As Lasky stood there quite happy that after nearly 29 years they found it, they found the Spirt of Fire, here on the Ark. If Cortana haven't controlled the galaxy they would have found them not long ago, or maybe they would have been drifting for who knows how long.
He shook his thoughts. This was not the time to think right now. They have a battle to do with the Banished. As he ordered the ship to come about as the Spirt of Fire and Infinity began to coordinate with each other on the Banished.
On the ground the Banished were running around trying to get themselves ready to defend their bases. Pavium who just gotten word of new contacts from space began to invaded the ark, he knew it was pointless. Why did the Banished ever come here to the ark? What was his goal? Was he secretly trying to do what the Prophets tried to do before the Spartan known as Master Chief stopped them with help from the Sangheili?
Artoix was talking angrily of how their forces were small thanks to the Flood. According to reports they had lost nearly 20% of their troops to it with a lot of vehicles and bases. Pavium did little to say about it. The true reason he was here was not because of what the other Jiralhanae were here for. To fight to become famous and glory.
No he came here to survive, to hid from this Cortana till the time's right to fight. To make up for the past sins he did. He knew it was useless to try to kill humans who could have help them, after all wasn't Artoix who created the Banished just because he was tried of fighting humans cause of what happen to his bothers during the war?
Everything he did when he was in the banished he thought he was making things better, but now, now they weren't. They had time to be ready, he tried to convinced Artoix to hid somewhere to ready for a war against cortana. Artoix did listen but they went to the ark and slaughter the scientist there. Scientist who were not warrior.
At first he wanted to objected to this but he feared of being underneath his mace. Then five months later the spirt of fire came and began to fight with the same tenacity that matched them. When he saw the halo when the Spirt of fire somehow use the forerunners sentinels to destroy the Enduring Conviction. Each time he was ordered to kill humans he want to objected, but couldn't. Now now he had enough he seen enough humans, Jiralhanae, even Sangheili died. The Flood did help convince him to let go of personal hate for them.
Artoix who went over the battle plan and discuss it look to Pavium and said "Pavium prepared the mega turrets to target those humans and Sangheili of this sword of sangheilio, ready to fire the moment they come in range."
This was the last straw with Artoix "No."
"What did you say?!" Artoix asked taken back in shock and anger. Vordius was shocked at this as well, as were others including the troops present and every who was in there.
"I said no! There is a reason why I said that! We had choices to fight This Cortana, and her created, but here we are fighting the unsc all because what we're or you are here for!" Pavium yelled as he began to point his figure between Artoix and the map and the sky. "You said that the Banished were better than the Covenant!"
Artoix growled at Pavium as he said "We are better than them! We have gain all of the power the Banished now has including the research from the humans for this Ark!"
"But those humans when we first came here weren't armed, and when we were at war with the humans when the Prophet's stilled lied to us about them you didn't see the worth in fighting a useless cause! How do you see these people, those in the past, and those dead now?!" Pavium asked with the anger going up and up ever time he spoke.
"Those scientist, and others were causalities of war acceptable losses." Let'volir answered trying to justify the Banished actions, but this just made Pavium angrier.
"Acceptable?! Acceptable?! IS THIS HOW YOU NOW SEE EVERYONE NOW JUST LIKE THE PROPHET'S DID ARTOIX?! AS ACCEPTABLE?!" Pavium asked now in full anger as he slam his fist down on the table, and his voiced shake the room with the troops outside of the bases including a drone from the unsc where in Infinity, Spirt of Fire, and other ships in a hope to find Artoix.
Everyone on those ships reacted in confusion, shocked and surprise. Never before did they hear a Jiralhanae speak out in anger while caring for live. Isabel the most shocked. She never heard a Jirlhanae speak like that before. Did.. did he really really felt sorry for her friends? She stilled listen along with cutter and everyone else as Pavium stopped for a breath.
A small tear escape his eye before he stood straight at Artoix not backing down and said "I used to believe that.. that we were being better than the Covenant, and were going to fight against Cortana and the created, but now now when I see every body fall because of this. This now shows me that were not. I will not fight for the banished, kill me if you want to Artoix, but know that every death is your fault cause you wanted this Ark."
Artoix just stared at Pavium in shock as began to think of when he first created the Banished and thought about the reasons he thought, the truths he heard about halo, the war ending. Yes. Yes Pavium was right the Banished were not better than the Covenant, but at the same time angry at him for saying that. He hated to admit it, but Pavium was right. Cortana and the created were the true threat not the humans, not everyone on this ark.
He closed his eye for a second before he open them and order "Call the Humans. Tell them that the Banished wish to make a truce."
And this is it. Ladies and gentleman who read this I saw the reviews, and Impress of so many love this but for one named George. Im sorry to disappoint you answer, but no. Im going to do some crossover I never understand, and before some of you asked for john/any female loves. I ship John/Kelly. That's final no further arguments.