[Open action and journal]

[lonenoble]

[She'd been fighting it. Trying to ignore the hallucination. They couldn't be her team... But hours of listening to the whispers... The teammates telling her how she'd failed them. And the visions of the covenant bastards surrounding her. She'd managed to hold off.

But then, the tightly held self control... The walls fell. She slams into a wall with a scream. "You failed us. Failed humanity. You deserve to suffer." And there's also that little voice, telling her that there's a way to fix it all. She can't help opening the journal at this, laughing softly. Anyone that knows her would know something's horribly wrong.]

I know the answer now. How to fix everything. I can finally end it all. Save humanity.

[Have the sounds of a fist being slammed into a wall, as she attacks another alien that only exists in her head in a hall of the Event Horizon.]

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Dictated

[banshee_rider]

Noble Six, this is Spartan-087. You are unfit for duty, stand down and seek medical attention immediately

[There was no reason for Six, a lieutenant, to take any notice of an NCO like Kelly, but she has to do something. She's not built to be a leader, and certainly not for a situation like this; there's precious little she can do aboard the Lewis & Clark that actually makes a difference ... watching clips, examining the docking hatch, it didn't feel like enough.]

[lonenoble]

I may not be, but they tell me I can make up for my failures. Carter. Jorge. Kat. Emile. Jun. Noble Team. My team.

[Laughing] Just need to activate it.

[banshee_rider]

You're not activating anything, Spartan. Stand down.

[Man, what was it with these IIIs ...]

[lonenoble]

This is my duty. I can't stand down.

I can destroy them all.

[banshee_rider]

The numbers are too great, we're pulling out. EVAC ASAP to my position!

[lonenoble]

I can't. I won't leave my team.

[banshee_rider]

Evac, now. That's an order.

[Time to get creative--] Your team's already on their way.

[lonenoble]

They're right here with me.

[banshee_rider]

[Think fast--] Then that's new to me. They received the news to ship out ten minutes ago. Tell them to get going!

[lonenoble]

I'll talk to them about it... We'll work something out.

[encryptedlock]

[Fuck. Not her, too.]

Six? Get a grip, Six. You're not back home anymore. The war's over. Humanity is saved.

[lonenoble]

It's not over. But I can end it.

[encryptedlock]

No, listen to me. What ship are you on? Who's your commanding officer?

[lonenoble]

Noble One is my commanding officer. [Have a pause] And the ship is... It doesn't matter. It's crawling with Covenant.

[encryptedlock]

[York takes a split second to remember which one was Noble One.]

Carter's not here right now. Get him on the horn if you're so sure. Six, there aren't any Covenant here.

[lonenoble]

He's here. He told me what I needed to do.

[encryptedlock]

[Shiiit, she's hallucinating bad and he doesn't know her well enough to talk her down.</i.] Yeah? When did he get there? What ship are you on?

[lonenoble]

The Event Horizon... They all arrived today. My team.

[encryptedlock]

[York sighs.]

Six, I've been hearing about hallucinations over there. Can you really prove it's them?

[lonenoble]

I know it's him.

Kat agrees that it's really him.

[encryptedlock]

[York actually winces at that.]

Are you going to let me hear it from her?

[lonenoble]

You can't hear her?

[encryptedlock]

Nope. Far as I know, Kat's been gone from this castle for over a year. I'd love to see her back as much as you, Six, but the fact is it's not happening.

[lonenoble]

But she's here. They all are.

I failed them... I need to make up for it.

[encryptedlock]

You can make it up to them by living your life in the castle. The war's over. I know you know this.

[lonenoble]

This place is full of Covenant. It's not over.

[encryptedlock]

No, Six, it's not! Open up your eyes! There aren't any Covenant here and there never have been.

[lonenoble]

There are. I have been fighting them.

[encryptedlock]

You've been compromised. The ship's doing something to you, making you see things that aren't there. What if you're fighting other castle people?

[lonenoble]

They aren't castle people. I know what castle residents look like.

[encryptedlock]

And I know what Kat sounds like, and she's not there! It's doing something to you, can't you see?

[lonenoble]

You're trying to trick me...

[encryptedlock]

I'm trying to help you.

[lonenoble]

I don't need help.

[encryptedlock]

I have got to meet some different women.

You'd turn down an ally?

[lonenoble]

[Now that gets hesitation. She'd told Carter no more lone wolf stuff. But she's with her team. Does this count?]

My team is here. They need me.

[encryptedlock]

We need you too, Six. I know the rest of Noble would agree.

[lonenoble]

[Laughing] They want me to activate an get rid of the Covenant. Even if it kills me.

[encryptedlock]

[Activate what, exactly?]

No! You don't want to die here, Six. There are no Covenant. Listen to me!

I meant activate it, I just had a typo

[lonenoble]

We died on Reach. What's dying again now, if it removes these Covenant?

kk

[encryptedlock]

It means two weeks of hell for nothing, because there aren't any goddamned Covenant.

[lonenoble]

You aren't here. They are.

[encryptedlock]

[York makes a frustrated noise into his journal.]

They are not! Nobody else there is saying anything about aliens, Six! Only you.

[lonenoble]

You expect me to believe you and not the evidence of my own eyes?

[encryptedlock]

You're hallucinating. Since when do Spartans blindly follow their senses?

[lonenoble]

What else can I follow?

[She's not thinking clearly. At all.]

[encryptedlock]

[Yeah, not so much.]

Read the journal! Think logically about all this! Come on, Six, there's got to be a way.