Date: 31st October 2563
Time: 0532
"I asked you, who you are!" Leonard said as he walked closer his shotgun in hand and his finger ready to pull the trigger at a moment notice.
"It's me your loveably friend Constantine, don't you recognize me?" Constantine blubbered
"That's impossible this is a trick" Leonard was about to pull the trigger when Constantine began to beg
"Please don't kill me I know we had our disagreements but I've never hurt you." Leonard looked at Constantine
"Ok I try not to hurt you but you should know I may have spoken unkindly about you in my personal log" and then images began to flash across Constantine
"What are you doing" Leonard said as he stared at the AI.
"My life is flashing before my eyes" the images then stopped
"I didn't think my life was that short" Constantine said in a confused tone and his hollow image began to freeze
Leonard lowered his shotgun and turned to his computer and ran a diagnostic on Constantine to see how what he saw was possible.
He scrolled down over Constantine program and half of it was missing.
"That's not possible" he whispered and then Constantine un-froze and began shouting random codes
"456765" Constantine shouted staring at the roof "what are you talking about Constantine"
"Wait a minute" Leonard remember the last time he heard that code, it was aboard the Agamemnon when the flood attack Leonard began to walk forward and look at the roof
"Shit" he said and he raised his shotgun and held it up toward the creature chewing a wire on the roof it looked like it was tapping into the ships system and it looked like a flood infection form but it wasn't it must have been a worker or something and as Leonard approached the flood form made no attempt to attack him.
If he was going to help Constantine he needed the creature. Leonard lower his shotgun and made his way to the other side of the room, grab a glass storage container and scoped to form into it and close the lid.
Although the glass container was reinforced Leonard wasn't going to give it any chance he stuck the box in the air lock just in case so if the form did anything like try to escape Leonard could just shot it out into space.
He then ran over to Constantine who was in quite a state as he had half of himself missing.
Constantine looked at Leonard.
"So buddy this is where it ends" Constantine coughed
"No you still have the rest of your life a head of you" Leonard smiled at his dying friend.
"Don't worry about me I've had a good life and it won't hurt remember I'm only a computer program"
"No"-Leonard interrupted "you're more than that! You're my friend! And I never let a friend down"
Constantine smiled and shook his head
"No whatever happens do not come looking for me...this is what I want, I don't want a rescue mission or a suicidal thing...Do you understand me..And captain-"
"Yes Constantine"
"Take care of Miranda take her home and raze a family... There's a UNSC frigate on rote to your location-good bye captain" Constantine smiled and then decompiled and vanished.
The power in the pod came almost instantaneously and Leonard sat down at the hem and plotted a cores to Miranda's cryo-pod.
Leonard began to talk to himself "Sorry Constantine but I'm coming to get you!"