Halo and JLU: A New Fight

by Andrithir

Master Chief finds himself in an alternate reality, the JLU universe, A New Fight begins. Disclaimer: I do not own the Halo series or Justice League. Post Halo 3 non-canon story. Halo 4 is coming out in 2012, there's a debut trailer already

1. Chapter 1

My first Halo and JL crossover, please review. Anyway, I started on this before reading other Halo and JL crossovers. Once I read them I noticed extreme similarities between them and mine. Main one being, Master Chief gets better armour and Cortana gets an upgrade. So upon seeing this I have decided to take my story in a different direction.

XXxxXX means end of section

Italics are thoughts and names of ships and vehicles.

By the way, to those who have read this story before, I have simply reformatted and edited it. So there may be some reviews that seem a bit out of place, because those were posted before the patched version.

Patched version 0.02 posted on: 6/6/10 Australian time.

XXxxXX

"Wake up Reclaimer," A voice that sounded like 343 Guilty Spark spoke.

The Spartan felt dazed, his vision was hazy.

"Your senses will come back to you soon Reclaimer,"

John's vision cleared, he took in a deep breath. Something was wrong; the air lacked the metallic quality of the suit's air scrubbers. Wait, he wasn't in his suit, his armour was nowhere to be seen. The Chief looked down to see he was only wearing a t-shirt and shorts.

"Where's my suit?" John groaned as he sat up.

"Upgrading it Chief," it was Cortana's voice, "good to see you awake,"

John got out of the bed; he was in a medical centre, though not UNSC.

"Where are we?" John asked, "Where's Forward unto Dawn?"

"A smouldering wreck on the planet's surface,"

"How'd we get out then?"

"This Monitor got us out and transported us to a settlement on the other side," Cortana replied, "well, before the ship crashed,"

"Why didn't you thaw me out?"

"The cyrotube malfunctioned, I tried thawing you out for days,"

The Spartan rubbed the back of his neck.

"Were's the monitior?"

"Here Reclaimer," the Monitor said "I am 556 Everlasting Entity; my purpose is to maintain this facility,"

"This one's alright Chief," Cortana said, enlarging herself into an average human size. "Everlasting here, saved our lives, he upgraded me to Contender Class AI, and he is outfitting a Dreadnought for us,"

"Really?"

"Yes," Cortana placed her hands on her hips,

"A Dreadnought?"

"Yes, Chief,"

"Thanks," John said to 556.

"You are welcome Reclaimer," the monitored hovered a little higher "if you excuse me; I have some business I must attend to," Everlasting flew off. The Spartan turned to face Cortana.

A few Huragok entered, the oddly shaped yet strangely cute biological supercomputers entered the room, hovering a good metre and a half off the ground, with the Chief's new armour in tow.

"Is that my armour?" John raised an eyebrow

"Yes, you like it?"

"How good is it?"

"I combined your armour with Forerunner combat skins, so now you armour defences are rank 18, it can support me, two layers of shielding, faster recharge, greater resilience and in built energy blades at your wrists, Everlasting suggested I should upgrade your equipment,"

"Nice," the Spartan said in awe.

"But Chief, don't get cocky, this armour doesn't make you invincible, so don't go around taking armoured columns head on,"

The armour had a combined look of the MJOLNIR Mark VI Commando Variant and a Forerunner Combat Skin. The helmet was UA/FC-I[2], and under the armour plate was a muscle suit hydraulic system, which means the hydraulic system was laid out to be like the human muscle system to allow the user greater manageability. The exoskeleton had photo-receptive plates which allowed active Camo-ability. The armour still retained the same colour scheme of the MJONLNIR Mark VI the Chief wore; olive green.

"There is another thing Chief, Everlasting injected bio-nanites into your system,"

"What do they do?" John asked

"Well, it boosts your immune system, helps you heal faster; and halt your aging completely,"

"Good," said the Spartan as he looked at his hands.

"Chief, good to see you awake, and this time, you didn't jump" said a voice. The voice that John thought he'd never hear again. The Spartan turned around and looked at the man that's stood before him; Sgt Major Avery J. Johnson, who was wearing ODST Battle armour combined with a Forerunner Combat skin. The dominant look was the matte black ODST armour.

"I was going to tell you about Johnson and Keyes, but they wanted it to be a surprise," Cortana said with a light tone.

"The Commander is alive?"

Cortana nodded.

XXxxXX

Cortana smiled, everything was in their favour when they get back to humanity, they can upgrade all the super soldiers, and the Chief will always remain in his prime. Not that eternal youth bothered the Spartan. His life outside the military no longer existed. The Forerunner AI soon returned.

"Reclaimer, your ship is ready, pleased don your armour and prepare for home,"

"Thank you Tinkerbell," Avery chuckled.

"It was an honour to serve you Reclaimer,"

John nodded, and the Huragoks helped the Spartan into his new armour. Cortana merged back into the armour with him. A rush of mercury, ice and vertigo filled his head,

"Just like old time huh Chief?"

"Yeah, guess so," the Spartan looked at Avery, "I thought Guilty Spark killed you,"

"Tinkerbell the first did, everything around me was crumbling when I told you and the Arbiter to escape, it all went black from there, next thing I know, Lightbulb showed up, and revived me and Keyes, Everlasting brought us back Chief,"

"Where is the Commander anyway?" asked Cortana

"Here," Keyes answered as she walked into the medical bay, "Nice to see you Chief,"

"Likewise ma'am,"

XXxxXX

The trio walked towards the massive bay, and there it was, a Forerunner Dreadnought, standing there in all its glory. Everlasting hovered over to them.

"Reclaimer, what would you like to call the ship?"

The Spartan thought for a moment.

"Majestic," he finally answered.

"Nice Chief," said Avery

"Creative, and fitting," added Miranda

"Have a safe journey home; I also must add that your construct here has been forging enough vehicles, weaponry and supplies to field a battalion." Said Everlasting

"Thanks for the hospitality Everlasting," Cortana spoke through the speakers.

"Once again, it was my pleasure,"

Inside the Dreadnought, the Spartan looked around the hangar bay, a squadron of Longswords, Pelican Dropships, Hornets and Sparrow-Hawks fitted for space travel. Cortana merged into the Majestic's systems. The engines hummed, and the ship lifted off.

"Get us home," Keyes ordered

"Aye, aye," Cortana complied

Majestic reached minimal safe distance from the planet, and activated its slipspace drives. A voice sounded over the radio, it belonged to Everlasting.

"Reclaimer do not enter….sl..pace….et…there…some…cry..al…fragmen.."

For whatever warning Everlasting was trying to give them, it was too late, Majestic entered slipspace.

"Crystal?" Cortana pondered

"It could be the crystal Dr Halsey found on Reach, remember?"

"Hmm, that crystal, it has gravity warping technologies, and really messes up slipspace travels."

"I get the feeling that we're not going to end up where we want to,"

"Maybe your luck will show its hand Chief," Avery smiled

A few hours later, the Dreadnought exited slipspace. There was Earth, in all its splendour though something was too pristine and untouched by war.

"Guess your luck came through Chief, we're home." Cortana said, mocking his jibe.

"Call the UNSC, High Com,"

"I've got nothing on the UNSC bands Chief,"

The scanners on Majestic started to analyse Earth, and the locale area. There were no derelict ships or MAC stations.

"Wait a minute," John looked closely at the screen, specifically Africa.

"What is it?"

"You weren't here or 'there', but half of Africa was glassed to stop the Flood," Johnson finished

Cortana examined the pristine continent, the emerald colour of the Amazon rainforest shone through.

"I doubt Earth could have recovered that quickly from the war," Cortana spoke

"Not to mention, there aren't any MAC platforms around," said John

"I'm going to land Majestic onto the moon, and then we can find out where we are exactly,"

Majestic turned around and arrived at the moon, Cortana sent of a couple of Clarion Spy Drones towards Earth. John headed off to the

"Activating cloaking device," Cortana spoke, a couple of Huragok floated by.

"Good, tell me when the drones return, I want to test this armour,"

John went off to the shooting range and practiced for a moment, the armour felt odd, out of place yet also comforting. After his training session, he explored the ship further, the hallways were huge, so he was driving through it all in a warthog. Descending to the lower levels of Majestic the Spartan found that there was an actual garden. With water flowing and beautiful trees that ranged to ones are having gold-yellow leaves, to red, to green. Holographic projectors generated background images, this one currently having blue skies and an ocean. The Spartan parked the warthog and walked over to a gazebo, and enjoyed the view, for the first time in many years he was able to relax. The Spartan lost track of time as serenity filled him. His blissfulness was interrupted by Cortana, the had drones returned. John returned to the bridge.

"What do we have?" John asked

"You're not going to like it Chief," Cortana spoke while analysing the data the drones collected.

"Well?"

"The Earth we are looking at is a twenty first century Earth,"

"We travelled back in time?"

John was having his doubts about Cortana's 'sanity' but in theory, an AI can go through rampancy once.

"No, alternate reality,"

The Spartan tilted his head to the left a bit.

"How can you tell?" John folded his arms.

"For starters," Cortana began "there are metahumans and costumed vigilantes here,"

"I take it this is the part you explain to me what a metahuman is?" Avery asked

A hologram projector turned on. John watched costumed men and women, demonstrated their superhuman or supernatural abilities whilst fighting one another. One man, in particular, he was tall, strongly built, wore an S insignia on his chest, blue jumpsuit and red boots and cape. Another, his suit or armour was matte black, with a cowl and cape that were similar in appearance to a bat.

"That answers your question?"

"Say what?" Avery chocked on his cigar.

"Guys, these images are live, 'superheros' do exist in this universe,"

"Anything else I need to know?"

"All the superheros on this Earth have banded together and formed a group called the Justice League, so they can effectively coordinate help and aid around the world, and counter any super villains' uprising, and help out when disaster strikes, their base of operations is a space station in orbit around Earth called the Watchtower, or Watchtower two."

"What happened to the first one?" Keyes asked

Cortana soon began the tale of the Thanagarian invasion.

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"So what now?" John asked, "We need to find a way to get back to our universe,"

"Well, while we wait, it would be a good idea for you to join in with the populace and see if you can help out," replied Cortana.

"You want me, to become a superhero?" The Spartan breathed.

"Yes, remember what I said Chief?" Avery turned to face the Spartan.

"Folks need heroes Chief," John quoted.

"Exactly,"

"But there are hundreds of superheroes here,"

"Yes, and you can help out with your expertise," said Miranda Keyes

"Fine, how is this going to be done then?" John sighed, he Miranda Keyes outranked him, and orders were orders.

"Starters, you get out of the armour, and I'll prepare an identity for you three, and put you on Eath,"

John frowned, he never liked leaving his armour (unless it was for showers or a hot meal) he felt exposed.

"Oh come on Chief," Cortana said playfully, "you need a tan,"

"Come on Chief, it'll be fun," Johnson joked.

The cloaking system of the Forerunner ship was engaged, Majestic headed towards Earth. John sat on the bridge reading biographies on numerous superheros.

A while later the massive ship reached Earth and placed itself in orbit, John and Johnson boarded a Pelican, outfitted by the Forerunner engineers for stealth, and a warthog in tow with a civilian outlook. Keyes decided to come to Earth later in the week.

The Spartan piloted the Pelican dropship towards the outskirts of Las Vegas. Releasing the civilian warthog upon the dirt, the Spartan hauled his gear and placed into the boot. Cortana retaking control of the aircraft piloted it back to Majestic. The Spartan wore a blue collared shirt, with the sleeves rolled up just under his elbows, navy pants and black walking shoes. In addition he wore rectangular semi-frameless glasses, similar to the ones Dr Halsey wore, except these had zero lenses. Just like the Doctor, these glasses had inbuilt translation software, and comlink. John looked at himself in the mirror; it had been awhile since he had a haircut. On Majestic he gave himself a quick trim, and slicked back the hair with a small amount of gel. Cortana had told him not to make it to military like. John eased himself into the warthog's driver seat. The doors lowered down and closed automatically. Whilst on Majestic John had made the warthog look similar to a 21st century SUV. So he added a solid hood with sun roof, and extended the cabin so that it would cover the area of where a chain gun should be, and added an extra three seats in the back. The warthog still retained its silver colour, and was equipped with its own private GPS link. With everything in order, the Chief turned on the engine. Avery climbed in to the warthog, wearing a green collared t-shirt, glasses like the Chief, black pants and walking shoes.

"Chief," Cortana's voice sounded through the comlink, "your new identity is John Sev Clover,"

The Spartan smiled noticing the reference of the name.

"Question, how'd you do it Cortana?"

"Simple, hacked my way into the records of this Earth, and created an identity for you,"

"Which is?"

"Your parents were killed in a car accident; your godmother took you in, Dr Catherine Halsey who just recently died, you went to a prestigious boarding school, and studied Business Management and Mathematics at university."

"I struggle with maths,"

"Chief, that's what your test results said when you were eight, your skills in mathematics rival the geniuses here,"

It was true, in the Spartan II program, every Spartan was crammed with knowledge so that they may be able to blend in with civilians if the mission demanded so.

"Anyway, Chief," Cortana continued, "I've set up an accounting firm for you in Washington DC, the hours will be flexible for you,"

"What you got for me Cortana?" Johnson asked,

"You're are a wine maker, your aunty raised you, and your name is Avery J. Johnson,"

Johnson blinked for a moment, "sounds neat," he placed a Sweet William cigar into his mouth.

XXxxXX

John arrived at a diner in a lively town walking closely behind him was Johnson. He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. Got out of the warthog and walked in. He had been on the road for two days now. It was June, and apparently summer holidays for students, so the diner was packed. Young couples, groups of college students and families sat in booths chatting and eating. John did receive a couple of stares, mainly due to the vehicle he just got out from, his strong build, and pale skin. When it came to attractiveness he was well above the average standard. John sat down at a booth and looked at the menu. A waitress about in her mid-thirties came over.

"What would you like hon?"

"I'd like a steak with fries and gravy and a chocolate milkshake please," John said

"Same for me, but instead of a milkshake, I'll have the espresso," Johnson added.

"Of course,"

The waitress headed off to place the order and serve other customers. John looked out the window, leaving and entering patrons often stopped to take a quick glance at the warthog, then continued with their lives. The Spartan pulled out his tacpad from his messenger bag, and continued to read his file about his new identity, and files on other villains and superheroes.

The waitress came back again, and served John his meal. The Spartan chowed down; he remembered that the majority of his nourishments came from MREs and formulas that replenished nutrients to those who were just thawed out of cryostasis. Both tasted horrible, and a warm meal was always considered a treat. Finishing his meal, John stowed away the tacpad, the two payed the cashier and left the diner.

XXxxXX

Life couldn't get any better for Bruce Wayne. Research and Development of Wayne Enterprises managed to create a formula that halts aging completely. However Bruce and Lucius kept it under lock and key, they only gave they only gave the formula for themselves, Alfred, the Batclan and numerous Justice League members.

This meant that Bruce could forever watch over Gotham and help maintain the Justice League. Alfred could forever watch over Bruce and Lucius could continue on with his work.

And because of this, Diana AKA Wonder Woman once again, started to push the agenda of dating Batman once more. Bruce knew now there was absolutely no way Diana would yield, sooner or later, she will get him.

XXxxXX

John drove through a couple more towns and tourist attractions. He received many looks from people passing by, who stared at the warthog. Johnson had turned on the radio to listen to heavy metal, the ancestors of flip music.

"Chief?"Cortana called over the comlink

"What is it Cortana?"

"I've brought you guys a property on a farm near DC with siphoned funds, it will suit our requirements," the AI said admiring her decision.

"Such as?"

"Pelican landings will go unnoticed and well away from the public eye and winery purposes,"

"Great,"

The link turned off.

It was about noon when John finally arrived at Washington DC. He decided to check out the estate just on the outskirts.

XXxxXX

The farm looked nice; there was a creek and a pond on the property. Lovely plants created a beautiful garden around the house. From the acres of grapevines and a couple of large structures on the property, John could tell the estate's a winery.

"Shame we don't have JOTUNs here Chief," said Johnson in his gruff voice.

"They'll look out of place," replied the Spartan.

"I'm sending a Pelican down with a couple of Engineers and construction drones, we'll need to get this place patched up and ready," Cortana spoke through the comlinks, "Commander Keyes will be joining you two,"

XXxxXX

A few days later, it was time to go to work. John drove into DC in the warthog. The Chief parked the vehicle at a parking spot, and walked towards the elevator. Reaching the section Cortana had rented out for him under his name, soon he was starting to get clients.

XXxxXX

It had been a couple of months since John's arrival. He was getting use to his daily routine, wake up, brush teeth, take a warm shower, have breakfast, go to work, come home, watch TV, have dinner, work about in the Gym take another shower, brush teeth, then go to bed. The Spartan quiet liked civilian life. He now saw why Gray Team liked blending in so much. Johnson's routing was much the same, except he went out into the fields to harvest the grapes and making wine. Keyes often went with John because she worked as a librarian so no one would notice her military background.

XXxxXX

It was a Saturday morning, John woke up and performed his morning routine, after breakfast he would work out and maintain physical form. Then watch TV whilst searching for anyway to get back to his reality. Cortana really had outdone herself with the farm. The property was outfitted with UNSC's latest security system, drones that constantly tended to the crops, a huge barn that stored a couple of transports, landing zone and a basement that stored his armour and training course.

"John," the AI called him through the comlink.

"What is it?"

XXxxXX

"Chief, there's a hostage situation at a bank in New York,"

"Have the JL responded?" John asked

"Yes, but there is a problem, Metallo, Devil Ray and Livewire are there. Together those two could beat Superman, the bank robbers have also threatened to execute the hostages if anyone comes near, a couple of SWAT fellas have been injured so far,"

Miranda entered the dining room.

"I'm flying you there Chief,"

Johnson followed behind wearing his combat suit.

"Shotgun,"

John looked at the two, nodded and donned his armour.

"Better get a move on guys, those bank robbers are getting testy,"

The three ran to the barn which housed a Pelican Dropship, Keyes buckled herself into the pilot's seat, closed the hatch, activated the cloaking systems and gunned the thrusters. The Pelican lurched and lifted off the ground.

XXxxXX

Shayer Hol AKA Hawkgirl hovered above the ground as she carried Superman and Supergirl away from the bank the two had just been blasted by Metallo's Kryptonite beam. The bank robbers, Metallo, Devil Ray and Livewire took point as they started to smash their way out of the police encirclement. The robbers followed closely behind shooting at anyone who dared stop them, and slung on their backs were money bags. Shayera wished Diana aka Wonder Woman was here to help out, but the Amazon was at a UN summit meeting outside the country. Hawkgirl pondered if she should attack the villains, but if she did, she would most likely be torn to ribbons by gunfire, and if she somehow managed to evade all those bullets, then how was she going to take Livewire, Devil Ray and Metallo on? In any case she was in no shape to fight, a three bullets were lodged in her abdomen.

Devil Ray fired into the policemen's lines. Cutting down many officers, Livewire followed suit. Metallo just walked in front of them taking the brunt of the bullets fired from the police. Noticing that their attempts are fruitless, the authorities retreated back up the street. Shayera prepared herself to charge into the horde of oncoming fire, she had to stop them.

A loud crashing sound broke through. Shayera looked down to make sure Superman and Supergirl were safe, then peeked from her cover to see a massive armoured Giant land in the middle of the street.

XXxxXX

Keyes and Johnson were circling above the city while the Chief made his epic entry onto the battlefield. A little part of him wished he had done it Helljumper style. John quickly recovered from his fall, and charged Metallo. Metallo hadn't recovered from his initial surprise before the Spartan pounced on him. Ripping out Metallo's Kryptonite heart, the Spartan placed it into a pouch that shielded the effects of its radiation. John turned and levelled his Spartan Laser, charged up the weapon whilst aiming it at Devil.

Miranda's voice crackled through the comlink, "Chief that's a bit overkill,"

"I agree," added Cortana, who was still in Majestic

"Ma'ams, overkill is underrated," Avery joined in.

"Say what you will," the Spartan said in his cool demeanour.

A brilliant scarlet beam shot out of the weapon and exploded next to Devil Ray. The explosion didn't kill him, but it would sure keep the guy out for a while.

"This guys is gonna make us lose our loot," said Livewire

Livewire and the bank robbers turned and faced the Spartan. The robbers unleashed a hellish volume of fire and Livewire blasted the Chief with electricity in hopes of frying him. John rolled to one side, and ducked into cover. The ground he stood on a moment ago was now charred black and riddled with bullet holes. John was sure that his shields would have easily taken that amount of damage, but years of training, reflexes and experience always compelled him to dodge. In any case he wanted to keep the shields under wraps to retain the element of surprise.

"You're fast big boy, too bad that won't stop you from frying," smiled and sneered Livewire.

She blasted his cover with electricity, and smiled. When all the dust settled, the sun shone through to show that the Spartan was gone. Livewire did a little victory dance inside. She looked around to make sure the newcomer hadn't escaped her wrath she gave out a light chuckled, the air in front of her shimmered.

John deactivated his cloaking system. His right hand shot out like a bullet and grabbed Livewire's neck. The villainess looked at him with great shock. The Chief quickly hit the back of her head, instantly knocking her out. He dropped the limp body and dived into cover as the bank robbers opened fire.

"Who is this guy?" yelled one of them

"Doesn't matter keep on shooting!"

John unslung his BR55HB SR or Battle Rifle, thumbed the safety and switched it for semi-auto fire. He took aim and fired. Ever since the Human-Covenant war, the Chief had a slight discomfort at shooting at humans, so he decided to do non-lethal take downs, he aimed the weapon at the first person in his sights and fired, the 9.5x40mm KURZ round tore through the man's shoulder. The robber crumbled to his knees clutching at his bloodied wound. The Spartan continued to repeat this process against the other robbers, either aiming for the legs or shoulders. The whole ordeal was over in about 5mins. Soon the police moved back in, followed closely by news teams on the ground. John had no doubt that the news choppers caught it all on tape. He went over to the three injured heroes. Hawkgirl was slumped against a car, clutching her abdomen. Superman and Supergirl were regaining consciousness.

XXxxXX

"Thank you," Shayera coughed, "you came just in time,"

"Ma'am, can you please move your arms away from the wound," the newcomer spoke.

Shayera complied, the armoured giant pulled out a canister from a pouch which read Biofoam.

"This will sting a lot," he said, "but it will hold you together until you find medical treatment, it doesn't last forever,"

The newcomer inserted the nozzle of the canister into one of her wounds, and sprayed the foam quickly and swiftly in all her wounds. Shayera bit into her bottom lip and grunted, it was painful as hell, it felt like burning ants crawling through the wound, a moment later the pain was gone.

Superman and Supergirl woke up into to see Shayera wince at the pain from the application of Biofoam. The two cousins were about to beat the living daylight out of the armoured person, but they realised they lacked the strength to even get up.

"Okay, your fine for the time being,"

Their discomforts were soon put to rest as they saw the newcomer patch up Hawkgirl. A couple of news teams started to surround the four. They arrived just in time to witness the armoured being perform field medical aid to a Justice League member.

John turned his attention to Superman and Supergirl, after a quick check up, he found no injuries on them.

"Excuse me," said a reporter "what's it like to be a hero?"

The Spartan stood up and faced the cameras. He breathed.

"A soldier should not be commemorated for what is expected of him," John's voice boomed through the speakers.

"Are you in the military?" asked another reporter

"In a manner of speaking, yes, I am Spartan-117, if you excuse me I must leave now."

John activated his cloaking system and disappeared.

XXxxXX

John sat at home eating bacon and eggs while watching the morning news.

The new anchor started off with their top story. The news of his appearance spread far and wide within a day.

"Yesterday at 9am, a group of robbers, Livewire, Metallo and Devil Ray robbed a bank in New York. It looked like they were going to be successful as they managed to subdue Hawkgirl, Superman, Supergirl, NYPD and SWAT personnel. However they we're quickly stopped by a new hero who just appeared yesterday."

Images of John fighting the bank robbers and villains appeared on screen, the news caster continued to go on about their top story. Keyes walked to the fridge and made some cereal.

"Looks like you made the front page Chief," She said

Miranda placed a newspaper in front of the Spartan, the headline Humble Hero.

"You're starting to make a name for yourself," she continued, "though some people find your methods harsh,"

Keyes walked over and picked up the remote and changed the channel to show some morning talk show. They too were talking about the Spartan. Johnson came in a moment later, sipping on some sparkling he just made.

"Would you like some ma'am, Chief?"

The two shook their heads.

XXxxXX

The members of the Justice Leagues assembled in the Watchtower's assembly hall. The founding members sat at the front, and Superman stood at the podium, readying to give a presentation.

"Everyone, could you please settle down so we can get this under way," Clark's voice boomed through the speakers.

Everyone stopped talking and faced the man of steel.

"This Spartan-117, we do not know much about him, so far from what we can tell he is extremely well trained, he manage to subdue that entire force within five minutes," Clark continued

Images and clips of the Spartan firing his weapon showed on the projector.

"Batman has analysed these footages, and from he can tell, Spartan-117 is obviously military or ex-military, his weapons are far more advanced than anything we have seen, since he uses guns, it probably indicates he is willing to use lethal force, however it should be noted that he did not kill any of the bank robbers. He also has superhuman reflexes and speed, and is in possession of medical aid that is far more advanced than we have seen, such as Foam he injected into Hawkgirl to stop her bleeding. His weapons are very advanced, the designs do not match anything we've known and apparently the weapon fire 9.5x40mm KURZ, the serial number of the bullet suggests it was made in the 26th Century."

Superman continued on…

XXxxXX

The presentation had finally ended. Batman and Wonder Woman walked along side one another to the cafeteria.

"How about lunch tomorrow Batman?" Diana said sweetly

Bruce gave Diana one of his infamous bat-glares, she was the very few he weren't scared gutless by the glare. The others are Bruce's faithful butler Alfred, Lucius Foxx and Commissioner Gordon.

"One, dating in the team always leads to disaster and two I'm a rich kid with issues, three if my enemies new I had someone special, they wouldn't stop until they've gotten to me, through her,"

Diana smirked and titled her head to the right slightly. Ever since Wayne Enterprises created the "eternal youth" elixir, Batman's second reason for note dating her was nearly rendered null and void.

"One," she said, "Shayera and GL's have patched things up and back together, Question and Huntress, Green Arrow and Black Canary are dating, and so far, they're doing very well. Two, your issues can be easily overcome, and three, I can take care of myself,"

Damn Bruce thought she got me again, well I'd actually pay good money to see Diana take on Joker.

"Alright then," Bruce submitted, "let's go to that burger place in metropolis Clark always talks about,"

"Okay then," Diana smiled, once again she defeated the undefeatable Batman, "I'll get Clark and Lois to join us,"

XXxxXX

John was driving to pick up the Commander from work when she called him via mobile phone.

"John?" she spoke

"Yes ma'am?"

"I have to work late for about a half hour, could you please get a tub of chocolate fudge ice cream?"

"As you wish ma'am," the Spartan replied

Cortana joined in on the conversation, "what happened to the three litre tub the Chief got you last week?"

"Well a couple of work friends and me went over to Alice's apartment to watch fluffy romance movies marathon and well there was apart..."

John tuned out for a bit, his commanding officer hadn't quite finished with him yet, but that meant he had to endure 20mins of the two ladies chatting about soap operas. Why can't they watch comedy for a change, he thought.

"And so Jason left Alicia and we were all crying because…"

The conversation stilled continued, John arrived at the supermarket and purchased a two three litre tubs of chocolate fudge ice cream, French toast, bacon, steak, eggs and gravy. All the while listening to Cortana and Keyes pour their hearts out so to speak.

"I know isn't he a jerk?" Cortana said

"Anyway Chief, when you pick me up, address me as Miranda in public,"

"Yes ma'a- Miranda," John replied

All of Chief Mendez's interrogation techniques could not amount to this excruciating torture, the Spartan thought to himself with a bit of humour. Later John arrived at the Library Miranda worked at. He parallel parked the warthog and walked inside. He looked around for a bit, but soon found the Commander and a staff, whose name tag said Alice arranging some books.

"There you are," John smiled trying to put on a civilian look, "I got the ice creams you wanted, let's go home,"

"Coming John,"

XXxxXX

The next day, a Tuesday, Miranda sat in the staff room drinking coffee. Alice came over and sat next to her.

"You didn't tell us you had a boyfriend," she grinned

"He's not my boyfriend,"

"Sure, a handsome, polite guy who is just about every woman's dream comes in to the library, to pick you up, and brought you lots and lots of ice cream, and is very, very polite and friendly to you, is not your,"

"He's not my type," rebutted Miranda

"Whatever," Alice grinned.

XXxxXX

The Watchtower, currently in orbit above Europe

J'onn sat in the monitor room look up at the display, thirty active missions; a red dot appeared on the radar. The object was flying above France. J'onn checked the roster to see who was available, Flash and Hawkgirl. J'onn summoned them, to take a look at the unknown entity.

Flash and Hawkgirl flew down to Earth in a Javelin. Flying over Paris, they admired the view below.

"That's weird," Flash said

"What is it?" Shayera asked

"The radar says that there is something there but I don't see anything,"

Speak of the devil; an orange coloured ship with two gigantic circular windows at its front disengaged its cloaking system.

"Oh no, not them again!" Flash yelled, as he took evasive action dodging the ships armaments.

"What the hell is a Gordanian ship doing here!" Shayera shouted, she keyed her communicator and called the Watchtower.

"J'onn!"

"What is it Hawkgirl?"

"There is a Gondanian ship right over Paris,"

Flash could only pilot the Javelin to evade on coming fire for so long, until it was struck at the left engine. The plane lost altitude and crash-landed in woodlands.

XXxxXX

Flash coughed and gagged, the smell of ozone surrounded him. Black dots swarmed his vision. His muscles screaming in defiance for every move he made, but nothing was broken as far as he could tell. Flash stumbled over to Shayera. She was just regaining consciousness.

"C'mon Hawkgirl, we gotta go," Wally urged

"Calm down Flash," she grunted as pain shot through her abdomen, her bullet wounds had not yet healed fully.

XXxxXX

A few days later, Paris was completely evacuated as Gordanian forces moved into claim the city. John, Miranda and Avery watch the event unfold over the news.

"Now would be a good time to go," Johnson spoke,

For the past few days, the trio had to make an elaborate cover story so that they could deal with the threat in Paris. So far no one was killed, which seemed to be one helluva miracle many were injured though, probably from past experience they bailed from the city. John remembered, that the hour that the Covenant arrived in a human system, blood would be shed. The three UNSCDF personnel geared up, Keyes and Johnson boarded separate Pelican Miranda was going to return to Majestic and trade spots with Cortana, Johnson's Pelican had a warthog in tow and John entered a Longsword fighter. The two planes took off and headed for Paris. Miranda's Pelican dropship took off a minute later. The Spartan gunned the thrusters so that he'd arrive at Paris first.

XXxxXX

For the Justice League, the counter attack was underway, all the founding members and numerous other leaguers assembled outside of Paris and liaison with several armies from around the world. Batman, being the most brilliant strategist on the planet was given tactical command. He sat in his Batmobile AKA The Tumbler, and prepared the assault.

Once the artillery barrage ended, the assault began. The League's strength were divided into quarters, one quarter to protect the Watchtower, two others were to remain in reserve and the last, the current one, attacking the Gordanians in Paris. Batman had no doubt that this was just an advance element and there'd be more to come. Bruce wondered where the Spartan was, but with the force that was attacking the Gordanians, the fight would be over quickly with the humans being the victors.

"Zvezda, commence attack from the eastern approach. All Airborne units deploy at the CBD, and take the area, we want to weaken the Gordanian formations," Batman ordered "All armoured elements assault the city from the north. Foxtrot, attack from the south. Yankee, mount up, attack from the west and smash through the city and join up with Zvezda, move swiftly guys. 10th and 13th Squadron, support Yankee. 15th Squadron and 16th Squadron, keep any Gordanian airborne and fighters off 10th and 13th."

Batman continued to reel out his orders. So far, the attack went accordingly and the Gordanians were being pushed back.

"Batman, this is Zvezda, we've got Yankee and Kestrel units in support of our attack, we've just linked up with the airborne units at the CBD," a radio operator said with a mild Russian accent.

"Copy that," replied Batman, "maintain your position, we don't want any Gordanians slipping through.

"Batman," said a Commandant with a French accent, "my men have spotted a Gordanian ship, its burning through our positions, Gordanina counter attack is very heavy, we can't hold out for much longer, Beta can't help us, they are under heavy attack as well."

"Okay, I'll rally some men, we'll be there soon," Batman switched to the Justice League com system, "Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash and Hawkgirl, follow me, we need to help some pinned downed elements,"

Bruce full throttled the Tumbler's engine and blasted a way through Paris with the vehicles' armaments.

"Batman," Superman spoke "how exactly are we going to take on a Gordanian crusier? I mean there's only one right now but remember last time?"

"Just listen to Hawkgirl," the Dark Knight replied sternly, "she knows how to deal with them,"

Twenty minutes into the fight Superman and Wonder Woman was down after being hit by the Cruiser's weapons. Hawkgirl was busy smashing some Gordanian skulls, Flash taunting the hell out of the winged monsters and GL covering the French forces.

"We can't pull back just yet, we need to get these men away," GL yelled

"We aren't even making a dent in that thing," Flash frowned

The heroes separated to cover a wider area.

The main guns charged up, preparing to obliterate the heroes and soldiers in the vicinity.

XXxxXX

The Spartan spotted the Gordanian cruiser charge up its main guns. He wished Cortana was here, he could really use a firing solution, oh well he'll have to rely on luck. He locked onto the main guns and fired, two brilliant white streaks sped towards the cruiser. The Chief tensed as he watched the missiles. He was soon rewarded by a brilliant explosion. The missiles had struck the cannons whilst they were charging up, the result; the weapons exploded taking away the shields and a large chunk of the hull. John breathed, and unleashed another two ASGM-10 missiles at the ship; he pulled the trigger and unleashed hell from his 120mm Ventral Guns. Bullets tore through the hull while the missiles blasted away at the ship's engines. John then turned the fighter around to engage other Gordanian aerial units. The Longsword weaved in and out, the Ventral guns ripping apart fighters and any Gordanians stupid enough to fly.

XXxxXX

A brilliant explosion engulfed a large portion of the ship as Batman looked up, he'd just gotten out of the tumbler to pull Superman and Wonder Woman to safety, the two just regained consciousness.

"Hera!" Diana gasped as she saw a massive plane swoop in and fired at the Gordanian crusier. Unable to sustain such damage, the ship plummeted from the sky and crashed into a hill side. Other Gordanian fighters flew to intercept the plane, but they were quickly blown to smithereens by the huge black plane.

"I think I know who that is," smiled Superman

XXxxXX

After unleashing the Longswords ordinances, John set the auto pilot to return to Majestic, he then picked up his BR55 SR, a couple of grenades, Spartan Laser, Needler and two Energy swords and jumped out of the plane. He pulled his chute and landed with a thud on the road. John unslung his battle rifle and swept the area, satisfied it was clear, he jogged towards Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.

"Spartan," Batman acknowledged

"Looks like you came just in time," Superman grinned

"Hello there," Wonder Woman said,

"Nice to meet you guys and good to see you again Superman," John spoke "I have reinforcements inbound soon,"

"Wait, there are more of you?" Superman said surprised

"Just one,"

Seconds later, two Pelican dropships descended, the first one with the warthog landed, detached the vehicle, Johnson hopped out, and the craft returned to Majestic. The second one carried a Grizzly Tank. John walked over to it, and touched the consoles to allow Cortana to merge with the armour. Once more, ice, mercury and vertigo filled his head.

"Ahh, home away from home," Cortana remarked

The dropship detached the tank and lifted off. A couple of soldiers looked at the UNSC machines of war with great curiosity and awe.

"Nice to meet you guys," Johnson said in a gruff voice, he turned to face some of the soldiers, "which one you greenhorns wanna use the warthog's guns?"

"As cool as it is, I don't like being that exposed," said a soldier

"Heck," said another named James Winfield "I'll do it,"

Winfield jumped onto the back and manned the weapon. Johnson climbed into the driver seat.

"Anyone wanna ride shotgun? Hmm? No takers eh?" Johnson looked around for a bit, "alright Chief, let's do this,"

John entered the Grizzly tank, closed the hatch and started the engine. The main battle tank rumbled as it rolled over some debris and rubble. Soldiers soon formed up behind him, Johnson drove next to the tank in the warthog. Johnson, John, Batman, Wonder Woman, Superman and Foxtrot elements rallied together to help out Beta elements.

"Alert, Clarion Spy Drones show two enemy armour 100metres from our position,"

"Copy that Cortana," said John, "Sarge, you get that?"

"Loud and clear Chief," replied Johnson, he relayed the message to the other soldiers.

Superman and Wonder Woman flew overhead; nothing could impede them now, since the Gordanian cruiser was out of action.

"Enemy armour coming into view," Cortana spoke

Batman watched the Grizzly Tank that loomed in front of him, he watched intently as the dual canons opened fire. The projectiles slamming into the two Gordanian Tanks, exploding on impact creating an awesome spectacle. John then bulldozed the husks out of the way and continued.

"Nice Chief," Avery spoke

"Thanks,"

The Grizzly tank was soon joined by Abrams and Leopard tanks; together they blasted through resistances, although they lost some on the way. Johnson and Winfield drove around, weaving through the formation providing covering fire.

A platoon of Gordanians hid inside a building, halting the advance. John aimed the turret and fired two HE rounds into the building. The structure went up in flames and smoked.

"WOOO!" cheered the soldiers, "GET SOME!"

Few more strongpoints popped up, but they were quickly wiped out by White Phosphorous rounds or High Explosives.

XXxxXX

After a long hour of fighting, Beta elements were rescued, the group now headed towards the crash Gordanian ship, while other units secured the city.

"Damn, look at that Chief," said Johnson as he saw the burning Eiffel Tower. A couple of fighters flew overhead to drop their payloads, creating columns of smoke and fire in the distance.

The Foxtrot and Beta elements created a perimeter around the crashed ship. A couple of Gordanian soldiers returned fire, only to be cut down by allied sharpshooters. The heroes assembled at a courtyard. John, Johnson, Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman paced around waiting for the other heroes.

GL, Hawkgirl and Flash soon arrived. The three noticed the huge tank, and the two heavily armoured men, the taller one wore a helmet, they instant recognised who he was, Spartan-117. The other was shorter, of African descent about the same height as the heroes, and wore a matte black suit of armour without a helmet, and held a cap in his hand, a rifle in the other.

"Sorry were late, we had to help out some soldiers pinned down," Flash grinned "so what now?"

"We assault the ship and find out why the Gordanians are here," John spoke, his deep voice sounding out of the armour's speakers.

"Well this is no place for amateurs, in a tin-man's suit," GL said, "the fact that you two are willing to use guns and machines of war tells me that you are willing to use lethal force makes me very uncomfortable in working with you,"

Cortana was about to give GL the berating of his life, when Johnson beat her to the punch.

"AMATEURS!" Johnson yelled, "first of all, Mr Lightbulb these aren't Tin-suits, second you're going to need our help so watch your mouth Gunny,"

Johnson put on his cape, showing the insignia of SgtMj. GL could see that he was definitely outranked, by Avery. Johnson stepped closer continued to yell at the bald man with a goatee.

"We're are not amateurs and will not be treated as such, have you ever fought in a war that lasted for nearly three decades from start to finish? Where mankind was pushed to the edge of extinction? And some chose to flee instead of stand united? I don't think so, but the Chief and I have. Have you ever had to kill your own men because they were turning against you? We have, so suck it up Gunny and be at peace with the idea you're working with us,"

Johnson finished and walked back and stood next to the Chief.

"My apologies sir," GL saluted

"Wow," Cortana laughed, "Lightbulb, I like that,"

The heroes turned to face the Spartan with astonishment, Flash broke the silence.

"I thought you were a guy Spartan," he said

"I am," John replied

"Then who was that?" asked Wonder Woman

"It's best I reveal myself," said Cortana

John opened his palm. Cortana materialised and jumped off his hand. The heroes watched with great surprise. Cortana then enlarged herself to human size.

What stood before them was a near nude blue "woman" with symbols scrolling across her body.

"Whoa! Where have you been all my life?" Flash grinned

"I'm way out of your League flash," Cortana smiled

"Haha, rejected," chuckled Lantern

Superman was avoiding eye contact, nudity was a privacy thing. Cortana placed her hands on her hips and faced the man of steel.

"What's the matter can't handle a woman?" Cortana joked, "you're such a boy scout Superman, now to answer your question, I am a 'smart' Artificial Intelligence, assigned to the Spartan here, we've been through a lot."

Batman faced Johnson

"How about you?" the Dark Knight asked

"I am Sergeant Major Aver J. Johnson, now let's leave introductions for later and finish this,"

XXxxXX

The heroes assembled near the fallen cruiser, Foxtrot and Beta elements had retreated to form a large perimeter.

"Well let's get this done and over with, Chief" Johnson said in his gruff voice.

He threw his Sweet William Cigar on the ground and stamped it out.

"I thought you were called Spartan-117?" asked Superman

"He's called by a couple of names," said Cortana through the helmet speakers.

"Such as?" Wonder Woman queried

"Demon, 117, Master Chief, Chief, Freak, Section Three Freak, Sierra-117, Spartan-117, Spartan and the last one I will not say because of confidentiality,"

"Mind telling us how he got those names?" GL asked

"Everything we'll be explained Lightbulb, now let's do this," said Johnson

John peaked from cover, numerous Gordanians stood guard, the volume of fire would be thick you could walk on it. There was also a Red-Sunlight generator.

"Hmm, we might have a problem," said Cortana, "They have Red-Sunlight generators,"

"I would be useless there," Superman frowned

"You could help elsewhere Superman, they know your weakness," said Batman in his cold and calm demeanour, "we'll call you once we've gotten the generators down,"

Superman nodded and flew off to help other units in the city.

"Aww man," Flash complained, "shame Supes not gonna be with us,"

Batman turned to face Flash

"Flash, you're the fastest person here, knock out a position so we can advance," Batman ordered

"Are you nuts! I'll be torn to ribbons; I can't move fast enough to dodge all that, why don't we just call in Artillery? Soften them up,"

"Artillery is unavailable," Batman growled

"Why don't we wait?"

"They'll counter-attack,"

"Why don't we get some tanks to blast our way in?"

"They have anti-tank emplacements,"

"Airstrike?"

"They have AA guns,"

"How about GL create us a shield to cover us?"

"Some of them have Nth metal," interjected Shayera, "Lantern's ring would be rendered ineffective,"

"Well I'm outta ideas, any ideas Chief?" Flash asked, "Chief?"

He looked around to see the Spartan crouching, and shouldered his Spartan Laser. The weapon charged up forming a forming a scarlet ball formed at the end, a red laser streaked out and blasted a Gordanian position. The Gordanians returned fire, forcing the Chief to duck.

"We'll there goes our element of surprise," Flash said

"I took out their thermal sensors," John remarked

"Why?" asked Hawkgirl

"So I can do this," the Spartan replied

The Leaguers watched as the active camouflage kicked in.

"Hiding like that is a cowards way," frowned Wonder Woman

"This is modern warfare ma'am," said Johnson, "either you adapt or die,"

John sneaked towards the Gordanian positions. There were hundreds of them; weapons at the ready, none of them knew he was near. His motion sensors swarmed with red dots as he moved behind them. The Spartan placed his C12 charges with great care; he armed them, and moved away. He returned to the heroes.

"What did you do?" asked Flash

"Watch," replied the Spartan

"I wanna big boom," said Cortana playfully.

John pressed the detonator. A split second later a thunderous roar flooded the area, followed by smoke and dust. Johnson coughed, the whole Gordanian defensive line went up in flames, however the Red-Sunlight rays were still present.

"Okay move up, Johnson cover me" said John

"Right behind you Chief," said Johnson

XXxxXX

The team moved into the huge ship.

"Keep it tight," whispered John

Numerous red blotches appeared on his motion sensors.

"Hostiles inbound,"

"Copy, Chief,"

John motioned his hands to signal everyone to spread out and find cover. The doors parted, to reveal a trio of angry Gordanians. John and Johnson wasted no time and pulled the trigger. A couple of successive bursts from their rifles barked. The Gordanian soldiers stumbled and clutched their bleeding chests their rib cage shattered and their lungs punctured they didn't last long. The winged beings collapsed to the ground.

"Chief I need to access the system," Cortana spoke

John walked over to a console and placed his hand down. He felt Cortana leave him as she entered the ship's system. The heroes just simply watched the Spartan and his never-ending spectacles of surprises. Johnson on the other hand, kept watch. Cortana appeared on a nearby Holo-projector

"I'm in Chief," the AI looked around, "wow this place is sloppy, worse than the Covenant, It took me a few seconds to hack into the Covenant systems on Ascendant Justice, here it took me only a fraction of the time,"

"So what do we have Cortana?"

"Red-Sunlight Generators are at the back of the ship on the second level, control room is obviously at the front, and we have numerous units of Gordanian soldiers on the lower levels,"

"Okay, lets split up," said Batman, "GL go with Shayera and secure the lower levels, Spartan with me and Wonder Woman we'll take the control room, Flash and Johnson, destroy the Red-Sunlight generators,"

"You got it," smiled the UNSC Marine as he shouldered his rifle, "C'mon Speedie,"

The team spilt and headed off to complete their objectives.

XXxxXX

Flash felt uneasy working with a man who was willing to use lethal force. Johnson in front of him moved swiftly, so far Flash had seen the man wipe out an entire Gordanian squad in less than a second. The two neared a corridor and prepared to open it, when it burst open before Flash could touch the panel. In the door way stood five battle ready Gordanians.

"What the?" Johnson yelled

The surprise attack came to fast for him as he was thrown a few metres back, by a Gordanian, and another shot him. Johnson shouldered his rifle and fired a quick burst into the back. One Gordanian dropped as three rounds punctured his chest. The soldier coughed blood while sprawling on the floor. His comrade who stood behind him wasn't so lucky either, as the three rounds over penetrated the first and slammed into him. Two down with three bullets, Flash then waved his arms creating a gush of air which knocked the remaining three off their feet. The Red Speedster ran over to them and knocked them out. He then looked at the Johnson, who just got back onto his feet. There was a smouldering patch on his chest plate, the Sergeant Major examined his wound, and upon discovering it was just a flesh wound, he bandaged it and moved on.

"Let's move on Speedie," grunted Johnson

"Right behind you,"

XXxxXX

Superman flew around Paris, shooting down enemy fighters while helping stranded soldiers, he just wished his teammates would be done in destroying the generator so he could help out.

XXxxXX

Shayera and Lantern were wreaking hell around the ship, burning their way through any resistances from the Gordanians. A Gondanian soldier swung at the Thanagarian, she then ducked and slammed her mace into the soldier's abdomen sending him rolling head over heels into a corners.

Lantern formed and wall with his ring, and knocked back a couple of Gordanian soldiers and shielding Shayera from oncoming fire.

Shayera charged into an oncoming horde of Gordanian soldiers, angry at the species that destroyed her people. She swung her mace upwards, and from that, a sickening wet thwack was heard as a Gordanian soldier's jaw was crushed and head snapped back. Shayera turned around and swung her mace low, causing a whole line to trip.

Once the small skirmish was over, Green Lantern used his wring to cut a large whole in the floor so that they could descend to lower levels.

"John we have more inbound!" yelled Shayera

Another squad of Gordanian soldiers appeared, these ones were no the melee troops. They carried rifles. John projected a shield over him and Shayera as they fired; John Stewart hoped that this lot didn't have Nth metal among them. He then quickly expanded the bubble. The squad were knocked on their backs and out of the fight.

"Let's move,"

XXxxXX

Miranda stood in the control room of Majestic. Cortana had left a "Dumb" AI program to help her out. Oddly enough, the AI's name was T.H.O.M, Temporary Helper of Majestic. Miranda called him Thom.

"Thom,"

"How may I be of service Commander?" The AI replied

"Patch me through to the Chief,"

"As you wish,"

The Spartan's voice soon sounded through the speakers.

"Chief?"

"Yes Commander?"

"What's the situation?"

"We've breached the Gordanian's defences, most of the Allied units in Paris are mopping up. Several Leaguers, me and Johnson are attacking their ship; we should have it done by Lunch time,"

"Got it Chief, keep me informed,"

"Yes ma'am,"

XXxxXX

The Comlink winked off as the Commander finished. John, Batman and Wonder Woman rounded a corner, so far there were no resistance, but speak of the devil. They reached a four-way corridor, the three doors in front of them blasted opened. Cortana shut the Gordanians out of the system but she couldn't stop them from blowing up the doors.

"Sorry Chief, they broke through,"

"It's okay,"

A lance of Gordanian soldiers opened fire on Wonder Woman, who then deflected the lasers with her bracelets. John was surprised at this, how could she see the lasers so she could block them? They travel as fast as light, one conclusion, judging from Wonder Woman's heritage it was a slight precognitive ability. Stuffing away his thoughts he aimed his rifle and fired. Batman rushed forward to engage the Gordanians in hand to hand combat. He threw a bat-shuriken at the first, struck low and fast in the second's stomach, and swept the third's feet, but there were still more. The Gordanian troops rushed forward, not bothering to use ranged weapons, just melee. John slung his rifle onto his back, and un-holstered his needler gun. He aimed the Covenant weapon and unleashed a barrage of pinkish purple crystalline projectiles at the enemy. Some were struck in the chest, others stomach or neck. The shards then exploded causing more damage to the soldiers.

Batman and Wonder Woman looked in astonishment at the weapon. It was like no other they had seen. They saw the projectiles track and guide themselves into a target then exploded seconds later.

One poor Gordanian soldier was unlucky enough to be embedded with seven needler rounds in his stomach. The Spartan was rewarded by witnessing a pinkish purple explosion, with bits of flesh and bone flying everywhere.

Another squad appeared, and fired upon Wonder Woman, who then blocked all of the attacks. She flew to one side of the massive corridor, the soldiers continuing to shoot at Wonder Woman. Another formation appeared, these soldiers carried heavy weapons. Wonder Woman was caught in the vice. If both sides fired, she'd be in no position to block the attacks. Batman was still busy dealing with another wave, and the Chief hadn't yet reloaded his needler.

"Wonder Woman!" yelled Batman, "Look out!"

He threw a limp Gordanian into another.

John rushed to step between Wonder Woman and the recently appeared Gordanians. They opened fire, Wonder Woman and Batman was half-expecting for the Spartan to be totally annihilated by such firepower, but was surprised to see him engulfed by a golden glow that protected him from enemy fire. John stepped back as the lasers splashed onto his chest and forced him back. These were heavy weapons; they drained his first layer shields, and the second down to a quarter. He could hear the alarm ring in his helmet again. The Spartan had just managed to reload the needler, and levelled the weapon.

Batman, snapped out of his initial surprise, ran forward and threw numerous bat-shuriken into the soldiers. A couple grabbed their throat as the blades pieced their wind pipe. Other's just dropped.

Seeing a couple of Gordanian soldiers drop, it brought the Chief more time. He fired another volley of needler rounds into the aliens. The projectiles shattered and exploded killing the last of them.

"Thanks," said the Spartan

"Anytime," nodded Batman

"What kind of weapon is that?" asked Wonder Woman in a slight tone of disgust seeing the properties of the needler.

"It's known as a needler gun, Covenant design, the projectiles are made to track their targets and can distinguish from an inanimate object to an animate object like live beings or robots. A few seconds later after impact, the shards will explode further injuring the victim, look I know you have a lot of questions but we can answer them later,"

XXxxXX

Johnson and Flash located the generator. Johnson planted the charges while Flash covered him, knocking down any Gordanians coming their way.

"Okay, Speedie, charges set let's get out of here," said Johnson.

The two left the room, after reaching minimal safe distance, Johnson detonated the explosives, the entire ship shook and vibrated from the force. They then went to regroup with Shyaera and Green Lantern.

XXxxXX

Green Lantern and Hawkgirl fought down another horde, however an explosion caught Green Lantern off guard, knocking the former Marine off his feet. A he landed on the ground unconscious a few metres away from Hawkgirl.

"John!" she yelled

Three surviving Gordanian soldiers surrounded Hawkgirl, but kept their distances. She was on the wrong end of power here. The soldiers aimed their weapons at Shayera. She braced for the end.

XXxxXX

John position himself next to the blast doors that opened to the control room. Inside would be very pissed off Gordanian skirmish leaders. The Spartan placed a frame charge on the door. Batman formed up behind him.

"Three, two, one, mark," whispered John

A split second later, the doors were blown inwards. The Chief rushed into the room, which was when his Spartan time kicked in. Everything began to move slowly, Gordanian soldiers barely reacting his shock and awe tactic. He aimed down the sights, and fired, the first winged lizard like thing in front of the Spartan was caught dead on in the forehead. John shifted his aim left, and planted three more rounds into another soldier's chest, the invader's chest exploding with blood and bone. Batman moved in behind the Spartan, shifting to the right. He threw a bat-shuriken a Gordanian, all finding its place in the invader's jugular. The Dark Knight switched to his batarang and threw it at a soldier taking cover. The weapon whipped around in the area and zeroed in on the target, the alien twitched and fell to the floor.

One second, four targets down. Wonder Woman hovered into the room, and admired the Spartan and Batman's skill.

"Cortana," said John, "What do you have for me?"

The AI appeared on a holo-projector.

"Well Chief, the Gordanian home world has been destroyed, because of over population, and now since Earth is the closest suitable planet, they're going to colonise on Earth and use the inhabitants as slaves, these guys are just scout elements, the bulk of their forces will be here in a three more months, at the latest."

"Why would it take them that long?" asked Wonder Woman

"Inferior deep-space travel technology, but they are coming,"

XXxxXX

Shayera heard the weapons cocking. She breathed, waiting for burning lasers to cut through her. Three quick loud gunshots cracked, Shayera expected to see three smouldering holes in her body. She looked up to see a Gordanian's head riddled with three bullet holes, seeping out a brainy, bloody mess. Before the others could react, a red streak swooped in slamming them to the ground.

"Hey Hawkgirl, you owe me Lunch,"

Hawkgirl just smiled.

"Ow, my head," groaned GL as he clutched his head, trying to sit up.

"Easy Gunny," said Johnson as he helped Stewart up, "quite a hit you took there,"

"Thanks, sir,"

"Anytime Marine, this the last of them?"

"Yeah, let's go regroup,"

Flash activated his comlink and called Superman.

"Hey Supes?"

"Yes Flash?"

"We've destroyed the generators,"

"I'll see if I can come, but I've just found a number of civilians still trapped, I'm trying to get them out,"

"Okay Supes, I'll see you later,"

XXxxXX

After a quick mop-up of the city, Superman returned to the crash site and helped dismantle the Gordanian ship.

"What now?" asked Flash

"We wait," said the Spartan in his deep voice.

"For what?" Superman queried

"For the rest of them to arrive,"

With his last statement, John, Johnson and the two UNSC vehicles disappeared from Paris.

XXxxXX

John, Miranda and Johnson returned to their daily routines. John was anxious as hell; he pondered the idea of sallying out into deep space and engage the Gordanian fleet head on with the Dreadnought. Majestic's sheer firepower and technological advancements could possibly halt the entire fleet. A slipspace rupture could do the trick, but then again, the chances of Majestic being destroyed when it caused such event was very high.

No, he'd wait alongside with Earth's heroes and make a stand. Putting away his doubts, he hit the shower, turned it on and let the hot water cascade down his body. Such things were luxuries to him.

XXxxXX

At the Micro Dyson Sphere of Onyx…

Kelly sat on a rock, contemplating her life. Around her sat Linda and Fred, her old friends, and the new arrivals, the Spartan III members Ash, Olivia, Mark, Tom and Lucy. They all huddled around the camp fire playing cards. The fastest human to have ever lived (in the Halo Universe) ate some of the supplies from the caches the found lying around in the Micro Dyson Sphere

Kelly opened her roster, and there was the name of the defacto leader of all the Spartans, John-117. She remembered how they part ways when Doctor Halsey took her away to Onyx.

The Spartan II fought around Earth, and finally arriving at Onyx, she wondered how the war was going, in her mind there was a very strong possibility that Earth was glassed and Humanity is effectively extinct. But there was John; he always won in the end.

"Kelly you with us?" Interrupted Linda

"Yeah, I'm fine,"

"We'll see him again," Fred said softly

"How'd you know?" Kelly was quite surprised how they managed to read her like an open book; well then again, no one was wearing a helmet, so her expressions were easy to read.

"Kell," said Linda "it's kinda obvious you two have a special bond,"

That was quite true; Kelly and John had been through quite a bit together.

"I miss him," she sighed

"We all do," said Fred playing around with his combat knife

The Spartan III looked on quizzically, not too sure of what was going on.

"So what was it you're after?" Kelly asked

"Well, you wanna play cards with us?" Fred grinned

Kelly was fully into the card game, most of the time, her attention was on Fred and Linda, the two Spartans had developed a great level of affection for each other. Kelly remembered how she went out to get some water in the night and accidentally stumbled on a sleeping Fred and Linda. Linda had her head resting on Fred's shoulders, while Fred's head was resting on Linda's head.

Dr Halsey sat from afar, still figuring out how to thaw out Team Katanna, so far, nothing was working. She decided to take a break and watch the Spartans.

"They seem to be bonding quite well," said Mendez

"Yes they are,"

"You think he's still out there?"

"I hope so, otherwise we are the last of our kind," sighed Halsey

XXxxXX

Another day past, Linda was already out on patrol, Kelly took the time to bathe in the warm waters of a stream nearby. It had been awhile since she had such luxuries; Kelly just relaxed as the currents soothed her aching muscles.

"Guys?" Linda called over the comlink

"What is it?" replied Fred

Kelly quickly put on her body suit, then the armour plates.

"I think I've found something,"

XXxxXX

The survivors quickly assembled around Linda, they stood at a n open green meadow by the riverside, Linda had stumbled upon a portal and activated it.

They could see what was on the other side, a beautiful Greek-like seaside, the pristine blue skies, and the soft waves on the white sand. Further away from the beach were Greek buildings on a hillside. Each of them had splendid creamy white pillars decorated with curtains of many colours.

Kelly was the first to step through; she could see some people in the distance. It beats staying in the shield world, so they voted to go through.

"Kell gimmie a hand with this," grunted Linda as she hauled the Forerunner Cryostubes

Mendez was the last to step through. All of them were standing on the sandy white beach, well except for Team Katana who was still in their cryo slumber.

"Where are we sir?" asked Ash

"I wish I knew that," replied Fred

"I have a gut feeling we're not where we want to be," said Mark

"I second that," added Tom

"We have company," said Mark with a tone of urgency, he gripped his sniper rifle.

A number of women on horseback and foot surrounded the survivors of Onyx, and aimed their spears.

"What makes them think they pierce our armour with spears?" said Olivia

"I'm going to go on limb and say that we are not home-sweet-home," Kelly joked

"Aww gee ya think Kell?" said Linda sarcastically

The Spartan IIIs stared at the two Spartan IIs, not quite getting their inside joke.

"Who are you? And why are you here?" asked the leader of the female warriors, she had wavy brunette hair and a slightly revealing set of armour.

Fred was the first to reply, "We are soldiers and scientists looking for a way to get back home,"

"You are from the Patriarch's world; you are not allowed to be here,"

"The what, world?" asked Mendez perplexed.

The warrior stared at these newcomers; they looked absolutely fearsome in their armour.

"The Queen will decide your fate; now surrender your weapons,"

Fred nodded to the Spartans; they threw over their weapons to the female warriors.

"Why are we surrendering?" asked Mark.

"Let's just play along till we find out where we are,"

Fred, Linda and Kelly silently activated their transponders.

XXxxXX

The Spartans were led by armed guards through the streets of this lovely Greek city, Halsey would have enjoyed the walk along the paved pathways, but having armed guards, was unnerving. Especially when there were no males, save for the UNSC personnel, in the city and all the females gave them those sneering looks.

Arriving at what appeared to be a palace; Halsey took in the site of the magnificent structure. The sun hit the building at the right angle, giving it the appearance that it was glowing, the white marble pillars in particular.

Moving through the courtyard, the Doctor could tell that this building was not, as some would say, enclosed, but it was open and flowing.

"Where are all the men?" whispered Kelly.

"Beats men" replied Linda.

They soon met the Queen in the main hall of the palace, it dawned on them that wherever they are, the people weren't kind to outsiders, and they preferred to isolate themselves from whatever there is out there.

"It seems that you came here by accident," Queen Hippolyta began, "I sense that you mean no harm, so it is best that you are sent back into the world of men,"

The group noticed how the Queen mentioned "The World of Men,"

Fred was even more surprised at how quickly they were let off the hook, but now is not the time to question the Queen.

XXxxXX

Diana, sat in her seat drinking ice mocha with Shayera and Supergirl, the three were talking about the latest gossip going around the Watchtower II. They laughed and joked, and at one point, prodded at each other's love life. Diana teased Shayera about Hawkman, Shayera then countered the statement for Diana's affection for a certain Mr Tall, Dark and Broody. The group's conversation was soon interrupted when Queen Hippolyta contacted Diana. The Amazon Princess then responded to the call.

"What is it?" asked Supergirl

"There are some people from the world of men who mysteriously arrived at Themyscira," Diana replied, "my mother wants me to return them home, it shouldn't be too hard,"

"Can we tag along?" asked Shayera, having nothing better to do.

"Sure," smiled Diana.

They finished off their drinks and went towards the hangar bay.

XXxxXX

Fred, and the rest of the group were herded towards a landing pad, there, they were given back their weapons. Fred gladly sheathed his combat knives into the scabbards underneath his upper arm plate. Kelly armed up with her dual SMGs, Linda and Mark with their respective sniper rifles, and the rest of the team with their assault rifles and carbines.

A huge craft landed about five minutes later. Out stepped three women, one looked like a beautiful goddess with raven hair, the other had piecing green eyes, red hair, wings of an angel and carried a mace, and the last had an 'S' insignia on her chest. The three flew… that's right flew over to the Spartans.

"We are sooo not home sweet home," whispered Olivia

"I second that," said Kelly

XXxxXX

Wonder Woman stepped out of the Javelin, she saw eight armoured figures stand before her; they reminded her of Spartan-117. The other two were smaller in stature, but something about them gave a feel that they were given a great deal of respect, and next to them were a couple of tubes that contained armour inside it.

"My name is Princess Diana; I am here to take you home,"

The flight back to the Watchtower was very tense for the Leaguers, inside the very same Javelin they were in, were people who had armour similar to that of Spartan-117. It didn't take a genius to connect the dots that they were similar to 117.

XXxxXX

Kelly looked outside the windows of the Javelin, there was Earth in all its splendour, though there was a slight problem, there was no UNSC fleet or MAC stations. It was a good thing her helmet hid her emotions.

The craft landed inside the massive hangar bay of the Watchtower, the UNSC personnel stepped off the shuttle and retrieved their gear, a few leaguers stopped and looked at the spectacle within their sights.

"We will try and contact a person that might be able to help you," said Diana, "Please make yourself comfortable in the common room,"

With that statement, she left, and the Spartans sat down.

"Okay ideas on where we are?" asked Linda

"Nothing,"

"Not a clue,"

"Nadda,"

Dr Halsey pushed her glasses further up the bridge of her nose.

"We are in an alternate reality," she finally said

With the time they had on their hands, Halsey gave the Spartans a lecture.

XXxxXX

"Chief," said Cortana

John was just leaving the office building and headed for his warthog, his pale skin was now of a natural colour.

"Yeah?"

"You're not going to believe this; Majestic has picked up UNSC transponders,"

"What?" John climbed into the Warthog and started the engines.

"To be precises, the transponders belong to Fred, Kelly and Linda,"

"Where are they?" the Chief wanted to see his teammates again, it was all he could think of.

"They are in the Watchtower, currently in orbit above Madagascar,"

"On my way,"

Arriving home, John donned his armour and shot off into space in a Pelican dropship.

XXxxXX

"So what are we going to do?" asked Superman

The founding members of the Justice League sat in their private area, discussing about the Spartans.

"We could try and contact 117, and see what he can do," suggested Flash

"Problem is, we don't know where to find him," said Batman coldly

"Well, well, well, looks like the greatest detective can't solve a mystery," said Diana as she gave Bruce playfully in the shoulder.

They all expected Bruce to give Diana one of his feared Bat-glares, but he didn't he faced her for half a second, but gave a small smile and returned to the task at hand.

"Don't worry about finding him Batman, he's coming here,"

The Leaguers looked onto the security feed, J'onn had just cleared the Spartan for landing, and now he was docking inside the hangar.

XXxxXX

The founding members met up with the Chief, he told them he'll take care of things.

"Wait," said Flash, "you haven't told us who you guys are yet,"

"That's classified," John replied.

XXxxXX

Kelly sat on a chair, the Spartan's still had their helmets on and their visors polarised. She and Linda were playing a game of chess, when she heard a voice she had not heard from for a long time. They heard the tune Oly Oly Oxen Free. Only the Spartan IIs and very small numbers of outsiders new what that meant. Kelly stood up and walked over to her old friend John, and reached out to his faceplate, forming a smile with her index and middle finger. John returned the same gesture to Kelly's faceplate. Fred and Linda walked over, and formed a smile on their own visors.

"We're all free," Linda smiled.

The Leaguers watched them from afar. From their familiarity, they were very close.

"So much for emotional outburst," sighed Flash.

John quickly lead the Spartans, Halsey and Mendez to the Pelican. He gunned the engines, and the dropship flew out of the hangar bay, to the other side of the Earth where Majestic awaited.

"How'd you get here John?" asked Dr Halsey

"Well Cortana and I drifted derelict after the destruction of the Ark, we were helped by a Forerunner monitor, he gave us a ship and new gear to travel back to Earth,"

"That explains the new armour," commented Linda

The Spartan IIIs looked at the Master Chief, the one that so many have heard legends about.

"So how goes the war effort?" Mendez asked

"Well sir," John replied

"You outrank me now Chief," smiled Mendez

"It doesn't really matter, as I was saying sir, I joined up with Commander Miranda Keyes, and we followed the Prophet of Regret's ship to Delta Halo, where I killed Regret. Afterwards I arrived on the Covenant home world High Charity which was currently under Flood infestation and where the Prophet of Mercy died, at the same time the Brutes started to commit mass genocide on the Elites. The Elites separated from the Covenant, and allied themselves with us. Together we were able to defend Earth, the remaining Covenant forces opened a portal on Earth which lead to the Ark, a large station that's capable of building the Halo rings. The Ark was currently building a replacement for Installation 04 aka Alpha Halo. We were planning to activate it, to destroy the Flood and the Covenant. In the process, Commander Keyes and SgtMj Johnson lost their lives. The Arbiter and me barely made it off the Ark, we used Forward Unto Dawn to escape, but the slipspace portal collapsed, cutting the frigate clean in half. I assumed the Arbiter made it back to Earth. Whereas I and Cortana remained in the derelict ship, until awoken by a Forerunner AI. It helped us, revived SgtMj Johnson and Commander Keyes and that was how we ended up here, apparently disruption from crystal fragments similar to the one we found on Reach, allowed inter-dimensional travel."

"So where are you taking us John?" asked Halsey

"To Majestic,"

"Majestic?" asked Olivia

Right about then, Majestic de-cloaked, revealing a massive Forerunner ship.

XXxxXX

(The reviews and questions below were posted before I reformatted and edited my story. 6/6/2011)

Minnesota Supremacist
2011-03-16 .

I have another question. Why is GL (a USMC veteran) so condemning of lethal force? It doesn't make any sense at all. Freedom Guard made a thin argument that the time in the Green Lantern Corps changes his outlook, but seriously? If any of the guys who served with him heard that, he'd be called a pussy. What's up with that?

To answer your question, he's more of the abhorrent of lethal force, if I made him seem condemning, I wasn't aiming for that, but I guess that was the outcome. Anyway he's a Green Lantern so its doctrine should have had some effect (because killing is bad for a Green Lantern, unless they're an Alpha Green Lantern I believe); anyway I'll have Johnson talk to him later in the story.

Please review.

I have totally forgotten who was in Team Katana, sooo yeah, if you could help me out that would be great, I'm pretty sure though that Eric Nylund didn't go into depths with Team Katana, so I might let them be, and not bother with them.

Author's Note:

Please review and tell me what you think. I'll post the second chapter soon. Anyway I do apologise about the slight hiccups in the flow of the story. The Batman in this I am portraying will be DC comics Batman and Christian Bale Batman combined. Though I am reluctant to include the Batclan.

Optimistic, cheerful at times, I'm not really big on his loner personality so I'm going to tune it down a bit, that's why I went with Christian Bale's Batman.

Conray's voice though. Sweet armour and gear,

Michael Caine style Alfred and of course the Heath Ledger's Joker (but we won't see this fella for a bit).

I know the idea of the Bruce Wayne, Lucius Fox, Alfred Pennyworth, Batclan, and most of JL members aging being halted are unexpected but we all want them to live forever don't we? So that was the most logical way to do it, besides it Wayne Enterprise I'm pretty sure if they devoted more to halt aging they would have, after all its Lucius in RnD. Anyway I'm ranting so I'm gonna stop but you all get the point.

Note: The Halo characters, yes their aging have also been halted, but due to Forerunner technology.

Author's notes

A message to all you readers who have gotten here so far

AHHH! Found some mistakes in Chapter 3 right after I posted it, oh well, those mistakes were slight grammatical errors that most people will read over.

Jacob
2011-03-13 . chapter 2

Good update. I like fight scenes, it was good and an excellent way for the League to let Chief join. It has brought a few things in mind

1. Chief might need a jet pack or something for a flight ability, besides a pelican.

2. Will there be any pairings in this story? Will Johnson, Miranda, and Cortana get a pairing?

3. Does Chief's armour have other abilites like armor lock, drop shield, hologram?

4. Will Chief reveal his origins to a few people?

5. Do you plan on involving anymore Halo characters like the Spirit of Fire, Spartans on Onyx, Jorge, Nicole, the Arbiter?

That is all for now, this is a great story just I hope you do something about that immortality thing, anyway I hope you answer some of my questions like the pairing, and update soon.

Well to answer your questions Jacob.

Question 1: He will get a Jetpack later, I decided to keep the Pelican Dropship in there for the Halo element of the story.

Question 2: It will be tough on my part to find suitable pairings for Johnson because he already has been paired (if you have read the novel Halo Contact Harvest) with Jilan al-Cygni.

For Miranda Keyes, I'm not exactly too sure on who to pair up with her maybe Flash (lmao) or a regular civilian. And Cortana, well she's an AI so no, I'm not going to pair her with someone.

Question 3: The Chief's armour does have other abilities, for one he will have a holographic projector for presentations, and a few others I will add along the way. But I don't want to make the Chief rely on his armour too much, and be near invincible to the standard being.

Question 4: Well the current one; is where the Chief and Avery will show the League clips from their cameras during their careers and add commentary.

However I'm nowhere near that stage of the story so people, please vote on how you want the Chief to reveal his origins.

Question 5: I'm going to try and include the Spartans trapped at Onyx, the way I'll have them come to the alternate reality is that they find a portal in the Micro Dyson Sphere and it somehow leads them to Themyscira.

Sadly I can't add the Arbiter because there's just too much work to put in having him there.

If you have any other suggestions I'm open to it.

Please tell me what you think about my ideas before I right it.

Now with the immortality thing, I can't stress it enough, it's an elixir that is injected into the subject to halt their ageing; however it doesn't last forever and must constantly be reapplied. It doesn't make them invulnerable or anything it just halts the ageing process. The reason to why I have done this is this story is going to stretch over many years and I want to keep Alfred in the story, (I'll include him later).

With Nano-bots, I figured that a civilisation that expanded across the galaxy, found a way to accelerate evolution on species and managed to build things that would practically last forever would have found a way to halt ageing, so there. After all it's 556 Everlasting Entity who resurrected Miranda Keyes and Aver J. Johnson and it would be in his protocols to bring every human he encounters up into top condition.