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Alternate Realities - The Abyss Of The Celestial Temple
Posted By: Guardian<thehawaiiandude01@yahoo.com>
Date: 14 March 2005, 8:33 PM
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Author's Note: In my last chapter ending i had something written, but i felt that it was too little of a plot twist, if it was one. So therefore i changed it.
Also, for a small part of my story i'm taking a few ship classes from Wado's Shadows of Archons II series. No "infringment" i'm giving him full credit as of this note. Also, credit is given to Star Craft.
Location - Planet Purity, Installation 001
April 22, 2662
Secondary Location: Ring world
Primary Objective: Locate Control Room
Few minutes earlier
The battle had just ended with the remainder of the two bodies of the Elites, one body dismembered while the other decapitated. Two plasma swords were clipped to his belt as he had moved forward to insert Cortana into the main system of this Halo. The moment he had inserted her into her a chill had run down his spine, a grip of fear flowed through his mind. Inside his visor he saw wild energies forming themselves around the control room, he shook his head and looked again. Nothing existed, the disturbance was gone. The silence soon followed by a confusion of Cortana.
"Chief I'm detecting some unknown particles and a packet of information deeply buried in the core memory banks of this installation. Its some form of Quantum Filament Gateway, the coordinates that it leads to i have no idea of. But given the security systems placed on this file i believe it would be wise not to open it."
He listened for the moment and again the feeling of dread appeared in his mind of a horrible displacement of the world around him. His feet he saw were moving of the ground, a ripple of energy swept under his soles. It crackled as it touched his metal shoes and then replaced itself in the mainstream. In a moment of fright he called out "Cortana can you see this?!"
"See what chief, I'm not detecting anything on sensors or through the video displays of this place" she responded. He shuffled around trying to avoid what he saw but with each step he connected with a different strand.
With a sudden burst of light the energies became clear and visible to any being or construct within this vast control room. They swept in multiple directions and lashed back and forth as if being entities and then poured into the center of the room forming an orb of energy. Pulsating a reddish purple, then green to yellow and then a nightmarish blue. With speed he reached for Cortana's chip, pulled it out and placed it where it belonged in his suit, he felt the cold mercury feeling he always felt with her being inserted into his suit.
The orb of energy stabilized itself momentarily and then exploded in a supernova format. Blinding flash of light tinted John's visor to its limits, and then approached the energy wave. But before the moments impact a yellow light of the teleportation grid made itself available and surrounded John and took him away. The gateway opened and swallowed the entire room, including John and then worked its way to eat away Halo.
Location - Planet Purity, Installation 001
April 22, 2662
Secondary Location: Fleet Surrounding Ring world
The U.S.S. Remora watched in disillusion as an explosion rippled through the halo a whirlwind of bluish-green energies tinted with red, ate away at halo. Chaos unleashed itself upon the entities around the ring as well. A piece of debris floating along came in contact with the energies, it bent in disproportional shapes and then was sucked into the chaos. With the video feed of that, all ships were ordered to pull out of orbit and away from the Ring world.
The total of seventy-two ships moved one after the unison. The engines pulsed purple and blue and yellow as power were fed into it and they defied the fate of the piece of debris. A hole in space seemed to grow bigger with each second passing by. Captain Turner watched in horror as the void surrounded the last remaining Halo and swallowed it whole. A sweat trickled down his brow, in his mind he was the fate of this reality had been lost, but being the last of his kind, he was determined to win this war.
In the final seconds of chaos the last piece of Halo was visible, then it too was swallowed by the darkness. Following it was a flash of bright light and a shockwave, the shockwave rippled through the atmosphere of Purity. The atmosphere swirled into massive hurricanes of air, the world was turned into havoc, and whatever life remaining on that was utterly destroyed.
Location: unknown
April 22, 2662
Secondary Location: Darkness
The yellow light spread throughout the utter darkness of the control room, as it appeared and then it disappeared, a Spartan lay on the floor, his gun mere inches from his body. Slowly the suit came back to life and his first breath became normal again. Lady Luck had always stayed with him throughout all his encounters with an enemy and his own life. He got up, slowly, aching in different parts of his body, as well as feeling shocks of energy.
As he looked around with even his enhanced eyes he couldn't penetrate the darkness. With a quick thought his flashlight came into existence and exposed the now dark control room of a powerless halo. Waiting for a backup or something to kick in he waited, the eerie silence consuming all. Finally after minutes in passing lights flashed into existence, but with that instance two plasma swords ignited with a single motion he brought them into an X. Laying in front of him an army of darkness and death, crawling forward tentacles sprouting. Dead flesh and no souls one after the other they poured in the whole of the control room door. Pieces of unknown metals lay scattered glowing a dull red as they cooled. Without any regrets he ran forward swinging in multiple directions. With each arc pieces of flood fell apart, green gore and reformed blood splattered the floor tainting it. Just like the feelings of the old library, creepy crawling everywhere. As he fought his was through the piles of flesh to clear a path from the gore, he saw the familiar yellow and blue beams of light. Sentinels was the only thought he could get out, before he was brought back to reality. A slash flared his shields as they dropped to fifty-six percent, he turned and with a one hundred and eighty degree swing he dismembered the body. With little left but fear, he rushed towards the exit. Close quarters with the flood was not a good idea, but outside where the land is open he was and forever will be the King.
As the final doors to the outside of the control room opened, the frigid cold air rushed in stunning the flood momentarily. Snow and hail came down fast, his shields flickered as each ball of ice impacted him. He saw what appeared to be a Xantari shuttle, he knew little of the technology. But having little choice he made his way to the craft. He drew the Xantari Phase Rifle, and activated the scanning system. No one appeared inside the craft, he punched the entrance key. The hatch unlocked, but the impact of the punch destroyed the closing mechanism. Using his great strength he grabbed the hatch of the shuttle and with force closed it shut. Coming back into his seat he took one last look at the control room and he powered the engines. The hull reverberated as the flood continued to pound on it, hoping to find a breach, where they could get inside and esacpe this ring. But he wouldn't let them, without any knowledge he started hitting random keys. Shields powered up and displayed on one holo-tank. Another activated the engine, and the third the weapons. A reticle appeared upon his screen as the shuttle craft lifted above the ground and came to hover six meters above the ground.
The shuttle activated three pulse-turrets and opened fire upon the flood below. With each burst of energy three flood combat forms went down. He was starting to enjoy this until the shuttle rocked. Shields dropped to ninety-seven percent.
"Cortana what happened?!" he said frantically, searching for the source of fire.
Bieng a lot faster in scanning and searching than John, she pin-pointed the location of the flood combat forms carrying Xantari phase rifles. She directed the computer to focus upon the flood forms and fire what appeared to be a torpedo. An aqua colored orb of light left the shuttle and impacted the flood. The explosion was far greater than she had imagined, and light flooded the darkened shuttle. Energy flickered everywhere and crept along the walls of the Control Room. The Forerruner metal slowly started to glow under the tremendous amount of heat.
"What the hell...?" was all that John could say before the shuttle shook violently under the shockwave. Shield alarms blared once again, and the digital numbers dropped from ninety-seven to eight-six and continued to do so. As finally the light receded, the shields held at sixty-four percent. The giant doors of the control room glowed a blinding orange. The heat metling the snow, the hail and the rock that it was inbuilt into it. Where once stood a giant cliff or a canyon wall, was not nothing more than steaming debris. The sunlight poured through the clouds as they parted. Leaving a scene of chaos and destruction. Without much remorse, Cortana activated the engines and they left the installation's gravity. Luckily for them, the Halo hadn't been destroyed the way it was annihilated when the Pillar of Autumn's engines were sent into a cataclysmic "Wild Cat chain reaction explosion".
As the shuttle flew into space a mind dazzling sight lay in front of the two. Sensors were beeping with an annoyance, outside lay a temple floating in space, size half of Luna. Knowing that exploration may reveal something that may get him home would be the option. Within a matter of minutes the craft landed, rock gusting away into space. The craft's engine's cooled the nightmarish blue slowly dissipating. He checked the power core on the Phase Rifle, thirty-three percent. The weapon itself was quite powerful and useful, but having only so little power remaining he discarded the weapon. He then unclipped his second plasma sword and activated it, as he neared the entrance he saw a ripple.
"Cortana what is that?" he enquired.
"Analyzing...scans complete. Chief it appears to be a force field a protection system built into place, I don't see a way around it. From my initial scans the power levels of this force-fields are beyond my comprehension" she said.
"What do you mean?" said John.
"Well when I first scanned it, before you saw the ripple. The data I received was unbelievable, the power level of the field is currently at a 4.9 level Magnitude. Combining all the Super-MAC's and the Covenant Plasma Platforms back at this "reality's" Earth firing together would provide a power level of 2.76. Such power is beyond my level of comprehension. So I suggest that you approach the field very carefully and don't do anything rash" she finished.
He deactivated his plasma sword and moved towards the field ever so slowly now. So much raw power could easily destroy this Xantari threat. Another ripple occurred, this time a larger and much noticeable one. A bright flash of light came into existence, John's visor tinted to its maximum capacity. Still the light remained bright, finally after a few seconds it dissipated. In front of him stood a figure roughly a third of a meter smaller than him. Its eyes were an emerald green, its skin pale and resembling what appeared to be a human. He wasn't sure of what it was but he took a step back and prepared to ignite his plasma sword. But before he could bring the sword in front of him, the figure spoke "Only the Guardians of Gaia and Celestia may enter."
"Cortana..., what is it talking about and what is Gaia?" he said carefully.
After a brief pause she replied a hint of surprise in her voice "Gaia means Earth, and it is saying that only the Guardians of The Earth or Celestia may enter this place."
"Well can you tell it, that I am a Guardian of Earth or Gaia" he said with less fearful voice.
"It would be best that you speak to it, tell it that you are the Guardian of Gaia and you are here to find out all that has happened up till this current day" she finished.
"Fine..." he retorted with a sigh.
"I am Spartan-117, the Guardian of Gaia. I have come here through a place called Halo and I am here to find out of all the events that has occurred until present day" he said with hope that he said it right.
The figure stood there momentarily accepting the sentences spoken to it, then without an answer it disappeared and the force field flickered and then disappeared. A door opened at the top of the stairs of the temple, a blue white light burst through reflecting of his green armor and the blackish hull of the Xantari craft. John moved towards it, an activated plasma sword in his hand. He entered the inside of the temple, behind him the doors closed. An eerie silence was all that was remaining in the giant white room. A hexagonal shaped area on the upper right corner of the room opened. Three constructs entered the room, all three looking awfully familiar, from the distance the shapes looked like an AI construct and two sentinels. Within a matter of seconds the distance was overcome, and the three constructs came to hover.
I shouldn't have left that phase rifle back there. He felt a sense of fear, something about to go wrong. He had been trained and fought countless battles against enemies in numbers far larger than this. But still in the back of his mind, he felt a cold feeling slither down his spine. Cortana what's going on? he thought, knowing since the AI was inside his head, there was no need for speaking. She closed off the external speakers and the spoke to the chief.
"Well, sensors show that the weapons on the constructs are very powerful. I wouldn't do anything rash towards them" she said in return.
He felt himself repeating the things he said to the figure at the entrance before entering the force field.
"I am Spartan - 117,guardian of Gaia and soldier of the United Nations Space Command. I have come here on a missio-"
He was abruptly cut off as the AI spoke in a calm yet firm voice.
"I am 373 Guilty Rider, the construct of this Temple. I know of your designation, what you are capable of and why you are here. The guardian computer has awakened me from my stasis, and asked me to assist you in your problems. Time is something we seem to have on our side for now, so i shall answer any questions you possess" he said in a cool metallic voice.
John knew his mission clearly, to find a way to use the last Halo against the Xantari. But since, so much of information was at his hand on the forerunner and how to utilize their technology properly, he put away his main goal and asked the first question.
"Tell me all that has happened from the Time before the Flood until present day" said John.
The AI hovered there momentarily and then glowed a slight pink and then came back to a cool blue. Behind it, a chair appeared with what appeared to be a Neural-Interface.
"The information is stored there, you must go and be one with it" the monitor replied.
He took a long deep look at the monitor, and then moved towards the chair. He crossed the distance within a matter of seconds; he sat in the chair and the neural interface activated. With a sudden click the chair released itself and plummeted to the abyss of the temple. As the chair continued to gain speed, a rush of memories flooded his brain. Thousands of images flickered and phased away, all that was left in his power was to let out a long blood-chilling scream.
"John...?" asked Cortana from the darkness.
nothing...
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