Hello there! Before you begin reading I would like to thank you for reading this story in the first place. As you know it is a Naruto/Halo crossover series that will be

my take on a meeting between the Chief and Naruto. I will hopefully make this a seventeen chapter series depending on how the plot goes. To anybody who has

never actually played Halo please dont pass this down. I will try my best to make it understandable for everyone. Thank you for reading and please leave critique

and comments. I always want to know how I can further improve my writing

Disclaimers: Halo belongs to Bungie studios and Naruto belongs to Kishimoto.

ENJOY!

Chapter 1- Machine man

She knew it wasn't going to be pretty. Half a ship moving ridiculously fast through space and about to crash into an unknown planet? Hell she would have rather been in a Pelican instead of this piece of junk. Cortana 'looked' towards the planet that the ass end of the Forward Unto Dawn was about to crash into. She sighed at the almost hopeless predicament they were both in. The most important thing to her was on this hulk and she had to think fast lest that precious cargo be killed along with her in a death so pointless as this. After fighting for most of his life she knew he didn't deserve that. Not at all. She entered the space hulk's circuitry and made her way at un measurable speed to the cryo chamber where John was still waiting to be unfrozen. The holo-display in front of the tube burned a bright blue as she projected her hardwired avatar onto the glowing pad.She went through all checks and procedures and double checked her work. All had to be right… no perfect or John would die from faulty unfreezing methods.

An explosion rocked the hulk as it began to descend into the outer atmosphere of the unknown planet. Temperature gauges skyrocketed and malfunctioned as the ship began breaking up in the atmosphere. Cortana could feel the end approaching. She made a quick copy of herself and multitasked several thousand procedures at once. If it were any other A.I. it would have been eaten alive by the amount of information being processed all at once.

She finished up all her processes and began to flicker from the lack of power that the ship had. There still was enough power to steer the ship away from John's landing site and hopefully by sacrificing herself she could save him. She left him a final message and just before entering the circuits she looked into the coffin-like structure that held her closest and only friend. Even if she was an A.I., she knew what emotions were. It was kind of hard for her to understand but they slowly became so easy for her to express. She felt a deep sense of trust for this super human clad in MJOLNIR armor and valued him more than anything else. It was too bad that she had to say good bye. She stared for the last time into the cryo tube and with a single holo-gram tear said "Goodbye John."

Naruto raced through the tree tops with amazing speed with his teammates Sakura and Sai trailing behind him. It was a clear day in the land of Fire and was made all the better by the cool mid-summer breeze making its way through the training forest.

"Naruto! Lets stop already! We've been training for hours now!" Sakura yelled with enough volume to scare the crap out of all the birds in the vicinity.

"Naruto-kun. I do believe ugly-face is right. Its about time for lunch anyways." Sai agreed with Sakura in his calm voice. Sakura furrowed her eye brows in anger.

"What did you say you son of a bitch!"

Sai simply looked back at her and gave one of his biggest fake smiles.

Naruto caught himself on a passing branch and flipped in the air expertly landing on a big branch. His team mates followed suite.

"Look at how nice this day is guys!" Naruto said cheerfully as he opened the bento box that Teuchi and Ayame prepared for him earlier. The aroma of ramen perfectly kept heated by the summer sun filled his nostrils. Sakura pulled out a simple bento box that contained a couple of carrot sticks and some apple slices. Sai had his own meal all prepared.

"Sakura-Chan?" Naruto asked "Why are you only eating that?"

"Its so I can stay fit. I don't want to get fat." she said, her voice muffled by the carrot she took a bite out of.

"Your already fat." Sai said with his usual calm tone.

Sakura turned an angry shade of red at the comment. She started to get up to pound the hell out of Sai but Naruto stepped in with a hopefully reassuring comment.

"Don't worry Sakura-Chan! Your not fat." he said with a sincere grin.

Sakura looked Naruto up and down and smiled at his compliment. It seemed to calm her down a bit

"Thank you Naruto." she said, smiling at his compliment.

The time went by seemingly slow as the summer sun blared out its nastiest heat of the day. Team 7 sat on the massive branch contemplating what they would do next.

Naruto sat facing the open sky before and took in all its glory. The heat felt great against his skin and made him happy to be there. Sai and Sakura were playing a game of shogi with Sakura losing all forty eight games against Sai. Naruto looked back at his comrades.

'I've got to have him play Shikamaru some time.' he thought.

He looked back up into the deep blue sky. In the distance he could see a tiny black dot that was getting larger by the second. He put his hand over his eyes to block out the sunlight. At first he thought it was a bird but it was descending way to fast to be a bird. Whatever the hell that thing was, it was coming right their way.

"Guys we've got to get out of here right now!" he said in panic.

Sakura and Sai both shot him a puzzled look.

"What's wrong Naruto?" Sakura asked in a concerned tone.

"You'll see in a second come on now lets go!"

They left the Shogi board on the tree branch and headed towards were Naruto was heading. With a clanking metallic noise like thousands of shuriken falling to earth, flaming shrapnel from the strange object began to rain upon them. Naruto dodged the falling pieces left and right with his team mates following suite. Sakura landed on a branch but one of the falling pieces hit the arm causing it to splinter and break. She yelped in surprise as she began falling towards the ground. Naruto turned around just in time to react. He pushed himself off the trunk of a massive tree with a burst of chakra and sped towards Sakura. With a flip in the air he caught her just in time before she fell unto the forest floor. She thanked him as they continued to make their way through the forest. They caught up with Sai, who was taking cover behind the trunk of a massive tree.

The main part of the object crashed through the branches of the thick tree. It crashed unto the ground with a sickening thud that rocked the forest like an earth quake.

A dust cloud burst forth from the crash sight. Naruto coughed as he cleared his senses up.

"You guys alright?" he checked on his team mates.

"Yeah." Sakura said as she brushed dirt off of her satin training shirt.

"We should check out what that thing was." Sai said with inappropriately calm voice.

"No we shouldn't" Sakura started "We should head back to the village and inform them of what just happened."

"Naruto-Kun, what do you suggest?" Sai said looking at Naruto's direction.

He really wanted to agree with Sakura, but he also really wanted to see what that 'thing' was.

'Maybe its an alien?' he thought. His mind played out a scene were they were all in chibi form investigating the ship. Then he thought about a generic alien monster attacking the group. At the thought of this Naruto got discouraged to go and see it.

'On the other hand though' A different scene played out in his head. This one was way less violent. Maybe the aliens that landed were friendly and would give them cool stuff.

His eyes shifted from Sakura to Sai and back again. He sighed heavily and said "Lets go investigate it."

It was huge. It was like something out of a dream or maybe even a nightmare. From the distance Naruto could tell it was made out of some sort of dark metal. Upon getting closer to the thing he realized that it had been originally a dark grey. Naruto coughed at the tangy stench of burnt wood that filled the air. Luckily the forest had yet to catch on fire. There were several openings to the strange 'thing' and they decided to enter into it cautiously.

They entered what looked like a hallway with strange markings spray painted on the floor. Naruto was shocked that he could read what was written. He immediately dismissed the thought of this being an alien ship.

"Cryo chamber 5 left?" he questioned out loud "What the hell is a Cryo?"

He looked at Sakura who only shrugged and at Sai who suggested they follow the sign. They continued deeper into the hulk finally arriving at what they hoped was "Cryo chamber 5". A sliding two panel door was jammed halfway was blocking their way into the room. Without hesitation Sakura concentrated chakra to her fist and with a single punch knocked the panels out of the way. The room was dark and they all could hardly see. On the sides of the chamber were giant coffin shaped boxes that for some reason had one side that was clear.

"What is this place?" Naruto wondered aloud. He noticed a rapidly flashing light at the base of one of the coffins.

He leaned in closer to take a better look at it. The glass pane of the glass reminded him of ice on a window. As he got closer to the box he could feel the cold air radiating off of the strange box.

"Did you find something Naruto-kun?" Sai asked curiously. The two both made their way over to Naruto to see what he found. The light seemed to respond to his presence as he leaned in even closer. It almost seemed like it knew he was there.

"Naruto?" Sakura looked at her friend. He was staring at the light that was now pulsating with a slow rhythm. Naruto was startled when cold smoke began leaking from the sides. He fell back on his ass.

"What's going on?" Sakura asked also backing up.

The glass pane began to loose its icy appeal as more of the cold smoke poured out. What he saw in the coffin made his eyes widen. Whatever the hell it was, it was huge. It was easily seven feet tall and bulky with a human like shape. It seemed to be wearing some kind of suit of armor of an unfamiliar type. He noticed that the thing began to move slowly in the tube. To him it looked like a machine built in the form of a man.

Alarmed at the machine mans movement. movement Naruto called to his teammates "Guys I think its waking up!"