summary- The UNSC have been fighting a losing war with the covenant for a decades, but a science team on reach may have found just the thing needed to turn the war... in humanities favor... but they don't quite know what... or rather who.. they will find in that bunker.. or the power its secrets hold.
Its the year 2548 on reach, a few miles from the core we find science team epsilon studying ruins and old, yet strangely advanced technology.
"What are we expecting to find down here, ma'am" said one of the female scientiests, she was wearing the standard uniform of the UNSC, she had her red hair up in a loose bun, and is wearing a name tape that says Lois Anderson.
"I'm not sure, however, whenever we sent scans throughout the planet we got readings from everywere except two places, one being, as you know, the "core" the other.. was here.. and we never had a way to reach this place untill a few months back" said another scientist. However this one was in her late 50's, she had grey hair and was wearing a tag that said "Catherine Halsey".
"I get that, however I want to know why we are here in the dark instead of finding or bringing down some lights and generators
that would allow us to power this stuff" said the only male scientist in the room he had short messy brown hair and a name tape that read Robert Thompson.
They wandered throughout the room until Lois stumbled (read tripped) on some rubble on the ground. As she put her hand on the wall, in an attempt to steady herself, she sliced open her palm just enough to break the skin causing some of her blood to smear along the wall. As she craddled her hand and inspected the area that slit her palm, she noticed there was a odd, almost tribal looking diagram on the wall with her blood on it. Shortly after, the team began to hear faint grinding and buzzing noises.
"What did you do this time lois?" cried Robert
"How the hell am I supposed to know, all I did was stumble and nearly fall" she yelled staring at the now glowing picture
Suddenly.. Everything stopped, the team stood there frozen for a few seconds.
"Well whatever it was, its do-" Catherine was cut off by the room suddenly filling with light and the sounds of the sounds of computers and machines turning on. Revealing everything in perfect clarity however the screens were filed by an unknown dialect.
Lois looks at her palm then looks at Robert and grins deviously "I win"
Robert deadpans at her "nothing but luck" and begins to squabble with Lois.
Catherine (ever the collected one) strolls through the room ignoring the squabble, looking for anything she may have missed before hand. After searching for a seconds she finds that one of the screens is flashing what looks like a status box in yellow with a progress bar filling up. As its filling up she notices a hallway slowly filling with light. She looks back at the squabbling scientists and decides to go on by herself.
As she reached the end of the hallway, she notices three grey pillars. The one on the far left had pulsing orange lines it was roughly 6 ft tall. the pillar, in the middle had pulsing silver lines and it was 7 ft tall. The last one on the far right was 6 feet tall however it was deeper in depth then the other two and pulsed blue. She noticed that there was a terminal a few feet in front of them that had one button flashing green. Embracing her curiosity she pushed the button.
She heard a voice reverberate in the facility around her "wjuo rem ish" and repeat itself slowly becoming clearer as it did. Finally clear yet distorted
she heard "Who are you"
"I am Catherine Halsey of ONI. I'm a scientist that stumbled upon this bunker, who are you and how are you speaking to me"
"Who i am is not important at this time what is important is what your intentions are, and what you want. I can figure this out myself if you'll allow me."
"I'll allow that if you tell me your name"
"...Arcee..." as soon as she heard that she felt a slight headache start up, after a few seconds it started to fade and she heard "be respectful or I'll hunt you down" before she could make a comment back she saw two of the pods start to open, even though the surface of the pods looked smooth. From the pod on the left she saw what looked to be a sleeping human male. He had spiky golden hair, slightly tan and was roughly five and a half feet tall, he had what looked to be a bodysuit with glowing orange circuits, the most odd thing she could see however were the whisker like marks on his face.
The other one she couldn't make any descriptions of what he looked like other then the fact that his body type was male, he was wearing what looked to be very advanced armor. it started off with a body suit similar to the other male however his was filled with blue circuitry, on top of that was overlapping plates similar to the Mnolnir armor her spartans wear however this one was seamless and was streamline the only reason why you could tell it wasnt a part of the bodysuit was because it shifted around the torso, waist, legs, neck, and upper arms as tho it were a metallic plasma about a half inch above the bodysuit. The helmet was similar to the armor however where the face should be it looked like smooth reflective steel, how he sees though it, she couldn't guess.
"Hello doc" said the whiskered male, clear as day with a wolfish grin.
Hello, I doubt that anybody will actually read this but I will actually be updating this. I went back over this chapter and changed a few things to actually "kind of" fit with the timeline of the Canonverse. It will still be a cross with other elements thrown in but I'm just flying by the seat of my pants atm, so I will say this now as I will probably forget to put it in constantly. I own nothing from this story, I came up with the premise and the idea and one of the characters (that stick around) may be an OC. But other then that all characters and places belong to their respective owners.If your actually reading this, I hope you enjoy it and if you have any comments or thoughts of how it will or should go, drop me a message and we can see about sliding it in.