Side war, new life

Chapter 1

Halo, a game or real life? Something always bothered me for the moment I first sat down and played the game series. I mean, Master Chief or John 117's life seem so real that it really could be true. How would we, the people, know if it really was just a game made to entertain us or not. Questions like that burned in my head for years as I play the game. Every couple of years, the game would add a new chapter to the story and I would finish them as fast as I could. When they finally came out with the 4th game, they made an announcement about a special copy of the new game.

They told the world that whoever got it would be in the game themselves when they put a code in from the box. People, who got excited, bought the game right out of the stores until they sold out around the world. I laughed at it, because I did not want to be stupid like them and could not believe people would buy out the game. Months passed and nobody got the special copy, every time the game was restocked the crowd would buy them out again. No one knew who would get the copy, but that did not stop anyone from buying the game when it restocked. Two days ago, the stores restock again and people again went crazy and bought it right up again.

I sighed to myself as I browsed the section for new games to play. Many caught my eye, but only a few were what I was looking for. Passing up empty shelves , I notice one game that the players missed. Wondering why, I grab the game and put it in my basket with the other games I grabbed that I thought would be good to play before finding this. As I go to buy it, I notice the casher ignore the case and I said nothing about it. I mean, who doesn't like free stuff!

When I got home, I was tempted to tell someone about what happened but I felt that I might be arrested because of it. Besides, something was telling me not to. Shrugging the feeling off, I unpack the games and wonder what to play when I felt the same feeling I had when I thought about the other thing earlier. I looked down to the new Halo game and shrugged then put the game in my computer. As I did, I looked in the case and saw the special code inside. I had water in my mouth when I did and I spat it out in shock. Did I get the special game and not know it?

When I looked up, I saw the screen of my computer had the game menu up along with the question for the code. I hold my breath as I put in the code and hit 'ok'. The screen flashes before the game begins to play, I shake my head and dawn my headgear plus gamer gauntlet that I bought weeks back. Smiling to myself, I begin to play the game.

While playing, the feeling I had inched its way into my thoughts as I made it to the halfway point of the mission I was playing. Hours pass by as I continued to play, and as I did the feeling grows stronger as time went. Then I got to the one mission that changed my life.

Playing all night had made me sleepy as I passed mission after mission. the feeling strong as ever. I decide one last mission wouldn't hurt me much more as is. So, I started the mission and waited for the cut-scene end but it didn't. The Scene was showing Master Chief and Cortana walking toward a broken piece of a building of Fore Runner technology. It full of life pods that were broken or fried. Both of them looked through Chief's helmet at the ruined tech, but then Cortana noticed one of the pods had a person still in the only working pod."Chief," She said, grabbing his attention. ", look over there. Looks like someone is actually in one of them. Put me into the system and I'll find out more and I will see if I can find the why." Chief pulled her out of his helmet and put her into the console nearby the pod.

As they did this, my skin began to heat up as she read out the information. "The person inside appears to be male, name is Rou Kensuingé. Looking at these charts and images, it says here that he part . . ."Cortana trailed off as she continued to read the info. I looked at the screen in shock, ' What the hell ?! Why is my name in the game ?' I thought.

Chief then asked, " What is it? Is something wrong?" Cortana stared at the screen in shock as well for a second before saying, "He's. . ., He's from the Forerunners time period. It says here that they found him around one of the settlements and found he to be different. They then ran some tests and put him here to keep safe from something but I can't tell wha. . " She looked up to continued, but then the blue darken to red and began to flash the word "WARNING". Cortana look down and quickly found what was wrong. "Chief! We need to get he out before he dies. The pod has been damaged and he is running out of air fast."

By then, I could not hear much of what they were saying after that. I had so many questions about what was happening. Why is my name in the damn game? Why am I in such pain from watching this scene? How was this good at all?! My body burned as I stood up and moved to kitchen, where I finally realized how bad I was in my situation.

The world outside of my house looked different, like a poorly made game with shit graphics and wrong colors. The sky had turned from blue to sickly green, and the land was now blocky and unformed. My mind started to shut itself down from the burning of my body and the shock of what was happening to my world. Before I passed out from it all, I had but only one thought on my mind " What the hell is going to happen next to me? "

And with that, I faceplant into the ground before me.

AN: Hello everyone who has been waiting for this update to happen. First, I would like to say that I am so sorry that I have not done anything with this story in a while. I finally have been able to refocus on my writing since my job and girlfriend have been keeping me busy.

Now I know a lot of you guys will be wondering why I rewrote the first chapter of my story. Well, it's simple. I totally forgot where the story was trying to go, so I thought " Why don't I just rewrite it better. " I am super sorry if you liked the last version better than this but I really just forgot where it was going. Last thing I want to say is I really want to thank you guys for favoriting this story and following it so much. If anyone of you guys have a complaint or a idea for this story, please review or PM so that I can do something about it. I am making this story for you readers out there so please don't hesitant to talk to me about it.

Thanks and this is SkyBroWarrior signing out!