I roll my eyes. "Glad to be here. What do you want?"
"You could be a little nicer." Halsey replies.
"I can't do anything without you wanting to see me. What do you want?"
She sighs. "Since you both are now here. I have decided to make you partners, and you are being assigned to the Pillar of Autumn. Captain Keys will be there to put you in the cryochamber."
"No."
She gives me a hard look. "What?"
"I said no. I'm not going with him to see Captain Keys. Besides, he beat me, I don't want that constant reminder."
"Well then you can deal with it because the-"
Suddenly there is an explosion.
"Dammit, they found us already." She says, and grabs as many documents as she can. She looks at the both of us. "Get to the Autumn, with your suit, you'll get more instructions from there."
I nod and head straight for the training room. More explosions go off, and I quickly dodge the pieces of the ceiling. I quickly put my suit on as fast as possible and grab a few weapons as well. I pull my hair up and finally put my helmet on. Get geared up, and leave the training room. I hear a scream to my left. It sounded a lot like Jenna. I make my way to her as fast as I can. "Jenna! Where are you?"
"Debra, I'm here."
I follow her voice, when I find her she is trapped under a pile of rubble. "Jenna! Are you okay?"
I can see the pain in her eyes.
"Never mind, you're not okay."
"Thanks for noticing, get me the Hell out here."
I look at the rubble and start picking the rock up and moving them out of the way. I uncover to the point where her legs are all that's left. She happens to be covered by one big ass piece of rubble. "Shit, this will be a minute, do you think you can crawl out from under this? When I lift it up anyway?"
"Yeah, I think so." She sits up a bit and then lays back down. "On second thought, I can't."
I think for a moment. "Here, hold on to my arm, when I lift up the rubble, I can pull you out."
"Okay, that sounds like a good plan. Just don't hurt me anymore than I already am."
"Do you really think that I would hurt you? That's pretty low."
She grabs onto my arm as I lift the concrete up. She winces as I lift it, but unfortunately I can't help it. My goal is to help her.
Suddenly 117 is running at me, when he gets to us, he practically lunges at me. We tumble for a minute, and I hear Jenna scream from the rock smashing into her legs again. This makes me angry and I fight against his strong grip. "I have to help her you dumbass!"
He pins me by the shoulders, and my legs. "She is already gone! You can't help her anymore, you've done what you can."
I look over and Jenna is still, my visor zooms in on her, and I can see a tear slowly run down her cheek. Almost instantly afterward, more of the ceiling collapses and completely buries her.
All I can do is sit there and watch, something inside of me at that moment, breaks. I push 117 off of me and crawl over to the pile of rubble. "Jenna? Are you there?" I ask. I listen for a bit and I don't hear anything. I finally realize that I lost my best friend, and no longer have anyone to talk to, no one to cheer me up. And to think that she dragged me to the cafeteria. I can feel the tears running down my cheeks.
"Why?" I ask, not bothering to turn and face him.
"Cortana said that there was a better chance of saving you instead of her. And I refuse to let any of my team members die." He replies.
"And yet, you let her die, she meant everything to me." I stand up and face him.
"I can not argue right now. We have to get to the Autumn."
I look down and watch a small pool of blood, slowly wrap around my foot. I look back up at him as another explosion happens somewhere in the distance. "I suggest that you run." My attitude changes and my true self emerges.
He just stands there and watches me.
The tears continue to fall, as I smirk and laugh a little. "Why don't you ever listen to me?" I run toward him, and stab him in the shoulder. "I guess you want me to rip you into a thousand pieces! WHY! Why didn't you save her?"
"I did it, to save you."
I freeze at his words, I look up and stare into his visor. It's sad to say that I can't tell if he was serious or not. "Prove it."
"Then follow me." He runs off.
I get angry and run after him. "I'm going to kill you!"
"We can deal with that later, let's get to the Autumn."
I roll my eyes. "Fine." I manage to catch up to him, I am tempted to punch him in the face, but I know that it's not going to happen.
Suddenly, he grabs my wrist and pulls me into a small hallway and then what seems like a janitor's closet. He makes a hand signal telling me to stay quiet.
'Why do I need to stay quiet?'
'Hostiles, and we don't have any weapons, nor do we know what weapons they have.'
I roll my eyes again and listen closely. I hear soft footsteps coming towards us.
It turns out that he was right.
Once they get really close, he pushes me against the wall, pinning me with his hips.
Before I get to protest, he lifts my helmet up and puts his hand over my mouth.
I don't know if he can tell if I am blushing or not, even though it's pretty dark in here.
The hostile goes away, and he releases me from his grip.
I slide down the wall, breathless. My heart is racing and I feel really warm, I don't know how to explain it.
He reaches out a hand and I take it. "Let's get to the Autumn."
I nod, I feel like I can't say anything anymore.
We leave the closet and sneak our way to the shipyard. Autumn is about to launch for space and we get there at the last minute.
"It's about time you guys showed up." A soldier says as we board.
I give him a hard look. "Do you want us to leave you here?"
He shuts his mouth and escorts us to the bridge. When we get there the Captain greets us as we launch into space.
"Chief, Lieutenant."
"Captain Keyes." We say at the same time.
"Well, now that you are here, you will be put into cryostasis until we need you. It will be a long fight, but we will do our best."
I hesitate. "Um, sir?"
"Yes, Lieutenant? Is something wrong?"
"Well, when it comes to cryostasis, it doesn't fully agree with me."
"What do you mean?"
"Basically I vomit until I can't anymore. I don't know why that happens but it does, it's something I have to live with."
"Alright, we can make preparations before we take you out of it."
"Greatly appreciated, sir."
"Jackson will take you and put you two in."
We leave and are taken to cryo one. Almost there Chief gently brushes my hand with his.
It makes me blush again, I really don't understand his motives, and when I stabbed him, no blood came out. I guess his armor has the capability to deflect knives.
We reach what seems to be a laboratory, and someone is waiting for us.
"Lieutenant, I need to give you something before you enter cryostasis. Please follow me."
I follow him and we enter a small area. I watch him as he grabs a small syringe. "What is that?"
"This," he says, "is your A.I., he gives you what you need and is able to talk to you in battle." He comes around and I take my helmet off. He pokes the back of my neck, and I can feel the A.I. being put into my skin.
"You can go into cryo now."
I get up and go, when I enter, Chief is waiting for me.
We enter the chambers that are side by side and they close. I relax as the air gets slightly colder and I eventually go to sleep.
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