Hello mah peeps, ready for ch.2 ? I sure am :) Thanks for the support so far, school's kept me busy though luckily it's kept me brainstorming nonstop, hmmm guess that's a good thing and a bad thing huh? :)

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So here's chapter 2 ;) enjoy!

Ch.2: Being An Opportunist; Part 2

Death. Debris. Fire.

Shock. Anger. Guilt

These were some of the things I experienced in just a moment, here one second and gone the next. There's nothing we could do for the dead, not now. The first thing I had to focus on was getting my teammates out alive and surviving.

The covenant had just started to notice us. Looking at Luke and Miles who were just staring in shock at the area that was once our base and people we knew, I roared a command that seemed to make them jump a bit.

"E&E!" I roared. (Evasion and Escape)

We dodged the shot's on our heels and weaved through the forest, tripping over fallen branches and rocks in our haste. Our base was set up right next to the river, so we all agreed that we would run weaving through the trees alongside the river until a better option presented itself. Which better happen quick.

Luke Yelled over the sound of the explosions and gunfire "We can't out run them!" "Well I sure as Hell aint gonna surrender!" came the immediate response from Miles.

Unexpectedly, I heard a white noise, felt like i was flying through the air and then suddenly felt a very sharp pain in my left side and then a weird coldness all around me. Non coherent, but trying to understand what was going on, I realized I was in a river. Adrenaline hit my system, and I started kicking my legs and arms which brought me to the surface. Regardless that I was still able to breathe from inside my helmet that didn't stop me from taking large intakes of breath to try to cool the hot blood pumping in my system , even though I was surrounded by freezing cold water.

As if sensing me getting injured, Demetri 'whirrrrrred' life and what had happened and what was happening hit me like a ton of bricks.

While were running alongside the river something next to us blew us up, though what, I didn't know, perhaps a grenade. I was the closest one to the river so the explosion sent me flying in that direction and Luke and Miles somewhere else. I must have hit a sharp rock or something when I plunged into the river, it was a sharp throbbing at the moment but it was the least of my worries.

"One broken rib, no internal bleeding that I can sense, and a decent sized cut, all on your left side. How is it that I can't recharge without you getting injured?! Are you okay? What's happening?!" Demetri ?!

The high moving current had pushed me down stream, so now my feet could nearly touch the bottom but could get a good stop because the water was pushing me so hard.

Growling from the pain in my side and pushing with my feet on the rocky bottom of the fast current river trying to stay in place I snapped "Demetri, now's not exactly the best time!"

"Then when is a good time?!"

Gahhhh! There's nothing to grab onto! If Luke and Miles are in cover they can't do anything to help me without getting gunned down! DAMMIT! What to do?!

I was getting pushed down the river at such a fast rate, that over the roar of the current pushing against me, I couldn't really hear the sound of gunfire so with a tremendous push of my leg muscles I tried to gain what little air I could get, and looked in those few second's to see if I could spot Miles or Luke. I tried to hope for the best that they weren't gunned down after the explosion. A piece of me relaxed, seeing the both of them ducked behind two HUGE boulders, shooting small random bursts from their gun's, and glancing around with quick turns of their head's. I knew that they were looking for me, I shouted out my position to get their attention, I could only hope the enemy wouldn't hear me and fire, I would not be able to take cover if they started shooting, but I couldn't just get swept away while Luke and Miles were fighting for their life's.

You could tell they could hardly hear me at all, they were a lot closer to the gunfire and the river. Surprisingly they seemed like they could hear me but couldn't tell where I was, but...it seems like everything turned into slow motion, when my shouting had gotten Miles attention.

It's like we could see each other's eye's through our helmet's, before I felt like I was toppling over a what felt like and edge. The first thing that came to mind was one word 'SHIT'. I could feel my mind go blank, at the sudden turn of event's, I heard a quick desperate shout of "PARKER!" before I was sent diving into the thick spray of the waterfall.

The thick sound of 'Slosh Slosh, Slosh, Slosh Slosh' that came in rhythmic footfalls that only water could make was heard over the sound of the storming rain.

Holding my left side with my right hand and limping through the slow stream that came up to my ankles to the muddy bank, I slowly bent down to pick up my helmet. A Metallic clamp sounded out when I solidly connected it to my suit.

I heard a low, sad, empathetic voice call out in my helmet over the rain. "Are you okay?" Not answering him (Demetri) I looked over my surroundings for any shelter, finding a small cave, I made a grueling slow progress over to my temporary safe haven. I Took my time because every time I took a step it, made a sharp sting everywhere. I beeline for the cave. Wincing but forcing my hand tightly over my side to staunch the bleeding, I walked my way to my safe inside. I walked to the right side of the wall, put my back against the wall and slowly slid down until I had my right knee propped up and my left leg out straight in front of me, grunting harshly against the movement that cause the pain in my side to flair.

"Demetri, analysis over my physical health,...please"

"*sigh* Four broken ribs, a sprained ankle, multiple bruises and cuts, and a medium deep sized gash on your left side above your broken ribs. You'll need to apply pressure to the cut with your hand because we have nothing but a few medi –gel's. I'll warn you now, when you apply that pressure…. it's definitely going to hurt, just make sure you don't bleed out and you'll live"

Feeling an icy cool touch spread out over the upper half of my body I sighed in relief, my whole left side where my ribs were broken was just a dull throb now. The power of medi-gel was a life saver when you needed it, though the downside was that it was just temporary. It heals various wounds and ailments, instantly sealing injuries against infection and allowing for rapid healing by having the gel grip tight to flesh until subjected to a frequency of ultrasound. It is sealable against liquids - most notably blood - as well as contaminants and gases. Technically its properties make it illegal, but the restriction, in this case, is ignored because of the product's beneficial properties.

I sighed. "Thanks demetri"

He sighed in turn "No problem, jus-just what happened up there exactly?"

I lifted my left hand and plucked his chip out of the back of my helmet and sat him on my left leg which was stretched out in front of me. His holoform appeared on the chip, he was a deep green holographic color. He had sharp spiked dirty blondish hair, and had a teenage slacker kind of look about him. (you can imagine what kind of style he has right?;))

After the accident with her partner, she cut off from everyone, preferring solo mission's rather than team work. Though against her choice she was paired up Demetri an AI. She's been with him for a while now, and through all that time, he had somehow managed to get past her barriers that she set up around herself without her even knowing, funny thing about that was: he knew it too. So with that in mind, had made an exception to her AI (artificial Intelligence) companion, made by Doctor Halsey herself. When Halsey had been trying to make Cortana, she had of course experimented before, so that meant left over prototypes had gotten paired up with Spartans, if they still worked of course. The prototypes we're the one's that picked the Spartans that they were paired up with, though she still wondered to this day why Demetri would pick her, her of all people.

She just so happened to get paired up with the last AI made before Cortana, the second most advanced AI there was. The AI was named Demtre, thought not as advanced as Cortana, he was still so much more than your typical AI, and over the past year he had become a companion to her like no other. Parker was in the same program as the Master Chief Petty Officer-John-117, so she had the same armor, the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor. Because of this, like Cortana, could be inserted into the back of the helmet, she could insert Demetri into the back of her helmet.

I glared at wall in front of me like I could melt through my helmet visor and the solid rock in front of me.

I replied in a strained voice "While you were sleeping, we were on our way back from our mission. When we made it back, our whole base was obliterated. If we were there, maybe, at least just a few minutes earlier we could have saved the base and the people in it."

"…..Sorry I wasn't there to give yo-"

"Just stop ok!" Another deep sigh came from my lips." I-I'm sorry….I-I didn't mean that, I'm just upset"

"It's fine, I know you didn't mean it, we're both stressed right now. Look, we'll just stick here for the night then once it's morning and it's stopped raining we'll look for Miles and Luke"

I chuckled "You sound more like a therapist than an AI Demetri. Maybe that's what you were in a past life, huh?"

"Yah, yah, laugh it up Parker."

A companionable silence consumed us for a while, but that didn't dissuade the feelings of guilt that I had over Miles and Luke, and it seems like Demetri had picked up on that.

"..."

"..."

"I'm sure that Luke and Miles are fine"

"That doesn't change the fact that I should have been up there."

"I understand that, but-"

"But what? I was a raised in the Spartan-2 Program since I was 6 years old, I should have been prepared for anything, not let my guard down, a-and certainly not have gotten attached...I should've-No needed to have been up there with th-"

"Well you weren't okay! You weren't, and you can't change that! It was out of your reach, something you couldn't have changed! You always do that! You get kinda close to people but as so soon as you realize it, you push them away!... They'll be okay and we'll find them, jus-just stop talking, everything your saying tonight is irritating, or-or i'll zap your brain or something!"

There was a comfortable pregnant silence for a moment.

"Thanks..Demetri"

"Yah well, that was a pointless point of view the way you were looking at it."

I merely smiled slightly, then smirked when I said, "By the way we'll have to work on your insults and threat's, 'zap' really? One day when we have nothing better to do I'll teach you some tricks that will leave people shaking in their boots"

"Oh shut up…..wait….why not right now?"

"Cuz, I don't feel like it right now, try again later"

I looked down at him, he had a smile on his face. "Your such an asshole for a girl y'know that?"

I gave a sexy laugh "Oh, I see how it is. You just don't like sexy and intimidating women do you?"

He barked out a laugh. "Sure I do, just tell me where I can find one."

Laughing in contentment, I relaxed. Smiling slightly, I sighed, then something shinning in the dark caught my eye. "Hmmm?" "What is it?"

"You see that shiny thing in the corner over there, right?" Not waiting to hear his answer, I inserted him back in my helmet. I decided to check it out ,but I was caught off guard by the sudden pain all over my body by the time I was on my feet . Biting my bottom lip between my teeth I whimpered."Ummmmmmh! Son ofa bitch!"

"You know you shouldn't be moving"

"Was gonna have to at some point"

Limping toward the back of the cave and moving away from the rain the wind was blowing in, I went to take a look at what had caught my interest, but on closer inspection realized it was in a little hole. Inserting my pointer finger and thumb into the small space, I pulled out a weird looking ,misshapen arrow head- or looked like the shape of one- it had a ton of alien symbols all over it. It looked like the old, old, Egyptian language written all around it, but that's impossible, we're on Harvest not on Earth. It's possibly covenant language, very believable since without translator's we couldn't understand them anyway. Though since it was written on rock it could very well be ancient for their species. Though that was just a theory, I decided to ask Demetri just in case. Little did I know was this little rock, about the size of my whole pointer finger, was called the All-spark, made by machines, and that it would alter my destiny forever.

"What is it?" I asked Demetri

"Looks like a rock with ancient writing, nothing special, at least not on my scanners…..maybe ancient covenant writing?" He read my mind, maybe that's all it is.

All of a sudden, a light emitted from the small rock in my hand. Oh great! What now?!

The last thing I remembered was the rock flying toward my face, Demetri shouting something, and an Indescribable pain filling me, the world spinning off its axis, then total darkness.

PHEWWWW! Sorry it was mostly conversation! And sorry there was not as much conversation as planned! Please review! Tell me anything, criticism, advise, ideas for the next chapter! By the way Parker WILL most certainly be in the Transformers universe next chapter! Plz look at my poll to help me decide what movie in Transformers she will appear in, I think I'm kind of leaning toward right before the second movie but I have a poll just for you guys to help me decide! :) XD

This chapter was just a lot of info overall, so promise the story will pick up! Just had to put all my thoughts onto the internet! :) remember to plz rate and review! ;)