Hello readers, Thank you for exploring my Halo/Metroid story. It's going to be different, no romance will be involved between Chief and Samus. I was going to do one but thought of something different instead. Anyway I hope you enjoy the story, and just a warning my writting style is humour and family. But I will keep Master Chief's character that we all love, just with a few minor changes, such as a little more talkative, and have some more emotions. And I will definetely express Samus's personality that I have created, I hope you will like it.
Part 1 chapter 1: Discovery of young armour.
Spartan John 117, awoke too hissing sound of his cryo chamber opening. Sorry to wake you so suddenly sir, but you are needed." A marine greeted as Chief stepped out from the cryo tube. After running a few quick scans and tests, the marine got straight to the point. "Chief we have found a planet that the Covenant are digging on. We got in a bit of a dog fight, but easily pulled through. The Admiral is waiting on the bridge sir, he will brief you through the rest." Chief nodded in compliance, gazing at the other cryo pods, he could see his team had already been awoken. Leaving the chamber, the giant spartan made his way through the cooridors, into the bridge. Staring out the large lookout window was Admiral Lord Hood, beside him was Captain Laskey of the UNSC Infinity.
"Sir." Chief stood tall, at attention, saluting the Admiral. "At ease Chief." Admiral smiled, turning back to the window.
"Sorry for the quick thaw, but we need to put you to work." Lasky gave an apology, before looking down at the data pad in hand.
"Yes, we seemed to have found the Covenant attacking an unknown planet." Lord Hood gestured Chief over to the glass he stood by. Below was a dusty large planet, that Covenant cruisers were surrounding.
"The planet seems to have an advanced, ancient civilization." Lasky presented his data pad to the Chief. John looked down at the images, seeing giant bird like statues. "We sent our drones down to scout out the terrain. These are the only images we got, before the Covenant shot them down." Lasky continued, opening another image on the datapad. "And it seems that the Covenant is digging through some of the ancient stone." the image showed a few Elites and Jackles entering a huge stone doorway to a cave. Master Chief studied the photo closely. Before Lasky pulled the pad away, Chief cuaght a glimps of what looked like a small being in orange armour, standing on the stone ledge watching the invasion. "We could only guess they are looking for some weapons that cuase mass destruction."
"We would like you to fly to that location, take a team down there, and see what they are after. And retrive whatever it is they're looking for, before it falls into the wrong hands." Lord Hood gave his orders finally.
"Sir, yes sir!" Chief saluted, before being dismissed.
As he made his way to the pelican, he thought about that armoured figure he saw in the image. It looked like an advanced version of spartan armour. Could that have been one of the inhabitants of the planet, or a major threat? Either way the amoured being didn't look to large, child size even. But size did not matter when it was a threat.
"Chief you ready to go we're all set?" Kelly called from the opened pelican. Chief jogged into the fired up pelican, grabbing his assault rifle, he stood by the hatch with Kelly as it closed. "So you have any idea what this planet is, or what the natives are like?" the shift of balance changed, as they took off out of the hanger.
"I haven't the slightest clue..." Chief shrugged. "Kelly, did we send a Spartan or ODST team out for recon, while the drones were out?" John asked, turning to the female. Thinking maybe the image glitched and made the persons armour orange.
Kelly sat down beside the other female on the team. "No, why do you ask?"
"No reason." Chief went back to being silent in his thoughts alone. John braced himself as the ride got rough, obviously they were entering the atmosphere.
"Spartans, ETA five minutes." The pilot warned the team.
"Prepare yourselves, load your weapons, and take plenty of ammunition. We might be dealing with more than just the Covenant." Chief didn't have to tell his team twice, they were preped and ready before the hatch even opened.
In the distance a smaller armoured form was watching the Spartans unload out of the ship. The new aliens that invaded the planet were not the usual Space Pirates. They had interrupted her training session, and slaughtered the Chozo who raised and trained her. And now more scary looking invaders were dropping in. But to her surprise the new aliens were getting rid of the many other aliens. Cautiously, Samus decided to follow the new invaders keeping out of site, and knowing the planet like the back of her hand, she had a great advantage.
Kelly taking point, lead the team to the stone temple enterance. The team on the way, killing several snipping Jackles and suicidal grunts. Stopping at the enterance, Master Chief gazed up at where he had seen the armoured form in the image. The form was no where to be seen in site. "Chief are you coming or not!" Fred called to where the rest of the team stood halfway in the doorway. John quickly, shook off the thoughts and followed the team in.
Inside was dark, there flashlights were engaged, John knew this dark situation to well, holding his rifle in a definsive position. Cloaked Elites loved to surprise you, especially when in the dark. Only thing is was it was relatively easy to spot their armours sheen, if you're not to late. The other Spartans mimicked Chief's moves, being on high alert for anything out of the ordinary. Chief caught movement on his radar whirling around he saw a flash of orange. Before he could follow the flash a cloaked Elite attacked. As did the other Sangheili attacked the rest of the team. Chief sprayed the Sangheili with bullets depleting it's shields, it refused to back down. Tackling Chief to the ground, he hit it hard in the face, with the butt of his gun. He struggled under it's wieght and pressure. "Chief!" Kelly attempted to make her way to the struggling battle, but got blocked by five more Elites. John's shields were depleting quickly, as the Elite that was attacking ripped the rifle from him, and activated it's energy sword. As it raised it's weapon Chief knew he couldn't do much but continue his struggle, he had no chance of reach his combat knife. "Chief!"
Samus, had to make a quick decision. This was her fault, she had no idea such aliens could cloak themselves and no idea it was stalking her. She had painted a target on the leader of the good aliens, and had gotten him into trouble. The decision was made. Charging her cannon she aimed at the attacking creatures head, and released the blast.
Chief saw a blast orange, then felt the full body wieght of the Elite collapse ontop of him. And the energy of the sword fall next to his head. "What the hell was that!?" Linda asked after seeing the life saving shot. Firing her rifle at a charging Elite in the distance.
Samus sighed with relief, as the good alien pushed the lifeless husk off him, and took the sword in hand, deactivating it. Chief then looked up, over to the right, where the blast had come from. Seeing the small armoured form standing near a large, broken statue. Samus gasped at being discovered, quickly hidding behind the statue. Hoping the good alien didn't see her. Much to her avail John saw her, and proceded to follow his curiousity. "Hello?" Samus ignored the greeting. Chief crouched near the statue and continued to communicate. "I am no threat. I want to thank you for saving me." Samus shifted her position, slowly peeking her lime green mask around the statue.
After finishing off the rest Elites the team scrambled over to Chief. "Chief are you alright!" Kelly asked rushing over. John held his hand up signaling for the team to halt. The team obeyed and took offensive positions, pointing their rifles at the newly found creature. Samus saw that as a threat, wanting to point her cannon right back, she could not, because the one she had saved was in her way. So she decided to hide behind the statue once more.
"At ease Kelly." Chief ordered Kelly and the rest of the team. The team obeyed and lowered their weapons cautiously. "It's ok, they're not a threat. Come on out." The team exchanged looks and waited for something to happen.
Kelly opened a private com. "Chief what are you doing, this thing could be a threat?" Kelly warned. "Kelly if it was a threat, it wouldn't have saved my life." Chief simply replied ending the conversation.
Samus took a deep breath, closing her eyes. After a moment she slowly stood, stepping out from the statue, infront of the life she saved. The form was tall yet still small about the size of a preteen child. "I'm Master Chief, Spartan John 117. I lead this team, that's Kelly, Linda, and Fred." Chief stood, towering over the smaller form. Each Spartan bowed their head as there name was mentioned. "And what is your title?" Chief asked politely.
Samus was hesitant to answer. Somehow she couldn't find her voice through the group of strangers she stood infront of. "Do you even understand what we are saying?" Kelly asked, as polite as she could. Chief sighed at Kelly's hostile tone, but noticed that the armoured form nodded at her question.
"I...I'm Samus Aran." a shakey, youthful voice answered.
"It's a child!" Linda gasped, along with the rest of the team. Samus winced at the sudden shock from the team of so called Spartans.
"Easy team, you're frightening her." Chief waved the team off. "Where are your parents?" Chief knelt back down to the childs level. Samus turned her head, and didn't answer, her throat filled itself with sorrow. Chief understood the message and moved onto the next question. "Are you native to this planet?" Samus shook her head.
"I was brought, trained and raised here when I was three, after my planet was destroyed." Samus replied at a bearly audible whisper. The Spartans leaned in closer wondering if the child had actually spoke, or there was a small wind.
"I'm sorry for your loss. Where are the one's who raised you?" Kelly took a step closer and asked.
"Attacked by the monsters that just attacked you." Samus choked out.
Chief stood up once more, and gave a heavy sigh, she didn't say they were dead, but Chief knew to well that an Elite never leaves a kill half alive.
"You know this planet well?" Fred walked over and asked. Samus nodded eagerly. "Excellent why don't you join us and help us out?" Fred placed an arm around the kid and started frocing her forward.
Samus began to panic, and Chief could read that. "Fred slow down, let her go." Chief sighed separating the two. "Fred take the team and go ahead I'll catch up." Chief gestured down the cave.
Kelly nodded and understood what Chief wanted. "You heard. Lets move!" Fred lead the team away from the two.
The moment of silence came once the team was far enough down the cave. Chief sat down on a stone next to Samus. "That's a nice suit of armour where'd you get it?" Chief went outside of his usual solitary personallity, by starting a conversation with a stranger.
Samus smiled under her helmet. "It's my Varia suit, Grey Voice, and Old Bird gave it to me halfway through training" Chief raised an eyebrow. "Old Bird, Grey Voice?" he questioned. "The Chozo who brought me here and trained me. They are feathery... uh.. I mean bird like and are... they... live on this planet." Samus tried to find the correct words to explain, without sounding completely like a child.
John smiled at the corrections the child made. "You keep saying training I don't understand, what training do you have?" John questioned.
"Combat, hacking, search and rescue, advanced martial art skills, tracking, piloting, demolition, and survival training." Samus listed off in her youthful voice. Chief shook his head almost losing track of the things the kid listed. "Well surely you are prepared for anything." Chief smiled.
"Chief quit chatting with the kid, we could use some back up!" Fred called over his com. "On my way Fred." Chief ended. "Well no sense in leaving you here alone. Come with. With your training we could use the help." Samus happily complied and followed the giant man in armour. Catching up to the team, they passed by many corpses of different raced aliens. Then they were stopped by a wall, where the team had been stuck.
"Nice of you to join us kid." Fred patted Samus's head. Samus winced at the strong hand and pushed it off. "Your a strong one aren't ya!?" Fred teased.
"Fred can we focus here." Linda scoffed, walking over with Kelly. "There's no way around the wall."
"I mean it's a door, but there's no way of opening it." Kelly turned to John for an answer. "We might have to blast it down then." Chief sighed.
"No!" Samus cried out, to the teams surprise.
"What's wrong Samus?" Chief gave a soft tone.
"I'll open it, just wait a second." Samus quickly transformed into her morph ball, and rolled into a small hole in the bottum corner of the wall.
"Di... did she just turn into a ball?" Kelly looked at the others. Before anyone could answer the wall vibrated, pulling itself apart with Samus standing on the other side.
"Um... Good job kid?" Fred was confused.
"The activation pad was on this side, that's why I had to go into morph ball." Samus replied.
"Ok let's continue." Chief let Kelly take point. He followed, with Samus quickly following in tow.
"Mr. Chief?"
Chief interrupted her as the team spread out infront of them. "Call me Chief."
Samus went silent for a moment. "Chief why are you here?"
Chief sighed. "I was hoping you could help me with that." Samus tilted her head in confusion. "You saw the alien that attacked me, I was hoping you would know why they would be here?"
"They crave power and go after any powerful weapons, or assets" Fred added looking around a corner. "Clear."
"I don't know what they would be looking for, there's nothing overly powerful here, Mother Brain and the Metroids had been destroyed already by space pirates, the Chozo swear to protect the galaxy they make incredible tech but thats about it. The only thing that has weapons that they created that's still works, is me and my suit... er I and my suit." The team then quickly looked back at Chief, Chief then suddenly realized what it was the Covenant was looking for.
"Samus, where does this go too?" Chief quickly questioned.
"The living quarter in Brinstar where I stay." Samus simply replied.
"Command, we have precious cargo and need the pelican for evac immediately." Linda quickly contacted command.
"Samus is there an LZ anywhere?" John turned to the girl.
"A wha..."
"Somewhere we could land an aircraft." John explained.
"Yes we go down the cooridor, and to the left is an opening that leads to a landing zone. Follow me!" Samus took off, to the teams surprise fast enough that they had a difficult time catching up, only Kelly was able to keep up.
getting into the opening of the supposed landing zone, there was a roof that shielded the area. "Hey little kid. You said there was a landing zone!" Kelly growled starting to get frustrated.
Ingnoring being called a little kid. "I just have to activate the shield doors and it will be good. The controls are up there." Samus quickly answered pointing about a hundred feet up.
"How the hell are we supposed to get up there, we don't have the time to climb!" Linda hissed.
Samus quickly lept up quite few high up platforms, quickly reaching the top in record speed. "Chief looks like her way is blocked by some decent sized rubble." Fred sighed. "Send her up a frag..." As Kelly spoke, an explosion came, as Samus shot the rubble with a missile. Samus quickly used her grapple to swing across landing on the platform and activating the door.
"No wonder the Covenant wants her she's got everything. She's the perfect upgrade of an elite soldier." Kelly spoke to John.
Chief nodded in agreement "All the more reason to get her off this planet, and onto the Infinity."
Kelly scoffed "But will she? This is her home have you even told what's going on? She seems a pretty naive to the whole situation." Chief sighed, he didn't think about that.
"Samus could you come down here!" Chief called. Samus turned to leap down but was swiftly slashed in the leg by an energy sword, and tackled down about twenty feet by an eight hundred pound Elite. "Samus!" Chief gasped attempting to climb to the rescue. Samus found what strength she could muster, and effectively kicked the beast off with her none injured leg. Shooting a charged beam into the aliens head, she quickly ended it's attempted assault.
"I'm here." Samus leapt down with a stumbled landing infront of Chief.
"Are you ok?" Chief examined the injured leg. A large deep slash wound, bleeding heavily in the cut opened suit. "I'm fine it just stings a bit." Samus shrugged.
"Chief is her suit open, this planet has a toxic atmosphere!" Kelly warned.
"Shit, can you breath!?" Chief gasped.
Samus smiled, deactivating her suit so it could repair, revealing her youthful person in a blue jumpsuit. "It's ok, I can breath here and other planets."
"Uh... Evacs here." Fred pointed to the pelican.
"Samus you need to come with us to heal your wounds, and to evacuate you from this planet." John began to escort Samus towards the ship.
"We have company closing in!" Kelly warned.
"Wait you're taking me away from my home!? But what about Old Bird and Grey Voice, they could still be ok!?" Samus refused the escort.
"Covenant is ready to glass this planet and are in position, we've got five minutes!" the pilot shouted as Covenant carriers flew over them.
"Kid they can't be saved! The Elite's don't leave a kill half alive! We have to go now they're about to glass this planet and us with it, if you don't get your ass in gear!" Kelly shouted at the girl. As hoard of Elites, Grunts, and Jackles began to charge at them. The pelican began taking off. "Chief!" Master Chief had no choice but to forcefully pick the girl up and jump in pelican.
Samus threw her arms around Chief's neck and watched the charge behind them, tears began to pour down her face, as they plunged into the pelican. Chief shielded the girl as they tumbled in. On the floor of the pelican, standing on his knees still clutching the young form. Samus let the tears roll as she watched the world she grew up on, dissolve under the Covenant might, as the hatch of the pelican slowly closed. It was just another home world she had to lose to another evil alien force.
Chief still holding the girl tightly, had no idea what to with the crying child. He stayed as if he were frozen, like a Jackle caught in the headlights of a warthog, thinking it's shield would protect it from impact. The team stood silently, quiet sobbing from the girl was the only noise, besides the hum of the engines. They understood how it was to loose a planet it reminded them of when Reach was lost.
"Here kid lets patch up that leg." Linda brought over the first aid kit. Linda knew the leg had to be healed before it got infected, placing some healing creams on the wound. Master Chief felt tiny fingers clenching tightly to the parts of him with no armour. He knew the sting of the creams hurt like hell and understood, the sudden grip. The grip got tighter, as Linda stitched up the wound.
Finishing up the stitch, her grip loosened, as her sobs quieted down. She was exhausted from the short battle, and the lose of blood didn't help keep her awake. She went limp in the Spartan's arms causing him slight panick. Standing up finally, he turned to Kelly. "Calm yourself John, she just fell asleep. She must have worn herself out." Kelly reassured Chief. John sighed and made his way to put the child on one of the seat but was stopped.
"I wouldn't bother, we are already back on Infinity." Fred mentioned, as the pelican landed softly in the hanger. "Wait a minute where's her suit?" Fred looked around in confusion.
John shrugged. "She somehow deactivated it and it disolved." Stepping out of the pelican with the child still in his arms. He met face to face with Lord Hood, and Lasky.
Part 2 Chapter 1: New Unknow Task
"A single human child on an alien planet alone? This is what the Covenant was after?" Lasky questioned in disbelief. The girl lay sleeping peacefully on the medical berth infront of them.
"Sir although we do not fully understand yet why the Covenant were searching for her. It was clear enough to see, with her capabilities she would be an elite soldier for the Covenant, and be even worse if they learned her technology." Kelly explained to the Captain.
"Abilities and technology?" both Admiral and Captain were confused.
"Once she is awake sir's you will see what we mean." Fred sighed.
Chief stood next to the slumbering form that was no longer clung to him, while Kelly explained the mission to the officers. Gazing down at the form, so young, yet so lethal. It reminded him of when he killed that ODST in the boxing ring, when he was younger.
"Well I suppose we let her rest, and question her as soon as she wakes." Lasky replied, leaving with Admiral Lord Hood. The team walked over to the Chief and gazed at the girl for themselves. "What are we going to do with her?" Linda questioned.
"Well we can't throw her out into the vast universe." Kelly sarcastically replied. "I don't know, I suppose it's up to Admiral and the Captain to decide."
A few hours later, after the team had left. Samus slowly began to awaken, her foggy eyes soon cleared, seeing she was in a small medical room with a doctor working on a monitor neraby. "Uh you are awake good to see little one." The voice made her jump, sitting straight up. "Sorry didn't mean to frighten you, I will call the others back in and let them know you have woken." The doctor spoke, grabbing some sort of communications device.
A few moments later an Admiral, and a Captain, entered. With the familiar armour of blue team in tow. They approached her, and she lost site of Chief, behind the team and commanding officers. "Hello ma'am, welcome aboard the UNSC Infinity, I'm Captain Lasky, the captain of this ship." Lasky introduced himself. Samus was silent, she wasn't replying, but she was listening. Both Admiral, and Captain were patient for an answer.
"I am Admiral Lord Hood, we are sorry for your losses." Lord Hood sent his sympathy to the young blood infront of him. "The Covenant are an unforgiving, powerful, destructive, power hungry force, that will stop at nothing to get what they want." Samus understood, and had gotten a taste of that for herself. "Miss Aran..." Samus looked at the Admiral surprised, Chief must have told them her name. "We are going to run you through a test, if you are alright with that?" Lord Hood asked politely.
Samus was hesitant, but complied. "Excellent, follow me." Lasky gestured Samus to come forwards. Her leg still stung she cautiously slid down the berth, and followed.
The team also did, along with Lord Hood, Chief still hanging in the back, out of site. Samus hung back, closer to the Spartans, then the leading officers. As they walked down the cooridor, past various amounts of marines. They all stared at her as she walked by. Walking by some construction, a marine lost grip of a heavy tool, it hit the ground with a loud, bang! Samus visibly jumped, she took a step back to be further out of site, by hiding between the Spartans. But ended up backing between the Spartans, and into Chief. Who stopped as she did so, or else he would have bowled her over. She gazed up at the giant, and he stood still and calmly awaited her movements. He reminded her of the Chozo, how they were that tall. When his comrades were getting to far ahead, he gave Samus a slight nudge, to get her moving. She snapped out of her thoughts, and began walking. John noticed the girl made no effort to catch up to the others, instead she stayed closely to his side, following his every step like a shadow. Only she had to take quite a few more steps, to keep up with the Spartan's stride. The commanders, and team were waiting patiently at the training simulation, test room door.
"Ok now that you are here. This is our training simulation, if you are still too sore from injuries, or uncomfortable with this test, you can choose to decline, and come back later." Lasky explained, escorting Samus into the room. Samus scanned the room with her eyes, it was a very well put together simulation, maybe it would be more fun then the Chozo training sim. She nodded in agreement to the officers, and they smiled. "Perfect step on in." Lasky gestured to the simulation enterance.
She looked and saw the team and commanding officers standing watching behind, the safety glass. "Ok just give me a thumbs up when you are ready." Lasky came over the com system.
"Master Chief are you certain this is appropriate for the young girl, to be doing such a test?" Lord Hood questioned.
"Positive sir." Chief gave a short answer. As Samus somehow activated her suit, and now was fully armoured.
Both officers eyes widened in astonishment, to that little trick. "Wish our armour was that easy to take on, and off." Kelly snorted.
Samus stood with her cannon in a ready position, and gave a thumbs up. The whir of machines came in earshot. As the simulation began, from behind the glass, the show was quite intersting. It was entertaining even, especially when the contorted into a morph ball, rolling away to dodge a grenade. Ending the session quickly, with a misslie, she stood in the middle of the room in a battle ready stance. "Ok, that was a little different, from the usual trained Spartans, that do the test." Lasy muttered.
"Hey I'm not about to contort myself into a ball, I don't bend like that." Kelly remarked.
"Miss Aran you may come out now." Lord Hood unsealed the door. Turning to the team of Spartans, he spoke sternly. "The Covenant would be more than happy to obtain, that tech, and her skill set."
"Yes sir it would be devastating." Fred agreed, as Samus made her way towards the door.
"Master Chief I am assigning you, and your team, too safeguard that child. You are the only ones I trust to do so. Do not allow the Covenant to capture her." Lord Hood sternly assigned the Spartans to a new unknown duty they were going to have to get used too.
"Sir what about in the field? We could use that kind of help on our team." Fred questioned. John understood what Fred was referring to. With Sam gone they still haven't found an appropriate replacement for him. Not that anyone could replace Sam's spot on the team, but it was starting to get difficult without a fith member.
"I will think about it, but for now we need more information about her, whoever can make her speak, try and get as much info as you can, we need more background on this girl."
"Well that would be Chief's job then, have fun Chief." Kelly scoffed cuffing her hand on the commanding Spartan's shoulder. Lasky and Lord Hood looked in shock at what the female Spartan had said, Chief being the only one to get answers from the child?
"Then the assignment is clear and understood?" Lord Hood asked, as Lasky spoke to Samus.
"Yes sir!" The team answered with a salute.
"Excellent, we will leave her to you." Both commanding officers left the room.
"Hey great job kid. You sure surprised the commanders." Fred greeted the girl.
"Yeah looks like you'll be hanging around us kid." Kelly added, with a small sigh.
Samus deactivated her suit, and only replied. "Ok." Which the team except for Chief chuckled at.
To Chief, this was no laughing matter. They had a life to guard, and protect from harm. It was their job to protect the child, not play, and joke with it. "Spartans we have a job to do, let's not loose focus on that." Chief warned his team to be on a searious note.
"John she's a child, not the usual Commanding officers, or eggheads we have to babysit." Linda reminded their leader softly.
"Yeah, we're actually babysitting." Kelly had to add her cleaver remark. John sighed and knew the two women were correct, this was complete,y different from the usual they dealt with. He suppossed he was just affraid he didn't have what it would take to be around a child.