A/N: This story begins right before Master Chief Petty Officer John Spartan 117 and Thel Vadum, The Arbiter, makes the jump towards the open bay door on The Dawn.
Prologue
Explosions surrounded them as Spartan 117 John and the holy Sangheili warrior, Thel Vadum who was also known as the Arbiter, raced towards the open bay door on The Dawn, A United Space Command Frigate in a Warthog.
The battered warthog accelerated to its full speed as the Master Chief floored the pedal and the warthog flew across the gap in between the platforms and the Dawn.
The warthog crashed and flipped. It flung both its occupants out of their seats before coming to a halt in jumble of smoking metal.
The arbiter was the first to get up and looked at the master chief, who nodded at him.
The Master Chief ran towards a Holographic Projector and linked Cortana , his Artificial Intelligence, to The Dawn.
Cortana told the Master Chief to hang on and sent commands to the frigate's fusion core to send power to all four of The Dawn's main thrusters.
The entire ship tilted as Cortana sent the ship towards space.
John ran towards the door at the back of the hanger, only to find that it was getting too steep to run. He collapsed on his stomach before crawling.
"I'm not going to make it at this rate" The Augmented Soldier thought to himself when a three fingered hand caught his arm and hauled him through the door before sealing it.
"Arbiter, go! You won't make it in time."
"Human, if there is one thing that you know about me is that I never leave battle brothers behind." The arbiter stated as the lifted the chief to his feet.
Together, they ran down a corridor to the bridge when a bright light flashed through their vision and all was dark.
"Chief, Arbiter. Are you ok?"
John groaned in pain as he righted himself. In the corner of his vision, he could see the Sangheili warrior do the same. He realised that there was no gravity as he was floating.
"Cortana , did we.."
"Make it? Unfortunately, no. But due to sheer luck, the front part of The Dawn separated from the back, explosively decompressing all decks. I managed to control our trajectory into space so that we would end up in the same fate."
" The best chance is if we went into what you humans call a cryo pod and wait for either the UNSC or any friendly forces to find us." The surprisingly Arbiter said
"True, I'm already sending out a distress beacon. It may be months or even years before someone finds us." Cortana replied.
Together, the sole occupants of the remaining part of the Dawn made their way into the cryo bay.
" Chief, but you finally did it. Truth, and the Covenant. The flood. Its finished."
"Its finished" John agreed
As the Spartan and the arbiter lay in the cryo tubes, The master chief told Cortana, "Wake me, when you need me."
His last view was that of Cortana looking sadly at him before all was dark.
The Arbiter and the Master Chief slept. For a very long time.
This is just an idea i thought about. Feel free to put it on alert. I may want to continue it. But for right now, this is all you get.