DISCLAIMER: This story was changed from someone else's movie script to a book form for my use here.
"I remember... I remember that day
on Eridanus Four..." whispered Catherine Halsey softly. Against a picturesque, rural landscape, children run around, and their high pitched giggles fill the air.
"It was a time when the skies were
still blue, and the grass still carried that gentle flow of a summer's breeze..."
A lonely child is slowly swinging on a set of swings. The
rungs are creaking lightly as they sway back and forth.
"It was the day we met 1-1-7, or John as he was called then..."
The child, John, looks onward to see a man and a woman steadily
approaching. He climbs off the swings and takes a step to meet them.
"But then they came..." she quitely said with hatred. A strong gush of wind nearly knocks him over. Everything around him stops. The sun is rapidly descending to the horizon, leaving an orange tan.
The children become lifeless silhouettes -- the man and woman
including. Distant screaming and gunfire begin erupting from all around him... The scenery suddenly becomes a raging battlefield. The once serene landscape is no more.
"They came with their legions. With
their crusade..." The interspaced thuds of a marching army are heard in the distance, and silhouettes of an insidious alien army crest into view.
"They were the Covenant. Our skies
became blackened by smoke, our
fields filled with the graves of our dead..." Halsey continued. "But something else was coming. Something much more terrifying than the Covenant." John looks behind him and sees ominous clouds looming in the distance. A blue HALO of light is piercing through. The blanket of clouds roll in above John. He he turns around and sees him... John's future self is standing right before him at a seven-foot height, completely covered in MJOLNIR IV body-armor. His chest rises and falls to every breath. A helmet with an amber visor covers his face. He is a Spartan.
"But one will stand for mankind. Above the rest, one man will save us all..." The Spartan reaches down to knock John out of the way just as a grenade goes off where John once stood, destroying the swings.