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Epilogue: full circle
July 20, 2555
Location: USS Daedalus- 20,000 ft above North America
Blaze and nagase were sitting in a pair of refurbished F22s on the hangar deck of Daedalus. The UNSC had found both planes in an old storage facility, repaired them and re armed them and even painted them to look just like their old planes right down to the Razgriz squadron seal on the tail.
"You ready" blaze said to edge
"Defiantly, let's go home" she replied as she took off from the hangar and blaze followed behind, when they cleared the Daedalus McKay opened the vortex, they had modified the reality jump device to open a tunnel instead of taking the Daedalus because its sudden appearance on Osean radar was bound to cause a UFO panic.
"Blaze and edge you are cleared to proceed" said Caldwell
"Thank you colonel" blaze replied
"Hey blaze when we get home and on solid ground, I want to talk to you about something" said nagase
"Sure thing" blaze replied as their planes entered the vortex, then it closed. The Daedalus returned to orbit and McKay began to change the device back to its original setting.
"Ok we're good to go" said McKay
"Then get on with it" said Inuyasha as he stood with his friends behind Caldwell.
Suddenly there was a flash and the various orbital platforms and ships disappeared from the view port.
"Jump complete" said marks "astronomical projections indicate the date is august first, 1508"
"That sounds about right" said kagome
"I have a lock on the coordinates" said McKay
"Take care" said Teyla
Suddenly Inuyasha and his friends disappeared in the bright light of the transporter
"Let's go home Rodney" said Sheppard
"On it" he replied and in other flash the Daedalus was gone
Inuyasha and his friends beamed in next to the sacred well
"You know if the time line has been changed that means kikyo is still alive, and so is naraku" said kagome
"So it's back to business as usual" said sango
"Yea but first I have to visit home to see if everyone is there" said kagome as she prepared to jump down the well.
"Oh no you don't" said Inuyasha "we still have to handle the business with the jewel".
"Inuyasha sit" she said as she jumped down the well.
After Inuyasha got up he leaped down the well after her.
July 20, 2555
Location: somewhere in cyberspace
SECURED DATA TRANSMISSION BETWEEN
CODNAME: JULIET ALPHA
CODNAME: FOXTROT 84
ENCRYPTION KEY: MIKE ROMEO BRAVO
JA: so how was the funeral?
F84: your typical hero's memorial
JA: I trust his death has not effected you and changed you mind about what needs to be done
F84: I'm still committed
JA: Good, now I should tell you I'm accelerating our plans
F84: How far
JA: Our next target is blue team I trust you'll look over you past friendship with them
F84: I have no problem with that; I'm doing what needs to be done for earth
JA: Good, I had a feeling parangosky chose right when she recruited you
F84: Just tell me what you need me to do
JA: In time, now I'll have gamma run a few ops to shake everyone up a bit then when the time is right we'll tie up our loose ends
F84: Blue team will not go down easily
JA: Oh you are mistaken, with the master chief and Cortana dead blue team will be easy to take care of
F84: I hope you're right
An AI had intercepted the encrypted communication between the subject she was monitoring and a colleague, she realized what this meant and she set out across the networks trying to find this blue team and warn them, she had herd of the chief and Cortana and if they truly were dead then her efforts might be in vein.
July 11, 2555
Location: USS Gettysburg- position unknown
Captain Anderson woke up with commander baker looking at him, she had a gash on her right cheek and her hair was undone from her usual bun.
"He's awake" she said to someone else then the doctor came over and scanned him
"He's got a mild concussion" the hologram said
"Would you mind helping me up" Anderson asked
Baker grabbed on of his arms and pulled him to his feet. Anderson looked around the bridge and saw john helping Cortana up of the deck and various medical personnel tending to wounded crewman.
"We have systems down across the ship" said Collins "it'll be an hour before I can get a full damage report"
"Get on it" Anderson ordered "you all right" he asked john
"I think so" said john
An hour later john, Cortana, Anderson, baker and Cheney were in the observation lounge while Collins gave his report
"Well I analyzed our logs and it looks like you managed to engage the warp drive before you blacked out, but it appears that the shockwave hyper accelerated the ship and also burned out half the warp coils, I can't fix it".
"Can't we call for help" Cortana asked.
"The subspace radio is also damaged beyond repair" said Collins.
"So we're stranded" said baker
"We'll just have to sit tight and wait for rescue" said Anderson
"But we don't know how long that will be" said baker
"Captain I think I have an idea" said john
"We're all ears chief"
It took the better part of two days to get the chief's plan in order but they were finally ready. Cargo bay three had been modified to hold enough stasis pods for the entire crew. Anderson had made an announcement to the crew explaining their plan and the senior staff was the last to go in
"It's a lot smother that your cryo sleep" the doctor explained to john and Cortana who had to strip off all their armor and go in with only their undersuits. "I'll be remaining on-line to monitor your progress, don't worry I've done this before"
John was about to get in his tube when he noticed Cortana just stood next to hers
"Something wrong" he asked
"It's just… what if we're never found and we just stay in stasis" she said.
"Hey" he said as he hugged her 'we made it on the dawn, we'll make it again".
"I hope" she replied; she gave him a quick kiss before getting in her pod. John watched as the glass lid shut and she went to sleep. He and the captain were the last to go but as john got into his pod he looked over at the captain who had a long look on his face.
"Something wrong with you to" he asked
"I was thinking about what you told her and I remembered what captain Sisko told me in the wormhole. He said this wasn't the last time we'd meet".
"You trust this Sisko" john said as he lay down in the pod.
"When it comes to Sisko, I do" Anderson replied as the lid shut over his pod.
John looked over at the doctor as his lid shut and he entered the commands to engage the stasis field. He kept thinking about what Gemini had said before she died, "you have a destiny" he didn't think much further as a wave of drowsiness came over and he drifted of to sleep. The doctor checked the crew's vitals one more time then turned of the displays and went to the door, "sleep well" he said as he left the cargo bay.
Message from the general: I have no intention of ending the series here, there WILL BE A THIRD UNIVERSES COLLIDE but don't expect it for a few months. I'm planning on a fixed release date which I will post on my profile.
If you can't wait I'm planning on a loose sequel to this that follows blaze and nagase when they return to their universe, it's the ace combat story I have listed in my upcoming stories section on my profile. Check it out when I release it