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> Kit admires the tooth for a moment before a soft smile goes across her face
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> “This means a lot to me…I mean…you are the first Sangheili I’ve talked to and you are just so kind.”
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> Kit’s eyes start to water again
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> “It means a lot to me that you appreciate me for reasons other then me being a Spartan, thank you so much.”

  • The AI begins translating from english to sangheili, he comes to the words “thank you” and pauses… The AI turns to the white and purple spartan and says*

“ERR0R#@ translations incomplete… It seems there is no word for “thank you” in sangheili.”

Ardo Moretummes asks the purple and white spartan

-As the Ai translation of Ardo Moretummes-

“Your eyes human, why do they always water when you look at me? is it because you find my stench fowl. Or do my battle scars scare you?”

“give me that human”

Ardo Moretummes snatches the Ai out of comicbeast1212 hands

Ardo speaks again

“Ai, show us any recorded history on instalation 07”

…processing…processing…proc-

ERROR!
ERROR!
ERROR!

“I am not programmed for history cataloging, my main parameters have been re worked to only translate alien dialects, Im sorry.”

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“Installation 07? Well I’ll be hiding in my pod if anyone needs me.”

Exits Pub and heads to the drop bay.

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Kit grabs the Sangheili’s hand

“I get emotional when people are so sweet to me. It just means a lot to me.”

Kit’s attention goes to the news of their where-abouts with a concerned look on her face she speaks

“We must get away from here.”

…

“Oh sorry…”

She lets go of the Sangheili’s hand

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Mr. Mac yells back to the fleeing ODST

“Aww no you don’t trooper, get back here. We’re gonna need all the hands we can get to explore whatever this…ring object has in store for us. For that matter, does anyone mind lending an armor suit to a rebel in need? Feel kinda unprotected in this white dress suit…”

*Looks down at blood spattered white dress suit, that is no longer very dressy."

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deciding to follow orders (from a rebel) ODST Blueninja turns around and walks back into the Pub

“I guess I’ll stick it out with you guys. What could go wrong anyways?”

ODST Blueninja returns to the corner of the Pub and waits for a game plan

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Suddenly, without warning, the back entrance door to the bar slides open. A young, tattered spartan walks in to find the aftermath of the forementioned chaos. He says nothing. Looking down at his feet he makes his way over to the counter and leans up against it.

“Give me something hard.”

his armour was a bright white with blue accents, it was missing the forearm pieces and was badly damaged. It was someone no one expected to see. It was Damien Franko.

(For those of you who know who Damien Franko is. Yes, I went there.)

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Walks back into the bar from the bridge.

“Partner, if I were you I’d take two of them hard shots. I…we just got ourselves in a very dicey situation. Enough to make the armored gal awful freaked out.”

Sits down next to Farko at the bar and orders another scotch.

“Truth is son I don’t know what the hell in significance a giant ring dubbed ‘Installation 07’ means. Old freedom fighters like us from the colonies aren’t filled in on anything. I still don’t know what y’all in the armor are called!”

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Damien looks down at his drink and his grip tightens around it. He struggled with himself for a moment before formulating his response

“None of that matters to me now.” Damien said to the stranger beside him, “technically I’m not a spartan anymore. See these people? I betrayed them. Every one of them. I’m a prisoner here and any second they’re gonna realise that I killed two of their guards and escaped my cell. When they do, there’s gonna be a hole right up here.” Damien taps on his forehead with his index finger

“I just came to say goodbye to my friends in the spartan program.”

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The Trio gets up from their crashed corner, and heads for the interior balcony of the bar. Fred passes CHX, sees him playing Wild Gunman

“What, you mean you have to use your hands to play that? That’s like a baby’s toy!” he proclaims.

They see the stranger on their way past the bar, and quicken their pace. He sits there and declares who he is openly, fugitive and all as he walks in and predicts doom and gloom. The three grab a few pool cues upon reaching the pinnacle of the stairs and pretend to shoot billiards, preparing for the worst.

“Don’t you find it odd,” asks Sam, “that this is a military ship and there are so many undesirables, and enemies of the state on board?”

“Yeah,” continued Fred, “like the big, scarred, butthurt alien that split our table in two and kept claiming that The Book was his. What a looney,” he said, caroming the cue ball off three sides of the table.

“Well, technically, those larger alien species aren’t supposed to be an enemy of the state,” Sam replied, correcting Fred. “I did some reading earlier and it seems that they’re supposed to be friendlies.”

“NERRRDDDDD!!” Fred accused, in an attempt to instigate Sam.

“Pipe down you guys! You’ll draw even more attention to us!” Joe shushed.

“Besides, Sam is right. This is very odd, there’s been a specific invasion by outside forces to this exact bar, as well as officers displaying much unbecoming conduct, and this escaped convict sitting at the bar down below. You’d think we were in the middle of Arkham instead of a military ship. And what about those grenades and invisibility triangles we found earlier? Something is definitely going on here.”

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Kit over hears the trio talking of the Sangheili she quickly gets up and walks to the 3 of them.

“You really should not talk of him in that way…you have no idea what he has been through. Be respectful, I don’t want another issue arising.”

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Sam pushes his glasses up against his face, looking up at Kit, clutching the pool cue a little tighter

“My apologies ma’am, but we’re just a bunch of fifth graders. We were threatened by a creature we’ve never seen before in a language we didn’t understand in a place we’ve never been. Are we supposed to instinctively act respectful to a being that wants to rob us of our property and potentially our lives? We’re just kids. We didn’t come here looking for trouble, it came looking for us.”

“Yeah!” Fred added, “What he said! Besides, it’s not like he knows what we’ve been through either, so,” Fred continued, scratching the cue ball as he spoke, “Butt out!”

“Look, despite and because of what my friends said, we don’t want any problems. It seems you have a soft spot for the alien, so just don’t let your affection blind you. Sure we may not understand what he’s been through, but we do understand what he’s put us through. We’re strangers in a strange land, looking for a way back home. Personally, I’m just hoping that way home isn’t routed through the afterlife. I would like to live to see at least one more Taco Tuesday,” Joe finished.

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Kit lets out a heavy sigh

“I let no affection blind me, I just understand why he acts the way he does.”

Kit raises an eyebrow

“What time are you from?”

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“Understandable,” replies Sam. “There are always two sides to every dispute it would seem.” He loosens his grip on the pool cue as Fred scratches yet again, and throws his hat on the floor in frustration. Sam ignores Fred’s emotional outburst, and continues.

“Technically, we’re from the year 1996. But, we’ve been a lot of places, so sometimes the place or time we’ve just been is the place we’re from.”

“It all happened when Joe got that dratted book from his uncle for his 10th birthday,” complained Fred. “Luckily,” he said with a smile, “this is the first time we’ve ended up somewhere and Sam hasn’t complained that our doom is imminent.”

“And here, I thought it was just a simple book of magic tricks…” Joe said softly to nobody in particular. “All he wanted was for me to become a magician just like him.”

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Damien finished his drink and felt the alcohol burn in the back of his throat. He waited for the sound of armed men rushing through the door, but it never came. They must have had more important things to worry about. He turns back to the stranger next to him.

“So whats this about installation 07?”

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Ice Berg replies in mocking manner

“Oh woe is me :(, fact of the matter is that the lot of you Sangheili wouldn’t have had your experience, if you didn’t rampage on our Home World and Glass Reach into a Disco ball! If you ask me, he deserves every bit that came towards him. You mess with Humanity, you get the Bull horns!”

“And you Kat, you make sure you watch you back and while your at it Learn to drive better hehehe The alien mongrel could be scheming up a plot to take us all down, and you wouldn’t know it would you? Johnny boy 117 didn’t finish the fight exactly how I thought he would smirk, but at least the flood is gone.”

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Mr. Mac turns back to the battle-weathered man next to him, and looks him straight in the eye.

“Let’s go have a look, it’s hard to explain. Mainly cuz I don’t know the answers.”

Mr. Mac and the veteran stand up and walk up to the control bridge. Floating ominously outside the window in the void was a giant ring-shaped construct.

“That is apparently what this Installation 07 is about. Seems sketchy to me, especially since like I said the gal in the purple armor seems scared by it.”

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“We were told about these in basic.”

*Damien considered his words. These things used to be classified tier 1. But now it didn’t make a differance.

“This is a halo installation. Halo is a doomsday device that can wipe out entire galaxies. The UNSC is supposed to have research bases on every one. I wonder if they have another bar down there.”

Damien had a feeling they would find out real soon.

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The sangheili general walks to the back of the bar with his AI and begins to have a conversation in sangheili

"Watashi wa. Watashi wa hon’yaku ga anata no yuiitsu no kinō jikoku ni naru to, akarui ōbu wa, anata ga yori yoi… Anata no 1 hontō no rēsu no tame ni soko ni korera no iyana ningen no mawari ni sa rete inai koto o shitte iru gijutsu-sha ga anata to issho ni yatta chi tte iru, watashi wa, ga motte iru kanji anata wa seigō-seida weakend… " `Watashi wa shippai shinaide kudasai ka, itami no hontō no imi o shitte iru. "

((I know what the engineers did with you. I know that translation isn’t your only function bright orb. When the time comes, and its coming, you better be there for your one true race… Being around these disgusting humans, I feel, has weakened you’re integrity to perform you’re duty…))
((Do not fail me or you will know the true meaning of pain.))

The AI glows bright red for a moment then changes back to white… The AI responds to the general

“Watashi wa aida nani o imi -Yoink- imasu”

“What do you mean?? I am AI I FEEL nothing.”

The genral laughs

"HortHortHort, Watashitachi wa te o shinryaku shita toki ni enjinia wa atama oni no suprivisor no nō kara anata o tsukutta. ODST butai wa shu tō o masshō shi, hakai sa re, sono fairu to konpyūta no sore to no subete no ita… Shikashi, karera wa kichōna ningen no nō kara thier no dēta o hozon dekimasendeshita "

((Laughter) The engineers made you from the brains of the head ONI suprivisor when we invaded reach. An ODST squad had obliterated the main tower, and with it all of its files and computers destroyed…
…but they could not hide thier precious data from inside thier human brain))

*The AI has a quick flashback of a body screaming and laying on an operating table, lights flashing and aliens on both of his sides holding his human body down… the Ai flashes back to the bar and responds to the elite in disbelief."

“Watashi wa… Watashi wa, hoka no AI no ikenaiga, ti - kore wa hontō no koto wa dekimasen… … Yume o motte irunode, watashi wa tokubetsuna to omotta… Sorera no yume to omotte ita. Watashi wa ningendatta koto ga dekimasendeshita”

((I…I thought those were dreams… I thought I was special because other AI’s dont have dreams… Thi-This can’t be true. I couldn’t have been human))

the general continues

“Anata no kazoku ikite kakunin shitai baai wa, watashi wa komando to -Yoink-, anata ga okonaimasu.”

((If you wish to see your family alive, you will do as i command))

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silverback sees the elite standing alone with his AI at the back of the bar

He walks over to and sits down next to Comicbeast1212

“Hey what do you think those two are up to?”

(Theres something fishy with that elite)

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KitKat now standing in the door-way to the back room of the bar looks upon the Sangheili and his AI

“What was that? I don’t speak your language…but that sounded…bad. Tell me what that was…now.”