Date: 31st October 2563
Time: 0530
Leonard had been foolish he should have known that Constantine was coming to the end of his life, he'd seen the signs but had chosen to ignore them because Constantine had become more than an a AI he'd become a friend (just like master chief and Cortana) and he wasn't going to give up on his friend; not just yet. Luckily for him he was wearing his ODST armor which prevented him dying in the vacuum of space, but because the flood infection form had jumped him his armor he did have holes in his oxygen tank. Even with Leonard's patch job there were still micro-fractures in his air tank and he had little time left.
Leonard looked around him. To his left was Miranda's Cryo-tube and to his right was the Omega Three escape pod, capable of creating a small slip space field. The choice was simple and he couldn't let his personal feelings get in the way. Leonard activated his "zero g" pack and floated over to the Omega Three. She was dead in the water. He had to get her power back online or he had little time left. He aimed for the pod - he had one shot at reaching his target. He crossed his fingers, took a deep breath and prayed.
There was a clatter as Leonard hit the side of the pod .
"Yes," he thought, "step one complete …. now for step two."
He scrambled inside and made his way to the hatch, pulling the manual release lever. The ship began de-pressurising and then the hatch opened.
He stepped inside. It was quite and even though the ship was small he still didn't like the stillness. He grabbed his shot gun, panned around the room and saw a light on Constantine's console. There was a blue flash as an AI's hologram that look exactly like Constantine rose up from the consol.
"Where the hell have you been captain? I've been waiting for days. I thought you were dead!"
"Who are you?" Leonard asked as he held his shot gun at the AI's consol.
"Woah … calm down sir! You look like you've seen a ghost."