A/N: Hi Everybody! This is my first fan fic! I have only written a chapter but I will write more! A friend turned me on to the Fan fic site and so I decided to try to make a story. But anyways please review! (No flames) Enjoy the Story!

Disclaimer: I don't own Halo or anything pertaining to Halo (so please don't sue)

Book: 1

Halo: Time Net

Prologue

330 Hours, December 17th, 1996 (Military Calendar)

Valley Of The Kings, Egypt

Dr Clancy waited in anticipation as his crew began to unearth what looked like a wall. He was the professor of archeology at the University of Georgetown in Washington DC. At age 31 and 6'5 weighing 225 lbs he looked more like a basketball player than a professor. He had flown in after a review of new satellite imagery that revealed a building 20ft underground in the burial place of the Valley of the Kings, west of the Nile River. He was amazed that it hasn't been discovered for the sheer size it is.

"Dr Clancy, I think we found something!" his aide called. He rushed over to the excavation site, to his amazement he saw the entrance to an intricate building with architecture he had never seen before. The building itself gleamed as if it was made yesterday and looked alien.

"Amazing" he said as he jumped into the pit. "I need a team down here to explore this building"

"But sir this building is approximately as big as a 5 story building" one of the scientist called

"Nonsense, anyone who wants to come follow me" he said as he started toward the entrance. Almost everyone followed him into the building except the one scientist who had warned Dr Clancy. Everyone took pictures as they entered they entered the main chamber. The light from the entrance bounced off ancient mirrors to illuminate the chamber. Everyone looked at the walls covered in symbols that looked very alien. The only thing that was translatable was one lone Egyptian Hieroglyphic sentence on the far end of the wall.

"Dr Clancy what does this sentence say?" a crewmember pointed to the hieroglyphic.

"Well, let me see" he read it and a surprised look came to his face. He took a Polaroid picture of it and ordered a crewmember to bring it back to the surface. He then called everyone to attention.

" Every one this sentence is the only thing I can translate for the moment and it says: THE KEY OF THE FORERUNNERS IS HERE."

At that moment the scientist outside meet the crewmember that held the Polaroid picture.

"What is this?" the scientist asked as he looked at the picture

"Dr Clancy wanted me to give this to you and he said that you should email this to his office right away"

"Ok but why?"

"I don't know but…" at that moment they hear a loud slam come from the building entrance. To their horror they saw the door close with a solid stonewall. They rushed over with shovels trying to break down the wall. They then heard agonizing screams come from the inside. They then heard gunshots from Dr Clancy's revolver and the loud growls of what sounded like of that of a monster. Then silence.

215 Hours, January 1, 2005 (Present Day)

FBI Headquarter, Washington DC

"Elaine I think you need to see this" said Agent Steve Warner. Elaine turned around from her newspaper to her partner's computer. She was the lead agent in the Special Cases Unit, which handled various cases from cold cases to weird unexplained cases. She herself handled the weirdest cases, she had a perfect track record, 50 cases solved 1 unsolved. She graduated at the top of her class at the FBI academy and had a degree in criminology. She could have chosen any other unit but she had dreamed at working at cold cases ever since she was a teenager. Her mother had been murdered while she was asleep when she was 15 yrs old. Her mom had been out all night partying and was found around nine o' clock in the morning the next day in her car outside their house. She was slumped over her steering wheel with a gunshot wound in her head. The FBI investigated the case but the case turned cold and was never solved. It was the only cold case that she never solved and everyday the case plagued her mind. Why my mom? She always asked herself that question everyday but there was never an answer.

"What it is it Greg?" she asked looking away from her thoughts. She walked over to her partner's desk and saw what looked like an article for an Internet newspaper. Her partner always tried to find case for her to solve but usually failed, she found out later that this time he found something.

"I found this case in the back of the computer files and man is it weird," Greg said.

"Expedition of 50 goes missing in ancient Egyptian building," Elaine read "Now that's strange! Is it under our jurisdiction?"

"Yea, since all of them are American citizens the case belongs to us."

" What exactly happened?" she asked looking at the screen

" According to the two only survivors, they found a building in the middle of the Egyptian desert during an expedition. One of the scientists stayed behind while the rest of them explored the building, a crewmember came out to give the scientist a picture of a hieroglyphic when they heard a slam. They rushed over to the entrance to discover that it was covered with a stonewall. They tried to open it with shovel but the wall was too thick. They then heard shouts, gunshots, and growls. By the time they had calmed down and called the Egyptian authorities the sounds subsided. The Egyptians called us and we broke down the wall but we didn't find anything except for one pistol, an old .45 colt revolver, all it's rounds used.

"Strange" Elaine wondered, "Who survived?"

" Dr. Chris Garcia of Houston, Texas and George Evans of Georgetown, Washington were the only survivors but recently Mr. Evans committed suicide. But Dr. Garcia works for the University of Houston. "

" Ok, let's roll I'll fill out the papers while you get the plane tickets to Houston " she ordered. She began to walk back to her desk when her partner got up and stopped her.

" Wait just a sec! You have to do this alone, I have plans to do," he protested

" Like what?" she asked turning around staring into her partner's green eyed. " You're my partner and your suppose to have my back, especially during a case!" she said angrily. At 26 yrs old and 6'1 she looked very intimidating especially since her partner was 5'7.

"I… umm have to go to a… forensic conference, Assistant director's orders," he said nervously

"Fuck you then" she said " I'll go by myself then" she turned around and slammed her partner's door, almost breaking the glass on the door.

What did I do to piss her off? He said to himself as he slowly went back to work.

Back at Agent Elaine Clancy's desk she looks at the picture of her father on the file. Her father, Dr Roger Clancy had died that day back in 1996 in that Ancient building and she didn't know what had happened. She swore from that day on she would find out what happened to her father and maybe one day she would find out about her mother's fate. She then turned to her family picture on her desk it was her mother and father on their wedding day so many years ago. She picked up and stared at it for a few minutes. A tear fell on the picture as she put it down and picked up the phone.

"Hello, American Airlines?"