Ghost Prototype IS

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Chapter 5: The Sleepover

Ghost found himself in Tabane's room, the same rabbit themed room he once saw a few days ago. He looked over at the host of the sleepover as she pulled out a sleeping bag, it was red and it seemed to be a summit sleeping bag.

He just had to wonder, how long she kept one for and looked towards a sleepover with someone.

By what he had to go by, it seemed like she lived in isolation on this island for years, hiding from the world. In Tabane's words she called it a Super Duper Ultra Secret Hidden Headquarters...

Yeah, he actually had to agree if no one found it in years then it actually was a 'Super Duper Ultra Secret Hidden Headquarters' as she said it was.

She rolled out the sleeping bag onto the floor then looked at him. "There you go Ghosty, but aren't you sure about sharing the bed? It can fit two people on there" She asked pointing towards the bed.

"No, no" Ghost said waving his hand. "I'm fine with a sleeping bag, plus it's more of a sleepover this way"

"That and you shouldn't share a bed or even suggest that" He added in thought as Tabane nodded only because of a more sleepover atmosphere.

If she found out that it was a lie to not sleep in the same bed as her, then she'll probably use that strength of hers to put him in that bed.

"But you have to sit and lie on the bed when we watch movies and tell each ghost stories" She said before she froze in place.

"Are you okay?" Ghost asked.

"I just realized something" She said looking at Ghost. "Since your name is Ghost, you must have a lot of good and scary ghost stories!"

"...Huh?"

"Please refrain from the super scary ones! I'll tell most of the ghost stories so you don't have to use most of yours!"

"...It's just a name..."

"Oh, hahaha"

"Please don't tell me you forgot..."

Tabane only stuck her tongue out, closed one eye and giggled a little. Ghost only sighed as she froze again.

"I-I'm sorry Ghosty! I must have offended you!"

"No, you didn't offend me, honest"

"Really?" She said looking up at him after she had tackled him once more.

"Yes...now please...let go..."

"Okay~" She said releasing the almost soon to be Ghost. "Now what should we do first~"

"I'm guessing sleep is out of the equation" Ghost mumbled.

"That's right!" Ta-chan answered him. "I guess we should start by showing you pictures of my adorable little sister Houki!"

Ghost founded himself on Ta-chan's bed with her right next to him as she pointed at some pictures in a photo album. "And this is when Houki took her first step. Oh and this one was when he went to a theme park...and this one is when she used to call me Ta-chan!"

"...And what of that one?"

"Oh, that one was when Houki had ice cream for the first time" She said as Ghost saw a photo of a much younger picture of Houki, presumably a toddler or so, eating ice cream and making a mess of it...

Ghost had a look at the book's pages from where he was...it was a big album...

After that experience was over, Tabane was far from done as she pulled out some of DVDs. "Movie Time!"

"What movies are those?" Ghost asked, he was quite interested in them seeing as he came from a dimension that was years ahead of this dimension, and Tabane knew this especially judging from his IS.

"Well this one is a horror movie" She said as she went and put the DVD on.

"How many horror movies do you have?" He asked as she held out a few more. "She must like horror"

Ghost was watching the horror movie without even blinking once, he wasn't affected by it at all. "Or not..." He thought as Tabane hid behind him peeking over his shoulder every few seconds then pulling her head back behind him again.

"If you don't like horror movies we can watch something else" He told her in hope that she will not get afraid or hide behind him.

"R-Really?"

"Really" He nodded. "Your the host, you shouldn't be asking me that..."

"Then we can watch this one~" She said hopping out from behind me, only to then see the screen of the horror movie, which was it the horror part of it before dashing behind him again.

"Why do you even have horror movies if your that afraid of them?" He wondered but shook his head as he thought of the reason why. "Probably for a future sleepover"

Yeah, that was most likely it.

Ghost stood up but was pulled back down by Tabane, seeing as he would get up to change the DVD himself, it would let her see the current mutilation on the movie happening in the process.

"Just close your eyes and I'll change the DVD" He whispered to the hiding Tabane behind him.

"Okay" She whispered back as he stood up and changed the DVD, this time from horror to a comedy.

When he returned he sat next to her. "You don't need to watch horror movies if you don't like them Ta-chan" He said putting a hand on her shoulder. "You also don't need them for a sleepover, just watch what your comfortable with, I don't mind" He gave her a smile.

Tabane smiled back. "Okay Ghosty~"

He shook his head at her antics as they roached the comedy movie that Tabane seemed to enjoy much much more than the horror movie.

Soon after the much better movie, in Tabane's words, they laid on her bed as they began to tell stories or Ghost stories, Ghost had to tone down his stories seeing that she hated the horror movies.

"C'mon Ghosty, tell me a ghost story" She pleaded as Ghost smirked.

"Alright~" His smirked grew.

"Yay!" The genius inventor cheered as Ghost started telling his story.

"Way back when some time ago, I was just a private" He told her confusing Ms Shinonono. "I then met this woman, her name was Catherine, Catherine Halsey. I was pretty young at the time, like teens or so, I can't really remember due to all the fighting but..."

"Ghosty, this isn't a ghost story" She said as she realized that he was talking about himself.

"But it is a GHOST story" Ghost smirked at her before he laughed at seeing her reaction.

"Ghosty, you tricked me!" She exclaimed as he laughed again at her shock. "That was very clever Ghosty~"

"Yeah"

"Hey Ghosty, do you mind if you tell me stories about your space adventures?" She asked him with those puppy dog eyes, or in this case bunny rabbit eyes.

"I wouldn't call them space adventures, but I'll guess I can tell you a bit"

Ghost swore she scooted closer on the bed towards him and started to tell the story as they both looked towards the ceiling, which had some stars on it.

"Where to begin..." He said. "I'll guess I'll tell you about this one mission I went on"

"It was from a time where I wasn't called Ghost, and before you ask no, even back then I still can't recall my real name" He added quickly as Tabane pouted. "The mission was to take out a...high ranking member of the enemy" He told her as he thought about telling her about the Covenant.

"Were you alone?"

"No, I was with two other people"

"Who were they?"

"Daisy and Cal" Ghost informed the scientist. "And before you say anything, Cal is not a guy, she's a woman"

Tabane sent him a sheepish look. "Anyways, they went by Daisy-023 and Cal-141 and we were on a mission, just the three of us"

FLASHBACK

Ghost was walking through a large forest and over some vines wearing the UNSC Marine Uniform carrying a MA5C Assault Rifle and he was not alone.

Behind him were two armoured individuals. One was wearing a red Mark IV MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour with a red Mark IV CQB Variant Helmet while the other armoured individual was wearing a green Mark IV MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armour as well but this armoured figure was wearing the Mark IV MJOLNIR Helmet instead.

The red one was Daisy-023 and the green one was Cal-141, they were both Spartans.

"We're getting close, we should get ready, they'll be coming through shortly" Ghost told the two.

Daisy-023 was also carrying a MA5C Assault Rifle while Cal-141 was carrying a Sniper Rifle System 99 Anti-Materiel. They both took off their helmets for a while.

Daisy had short blonde hair and blue eyes while Cal had long white hair and pale amber eyes, both were beauties. They shared a look with one another and looked back at the marine.

He was different.

Unlike most marines and ODSTs, he didn't show any resentment or call them freaks or anything of the sort.

It was refreshing...

He only focused on the mission, following orders to a tee, he was very serious and usually stayed deadly silent unless he needed to talk.

...And very familiar.

"What's your number?" Daisy asked the marine who just turned to them.

"What are you talking about?"

"I'm Cal-141" Cal said as she pointed at Daisy. "And that's Daisy-023"

"...And?" Ghost asked making sure his gun was loaded and functioning properly. He didn't know why they were asking him about a number.

"What's your name?" The blonde asked.

"...You can call me Ghost" He told both of them. "No number what so ever"

Daisy and Cal shared another look between each other as Ghost laid down on the grass looking down from their vantage point.

"Do you think he could be like us?" Daisy asked her fellow Spartan.

Cal however shrugged. "He acts like us but that doesn't mean he is one" She replied as she but her helmet back on.

"I guess you could be right" Daisy put her helmet back on as well. "But I'm just saying that it's possible"

"He isn't a Spartan, we would have met him years ago" Cal responded. "If he IS a Spartan-II then were is his armour?"

Daisy stayed silent. "...What if...he isn't a Spartan-II?"

Cal turned her head back towards her fellow Spartan. "What?"

"Think about it, we are Spartan-II's yet there are no Spartan-I's" The red Spartan brought up. "Well I assume there are Spartan-I's out their but I haven't seen a armoured Spartan-I"

"So your saying that Spartan-I's don't wear the same power armour as us?" Cal asked getting a nod from Daisy.

"When I tried to break out a few years ago, I found out that Spartan-I project was called the ORION Project and not Spartan-I" She told the green Spartan. "Instead of children, they used adults, no MJOLNIR armour, no increased height, no augmentations"

"...So basically Spartan-I's didn't get any armour, got to live freely and be with their families?" Cal asked but didn't feel any jealousy or anger towards the Spartan-I's though. "Anything else?"

"Yeah, the thing was...it was all volunteers" She said. "They were still super soldiers through chemicals but nothing like our stuff"

Cal sighed as she cast a glance towards Ghost, who was waiting for the enemy. "So he could be a Spartan-I?"

Daisy nodded. "It felt all to familiar, like he IS a Spartan like us" She said also looking at the marine. "However it's just like you said, he might not actually be a Spartan or a Spartan-I"

"Cal, Daisy" Ghost called out their names lowly. "Get in position, their coming"

Both of the Spartan-II's dropped down next to Ghost on either side. Ghost and Daisy had their assault rifles ready as Cal held her sniper rifle ready to take the shot.

"Do you see them?" Ghost asked.

"Affirmative" Cal responded. "I see the target"

The target in question was an Elite wearing more fancy suit of armour. The Elite was not alone as it was accompanied by Grunts and Jackals and a few other Elites as well.

"You got a shot?" Daisy asked.

"Not yet" Cal replied.

"Fire when you get the shot"

"Got it" Cal fired her rifle as the high ranking Elite fell to the ground dead causing the Grunts and Jackals to panic and the Elites enraged.

Cal ducked as she dodged a Jackal's shot. "They spotted us!"

The enemy fired towards the position as Ghost threw a frag grenade as Daisy fired at the approaching enemy, the Grunts fell down easily.

It was why they were called Grunts after all.

Cal took another shot as she started to take out the Jackals trying to snipe them. Both Ghost and Daisy took care of the Grunts leaving only the hidden Elites and the Jackals who were getting sniped by Cal.

Suddenly the Elites charged at them with energy swords. "Focus fire on the Elites" Ghost commanded as both Ghost and Daisy fired at the Elites damaging their shields when a bullet went through one of the Elite's skull.

Cal sniped another Elite that was running towards them as Daisy and Ghost took an Elite down. "Reloading" Daisy reloaded as Ghost fired at another Elite while Cal took down the last Jackal who tried running away instead.

The last surviving member of the Covenant group said something in his native tongue before Cal sniped him in the head, stopping him from finishing.

"...I'll call that a mission success" Daisy said as Ghost nodded.

"Then let's go" Ghost said as he started to leave.

"Very Spartan-like" Cal said as Daisy nodded.

However they both shared a look behind their helmets. He was similar to them and didn't care if they were Spartans, to him they were simply soldiers. He didn't treat them any differently and he might be treated differently himself.

Both Cal and Daisy knew one thing, while the mission was a short yet important one, they enjoyed his spartan-like company. Even if they will never met or join him on a mission again, they would never forgot the one who was called Ghost.

FLASHBACK END

"And that's the mission..." He finished as they lied on Tabane's very comfortable bed.

He had twisted the story from Covenant forces to regular everyday humans in his world. He had no idea if he should tell her about an alien race that may or may not exist in her dimension, which it probably wasn't...hopefully, and who knows what would happen seeing as she reacted negatively towards the horror movies...especially when one of them was an alien one...

It was best not to mention it right now...

"..." Tabane was oddly silent, it kind of...worried him a little bit.

"Ta-chan?"

"They weren't human were they?" She looked him in the eyes.

"...They were humans..." He told her, refusing to look into those eyes. He'd probably spill everything to her if he did.

Tabane pouted as he refused to look at her, but she had a sad yet understanding and determined look all in one. "I know your hiding the truth from me Ghosty" She thought to herself, she knew it was humans they were fighting but if Ghost was ready to tell her about it, then she can wait. "I know they weren't human but I'll wait for you to tell me yourself on what they really were, that's a promise!"

"I believe you Ghosty~" She smiled at him.

"You know, I hardly believe that"

"Ghosty!"

"Come on now, it's time for bed" He told her as he got off the bed.

"But...But...We haven't finished my sleepover list"

"It's already past midnight" The newly appointed bodyguard told her. "We can finish the list at a later date"

Tabane pouted until Ghost told her that they could finish it some time in the future. "I'll hold you to that promise Ghosty~"

"Oh, I know you will"

"Nighty night Ghosty~"

"...Night" Ghost said from his sleeping bag.

Ghost went on a mission with both Daisy-023 and Cal-141 from Halo Legends: Homecoming and Halo Legends: The Babysitter. Then there is the timeline, I don't really now when each story takes place. However I'm going off these settings.

Prototype - 2548-2552

Homecoming - 2531

The Babysitter - 2540-2551

I could only find this for a timeline (So correct me if I'm wrong here). It could be completely incorrect and when I mean going off I mean loosely going off them due to character ages and that stuff.

The flashback happens before the three stories, then it goes Homecoming, Babysitter and then Prototype. Making Ghost the last survivor of the trio. Also if Ghost heard the conversations between Daisy and Cal is a mystery...

Don't take the timeline (of the three shorts) too seriously, chances are I'm going to either or both ignore and forget about it.