Dr. Halsey stepped up into the Pelican, Captain Keyes behind her.
Keyes had his brow quirked at the Doctors odd remark he decided to not question her further about it.
Stepping up into the cockpit he strapped himself in and prepared to launch
"Ready to go Doc?" he said over the comm.
There was a split second hesitation when her voice briskly answered
"Yes, whenever you're ready."
Keyes boosted power to the thrusters, instinctively checking radar, though there wasn't any threat to Reach, at least, not yet.
While hovering a few more minutes in air, the Pelican began its ascent towards space, its destination: Pillar of Autumn.
In the back, Dr. Halsey had strapped herself in; normally she would have been sifting through data, but right across from her sat Destiny, Spartan 109.
She had come to them indeed.
"You had your thoughts." Dr. Halsey started
"But I decided to stay." Destiny finished
"Why would you want to turn your back on-"
"I wasn't going to, I would set a delay, reasons of my own, but never would I ever back down from what I was to be, I would have found you again after questions have been answered."
Dr. Halsey looked at Destiny quizzically
"so, why back so soon?"
"My questions have not been answered, but they can wait until later, right now there is a more important job at hand."
"Keyes, route correction."
"What? Sorry I can't do that."
"Castle complex. We need to get someone suited up in the MJOLNIR armour."
There was a pause "Roger that, we must make it quick."
"Will do."
The rest of the ride was silent, Halsey went back to looking through data, Destiny rested her eyes
Down below, safely underground, Spartan 109 and Dr. Halsey headed towards a chamber deep in the complex called Castle.
"Welcome Dr. Halsey, how are you?"
"Fine, thanks Deja."
"retinal scan underway, please keep your eye still." Dr. Halsey did as she was told
"fingerprint scan."
Halsey set her finger on a pad "Brainwave ID scan." Halsey growled
"voice pass required."
"ONI are just getting more and more ridiculous when it comes to security."
Dr. Halsey grumbled "sorry, match not found."
Dr. Halsey rolled her eyes "my mistake, re-test Deja."
"retinal scan underway, please keep your eye still."
Again, she kept her eye still and followed all steps until
"Voice pass required."
"Thy shall not harm."
There was a few moments then the doors in front of them hissed open
"come quickly now, we don't have much time."
Dr. Halsey set quick pace, Destiny was a little on the edge, she hadn't been here for a very long time. Keyes waited for them, high above ground.
"Here," another set of doors slid open to the firing range "is the MJOLNIR armour; we'll suit you up right away. Please stand on this pad."
Destiny took a quick look at the armour; it was cool to look at while in a hospital bed, but it was nothing like the real thing.
"Sorry Destiny, but you'll have to remove all clothing." Dr. Halsey averted her gaze as Destiny did as she was told, she caught some glances from the techs but she gave them the darkest glare, and they quickly looked away.
Dr. Halsey first started off with a black suit; complicated crisscrossing wires covered it seemed so delicate, if that was the right word.
The wires were thin, quite small. She wondered the use of it would be, perhaps some sort of protection? Maybe it can concentrate some energy to use as some odd weapon. Nonsense, oh, perhaps this was the suit that increased-
"this suit increases your speed, it has motion sensors and practically every system in the MJOLNIR can be found here and the panel which will be located on the back of your amour. There is also a shield, similar to Jackals but more advanced."
Destiny's thoughts had been interrupted, but a question answered. Dr. Halsey called some techs that had been lurking about, probably looking at the MJOLNIR. "Hold it there, that's it, fits in right there... wait, stop, a little to the left, there."
Dr. Halsey instructed them
"That piece there fits with that, yeah you got it, very good."
Overall, it took them a good half hour to get the suit on Destiny.
"Now," Dr. Halsey smiled up at Destiny "you are almost complete."
Then, the helmet had slipped onto Destiny's head, opening the back panel, Halsey activated the armour.
Inside, the biolayer warmed, and changed to the difference between her skin and room temperature.
The armour, heavy at first suddenly felt light as air.
"This, is perfect." She replied "Dr. Halsey nodded
"it will take some getting used to, but I'm sure you'll be just fine."
She motioned to the doors "lets go."
Destiny followed Dr. Halsey out, when she emerged to the outside world she got the first taste of everyone's eyes on her.
This really had some getting used to.
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Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter done. I'm trying my best to stick to the main story line of Halo, though having the three books and I need to get info, its hard to remember which book its in and where LOL.
Anyway, R&R, I would happily read any ideas you have, and if you want, if you have a halo character, alien or human, I can add them into the story.