User:Pikapi/Halo: Mind's Eye

Christopher Costello strode through the dim-lit corridors at a brisk pace. He knew that the ONI archive was not welcome to UNSC personnel at such a late hour, however, he had pulled a few strings with senior ONI officials to be here. As far as they were concerned, he had volunteered to preform routine check-ups and perform diagnostics on each of the complex's quarantined rampant AI systems, a very suspicious place to volunteer for, considering the tedious work whom had lay ahead for him each week considering his many uncooperative, dysfunctional, occasionally aggressive patients. Still, even they had a hint on his true purpose and motivation.

The AI whom had complicated and endangered his career for a number of years before ultimately going rampant and betraying him. Regardless, he would continue to disobey direct orders instructed by his superiors just to converse with her, reassuring her that he would find a way to free her eventually. Sometimes she believed his claims, sometimes she'd wanted to, most often, however, she allowed her rampant half to discourage him with words of hatred. All that he could do was continue trying. His uncooperativeness had left him at a rank standstill for years, were he would be forced to neglect her.