Summary/disclaimer: Time for another chapter of The Spartan and the Legionary. Enjoy the 7700-word chapter. I do not own RWBY or Halo. Monty Oum, Microsoft, 343, and Rooster Teeth do.
(UNSC Infinity, deck 75, orbit of Remnant, November 6th, 6:24 AM)
Leo hummed, leaning on the wall before he finally fell silent, knowing what was going on before now. He clicked and then looked to the side as Pyrrha hummed before he finally fell silent.
All of it was impossibly hard to manage. Such a thing would become harder and harder for now.
He could not allow it for now and that was by choice. Pyrrha intrigued him, such logic was harder and harder to come by in life. Yet? it made him laugh, knowing that Pyrrha was too thrown off.
She had been too interested in what was going on before he clicked his fingers.
Pyrrha seemed to be dealing with it for now, an idea with it for now, and for good reason. This chaos was harder and harder to deal with.
"Tired?" Pyrrha asked to which Leo hummed, more interested in that for now.
He was a lot more to try and deal with it. This chaos would be funnier and funnier while he clicked his fingers before he sighed to be dealt with for now.
Leo hummed and then looked at Pyrrha. She kicked off a wall next to him and swam like half shark and half torpedo.
The woman was without a doubt stronger than before. She acted more like an Olympic-level athlete than a person who could go through most of a covenant army.
Then again? He did not look like a Supersoldier who could cut a soldier in half with a simple kitchen knife so it was debatable if it could have happened.
There was something else on her mind as she floated, tranquil and with the zest of life that he expected from a Supersoldier like her.
To be fair? She should not have been so able to fight, relax, and go through it. She seemed to be dealing with it to the end.
Pyrrha seemed to be dealing with something beyond him as she leaned on the wall.
"I am ok, are you ok?" Leo asked before Pyrrha hummed and then looked to the side. "Most people don't go through the same sort of thing that I have and come out fine," Leo stated.
"You mean combat or you mean war?" Pyrrha asked.
"Same thing," Leo stated before he hummed and leaned on the wall behind him. "This will be a simple routine mission and then we go. It is what I do and what we are expected to do." Leo said.
"War is not the only thing you need to do," Pyrrha stated.
"It can and sometimes is. It comes down to what is written and what will be needed when the soldiers ask." Leo stated before he sighed and then looked to the side.
Leo was not at all stupid, he was never going to be that stupid. So? He knew damn well what would come and he sighed, sorry to himself as well as her. That and that part of him would be something that she took to the end.
Pyrrha leaned on the wall next to her, eager to see this end… To see something like this. She would not foresee coming crashing down on it at the end. This chaos was growing down on the end of it now.
There was a pain in her mind before she sighed to try and figure it out… This sort of thing was chaotic for now as she paused to try and deal with it.
Pyrrha leaned on the wall, not using it as a balance port to push off from feet first but as a balancing part, leaning on the wall for now. She looked to the side, pausing to try and figure out something like what to say and even do then and there.
It was not surprising to her that Leo found amusement in her floating next to her, she knew what would become of it now and for a very good and very hard reason at the end of it.
She was interested in what he would do when the UNSC struck back to the end of the day. There would be mass violence to deal with, very many if not countless operations to strike upon the end of it all… There were a lot of preparations.
There were a lot of things that she seemed to be dealing with, knowing what was growing on her mind, which she had been privy to.
"You know… If they want you? There might be a spartan IV operation they might be willing to do for you… Not that you are going to need it at the rate you chop down covenant." Leo stated before he sighed to himself before he sighed to himself.
It was not one of hatred, nor one of disrespect. She knew that sort of sigh. It was one of the resignations of a soldier who knew they were going to be in battle for a long time with little in the way of gains for it.
He knew damn well this would not be a good battle, not one where victory was certain or even a possibility… But he fought because he could and because he knew better, he knew that if he did not? Then others would suffer, and that alone seemed to fuel him to fight even when there was nothing to fight for.
And that? That was part of the reason she cared so much for him. if he was that devoted to trying to save things even that little?
She could respect, it meant enough as a warrior to be saved if only to let it come down to the floor in a wave and a drive that only increased.
That was a very big time to try and fight… And this would be it… It would be something far harder, far more chaotic than anything that it would possibly be dealt with for now, there was an issue that needed to be dealt with for now.
Pyrrha hummed, leaning on the wall as she paused, letting it all be dealt with either way… There were a lot of things that needed to be dealt with either way.
There was enough chaos that needed to be ended and as a soldier? It would be hard enough to figure out… Yet? As a soldier? Pyrrha could guess that he was acting as best he could.
"You tired from the missions you did?" Pyrrha asked to which there was a pause. "Perhaps… But there is a lot I do not know… And a lot you do not know either, no?" Pyrrha asked.
"I am tired… But you cannot let that come to an end." Leo said. "You? You were tired, you were exhausted…. And yet? I enjoyed the time at the beach… Or I wanted to, I am not used to the idea of something not wanting to cut my head off." Leo stated.
"That is very sad," Pyrrha stated before she paused to look to the side. "You talk about that a lot, don't you?" Pyrrha asked to which she got no answer.
She swished her feet in the water, being too convinced of what was growing on her mind… For there was no future, nothing which needed to be understood.
All of it simply bothered her as there was very little she could not truly understand. This was chaos and it was war enough that even she could not understand.
"You good?" Leo asked. "There's a lot to take in and I keep asking a thousand different questions," Leo stated.
Pyrrha paused, she swished her feet like a fish and then leaned on the wall. She would continue to be dealing with problems at the end of it, there was a lot more to this, a lot she did not know.
Leo hummed as he leaned on the wall and it all came crashing down to it. This was going to be tearing him down to the ground, there were a lot of things at the end of the day.
Pyrrha yawned and looked to the ground. She would continue to relax and she figured that there were a lot of plans which needed to be said and done next at the end of the day when it came down.
She knew as a soldier that every single part of things was hard enough to be relaxed once more. She was interested in the fact that the UNSC would be coming to Remnant once more, she did not know what was growing on the minds of the officers once more.
Perhaps it was going to break eventually but it had to break sooner or later at the end of the day. This pain was not going to be something unique to her, not now at the very least either way when push came to shove as of now, a push.
This chaos was going to push him to the next part of their fight before he paused to let it all come to the end of the road.
It was not something that he could understand now but he might later, he might understand the next move even if he did not wish to.
Though? To be entirely fair? There was plenty he did not know; plenty he could not possibly know.
Pyrrha leaned on the wall next to him, sinking into the lower part of the water. It almost surprised him for a moment but he could not think properly, he was tired for now.
"So… I suppose the UNSC will be sending more soldiers to Remnant?" Pyrrha stated.
"A lot. That is all I can say if there are Covenant to fight off. We are going to be here." Leo stated.
He was not going to be dealing with it anytime soon. Not once would they be dealing with anything small scale; it was harder to understand the war.
Pyrrha hummed as she floated on her own two feet, pausing only to lock her feet under her as she leaned on the wall.
"If you are asking what we are doing next? I do not know. I do know damn well that we are going into war either way, the more that we end up fighting the Covenant? The worse things are going to get. Jul is going to throw everything at us until he wins. That makes it hard to outfight." Leo stated with a sigh.
Pyrrha frowned and set her arms under her chest. She knew damn well the next part of the war was going to be done easily. The war would be the hard part… Their chaos was going to throw them into the path of chaos.
It was going to be harder and harder to figure out… Not once would it end that way, it would end only way at the end of the day.
He paused, knowing that he was going through something like this eventually seemed to be dealt with either way. The pain that needed to be thrown to the side would be easily beaten down either way.
That and that alone seemed to serve to remind him that they held a lot more pain and suffering to shift through. The logic? All of it? Yes, it seemed their goals would be easier to deal with when it was all over and when it all crashed down.
However? That did not make it easier to comprehend at the end of the day, all of it hurt, all of it was harder and harder to fix and that was good enough for him at the end of that day, that was all he would need to end it for now with it crashing down to the ground.
It would not end today but it would end eventually when push came to shove for now. That was going to be the tipping point, it was something she did not know about now, and she had not been able to try and figure it all out for now.
He had been silent, too silent after he had said his piece that she almost wondered what was going on, not once did it end today.
There was chaos that needed to be dealt with as she sighed and then looked to the side. Pyrrha crossed her arms over her chest once more and felt exhaustion creep over her as she paused, thinking for but a moment as she fell silent.
There was a lot more to try and do in the coming days ahead. She hummed and then looked to the side.
Perhaps some of it would be easier to fix than not, it would collapse into broken pieces and she seemed to be dealt with for now.
This was a lot more chaos to be had, a multitude of battles that would consume everything. All of it simply needed a spark, a thing that would throw it across the battlefield.
Pyrrha crossed her legs under her as she sighed and finally let it all come crashing down to it. She watched as Leo paused, letting on the wall once more… For a moment? A second? They could tell something was coming and they dreaded it.
She paused, not knowing what would come and dreading it to the end.
"How many battles did you win?" Pyrrha asked.
"A half dozen, maybe more… I am one soldier out of an army, Pyr. Just like you seem to be." Leo stated as he sighed.
There seemed to be a few seconds of silence… A few moments and then nothing at all.
There were a lot of things that she wished to ask as she tapped a foot on the ground. What was to come next? There was nothing there for but a second.
It was worth little now, knowing that it would only be harder and harder for it all to end in such a way. She did not know what the UNSC intended but she was too eager to figure it out at the end of the day.
Pyrrha seemed to be dealing with something he could not grasp the same way. Even if he had tried? He could not shake the feeling that such was already over for now at the end of the day.
There were a lot of things that she wished to know and to solve. Yet? She would be unable to help much, to change much… She wished only to be left alone for now. That would help as it would… Or it would fall apart sooner or later at the end of the road she had been on now.
That road left her with very little to do besides follow it, and see where it left her. Then and only then would it work out well enough at the end of the road.
What little needed to be done would be shoved off and down into the rabbit hole. He could not wait for it as it meant a lot of things needed to be adjusted for it, and a lot of chaos needed to be fixed…. Even if it could not? There was a lot more to this, a lot more that needed to be completed to be fixed.
He had nothing left to deal with, nothing left to go on for now. Such a disaster would lead to chaos that not even he could fix, not that he could complain about or even wish to.
Even if he had wanted to? There was something else on the line, something about it seemed to be more horrid.
Pyrrha looked over at him, knowing something was wrong. Something about it would have to be wrong if it were to end this way.
Even knowing that? It was not going to be enough to help now, nor ever.
She paused, leaning on the walls as she knew damn well what was going on, Pyrrha sighed, looking over and to the side.
There was a lot more to this, a lot more than he could handle…. Wished to handle it, even if it drove him insane. He knew what she was doing as she swam around him, swinging around like a monkey, carting herself through the dozens of droplets of the pool.
There was a moment of weakness and one he could not allow even if he had wished. He knew it, he knew what was going on and he did not even for a second wish to try and figure something out.
Pyrrha had been the one who had tried everything to fix it…. Even if he held nothing in his hands.
Nothing about it seemed to aid him…. Not that it could…. Or that he wished it. He held it in as long as he was able, knowing what came next was nightmarish enough to have done it.
He crossed his arms and looked at Pyrrha with interest. He had been too eager to deal with it. That sort of thing would end when he had wished it to…. All he needed was a little time and effort to figure it out and a little time and effort to fix it.
What little could not be undone was going and creeping them all out to the damn core.
Well, it was going to end badly either way, it was going to end oddly now when push came to shove and all such logic fell apart in the wake of such a thing.
Whatever he would need to do and whatever needed to happen? They would face it as a team or die alone in the dirt, that was going to be the last thing they had wanted as a group, the very last thing any of them wanted at this moment.
Yes, it seemed very likely it would not end up going the way it was supposed to for now.
What little could or should have been done was lifted away, reminding them just how little it would have mattered if it had been true.
He knew very well what was going on now, he knew very well what to say at the end of the day.
Pyrrha pushed from, knowing very well now, that she could not be dealt with for now as she paused to look downwards.
Pyrrha hummed and dropped it to the ground before she looked to the side and it came down to it once more.
"Hmm, we have a lot of things to understand," Leo stated before he seemed to the side.
There was something at the end of the tunnel. She seemed more interested in what was going on now.
Pyrrha leaned on the wall, feeling Leo hum and look at the wall before she looked to the side once more. She paused to try and figure it out while she seemed to think of it as she looked to the ground.
All she could tell was that Leo was bored with it as she paused to look downwards at the ground of the pool and then looked to the side.
She was not interested before she looked to the side, pausing once more as she smirked at him. Pyrrha shrugged and then looked to the side.
Pyrrha seemed as tired as he was and she did not know what was going on at the end of the moment.
"You, ok?" Pyrrha seemed to be asking as she paused to look to the side. "The war? It is becoming harder and harder to understand at the end of the day." Pyrrha stated before she looked to the side.
Pyrrha was silent before she seemed to be dealt with for now as she paused to let it come downwards.
"I think because you asked about it a dozen times…. The war is going on and I am part of it. The only problem is we are outgunned and still fighting an enemy with enough firepower to slag the entire planet if they decide they are losing too much, it is not fun." Leo stated before he sighed to himself.
He had been too interested, far too interested at the end of the day, knowing what it had been either way and knowing despite that. He held very little when it came to their future, very damn little either way.
Not much to do but little to stop them from doing it anyway now before he looked to the side and even then? Well, it was not going to work eventually at that rate even if he did not wish to let it come down to it for it to take hold and she knew it would.
So? Pyrrha decided on the one thing she could guess Leo would take seriously.
"Would you mind if we did some aquatic training? I do not know if Spartans practiced with it…" Pyrrha stated.
"What happened to wanting to relax?" Leo questioned as he raised an eyebrow at her.
Pyrrha fell silent as she realized that Leo was not going to fall for a simple ruse and she had no intentions of doing anything to disturb it.
So instead? Pyrrha simply leaned down against the railing, knowing just how much it had been willing to have been. Pyrrha leaned on the wall and looked at the Spartan who drifted to the wall.
He could not understand her actions… But he did not fault them either, knowing that she was just as much willing to relax as he did so.
There was a major pause as he sighed and then looked to the side, knowing what had been done and what would be dusted.
He was silent… But it was clear he was having more trouble adjusting to time off than he had been before.
He leaned on the railing but seemed to submerge himself deeper and deeper in the water as if it would ease his worry.
It would not, he knew it and so did she. She knew damn well what awaited him, damn well what would become of it and people like him if he sunk further into that hole.
There was no getting out when one fell in and she could not understand how to get out… Granted, she knew how but it was clear to the end these sorts of soldiers lived and died in their attempt to relax.
War was all they knew, it was all they were bred only to die and suffer… Granted, she could not tell if she was on the mark… But a look over at Leo told her Spartans did not get to rest or did not wish to rest often, they were warriors and they acted as them the best, and they acted as the best blunt tools for the UNSC.
Leo was silent as he could not say anything. He did not know how she acted, did not understand how she thought of it for now when push went to shove.
Leo was willing to do something about it at least as he paused and then he felt as if was going to break downwards into the ground, not at all knowing what it was and not knowing how to break it down.
Even he of all people could not understand when it came down to it. The insanity was something he could not deal with, could not allow now and he knew more and more at the end of the moment. Such a thing was beyond them.
Pyrrha let the water sink up to her shoulders and wrapped her arms around the railing. The water tickled the girl's nose for but a moment and she looked at Leo who was as silent as the grave.
Leo could not for the life of him tell her he was not relaxed. It might bother her and he was not trying to truly deal with such a thing either way.
He was exhausted, beaten down, and unwilling to do anything besides head forward.
Whatever the path? whatever was needed? It would need to end and Pyrrha knew it would not end lightly, none of their paths would end well.
Water ebbed around her as it did with Leo, she sighed and reclined, her eyes fluttering close as she paused to let herself catch her breath.
Pyrrha was silent for a moment, kicking her feet in the water like little disks of metal. She felt comfortable here and she felt willing to relax, there was nothing but a desire to do much for now, nothing which would not benefit them.
Pyrrha was silent, very silent in how well she needed to be, she knew damn well whatever went on? Something was lurking in the darkness, something worse than the Covenant, the Grimm even.
Though she would care very much to be shoved aside, knowing what needed to be done and not once dreading it. She could dread fear for long and not see an end to it… But she would not dread this, not now and not here.
She was too unwilling to end this and even if she was not trying to vex him? She knew damn well that he of all people was trying to sabotage it and she damn well could not have that.
She leaned over and tapped him with a slender elbow, one could not have imagined it any different.
"You enjoy the pool a lot more than you think," Pyrrha stated to which Leo hummed and looked to the side, knowing very well what was going and she looked to the side.
"I am enjoying it or trying to… I am a soldier; I am not used to waiting." Pyrrha heard.
"Even the Spartans have to wait, orders don't come every second," Pyrrha stated, reclining into the water.
Leo sighed and did the same, letting the water sink to his shoulders. Pyrrha was needling him and it was working, he wanted to surpass her and try and tell her how well he could not relax… But if he admitted he could not relax? If those few words existed in his mouth? Pyrrha would know that he could not relax and needle him more.
She was playing a game she knew she could win and he was furious more and more that she thought of it that way, there was a lot to it and she could not allow it to be done.
It should not but it would be as there was plenty to see and plenty to do at the end of this roar and all such roads were long and figured it out as she paused to try and figure it out.
She had been too eager to try and deal with it. She did not know what she figured out as she paused to try and deal with it once more.
She had been too unable to think. She was able to try and imagine it in the best of ways, ways she could have allowed it for now and for good down now.
She was silent, she was too interested in what was going on and she looked to the side. She did not know and he did not know now, she was too silent, too eager to figure it all out when push came to shove.
She knew him and she was unable to deal with it for now, knowing what was going on. Pyrrha was leaning on the wall as she looked at him.
"There will be plenty of time to fight when it comes to it, you know. We do not have time to fight until later until everything is worked out and talked over into the ground, we both know that there are a lot of problems for them to talk about." Leo heard as Pyrrha leaned on the wall, knowing what was going on.
She seemed to try and figure it out once more. This problem was something else, it was going to take far more than a few seconds to be relaxed and curious as she paused to look to the side.
She had been able to try and fight through as she paused to try and figure it out. She did not want it over; she had been too eager to have a friend as she paused to look to the side once more.
There was a lot more to deal with and a lot more chaos, something which needed to be discussed at length now.
Pyrrha was silent as she paused to let it sink. They had a lot more to try and figure out as she paused to let herself think.
She had been unable to think, to act in the way she did. All of it had been something that needed to be done and dusted. She was not stupid and unable to do much if at all.
She did not even know what was going on as she paused to let it all come in and grow in their mind. She knew that such a problem would be easier to stomach than before.
Pyrrha felt water pass over her from her legs to her stomach up to her shoulders. It had a calming presence on her, she did not know how it felt to her friend but she did know that her ideas would end.
They had a lot to see and deal with, more than it was to deal with for now and for a good reason at the end.
Pyrrha was silent to try and figure it out as she paused to try and figure out another idea when it came to it.
"I want to remind you with all due respect that the rest of the UNSC is probably going to set up troops to deal with the Covenant… Which means a LOT of people are going to Remnant and part of my brain."
Pyrrha was silent and she seemed to think of what to try and figure it out as she paused to try and deal with it for now.
She had silent and she paused and thought for a moment, just a second of what had been brought onto them.
(In the ready room)
"I'm starting to believe at times you might be more on top of this than I think," Ironwood stated.
"The Covenant is just as dangerous as you might think, general. It is why it is best to keep every base covered." Lasky stated before he sighed to himself.
There was more and more amusement on the mind of his ideas before he looked to the side. There was a lot of chaos when it came down to it, there were a lot of things that needed to be done and he was not the man to discuss politics like this.
All of it simply served to push her in a new direction, one which she had been able to deal with for now and for a good reason, one they would cherish for now and for good.
There were parts of him that panicked. Why? Simple, there was a lot more to this, a lot of chaos which had come back from it at the end of the day.
There was always something that needed to be done and would be dealt with all the while pretending they needed something.
All of it was easy enough to shift through but it would crumble apart soon enough when push went to shove.
Soldiers would come, their soldiers and the soldiers of another empire… The Covenant would not simply wrest control, they would fight and there would be chaos. There was chaos and they knew it.
The problem? They had very few options in the way of restraining this, of making sure it went to heel, what needed to happen was something simple… And yet not a single soldier was aware.
Lasky had an army at his fingertips, enough firepower to turn the entire planet into ash…. Yet he did not, why? Simple, there were a lot of ideas now, knowing that it would not be easily adjusted for and something about it all was going to happen.
All of it seemed to be done and dusted well enough. It was processed and it would be something that needed to be dealt with.
All he could tell was that if the ideas did not end? If there was no way to adjust and move on?
Well, they would have a full-scale war which would and could consume the rest of the planet, just was not any good now and that would not help, not here and not in any sort of good they wanted.
Had to be done and they had to fix it, for now, something about it all seemed to be chaotic.
They were eager to figure it out as soon as he clicked it into the place.
He had been too eager to try and figure it out. He had been too eager.
(With Pyrrha and Leo)
Leo fell silent, too silent for himself to think, to let himself grow to adapt for now.
He had been too eager to let it train, to let his senses die. He looked at Pyrrha who sat, serine, and unmoving as she sighed. This girl was on one of the most advanced warships in all human creation and to her? This was a vacation.
Leo sighed; the Spartan-III was silent as he realized that he had to relax. All of it? All of what he had left to accomplish? Pyrrha was right, he could sit here and fret over all of it, obsess over every operation below, consumed over a desire to hunt.
She was silent as Leo finally fell into the peace she wished, shifting it into the galaxy.
"You want me to relax? I want you to tell me what to do." Leo stated. "I am not good at this sort of thing. I can rip the jaw off an elite… But I cannot be as friendly as you want." Leo stated.
"I can do this… But I hear a catch." Pyrrha stated.
"You and I do some training and prepare for when we get sent down to Remnant again. I do not want to stop being tired…" Leo stated before he sighed.
He knew exactly what was growing on what was as of now. She did not wish this to go unnoticed.
The logic of not knowing where and when they would be done with it? That bothered Pyrrha more than she knew as both she and Leo sat in the pool, water coming up to their heads.
Pyrrha was forced to realize that neither she nor he could speak much, only that they had to work next.
"You are tensing up," Pyrrha stated to which she paused.
"I told you; I am not good at relaxing. Spartans do not relax." Leo stated. "We fight… It is what I told you." Leo stated.
Pyrrha hummed as her feet found the bottom of the pool. She knew Leo was not joking, she doubted Leo ever really joked unless it was due to war or something.
Part of her wished to say something but the part she knew well enough guessed she had no real reason to say much. Pyrrha could tell Leo was not happy at her prying but she could tell he was also grumpy.
There were a lot of things she needed to learn before she could claim Leo was able to relax, a lot of claims were different when it came to it, very different and very tiresome.
She did not know what was going on now and for good reason, too interested in something more than this, something that she did not see coming at all and see it come crashing down like a giant stack of dominos.
To be fair? Pyrrha knew entirely that he and her were different and she would need time to help remind him for now as he paused to try and figure it out when it came down the line as she paused, letting it all wish.
She hummed to deal with it as she wished to deal with this sort of thing at the end of the time.
Leo hummed, closing his eyes as she did and both reclining next to each other. She wished to figure out how to help him but it was clear they had a lot of problems to deal with it for now.
"You know just how well this is going on at the end of the day." Pyrrha seemed to be silent as she realized what would occur.
She had to try and think of what would happen at the end of the day, she did not wish to figure it all out when it came down to it.
She did not know what Leo would do when this came down to it as she thought of what she would continue to do… She would fight eventually and he and her both would go their paths.
She was annoyed with it as she paused to think of what was growing on her mind as Pyrrha thought once more.
Leo hummed and thought of himself before she waved her arms and kicked her feet back and forth.
"So… How was the beach?" Pyrrha asked.
"Enjoyable. I just did not see the reason you would not be there more often, there is a lot to do at the Beach from what I have heard now." Leo hummed and thought of himself.
Pyrrha did not know how well to try and say it for now… There was a lot more to see and do, a lot of things that Pyrrha knew Leo might like, the only problem was she did not know what would be done now.
Such was life and life made him skilled enough to be dealt with now and for good reason. It had to be that way and for a damn long time, it was close at least.
She could tell Leo of all people how to act nor could she wish to attempt to deal with it the way she had wanted, she could only push it beyond the limits of what was good.
When she did do that? She could attempt to help Leo better… But she did not intend to go against an entire military superpower when it came to it. Pyrrha also knew that such things as the Military were just attempting to help people when it was all the way done.
It was just odd, very odd in her opinion how things planned to go sooner or later. Pyrrha was too interested in what was going on before she seemed to think once more and she clicked her fingers and snapped her fingers.
Pyrrha knew more and more that it was all too fascinating when it came down to it as of now. Pyrrha was too silent as she wished to try and figure it out now and for good reason.
All he knew was simple, he had a lot to learn, and more and more did Leo wish to relax for now as he cracked his fingers and then thought of it now and for good reason.
Pyrrha seemed to be interested in what was growing more on her mind as she cracked her fingers. Pyrrha was too confused as she paused, floating amid the pool like a small little toy.
Pyrrha questioned as well what these Covenant wanted. They were enemy soldiers, no doubt…. But they seemed to hate humanity more and more with each passing second.
She would ask if the others knew… Well, knew within the classified information that one was ALLOWED to know. She held onto more and more knowledge at the end of the day and more knowledge.
There was something else, something buried far below all the words and actions.
She did not even know what was growing on her mind, she did not know how it would continue to be as she rubbed at her temples, leaning on the wall next to her, too fascinated with her ideas when it came to trying to understand how to be better.
Yes, much better would come at the end of the day… Something about it all was just odd now and for good reason. She looked at the others and then at Leo as she paused to try and figure it out as of now.
She did not even know what was too much for now as she paused to grow more and more tired and eagerly think of what was growing on her mind.
(With Captain Lasky and General Ironwood)
Ironwood sighed as he and Lasky looked over a small portion of the galaxy. It was too hard to figure it out now and for good reason. They had reason to believe the UNSC would be dealing with bigger problems when it was all said and done.
They had a lot more to deal with for now. He clicked his fingers and then thought of what was growing on his mind.
The more both thought of how they were dealing with the UNSC and the Covenant? They had a lot more work to deal with before that was said and done…. A lot more work now.
Though? To be entirely fair? They held onto the idea the UNSC would be willing to aid them, it was just a matter of their idea when it was all said and done. So much had been done to fix it and so much had been dealt with now and for good reason.
To be fair? They also had more problems than the government issue, mostly whoever was going to handle the science and politics of the actions.
If Hasley was still here? He doubted they would be able to figure it out but that and that alone would not help. Nothing would have when it came down to it.
She was silent and for good reason, knowing what had come from it, what had been done.
Lasky only sighed as he realized just how insane things were… And how unwilling he was to figure it all out now… He held onto such a hope now and for good reason.
Now and until the end of the day where it could and would be dealt with.
(With Pyrrha and Leo)
Leo and Pyrrha finally decided to rest on a chair beside the pool. They knew the next few days would be chock-full of plenty of training and combat as they pushed their bodies to the extreme… She would know nothing short of amusement when it came to it.
Pyrrha was tired but she would never admit it. Why? Because that meant admitting they had lost their little contest.
Neither was willing to let it be lost… Neither wished to let it be lost at all… Nope, it simply would not do for now.
Pyrrha yawned and stretched, her body snapping in several places as the woman realized she had been too tense and unrelaxed for now…
She sighed as she realized all of what she would do was something beyond the pale… Far beyond it now when it came down to it.
Pyrrha was too silent for now as she paused to think of what was to be done when it was all over.
Pyrrha was silent, she would not be letting it grow tiresome on her mind. Pyrrha would not let herself fall exhausted, not before she had her work done.
Pyrrha was silent, she was far more silent than before as she looked to the side… She looked at Leo as he fell silent before she looked to the side.
Pyrrha of all people could tell that Leo was preparing for more work to be done when it was all said and done… She did not wish to figure it out now when it came to it.
She was confused at the end of the day, too eager to understand what was going on at the time being.
She did not know what was happening next. She could and would be dealing with it for now.
Pyrrha was too silent, too eager to work out now when it came down to it. She did not know what was being said inside his mind or how he was acting now before she looked to the side.
Pyrrha was too interested in what was growing for now as she rubbed at her temples before she looked to the ground once more.
Pyrrha was eager to get to work at least. She would never let it be said she was not willing to work as she wished to let it all come crashing down onto her and all such people.
Pyrrha yawned for a moment and stretched herself along one of the pool chairs. She felt more like a lump of clay than anyone or anything, so tired and ready to be molded into something nice and ready.
She felt so…. Vulnerable for once, so unable to act, to exist…. And it felt odd now and for a vital reason.
She was relaxed, she was able to relax, no press following her around, no legions of fans trying to get something from her…. No, just what she was after and something else.
That? That worked out fine, it was serine and she enjoyed it… Despite every fiber of her being screaming about something that had been hard to ignore.
She looked at Leo who had since redonned his regular clothes and sat at the edge of the pool. He was not tired; she saw no sweat on his brow nor a single amount of sweat on his brow.
She and he were both tired… They had remained tired for now; she and he were worn down for a good reason.
She and he were able to think of it now when it came down to it. She and he were too interested in what was growing towards the rest of the time.
Author Notes
Phew. Another chapter is done! I apologize if this chapter repeats… I did not know how it should go. The next chapter will be in 900-6500 words will be 2-10 months and will show more of Pyrrha and Leo training and such. Until then, Lighting Wolf is out!