Cyberpunk: Spartan Walker

Chapter 235 Interstellar Chase ([-])

She used sensors to detect the area, but her detection range was limited to a thousand kilometers, as if she were in a thick fog.

Case frowned as he looked at this strange space, and the officers on the bridge were talking about it.

There, a signal point.Another, and then a dozen more popped up.

Fourteen Covenant cruisers emerged from the blue mist.

"Cortana," the Chief said, "how's it going?"

"As always," Cortana replied, "we're in trouble."

The Covenant ships opened fire, their turrets flashing.

"What the hell," Cortana muttered.

The situation was critical, and they were forced to make the final choice: to fight back, hoping to die together with several enemy ships.

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Slip space, aboard the captured Covenant fleet flagship Justice.

In the cockpit of the stealth Pelican troop carrier, Tommy sat in the co-pilot and watched impatiently as the Phantom troop carrier where the Master Chief and his team were seated landed in the berthing bay.It contained his Spartan brothers and sisters, which made him look forward to the long-lost reunion, but also a little worried - would they not recognize him?If they hadn't forgotten him, might they have grudged him for serving in MI?

The troop transport slowly landed under the instructions of the berthing cabin personnel. Before it stopped, Tommy shook his head and stopped thinking. He left the cockpit impatiently, squeezed through the crowd of children, and took a picture with a "pop" The button next to the hatch jumped out of the rear of the troop transport ship.

At this time, the Master Chief's voice came from the communication channel: "Cortana, how is the situation?"

"As always," Cortana answered him, "we're in trouble."

The Master Chief climbed out of the troop carrier first, and then a male Spartan came out carrying the half-awake and half-conscious female Spartan and placed her on the deck of the berthing cabin - those were definitely Fred and Kelly, he didn't Will admit mistakes.

Tommy walked forward quickly, took off his helmet, and when Fred's body froze, he asked him: "Fred, how is Kelly?"

"Oh - Tommy!" Fred stood up straight and patted his shoulder hard, "Her condition is quite stable. Long time no see, really long time no see."

Tommy didn't speak, just smiled and nodded.

The other Spartans disembarked from the dropship, and their reactions to Tommy were much the same as Fred's - except for Anton and Daisy.

Anton gave Tommy a bear hug and said, "You have a tough life!"

"Of course, you can't imagine what I've been through, I..." He stopped, now is not a good time to reminisce, "Let's talk about it later, where is Naomi? I didn't see her on the list of Operation Red Flag."

Anton shook his head. "I heard that she was sent on a mission before the Battle of Reach. I don't know what the specific mission was. She didn't come back."

"Okay, I hope she's okay."

Tommy considers all of his fellow Phase II Spartans to be brothers and sisters, but the ones he's closest to are the Silver Team members - Anton is one of them, and the friendships formed during childhood are always indelible.

Another female Spartan jumped out of the troop ship, glanced at Tommy as she passed him, snorted "idiot" and walked away.Tommy recognized Daisy's voice.

Anton let go of Tommy with some embarrassment, "You haven't gotten over that matter with her yet?"

Tommy sighed and said nothing.

No one wanted Ralph to die, but saving Daisy with John was the limit at that point.

Dr. Halsey walked down the gangway with the help of the Chief, and her eyes widened when she saw Tommy.

"Tommy?" Halsey squeezed past Winn and walked quickly to Tommy. "Tommy, is it really you? Oh, thank God. I thought you were dead. I heard rumors that they cured you, and now I believe it."

"Yes, ma'am." Tommy looked at her with a complicated expression. He felt both happy and angry - to this day, he is still brooding over Winnie's death.

He could not accept that so many of his companions were dead or disabled due to body modification, yet Halsey declared that the project was a great success. This seemed to him at the time a naked betrayal.To this day, although he can't yell at her like before, he can't smile in response either.

Jun hurried towards the noble team, and the members warmly welcomed him.Liga glanced at Tommy from time to time, while Rebecca stayed on the periphery of the crowd angrily because she was left out.

The enthusiastic return didn't take long. Ellie reconnected to the system of the Supreme Justice, and the video signal incoming from the flagship's external camera appeared on Tommy's heads-up display.

They saw the Covenant fleet's cruisers surrounding them, their plasma turrets glowing.They reminded Tommy of paintings he had seen of fish that lived at the bottom of the earth—glittering scales and sharp teeth.They stepped to the edge of the docking cabin and looked directly at the large blue space outside and the huge warship close at hand.

"We have entered slip space, haven't we?" General Whitcomb asked uncertainly.

"Yes," Dr. Halsey replied, "and no."

She took out the crystal from her coat pocket and frowned when she saw that it was no longer slender.Its faces have been rearranged like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, but its appearance is different from the one last shown in the Covenant gravity beam.This time its edges and refracted light form a starburst pattern.

"We jumped," she said, studying her reflection on the mirror-like plane of the man-made object, "but not into slipspace as we know it."

The radiation meters of all the Spartans present clicked, and then a shrill alarm sounded in their helmets.

[The radiation characteristics of that thing are similar to the two crystals you found in Night City, but I don’t know what its use is yet. ] Ellie said to Tommy.

[Let the scientists from MI[-] worry about it. ] Tommy said.

"Take that thing, Lee," the Chief said, nodding toward the glowing crystal. "Take it to the Pelican's reactor room."

Dr. Halsey reluctantly loosened his grip and allowed Lee to take the crystal.He quickly ran towards a destroyed Pelican troop transport.

"The radiation is very strong, doctor," the Master Chief explained. "That thing is the source of the radiation."

Tommy noticed that the radiation intensity did not diminish as Lee placed it into the Pelican.

"Whatever it is," Dr. Halsey said, eyes carefully studying the blue area outside the flagship, "it distorts space. As we approached it in that huge room, the space around the crystal was distorted, and In the gravity beam, it dissipates the gravitational field potential energy there."

(End of this chapter)