The Final Frontier

Hello everybody, back again, just read the story, if you still have any comments to make R&R,

On with it now

Disclaimer: I Do not own Halo and it's characters but I do own Kennedy, Jericho and some other characters as well

Hm...to kill, or not to kill, that is the simple question, ahh heck, kill!

Disclaimer: but, but...

BANG! BANG! BANG!

A/N: This chapter and the next are called intermission chapters, where not much action is going on and the characters get to reflect on something, it usually also describes a plot or a descriptive chapter. It may not sound much, but I could be just as important as the ordinary ones.

Enjoy!

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Chapter 8: Not much going on

Kennedy woke up, his head felt sore the moment he woke, his vision was slightly blurry and wasn't in a really good condition, he tried to get up and....

THUMP!

He fell off the bed. Cursing his stupidity he got up and started walking round to take a look, by now he got his vision back, and saw that he was in the hospital wing, the slight scent of iodine in the air, with his head still slightly aching he walked back to his bed where he found a small note, he picked it up and read

"To Jason A. Kennedy, for your performance in battle you have been promoted to Major, your pay will be raised to $40,000 a year and will be in full command of your own squad of men, Report to the bridge at 1500 tomorrow, military time, be there and don't forget the cap and your stripes."

He looked down beside the letter, the great red beret, once an ancient nation's elite cap. Nice, he thought...

Kennedy thought he heard footsteps and ducked down, taking off the red beret and jumped into the bed , a doctor came in and walked over to the bed.

"Right, conditions normal, you can go out now." He said cheerfully, "Anything else?"

"How long have I been out?" Kennedy asked

"oh, 2 days or so, your buddies got out earlier, you had two plasma wounds to the chest and took slightly longer"

"And the covenant?"

"Gone, they disappeared after that mysterious light, probably destroyed or something, the covenant at the launch deck surrendered after you passed out for some reason, their at the prison block."

He thanked the doctor and put his uniform on , then went outside, the crew should be in the mess hall, they usually are...

Someone shouted his name behind him and he saw it was Jericho, Evans and the whole rest of the remaining gang, all in their normal uniforms, out of their battle armour and taking their break

Evans came over and patted him in the back "how are you then" he said "Feeling those burn marks on ya?"

"Well..." Kennedy replied "Yea but got ta hand it to ya, that giant scar down your back and onto your arse gotta hurt a lot more eh?"

The gang laughed for a while and Evans didn't seem to mind, they've been through a lot worse lately, he thought, many of their colleagues died and they would've like a laugh, it is good for you after all.

"Right." He called out"Men! Let's go!"

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"Right..." M.C said "Tell me what are you people still looking for eh?"

The master Chief and the day's prisoners were back on the space station, with the ship ready to go, there was one more thing to handle, They have been interrogating the silver grunt for quite a while. So far, all he said was...

"Don't know, honest!"

"Right..." Chief sighed and walked out of the room."Any ideas?"

"We could use a truth serum.." Cortana said

The chief frowned "They were banned in 2360, makes you dizzy or something, did kill some of the captives. And besides, even if there were any of the stuff, it would've got blown up along with the rest of the medical bay."

"How about beer?" one of the guards interrupted "Makes you drunk and fall over."

"ok" The Chief replied. "That works, but where are we going to find beer?"

"I've got whisky!" Another marine shouted, and passed a silver flask filled with the orange stuff.

"Now why would someone carry a flask of whisky around..." Cortana muttered.

"I dunno..."

"Right..."The chief went back in, clutching the flask

The silver grunt stared at the object "What is that?" He asked

"liquid methane" The Chief lied "Nice and cold"

"Ooh!" Iglig snatched the small flask and drank half of it "Slightly sweet, but good"

"So...now will you tell us?" The Chief asked after waiting for a minute for the whisky to sink in..

"Ok" The grunt said, drunk "We were (Hic) digging for some (Hic) Stone tablet thingy (Hic) , Leader said (Hic) it was the (Hic) Key to (Hic) Something (Hic) " then fell asleep, hiccupping.

"Thank you" The Chief smiled and walked out into the computer room

"Thanks for the whisky" The chief said to the marine "it worked"

"cool..."

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Kennedy walked into the mess hall, full of happy marines lazing around, he remembered the times when there were hardly anything going on, the guys in the space station usually sat around, playing poker or chess on a virtual screen, drinking weak beer and generally having fun, now, times had changed, now the humans were fighting for their survival, these times were probably only going to happen once to some of the marines who might not make it.

He walked up to the gang who were sitting playing poker, betting quite a bit of their cash. He remembered this clearly, when Earth was just about to be attacked he usually played poker with his friends who are all dead apart from Jericho, they used to bet $200 or so each time, as they know some day they are going to die so not much point in having lots of money hanging around.

"Right then" He said "who's winning then" and sat down beside them

"Jericho $700, Andy $800 and I've got about $650" Evans answered.

"Ok..."Kennedy said, he took out his card and swiped it on the poker machine "I give $700" and grinned "Cards please."

The machine fired out 5 cards into his hand. "Royal Flush" Kennedy said "I win." And takes $400 from the three "and that makes $1900."

"What are you gonna do with all the money then" Jericho asked.

"If I survive this war" He joked "I'm getting myself a scooter."

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Seramee finally woke up, groaning, not noticing that he was in the prison bay of the Station.

"Where the hell am I" He muttered "wonder if I can-"

BANG!

He was knocked back in surprise and walked back up into the invisible object, touching it.

"What's this glass door doing here?" He asked himself and looked "Oh crap..."

He saw that he was in a prison cell, about the same size of a covenant one, with a clear window looking out into the deck, he saw a bunch of grunts sitting nearby, muttering to each other, a hunter continuously pounding on the walls. A pair of jackals sat around doing nothing and some of the black guard elites, probably of a higher rank than him, sraping stuff into a wall.

He growled when he saw two guards, walking up to him, one of them said

"Right covie, you've got a visitor."

And in came Captain Wilson.

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Righto, finished this chappy, onto the next.

Now to answer mail

Master Chief 013

Yea, killing disclaimers are fun, they always suppress your dreams of you owning the game or a company.

Bye.