Karl woke up on the same couch he fell asleep in. He looked around himself and saw Brandy still asleep in the bed, he didn't even think twice before quickly getting in his outfit of the previous day. He slipped on his vest and put his magnum into his holster and walked out of the room. He had to admit he was upset, he was thinking of just ending their relationship if it was going to endanger his mission. He shook his head of these thoughts and walked to the entrance of the building, he saw the same patrols as the previous day and still clean up crews around area cleaning up debris and repairing the building.
"Kuhn, I need to speak with you." Karl heard a voice say and he turned around to see Dao walking up to him, not looking in the best mood. "What is it?" Karl asked in a monotone voice. "Come here and I will tell you, in private." Dao said as he waved his hand towards Karl to follow him, Karl followed Dao behind a corner in a hallway away from the entrance. "Listen up Kuhn, rumor has it that Soya is going to be returning to Sangheilios." Dao said as he looked at Karl straight in the eye, even through his sunglasses Karl could feel the stare. "And why does this concern me?" Karl asked as he stared back just as harshly. "Well if she goes you are following, and that's an order from Hood himself that you protect her at all costs, which means I will lose the baddest SOB in this embassy. I also heard that not all sangheili like this alliance either so there may be assassins, which is another reason you will be going with her." Dao said as he looked around Karl's shoulder. Karl only nodded and rubbed his chin, "Best get my armor clean then." He said as calmly as possible even though he was going crazy inside with questions.
Karl left Dao to do his duties and walked to Soya's office to find her there with the same elite he had seen yesterday being her sibling he just sighed and walked across from her. "Is it true we are leaving for Sangheilios Soya?" Karl said in a matter of fact tone. She looked at him for a second and nodded, "Yes it is true Sergeant Kuhn, and you will be accompanying me on the journey there, sorry it was so quickly something turned up and I must return home. We will leave by 5 pm." Karl nodded and left the room which means he will have to get packed and ready to board a ship to Sangheilios.
Karl entered his room to see a still sleeping Brandy, he sighed and walked over to his armor, which was clean and repaired already. Karl just shrugged and took off his current gear and slipped on his armor. He loaded a magazine into his rifle and made sure it was on safe, he mag locked it to his back. Karl looked back at Brandy and didn't even bat an eye when he left the room. He knew she would be upset, but he was upset aswell, 'how could she have been so stupid?' Karl thought to himself as he walked into the main entrance.
Karl was ready to leave at any moment, he didn't bring any of his belongings except some extra clothes and rations, he had no idea what Sangheili food would taste like.
He sat there at the front of the Embassy quietly and was just staring down any civilians that walked past, not meaning to look threatening but he made a good point to anyone to stay away, it would be useful when he was escorting Soya to their ship.
"Human I am ready to leave." Karl heard the somewhat feminine voice of Soya behind him. He didn't say anything, he just nodded to her and pointed for her and her brother to get into the warthog. Both of them put all their belongings in the warthog and Karl knew they were ready to go. They were without any escort except for himself and her brother, which he hoped would be enough to stop any attack. Karl turned his shields on and started the warthog, he started going down the streets as quickly as possible, making sure to try and not stop for any reason.
When they finally were stopped by a red light it was too quiet, at least too quiet for Karl. There were cars all around him, which was good for cover. After years of military service he good sense the danger, he knew it was coming he just didn't know when, his mind started filling itself with crazy thoughts, 'maybe someone knew when they were leaving and told the terrorists', 'maybe her brother is actually not for the alliance'. Karl turned around and looked at her brother, he seemed calm and not jittery or anything.
Just then Karl saw movement to his left in a building, that's when he saw it, a grenade, flying right towards the warthog, Karl on instinct went to protect his VIP in any way he could so he jumped from his seat and put as much of his body over hers as possible. The grenade went off as it hit the warthog meaning whoever threw it was smart enough to cook it. The grenade went off Karl felt the shrapnel and shock wave alike hit his shields. He looked at Soya and she was wide eyed. Her brother looked shocked as his armor had dents and scratches everywhere. Karl immediately grabbed Soya bridal style and took her out of the warthog and hid her under it as it was the safest place to put her at the time. Karl looked at Jede who had his energy sword out and was growling at an unknown location before Karl saw about 5 insurgents come around an alleyway with shotguns. He quickly chambered a round and took his rifle off of safety, but before he could shoot he looked up from the side of the warthog to see Jede holding one of them by their throat and slashing at another. Karl needed to help him as the other three were shooting their large slugs into Jede, for now his armor was taking it, but not for long.
Karl vaulted over the hog and put the AR to his shoulder and put 10 rounds into each of the insurgents shooting Jede, he saw their blood hit the wall they were standing near and knew they were dead when their limp bodies fell to the ground. Karl ran over to Jede who had already snapped the one he was holdings' neck and had stabbed the other one near him. "Human, is my sibling okay!?" Karl heard Jede shout, "Yes she is fine I put her under the hog, there may be more, you protect her as well as you can while I watch this alley and call for reinforcements." Karl said quickly. Jede just nodded and ran behind the warthog, Karl heard the two of them speaking in sangheili. He just sighed and shook his head. He walked over to one of the bodies and squatted next to it. He looked at it closely, he then looked at the weapon, it was not outdated, it was a very modern variant of the standard UNSC shotgun. 'Some really heavy planning went into this shit' Karl though as he heard some pelicans approaching. Karl let out a sigh of relief and ran back to the warthog. "Looks like help is here ladies and gentlemen, but I didn't call for it." Karl said as he loaded a new magazine into his AR.
'This might or might not be a good thing' Karl though to himself as the first pitch black pelican landed, the door quickly opened and several armed ONI agents stepped out with a very important looking person coming out after. She was dressed in a standard ONI uniform but appeared to be very high ranking. The ONI agents quickly surrounded Karl and the Sangheili.
"Sergeant Major Karl Kuhn, looks like you had quite the fight here?" She said in a very serious tone, 'Some real shit fuckery is going on right now' Karl thought as he was trying to come up with an answer. "You bet, we have it handled I'm contacting the UNSC right now." Karl said as he went to turn on his comm. she quickly put her hand up, "No need sergeant, we have already done that, well told them to stand down, as well as emergency services." Karl sat motionless, he couldn't believe what he had just heard, and he knew exactly what the bitch would say next. "You and your VIPs are going to have to come with us, direct orders from the director of ONI." "Why the fuck do we have to do that?" Karl asked just as harshly. "Because you are wanted for murder sergeant, don't you remember that poor man in the hotel yesterday?" She said with venom on the tip of her tongue. Karl froze at this he felt his blood boiling in the few seconds after she said that. "Why take them then? To start a war you stupid ONI bitch." Karl said as he began to walk closer to her. She quickly drew her 9mm pistol, which he guessed was for self defense. Karl just chuckled at this gesture but then all the other agents fully armed with assault rifles and shotguns had their guns trained on him.
Then Karl burst into full blown laughter, he would have seemed to die from laughter. All the ONI agents stood there in confusion and all looked shocked at Karl's reaction, not at all intimidated. Karl was holding his stomach and had dropped his own AR. "Sergeant! This is no laughing matter!" The women said, but Karl kept laughing. Then he stopped as quickly as he started, they let their guard down as he suspected, in a matter of milliseconds he had thrown two flashbangs in the air and they went off and quickly blinded all the of the ONI agents. All that were heard were large 50 caliber bullets from his magnum going off. No other shots were fired except Karl's.
The only one left was the ONI officer which Karl quickly grabbed by the throat and picked up. He turned off his visor so she could see his eyes and he hers. She looked afraid and she was crying. "All of you ONI assholes are pussies and cowards, now here is what is going to happen..." Karl looked around and he saw Jede standing in front of Soya and looking around frantically. Karl looked back "... I'm going to need your pelican, and I will make sure to tell the UNSC that you planned this attack on me and my escort. Oh and I will let you live, because I don't hurt girls." Karl said as he threw her to the ground without any mercy. He turned his visor back on and walked over to the pelican and waved for Jede and Soya to come on, which they did quickly, they grabbed all of their things and quickly ran over to Karl.
Karl moved up the the cockpit and saw the two pilots oblivious to anything that was going on. He pointed his magnum to their heads and only needed to say one word. "Out." On that command they both quickly put their hands up and left the cockpit. Karl pressed a button on the control panel and the door to the pelican quickly closed. "It may not be comfy but it is something, where is your ship?" Karl asked as he walked back into the cargo and transport area. "It is docked at Onyx station in orbit human, they are awaiting our arrival." Soya said, Karl could tell she was scared by the tone of her voice, he just sighed and walked to the pilot's seat and quickly turned it on. He had the basics of flying but he was not trained a pilot, he flew once or twice when he needed a quick escape but he did not commonly fly, his best landings were crash landings after all.
He took off and put full power to engines, making sure to drive carefully to mind the two in the back. Soon he was on his way out of the atmosphere and flying full speed towards Onyx station, which was a diplomatic platform and hard no weapons on it which ONI could use to shoot him down. Now going about 1000 km/ph towards the station which happened to be right above Berlin he would have no problems getting there quickly before a horde of ONI soldiers can swarm them and arrest all of them, like Karl would allow himself to get arrested.
Karl had got them there within the hour and quickly got clearance and landed. Karl ran to the back, "Get your things we are moving quick, I'm probably wanted by humanity now, ONI tells lies they won't say what actually happened." Karl said as he helped carry some of Soya's things.
With Soya's directions they made it to the ship quickly, which looked like a luxury vessel, but was covenant, basically it had little to no defenses, but with Karl on board they would have a large defense. Karl quickly went inside the ship where a few more robed sangheili gave him nasty looks until Soya and Jede walked in behind him, he heard them greeting each other, but grew very impatient. He cleared his throat and Soya got the message, she guided him to her room and the door opened with Karl quickly putting her bags next to what looked like what would be her bed.
On his way out of the room she grabbed his shoulder. "Karl. Thank you." Karl didn't say anything he just nodded, "Did you really betray your race?" She asked him. "Soya, I'm not sure, ONI are loose cannons, they will say I did, but I was protecting the UNSC's ambitions. I will do that at whatever cost," Karl sighed, "Lets just get to Sangheilios, you can tell me all about it on the way there." Karl said turning around to face her, "And you're welcome." With that Karl left the room with a weird feeling in his stomach. Was it pride, hope, catch a feel? Karl didn't know, he just wanted it gone.
Karl walked to what looked like the 'hang out' area of the ship and took a sat down in what looked like a seat to accommodate the sangheili build. Karl took off his helmet just in time to see Jede walk over and take a seat across from him. "Hello sergeant, we are departing." "Good." Was all Karl said as he turned off his shields.
"My sister is very grateful for you protecting her." Jede said as Karl took a deep breath. Karl nodded. "It was no problem." Karl said.
"You know human, she has developed quite a tolerance to you, more than any other human she has met and talked to." "Oh really, that's good, glad I'm last on the list for her to assassinate." To Karl's surprise Jede got the joke and chuckled.
Karl just had a sideways smile on his face at making the Sangheili laugh, "Any more of a liking and you really might change the course of this alliance." Jede said with a chuckle. Karl lost his smile and got a serious face and tone on, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Oh nothing human, you need rest, you have had a long day." And as fast as Jede said that sentence he was gone leaving Karl alone and confused.
He was left with a couple other Sangheili who were on the very other side of the room having a conversation and not even paying attention to Karl, they must have all been diplomats because they seemed very tolerant to humans surprisingly.
Karl looked out of the window he sat next to and saw as Earth got further and further away. He had no idea what Jede meant by that, and he didn't want to push on it more, 'I'll ask him tomorrow, I'm tired as shit' Karl thought as he tried to relax as much as possible. Karl put his hands behind his head and stretched his legs as far as they could go. He felt his eyes begin to way down and he was about to fall asleep until he saw movement near him. He quickly shot his eyes open and just saw it was the two previous sangheili leaving the room and going to what looked like their own quarters, leaving Karl all alone in the room.
The light in the room also turned off and all that was left for light was space and the purple glow of some parts of the walls, and keypads on doors. Karl looked around for a bit to get familiar with his surroundings.
Being bored he thought of what Jede had said again, after an hour or so of thinking Karl said out loud, "Ooooooooh..." 'What the fuck is that actually possible?' Karl thought as he had a very hard thinking face on. He just shrugged, knowing well enough that he didn't have those kinds of feelings for an alien, an alien that was part of a race that had commited a genocide against humanity.
Or did he?
I just want to make it clear now, I am so fucking sorry that I had waited so long to release this, I had some of the chapter written then some shit popped up last second, I'm actually writing this super late at night to get it out. I just want to let you know my bullshittery, and that I am sorry for it, well for my loyal fans here is another chapter done, expect a new one to come out soon aswell.