By Unit 01

Note: The setting place in the alternate world of Halo 1 through Halo 2!

If you don't know what Halo is (Though you should!), it is an Xbox game made by Bungee. It takes place on a distant future where religious aliens are trying to destroy humanity with their high tech plasma weapons. Humanity makes a stand with its somewhat futuristic conventional weapons, where they do battle both on a ring world named Halo on the planet Earth itself.

The story tbegins between the NGE series, and where HALO 1 begins.

Shinji on Halo

The early hot morning started as usual. There would be the same strange bird chirping the distinctive sound from outside, then followed by the distant honking of the traffic.

Shinji Ikari lifted his back of the bed while rubbing his eyelid. He looked out his open window where the sun shone through. The glare made his blue eyes squint as he looked out to the sky. Everything was the same each day in and out.

He pulled himself out of bed and sluggishly walked out of his room. It seemed as Misato was still asleep as he passed through the quiet hallway by her room. He made his way through the kitchen and opened the refrigerator and grabbed the milk.

His eyes still wrinkled and half closed from sleep, he poured milk into his cereal. He began to ponder in his mind about his entire life and how he hated it, how he desperately wished none of it ever happened. He closed his eyes and spoke in his mind, "I want to go somewhere far away from this place and my father".

His quiet moment was broken as Misato walked in the kitchen yawning. Misato greeted him.

"Mornin' Shinji".

"Good morning", he said sounding dull.

Shinji didn't bother to eat his cereal; he just kept on moving the spoon in it. Misato watched him and felt sorry for him and yet irritated as she kept on thinking.

"He's been through a lot, I know; but still it's no reason for him to be this way. It's as if he doesn't even try to be happy".

"Asuka's already at school", said Misato trying to be cheerful.

"Oh, I forgot about her this morning"

"You better get dressed, I'll drive you today"

"Okay".

Shinji just left the untouched cereal and left the table still feeling gloomy.

The alarm buzzed through the empty streets of Tokyo 3. The birds rested above the cables above the deserted streets with the alarm sound covering their chirping. The birds soon flew off in fright as a powerful gust of wind blew through.

Above hovered a giant sphere with white and black stripes. The ground under it turned pitch black and everything including buildings began to sink into the darkness.

"Eva launch", Misato ordered from the bridge within the NERV head quarters.

A purple humanoid robot rocketed up as a large elevator launched up through the canals. The street above opened up and the mighty machine arose. The locks on its arms released causing the robot to slouch a little. The same happened on other far streets with both a red and blue robot.

Shinji held on to the controls tightly and moved the machine forward. As it took steps, it cracked the ground under it and broke the glass on nearby objects. Soon it was running towards a large building.

The purple robot hid behind the building holding a pistol ready to engage the enemy which was on the opposite end.

"Shinji should engage the Angel first since he has a better synch rates than us", said the red head sarcastically through the communication screen linked through all the Evangelions and NERV.

"I'll do it; I'll even show you how it ought to be done Asuka!"

Shinji was now confident of himself and cocky.

"What was that?"

"Don't do anything Shinji, wait for my orders!" Misato exclaimed as Shinji's Eva leaned over the corner of the building and fire its pistol at the sphere. The sphere disappeared before the bullets reached the target. The ground under the purple Eva turned pitch black and the Eva began sinking. Shinji screamed as he fired at the darkness swallowing him but it was no use.

"Help me! Help!"

Shinji shouted and shouted, but no one could help him. The red robot struggled to keep itself from sinking, and the blue robot tried to snipe out the sphere, but it had no effect.

"Shinji!" Were the words Misato yelled before the Evangelion was completely overwhelmed.

You have wished to go far from the ones around you

And this world itself

Now comes a new life and beginning different from your previous one

Enter HALO

Shinji was in a pitch black space, no longer in his Eva but still in his plug suit. His colors seemed to invert as he looked down at his hands spooked and confused. For that moment he seemed to be in space, but then an opening appeared below.

"Huh?" Shinji said still confused on what was happening. From his position, Shinji looked at the opening as saw grassy land and trees under. Through the opening, he seemed to be high up in the air.

"What's going… Hey, what the…!"

The opening enlarged itself quickly and broke away the darkness. Shinji began to feel himself falling down towards the grassy ground

"Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!"

Shinji was falling down fast; he could feel his insides pressed against his inside of his back. He moved his legs and arms about in fear.

Shinji landed with a splash on the tiny lake by the waterfall. After a few seconds, he burst out of the water and gasped for air.

The water was waist high on Shinji as he walked towards the rock coughing and gasping for air. He rested his back against the large rock still in the water and began to catch his breath.

Shinji sat down in the water with only his head popping out. He looked around and only saw short grass, the crystal clear water, the waterfall, and the cliff.

"What is this place? What happened to the angel? What happened to… Tokyo 3?"

Shinji kept on discussing in his head where he was and what was going on. But he did like this place though, the water was nice and cool, even through his plug suit. The air was fresh and the whole place was beautiful. Shinji stopped thinking about what was going on and just tried to enjoy the place for a moment.

Shinji walked out of the water and lay down on his back on the short grass. He closed his eyes and just relaxed.

He was happy now, this was really peaceful, there weren't even any birds or animals chirping or growling, it was all quiet except for the waterfall hitting the small lake.

As Shinji opened his eyes, he jumped on his feet. He kept on looking up and saw strip of what was similar to the Earth's surface with some kind of gray trim on the edges. He followed the strip on the opposite end with his eyes until eventually he came on the spot he stood.

"A ring world like place? What is the place?"

Shinji landed on back as he stepped back in fright. His sight didn't leave the ring going all the way to the opposite end. He continuously blinked expecting to wake up from a dream, but it was reality.

Shinji kept looking at the opposite end of the Ring world for some time. He was amazed by all of this, but also felt confused and lost. The black space had disappeared the moment he fell down and now only air was there.

He wondered about Asuka and Rei. Were they still battling the angel, or were they eaten up by the black space like him, would he ever get back? But wait, why does he want to go back? He doesn't, he's finally away in a not so different world, and he could find civilization of humans perhaps here, who knows. It doesn't seem that he'll back any time soon or ever, he thought.

Shinji lifted himself of the ground and made a fist with his hand. He brought his head up high with a new attitude, "This might be a new beginning for me, a fresh start. I'll start a new life here. Yeah… Yeah! That's right! I can start over! A new beginning!" He shouted happily and feeling satisfied.

Shinji walked next to the water fall; he heard some kind of swoosh sound coming from over it. Shinji looked up in curiosity wanting to know what it was. When he looked up, he saw a strange purple aircraft flying overhead overhead. Shinji ran behind a rock and examined the ship. He could hear indistinctive sounds that were coming from inside of it, which seemed like a creature talking.

The craft stopped and hovered above the water fall. Shinji was curious and brought his body out a little bit to have a better view.

Another larger ship appeared above the other, which had two purple pillars as the front. Between the two purple like pillars was some kind of energy force connecting both of them. It also had a cockpit on the back plus mobile cannon under it.

The larger cruise began to descend the water fall. Shinji became scared of being caught. He dashed from the lake behind another group of rocks by the cliff end where another waterfall went bellow.

The ship didn't seem to notice Shinji, and continued to descend. As it hovered inches from the ground, the pillars opened up revealing what was inside. Shinji kept quiet but his eyes grew large. He wasn't sure whether to be amazed or scared.

What jumped out of the pillar were first two small blue creatures with large eyes wearing some kind of gas mask and what looked like an orange back pack or something. Then a tall armored creature that sort of resembled a lizard, except it had four thin jaws and had no tail leaped out.

Shinji watched as the small creatures started jumping around, cackling and sniffing. The larger armored creature kicked one of the cackling creatures and began yelling at it.

"gnieb a fo esucxe ouy sucof!"

"Wha ha ha ha! Sniff ris sey!"

The small creatures pulled out a strange object which seemed like a weapon, but looked nothing like a conventional one. The larger armored one pulled a bigger weapon which had some resemblance of the smaller creatures'.

Shinji could only watch, as he was afraid he could be captured by these creatures. He couldn't even think of fighting them, as he knew no fighting moves; he didn't even hit Toji back when he beaten him up for hurting his sister when he fought the angel.

Another creature came from the other pillar. That one had what seemed as an green energy shield and a gray helmet. It was equipped with the same weapon as the smaller creatures.

One of the small creatures aimed the weapon at the ground and fired it. A burst of green fire shot onto the ground and kept it burning for a few seconds. The creature jumped in the air and hysterically laughed.

"Whhaaa ho ho ho ha ha!"

The armored creature kicked him and yelled at it again.

The creatures began to walk towards the end of the cliff onto a brown bridge that looked more like a pillar simply connecting both sides of the cliff.

Shinji cautiously watched the creatures climb up the slope and disappear on the other end. He looked back at the large ship which began to ascend above the waterfall and fly out of sight with the smaller purple ship following it.

After a minute or so, Shinji finally came from behind the rocks. He had a worried look in his eyes and he was sweating.

"What is this place?" He whispered as he stood shaking.

Shinji swallowed hard. He inhaled and exhaled as he clumsily walked backwards onto a rock nearby nearly tripping himself. He slid his fingers through his brown hair and rested again. He was so confused and misunderstood; none of what was happening made any sense.

Shinji kept on pondering on and on about what was happening. One second he was fighting the angel, and then it swallowed him whole, and transported him here. Now there were alien creatures, and everything. He felt frightened and confused. Shinji eventually fell asleep onto the rock from all his thinking.

Shinji slowly opened his eyes as he woke up. As he saw the sight of the ring on the opposite end of the sky, he jumped onto the rock.

"Wha, what? I thought it… Was just a dream"

Shinji looked down onto his feet and sighed. He was feeling home sick and hungry. He thought this was just one bad dream, but it was all real. Shinji crawled himself into a ball and hugged his legs.

"Misato, Asuka, where are you?"

Shinji ducked his head between his chest and legs is sadness. He was desperate, but he knew he couldn't just stand there, he would need to begin moving and looking for food and shelter, but not a way home as he couldn't bear to see his father again.

Shinji was also frightened by the fact that the alien creatures might capture or kill him. From his point of view, they seemed hostile, and the little ones stupid.

Shinji got up and told himself.

"I mustn't run away, I have to be brave. I can't be a coward anymore!"

Shinji got up and jumped down from the rock. He walked with chin held high and told himself that he needed to be stronger right now, that he needed to be brave. He was sure that's what Misato would have probably told him, he thought. Just thinking of her made him miss her more and more, but he also couldn't bear to go back now.

As Shinji began to walk he noticed something in the sky. He looked at it, and it seemed to be coming down towards his location. Shinji squinted towards it which was followed by gasp. Shinji began to run as he saw something caught on fire coming down fast at his location. The object on fire came down on the ground and began to slide down on the ground leaving a crater strip behind. Shinji was able to jump out of the way as pieces of grass, dirt, and metal flew over him.

Shinji slowly opened his eyes.

"I'm, I'm alive?"

Shinji slowly got up and checked his body for injuries. After seeing that he wasn't hurt he rushed over to the object that crashed. It looked like another aircraft, but it was gray and had jet turbines on the back. The whole thing was a wreck as some of the pieces fell behind.

Shinji crept around the small broken ship sure that whatever was inside probably was dead or too injured to fight.

As Shinji crept around the small ship, he saw a green armor arm come out of the opening of the ship. Shinji watched from over the corner of the ship ready to run in case it was hostile. Another arm came out and pulled onto the ground. Shinji could now see the top body of the armored person as he was pretty sure it was a human.

"Are… you… okay?" Shinji asked hesitantly pulling back.

The person was covered in the green armor from head to toe. He also had a cool helmet with a yellow glass shield on it. The person in the green armor could hardly pull himself up. Shinji rushed over and helped him up. The armored person put his arm around Shinji's neck for balance and coughed inside the helmet.

"Who are you? Are you alright?"

"I'm fine (grunts). I'm… (Grunts)… Master… Chief"

"Master Chief?"

End of chapter one

:D Thank you for taking your time to read this fic, hoped you enjoyed. Chapter two will be up soon if reviews are positive about the idea. Please feel free to review this story and give me any advice or constructive criticism as I know I'll definitely need it since I'm not very experienced. All flames will be ignored. : D