Disclaimer: I do not own Xenosaga or Halo.
Author's Note: Finally have the time, hope this doesn't suck too much, not very many ideas.
Chapter 2: Forward Unto Dawn
"Hey Junior, what's the situation in your section."
"Fine, any idea who's ship this is? I've never seen anything like it." Jr. replied.
"Me either, even stranger is..."
"Shion? Shion are you there?!" Jr. voiced frantically.
"Yes.. I looked at some of the video records.. oh my god."
Shion was currently looking at a data feed showing her the things the crew of this ship went through. Currently she was looking at a grotesque being, like some mutant human, but in the material world unlike Gnosis.
It was attacking other humans as they fired their weapons fanatically trying to bring it down, and watched in horror ,as well, as a small bulb-shaped creature crawled atop of one and burrowed into him, causing him to mutate horribly, "oh my god" was all she could think of to say.
These things weren't Gnosis, that was for sure, as the rounds from the crew's rifles pierced them causing green blood to spew out of them, then almost as viciously as KOS-MOS a large figure protected by seemingly unbreakable armor came into the scene and unleashed hell upon the mutants.
By the end of the fight, none of the crew was left standing, their savior simply gathered ammo off of them and strut off, Shion was glad the system had no audio, or it would have been all that much worse.
The oddest thing though, was as the feed switched to him, it seemed as if he was guided, he would turn around in halls and narrows, avoiding deadly ambushes, then double back to avoid any recoiling.
Almost like he was all-knowing, but that was impossible, the only person who she could think of like this was Wilheim, but this man was definitely not Wilheim.
As she watched ,unknown to her, she was being watched herself.
Junior didn't like this ship, it was as if he was being followed, but whenever he turned, the way was empty, another thing is, the powered part of the ship seemed to be some sort of cryo-stasis room, recently used too, as one of the tubes was open.
(-I'm pretty sure you can imagine where he is if you've played halo, just imagine the Pillar of Autumn's cryo-2 room.)
He was in a two story room with a catwalk leading to some sort of observation deck above him, it was fairly dark so he was using a flashlight to look around, the room was like a rectangle, but there were tubes lined upon the far wall, every two tubes there was a pedestal, for what he had no idea, however, one of the tubes was open, he was beginning to investigate it when Shion contacted him, he simply replied he was fine but suddenly she seemed scared, he could hear it in her voice.
She seemed to have been looking at the ship's records when she said it, this led him to think something was wrong as he dashed to the region the link came from.
Master chief, Sierra 117, John, whatever you wanna call him, was currently in an access shaft watching a young woman, about 23 in appearance, read the ship files.
"Cortanna.." he said in a hushed voice,"should I engage, or try to find an escape pod?"
"Honestly, why your asking me I don't know, but this could be considered a violation of security protocol." she replied stately.
"That settles it then."he said as began to stalk towards the woman.
Shion was currently watching the armored figure crash a ship onto a foreboding ice field, as another alien of some sort was beginning to supply and gear up she felt a thud on the back of her head and lost consciousness.
"You didn't..." Cortanna started.
"No, but I'm not going to let her have a field day watching classified data."
"Then what will you do with her?"
"I'm boarding the Elsa, as they call it, and getting some answers." he replied.
"Then why knock her out?"
"She was watching film she shouldn't have."
He left it at that and began to head towards the Elsa.
Junior was sprinting through the ship's corridors towards Shion's position as the Elsa sent him a com message.
"Hey Jr... how are things going?" it was Allen.
"Not good, I've lost contact with Shion, and there's something else too."
"What!?!?!?!?" he heard more then likely everyone on the bridge say immediately.
""Look, now isn't the time, I found a stasis-room, the thing is, as I last contacted Shion, I found one of the tubes open, and I have reason to believe they were made to support human life."
"So.. your..saying that... someone ELSE is on that ship, and has found Shion? " Allen replied somewhat in shock.
"That's exactly what I'm saying dammit!"
"Oh shit.. " Jr. trailed off as he reached Shion's last position.
"What.. what is it?"
"She's not here."
Author's Note: Sorry, I intended this to be at least 5 page-long, but, I'm tired and couldn't think out the plot well, I might have more tomorrow.