Paint it Black Pr1

This damn heat

"Can it get any hotter?" Wash asked, Carolina had to suppress a sigh "it's only 90 out" she replied, but she couldn't really blame him she was a cold weather person herself. "Church can you scan for any nearby structures or towns?" The spartan ask his bain companion.

"Yea gimme a sec" as the two sat down under a dead tree for any relief from the sun, there was a peaceful silence "so how did you end up at a UNSC base in the middle of nowhere anyways?" Wash suddenly asked, she looked up at him unsure of herself. "When mai- the meta" she corrected herself " when he threw me off the cliffside I shot my grappler into the ice to catch myself...I almost cracked my head open because when I woke up a had a killer headache " she said.

"I wondered around for a while unsure of what to do" she paused a moment " so I went back to the mother of intervention and looked for anybody...but I didn't find a soul there"

She remembered the cold biting into open wounds making her teeth chatter, she looked for north and south, she looked for York, Wyoming, and Florida. She looked for wash but all she found was an abandoned ship in the middle of the icy planet.

"My armor was far to damaged to be useful anymore so I gathered my civilian clothes and new armor just in case and flew off in a pelican " she explained.

She flew a while until she reached a city, she could see it was in the process in reterraforming. The damaged sign said in large bold letters, Welcome to New Alexandria the sign itself gave her the feeling that she was sucker punched in the stomach, she remembered what wash told her after Epsilon was implanted.

"I remember everything I remember I fought on reach."

New Alexandria was a city on reach, she was on reach, the planet itself was recovering but the signs of war was still etched into features of the landscape. Blast craters and dead floral life had yet to renew itself, as she landed, she saw UNSC scientists work.

One of them seemed to notice her, "excuse me miss?" He said kindly, he had dark hair and seeley blue eyes with a well kept beard "yes?" She replied slightly dazed her headache growing worse, "do you need help?" He asked noticing her sluggishness and her glazed eyes.

Without her reply he moved her to a tiny medical clinic.

"Apparently I had a concussion and several cracked ribs" she lightly said, "I told them what I remembered and when I was well enough I relisted into the UNSC and that was the place where I hid." She said, well attest wash knew the long story now.

"So what about you? How did you become a spartan?" She asked, wash knew this was a question asked about by most others who were curious about why the spartan III's were enlisted into the program, and wash knew that yes his story is sad but his would pale incomperason to the other spartan III's any that are left anyway.

" well it isn't pretty."

"Yo I got something " church suddenly said, both now more interested in what the A.I found then the story. "What do you have?" Wash asked, church pulled up a holographic map of the whole terrain.

Suprisingly close by was a red cycle with an old structure in it, "that my friends was an old alien temple" he explained, "and you'll be very happy to know that is where I'm getting CT's signal" he said, wash and Carolina couldn't help but sigh in relief at the thought that they would be in some proper shade.

" good let's move" as they got up, they made quick work of the temple. "Church anything on what happened here?" Wash asked, "hmmmm well to simply put it, it was abandoned because it wasn't seen as holy land anymore" church said.

"Why is that?" Carolina asked, "because of the covenant" that made a bit more sense, "right well let's find the source" wash commented, as him and Carolina walked in separate directions in locating it.

"Church can pin point where it's at?" The spartan somehow managed to forget that he had an A.I "nope " the very A.I declined, wash was definitely blaming the desert heat for this.

"HEY I FOUND IT!!!" Carolina suddenly yelled, wash made a quick jog to her location, he saw the chocolate shaded helmet laying in the sand. "How did it get out here?" He asked aloud but more to himself, Carolina only shrugged.

"Who knows" she said, "but I found this" she handed him a small data pad, it was rectangular in shape, it had a teal color, with a metal frame wrapped around it. It had three bent lines in the center that would have formed a triangle if the ends were pointed instead of flat.

"Church can you get anything on it?" Wash asked, the artificial intelligence pondered as he moved though the files. "Nothing on locations it's mostly on alien artifacts " he said, as he pulled up an image of a spherical like machine with a lens in the center.

For some reason church lingered on it "what is it?" Carolina asked, "I think I know where to go " he said, with a jerk of suprise "you know where he's at" wash exclaimed, the A.I shook his head "no but I think accessing that" as he points to the image "will help Epsilon with anymore memories on more locations of where to look.

"Where is it?" She asked, "here" the next point of destination was unfortunately a long ways way, *groans* "hey no complaining" he said, "says the guy who crashed our pelican " both wash and Carolina said in unison.

The A.I said nothing.

Annnnnnnd new chapter yay!!! ANNNNNNND now I am finally done moving yaaaaayyyyy!!!!!!!