Hey guys and girls. Liked the last chapter, I see. Well, this one I think will provoke surprise. I hope. Yeah…anyways, lets start!
Chapter 11
"NOOOOOOOOOO" I screamed as I watched David fall. A second later, a Jackal fell from the balcony next to us, ripped to shreds by sniper, plasma, and machine gun bullets.
Sophia crouched down next to David, taking of his helmet. She felt for a pulse. Suddenly, David coughed. Blood shot out in all directions. He gave a weak laugh.
"I guess my time here is over." He said "Don't think you can save me. I'm gone. Good, gone, and done for." He gave another weak laugh, then coughed up more blood. Sophia took of her helmet, and I could tell she was crying… something she NEVER did. She shook her head.
"You are NOT dieing. We WILL save you, some how." She said firmly. I ran up next to her and handed her a can of bio-foam. She looked at me, nodded, and started spraying into the wounds in his lungs, and one in the stomach. David beckoned for me to come over. I crouched next to him.
"You know as well as I do that there is nothing we can do. You took that class on intentional wounds, too. You have to… try to keep going… who knows? Maybe… I'''…respawn, or something?" His words sounded so weak, and I could tell he was losing the fight to stay alive. I bowed my head and started to cry. He clasped my hand for a second, and I looked him in the eye. "Good-bye, Jared. Have a nice life." He turned to Sophia.
"You know… I have always… liked you. We had… chemistry, really. Both of us…liked the same things… maybe… we could have had something. Now… we'll never… know." And there David stopped talking and closed his eyes. Sophia burst into tears. But before she really started sobbing, she leaned down, and kissed what once was David's body.
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About ten minutes later, when we had all run out of tears, I reached down and picked up his body. We looked around. Maybe he WOULD respawn. But nothing came. So I started walking with his corpse hanging from my shoulder. Nobody talked on the way back to command. What had once been bustling with people now was almost deserted. We knew from the game that Noble Team had cleared inside of the base too, so we didn't have our weapons out when we walked in. Three marines guarded the security door to get inside. When one tried to stop us, I pushed up my visor and glared at him. The sight of the dead Spartan body and my glare made him back away and open the security door for us. We walked through.
Inside, we found dead covenant bodies everywhere, and even more human bodies. The trap door was still closed, and I guessed that the techies were still hiding there, waiting for the clear to come out. But I didn't take this into account. I just continued walking until I got to Dr. Halsey's office, where the remaining ODSTs waited, looking exhausted. I noticed one wasn't there anymore. He probably died in the fighting. The leader looked me, then to the body, then back to me, nodded with a look of understanding, and let us in.
Dr. Halsey sat in a chair around the 3-D map of Reach, along with six others, most of whom I didn't recognize, other then Noble 1, Carter. Everyone stood up.
"Greetings, Teen Team. I-" Carter stopped as he noticed the body. Dr. Halsey stepped forward.
"I see… Are you sure?" She asked. I nodded my head, as did my other friends. Halsey lowered her head.
"As the saying goes, 'Spartans never die', we have to classify him as MIA. Did anybody see you as you came here?" She asked. I nodded my head.
"One marine. He looked very scared. What will you do with him?" I asked stiffly, vaguely interested. Halsey shook her head.
"Well, we'll have to swear him to secrecy. If he doesn't accept, we will send him off with a small group of marines that know the truth." She said. I nodded, then turned to walk away, when Dr. Halsey put her hand on my shoulder. I stopped, but didn't turn around.
"Jared, do you know how an A.I. is made?" The doctor asked softly. I shook my head "Well, as you might now, an A.I. is formed around the personality of a human. Do you know how that is achieved?" Again, I shook my head, but now I turned to face her "We achieve this by taking the human's brain out from their body. Of course, we do this on dead people. Would you like us to make Teen 4 a base for an A.I.?" I was astounded. I now remembered learning about this from the books. Could David live on in an A.I.? The computer would not have all of David's traits, but just enough for us to remember him. I shakily nodded. Maybe we COULD go on with out him. Of course, we would be hard pressed without another member of our team that could drive vehicles, but we would survive. Or so I hoped…
End of Chapter 11
How did you like that? Funny, the idea for the A.I thing was actually suggested by my friend David, whom I had based the character off of. Kind of sort of. Anyways, please review and tell me what you think!