Yo guys, thanks for the reviews, and its nice that people get so infested into the story that they bring out their halo knowledge. Its much appreciated
Anyway off we go
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"That would be much appreciated, I have many questions." Miya replied, with a curious glint appearing in her eyes. That being said Miya led John through the gate and towards the entrance of her house. When they reached the door Miya opened it and motioned John to walk in. When John stepped through the door a traditional Japanese entrance area greeted him with shoes lined up in front of a wooden step. Miya walked in after him and tried to walk around him to further lead the way, which was kind of difficult with his massive frame blocking almost half of the hallway. After a little scuffle to walk past and bumping her head on Karasubas who groaned softly from the contact, Miya managed to get past and lead him to one of the doors in the hallway that was located next to a stairwell. Pushing the door open Miya called out to John. "This way please, Chief."
Hearing her say that John took a tentative step on the wooden floor of the hallway and heard it groan and bend under his immense weight. Testing the wooden blankets a bit further with his foot, John realized that it wouldn't give way under him, so with tentative steps he followed after Miya and went through the door while bending down a bit as not to bump against the door frame. When he entered the room a view of a classic dining/living room with a long table and many cushions surrounding it.
On the opposite side of the room he could see outside through to open double doors that led onto a veranda. At the head of the table on the wall there was another door situated that probably led to the kitchen if John guessed right. Miya entered the room after John and moved to the cushion at the head of the table with the kitchen door at her back and motioned John to a cushion next to her. John walking around the table and going towards the cushion to her left that was close to the doors which led outside to the veranda. Taking a tentative look towards Miya he studied her sitting position to mirror it.
After getting into a seiza position next to Miya he carefully dumped Karasuba on the free cushion next to him, lay her hands on the table and probed her head onto her arms, with her grey hear pooling around her head and almost covering her face, which pointed toward them. If John had to be honest with himself he kind of preferred the peaceful expression that she had while unconscious, over that bloodthirsty one she usually had.
Next to him Miya called out. "Uzume would you prepare tea for three, we have visitors, when your done come join us."
"Sure thing Miya." An energetic female voice echoed from the other room.
"So Chief where were we?" Miya opened the conversation looking up towards his helmeted head that was currently studying Karasuba next to him. Hear Miya speak to him, John turned his head towards her and gave her all of his attention. "Sanctuary." Was all he said. "Oh right, right, you aren't a man of many words are you?" Hearing her say that all John did was shrug his shoulder as response. "Well anyway, if I really help you, you need to answer a few questions of mine and after we have gone through all of them I decide, alright."
John nodded his head to motion her to continue.
"Okay first of all where do you come from?" Miya questioned.
"Classified." John answered in his monotonous voice, to Miya it seemed it was a well repeated answer of his that he had to throughout often.
"You do know that this is not going to work like this Chief, you want something from me and right now all you have to give is honesty." Miya reprimanded him.
"Data." Is what John had to say to this, as he pulled up a submenu with his neural link to view the package that he had downloaded. The number displayed on the details of the package read, apparently he got a few Exabyte worth of data.
"What?" Miya asked wondering where he was going with this. All chief did was nick towards her and say. "I know that you are a Sekirei Nr.1, Karasuba told me so on the way here. When I came planet side I was hit by a satellite, clung to it and downloaded some data to make a picture of how things worked here for myself. I didn't have the time to go over it but the package is massive for your standards. It's from MBI. I want to bargain it for a save stay here for a short time until I have figured things out. When I do so we will get out of your hair. Don't worry about Karasuba, I have a tight leash on her."
The moment John said that the door behind Miya opened and a brown haired young woman stepped into the room in skimpy clothes, if you could call a shirt panty combo skimpy. He didn't really know what was normal for civilians, be it human or alien, with a tray of three cups and a small teapot on it.
"What bargain?" The woman who John guessed was Uzume spoke up, when her eyes caught sight of him a high shriek escape the woman and she threw the tray in the air and jumped in surprise. The teacups flew through the air and too fast for a human John fished them out of the air when they got close to him and set the sett neatly on the table. Both woman had wide eyes from that action and John just kept on sitting there as if nothing had happened.
"Who the hell is this Miya? And why the hell is Karasuba here?" Questioned Uzume in a loud hysteric voice when she notice Karasuba slumped over the table. But the moment Uzume spoke up she had to shy back a bit and hide in a corner as an oppressing feeling permeated the room that got the hair on John's neck to stick up slightly. When John panned his gaze form Uzume back to Miya he saw her sitting there with closed eyes and a pleasant smile on her face. God be damned that killing intent was something else, Karasuba couldn't compare to this John found.
"Uzume watch your language, and why are you dressed in such a indecent way? I thought I told you to walk around the house dressed properly?" Miya spoke, giving Uzume her full attention. Uzume cowered even further back into her corner. "Yes M-Miya of course!" Uzume shouted out as she scrambled to her feet and ran out the living room to get dressed,
Satisfied Miya shifted her attention back to the Chief and placed a cup in front of him and poured him some tea as if nothing happened. "Here you go Chief enjoy your tea while we sort this out here." Miya said as she took a sip in an elegant way. Chief just sat there and looked at his tea, wondering if he could already go as far as leaving his head exposed to a swords master. "You're going to have to take that helmet off at some point anyway." Miya stated as she had guessed that John was in a little debate with himself.
Well John guessed she was right, and not counting that little escapade earlier Miya was mostly civil enough so he used his neural interface and unlocked his helmet, took it off and put it on the floor next to him, into that little space that was between him and Karasuba.
While this happened Miya keep a watchful eye on him the moment the hiss of depressurization resounded, and slightly studied his face. Unbeknownst to Miya she was as baffled as Karasuba back when she first saw his face. Miya didn't expect an older man to be underneath all this armour, going by his lightning fast reflexes and strength that he had showcased. The paleness of his skin was quite weird to her, it was as if he didn't see any sunlight at all and actually lived in the suit. His calm green eyes never left her out of his sight and his thin mouth was kept pressed into a stoic line as he reached for his cup. His brown hear was keep in a short military buzz cut and his little wrinkles on the edges of his stern eyes gave him a rugged look. The scar, that runs over his left eye added just perfectly to the diehard look John had going for him. In the end it didn't matter what he looked like to her, he would never capture her heart like Takehito did.
"So where did we stop again?" Miya questioned. "Ah yes, you were saying you have an extraordinary amount of data from MBI. Well it would count as show of good faith, but I need to know a little about you and what your goals are for the future, pertaining your stay here and the Sekirei Plan that Minaka Hiroto is going to launch soon. Let's start again, where are you from?"
"Eridanus II Ma'am." Chief replied a little bitter that he had to disclose secrets. Well if he really thought about it. It was a freak accident that sent him here and he had no way of replicating it, there were no slip-space drives, and it seemed like the aliens here didn't have an access to their own technology.
"Excuse me, where is that?" Miya questioned.
"I am not from here Ma'am, a freak accident sent me here. Eridanus II is on the edge of the outer colonies, and controlled by the United Earth Government. This might be a lot to take in but I will be able to show proof if I'm able to connect to another computer." Chief said. "It will be easier to understand, the circumstances behind my arrival."
Taking all this in Miya had a little debate with herself in her mind. Just when she was about to answer, the only other occupant of the room beside Chief and herself seemed to regain consciousness again. Which was proven right when Karatsuba's upper body snapped upright, her grey hair whipping along the motion and her eyes open with righteous fury blazing in them.
"For fucks sake John, why would you do that?! Everything was going well with the conversation. And how dare you knock me out?" Karasuba yelled at Chief, Miya was just sitting there with an amused smile on her face. Everything that aggravated Karasuba and annoyed her was so much fun for her. Watching those to banter back and forth, well it was more like Karasuba screaming at Chief and Chief just sitting there and staring the woman down without a care in the world.
Miya lifted her hand up to cover her mouth and chuckled. This of course gained her the attention of Karasuba who consequently started to yell at her. "Miya how dare you laugh at me, oh I'm so gonna get you back for this! Just you wait until I get my sword back, I'm gonna carve you open like the pig you are bitch!" Karasuba yelled with a bloodthirsty grin on her face, a maniacal laughter escaping her as she lounge over the table, in front of John and tried to instigate a fight with their hopefully soon to be landlord. But as things were it not had to be as John struck the airborne Karatsuba's neck again. With a resounding thud Karasuba hit the surface of the table and tip over the cup that was in front of John making the tea spill all over his knee, the hot beverage not able to reach his lap because the table wasn't high enough to get his knees under it like Miya's were. Karasubas head that was turned to look at him struggled to keep her eyes open and send a scathing glare toward John. "D-Damn Y-You." Was all Karasuba managed to stutter out when she drifted of to unconsciousness again.
Perplexed but thankful for the solution that Chief had provided for the scuffle that had been sure to ignite, Miya looked back to Chief who pulled Karasuba off the table and put her into the same position that she was in before her little attempt of starting a fight. "Sorry Ma'am I spilled your tea." Miya chuckled at this. "Don't worry it was quite entertaining, now you said you had proof of how you got here, well just wait here for a moment I will get another tenant of mine who is an expert in IT matters." With that Miya got up and left the room, on her way to get Matsu who probably knew already that they had unusual visitors.
Back with Chief and not so sleepy but still sleeping Karasuba
As Miya left the room, John was left to his own thoughts again, to sort through his mind and figure out the best course of actions he should take. Everything from his arrival to meeting Karasuba, the realization that he wasn't anywhere close to UNSC space, he didn't have any way to resupply of his weaponry that he still had from Requium, and the worst part for him, bound to an alien on a spiritual level. Remembering the bond Karasuba spoke of, John look at her again and studied her unconscious form that was next to him, why couldn't she as peaceful as she was now when awake. John closed his eyes in concentration and started to meditate for a bit in search for that bond, Spartans such as himself where used to going into themselves, to keep a clear mind and be ready for anything thrown their way. He didn't know if the latest generation of Spartans were the same, according to their overall performance that he had seen on Requium, they probably don't meditate, if their unorganized campaign was anything to go by. As he delved into himself he ended up in a place not his own, there were so many emotions anger, sadness, bitterness, hopelessness, oh wait, some of these were actually his own. What was this place? Cortana came to mind straight away and what she had said to him at some point. Sometimes I wonder which one of us is the machine. Was what she had said. This made him think, what was he? Soldier, Human, Demon, Military Hardware, Weapon, Protector? Well he sure as hell knew that he was a soldier, one who had failed his self-imposed Mission. How could he have failed? He never failed, he always made it count somehow. Where was his luck when he really needed it? The only thing that mattered to him was taken. What was he supposed to do now?
Putting those questions on the side to avoid a depression Chief delved further into his mind and there he found it. It felt like a little heart, pulsing away in a steady rhythm. Although it resembled a heart it gave of a cold feeling, hatred, anger, bloodlust, dark and twisted happiness when something was ended, indifference. It was the weirdest mix, and it made him kind of sad. How could such a young woman feel this way? What was she in her 20s going towards thirty maybe? He didn't know what she had to go through, but it sure as hell couldn't be as bad as having a front row seat, that was the right terminology he believed, when a planet was bombed to smithereens. Or having to watch as people were eaten alive. Well John supposed he had to watch his back while around this woman.
As John opened his eyes, his right hand reached out and moved a stray strand of hair from Karasubas face. And then he paused, where had that come from? He'd never felt the need to touch someone in a caring manner other than his brothers and sisters in the corps. Well John felt it was kind of pity for her, with her warped and twisted psych. He had time and things might change, if something he was good in it was having hope.
As he pulled his right hand in again, John kind of felt the need to drag it over his face and sigh, but before he could do that Miya opened the door and returned with a young red head that wore glasses in a white tight fitting dress, in front of her bosom she held a laptop and on the other hand she was dragged in by Miya. It also seemed that woman was quite immature, if her whining was anything to go by.
"Come on Miya-tan, why do I have toooo. I doooon't want to go in there. Karasuba is iiiiin theeere." The woman complained as Miya kept on dragging her inside the living room. "Shut up Matsu, for once in your live could you stop complaining? This is important. See Karasuba is knocked out. Nothing is going to happen, or do you want me to impose some harsher rules upon you and your peeping nature? Pervert. Huh?" Miya said with pleasant smile on her face and Johns neck hair stuck up again, although no one would be able to tell this because of the impassive expression he wore while watching those twos interactions.
"Al-alright I will do it Miya, but please go easy on me." That being said Matsu took her glasses of and went into serious mode. "Alright Mister …" John butted in "Chief", Matsu continued. "Chief, I hear you need someone with a good amount of IT knowledge, well I can tell you for sure that there is no one better than me. " Matsu said as she sat down on the opposite site of John and set up her laptop. Hearing this John reached for his helmet and delicately removed the data chip Cortana used to live in. He stared at the chip and held it close to his eyes. Then John lowered his hand and in a serious voice said to Matsu. "If you break that chip, I will break you and there will be no place on earth where you will be save from me." Hearing that Matsu gulped, this Chief was much more imposing in real live than on a screen. But on the other hand she had to do this, although she had whined around a lot, Matsu was still curious as hell, there was nothing she didn't know, and if there was such a thing she had to know. She had to know so bad it hurt. Tenderly she reached out and when she was about she had to stop, and calm down a bit, her hand was shaking slightly. After a few seconds she finally brought up the nerves to do it and grabbed for the chip. When she enclosed her hand around it, she came into contact whit Chiefs armoured hand and a sudden surge of heat travelled through her body and a slight blush tainted her cheeks.
"Alright I will be careful." With that said Matsu pulled her hand back and began to study the data chip in her hand. And for sure this was one of the most advanced piece of equipment she ever held in her hand. It didn't look like much at first but when she began to look carefully at it, she started to notice what this thing actually could do. Who ever made this was light years ahead of anything the humans her or even the sekirei had. Calming further down and reaching into herself Matsu tapped into the inborn power she had and used it to connect with the data chip. If people wandered what it would be like, Matsu would best describe it as being inside the machine, seeing bits fly around, the wiring looked to her like streets, transistors like buildings and the chipboard like the ground. It was beautiful. The chip she was in, it was huge, the space in there was just huge. It felt like the storage space was endless.
The more she mind walked around this place the more surreal it felt to her. Touching one data piece that floated past her knowledge was pushed into her mind, she couldn't even start to comprehend what it was about. The more data packages Matsu touched the more she felt stupid, for thinking the sekirei were advanced. As Matsu kept on walking she noticed that the otherwise grey world she was in started to have blue spots to appear. At first it was quite subtle, but the further she walked the blue became more prominent. Something was calling out to her, Matsu was sure of that, what she didn't know. It kind of unnerved her a little bit, there shouldn't be anything living in her than herself. When she reached the area with the most blue around she suddenly walked into an invisible wall and due to being startled she fell back on her butt. "Itai!" Matsu huffed out as she rubbed her bum, and when she looked around to see what obscured her way, she noticed areas around her slowly going dark. The darkness that coated everything started to grow faster and faster until only Matsu was left on a blue coloured space that couldn't be bigger than a square meter.
Matsu didn't know what the hell was going on. Something like this had never happened before. Suddenly a blue see-through shield of light was erected around her and streams of code started to crawl along the walls. Matsu couldn't make heads or tails of the code, she didn't understand it in the least bit.
As Matsu kept on studying the code, she noticed a bright light form the corner of her left eye. Turning towards it something else unexpected happened. From the light a beautiful young woman walked towards her. She had shoulder long black hair and deep blue eyes stared at her seriously, the most noticeable thing though was, that the woman was completely naked and what appeared to be skin was actually strings of code flowing up and down her form. When the woman reached the little square Matsu occupied her whole body suddenly turned red and in a cold voice she spoke.
"Intruder detected. The safety protocols haven been activated. State your reasons for being her or be deleted." Hearing that Matsu was baffled, something like that really never had happened before. As Matsu slowly got up and looked the woman the eyes she said. "I have authorizations to be here, who are you?"
"I am the safety protocols that were erected by Smart AI CTN 0452-9 Cortana before her destruction. State password and proceed, failure to comply will be answered with deletion." The safety protocol spoke. Now Matsu was in a bind, how the hell was she supposed to have the correct password, this Chief Mister didn't say anything about password protection and she didn't know which actions to take, as stated before something like that had never happened before, there was no guide book and there was nothing she knew that could be done.