MIA: Blood Gulch Chronicles

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄

Four months prior to the events of Blood Gulch.

Fade in to the ruins of a Paris-Class heavy frigate reading Mother of Invention.

The camera then passes through the wall and to the Mess Hall where we see tables strewn across the room in a unkempt matter with evident damage visible across the walls and on a few tables.

In between one of the tables is a figure wearing white and teal armour, New Jersey, with a jade visor. The figure lays upon another figure wearing a dark crimson armour which has lighter red accents and a heavily damaged red visor, Puerto Rico.

The white armoured figure twitches her arm slightly before groaning in pain.

New Jersey: Argh, fuck. I feel like I've been ran over by a train.

She pushes herself up before wincing in pain. She then notices a pool of blood peaking out from just infront of her.

New Jersey: Last I checked... (notices Puerto Rico unmoving beneath her.) Oh shit!

She moves back a few steps before a sharp pain jolts up her leg, causing her to lose balance and trip.

New Jersey: Fuck! Phi, run diagnostics.

Phi: You have only bruised a bone, we have the opportunity to permanently borrow some equipment, stop sulking.

New Jersey: Is that all you care about?! Rico is dead and it wasn't even by my hands!

Phi: Doesn't matter, it'll benefit us. Besides, Puerto Rico clearly sacrificed himself for you, so just go and do it.

New Jersey: Why did he do that anyways? Ehh.. atleast I'm alive.

She looks around for the exit of the mess hall so that she can head to the ship Cargo Bay.

Eventually, she finds the exit and begins running towards the Cargo Bay. She notices a large amount of personnel on the ground unmoving as she runs across the room.

New Jersey: Well damn, York really did a lot of damage to this place, huh.

Phi: I do believe he cut out the generator... so yes. Anyways can you just get to the cargo bay already, you're so slow.

New Jersey: Phi. If you don't stop complaing I'll go to the Hangar Bay instead and get out of here.

Phi: But I just wanna-

New Jersey: (interrupting her AI) Phi, go to sleep, you're giving me a headache.

Phi: Okay...

With Phi now offline, Jersey could focus on reaching the Cargo Bay, allowing her to get there faster without the continuous nagging of her AI fragment interrupting her every few minutes.

It took her 5 minutes to reach the Cargo Bay from the area of the ship she had been in, where she started to scavenge and see if there were any enhancements she could take with her before going AWOL once more.

New Jersey: (muttering to herself) Optimally, I'd want to get a Healing Unit to nullify the pain in my leg and maybe retrieve either an Active Camoflague module or an Adaptive Camoflague module...

Phi: (booting himself online) Or... you could take all three, I mean it's not like anyone is going to use it. Nor will they need it.

New Jersey: You pose a good point... also who said you could come back online, because I sure as hell didn't.

Phi: I took it upon my own volition because you clearly needed help.

New Jersey: ...

Phi: ...

Phi: Okay I did it to fuel my own desire to get more enhancements, okay!?

New Jersey just nods in recognition before returning to scavenging through all the supplies of the Mother of Invention.

She retrieves the pair of Camoflague modules quite quickly, specifically after 'searching' through 7 boxes.

New Jersey then has Phi scan some boxes, to which he almost instantly finds the Healing Unit that she wanted.

New Jersey: Alright, now we need to get out of here. Phi, direct me straight to the Hangar Bay, I'll follow it...

Fade to black.

New Jersey: (offscreen) By the way... if I'm to go on the run, I'll need a new name. What do you think of Ute Wolfsen?

Phi: Good idea, that why you can reenlist in the UNSC and earn some easy money.

New Jersey: Whatever floats your boat.