~Chapter 2: Halo~
Noble Six walked through the corridors of The Pillar Of Autum getting to know the place. Even though he may not be there for much longer, Noble Six would still like to be comfortable with his surroundings, or in this case, his soon-to-be battlefield. It's kind of strange that the ship, which Noble Six just got done protecting, is already being attacked once more. Noble Six made his way through the hallways until he came to the cryo-tube chamber. Inside was filled with cryo-tubes covering the walls and one lone cryo-tube in the middle. All were empty but the one in the middle.
"Blowing the pins in five!" Noble Six looked up to the observation desk that contained only one computer technician. Would they really only have one technician the keep watch over someone so important?
Suddenly another person came through the door behind Noble Six, another computer technician. "Hello, Noble Six, we were notified you'll be down here so make yourself comfortable, we've got some diagnostics to run on the Chief here before he's combat ready."
Noble Six nodded and moved over to the side of the room. The cryo-tube lid hissed and released steam from it's sides, then with a loud creek, the lid began opening, whinning the whole way open. Master Chief was laying still inside.
"Cycle complete, bringing his health monitors online." The technician in observation deck started typing on the keyboard vigerously. Nice to know he takes his job serious.
Noble Six turned back around to see Master Chief step down on the floor.
"Sorry for the quick thaw Master Chief, but things are a little bit hectic right now, we're going to go ahead with the diagnostics test, we'll test your targeting over here."
Master Chief followed the technician over to a red square where four lights lit up. Noble Six was curious so he walked over as well. Master Chief looked at each of the lights and they changed colors.
"Wish they had that back on Reach, it would have made a Spartans diagnostics training go faster, could have made it where we could spend more time out of our armor."
Master Chief looked over to Noble Six. "Maybe so Spartan, but where we're about to be going, your suit isn't coming off very much."
"I bet so." Noble Six knew about the upcoming battle of The Pillar Of Autumn. Master Chief knew it as well.
Once they got Master Chief's energy shields up, Captain Keyes came over the intercom. "Cryo B, send the Master Chief to the bridge asap."
The technician in the observation deck spoke next. "But sir, we'll have to skip weapon diagnostics."
"On the double private."
"Alright, just let me finish a few things." Loud banging noises came from the other side where the technician was. "They're trying to get through the door!" The door exploded in fire as three Elites came in firing their Plasma Rifles. "Cryo B To Bridge . . .!" He couldn't finish the sentence before three plasma bolts hit him the the stomache and fell to the floor. One of the Elites walked over to him while he tried to crawl away and fired a plasma blot into his head. He was dead.
"Master Chief, we need to get to the bridge now!" Noble Six said as he watched the technician killed before his eyes. He was filled with anger because there was nothing he could do but watch as they killed an inocent civilian. They were monsters.
Noble Six ran out of the room leading Master Chief. The other technician ran ahead of Noble Six opening a door that ended his life in an explosions. Noble Six and Master Chief jumped over a pipe and ran through the halls of the space ship. They passed through raging battles but couldn't stop to help due to the emergency of the situation. Then they made it to the bridge. Captain Keyes was standing at the command deck holding his pipe.
Master Chief walked up to him. "Captain Keyes."
"It's good to see you Master Chief, things are a little bit hectic right now." Keyes shook Master Chief's hand. "As you can see the Covenant have boarded us and we're not doing to good of a job repel the invaders."
Cortana spoke up. "One AI in a Halcyon class cruiser defending against a dozen Covenant ships, I'm proud to say that I've made three. . ." Cortana closes her eyes and opens them again. "Make that four kills." She turns to Master Chief. "Did you sleep well?"
"No thanks to your driving, yes." Master Chief spoke sarcasticly.
"Oh good, so then you did miss me." Cortana gave Master Chief a smile.
An explosion rocked the ship. Captain Keyes yelled out orders. One of the pilots spoke out, "Sir the main cannon is offline!"
"Captain, the main cannon was my last defensive option!" Cortana spoke with a little fear in her voice.
"Then i'm initiating Cole Protocol, you're abandoning the Autumn. Cortana lock in a some coordinants implants and get ready for detachment."
"While you do what, go down with the ship?"
"In a manner of speaking, that object I'm going to try to land the Autumn on it." Captain Keyes pointed out the window.
This was the first time Noble Six actually looked out the window. Outside was a giant ring. Noble Six had no idea what kind object it was, but they were going to land on it. Noble Six looked over to Master Chief who was putting Cortana into the back of his helmet.
"Master Chief, this is Noble Six, he's going to be your new partner, make good friends and get of this ship alive." Captain Keyes finally introduced Noble Six the Master Chief.
Master Chief extended his hand. "It's good to meet you Noble Six, I hope I can trust you to have my back."
Noble Six took his hand. "Likewise sir."
A Note From The Author:
Hey people, it's your author speaking again, sorry for taking to much time in putting up the next chapter, I had an un-foreseen event happen to not allow me to post it, it was called writers block. Again, sorry for the wait and your reviews are very much grateful. Thanks for the support!