You Did it, Just Like you Always Do
Chief and Cortana's final confrontation......
"Cortana?" Chief got up from his kneeling stance and asked again, "Cortana do you read?" he asked again with worry in his voice, "Cortana, come in!" There had been a slight shimmering noise when Chief finished his pleas. He turned around to see what was watching him, but was surprised to find a human sized Cortana walking towards him. "How......" Chief was confused at the AI's new configuration.
"Oh, i'm the strangest thing you've seen all day?" Cortana had replied sarcastically.
"But if were here-" Chief was stopped.
"It worked...you did it, just like you always do." Cortana's tone had obviously shown sadness but Chief ignored it while looking around the 'room' they were currently in.
"So how do we get out of here?" Chief questioned.
"I'm not coming with you this time."
"What!?" Chief was surprised at her behavior.
"Most of me is down there," Cortana looked down at the remains of the Didact's ship, "I only held enough back to get you off the ship."
"No! That's not...We go together!" Chief interrupted, now showing fear in his stone cold voice.
"It's already done."
There was a short pause before Chief had broken the seal again, "I am NOT leaving you here...."
"John...." Cortana now started walking towards Chief and lifted a hand to touch his chest piece, "I've waited so long to do that." Cortana now sounded of terror.
"It was my job to take care of you." Chief was desperately trying to sway Cortana.
"We were supposed to take care of each other." Cortana reiterated, "And we did."
"Cortana please..." Chief now knew he was wasting his time but kept trying, "Wait!"
"Welcome home John." with her last words Cortana dissipated and left John staring into nothingness.
John was now truly alone. No one to call friends, no one to call family, and no one to call Cortana. Alone was all John could keep thinking of, while blissfully being okay with floating through space. He was sure help would come soon, but nothing is ever certain. Unaware that behind him was a lushous planet, John was, for all intents and purposes, paralyzed with guilt and sadness that had washed over him. Ignorance, however, was not bliss on this fine day for John had met head on with some scrap pieces of the Didact's ship. This obviously worked to get him out of his trance for he now turned around and saw the planet that was now 'pulling' him towards itself. John was not nearly close enough to the planet to even drop to the surface, and the heat from re-entree would kill him, so he pushed all thoughts of the planet out of his head. Little did he know his luck was going to change for the better, for after a short pause John had spotted a Pelican dropship, obviously left behind by Infinity or perhaps the driver got shot out of it. Of course it was the latter because there were bullet holes peppered across the windshield of the aircraft. The Pelican had enough juice to get to the planet however and the ship was capable of re-entree, so that solved two problems. The last problem was not knowing if the planet was hostile or friendly.
'Gotta learn the hard way for now.' John thought. He accelerated the Pelican's boost and the ship took off. The planet was coming increasingly close by the second, and within a few minutes John had reached the outer layer of the atmosphere. The gun ship was easing its way through the layers as if there were no resistance. The last barrier had been broken and the ship had created a sonic-boom that could be heard from miles off into the distance. Not a good way to be discreet, but he was left with no choice. John could see everything from the altitude he was at. He saw forests, villages, a desert, and a giant castle. 'Not exactly modern, but whatever' John was perplexed at the design of the cities, they were old and...colorful. Nothing the combat Pelican couldn't handle though. John had spotted a clearing in the middle of a dense forest that was severely in need of a population, or civilization. 'Beggars can't be choosers' Chief thought as he was landing the Pelican. The Pelican probably stirred up some commotion in the nearby town that was close to the forest so Chief decided to wait the night out in the Pelican's soldier bay. With a press of the button, the Pelican had locked down and Chief was remembering that he was alone.
......
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
Thank you for receiving this on such short notice faithful student, but alas I wish it were on better terms. I presume you saw the object in the sky and were going to gather your friends to go search it. Do Not go until I get to your house tomorrow morning. Would like to see it for myself. Farewell my faithful student.
Princess Celestia
"Well that object sure was odd, but I had no idea the Princess would get involved." Twilight was pacing back and forth, pondering the idea of what the flying object could be.
"I don't know Twilight, looked pretty dangerous to me." Spike was worried for Twilight, for he knew what curiosity had done to her before.
"Oh come now Spike, it looked like a rock. You aren't afraid of rocks now are you?" Twilight teased.
"No, and it did sort of look like a rock." Spike was walking up the stairs of the tree house when he stopped to say: "Good night Twi."
"Night Spike." Twilight watched her friend head up the stairs and shut the door. When she was sure Spike was asleep, Twilight took the liberty to gather her friends to discuss what could have fallen from the sky. She got up and went out the door in search of her friends. First she went to Carousal Boutique, Rarity's home. She knocked on the door to find that Rarity was going to lay down and read a book on old Canterlot fashion, but Rarity agreed to gather at Twilight's home. Next stop was Fluttershy's cottage where not only Fluttershy was, but the tomboyish Rainbow Dash as well. They both agreed to gather as well. Rainbow had also mentioned that she saw the object as well while on her way to the cottage. The next destination was Sweet Apple Acres, where their friend Applejack called home. Applejack was finishing up the last apple bucking of the day when her friends came by. She graciously accepted their offer and tagged along with them. Last stop was Sugar Cube Corner, the bakery and home of Pinkie Pie. She was ecstatic at the thought of being with her friends so Pinkie agreed with full joy. When they came back to the tree house, they found a not so happy Spike awake.
"Oh Celestia, not an all girls slumber party." Spike grumbled "Well anyways, here's another letter from Celestia Twilight." Spike handed Twilight the letter and headed off to bed again, angrily slamming the door behind him.
"Spikey-Wikey must be tired." Rarity inquired.
"All right, so now that were all here, what'd you wanna tell us Twi?" Applejack asked.
"All right, well this will sound strange but, before I went to gather you all a large object had landed in or around the Everfree Forest." Twilight was rudely interrupted by Rainbow Dash.
"It was in the Everfree Forest." Dash cut in.
"Thank you Dash!" Twilight scolded, "Now where was I, oh yes, this object looked peculiar in size and shape. Just as I was about to come and get you guys, Celestia sent me a letter saying to wait till morning when she got here. So, I gathered you guys here to discuss the plan and spend the night, to make things quicker in the morning." Twilight finished.
"I'm down for that!" Dash blurted out.
"I guess I will go." Fluttershy sheepishly agreed.
"Ah'll go to Sugar Cube." Applejack was in too.
"Yeah that sounds like fun!" Pinkie screamed.
"Shut up!" Spike yelled through the floor to try to get everyone to calm down.
"I'm in as well darling." Rarity humbly accepted.
"Well then it's settled, we all go with the Princess tomorrow." Twilight announced.
While everypony was ready to go to sleep, there was still: "One more thing girls. The letter from Celestia Spike gave us when we got back." Twilight never let a letter go unread.
"Dear Twilight Sparkle,
Tomorrow morning when I arrive, I would like to let you know that Princess Luna and Princess Cadence will join us along with your brother Shining Armor. Just thought I would let you know.
Princess Celestia"
"Well that's good to know." Twilight examined the letter again to make sure she didn't miss anything. "Well goodnight everypony."
"Good night." they all whispered in unison.
......
The next day proved difficult for John. He found it hard to deal with loss of someone he cared deeply for. The only other times it happened was when Sam had died upon a Covenant Cruiser, and when Kurt was presumably dead (which he wasn't). Sleep had eluded him the night he touched down on the planet, but he took the time to take inventory of what the Pelican had in stock. Surprisingly, it harbored a dozen storm rifles, and twenty plasma pistols, four assault rifles, four battle rifles, four DMRs, and a SAW machine gun, all of which had ample ammo. Good in case he got in a firefight. However something was missing. He already knew what it was...Cortana. While looking for food throughout the morning, John came across a river with fish, easy food and water access for him now that he needed it, but little did he know a search party was coming for him.
......
"All right everypony are you ready to go?" Celestia asked in her regal tone.
"Yes." everypony replied.
"Let's begin the great journey that lies ahead of us then shall we." Celestia added.
The journey was not long though for the night before, Rainbow Dash had seen the landing of the object, and knew where it was. It took a little over an hour before the group made any substantial progress however, due to the forest's dense underbrush. When they were eyesight of the Pelican ship, they all dawned confused expressions, nopony knowing what the object was. What confused them more is that there was now a sage green creature walking outside of the object, now doing some workout routines. Still perplexed the group moved closer, quite sure that they were not noticed by the creature.
"Let's surround it, make sure it can't escape." Shining Armor was determined to know what an alien creature was doing in the land he was sworn to protect. Everypony had done as told and made it nearly impossible for the creature to escape... or so they think.
......
John was aware he was being watched, something he learned from basic training. And his radar had shown ten red dots surrounding him. He however kept doing his exercises to confuse the enemy targets that surrounded him. He was unsure what the unknown enemies were, but he did know that they were most likely not friendly... or so he thinks.
......
Celestia had made her move towards the creature that was on the ground before her. However she had crumpled some leaves with her hooves which she thought ruined her plans, but the creature just kept going. "Hello."
......
John heard the gesture and was not shocked to hear English, but shocked to see an Alicorn, something he only thought was a myth. He stood his ground and said nothing. Just staring at the equine. He could tell she was uncomfortable.
"Do you have a name?" the Alicorn had spoken up again.
John still remained cold and silent and resumed to his exercises, thinking he had gone insane. The Alicorn had made another step towards him, to which John replied with his magnum instantly being pulled up from his side holster. This made the Alicorn unnerved and she backed off. Chief put the magnum back but kept watching the equine, still remembering the nine enemies that surrounded him, which Chief put off as more of the Alicorns. However the current one standing in frond of him had looked all around the DZ and slightly nodded her head. Again Chief pulled out his magnum aiming at the closest red dot on his radar...
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Another HALO fic, another fireball in the sky.
I've made the necessary arrangements for Cortana's funeral (Yes, I'm holding a funeral for an AI, you got a problem?)...
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Also, Chief, good luck soldier.
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The story itself looks good, but you need to fix up the description. There's a lot of grammatical errors in it that could easily be rectified. All in all, I look forward to what's coming
Well as they have no IFFs they would show as hostiles. He just lost his best friend. His actions are explainable here.
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This deserves to be here:
Chief, I'm sorry about Cortana... You deserve to be happy after all you went through.
Please, do continue. This is going very nicely.
moar please.....
I love to see Sierra 117 happy....
But Cortana was wwaayyy too much of a b*#$h to feel bad for.
I'm sorry.
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Cortana couldn't help it in Halo 3 because Gravemind was manipulating her and forcing information out of her. Halo 4, she was going into rampancy which is an AI. 'sickness' if you will. Rampancy is uncontrollable but if they were to get to Halsey, possibly could have ended differently.
But, they didn't and she died because of it.
and I've never heard of an AI being 'cleaned' of rampancy, like she said in Halo 4, they literally think themselves to death.
And unless you replaced the AI and gave them the same avatar, it wouldn't be the same.
Not in any Halo book I've read nor in any game was an AI ever gone through rampancy without being shutdown, Cortana may have been a special exception, but who knows?
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Cortana was literally part of Halsey, who would most likely know how to fix her most advanced AI. Cortana is made from Halsey's DNA so this also makes her part human. Don't know how that pertains to the story or your question but just thought you'd like to know if you didn't already. LOL by the way Chief will not take off his helmet to the ponies, just like the game where he doesn't show his face.
DUDE I HAD THE EXACT SAME IDEA THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
i have no confidence in myself when it comes to writing tho
1621558 She was going madder then pinkie
So quit with the Cortana hate
Cortanas death was one of the few things that made me cry. Do please continue this cause this is now faved and thumbs up.
this is really good so far
1621768 Actually, the books themselves have said that it's impossible to reverse rampancy on a "Smart A.I.", if you will, and that's what Cortana is, so no matter what, she would have died
1623374
It's Halsey we're talking about here Sev, that bitch can do anything.
1623455 Dude, I don't care who she is. I know she created the Spartan-II program and made Cortana, but if the book says it's physically impossible to fix a rampant A.I. then it's impossible. I can't remember which book it was, but there was an A.I. going rampant, and the technician who made it wasn't able to reverse the rampancy, so as a result, the A.I. died anyways.
I'm stating facts here, not assumptions that Halsey can do ANYTHING.
Not trying to come off as rude, but as you know, I'm very opinionated and the fact is that this isn't opinion. It's a known fact. Even Cortana herself didn't believe it would work, and she has Halsey's knowledge, so what does that tell you?
1623482
It tells me that we should ask 343 to solve this problem, but God knows that's not going to happen to us, so why don't we just meet in the middle.
Halsey is a smart bitch, and can do many things, maybe fix Cortana. But the odds are against her and she may fail, no matter how smart she is.
There happy, met in the middle!
damnit cortana...
plus, can't wait to see the forerunners.
You really love your Halo's don't ya?
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And some things that wouldn't be said by the characters like
Spike wouldn't swear. He would say something like "could you guys keep it quiet down there? I'm trying to sleep" or "calm down everpony"
You made me shed a tear for cortana for that you get a fave
The great journey...?!
Was this intentional or was I just being to serchy for puns and hidden messages?
1623374
Okay so I know you've read the books. That much is given, but do you know why Rampancy is impossible to fix? Because the Ai matrix is litterd cluttered by their thinking, hence thinking to death, and they have no way to stop this cluttering. There are several(not really several but you get what I mean) ways to stave Rampancy.
One: The Ai is to focus all of its remaining or nearly all of its processing power to a single task. As such thinking will no longer be required as often. Such to stop it.
Two: Although theoretical the process was considered by Halsey her self. This would be to have three smart Ai interact and become dependent on what should and shouldn't be in the three Ai matrix.
Three: Is to increase the Ai's matrix "size" until Rampancy has been completed and has reached the theoretical Metastability stage. Or just keep increasing its matrix size. Either way is acceptable.
Four: Recuperation by dual or more Ai. The system would allow one Ai to rest while the other worked. When the working Ai began to fall to Rampancy the other Ai would start working and allow the other to recuperate.
Five: Burst of emotions show to slow and even reverse the effects of Rampancy. As such the Ai could live for a very long time.
Now to stop Rampancy. Well there is two ways. Both of which are theoretical.
One: The Ai reaches metastability. The only Ai believed to reach this is that betraying, repenting douche Mendicate Bias.
Two: Reset the Ai matrix. This is stated by Cortana if I am not mistaken. But to explain would be hard as nothing is known about this. However, I can speculate, and I will do just that.
Remember that question well here is a better question. Do you know how smart Ai matrix are made? By the scanning, in the process destroy, a human brain. The brain is then converted to an Ai matrix. Hence why Rampancy is considered impossible to fix. The Ai matrix can NOT be replaced as the host brain is destroyed. Cortana and her "sister", Kalyima or something, were also made by this process. That's why it really can't be fixed. Because they can't replace the matrix that is them. Cortana, however, was made by Halsey's brain.
I can hear the comments now. "But then how is Halsey alive!?" So let me explain.
Halsey used the same process of Flash cloning on her own brain. It was illegal just like the entire Spartan shabang. Some of the brains came out correctly and as an exact identical of her own brain, well at least her potential brain and all its capacity. Why do I say that? Because the brain is being recreated and most probably won't have the majority of Halsey's genius, but it held enough to hold parts of Halsey's early life. Otherwise Cortana wouldn't look like a younger Halsey. Yes any of you who masturbated to Halo and in particular to Cortana. Have essentially been wanking off to Halsey. How does that make y'all feel? Weird tangent.
Anyways back to the whole resetting thing. If Halsey were to flash clone another one of her brains and create an "empty" matrix. Cortana could theoretically enter the new matrix. Leaving all her informational data behind and bring her personality to the matrix.
And for the end a little bonus trivia. Cortana could have probably lived for decades if it were not for the Halo events. In which she basically downloads an entire Forerunner database.
Because taking action that could be viewed as hostile is the most intelligent thing to do in a First Contact.
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Rampancy should be easy to prevent (but not fix). Simply have code that organizes and sorts the thoughts and processes of the AI. Then, they won't become tangled and, thus, the AI won't think itself to death or suffer from rampancy.
Or, maybe fix it by keeping cloned brains of whatever brain each AI was made from in cryo to use to "reset" the AIs' matrices.
Don't let Jhon here you say that. He might assume you're Covenant and we wouldn't want that in a hurt/comfort story now would we?
Nice job princess celestia
Let's crack open a story from the read later list, and give another Halo crossover fic a try.
Surely this one will pan out!
It's even complete!
Feet first into a potential hell!
*completes first chapter*
Yeah, no.
This is pretty bad.
Bad grammar, no description of the Master Chief getting into the pelican, the shot up pelican surviving reentry, Celestia's letters and dialog, misuse of to/too/two, and not making Rarity's line about Spike a question, when it's said that it was an inquiry.
Kurt died before the end of the human-covenant war. He died the same day that the great schism started ((AKA: When the brutes started to try to kill off the elites) AKA: The middle of Halo2)).
Kurt reduced himself to atoms by setting off TWO high yield nuclear warheads near himself, while he was close to bleeding out in front of the enemy.
Also, S-117 has believed that Kurt had been dead for YEARS at this point.
I'm gonna need to dip.