As Eisenhower neared the Quadrant of Solace Alpha hailed,
'this is Armour Linked Personal Human Assistant 0017, Alpha reqiesting permission to send our captain to you.'
It was then Alpha heard a familiar voice,
''Alpha is that you?''
'Max? I can't believe it!'
''where's Sam, and Harry?''
Alpha paused, unable to say what had happened to his friend.
" He's gone, and I have no idea who Harry is..."
Sebaste had filled in for Alpha.
'' Oh, well then, I suppose you better come aboard...''
Pelican 840 prepared for launch and soon took Sebaste, Rook, J85 and Alpha over to Max in Quadrant of Solace.
'Max, it's been a while friend.'
''I know''
Max began to discuss what had happened with Sam, how he had changed Quadrant's frequency to read 'Dark Matter has landed', how he and the SDF had reclaimed Sam's prized ship. Then an alarm sounded, they rushed to the bridge,
''Report''
'" sir it's the Capital Punishment, she found us."'
""incoming object detected, heading for the hangar!""
''Close the blast doors! Spartans on me''
They raced to the hangar where at just the last second a forerunner pod burst through the gap in the blast doors, everyone got ready to fire. The door opened. From the smoke a silver spartan with black stripes and a red lower left arm stumbled from the abyss.
"Sam!"
'couldn't let you go without your pistol could I?'
He held out Sebaste's pistol, Sebaste accepted it.
'Im glad to see you Max, so you got her back?'
'"Yes, but thats not the current concern, come take a look"'
They raced to the bridge. Sam took one look at the huge ship, easily 8 times larger than the Monarchy and 16 the Eisenhower, he said but two words.
'That's big...'
Then a slipspace rupture occured, Sam heard the voice of an older friend...
'Did you miss me?'
im leaving the older friend open to anyone.