Church went inside Doc's hard drive. It looked like the data storage he went into when they fought Meta. In front of him he saw O'Malley.
"Hello Omega." Church said.
"Hello Church." Omega replied.
"What exactly happened when you were kicked out of Doc's head?"
"I told you. An alien A.I wanted to get in. But then he bounced me out."
"Ok then, so where is it now?"
"I don't know. When I came back it was gone."
"You're not telling me the full thing." Church said curiously.
"Hmmm. You're smart."
"Tell me step by step what happened."
"I was in Doc…"
"Are you familiar with the term Adurrr?" Church mocked.
"I was in Doc scanning his files. He got files from the ship. But what I found was different. He picked up some sort of tracking device. So I deleted it. I kept on scanning but there were more devices. All of them were gone after I deleted them. I finished and then I detected something coming in. It was a covenant phantom. But that's where the A.I came from. It detected me and it tried to get into Doc. I put up a firewall to block his files but it got in. Next thing I knew I was inside that woman-ish man. When I got back into Doc it was gone. It left a trace but the firewall was down."
Church thought about it.
"Wait. What time did the ship crash?"
"About 2:15 P.M our time."
"And when do you think the A.I left?"
"About… 2:15 P.M."
"Wait. So do you think the A.I was only running because of the ship?"
"Maybe…"
"Wait. You said the firewall was up? Then down?"
"Do you listen? Yes."
"Do you think the A.I connected itself to the firewall but when the ship crashed the firewall went down with it?"
"Probably..."
"If the A.I died out then it probably was a fragment."
"It was a full one."
"So it had to go onto the nearest computer."
"One of us is infected?"
"No. We made our hard drives A.I proof remember? Well. Donut refused and Doc and you just make a interesting team. So it must have. Oh no."
"What?"
"It must be at Gary's old unit… The computer at the temple! I have to go and investigate."
"Isn't the temple guarded by covenant?"
"Yes. So I'm going to need help."
"I know the temple inside out. And the covenant will taste oblivion! Hahahahaha!"
"Well, good seeing you. I guess."
Church went out of Doc's head and into his body.
Red team was in a line except Sarge.
"So as you all know, Grif here managed to break our new Warthog and he ate all of our food!" Sarge said.
"Hey! I also ate Donut's secret stash too!"
Sarge looked at Grif and he groaned.
"So we will punish Grif with one punishment per thing he did! So now, we will give him the punishment for the food! I'm letting Simmons decide that!"
Simmons was kind. But Grif had to be punished. Simmons knew what to do.
A few minutes later
Grif's arms was tied up around him. Simmons looked at him.
"Ok then! The game is that we let Grif have a 20 second head start and we then chase him around using shotguns! Then after we get to him we pop him! GO!"
Grif stumbled and wobbled across the canyon.
"Go!" Sarge commanded.
Lopez, Donut, and Sarge ran towards Grif. Grif tripped. He then decided not to play by the rules any more. His fatness expanded and the ropes snapped.
"Grif! You're breaking the rules! Lopez, bring out the launcher."
Lopez grabbed the rocket launcher on his back and he fired it at Grif. The rocket blew up and Grif flew and he landed but his fat broke his fall. He then got up slowly.
"Game two!" Sarge yelled.
A few minutes later
"Today we have another game designed by Lopez! We have a obstacle course! Grif must drive the warthog past the obstacle course that Lopez setup! No going back!"
Grif got into the warthog seat.
"3…" Sarge started.
Lopez kicked the warthog into the course. He drove but the warthog engine steamed. There were land mines everywhere! Grif hit one and he flew out and he fell on a trap that bounced him into another landmine which set off chain reactions of traps that launched, hit, and burned Grif. Grif got up and he was burnt and his visor was cracked.
"Game three!"
A few more minutes later
"Finally we have Donut's game! Today Donut is going to have Grif clean up the ENTIRE base!"
"What!?" Grif yelled in protest.
"Any replace the drapes while you're at it!" Donut said
"Nooo! Nooooo! Noooooooooooooo!" Grif groaned.
Grif went into the base.
Church went over to Tucker.
"Hey Tucker? Can you help me with something?"
"Sure."
Behind Tucker There was Junior.
"Blargh?"
"What is it?"
"I wan't to go to the temple with me and get to the computer."
"We'll join you!"
"Blargh!"
"Bow chicka bow wow!"
"What did he say?"
"He said and we'll grab our swords and slice and dice!"
"Ok then! Doc is going to meet with us."
"What about Carolina or Washington?"
"Carolina is injured and Washington has to rebuild a tank for Shiela.
"Where is Caboose then?"
Suddenly Caboose came up beside Tucker.
"I packed my lunch! I have a extra sandwich for you Church!"
Church kind of was hungry. But he needed more fuel.
"Thanks Caboose," He kind of meant it.
"This is going to be the best field trip ever. Do you agree Freckles?"
From behind, Freckles inside his Mantis appeared.
"Affirmitive, Captain Caboose."
Church was confused and scared at the same time.
"Caboose!? Why and how did you get Freckles inside of the mantis!?"
"Washington got me a auto lock system on my guns! So he put Freckles into the robot!"
"Oh. That seemed smart for Caboose… Unusual."
The three went into the cave leading towards the temple.
The entire base was clean. Grif was exausted. He was on the ground taking a nap.
"We must not let Grif be confortable! We will bury him inside of one of the walls inside the canyon!"
Simmons then continued to be a HUGE suckup.
"Good plan sir!"
Lopez dug a hole into one of the walls of the canyon. Donut put Grif into the wall. Sarge then put the dirt in front of Grif. Simmons drove the warthog into Grif to push him in. Grif's head popped out of the dirt. Sarge had a do not disturb sign and he hung it over Grif's neck.
"Much better!"
Master Chief and The Arbiter looked at the reds. Arbiter sighed.
"I guess they're not that bright."