As I opened my eyes, I noticed we were still flying. I don't know what happened in the novel, and this part wasn't in the game. So as far as I can tell, I don't know what to do, and it's likely that everything's changed with the info I gave them.
I notice a few guys playing poker on the side, one of em must of carried a pack on him. I try to get near, and ask if I could join them, but they stop. They look at me in silence, so I go back to my end. As time goes by I fall asleep again, I can't do anything anyways.
The Marines notice I fell asleep, and begin to talk again, "I don't want to fight alongside this guy, Richy took the grenades head on, took himself, and the covenant with him. He never had that attitude before, and saying we're all dead, the fuck man". The other Marines nod in agreement, "we got to talk to the Captain, this guy's a fucking lunatic.". "No need marine, I heard you loud, and clear", they hear captain Keyes over the comm, "we have checked over what corporal Petrov stated, and found similarities to his words on covenant chatter. if what he said is true, we have to do what we must to protect earth."
One of the Marines shakes his head over what was stated, "captain, we can't work with him, the shit he said fucked up Richy, were fighting hard, but this tells us we all die, we can't!".
Cpt. Keyes slams his fist in the drop ships cockpit, "That's enough corporal!, I understand the implications of what he said, I've decided to send him with another unit to the pillar of autumn to set everything ahead of time, if what he said comes to pass, we will be prepared, so all of you keep your mouths shut, am I clear Marines!"
"SIR,YES SIR!"
"Good, Cortana make preparations, we need every space worthy craft available to get us off this damn ring, and give Corporal Petrovs next unit instructions to set up the pillar of autumn remotely, make sure we're off this damn ring as soon as possible."
"On it now captain, I'll also need to debrief corporal Petrov at the outpost in case he remembers anything else, whatever information we can get, the better"
"Do what you must Cortana"
....
As I open my eyes, I feel how stiff my body is, and feel a cramp in my neck as I sit up. I stink of sweat, while cradling my pilfered weapons. I feel the shudder of the drop ships movement, seems we arrived to our destination. Heck, I can even hear the drop ship getting louder as the side door opens. The others are getting up as well, and waking anyone else who's still sleeping, while I wait for the captains orders. luckily I don't wait long.
Captains orders sound off in our comms, "All right Marines, get out, restock, and head over to Foehammer, corporal Petrov, your gonna be joining a different unit after doing a debrief, now go," "Sir,Yes Sir!"
We're still somewhat elevated as the guys jump off, once landed, I head to the nearest supply tent. Some of the guys are quick to restock as I look around, I grab a few pouches, ammo, a pistol, and a sniper. At this point I'm starting to get heavy in gear, but with all the shit going on, I'm not gonna risk running into things head first.
Once I'm geared up properly, I see master chief nearby grabbing his gear from a supply box, while Marines are boarding the nearby pelicans. The armorer is noting what we're taking, while I fit the covenant gear I took into a backpack.
Master Chief stands in front of me, as I finish putting the last needler pack in my bag, "Relax, come with me"
Master Chief exits the tent as I follow him, some of the pelicans begin to leave, while more show up for resupply, I follow him to an empty tent away from the rest of the Marines. I study his armor as we walk, I played the games, but he truly is an interesting character, hopefully he gives me an autograph.
Once inside, he motions for me to sit, I feel nervous, feels like I'm gonna be interrogated, even if I know that it isn't one. Cortana begins to ask me questions, while master chief watches my reactions, "have you had any other visions since you've told us?"
I take a deep breath, "no, but I got more of what I was given that I didn't say, I just don't know how to explain it without sounding looney ma'am."
I explained everything I know from the games, and answer what I can, I even explain how they need a human to activate the rings as well as the info and key to activate the incomplete ring later on as well as the people that die along the way.
they both listen well enough, but whether they'll take heed I don't know, after a while I can't help myself, "plz take advantage of the composer, it's obvious to me the two of you'll fall hopelessly in love with each other. the technology that is underused is immense, and you two basically go back, and forth with each other while being enemies of all sides, and master chief plz get the captain to promote you the max rank he can as an officer. you come across fools of upper rank, and as well as backstabbers known as Oni that take advantage to plan against you. even then you need to make sure that you take advantage of your allies in having a strong enough position to act on your own volition, plz don't just assume you only need to protect earth, even the captains daughter who gets killed can survive if she had better planned her actions"
I take a deep breath after finishing my speech, but I still need to add one last thing, "call me insane if you must, I need to escape, I need to take advantage of the AI on the ring, and I need to develop my own army to escape the coming wars. you guys are fighting each other constantly, and I just don't want to get involved, plz Cortana, plz make an ai for me to be my companion. a nice silver haired girl with a nice figure, it's shitty of me to ask for this but I just don't have the knowledge and capability to man my own vehicles, much less survive an encounter with stronger enemies, plz help me!"
Master Chief looks at me for a good bit, "what's your orders captain..."
shit...