Blue Team had arrived on Genesis about 20 minutes ago. Cortana wanted them to come hear for a reason. But they didn't know why. They kept their guard up and ran into the Warden Enteral. Cortana had been leading them around Genesis to the Gate-Way and now was leading them through the Domain.
"So, Chief…who was Spartan Summers?" Cortana asked randomly
The Spartans all stopped walking. She did know.
Did she really? Chief wondered.
"She was a Spartan 5." Answered Fred.
"A Spartan 5?" Cortana asked in shock.
"She was assigned to the team." Kelly explained.
There was a moment of the silence before Cortana spoke again.
"You are horrible lairs. This Autumn Summers was so much more assigned teammate. A shame she isn't here. I would have liked to meet her. From her file she sounds like a nice person. What happened to her?"
The Spartans didn't speak. This reaction seemed to have enraged Cortana. She spoke again.
"She was stationed on Far Side helping security at an ONI base." Cortana said. "And the Insurrectionists attacked. And she died there."
"You missed something." Spat Linda.
"Oh? Did I?"
"There was a Guardian under the ONI base." Linda said.
"You woke it up." Said Kelly.
"You had to have known because you've read her file. And all of this had been bothering us." Fred continued.
"Why did you do it Cortana? Autumn had nothing to do with this. She didn't have to die." Chief said.
"She was distracting you from your purpose Chief." Cortana justified.
"What purpose? I am a solider, if it wasn't for Autumn I wouldn't have discovered that there was much more to life. She helped show me a lot." Chief spat.
"Did she now?" Cortana was getting angry hearing that.
That was my job. Now I am glad I killed her with that Guardian. Cortana thought darkly.