Disclaimer: I do not own Halo or Timeshift.


It all begins with the UNSC Orbital Cairo Station platform in the UNSC fleet above Earth, all is piece and quiet, Master Chief is testing out his new armor in the Armory while the Gunnery Sergeant is telling some warnings about it's plating:

"Your plating was about to fail, theres viscosity throughout the gel layer. Optics, totally fried. And lets not even talk about the power supply, you know how expensive this gear is son?"

Master Chief puts on his helmet and questions "Tell that to the Covenant!"


The city is seen resting in peace at a nice night until suddenly, an explosion errupts a nearby Science facility. Moments later, Police vans and Firetrucks park near it as a news reporter explains.

"The entire building has collapsed, and it was ontop of a underground facility. This might explain our city-wide power outage, anyone still inside would have surely been hurt!"

Suddenly, Time somewhat reverses as the building is rebuilt magically. A Scientist is running down a hallway to an elevator, then Doctor Marissa Foster is seen with another scientist chatting.

"You needed to see me Doctor Krone...w-what, what are you diong in the Alpha suit? What's going on in here!"

She squeals in pain as Krone hits her with some sort of scanner stick, Krone is seen with the Alpha Suit on in a time field.

Back to the Cairo Station, The Chief is testing how to look around with his armor.

"Well I guess it was all obsolete anyway, your new suit's a Mark VI, just came up from Songnam this morning. Try and take it easy as you get used to the upgrade, Ok, lets test ya targeting first thing."

"Please look at the top light, good. Now look at the Bottom light, alright. Look at the top one again, that's good, now the bottom one, okay. Everything checks out, standby, I'm gonna offline the Inhibitors."

The Inhibitors open as Master Chief is free and checks the new armor out.

"Move around a little, get a feel for it. When your ready, come meet me by the Zapper."


Back at the science facility, the Scientist is still running and he runs into a lab containing the Beta suit. He gets in the Beta Suit as it activates. Nathan Tucker runs in the room, warning the scientist. "Are you crazy, the suit's not ready!"

An explosion on a video screen kills Doctor Foster, the Scientist now looks at Nathan Tucker.

"Come on man, we've got to Gaah!" An explosion enters the room and kills Nathan, but suddenly the Beta Suit wearer is taken out of the Facility somehow.


The Master Chief enters the Shield test station and suddenly, as it turns on, a blue energy field appears as the Master Chief disappears, and the Beta Suit wielder appears in the room. Gunnery Sergeant looks up in amazement as he sees the Beta Suit wearer, or more specifically, the Beta Suiter.

"Who are you, where's the Master Chief. Answer me!"


Master Chief is lying in a canal, then looks around and says "Where am I?" he then sees a huge robot with a cannon on the bottom of it, he falls asleep, then an hour later, he is dragged into a building by an unknown person. He awakens on a small bed as someone comes up to him.

"Hey get up, we didnt want to move you 'till that suit stopped making noises. C'mon, we gotta get outta here."

A small quake rocks the cieling.

"Shit their close, hurry on your feet."

'Who's close?' The Spartan thought, he was thinking that it would be the Covenant, but it was something else. The weapon this person was wielding was not of UNSC, Covenant, or Forerunner Design, it looks as if it were some sort of Assault Rifle. Master Chief follows the man pass a few others with the weapon, one who is sitting on some sort of machine talks to him.

"Hope that fancy suit of yours can handle the rain, always raining thanks to Krone."

"Krone? Who's Krone, and what is this place." The Spartan replied hopelessly. "You'll know, soon." he replied.


The Beta Suiter looked at the Gunnery Sergeant, not saying a single word. He looks around, and sees that he is in space. Sergeant Johnson enters the room and checks to see if the Chief is their, he is not, Johnson and Gunns go into a chat:

"Hey Gunns, who is this guy?"

"I dunno, he just appeared in here magically?"

"That explains why the Chief is missing. He'll observe then. You, blue boy, come with me."

The Beta Suiter follows Johnson into an elevator, then into a tram. Sergeant Johnson looks at Earth and talks about it.

"Earth...haven't seen it in years. When I shipped out for Basic, the orbital defense grid was all theory and politics. Now look! The Cairo is just one of three hundred geosync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship. With coordinated fire from the Athens, and the Malta nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece. Ships have been arriving all morning. Nobody's saying much, but I think something big's about to happen."

A bunch of UNSC Marines are seen clapping, they stop clapping when they see the Beta Suiter.

"Step aside. Observer coming through!" Sergeant Johnson says.

The Marines step in lines on each side, they stare in confusement as they see the Beta Suiter walking down the hall into the bridge.


Master Chief and the mysterious man continue their walk to a door of unknown design, it opens up into some sort of large generator room. More men are seen with the unknown Assault Rifle. They do a small chat:

Man 1: "We're evacuating, Cooke's direct orders."

Man 2: "We're running point to secure an exit!"

Suddenly, the footsteps of what appears to be a mech robot is heard.

Man 1: "Sentry! Get down, get down!"

The Sentry destroys the wall behind them, the other two men open fire with the Assault Rifles to no effect. The man the Master Chief followed bashes open the planks blocking a doorway, he jumps over a wall and runs to another door.

"Helo, get back! Ahhhhhh!"

A unknown designed Helicopter appears and starts shooting through the cieling, causing bricks to fall on the man. The Helicopter opens fire on the Spartan, but his shields protect him. The Helicopter flies away and the Chief runs up the stairs to the balcony above the room, the Sentry opens fire as he jumps over obstacles in his path, he makes it to a doorway for shelter and reaches a small room. He jumps down a hole into a hallway with windows, another Man is seen with the Assault Rifle, he sees him.

"Shhh, they're coming. I got this area covered, Move!"

The Master Chief emerges into a basement and walks out the door, he sees a man with a Mysterious Shotgun. As with the Assault Rifles, this was neither designed by UNSC, Covenant or Forerunner.

"You, get down. Wait! Hold...your...position."

He looks through a gate to see a large group of men, his motion tracker shows red blips, meaning hostilities. They walked past, chatting. "Okay, they're gone. Get up the Fire Escape and I'll cover you, we're ready!" The Spartan looks at the man, then climbs up the fire escape and comes across another man.

"You're not gonna make it without a weapon." The man stood infront of the Spartan. "So here, take mine." The man hands him the mysterious Assault Rifle, he looks at it. At the bottom, his HUD display reads it as "KM2103 Karbine", so it was definately not designed by the UNSC, Covenant, Forerunners...or even the Insurrectionists. Master Chief walks through a series of rooms, and reaches a man trying to revive another man.

He then enters a small hall with two men watching a door. Muffled voices are heard behind it.

"Just Blow the door!"

"Wait get ba..."

An explosion blows the double doors, killing the two men, the Master Chief holsters the KM2103 Karbine in his back and peeks around the Corner. He sees men with different suits on, they walk away. Master Chief walks up the stairs and finds a mysterious hand lying around. He picks it up and it looks as if it were the design of the suits those two men were wearing who blew the door around the hall. On the top, his HUD read "KM-33", he holsters it, pulls out the Karbine and walks up the stairs.


The Beta Suiter and Johnson continue walking to the bridge to where Lord Hood is waiting.

"Gentlemen, we're lucky to have you back." A man walks up to him and whispers. "Go ahead, Cortana."

Cortana appears, "Another whisper, sir, near IO. We have probes in route."

"I apologize but we're gonna have to make this quick."

Cortana looks up at the two. "You look nice?"

Sergeant Johnson replies "Thank you?" as the Beta Suiter was about to reply until Cortana rudely says "Not you!" The Beta Suiter and Johnson look at eachother and shrugg their shoulders.

"Sergeant Major." Lord Hood replies. "The Colonial cross is awarded for such daring and devotion, for a soldier of the United Earth Space Corps."


Back with the Chief, he walks outside again and sees the same Helo that attacked the small outpost he left a few minutes ago. More of the rebellious men are seen shooting at it with Karbines, to no effect as the Helo opens fire with it's chainguns, tearing through a wall and killing the men. It then flies away as the Chief sees a catwalk along another Fire Escape, the same men who blew the Double doors are seen. Master Chief tests out the Assault Rifle on the three, he manages to kill them and walks up the fire escape to find a friendly man who asks him about flyovers, when suddenly, the Helo returns and fires it weapons through the roof, the man had nowhere to run and gets shot to pieces as the bullets hit a few planks blocking a small path around.

The Master Chief looks at the man, and then jumps down a hole to a roof top. He sees a vent, and crawls through it. He sees two of the same guys chatting, he fires a grenade from the alternate fire function of the Karbine and kills the two. He emerges into a small yard seeing fellow men getting shot up, he shoots at a nearby barrel and blows the two up. He then walks through a small hallway and looks into the canal, he sees this is the one he started in. Suddenly, a whole force of enemy troops show up, The Spartan had no idea but to just charge through. He runs through as they open fire on him, lucky his shields are protecting him.

He reaches a circular doorway and takes cover, and then reaches a group of friendlies, one with a Crossbow, another with a Sniper Rifle, and the other with a Rocket Launcher, all with the same designs as the other weapons they use. The huge robotic scorpion-looking vehicle he saw when he arrived appears as all the men with him open fire on it, with no effect, it fires it's bottom cannon at some nearby buildings, then at a gas station, then it points it to where they are as it fires. Everyone is killed except the Spartan himself who is knocked out, his weapons are destroyed aswell.

He awakens another hour later in another yard and finds fellow men taken hostage by enemy troops that he now says are Krone Troops, he sneaks the KM-33 on the ground near a dead fellow Occupant and fires around at a nearby Krone Troop as the other 2 dont hear the shot. Master Chief sneaks around past the 2 and picks up the Karbine, he then fires it on the 2 guys holding his fellow men hostage. He helps them up, and they talk to him.

Man 1: Woah, what the...he saved us with the suit, I dont know of shit how he did it!

Man 2: Check out the suit, it doesnt blend in with Krone's guys?

Man 1: Come on lets move out, lets go.

The Spartan recognizes the first man and sees he is the one who covered him just before he got armed, he picks up grenades dropped by the 3 guys he killed. They were glowing blue like Covenant plasma grenades, but had the Fragments of a Frag Grenade. "Hey, who is this "Krone"... you are speaking of?" The Spartan asked, the man who covered him replies. "The one who started this whole war, we gotta get to the extraction point so we can get outta here!" The 2 men pick up the 2 Karbines lying on the ground, as the group walkthrough through a small corridor.


Back to the Beta Suiter, a beautiful young woman steps up and faces Lord Hood. "Commander Miranda Keyes, your father's actions were in keeping the highest actions of Military service." He hands her a medal. "His bravery in the face of impossible odds reflects great credit upon himself, and the UNSC. The Navy, has lost one of it's best."

Suddenly, alarms are heard. Everyone looks at the screen.

"Slipspace rupture's directly off our battle cluster." Cortana replies.

Lord hood then replies, "Show me?"

"Fifteen, Covenant capital ships. Holding position right outside the Killzone."

Fleet Admiral Harper then alerts, "This is fleet admiral Harper, we are engaging the enemy."

"Negative, Admiral." Hood replyed, "Form a defensive perimeter around the Cluster." He looks at Keyes, "Commander, get to your ship, link up with the Fleet." The pretty woman replies "Yes Sir." and Salutes then walks away.

"You've got the MAC gun Cortana, soon as they come in range, Open up." Hord says to the AI as she replies back "Gladly?"

Hood looks at the screen, "This is not right, the fleet that destroyed Reach was fifty times this size?"

"Sir, additional contacts." A Crewman replied, "Boarding craft and lots of'em!"

Hood looks at the screen again. "They're gonna try and take our MAC guns offline, give their Capital ships a straight shot at Earth. You, defend this station."

The Beta Suiter nods and looks at Johnson as he says "Right this way." He follows Johnson as they prepare to defend.

End of Chapter.