Ok, to all readers both old and new, this is a retyped version of HaloHazard. My reason for doing this is because some things I posted in the original chapters didn't feel right to me so I have decided to correct them.
Btw, just asking. Did the events of RE3 take place before or after Leon and Claire faced the infestation? I always get that confused and I want to make sure the RE storyline's in the right order.
Again, the armor suits will have the abilities seen in Halo Reach, although the Arbiter will have the camo and John won't(I just perfer it that way). Thel's weapons have unlimited ammo (except for the plasma bombs) while the Chief's has his limited and must conserve it for anything really important and they will sometimes battle their foes with combat moves. I was inspired to do that from a dream I had in mid-2010.
I will also say this once since I hate repeating it: I don't own anything Halo or Resident Evil related, just my computer. Remember that for all chapters.
The stroy's intro was borrowed from the Halo 4 trailer. Speaking of which, anyone know what the MC will be facing next year in Halo 4?
"Chief! Arbiter!" an alarmed female voice said aloud. It belonged to the artificial intelligence construct named Cortana. Her cries for her two companions meant that something has happened and she was in desperate need for them to emerge from their cryo pods in which they slept in.
"Wake up, you two! Please, I need you!" she begged again.
At last, the cryotube chamber doors slowly opened and out stepped their inhabitants.
One was a man donned in a green armor suit, he was a UNSC Spartan 2 commando. His name is John, he went by many names and titles like Master Chief or Chief for short, Spartan-117, Demon and Reclaimer.
The other was an alien being who, along with his entire race, is a former commander/enemy-turned ally. The name of this one was Thel 'Vadam, but everyone addressed him as "the Arbiter" or just "Arbiter", which was also his rank in his people's military system. His species was called "Sangheili" in his native language, but the humans, whom he and his kind were once at war with, often called them "Elites". It was easy for them to remember. His people were part of an extraterrestrial, religious empire called "Covenant".
Both were feeling groggy and a bit disoriented after their sudden release from their prolonged hypersleep. The effects were a few seconds short and they regained their senses.
"Cortana, are you alright?" John asked when he suddenly remembered and looked at the small table where he last saw her.
Thel 'Vadam glanced around and noticed that the air around them was breathable again as he last remembered being trapped in outer space and that the piece of the human ship which they both used to escape from the doomed, Halo Installation 04 copy, "FORWARD UNTO DAWN", was no longer in the deep recesses of space. He wanted to ask what happened during their time in cryostasis when a blue light suddenly flickered and a small, blue woman appeared on the desk where the Chief stood waiting.
"I'm alright. Thank goodness you two heard me calling. I thought you'de never respond." she said happily. "What about you, two?"
He nodded in approval.
"As am I." the alien said.
John then realized what his partner had.
"What happened?" he asked her.
"I think we crash-landed on a planet during our space drift. We'd better check it out." she answered.
The two of them looked around for any weapons on board the ship . . . or what was left of it anyway.
John found the UNSC weapons he brought with him from their escape. They were a DMR battle rifle, M60 magnum, a machete which he didn't remember bringing at all, and the UNSC signature and his favorite, the MA5B assault rifle. He also learned that all of his firearms came with limited ammunition and had to be conserved until he could locate more. He had about six magazines for each.
As for Thel, besides the energy sword he used to slay the Prophet of Truth, he found some Covenant weapons laying next to a discarded Ranger battle suit complete with a jetpack. They consisted of a plasma rifle, Covenant carbine, and other energy sword. There were also several human and Covenant grenades near the weapons.
The duo began equipping themselves.
"When we leave this ship, there'd better not be anymore Brutes or Loyalists around. I'm getting sick and tired of them." Cortana complained.
"I share what you feel of them." Thel agreed as he too could not stand who he once worked with during the war.
He swapped his current armor for the Ranger uniform and tested all of its technology such as cloaking, energy shields, armor lock, drop shield, and the helmet's HUD which included radar, night vision, language translator, and zooming. Everything was in working order.
Like the Covenant Separatist, John also tested everything on his armor and helmet HUD for malfunctions and the results showed no damage. He placed Cortana's chip in his helmet and was ready for action.
They stepped out from the ship remains and aimed their rifles everywhere for any menacing foes, but found none and lowered them. But what they saw gave them puzzled looks behind their helmets.
They were in a city, but it didn't look like any city they've ever ventured to before. It looked . . .retro.
Everything here was as if it were Earth in the 20th or 21st century. What made it even odder was that it was empty like some kind of ghost town.
All over, there were wrecked vehicles, buildings and streets littered with fire, discarded paper, junk, and dried blood. Save for some dead bodies and the Spartan, Elite, and the A.I., there was no sign of life around.
Had the Covenant Loyalists already come and clash with the town's population or was there some sort of civil disturbance like a huge riot?
The lone war veterans walked along the city streets. Not a single person was present.
"Where are we and where is everybody? Has there been another battle here?" Thel wondered.
Cortana said to them, "I'm not sure. I will go on lockdown for a moment to study our location."
Both agreed and Cortana did as she said and they were left to explore the seemingly empty city.
After ten minutes or less, Cortana's light flickered.
"Guys. I managed to learn about our situation, but you're not going to like it." she said with a slight warning.
But before she could inform them of her newfound knowledge, a newspaper drifted along the street they stood on and wrapped itself around the Master Chief's ankle. He scooped it up and began reading it.
Thanks to his helmet's translator, Thel 'Vadam was able to read what the paper said.
This is what it read:
THE DEAD WALK!
It is being called "The most unimaginable thing to ever happen in the history of mankind!" What was meant for fictitous purposes has now become reality!
The living dead, also known as zombies, have invaded Raccoon City! They are showing the exact symptoms of the monsters portrayed in films, books, and video games: slow walking, ignorance of any pain, ghoulish groaning, peeling and decaying skin, ghostly-white eyes, and the worst one of all, an endless hunger for human flesh!
Just like in fiction, if a person is bitten or scratched by these deadly creatures, the victim will eventually, if not fully consumed by the attackers, becomes one of them!
Some locals are seeing this as a sign of the infamous, biblical apocalypse. Across the city, many religious residents are stating that the end has finally arrived and the entire world will face punishment for its sins. Others believe that it it some kind of prank and the ghoulish figures are simply escaped convicts and mass murderers doing this for media attention and publicity.
This is what the town's S.T.A.R.S. members were trying to tell everyone the whole time since that mission in the Arklay Mountains and nobody refused to believe their story.
The R.P.D. had this to say . . .
The article ended right there since the rest of the page was missing.
Cortana, John, and Thel 'Vadam were in disbelief from what they read.
But Cortana couldn't deny it. She proceeded to tell them.
"That paper you read, what it says is true. she admitted.
"What do you mean?" Thel questioned. He was clueless of their current situation as he knew very little of human history, he was about to get a quick, history lesson.
"I mean that the 'abandoned' city we're in," she used air quotes for that word, "is an Earth town called Raccoon City. According to my data, the month and day is September 29th, and the year is 1998. This was the time when a manmade substance called 'T-Virus' was released by mistake and caused a massive outbreak that turned all humans and animals here into dangerous creatures called 'zombies' and we are smack-dab in the middle of it all right now!"
John then remembered hearing some stories about this infamous tragedy back in his youth. But back then, he was too swamped with his military training to listen to most of it.
It sounded impossible, he even looked at a billboard that said "Welcome To Raccoon City! One of the most wonderful towns in the Midwest!", but he asked anyway.
"Cortana, are you telling us that this is Earth, but we have somehow time traveled back to the past?"
"Correct. she said. "See the date on the paper for yourself."
John did and it was just as she said: September the 29th, 1998.
"How did this happen?" Thel asked.
Cortana's answer to those questions were halted when both of their HUD radars began bleeping and showed several red dots.
A sickening groan was heard and the war heroes quickly turned around and spotted Raccoon City's population: zombies.
About a dozen of them were limping toward Thel and John, their mouths agape and ready for eating.
The same corpses they saw earlier suddenly sprang to life and copied the others.
"Are these the zombies you described? They look like Flood to me." said the Elite. to him, they really did remind him of the dangerous Flood.
"Indeed." she answered. "But they're not Flood, they are humans who have been infected by that T-Virus I mentioned. One bite or scratch from them spells doom for their victims. But thanks to your armor suits and energy shields, that should be impossible, plus they're slow and weak. Guys, you must kill them before they can spread any further.
For a moment, both the Spartan and Sangheili were lost in thought. To John, it had been years since he last fought with a human foe(besides Flood-infected marines and such). He remembered at age 8, he once fought some UNSC Marines during a training mission back on one of Reach's Highland Mountains, they weren't wearing marine uniforms but that didn't fool him, and when he was 14, he fought with four ODST's in a boxing ring and killed with two members while leaving the rest with severe injuries. Turned out it was all staged as part of another Spartan training test.
As for Thel 'Vadam, he had just redeemed himself with humanity and renounced his killing ways toward them. Infected or not, he wasn't completely sure if he could go through with it again. If these new targets were as threatening as Cortana and that newspaper story indicated, then he felt he had no choice but to do battle with them. To help himself in going through with it, he would have to imagine the undead as Flood as he had no problem dealing with them during the Human-Covenant War, even if some were infected Sangheilis.
Both of them leapt into a confrontation with the horde.
John put his gun away to conserve his ammo and fatally punched out the first zombie he saw. A female zombie grabbed the Spartan by his left arm and bit down, but his armor and shields chipped the creature's teeth and John simply elbowed it hard in its right temple and it fell dead.
Thel mentally gathered himself and gripped two zombie's heads in each hand and strongly bashed their faces toward each other, killing them. Next, he armed himself with his energy swords and sliced away at the rest.
The slaughter continued until only the Elite warrior and the Spartan commando remained standing.
A downed zombie crawled toward them hungrily, but met its end when John lifted the creature by the neck and tossed it away like a bag of trash. The zombie landed on a sidewalk headfirst and broke its neck.
Their radars indicated that the coast was now clear of infected. But that was only the beginning.
Thel 'Vadam was feeling a bit remorseful from what he just did, he got over it when he remembered that the foes were no longer humans.
As the duo from the future began to venture further into Raccoon City, the sound of a vehicle crash happened not too far from their position, it was soon followed by a second crash that led to a great explosion that lit up the night sky.
John and Thel went to investigate. To play it safe, both activated their jetpacks and hovered on top of the buildings, mostly the tall ones.
Satisfied? Yes, the monsters(save for William Birkin) are T-Virus carriers this time. I don't know why I called them G-Virus carriers, I got the virus mixed up from a mistake someone from the Resident Evil wikia site made, so go ahead, brag away if you want.
To Kaijudospartan(how'd you come up with that name? Really, I'm curious.) thanks for the reminder, I forgot the ship they escaped on was FORWARD UNTO DAWN.
To Psykotic Addiction: I forgot about that part too. I re-learning Halo stuff after spending most of my gametime playing Call Of Duty and Mortal Kombat 2011.
To all readers, tell everyone you know who are new to this story to avoid reading the older chapters. Those will be retold.