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sliceitwithwind) wrote2012-11-30 12:20 am
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HALO AU
The briefing room for talking to Spartans was never filled. It didn't take that many, after all, to do...whatever needed to be done. The two scientists at the front, well. They looked like they had at least some field experience. One of them was scarred up and missing an eye, the other one was big enough to be a Spartan, but lacked that...something that marked Katzu Spartans. He was, in so much as one could be, just Katzu. He did, however, show markings of peripheral nerve damage...signs of an attempt at making him a Spartan that failed.
Neither of them moved like paper-pushers, though. They moved like ODST, highly trained but not quite at that level. The taller one exhibited obvious signs of Spartan drug failure, but didn't appear to let that phase him. The smaller one had indications, but nothing as dramatic.
Neither of them moved like paper-pushers, though. They moved like ODST, highly trained but not quite at that level. The taller one exhibited obvious signs of Spartan drug failure, but didn't appear to let that phase him. The smaller one had indications, but nothing as dramatic.
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Aya nodded and stood up long enough to get a slight running jump and launched herself across the distance. Her angle was slightly off but Nevada lashed an arm out to catch her. His bad shoulder but who was counting? "Back. Back behind as much metal as we can find! That ship is firing up!"
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"Crazy or dead," Aya admitted. "The covenant slips out of here we're stranded and we all die in a number of hours. Crazy we get ourselves inside the range of the warp envelope somehow."
"...right. Get me an angle on nearby debris and we'll hitch a ride."
"Just to lengthen the odds a bit we have four grenades. One of which may be damaged."
"Fun. Get me angles anyway. Scientists? You any good with zero gravity physics?"
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Dilan grinned a little, "Yeah. Give me a second."
And then he started giving them equations.
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"Only if this works."
"Right," she came over to fish grenades off of Braig and gave both scientists cheerful pats on the shoulder before sharing out her grenades and heading off to apply equations at one end of their...less than space worthy chunk of ship.
"Wedge yourselves tight, this'll be rough even if it does work!" Nevada was grinning as well, and actually whistled as he headed off to carry his end of the propelling explosions.
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"Two," Nevada added from his end.
"One. Don't die." Aya finished with the sound of hitting the deck on her end and holding the hell on. Hitchhiking was never a sure bet at the best of times and in circumstances like this?
Well, it was even odds that the blast would tear their floating islet apart before they could slide in under the envelope of the covenant slip stream.
Slip space travel was new to humans; dripping and strange. The Covenant, with their salvaged technology, had a smoother ride. Or rather, they did when chunks of enemy space craft weren't riding along and screwing up their trajectory. The piece with the spartans and scientists wasn't the only ship chunk to tag along, a good half of a marine cruiser tumbled into the aether with the alien craft and that threw off even the best calculations.
The cruiser did not come out where they intended, and the momentum of the myriad pieces when the Covenant ship decelerated caused the purple hull to be impacted and torn; a grim parody of the damage the enemy vessel had down at Reach. Floating nearby, uncaring about the devastated ships above, floated a large ring swimming in swirls of green, blue, and sere gold.
The various hitchikers probably weren't in the best frame f mind for taking in the view.
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"Still here." the little man said.
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"I want a vacation," Nevada added. "And I'm pinned. Give me a minute to get to you. Any bleeding, sirs?"
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"I can't tell." Dilan said grimly, "Nothing big enough I can feel it."
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"Now I come get you Aya. you sound like hell. Then we get ourselves into the ship above us to get a ride down to the...ring planet." Nevada noted. No, Halos were not common knowledge yet. "Sirs are you up to a small jump to the other broken ship?"
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"...yeah...only scientists we've got now." Aya noted quietly. "For the record shields haven't come back."
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"Starting to taste the CO2 here," she noted as metal was pried off her. "What say we get some place with an atmosphere?"
"Funny, I thought we were headed to a Covenant ship, atmosphere wise."
"Ha ha, jerk. I'll kick you later." Yes, time to turn and observe the foundering ship above them.
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"Looks like a toss and anchor," Aya noted. "Did any of the wire we used earlier end up on our chunk?"
"Some. I'll fetch this time. You sit with the men here."
Aya sighed and settled to the deck by Dilan's feet. "Have either of you done line jumps? They're simple in zero G but..." But they'd be following a line anchored to a covenant ship.
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"Are you adopting scientists behind my back?" Nevada teased over the comm. "You know the paperwork for adopting is hell!"
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"The two of you, and the Juggernaut crew." Dilan agreed.
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"Do you even know the space requirements for keeping a scientist? Much less two?"
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"You wouldn't be able to support their hobbies anyway Aya, better you give up now." Nevada teased and slipped the wire around her waist. "I'm sure you can visit after all this."
"Yeah yeah. You never let me keep people!" Aya chuckled, only wincing lightly as the wire drew taunt across an armor crease.
"I like living space. Alright, off you go." A brace and a spin to help her build momentum and Aya was drifting across the gap. Zero G was their friend sometimes!
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