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Miranda and MC
(Romance) Picture this: The Flood has somehow reached Earth. The Chief is fighting a mob of Flood Combat forms, mostly ex-Elites, when he's hit by a plasma burst. His shield flickers out and he doesn't really care. A Flood is approaching from behind. It's lifting a tentacle, and thrusts it forward.
Someone pushes the Chief. It's Miranda. The tentacle penetrates her and the Chief butchers every last Flood in the area.
Cortana does a bioscan. Miranda has somehow been infected with a Flood virus, which'll change her unless she gets a vaccine.
"But such a thing doesn't exist," the Chief remarks. A quick shot shows a lone tear, trickling down his ultra white, scarred cheek.
"I'm not so sure," Cortana says. She tells him that ONI developed just such a vaccine, based on the Halo data they collected on the first Halo.
Thus begins a mad race against time. Chief struggles to gain entrance to the secret military complex where the Flood vaccine is stored. Meanwhile, by cross cutting, we see how Miranda gets worse and worse. Green skin, loss of articulation and such.
Naturally, the Chief makes it. He gets the vaccine, after a very intense verbal showdown with a Navy general, and delivers it safely to Miranda.
At first it looks like she dies. But then she opens her eyes, looks at the Chief and smiles.
"You're lucky you made it through," Cortana says, while cocking an eyebrow.
Miranda slips a hand into the Chief's and whispers: "Luck's got nothing to do with it."
Credit roll.
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(Kilroy on 03-13-07 02:49 UTC, permalink)
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