"Listen to yourself!...stand down, Cortana, please." Master Chief pleaded to the blue girl who was in front of him, Cortana.

Master Chief continued, "come home with us, Cortana...it is not too late...to stop this..." Master Chief said, hurt, sorrow and sadness followed in his voice.

"Stop...No, John..." she cracked when she said his name, she looked up at his big orange visors.

She continued on with her sentence, "...J-john...this is too important to stop..." she finished, sadness filled in her last word.

The blue team and Master Chief heard a noise, they looked around alarmed to see the noise which came from the materials that were floating moved and it began to come together.

Both the blue team and Master Chief felt something in their chest or stomach, then, they started to float.

It felt hard to breath when it happened, "Cortana...what are you-..."

They stopped floating, all of them immediately froze, contained into something.

"...I just needed to know if I could still trust you...you will be safe here until I have completed my work..." she felt her eyes heavy and it started to water a little, which Chief saw faintly.

She turned around to leave them, but felt something behind her.

John, struggling to move used his force to move his left hand up to her back, "Cortana...please..." , it was far but Cortana could feel it.

She started to tear up from behind, she wanted to take it but couldn't because she was doing it for the sake of humanity...for John...her John...

She instantly stopped tearing but felt hurt inside as she left without looking back. She had regretted it but knew it was the right thing to do for him.

Somewhere else near the place...

"The place is right here, this is where Cortana took your teammates." Said the

Exuberant.

Locke and his team armed their guns, "are you sure?"

"Yes sir, my signals are picking up from where they are, and it is here." Said the exuberant.

"Well...any last few or words if this goes downhill? Anyone?" Said Vale.

They looked at one of another.

"Spartans never die, they come back...always do." Said Buck And Tanaka.

Vale and Locke stared at them.

"Just...get down in business sir." Said Tanaka.

"Got it."

"They have been trapped in the Cryptum." Said the Exuberant.

"Got it, Activating the override.. Get ready Osiris." Said Locke.

"Okay, good! Then we will be able to make it to the cryptum!" Said the exuberant.

"I really hope we will make it..." Said buck.

"Don't try to make it worse buck." Said Vale.

"Sorry, ma'am." Said buck.

A bridge was created when they walked towards the big ball or cryptum.

A massive sound was heard when they arrived near the cryptum.

"Oh no...it is the guardian!" Said Tanaka.

The exuberant followed, ""Oh gosh...the cryptum...it's-" the monitor got cut off.

The guardian transformed around the ball.

"John...is coming with me." Said Cortana.

"and when I wake him up in 10000 years, he will see the permanent peace I have created...and he will see I was correct.." Said Cortana.

"And you...Locke...you will be forgotten in 10000 years." Said Cortana.

The team watched helplessly as the blue team and Master Chief was engulfed by the slipspace...never to be seen again.

"NOO!"