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"If something is easy, broken, cheap or can be abused, majority of the population will support it as a legit and or skilled concept/idea. Whatever people like and or love, they will thrive on it because no matter how broken it maybe, they do not like change."
My eyes cried out pain as my hands got a hold of the hard floored bed that was behind the bars that imprisoned me inside the brig. Two MP's stood in front of the jailed cell as I faintly overhear their conversations. The armor had been stripped from me, and my helmet was nowhere to be seen. As I coughed, my throat had become dry from my descent from the Phantom into the ocean. My body ached with pain and my movements we're sluggish but just enough strength to pull myself up right.
The two MP's outside the brig snapped a crisp salute to the commanding office that approached them. I had forced my hand to give the same respect to him despite my situation. He had looked at me as if he was scanning my whole body for any evidence to send me to Halzberg UNSC Detention Center. I had assumed that's where all traitors went according to the rumors that went around. He wore crisp clean Captain's issued attire and his medals presented to the left of his front.
''Do you know why you're here son?'' He commanded his question quickly.
I had thought of an answer quickly, but then hesitated to reply with such a rationed statement. A few moments later I answered to his command. ''If I were to attempt a guess, I would say my report.'' I replied with the truth of my best answer. Although I had almost wished I never gave the report that I was needed to give.
''Son, you have deserted Alpha Squad in the pursuit of a single Covenant transport ship
That already jettisoned its main crew for battle.'' He quickly fired his response than paused for a few moments to breathe in and then exercised more of his mouth. ''Our reports indicated nothing more than a skeleton crew on that ship after they deployed twenty-five of the Covenant's Brutes, Grunts and Jackals in the area where Alpha was positioned.''
His breathe ran dry after that sentence reached my ears. My shoulders felt like two worlds had been weighing on top of them after the Captain shot his mouth at me.
''Captain Korven, with all due respect-'' I had tried to protest, but he interjected my sentence before I could finish.
''I'm not finished with you yet.'' He yelled. His eyes expressed fury and anger at the same time as he firmly pointed his finger at me. ''So your whole squad was KIA then you receive orders from Lieutenant Venler to stay behind the Zanzibar hotel. Then you thought it was better to go gallivanting onto a Phantom to defeat a skeleton crew rather to stay and fight with the other soldiers like you were told?'' He listed then exhaled deeply with disappointment.
''I judged that to be the right situation to take down a craft that could have carried more Covenant in the future.'' I replied as I stood firmly to take in what he was about to throw at me.
''Your judgment, contradicted orders and you turned your back on all those who died in your squad. I'm going to confirm the report with Alpha squad in sixty minutes, then I'm going to send you to a place where you'll never step foot on the battlefield again.'' He quickly responded.
Captain Korven exited the brig swifty to end the discussion, then the doors closed behind him with a hallowed hissing sound. His words pierced my mind for the moment but that didn't change how I felt about what I did. Alpha squads report could be the evidence that could lock me up in another jail cell. My eyes closed as I am hoping that Alpha squad would change the outcome of my destiny.
[Edited on 03.04.2009 4:33 PM PST]