Though we killed the jackal, and recovered the data chip, the mission was a failure. We never destroyed the power core, and we had to evacuate.
During the debriefing the captain told us that we would have about a month of free time, while The Hope tracked the Covenant supercarrier.
At lunch I noticed Quickeye sitting alone at a table I went over there and sat down.
"What's up?" I asked her.
"Nothing." she responded.
"Oh come on. Don't be like that. What's up, for real?"
" Their kicking me out. In fact, their disbanding the entire squad." She said simply.
"Your just fucking with me." I said. "There's no way in Hell their disbanding us."
"Actually they are." Said Hunter, walking up out of no where.
"JESUS CHRIST!" I Yelled. "You seriously need to stop sneaking up on us!"
"Sorry." He replied, grinning. "It's a habit."
"A bad one I said."
Quickeye laughed
"But seriously," I said, bringing the conversation back on topic." What's this about disbanding the squad?" I asked.
"Well, apparently, ONI thinks the performance on our last mission was 'unsatisfactory'." Said Hunter.
"Speaking of squads," I said, "Where is Nova?"
Quickeye let out a quick sob. Hunter stiffened up.
"They killed him." Said Hunter simply.
"WHAT?!" I yelled. "WHY?!"
"Well," Said Hunter, " apparently when they told him they were disbanding the squad, He went completely berserk."
"So they killed him." Said Quickeye, still with a note of disbelief.
"You know what this means?" I said, angrily.
"What?" Said Hunter and Quickeye, In unison.
"We have to go rouge." I answered quietly.
Oh no Novas dead! Oh well.
