Summary: Four heros from world war 3 are found in a forerunner complex hidden far beneath the city of Ottawa. The four of them are awakened and thrust into the fight against The Covenant alongside The Master Chief.

Disclaimer// I do not own Halo, it's character, locations, weapons, armor, vehicles, starships, aliens, plot, AI, etc. Bungie owns them. The only things I own are the characters of Darren, Dilios, Emma, Alex and Chris. I also own the changes made to the timeline.

AN// This fic is in essence Halo: Combat Evolved, but with some changes in it. It will be part of a larger series, most likely 5 or 6 fics long. The series will include Halo 2, Halo 3, and the novels First Strike and parts of The Ghosts of Onyx. I might begin to writing my own storyline after the end of writing the fics, but I wont know until after I finish writing the other fics. If you don't like what I'm doing with Halo, the back button is at the top of your web browser, learn how to use it. If you haven't already stopped reading, feel free to keep reading. I will accept constructive criticism, but flames will just be deleted. A big round of cyber applause to Eric Nylund, who wrote three of the five halo novels and is very involved with the halo universe. On with the story now.

Prologue

Earth, Mid 2017

As the war raged on around the world, four young adults raced to the secret installation they had found some years previous with cryostasis tubes there. Upon reaching the installation, the leader of the four started activating the systems within the chamber. The other three climbed into the tubes and Darren activated those three tubes. He then recorded a video message for whomever would find them in the future. Setting a five-minute time delay on the final stasis tube, he climbed in and waited for the tube to activate.

The lives of these four young adults would later prove to be the most important part in the war. Darren, the leader had lead a hard, war torn life; from his childhood with his father being a soldier, through his teenage years training, and into his adulthood as a soldier himself. The war had changed him much. As a teen, he hadn't experienced the typical teenage rebellion that came from youth and the experimentation with everything. Now that he was an adult, he'd started experiencing life as he should have years before. Life, he found, truly was a journey.

Emma; the female of the quartet, had spent her life growing up in a broken home. Her father was for the most part a drunk, and beat his wife and kids. Emma, as the oldest of her and her siblings, had it as bad as her mother did. When Emma was about fifteen, her mother, her, and her siblings managed to get away from their abusive father and into a better life where she met Darren. Though she came from a broken home, Emma grew into a beautiful and happy young woman. Her post-secondary years were spent at university learning whatever she could, but focused on the sciences so that she could help her closest friend, Darren.

The second male, Alex, was slightly younger than the other three, but meant no less to Darren than Emma and Chris. Alex was a short and skinny young man. He stood only 5'7" compared to Darren and Emma's 5'11" and 5'9", respectively and Chris' 6'4". As Alex was only just out of college, he hadn't really had the chance to do anything significant with his life. His crowning achievement was only completing the astrophysics and quantum physics degrees at the foremost college in the country.

Chris, the final member of the four, was the martial artist of the group. His bight, caring blue eyes, betrayed his quiet, yet strong nature. His early life had been spent out on the streets until a Samurai found him at age five. He was taken in by this samurai and trained as one himself. His lean, muscular build made him look a little scrawny at his height of 6'4". His flowing brown hair he kept in a simple ponytail at the nape of his neck. His clothing reflected the older, more forgotten style of the mid 20th century samurai, while the other three wore more gothic/military type attire. As he had grown up as a samurai, he felt it necessary to wear what he did to honour the past.

As Darren stepped into his tube and let it close, the other three activated. As he wait for his to activate, he wondered if he would ever wake up again.