Star's Choice
Forcing her heart to steady she approached the Pelican, the data key containing all her recorded information held in her fake aloid arm as she watched the ship, waiting for some sort of sign it was still occupied.
The teal in her eyes glowed and dimmed as she saw it open and for eight soldiers and a Spartan walk out.
"Affirmative Cortanna, it's Megan." the Spartan said as he stepped forward and looked at her through his golden face plate.
Her metal arm caught his attention immediately as she mentally commanded her fingers to stay locked securely around the data chip.
"You shouldn't stare," she said after a moment of silence with a smile. "It's not polite."
"Not everyday you see someone with a metal arm."
"Not everyday you see a walking tin can. Ha, I win." she said and behind his heads up display, John smiled.
Long later Megan sat in a different ship.
She watched the darkness outside her window with a strange science of unease. It had only been moments ago she'd shown them the plans and then had to be escorted by John and twenty or so Marines to her quarters where she remained...
A sick feeling in her stomach as she thought of what they had said.
"Let's kill those demon bastards, then take out the flood!" They had yelled, and she had realized how wrong she'd been back in the compound.
Her door opened and she turned sideways with a hand on her energy saber's activation point before moving her hand from the weapon as John slipped in, the door shutting behind him.
"That was some stunt."
"Shut up John. You should've stopped them!" Her temper flared as she glared at him, the blue in her eyes brightening to an intense blaze, far beyond their normal glow.
"The covenant are bastards."
"They're my family." She spoke in a harsh tone that reminded John of an Elite and, as he stood inches above her, he saw her hand move back to her energy saber once more.
"No they aren't. You're a human, your family is human."
"You're wrong."
"Don't argue."
"I hate you." the words hurt 117 more then the fist she lashed out at him with did and he grabbed the metal and pushed it down as he looked at her from behind the face plate, alien emotions rolling through his mind before finally he said.
"You always told me that when we were kids."
"Don't pull that," she said, the glint in her eyes hidden as she looked down. "We aren't kids anymore."
"You're still a human."
"You're still an asshole, John."
"Calm down."
"GO CALM YOURSELF DOWN!"
"Think rationally!"
"They're my family!"
"They're trying to wipe out the human race!"
"It's not a reason to kill them!"
"Not a reason?" John asked, his helmet now removed so her teal blue eyes could watch her from his ghostly pale face. "Then what is?"
"Nothing is!"
"Don't be an idiot."
"Don't be blind."
John froze when she spoke and he felt her heart thudding in his ribs, but he kept a calm act as he asked, his piercing eyes cutting her in two as she dropped her gaze to the floor.
"Can't you see I care about you?"
"Well I love you too but duty comes before personal affection."
Star's eyes burnt as he gave her another command as if she were a young recruit.
"Now go to the bridge, Cortanna needs a look at those plans."
Blinded by tears and her mind spinning in thoughts of anger she began to slowly walk in front of him.
And, after a few seconds, she turned and looked at him with a deep blue tear rolling down her face.
"I was wrong. You aren't John you bastard."
With that she took off at a run even he couldn't match, into the docks where she quickly accessed a human ship, hacking through it as she locked the door and took off towards Halo where she knew Shasic was looking for her. After plotting the autopilot course she let herself hug her legs like a frightened child.
Inside the human ship, John was battling mentally with himself as he paced (A strange thing on its own), and muttered to himself.
And on the sacred ring Shasic battled the flood as he searched for the one he loved, unable to stop himself from feeling for the human who he could only pray could love him back.
Megan felt the hot tears roll down her cheeks as she sobbed like a child into her own arms.
The data chip in her pocket as she wiped her eyes and Star looked outside before saying to herself.
"He's wrong."
But on the inside that she'd have to choose soon who she'd follow:
Humans
or the Covenant.
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