A/N:

This is my first fanfic. I wanted to do a Halo and Mass Effect crossover, as I've had a lot of fun reading some on here, typically they are all about the Master Chief or Noble 6. I wanted to try something a little different. Please send reviews.

"Spartan, wake up. I need you!"

A Gauntleted hand grasped the edge of the Cryo pod and hauled its owner up and out. The other hand rose and batted a floating coffee mug away as it drifted closer.

"What's going on Cortana? Why did you wake me?"

On a holo-pedestal a swirl of light coalesced into the shape of a woman, only a few inches tall, blue in colour with lines of code infrequently streaming up and down the course of her body.

"Well hello to you too." Cortana snarked before becoming serious. "We're going to be passing a planet on our drift. It shows signs of civilisation and, get this, English on radio broadcasts. One of the pelicans should be able to get you there. I thought you make like some time to get some gear and provisions ready."

The armoured form nodded before moving to the exit of the Cryo bay. "Right, how long do we have?'

"Approximately twenty-five minutes. Sorry, the damage to The Dawn made waking you take longer than expected. How are you feeling?" Cortana's voice continued across the Spartan's radio frequency.

"Green."

No more was said until the armoury was reached. The Mjolnir clad warrior began to load one large duffel bag with a multitude of weapons and another two with every available magazine for any of the various guns. "What happens to the Dawn?"

"Unfortunately due to the damaged systems I won't be able to initialise a self-destruct sequence, however I think I have come up with a solution. If you can get one of the chemical manoeuvring thrusters burning on the starboard side we can aim The Dawn directly at the system's star. It's burning at over Twenty Thousand Kelvin. I think that will do the job for us don't you?"

The Spartan stood, two bulging bags hanging from the shoulders and a third in hand. "That'll work."

"Once you drop those and some rations at the pelican I'll mark a waypoint on your HUD. You'll have to get on the outer hull to get to the emergency access on the thruster.

"Once you lift the panel you'll have to pull the large red handled lever. Rather straight forward really."

Green armoured hands grasped the lever and yanked it downwards. Immediately the chemical thruster twenty meters south of their position (relatively speaking) kicked into life. Pushing the Forward Unto Dawn steadily towards the far distant star.

"Time to go Spartan! Time to see what's happened in the galaxy in the three years since you were asleep yes?"

In the cockpit of the pelican the Spartan removed their helmet. Close cropped brown hair, a small number of faded scars across the brow and one across the left side of the nose. Pale blue eyes stared downwards at a set of dogtags held in hand.

John

S-117 O Pos

NAVSPECWAR

"Kelly, I miss him too"

There was only silence as a response as Kelly Spartan 084 piloted the Pelican into the dark of space and hopefully civilisation.