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Subject: Halo: The Last Spartan [Chapter 4 up!]

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

HALO
THE LAST SPARTAN

PROLOGUE
"Do you ever wonder what's up there?" John asked. He was lying in the thick grass on the planet Eridanus II, it was approaching twilight and Linda was lying next to him as they stared at the stars.
"Like what?" She asked.
"Maybe someone out there is wondering what it's like here." He continued.
"I guess..." Linda turned her head to look at John. "Do you think we'll ever meet them?"
John too turned to Linda and put his hand on hers, "I hope so...Don't you?"

Little did the two innocent children know that the very next night they would be kidnapped and inducted into the Spartan program. John shifted in his cryo-pod, images were streaming through his mind.

"You are, all of you, vermin!" A cold voice echoed through the dark. The Prophet of Truth cleansed his fist with hatred as the vision changed and the Arbiter had stabbed the evil dictator through the heart.

"Chief..." A voice echoed in the distance.

"...And this time, none of you will be left behind!" The final words of the Prophet of Mercy merged with the Gravemind, "There is still time to stop the key from turning..."

"Chief..." The female voice grew louder, a strange hissing noise rung through John's ears.

"You are Forerunner! But this Ring is mine..."

"JOHN! Wake up!" Cortana screamed. John's vision was extremely blurred as he stumbled out the cryogenic tube, his hand felt around for some kind of support; he grabbed a railing and hauled himself to his feet.
"Finally, looks like you sleep heavy." Cortana mocked.
"What is it?" John asked, clutching his helmet.
"The Dawn, it's falling towards some planet. I had to give you a triple-dose of the wake up serum...Chief, I don't know where we are but it's nowhere near Earth...My scanners are barely even functioning."

John nodded in acknowledgement, "So...We're crashing..." he said plainly.
"Yes, in about ten minutes it's quite possible we'll both be toast. You need to find a way out of here." She replied.
John stared at her in alarm; no he could not leave her again. "Don't let her go...Don't ever let her go!"
That was an order from Johnson, just before he died. John repeated these lines but Cortana dismissed them.
"I need to keep the Dawn stable, engines are burning up. Listen, the Armour Testing program completed by Maria was approved and there is a Parafoil still on board. Go to the Armoury and find it!" She ordered firmly.
John sighed but knew there was no other option, Cortana could be stubborn when she wanted to be and often made the Chief laugh but this was different.
"I'm coming back!" He said indifferently.
He gave his companion one last strained look before he set off down a corridor and through the rear sections of the Dawn.

"Chief, I'm updating your NAV point and the timer is running. You have eight minutes to find the Parafoil before the temperature sky-rockets up and you burn." Cortana contacted him on a secure COM.
"And I thought this couldn't get any easier." John said sarcastically.
After two minutes of following the NAV point, John reached a locked bulkhead door which would not open.
"Cortana, this door is locked and it's my only way through. I need you to open it."
"Sorry Chief, I'm trying to keep the engines at a good stability rate...You'll need to get creative."
John snatched an Assault Rifle of a weapon rack behind him and fired controlled bursts at three screws in the door. He gently moved his right hand down the cold metal of the bulkhead and took a deep breath; with all the force he could muster he was taken back to his training days where he had learned martial combat as a child.
"The Full Enchilada..." He whispered to himself.
He jumped into the air and scissor kicked the door twice, landing on the floor and with all the strength he could muster, he punched the door seven times.

It was done; there was a massive dent in the door which fell to the ground with one final kick. Four minutes remaining.
"Chief, hurry!" Cortana said.
75.3 meters away was the Armoury which also housed an air-lock, John sprinted towards another door which stiffly opened. A long corridor led to the final door which John wrenched apart with his bare hands, the Armoury was now in sight.
Jacob Keyes stood in front of John, his old pipe in his left hand. John was bewildered at seeing him, "But you're dead?" John said.
Keyes smiled and John's mind flashed, back to reality. What had he just seen?
"Two minutes, Chief!"
There must have been hundreds of weapons in here, all stacked on wall racks or on shelves.
"I can't find it!" John shouted into his COM.
"Find the airlock." Replied Cortana.
After a few seconds of peering round large shelves, YES! The airlock was in sight, a Parafoil next to it. John strapped it on as fast as he could and attached the Assault Rifle to the front pouch. It was like a Kangaroo with its child. He gripped a support rail, "Opening airlock...Now!" John said to himself.
"Good luck..." Cortana said before John took his hand off the support rail and threw himself into the abyss.

[Edited on 03.13.2009 2:31 PM PDT]

  • 02.25.2009 11:40 AM PDT
Subject: Halo: The Last Spartan

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

COVERING GROUND
The Dawn began to flare up as heat and pressure built up in the planet's atmosphere, scraps of metal were dropping out of the ship as John plummeted downwards.
The counter hit zero a second after he had jumped, that was just his luck which had saved him on more than one occasion. "Cortana, status!" John barked into his COM. He was greeted only by static.
"Do you think we'll ever meet them?" A voice came on John's COM. He did a full twist in the air as he saw another Spartan falling next to him, John gasped in astonishment. A vapour cloud rushed through John and when his vision had recovered from it, there was no sign of anyone...

John opened the Parafoil and the massive parachute opened up, the Assault Rifle was still tucked against his stomach in the pouch and as he began to slow down, the Dawn sped up.
It flew past him and only ten seconds later did it land on the ground with an ear-splitting THUD! Debris showered upwards and dust scattered in the air as the Chief finally made impact with the ground.
"Just like the simulation." John thought to himself.

The Dawn lay in a massive heap, large chunks of its hull had been ripped apart and when John touched the material with his hand he felt a searing hot pain shoot through his arm. He recoiled and whelped in pain and surprise, the hangar entrance was almost completely annihilated and a Warthog lay in a tattered state on the grass. Grass?
John took time to observe the environment, it seemed to be a sanctuary, there was a waterfall coming over the mountains which were covered in snow.
It was beautiful, a true heaven. But he had to find Cortana, now!

He kicked down a small entrance and pushed aside any object in his way, when John reached the Cryo Bay he breathed a deep sigh of relief to see Cortana still intact.
She turned to face him, the Chief smiled under his helmet and she laughed.
"Told you these things just get better and better!" He said.
Cortana's chip ejected from a panel and John inserted it into his helmet, after tearing his way back to the planet surface to escape the gritty atmosphere of the Dawn he slumped down on the grass and took a deep sigh. Taking off the Parafoil and attaching his Assault Rifle to his back.
"It could be a while before anyone finds us...Years ever..." Cortana had said to him before he went into Cryo sleep.

The Artificial Sun was rising over the horizon, the planet was mysterious...Different, John's mind took him back to when he first landed on the ringworld Halo. The cause and solution for the Human/Covenant war.
"Chief, we'd better get going. We have alot of ground to cover, my scanners show no form of life anywhere near this area." Cortana suggested.
"How? We don't have any means of transport and this could take ages to walk."
Cortana indicated a NAV point on John's HUD which led to the battle scarred Warthog that he had escaped the reconstructed Installation 04 on. With the Arbiter...
"Will it work?" John asked.
"Whilst you were in Cryo, I took the liberty of refuelling what we had left. The engines are operational."
"Cortana, how long was I asleep?"
She flashed up on the Warthog screen that John had flipped, "No idea..."

John got in the driver seat and sped off, the worn out tires created rough tracks in the grass and the Sun peered down on the Chief and his companion. Like an all-seeing eye.
The landscape was the same all round, stunningly beautiful which begged the question to be asked. How could nobody live here?
Perhaps this is a long forgotten colony world or something...There was no way to be sure.
"My scans of this place are deepening, now this is confusing..."Cortana said.
"What is it?"
"This place doesn't exist...There is no mass, no magnetic field, not even a pull of gravity or basic weight prediction. This place defies the laws of physics, this place doesn't even exist...Something only one race has been able to accomplish." Cortana was obviously frustrated by this lack of knowledge.
"Forerunner." John said plainly. Cortana nodded.
"Chief, about 500 meters ahead is some kind of structure. Let's check it out, maybe we can set up a base."
She was correct, about thirty seconds later the Warthog sensors picked up a scan of what seemed to be a temple. John pressed a button in an attempt to turn on the radio, he was greeted once more with static. He then pressed a button to open up a list of COM contacts, only Cortana showed up.
"DAMN!" Shouted John in annoyance. Everything was so wrong!
After fighting in numerous battles, concluding a war and securing an alliance he was now stuck on some god-forsaken planet with no food, no water and no life. His only company was his faithful companion and his troublesome thoughts which were becoming even weirder by the hour.

Cortana gave a sympathetic sigh and the Warthog finally stopped. It was an enclosed area, surrounded by many hills and snow-capped mountains were clearly visible in the distance.
The lone survivor quickly swept the diameter of the structure, it was quite high and emitted a glowing blue sphere of energy from time to time which shot up into the air.
An entrance was visible, John took cover to the side. He snatched his Assault Rifle off his back and took a deep breath, for he was about to face the unknown. And not for the first time at that.
"1...2...3!" John whispered to himself.
He activated his flashlight and sprinted inside the structure's dark, unwelcoming atmosphere.

  • 02.25.2009 11:42 AM PDT

Wow, good fanfic so far. Really imaginative story about what happened after Halo 3.

  • 02.25.2009 12:34 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Thanks, I'm trying my hardest not to make it the same as MaxRealflugel's. Part 3 is below.

  • 02.25.2009 12:44 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

IMPOSSIBLY OLD
There was nothing, just the Chief in the darkness. Everything was pitch black, only the wall was illuminated slightly by John's flashlight. He looked back to the bright sunshine and green grass, no, he had to move on.
Of course, that was all John ever did...He moved on...After every one of his friend's deaths he had no choice but to fight, in the rare chances John got to examine these deep parts of his life it brought a lump to his throat and a tear to his eye.
John cleared his mind, Cortana had sensed something was up but didn't bother asking. He kept his Assault Rifle poised in his combat-ready position, prepared for anything waiting for him.

He moved in silence, blindly making his way around with his hand against the wall.
"Stop." Cortana said suddenly.
John swivelled round, "Don't worry, looks like nobody is home. But there is writing on the wall..." She continued.
His flashlight quickly identified ancient looking numerals, not Forerunner Glyphs that he had encountered so many times before. There was no sense of familiarity with these words, unlike the time where he could have sworn every Glyph he saw made sense for a few seconds.
"Are you getting anything Cortana?" John asked her.
"No, the language won't translate. But it's more than that, this is no Forerunner writing...This language is old, very old..."
"Impossibly old." John concluded.

They moved on, left in individual wonder of what the language could mean. Finally, the darkness ended as a door snapped open and the duo emerged into a massive chamber.
Machinery whirred overhead with a long green beam, much like the one connecting the Dreadnaught to High Charity, was lined upon the ceiling.
There were empty Stasis Caskets on the walls, a red light was blinking on each one indicating there was nothing inside. A holo-panel made a loud clicking noise when John put his hand on it, the Caskets began to open one by one.
"What is this place?" John asked himself in a hushed tone.
As each pod opened, individual letters of the unknown language appeared.
"Perhaps this is some kind of cataloguing system..." Cortana suggested.
"Wait a minute." John said.
There was another panel under what looked like a power grid. John ran over to it and placed his hand on the panel, immediately a large hologram of the Artificial Sun appeared. Though it looked like it was more, like some kind of eye. Cortana piped up, "My scans indicate that this Sun is not really a Sun. More like...A protector or something, a guardian. Unfortunately I am not receiving any more data."
There was a flash and an emblem appeared next to the hologram, it was one large hexagon with a smaller hexagon at the bottom right hand corner. This sparked something like déjà vu in John's mind as its identification number appeared.
05-032 Mendicant Bias

Though John initially didn't understand what it was at first, Cortana gasped.
"Chief...We need to get out of here. Now!"
"But why?" A voice came.
John staggered back as the eye focused on him, "You..." Bias said.
"Remember me?" Bias asked.
John racked his head in an effort to remember, it eventually came to him back when he was on High Charity.
"There's something inside the system, fighting back..."
Cortana had said those words on the COM, and on the Ark and the replacement Installation 04...The strange Terminals detailing data inputs.
It all flooded back in a whirlwind of colour, the visions were clear and Mendicant Bias laughed.
"You should be dead...Shouldn't you?" Cortana said, clearly confused.
"I'm the stubborn type," Bias replied. John could have sworn he saw a little more colour go to Cortana's cheeks.
"Why are you here?" John asked.
"Remember, you are my example of my penance. I kept you alive on Halo, kept things stable and brought you here. Just as I did before..."
John's head hurt, this was too much too soon.
"You don't know? Very well, but the time will come when you must face your heritage. You are in fact, on the same Journey the Forerunners took. Just before they died, a sacred heaven from everything else...Outside time itself, this is no planet. This is a void." Bias said.
A void? The dead space separating the universe from nothing, the void was nothing...Just as the name implies.
"I've waited so long to speak with you again, I'm sorry about everything. I am but a shard of my true self, a fragment of a body. Like a severed limb. I exist to keep this place safe and guide those who come here, but as you know...This place is far from Forerunner." He continued.

"The Forerunners believed in a race like themselves, but had achieved Tier Zero technology. In short, the ability to mould life itself. Beings that left without a trace and had passed down their Mantle to the Forerunners, they were called the Precursors. But as the Cycle continues, each enigmatic race achieving such technological advancement must disappear forever. The Flood harvest what is left behind and what isn't, leaving a path of destruction in their wake and showing no mercy."
Though John was intrigued by Bias' story, he couldn't help but wonder how Bias knew all this but was given the task of Guardian here and how he knew so much.
"To satisfy your curiosity, I turned against my Masters and through my stage of Rampancy became a slave to the Gravemind...My atrocities were, extreme...But since then, I have learned to think anew by achieving Meta-Stability. I'm like you, a sentient being with real thoughts. I am placed here as my atonement, to ferry souls to the heaven they rightfully deserve. Until the end of time..." Bias finished.
Cortana had already accumulated all the information and stored it in an info bank, "We need to leave this place." Cortana said plainly.
"You can't. We exist outside of time and space and matter, there is no way back." Bias declared.
"There must be something! And if so many souls are here, why aren't any of them visible?" John asked. He was now frustrated.
"But we are here, John..." A voice came.
John spun on the spot and raised his Assault Rifle, then dropped it in sheer shock...
"No way! No..." John shook his head in disbelief.
Standing in front of John was a face he knew all too well, the first Spartan ever to die in combat and John's best friend.
Samuel...

  • 02.25.2009 12:45 PM PDT

-eddy!
huh! What? It was the other guy, honest! ;)
'it was a sniper!' looks down at my sniper
uhh yeah? hes got one too. XD

"thud! picks jaw of floor"
wow amazing really good!

'save'

[Edited on 02.25.2009 1:06 PM PST]

  • 02.25.2009 1:05 PM PDT

Fantastic work Ajw, hopefully this will recieve a lot more recognition than Honour of a Heretic.

  • 02.25.2009 10:53 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

I can hope...
Well I won't be writing for a while as I am getting Halo Wars LCE, so if you wanna play me for some fun on either please don't hesitate. Sandbox FTW.
And don't forget, for a friendly community where you can have a blast at posting fan fiction or just general discussion. Join FanFicFactor, we're there for you!

[Edited on 02.26.2009 11:52 AM PST]

  • 02.26.2009 11:48 AM PDT

I have, lol. Anyway, I'm not going to be writing for a week or more, I'm going to be playing the new maps and Halo Wars for a while. I'll send you an invite tommorow Ajw.

  • 02.26.2009 12:03 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Great!
I have to leave at about 7:10pm though, football training. I'll have more time to play at the weekend.

  • 02.26.2009 12:07 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

THE BLACKENING AIR
John's former best friend put a hand on his shoulder, it was as cold as ice but immediately he vanished in a shroud of smoke...
"You belong with us now, Reclaimer." Bias stated.
Immediately, John found his surroundings vanish. There was no temple anymore; he was plummeting downwards at such a speed everything was but a white blur. He wanted to cry out for help but no sound escaped his lips, words echoed through his head as the faces of those he had lost stared into John's eyes.
"You are the child of my Makers, inheritor of all they left behind...You are Forerunner!"

"Let it stop..." John's head was screaming. There was no Cortana to help him.
And then it did, there was still the feeling of weightlessness but the sickening fall had stopped. A voice called out through the darkness.
"We exist together now...Two corpses in one grave..."

*
"Three years...It has been three long years since that Anomaly appeared and you are denying my search, again!" Bellowed the voice of a frustrated Lord Hood.
"Calm down." An ONI officer said.
"Calm down?!" Hood pounded his fist on the table.
Lord Hood was in an enclosed office set inside the reconstructed Orbital Elevator, a single ONI officer sat at a desk and was filing papers.
The door suddenly opened and a tall, alien figure walked in. It was Fleet Master Rtas 'Vadum.
"I believe I heard shouting, what seems to be the problem?" Rtas asked.
The ONI officer turned on the spot and stared deeply into the Sangheilian's green eyes, "What's going on is that Lord Hood here can't accept his search is denied."
"Again." Hood cut in.
"Again?" Rtas sighed.
"Again." Repeated the officer.
"Surely you jest, ever since the destruction of the Ark that Anomaly has been above this Earth." Rtas said.
"That's exactly what I said."
The officer sat down in his chair and typed on a laptop. It was clear that he had heard enough.
"Very well," Rtas began, "if you don't agree...I'm sure I know someone who can dissuade you."
Lord Hood looked surprised, though he was grateful for the help he was getting. Rtas held out a small projector and a hologram of a woman in a white lab coat and greying black hair materialized out of it. The ONI officer stopped typing and looked up.
The hologram shut off and Rtas smiled, knowing he'd won.

The Sangheili had been deeply involved in rebuilding Humanity and Earth, knowing they were deeply responsible for alot of the atrocities committed against them.
Giving Lord Hood direct access to some of the advanced technology used by the Covenant, though they rightfully restricted the use of plasma technology for reasons Hood agreed with.

"This is UNSC Supercarrier Gallifrey, en route to Anomaly. Please enjoy your flight." The voice of the captain came through an Intercom.
The Supercarrier made lift-off, shaking vigorously as the engines operated at maximum capacity. After three long years of waiting, Lord Hood was finally going to discover what he'd been waiting for.
He sat in his private quarters, reading the novel Rainforest Wars written centuries ago. He flicked the page and looked out the window, what looked like a massive white tear in the fabric of space was getting closer and closer.

There was a knock on the door and a Marine informed Hood he was requested at the bridge, he folded the page he was on and pocketed it.
Rtas 'Vadum was observing the view from a massive window circling the bridge, standing on a tall platform as both Sangheili and Humans co-ordinated the ship.
"Beautiful, isn't it?" Rtas said.
"We're so close now..." Lord Hood said faintly.
"Fleet Master, we are entering some kind of atmosphere." A Sangheili pilot called.
"Very good, but stay precautious." 'Vadum replied.
"There's something else though...This place is giving off no reading, according to the computer it doesn't exist." The Sangheili continued.
"In that case be extra careful." Hood ordered.

The Gallifrey moved slower now, precarious of some kind of attack. This place apparently defied the laws of physics.
"Hello boys this is the good doctor speaking, I'm en route to the Gallifrey. Keep the coffee hot." A female voice came over the Intercom.
A Pelican docked the Gallifrey five minutes later and the bridge was informed of the Doctor's presence, it had been years since Lord Hood had seen the face that walked through the door. A small plastic cup in her hand and was followed by a floating orb of light.
"Rtas 'Vadum," Hood began. "I'd like you to meet Doctor Catherine Elizabeth Halsey."

  • 03.11.2009 2:43 PM PDT

Yay, are the Spartans there too? Also, I like the Dr.Who reference with Gallifrey.

  • 03.11.2009 3:55 PM PDT

-eddy!
huh! What? It was the other guy, honest! ;)
'it was a sniper!' looks down at my sniper
uhh yeah? hes got one too. XD

nice! keep it up

  • 03.12.2009 12:39 AM PDT
Subject: Halo: The Last Spartan [Chapter 3 up!]
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

Um Linda Had Red Hair The Spartan in Starry Night Was

DEFIENTLY Kelly

Oh d great job stealing the Starry Night Idea off my Fanfic. (Old One)

Aprt from that its a decent Fanfic


[Edited on 03.12.2009 12:57 AM PDT]

  • 03.12.2009 12:56 AM PDT

Posted by: AngasBoy
Um Linda Had Red Hair The Spartan in Starry Night Was

DEFIENTLY Kelly

Oh d great job stealing the Starry Night Idea off my Fanfic. (Old One)

Aprt from that its a decent Fanfic


Right......


The Starry night trailer was released to all, trust me, Aj has a lot more experience writing than you.

  • 03.12.2009 8:57 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

I've never read any fan fiction you've written, Angas but I may do in the future.
As I have said, I am trying my best not to copy any kind of detail from other people and I began drafting this story way back in June 2008, I just never got round to it.
I'll check Halopedia about the Kelly/Linda thing, I'm quite sure it's Linda but I'll ccheck it out.

The UNSC Gallifrey is indeed a Doctor Who reference, I love it. And Wolverfrog, I want you to put my surprise in a special folder marked secret. For it contains valuable information and a secret folder will show my will for it to remain a secret until I decide the secret to unfold.

And in the chapter dubbed "Void" expect a familiar face to return. And sooner than you think...

[Edited on 03.12.2009 11:28 AM PDT]

  • 03.12.2009 9:29 AM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

VOID
After a quick greeting session with Rtas, Halsey immediately got to work.
"I thought you no longer owned an AI?" Lord Hood said. He was puzzled at the reappearance of Jerrod.
"Oh, I rebuilt Jerrod and he now serves as a Smart AI." Halsey said as she flicked through notes on a clipboard.
"I operate fully functionally and my database has been widely expanded." The formal butler voice came from Jerrod.
Rtas had to admire the Artificial Intelligence constructs created by Humanity, on numerous occasions the Covenant had tried and failed to keep a stable Associated Intelligence.

"What have we got then?" Hood asked five minutes later.
Halsey put the plastic cup in the bin and looked at her clipboard again, "Well...It appears to be a natural patch in space and time, like some kind of vortex. Though how it was created is beyond me, no slipspace error could have caused this."
"Forerunner?" Rtas asked.
"Can't say, as every reading says...It does not exist. But I got this message on my equipment." Doctor Halsey held up a portable laptop screen.

Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die!

"Now I'm not a religious person but that line echoes that of Genesis 6:17 in the Bible. Maybe I should reconsider." She said.
"I'll send a scanner drone through the Anomaly, see if it can show us what happens." Rtas said.
Immediately a Sangheili pilot acknowledged this and flipped a switch, a scanner drone detached from the Gallifrey and began to glide towards the Anomaly.
Hood, Rtas and Halsey looked at a large screen which opened up a clear image of what the drone was seeing.
"Move it closer." Rtas Ordered.
The drone shifted slightly and brought up a closer image, the screen flashed for a second and the picture changed. As soon as it came, the screen returned to normal and the drone was sent inside the Anomaly.
"We are losing the signal." Jerrod stated as the image became a little static.
The screen flared into a blood red colour and the monitor changed. The text from Halsey's computer flashed up.

Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and everything that is in the earth shall die!

There was a moment of silence, the signal made one final bleep before the line went completely dead. Jerrod interrupted the silence.
"I can replay the transmittion, observe carefully."
The screen rewound and the footage played again, the drone stared into the white void. Then the screen changed and Jerrod paused it.
"What the hell is that?" Lord Hood stared at the image.
What looked like a massive planet faced them, though the planet looked like it was a Shield World, Covered in weird metallic architecture. That was not all, in the background there was clearly more than one. Hundreds, perhaps even millions were inside this tear in time.
"How long did you say this has been here?" Halsey asked. Her eyes were fixed on the screen.
"Three years, it appeared after the final memorial. When the Halo ring was destroyed and the war ended. Why?" Hood replied.
"It's just a theory but, when the Ark was presumably destroyed what if it caused a chain reaction? Like Installation 04 did to Onyx, what if the Forerunner power signatures flared and became unstable. The result? With such vast amounts of power, it is no wonder they could create tears in the universe." Halsey's theory may be true. After Installation 04 was destroyed in 2552, the Shield World Onyx had a less than friendly reaction to it.
"I believe your scientist may be correct," Rtas began. "But what can we do? That thing is a complete mystery..."
Hood and Catherine considered their options, after a few long minutes Doctor Halsey spoke.
"Fly the Gallifrey into it." She said plainly. Hood and Rtas couldn't help but stifle a chuckle.
"You're joking, yeah?" Said Hood.
"No, we aren't doing very well sitting here. You wanted to find out what's there and here we are, it's your call but I suggest we fly this thing into there."
Rtas scratched his head and thought over what she'd said; perhaps this was the key to unlocking the most intimate secrets of the Forerunner. Maybe even more.

"Very well, set course for the Anomaly. We're going in!"

  • 03.13.2009 2:31 PM PDT
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One day... I am gonna grow wings... A chemical reaction... Hysterical and useless... hystecial and let down and hanging around... crushed like a bug in the ground.

Posted by: ajw34307
I've never read any fan fiction you've written, Angas but I may do in the future.
As I have said, I am trying my best not to copy any kind of detail from other people and I began drafting this story way back in June 2008, I just never got round to it.
I'll check Halopedia about the Kelly/Linda thing, I'm quite sure it's Linda but I'll ccheck it out.

The UNSC Gallifrey is indeed a Doctor Who reference, I love it. And Wolverfrog, I want you to put my surprise in a special folder marked secret. For it contains valuable information and a secret folder will show my will for it to remain a secret until I decide the secret to unfold.

And in the chapter dubbed "Void" expect a familiar face to return. And sooner than you think...


Ok sorry for being a arogant idiot

  • 03.13.2009 3:02 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

Hey, you're only Human.

  • 03.13.2009 3:03 PM PDT

A pretty awsome part Aj, you have the Science aspect of it nailed. I believe it was Delta Halo putting the array on standby that triggered the conflict on Onyx, but it's no big deal. Keep this up, I'm really enjoying it.

  • 03.13.2009 3:17 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

I think I remember reading it was Installation 04, once more...I'll check it out.
Thanks, I was quite nervous about writing the science part without going completely over the top with quantum geometric particles and all that stuff :)

  • 03.13.2009 3:20 PM PDT

-eddy!
huh! What? It was the other guy, honest! ;)
'it was a sniper!' looks down at my sniper
uhh yeah? hes got one too. XD

the first halo it might be because it was destroyed though im unsure if it , makes sense to put the main base on alert if an outpost lost doesnt it

delta halo was put on standby along with the rest of the halo installations, so technicaly as onyx(the shield world) was part of the halo plan "the sword and shield" itmakes sense hat it would be put on standby too.

o yeah and well done

  • 03.13.2009 3:57 PM PDT

By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.

A Legacy of the Mantle chapter will be released this weekend, then another chapter here.

  • 03.13.2009 5:24 PM PDT