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Master Chief had just escaped the Alpha ring, now resting up in the escape pod, listening to Cortana yap in his ear. He likes how she sounds, so it’s never been a problem how much she talks.
After a while of napping, Chief finally decides to look at an artifact he found. It was shaped like a flower, and an absolutely beautiful blue-ish purple color. Cortana wasn’t able to get a read on it when he first found it, meaning it was most likely very old forerunner technology.
Makes sense, it was on the Halo Ring.
He goes to pick it up, and Cortana immediately tells him not to. “Chief, you don’t know what that does.” She says, her voice stern, holding warning.
“I’m just seeing what it looks like.” *Master Chief responds, picking it up and turning it around in his hand. It really was pretty.
Chief notices a button on the stem of the flower-shaped artifact.
“Do not press it.” Cortana states. It was too late, Chief pressed it without thinking.
A bright flash of blue temporarily blinds Chief, the Spartan covering his visor with his arm, until the light dims down into a soft glow.
Cortana is freaking out, a portal had opened, and it absolutely destroyed Master Chief’s shields.
The gravitational pull of the portal completely knocked Chief out, pulling him into the portal and closing behind him.