03-19-2016, 10:58 AM
Quote:“My name is Omni. This is not the world you know. This is the Omniverse. You interest me, so I have made you part of it. The Omniverse is a place that reflects the wishes of those who are part of it. But! There are rules. I will explain them only once, so listen carefully.”
"813."
Quote:Omni hands you a glimmering orb in which all the colors of the rainbow coalesce. “This is Omnilium. It’s what ties the Omniverse together. Without it, you are nothing. With it, anything you desire can be yours. But you will need more than this. If you desire it enough, you will find it. You will find that using it comes naturally. Just think of what you desire most.
”813, wake up.”
Quote:“You will not be alone in the Omniverse. There are others. Of course, they, too desire Omnilium. Do not fear death. For as long as you interest me, you will be reborn. “That’s all you need to know right now. You’ll figure out the rest soon enough. I’ll be watching … and waiting.”
”Goddamnit...813 WAKE UP!”
The young Spartan Soldier, encased in black and red AVIATOR-class GEN 2 MJOLNR power armor, jolts awake from the persistence of his A.I., Valkyrie.
“Val, did you see it?” He ask as he dusts himself off and gets up.
“See what?”, Valkyrie appears in his HUD within his helmet. He stands up completely and does an equipment check.
“The white and eyeless guy, I think he called himself Omni or something.”,
”I guess the crash really rattled you…”, he starts to load ammunition into his macabre of guns
“Val, I have all of my guns, can you do a systems scan? And crash? Val I’ve had only crashed once, and the first was a gentle landing. Plus last I remember we were in the hangar of the Infinity and about to turn on Stag.””, Val disappears from his visor and does a systems scan. He finishes reloading and waits for her.
”Everything's fine except Motion Tracking, Radar, and Radio are, well….missing.”
“Huh? How can that be?”, he asks as he puts his guns in their proper places. He checks to make sure everything is secured in place.
”Well 813, I don't know how to explain it, but the equipment is missing and you did crash. The second part is probably because we were taking fire”
“Covenant Loyalist or Prometheans?”, as Val starts to answer, 813 looks around and he now notices, a giant flaming skeleton off in the distance. There is a large prism of yellow light encasing the skeleton.
“Val, what is that?”, 813 asks as he stares in amazement,
“That is trouble. Possibly Forerunner, maybe a construct of the Dadict? I can’t get a clear scan, but scans say that...oh...”, Valkyrie reads over her scans, puzzling, even for her intellect.
“Val, what’s wrong?”, 813 asks in a concerned voice, reaching for his service magnum.
“The Skeleton...is organic...”, 813 pauses and almost drops his pistol.
“What?”, obvious surprise in his voice,
“Yes, all of the scans agree...it is organic, that’s what the test show…and nothing else”, 813 catches movement at the edge of his sight, he uses it’s zoom function, the display sent directly to his HUD,
“Oh crap, it’s a Floodling, near that arch of dark stone, is that moss as well? Let’s follow, maybe there is more”, he zooms back out and rehoslters the magnum. Then he starts running southeast, as the Floodling makes a run for it to the gate.