PART ONE: Sucked In!

Disclaimer: I don't own Halo.

Sunday/12 November 2006 Military

Calendar/Brisbane/QLD/Australia/

1023EST

Alex Silverman ran home and turned on his Xbox.

"We got it!" he shouted.

"We got Halo 2!"

His older brother ran into the room, picking up his control and plopping himself on the couch. The game started up, and they quickly designed their characters. Alex's character was a Spartan with blue armour, spotted slightly with red, and the name was 'Pvt. Silverman'. His brother, Andrew, was and Elite, that was mainly gold, with black parts, and the name was '1 ugly mofo'. They started up a match, normal slayer, with snipers on Coagulation.

Xbox computer: Snipers: Coagulation.

1 vs. 1 (Pvt. Silverman) (1 ugly mofo).

Pvt. Silverman in Ghost, 1 ugly mofo picked up 2 plasma gren-.

1 ugly mofo splattered by Pvt. Silverman, respawning in 5-.

Pvt. Silverman out of Ghost, Pvt. Silverman through teleporter.

Respawning in 1. 1 ugly mofo respawne-.

Pvt. Silverman picked up three fragmentation grenades.

1 ugly mofo in Warthog.

Pvt. Silverman fired 1 shot.

1 ugly mofo snipered by Pvt. Silv-.

Pvt. Silverman reloading.

"That was cheap!" protested Andrew, picking up 2 plasma grenades.

"Aww." mocked Alex, putting on an 'upset' face. "Is Andrew upset because he's being owned by his 13 year old brother?"

"I'll show you owned!"

They played for another hour, winning and losing several matches, then laughing about what fun they'd had.

"Next weekend," said Andrew. "We need to do campaign.

"Yeah," agreed Alex.

"So," Alex said into the phone.

"Are you allowed to come over this weekend?"

"Yeah," replied his best friend, Kiel Vern.

"Is your brother cool with it?"

"Yeah: every time someone dies, he's going to swap with them, and vice-versa."

"Cool. Who else is coming?"

"Harry Ryan and Jonno, you know: Jon Fansill."

"Okay, so: come to your house Friday arvo, and sleep over for the night?"

"Yep.

"OK: See ya then."

"Bye."

Alex hung up and ran into his brother's room.

"They're coming!"

"Good: they can see me whoop your ass!"

"Been practicing, have you?"

They both laughed at those remarks, and then Alex went off to his room to read.

Friday/17 November 2006 Military

Calendar/Brisbane/QLD/Australia/

1611EST

The 5 of them ran into the lounge room, after talking all the way from the train station to the front door.

"Bags 1st control!" said Alex, picking up his wireless controller.

"2nd!" Jonno shouted.

"3rd!" Harry said.

Kiel picked up the 4th controller and Andrew walked in, imitating a commentator.

"Tonight at the Silverman household, the greatest Halo 2 matches will take place, so get ready for the biggest ass-whooping contest ever!"

"Hey," asked Kiel.

"Isn't your Xbox one of those prototype one's that has that fail-safe thing?"

The fail-safe was, in case of a blackout or power failure, that the Xbox would keep running, as would the T.V that it is plugged into, but the rest of the house would stay powerless.

"The first," said Andrew with a mischievous grin.

Kiel laughed.

"I am not going to ask how you got it."

The game started up, and soon they were playing Midship on Rockets.

Xbox Computer: Midship: Rockets.

1 vs. 1 vs. 1 vs. 1 (Pvt. Silverman) vs. (JF) vs. (Disturbed) vs. (Kill Ferns)

Disturbed picked up 2 rounds f-.

Kill Ferns killed Pv-.

JF picked up 2 p-.

Pvt. Silverman respaw-.

Disturbed stuc-.

Pvt. Silverman killed J-.

Disturbed killed P-.

JF respawning in 2-.

Kill Ferns respawned.

Pvt. Silv-.

Pvt Silverman picked up 2 gren-.

Double Kill: Pvt Silverman.

JF killed P-.

Kill Ferns r-.

Disturbed respawned.

…………………

"I'm so good!" said Alex. "See that double kill!"

"Prove it, then!" said Andrew.

"Fine: I'll go outside and own you all."

"But there's a storm coming!"

That didn't worry Alex, because his control was waterproof. He walked outside and stared through the window as he played against his friends. Soon, it started to drip, but Alex hardly took notice – the shades above his head would stop him from getting completely soaked. He continued to play, but soon, a drop of water hit the control, and Alex felt a small shock course through his body.

"Ow!"

It felt like something pinching his insides, and it didn't really hurt, it had just caught him off-guard.

"We're starting a new match!" he heard his brother's voice.

"All right!"

Boom.

A thunder clap aroused him, and he felt his adrenaline spike.

There's nothing to worry about: it's not like the antenna's gonna get hit b-.

His thoughts were cut short as a lightning bolt struck the house's T.V antenna!

The lightning was bright, and he shielded his eyes, and then felt a shock, then a pulling sensation.

Xbox Computer:

Activating fail safe: drawing strong electrical power:

Power source found: drawing source in. Stand by.

Alex felt the pulling sensation increase. He wanted to scream, but he could no longer move his body: his molecules split up and were pulled through the window, across the room, and into the Xbox.

The transition took 0.003 of a second, and the entire thing went unnoticed.

Source transfer complete.

A/N: It may have been a little short,in some people's eyes, but it's a first, and I won't be letting anyone know about anything!