long night of solace and exodus

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Third POV.

We see a leg of the Scarab walked past the cave were we see six, Jorge, Jun and Avery entered while Jorge is carrying a military briefcase and tossed it towards the ground right in front of Emile.

Auntie Dot: our foe is more devious than we imagined that spire was indeed a teleporter to a cloaked Covenant super-carrier a grave threat thankfully help is imminent sixty percent of the UNSC fleet is en route to Reach from existing developments the first battle groups should arrive within forty-eight hours

Jun: forty-eight hours? *takes off helmet* that's imminent? *wipes off lit ashes from Jorge shoulder pad* uh-oh who's your money on this time?

Jorge: her *takes off helmet*

Jun: you always pick her

Jorge: she's always had him dialed in

Everyone looked at Carter and Kat who are talking to each other.

Kat: that things crushing us and we're waiting for back up? They'll be backing up a graveyard

Carter: all our nukes are either out-system or went down with the ships that carried them you're preaching to the converted

Kat: how converted?

Carter: I know that look Kat

Kat: you can say no

Carter: no

Kat: you don't even want to hear it?

Carter: fine I'll hear it

Kat: remember that accident a couple years back? colony ship en route to Cygnus seven hundred dead?

Carter: vaguely a slipspace drive malfunction right?

Kat: actually it worked fine the drive was mounted improperly after a service haul-out when it fired it teleported half the ship to oblivion

Carter: and this is relevant.... how?

Kat: a certain Covenant super-carrier could with some assistance suffer the same unfortunate accident

Carter: even for you Kat that's-

Kat: inspired?

Carter: not the word I would use

Jorge: what's going on?

Carter: go ahead explain

Kat was about to grab Emile kukri but he stopped her.

Kat: may I?

Emile: don't cut yourself

Kat takes his kukri and began drawing a plan.

Kat: objective destroy Covenant carrier in geosynchronous orbit above us

Jorge: this sanctioned sir?

Carter: what do you think?

Jorge: oh

Kat: method? a slipspace drive in lieu of nukes we don't have delivery system? us solvable? getting us up there that and getting our hands on a slipspace drive

Then Kat hands back the kukri to Emile which he sheath it.

Kat: thank you for sharing

Carter: so all we need is a orbital-capable transport and the single most expensive piece of equipment made by man?

Kat: as a soldier in the field I couldn't possibly have access to those kinds of resources that said a good place to look might be... I don't know the nearest nonexistent launch site in the nonexistent Saber program dismissed by three administrators as preposterous rumor and in which our newest member was certainly never a pilot

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