Weapon
Star heard some sort of gibberish as she openned her eyes only to be trapped in an awkward sort of dizziness that hazed her vision..She blinked rapidly before openning her eyes and making of a floating sort of orb that had yelllow light on it.
"Hello! My name is Falling Star 9103, you are the guardian."
"I hit my head..." She told herself out loud with a groan, "I'm going to have hillusinations just liek when Shasic tricked me into eating those worm things..."
"I assure you this is no Hillusination, but I am afraid cpntainment protocal has been breaked. The flood are now spreading rather quickly." Falling Star said and Star pulled herself up an the teal ring around her gray eyes glowed brightly in the dim light.
"So...are you an Oracle?" Star asked it in astonishment as it moved to be right infront of her.
"Oracle? such primitive terms! I am Falling Star-"
"9103, yaeh, you already said that."
"I am the Forrunner A.I. who maintains Installation 00."
"I see but..why did you call me the Guardian?"
The ancient A.I. laughed before sentinals buzzed over head, smaller ones repaiiring a wall as the larger ones merely seemed to be patrolling.
"You are very fluent in both Human and Covenant aren't you?"
"Yeah, but that has nothing to-"
"I'll show you then! Come come time is awasting!" It said in a sing song voice before Star tried to push herself up before remembering her arm and muttering soem curses as teh smooth, gleaming metal hand foumnd the floor and pushed her up, she had to jog to catch up, but once she did the A.I. lead her to an odd room full of covenant computers.
"Activate the master device." It instructed and Star, no matter how much sghe resentted obeying this odd A.I., she obeyed and information started flashing all around the room.
It flooded into her, it was rather terrifying to her, when she realized she understood all of it..and was seemingly obbsorbing all of it at once...
"Do you understand now?" Falling Star asked and Star quickly moved to one of the computers ands tarted typing furiously on the odd sort of key board, in moments she had brought up everything she needed from both the human and the covenenant battle networks.
Then it hit her.
"By the great journey I...I've figured out how to destroy the parasite..."
"Not just the parasite," Falling Star said happily, "With the weapon you've just figured out how to destroy any race that is chosen by the user, anything!"
It was Megan Parker who saw the human ships on a rader a few days later of staying in the compound, safe from the flood...
And it was Star who saw the covenant landing on the other side...
But itw as up to both sides of her to make a choice that could shape everything...
If she agve the weapon to the covenant, her friends..her family...They'd use it to wipe out all of her Race..the humans...but if she gave it to the humans...
John would understand wouldn't he?
As Megan Parker journeyed from the compound carefully, and made her way to the pelicans a mile..maybe two west of her, she had no idea what she was getting herself into.
