Authore's Note: Well this is chapter two and is now mostly just my thoughts and almost nothing regarding the books so enjoy and please review!
Disclaimer: I do not own Halo or Bungie.
Chapter Two:
The Apocalypse
Li woke up in a standard UNSC destroyer's medical quarters. At least five people all naval personnel were standing around him. He sat up and the naval personnel stepped back. He noticed that the captain was one of them and the other four looked to be lieutenants.
"Hello Spartan, I am Captain Rogers of the UNSC destroyer, Apocalypse and we found your drifting in soace almost out of oxygen." the captain said.
"Hi, I am SPARTAN-008, Li and I am very grateful for you picking me up and not letting me die in space," Li said addressing all of them, "how did you find me?"
"Well we found a signal of a covenant attached to a UNSC ship so we decided to check it out," Captain Rogers said, "we came into the system and searched it but we obviously we were too late because we only found you on the dark side of one of the planets in that system."
"I thought all the spartans died at Reach." One of the lieutenants piped up.
Li sighed and calmly told them the story from his mission on Reach to get Admiral Whitcomb, all the way to his mission to fix the main conduit onboard the covenant ship, Ascendant Justice.
"Well, that's a mighty fine story and we'll have to take your word on it," the captain said, "we will let you get your rest and I will see you on the bridge when your better if you please."
With that, they left him and Li looked around the medical quarters. It was preety tidy, and he was alone in there with the sound of beeping monitors.
Right away, he took the clothes that was laid out for him on the bed beside him, and left the sickbay.
He walked down a hallway and he had been in alot of UNSC destroyers enough to know exactly where the bridge was.
He passed by marines and engineers who looked at him in shock and then put their heads down walking in the other direction. One marine stopped and looked at him with a bewildered expression.
"Chief!?" the marine said in disbelief.
"No marine, I am SPARTAN-008, Li and how do you know Joh-Master Chief?" Li said looking at the marine.
"Oh well we served on Halo together, the pelican that picked me up was too late to evacuate the ring. So we left the ring before it blew up and the Apocalypse picked us up after searching the ring, hearing reports about Halo from Covenant traffic." the soldier said taking a breath.
He had only limited information about Halo of what John told him and John made it sound like it was a big ordeal.
"You going to the bridge?" the marine asked.
"Yea, the captain wants to see me." Li answered.
"Oh ok, he's probably gonna tell you where were headed." the marine said.
"Why where are we headed?" Li asked, confused.
"You'll find out soon enough." the marine replied smiling.
Li was confused at why the marine didn't tell him where they were headed but Li thought it couldn't be that big of a deal.
"Well I'm walking in the direction of the bridge, so I might as well walk with you." the nameless marine said.
They walked through the decks toward the bridge without really talking and more marines stared at the spartan and the marine noticed this.
"Most of these marines have never seen a spartan in their life only heard about them. They thought you all died at Reach." he said.
Li nodded and continued along the hallway.
"Come to think of it, almost everyone thinks you all died on Reach." the marine said laughing.
"I don't know what you think is funny," Li said, angry, most of my team members did die at Reach."
The marine put his head down and realized the mistake he had made.
"Sorry." he said.
Li didn't say anything.
They got to the bridge and the marine saluted and kept walking to the left.
The marine turned around and adressed Li.
"And by the way my name is Lance Corporal Jones."
Author's note: Well that's it for Chapter Two hoped you enjoyed it and to understand who Jones is you ahve to have read the second book Anyways, please review!