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Chapter three- the pillar of autumn

ODST: well golly gee willikers I wonder what's going to happen

Jason: O.o where did that come from?

ODST: dunno I'm happy its Friday and I'm going to be home alone today! Woot!

Chloe: No parties?

ODST: no

Jason: music?

ODST: I always have music playing Jason… you know that.


last time

"I got the test subjects." A shady voice whispered holding Jason and Chloe.

"Ok return to base pronto." Another voice replied.

Story start!

A beam of light spread across Chloe's closed eyes and brought her around. She slowly opened her eyes and looked around. The lights were artificial, what a way to wake up. The room was filled with beds, but only one was occupied other than her own. It was Jason.

She swung her legs out of bed, noticing she was still wearing the same clothes as when she was at the ice cream store.

"Oh yeah, now I remember." She muttered so she could only hear it. Jason was still out cold. Chloe walked over and put her hand against his forehead.

"He'll be ok, but you still need to be in bed." A voice came from the door. Chloe spun to see who it was.

She had never seen him before, he wore military fatigues, and bore the symbol of a sergeant on his arm. He had dark skin, and short cropped hair like her brothers.

"Who are you?" she asked quietly.

"The question is, who are you?" he asked half smiling.

Chloe sighed and sat down on a chair.

"No bed." He pointed to her bed.

She shook her head, and he just rubbed his eyes. "Please? I've had a long day."

"Can I ask you something first?" she asked him.

"Shoot."

"Where am I?"

"Third level infirmary on the Pillar of Autumn."

"Pillar of Autumn?"

"Wait you haven't hear of the Pillar of Autumn? What about The Inner and Outer Colonies?" He arched an eyebrow.

She shook her head again and frowned. "How long was I asleep?"

"About four days, well after we found you."

"Either there's some parts missing or a lot happened in four days. I'll bet on the some parts are missing thing though."

"Yeah, anyway, can I ask you some questions then?"

She nodded, "Ok shoot."

"Name?"

"Shiva."

"And sleeping beauties name?" he pointed to Jason's snoring form.

"Vishnu."

"Are you Hindu?"

"Nah, American."

"Ok," he sighed, "Birth date?"

"September 20th 1989."

He started to laugh a little, "Shiva come on what's your real birth date?"

"September 20th 1989! I'm serious!"

"That can't be possible," He said quietly, "that was over 500 years ago."

Chloe's eyes widened, "W-what? What do you mean? What's today's date?"

"September 19th 2552."

Her eyes only widened in response.

"What?"

"Basically now Vishnu and I are the oldest people alive."

"I don't understand."

"I'm 563 years old."

"Right how can I believe that?" he rolled his eyes.

"I don't have a clue what The Pillar of Autumn is, even when I'm sitting right in it. I've never heard of The Inner or Outer Colonies." er voice was slightly flat and annoyed.

"Touché" he frowned.

"Got anything to eat?"

He nodded, "I'll bring something for you and sleeping beauty here."

"Yeah food should wake him up." She managed a small smile.

"Wait, why don't you wake him up and I'll send someone after you to take you to the cafeteria."

"Whatever floats your boat." Chloe walked over to Jason's side and bent down. "Jason breakfast is ready."

Jason shot out of bed and to the door, "Food? Where!"

Chloe laughed at him, "Someone will be here in a minute to take us to the cafeteria."

"Are we at school?"

She frowned, "No on the Pillar of Autumn."

"Huh?"

Chloe sighed and sat down, "Remember those guys who grabbed us at the ice cream shop?"

"Yep"

"They must have cryogenically frozen us or something cause it's September 19th"

"We've been asleep for a month?"

"No it's not 2005 anymore, it's 2552."

"If this is a joke Chloe," He started

Chloe interrupted"If this is a joke it's on both of us and Ian may have set it up. It seems pretty real to me though."

Jason wrapped his arms around Chloe and he frowned, "So basically we only have each other now."

She nodded blinking back heavy tears.

A moment later a woman dressed in the same fatigues knocked on the door and the two separated. "Am I interrupting something?"

"No it's ok. Are you taking us to the cafeteria?"

"Yep!" she smiled, "And your names are?"

"Shiva and Vishnu."

Jason gave her a 'what the hell' look. Chloe nudged him lightly and he played along.

"Ok you two follow me."

The woman had a first lieutenant symbol on her arm, and she seemed to be very well respected among the marines.

"Lieutenant, if you don't mind me asking, what's your name?" Chloe asked as they got on an elevator.

She looked at Chloe confused but still grinning, "Shiva? How did you know I'm a lieutenant?"

"Insignia." The doors opened and a huge cafeteria appeared in front of them.

Jason's eyes widened and ran over to the salad bar and started filling a plate. Chloe's left eye just twitched a little and she walked over and filled her plate. He walked by with nearly 3 inches of food stacked on his plate. "Jason! Leave something for the people who need it more!" Chloe said blushing.

A few marines just laughed at the two, half amazed at Chloe's expression and half amazed by Jason's plate.

"But Chloe." He whined.

"Just go sit down." She rolled her eyes and followed him.

They sat down at an empty table in the corner and began to eat. Chloe had to dodge bits of food that missed Jason's giant mouth. More of the personnel had started to laugh and Chloe slid down in her seat, blushing a deeper red.

She finally got pissed of enough and yelled, "CHE JASON! ARE YOU EVEN TASTING THE FOOD!"

He looked up from his empty plate and smiled. He had bits of food all over his face.

Chloe laughed a little, "Jason wipe your face. There's food all over it."

Jason wiped his face clean and smiled goofily; Chloe grabbed him around the neck with one arm and gave him a noogie.

They stood up and stretched, then took their plates over to a window. There was a sign over it that read "Dirty Dishes Here. Not In Your Bunks!"

Chloe nodded and smiled to the guys who had kitchen duty. Jason was heading over to the bar again but was stopped by Chloe.

"Aww common Chloe! One more plate? Plleeeaaaaasssssseeeee?"

"You know Jason, considering you're two years older than me you whine a lot."

He shut up and followed her sulking back to the table in the corner. They sat down.

"I think that the next few weeks, will be the hardest anyone will have to endure." Chloe frowned, "We have no family left, well technically no one we know of. We'll have to adjust to new rules, new faces, and being alone. Now we only have each other." She looked up at Jason and smiled.

"I personally think we'll do ok. If you don't just think about the new technology they must have for sniper rifles." He grinned.

"Does it seem abnormally quiet in here?" Chloe asked turning around slowly. "Woah."

"What?" He turned around to. "hehe hi."

A man was standing behind them with his hands clasped behind his back. Everyone in the room was standing and saluting.

"May I speak to you two in private please?" He squeezed their shoulders and steered them out of the cafeteria. The man pulled them into a small wood furnished room and forced them to sit in a chair in front of his desk.

"Shiva and Vishnu right?" He asked staring them in the eye.

They both nodded in unison.

"You do realize that you are in a completely different time, in outer space, and onboard one of the most powerful cruisers in the entire UNSC fleet, right?"

Jason spoke up, "We got the different time part. We were kind of getting the feeling we weren't on earth anymore, and what's the UNSC?"

"One that's good instinct to know you're not on Earth and two the UNSC is the strongest corps that the military has. By the way you can call me Captain Keyes or just Captain." He said.

"Nice to meet you Captain." Chloe finally spoke up.

"Nice to meet you too, how old are you both?"

"Well technically or years I was actually awake for?"

"Both if you don't mind."

"Well technically I'm 563 years old and he's 565 years old. For the years we were awake for I'm 16 and he's 18."

"Ok, any family left? That you would know of?"

Chloe arched her eyebrow, "With all due respect sir, we have been cryogenically frozen for the last 500 years. I would think that our families are dead."

"Good point. Sorry."

"Its ok." they both said at once.

"Ok that's all you might want to go back to the infirmary and get your things." The two stood up and headed for the door. As Chloe was heading out the door Keyes said, "Shiva, you both are part of the UNSC family if you want to be."

She smiled, "Yeah that sounds nice. Thank you sir."

They finally made their way back to the infirmary and they found everything they had when they were first captured.

"Wow, they even have my paintball clothes, stains and all!" She laughed. Chloe dug through a little more and her smile faded when she found her helmet. "Jason look at this." She pulled out the picture of the three of them. "I miss him already. He must have been pretty pissed when he couldn't find us."

Chloe touched the picture of her brother. A tear streaked down her face as she closed her eyes and took a deep breath.

"I miss him too, but we can't undo the past. All we can do is move forward and not look back." Jason said as he wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her closer, "Like you said we only have each other now."

An alarm set off and made them break apart. They ran out of the room with their stuff and found a marine. "What's going on?" they asked him.

"Covenant are attacking, they just appeared out of slip space."

"Wait you lost me at Covenant." Jason frowned.

"We need to get you two out of here." The marine pushed them down the hallway and to the sergeant from earlier.

"Hello Shiva," he grinned "Vishnu."

"Sarge we need to get these two out of here, pronto." The marine said.

"Alright I'll take care of them. You two keep up, we don't have much time."

They nodded for the nth time and sprinted after the sergeant.

"Luckily for you two, I have the extra key to the armory." He grinned and led them into a room filled with sniper rifles, which Chloe drooled over, and assault rifles, which Jason drooled over.

He threw them each a pistol and a thigh holster, along with extra magazines. "Clip release, safety, trigger." He pointed out no even looking.

Chloe put her thigh holster on and twirled the pistol around her finger and stuck it in place. Jason just laughed and put his on.

"Ok come on follow me keep your heads down." Sarge ordered.

They ran down a corridor, completely forgetting the idea of "keeping our heads down" as green and blue blobs flew after them.

"Hold on a sec." Chloe said and pulled out her pistol and aimed at a shimmering mass in the hallway. She sighed and pulled the trigger at the middle of it.

A roar of agony called out as an alien with a elongated head charged at them and fired the blobs.

Sarge raised his rifle and fired at the alien. "Damn, spec op elites. Good job Shiva, let's go."

They took off again and skidded down a hallway. "There!" he shouted and pushed them into a pod crammed full of personnel, some with rifles and some with pistols. He came in after them and strapped into a seat. The two followed his instructions and were strapped in. Chloe hugged the bag closer and found Jason's hand. He squeezed hers as and explosion sent them hurling away from the ship.

"Where are we going?" Chloe yelled over the commotion.

"There I guess", the pilot pointed to a small ring world that orbited a huge planet. That or the planet was the normal size and the ring was way too small. Anyway that's were they were headed. She leaned her head back and sighed, 'This is gonna be harder than I thought.'

The ride in the cramped pod got rougher and more uncomfortable as they sped towards the ring world.


ODST: I hope you liked it!

Jason: I'm still hungry.

ODST: That'll be the least of your worries in about two chapters. Don't worry!

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