the only time we’ve seen Thel and Atriox have a conversation with each other, Thel had to put an act on due to a scheme. couldn’t let Atriox know that Thel actually wants the Banished to take a weapon that might destroy them along with Cortana. had to play up his aggression and displeasure.

you might be on the case but i fear you ABSOLUTELY can be fooled, there ARE political ploys, and you knowing nothing EXCEPT for the score

it’s from square none for you buddy— they might as well be playing their championship in space because the entire match just went right over your head

💚 THEM 💜

Finally got my gaming rig set up with the two monitors. Vibecoded a Rainmeter clock with the Halo 2 subtitle font so my timeblind ass remembers to go to bed, lmao. Steam wallpaper engine is the fkn GOAT here tho, omg. The high charity armada flies by on infinite loop, and Thel's sword has particle effects. Ugh, it's perfect ✨

AND WOULD YOU JUST LOOK AT THEM.

They're so "I would risk serious personal injury to push you out of harm's way, end up wounded, and bitch all the way back to base about how stupid you were for letting this happen - all while the other regards the injury with an uncharacteristic tenderness that they equally feel like a live wire between them, but both disacknowledge in favor of furiously bickering over what got us here in the first place" kinda married and it HURTS ✨🥹

it had been ten years since the war ended after half 5 but cortana did not becomiung evil becuse it was stupid and i hated it so i am writing this my way.

chef and cortona got home after killing the forerunner boss anbd it was peace becuse elites and grunts and jackels and hunters who where worms btw where not friends and had street partys with cake and coke and it was the good tiumes

"we ar enot needed now becuse there is no way cortana" master chef said so he gotted a coke cola and chilled out.

but then meter had come and it had flood in it "i will make this planet new grave" laughed gravemind and it turned out the meter was ruin of high claterty witch the unsc sended back to space but now it was back from space

!"sir we get signal it is high clerty!" said adminral lasky

the rock hit japan and started to turn tokyo into floods "everything is flood now call master chef on the phone!" and they phoned him up "We need you to do war becuse flood is back and you must fight htem!" he said so master chief gotted a laser machine and a bnnattle rifle and wnet into fighting battle "lets finish the fight" and he granaded floods and fighted flood dogs and flood cats and robot flood and human flood who used to be solders but where flood

they wented to tokyo tower witch was gravemind buildiung now "Why are you doing this why turn people to flood why not give people choices!" said cortana and gravemind laugh "i will make everyone flood then we can have peace" and he whipped the chef

master cheif was low on sheld and not enough time to charge it before gravemind would kil, him "not right now!" said arbator who fired needlers at gravemind and it really hiurted and stined him

"ow you needled me!" scream gravemind and chief had charged sheld as he takened out the spank rockat luncher and fired blowing bits of the gravemind up.

"if onlyu got some treaphy you could be better" said arbator and the graveymind thinked about it "can i still do that?" he asked rubbing a tentcle on his chin "Its never too late friend" said cortana who takened ghis mind.

one year later

flood and human and covants now had peace and worked to make earth a better world and master cheif now had new friend who was flood called frank "hey lets get a coke later" said frank the flood.

gravemind was a better person now and only turned people into flood if they wanted it now and not forcing them "Thank you friends i never knew there could be a better way to be more health in life" and they all hugged.

the end

in a ruined base a door opened a robotized prohept of truth walked out now more robot than flesh "we will use the darkness to bring order back to the universe and build the new covanant" said lord diadect and his apprenence the revived as a robot truth smiled "we will rule them soon."

FROM ! SQUARE ! ONE !

i'll be watching all...