Emerald Spartan

JailBreak

Will and Pearl made the long walk back to the Pelican in somewhat comfortable silence. They had both gotten some emotional baggage off their chests. But Will was a little concerned about Quasar. His AI companion had been silent since the launch of the Indianapolis. He simply figured that he would tell him when he felt like it.

His heavy feet sunk partially in the red planets soil compared to the barely noticeable imprint of Pearl's feet.

'I sometimes wish I was back in the UNSC. We may have been treated like living weapons, but at least things were simple. I'm not used to all these emotions from everyone.' he thought to himself.

Will walked up the cargo bay ramp with a surprisingly soft sound from a half ton Spartan. He saw Pearl was still on his motion tracker behind him so he continued toward the cockpit. He made his way calmly through the troop bay and the armory to the small set of steps.

He quickly made his way up and sat in the large pilots chair. While the thin gem next to him took the co pilots seat. He could then feel the neural implant connect to the Pelicans systems. He fired the reactor back up and the engines ignited a few moments later. They grew in both noise and power before they gently lifted off. He increased the power of the engines further and they shot up into the atmosphere.

Pearl was fascinated by UNSC vehicles. She was so used to archaic human and gem ones for so long. While many things from the UNSC would be considered crude to gem standards. Such as the nuclear fusion drives and Kinetic weapons.

But many things were just as advanced or even more than gem designs. Such as neural interfaces, artificial gravity, speed and pure strength.

She fully admitted that Homeworld ships, while long lasting. Otherwise their wouldn't be anything left, being in Earth's elements for millennia. We're somewhat fragile. They were so used to only fighting other gems that only used missiles, lasers and plasma. Which is why their hulls were incredibly resistant to energy and heat.

But UNSC ships were built to a much tougher degree. Thick armor plating, advanced superstructures built to take massive damage, and their integrity to kinetic energy.

While they are definitely lacking in energy resistance from what she could tell. They were analyzing Homeworld ships to make an even more durable metal.

It was both a curious and horrifying thought. The humans they had been protecting for so long were relatively passive. Only being few major conflicts in their history.

But from Will's humanity, they were both brutal and smart. They nearly destroyed themselves countless times. But they only advanced their technology faster as a result of conflict. Their sheer capability to bring about destruction was insane. And to think the Covenant were much more dangerous was downright horrifying.

It only would take the humans and Covenant days to do what Homeworld took centuries to do.

That is what she thought about in the darkest corners of her mind. The possibility of the Covenant finding them. Or the infinitely small chance that the main UNSC turned against them. They could destroy earth with just one bomb if they absolutely wanted to. That is something that she kept to herself and Garnet. The two not wanting Amythest, Lapis and especially Steven to know. She only hoped that he would remain out of the conflict for as long as possible.
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Will and Pearl had stepped out of the Pelican to a surprisingly quiet hangar. The only people they saw being a few gaurds and mechanics as well as a human robonoid.

It wasn't to surprising given the fact that it would be about nighttime where they were. They had been gone for almost half a day by now.

Pearl followed him out of the Pelican and they walked to the main elevator. The transparent Aluminum doors opened to let the 2 inside. Will pushed a button on the pad to bring them to the space elevator. They sat again in silence as the elevator moved quickly but smoothly to their destination.