Alright I'm Back for Chapter 6, I have what I believe is a pretty good idea as to what Halsey wants with Kelly I will admit right now that it is NOT the all too popular Halo 6 theory I did consider it a lot but I found that if I'm tired of hearing it u should be too I got tired of hearing the same theory over and over again so I came up with my own which I will hopefully demonstrate soon I understand if anyone else wishes to use that theory as well so as to not keep using the Halo 6 thing but Im pretty sure ur supposed to tell me about it first if not then feel free to use it
Warrior: like I said I already thought up of a, at least I think it is, new way to explain it
JT: that's my bad then srry bout that but hey its my fanfic so just pretend that didn't happen
BassGSX(or however u spell it): fine I give up I'll THOROUGHLY check every new chapter
Bob: not to insult anyone else but I think that's the best review I've had so far… I realized its true what u said in the first part at first I didn't understand but then I remembered that "west" is based on EARTHS gravity and rotation so my bad I changed it. For Einsteins theory I know what ur saying I first wrote on it from memory since I wasn't near an internet connection but when I checked the infinite fuel thing I was stumped by how to continue but I came up with a loophole which I will soon use, I'm hoping in the next few chapter I can explain the loophole and how to dodge the infinite power thing. Anyway great review (someone paid attention in school) I hope u'll do it again, and yes it was VERY helpful, usually it's a review that gets me to sit down and keep writing for this chapter it was this one hope u review again
Intolerable Deception
1900 hours, September 13, 2552 (Military Calendar)\Aboard rebel force Chiroptera-class vessel Delta one-two-two-five, in Slipspace.
Doctor Halsey sighed deeply. They had been flying none stop on the cramped ship for several hours. At least in a large ship you could walk around talk to someone.
She had to do but sit in the cockpit staring at a large unconscious woman in a full ton body armor.
Over the last twenty minutes she had been struggling with the AI, Aria. Aria, a 'dumb' AI specialized in encryption and decryption, was the only reason Halsey had been able to enable the Chiroptera's Slipspace drive.
"Is it really that necessary?" asked the AI pleadingly. "It might be essential for our survival" Halsey replied. "It might be our only hope of putting up some type of front, there is no denying it we are falling behind in number and technology" she said in a solemn tone.
"If it's what we need to do then it will be done" she sighed deeply. "No one ever said it would be fair to them" She was sure that if they had asked any of the Spartans they would have all come forth as volunteers, no matter what the cost.
They would have gladly given their lives for the greater good, yet Halsey sensed it still wasn't fair. They had grown their entire life under the belief that all life was expendable for the greater good. Nothing else could have been expected of them.
From the corner of her eyes Halsey noticed that Kelly, two hours ahead of schedule, began to stir.
Halsey checked her watch and for the millionth time cursed herself for underestimating one of her Spartans.
She stood up and sat down next to the secured examination table in which Kelly had been laying. "You should be feeling a mild disorientation, try not to move to fast give your muscles a second to wake up properly."
Before Halsey finished the sentence Kelly was already sitting straight up and inspecting her surroundings, once again a Spartan had proven that they were not to be taken lightly, she was fully functional and rearing to go in a matter of seconds. Most soldiers took more than a half hour.
"Doctor Halsey" she went to salute but Halsey stopped her with a wave of her hand. She wasn't too fond of military protocol.
"Do you feel alright? No pain or discomfort?" asked Halsey gesturing toward the area in which she had performed a mild surgery before leaving the Gettysburg.
The answer was anything but unexpected "Never better ma'am." She paused glancing over at the black view screen. "Um… Doctor?" Halsey turned to look at her "Are we in slipspace?" she gestured at the view screens.
"Yes we are" she answered with a hint of finality. It was not in a Spartans nature to question his superiors but still Kelly felt something was wrong.
"What happened to the Gettysburg?" she asked trying not to sound accusing
"They are continuing along their own way toward Earth, I have, however, received a personal message from higher up that I was to abort the mission if necessary for the completion of a much more important, much more secretive operation" Lie. No one besides her knew what she was really planning to do.
"But I decided to take only one Spartan with me" Lie. One was all she could get.
"The other mission, in my eyes, should not be delayed, Cortana is carrying very valuable information and I would prefer to make sure she got to Earth as quickly as possible" Lie. She would have gladly taken Cortana with her if it would not have caused unwanted questions.
Finally Kelly spoke again, even though she knew Halsey was either not telling her the whole truth, or flat out lying. "Then where are we going?" she asked curiously.
Halsey smiled sweetly glad to finally be able to answer truthfully. "Reach"
Ninth Age of Reclamation, Step of Silence\Covenant Holy City "Privileged Society," Living Quarters.
'Nuromee stared in disbelief from the outside of his home. He did not even notice that his fists were clenched and his whole body shaking.
The pair of brutes left through the back door of his home. Glancing back toward the house a moment before turning and walking away. 'Nuromee stood unmoving, he was now a witness to an attempted murder which was intended for him.
Two brutes had come in through the back door as noiselessly as possible, which luckily was a decibel too loud.
'Nuromee had jumped out the window of his two story home and landed noiselessly in the back yard he then climbed back up to get a look at what the brutes intended to do.
Too afraid he would be seen by poking his head through the window he thanked the Gods for having given him a home with a highly reflective metal allow which was also used to make the older version of the elite's armor now it was used to strengthen the foundation of homes.
Using these reflective surfaces he was able to watch them as they moved around the house searching for him. As they entered his room he was suddenly horrored by the sight of a needle in one of the brutes hands.
The needle was empty. Or so it seemed he knew why the other pilots were now dead they were murdered. The needle was not empty, it contained a high level of hydrogen rich air. Deadly poisonous to elites.
Even thought they breathed a small amount of it, highly concentrated amounts were beyond dangerous. Death without a trace, the perfect crime.
As he stood on the side of his house he pondered desperately what he should do.
A few moments later he was decided. He would got to the hierarchs, the prophets would want to know of this treason. Brutes were now the enemy.
He was about to jump back down to his lawns when one of the brutes said in a horribly raspy tone. "He is not here. Let's go. We can come back later." As they were both leaving 'Nuromee's house, one of them said something that was the cause of 'Nuromee's astonishment and rage.
He was looking at the house which had been his home for eight years in which he fathered three children and lost his wife, when he realized this would be the last time he ever saw it.
He turned around and started to run. The brutes last words still echoing in his mind and he felt a great surge of treason.
He flashed back to the brutes' exact words which still had him dumbfounded. As the brutes exited the house he had distinctly heard one of them say "The hierarchs will not be pleased."
1907 hours, September 13, 2552 (Military Calendar)\Aboard UNSC vessel Gettysburg, in Slipspace.
"Wait a second" said Fred shaking his head "It's impossible to pass the speed of light, closest we've ever gotten to is eighty-seven percent. No way we have the equipment or energy to get us up to speed"
"Well I thought of that" she said, a wry smile now forming at the corner of her mouth. "But, you see, there are several places in the universe where even the most fundamental laws of physics crumble away into meaningless dribble" she smiled broadly.
"And one of them just happens to be a stony meteorite-throw ahead"
"Would you mind sharing with us what this miraculous place might be?" asked Johnson his tone gruff.
Cortana smiled and said "A black hole happens to be one and a half hour away." The Chief's head shot upward.
"You're kidding right?" asked Fred uncertainly although he already knew the answer. "What about the black holes horizon? You know? Hitting singularity in a matter of seconds and the fact that once you enter a black whole nothing comes out?"
A black hole from the outside would not be anything cataclysmic so long as you stay out of the horizon, which isn't all that big, the pull of gravity from out of the horizon is nothing overwhelming. Once crossing the horizon which is several kilometers from the center of the black hole you would be instantaneously pulled into the center. Once crossing the horizon there is no going back. Since so much mass is compacted in such a small space the escape velocity of a black hole, which is the speed needed to break from the objects gravitational pull, exceeds the speed of light. Since nothing can go faster than light nothing can escape. You could even switch on a beam of light traveling outward and it would be pulled back and sucked in. But it had been proved that within black holes, strange things could happen
Everyone looked slightly alarmed or uncertain.
"You don't think I thought of that?" she asked in a huffy voice. "First of all we are in slipspace so real space factors do not affect us. Why do you think we can even go through planets without our vessel so much as twitching?" Not to mention we only have to get into the horizon, and since black holes only pull from things in real space anything in slipspace should be just fine."
"Besides I have no intention of going through the black hole, just a region that is affected by it"
"And how exactly do you plan to do that?" asked Johnson.
She again smiled knowingly "The curvature of space."
"Very large gravitational fields have a knack of curving the space around them, Technically the shortest distance between two points is not a straight line but a curved one. We only believe it's a straight line because the very materials we are using to measure are curved as well" she paused a moment.
"Because of this curvature we should be able to come within a small distance of the horizon and still experience the side effects we would from inside it."
"And how exactly does a black whole defy the laws of physics?" asked Johnson, and Fred and Will looked over at Cortana wondering the same thing.
"Well imagine these—" she lifted her hand to shoulder height and from it a small 3-D display of what seemed to be perfectly round spheres sitting on a piece of a flat paper thin material creating small dents beneath them "Are how a planet affects the space around it. See how it curves the area around it? Now they merely create small ripples in space now imagine—" the hologram shifted and displayed a huge ripple which in circumference was the same size as planets but it fell down until it reached the floor where there was unmistakably a rupture.
"That this is how a black hole affects space. It actually breaks the fabric of time and space nothing inside it has meaning or definition. While once inside it takes merely seconds to hit singularity we on the outside believe it is taking forever."
"Black holes have faster than light velocities, and completely ignore every fundamental law"
"They will most certainly be necessary if we are about to attempt the undoable. Not only do we need them for speed but energy as well. To get up to the speed of light it is believed that one needs an infinite power source and you see Black holes can break laws like the law of conservation of matter, and" she paused a moment "the law of conservation of energy"
A/N: hey again guys hoped u like that chapter I hope this explains part of the loophole I was talking about and again just for the record everything here about black holes is factual, they can ignore any law, can trap light and are impossible to escape. They have a horizon and it is believed that they either destroy matter or transport it to their negative called a "white hole" although it is not proven that "white holes" exist the math works just as black holes suck stuff in white holes (if they are truly existent) spit stuff out. Its even believed that two might join up to form a "wormhole" through which u'd enter in one and come out the other millions of miles away or possibly in another time! That's right since they rupture time as well as space it might be possible, of course u'd still die before reaching the other end being roasted by gamma rays and stuff but they sound pretty cool. If ud like to hear more about black holes just google it and enter an FAQ or something I found one when looking for more info one Einstein's theory of relativity
Anyway hope u liked this chapter im getting further in on the Kelly Halsey incident and maybe a few of u already know what they might want with Reach