately the red team came running over the hill guns blazing, screaming, "GO SHARKS!"
My team started to lay down a suppressive fire to try and hold back the red team; most of the team had some sort of blue deployable shield that was movable. 'That's new...' I thought to myself as I zoomed into one of the reds that were not using a shield and I fired, the red flickered and I realized that it was a hologram. I quickly ducked when I heard the sniper round hit the barrier.
"Geek!" I hear the closest blue call out to me. I look over and he tosses me a grenade with one hand, and holds another in his other hand. He pointed at a rock where a few reds were taking cover. I nod and he started to count down with his fingers. Three. Two. One. We primed and tossed. My grenade landed and hit a reds foot; the red brought his leg back as if he was going to kick it away. Too late, it went off kicking up dirt and dust alike, but also pushing the other blues grenade further than normal. My teammate threw a second after me on propose. I tracked it and it had landed in the reds base. It exploded and a red body went flying out. Some off the reds that were slowly advancing were closer then I would have liked. But I noticed the shields turning a shade of red. I my energy shields were full, so I started to fire at the closest red. His shield failed and I pumped lead into him, I got the kill, but a few blues had bit the dust and I see a female red on top of a rock holding no weapons at all. I pull out my DMR and zoom in.
I see that she was pointing her fingers like a gun and she was aiming at me. She pushes her thumb forward like she was firing the gun.
I had no idea what she was doing, so I fire a round at her head. Her shields shimmered and held, I fired again and she just stood there and pointed up. I glance up and I see... a spot light for the look of it.
Only when it was about 20 meters away did I realize it was ordnance pod... aimed at my head.' Not going to be that easy.' I think as I prime and toss Plasma faster than most people would believe.
'Shit...' Was my last thought before being knocked out by the Infinity training program?
~x~
Post simulation stats had my placement at 5th with 4 kills, one triple kill and one kill from the grave. Some of the Spartans were chatting about the game, and I overheard one the woman that killed me in game bragging about it. "You should have seen it, I'm sure the look on that guys face was priceless."
A man sighed and spoke. "Skarlet, you got one kill and then got killed because you lost focus in the field."
"Shut your trap, what do you know huh?" Skarlet said punching a locker from the sound of it.
The man laughs and then asks "So who is this baseball player?"
"I don't know, ether way I'm needed somewhere else." I hear her walk away.
After I fill out the records for what I used and how, I got onto the tram to the bridge. Skarlet was there. She had her helmet on and was standing at the back looking out the window. I sat down near the front and stayed quiet.
After we arrived at the bridge, Lasky was talking with Roland about Reach and how it needed to be cleared. Before I could ask what was going on, Skarlet walked past me bumping into my shoulder.
"You wanted to see me sir?" She asked.
"Yes, you will be working for Max here." Lasky gestured to me.
She took one look at me. "Sir, you know that I requested to work alone after Sidney."
"I know that, and normally you would be placed as a headhunter. But Max here has proven that he is capable of keeping people alive while pulling off insane stunts. You will train with him during slipstream travel. Learn about each other and become a team. Understood?"
"Maybe he could help me find whoever tossed that plasma at my back." She was really pressing her voice to stay calm. But it was coming out that she was not happy with me, and had yet to find that it was me that got her.
"If you are going to get angry, use that while sparing with me, just watch out for my plasma's." I tell her.
If one could see emotions, I would more than likely see anger coming from Skarlet. She simply nodded and walked off.
Lasky sighed and leaned against the holo table. "You know, it might not be best to piss off your teammate."
"Yes sir, but if I am going to teach her to think quickly, I will teach her the way I learned."
"How is that?"
"My Brother ticked me off and would try and surprise me all the time, eventually I learned to come up with a comeback on the spot." Lasky nodded. "So what was that about Sidney?" I asked
"She was in a squad that enforced Cole protocol; it cost a all of a fire team except her… And I personally think she lost a bit more than a team mate down there. Exams show her to be borderline suicidal, and disregard her personal safety."
"So you chose me to work with her?"
"The computer says that she is your teammate, but off the file you are in charge of her and make sure that she does not end up killing herself. We have lost so many people that we can't really afford to lose any more, UNSC, ONI, insurrectionists and civilian alike."
It made sense, there was only 21 transport ships in this fleet. That was holding all the humans that fled to earth, anyone else was hiding in asteroids and other planets that the covenant did not burn. There was not many humans left.
"Were all human..." I say
Lasky nodded "Your dismissed Spartan, your new armor is ready you can pick it up on the Spartan deck."
"New armor?"
"Yeah, didn't Halsey tell you?"
"No, no she didn't."
"She has a dislike for the GEN2 armor, she lost the rights after the trials."
"I really need to talk to her... What trials?" I ask.
"Human rights,CIDA and ONI .vs Cathren Halsey. It was a long drawn out battle of wits you could say, it was inconclusive, everyone against Halsey Droped the charges and in return, she would give up the rights to work any official Spartan projects for the rest of her life."
"So I'm not a real Spartan then..?"
"Halsey was forgiven when you rescued the people down in the underground complex. And you were inlisted as a official Spartan, Petty officer first class."
"Alright then. If you don't mind sir, I need to go take care of something."
He nodded and then I left. I needed to talk to Halsey...