Gears of Halo
There was a hiss as the cryotube unsealed. The Master chief was woken up from his mildly unpleasant cryo dreams. The only reason he should be awake is because someone picked up Cortana's signal. Cortana's voice came through his helmet speakers. "Chief, there's something you should know. That portal didn't just send us through space, but through time." "So where are we?" Somewhere above the planet Sera, about five million light years from Earth." "How do we," The Chief was cut short by an explosion. He felt the tremor through his armor. Cortana said, "Chief the frigate is falling apart. The gravity of the planet is pulling us in. There isn't enough power to pull us out." The chief replied calmly, "Are there any drop pods left?" "Only two remain operational. Here's a nav point, get there now!" "What about you?" "The ship will protect me; I need to make sure it doesn't land on anything important." The Chief nodded and sprinted off towards the nav marker on his HUD. He found a pod, pulled himself in and armed the tube. He felt a jerk as he was fired away from the ship. The pod soared down toward Sera, and the Master Chief, last of the Spartans, fell feet first toward his fate.
"Nemacyst!!!!!" shouted a COG soldier. Another Gear looked up to see the tell-tale black spots and the crackle of radio interference. But wait, what was that? It was a black pod, too big to be a Nemacyst, yet too small to be a Chopper. Was it some kind of new trick the locust had cooked up? No, the Gear discarded that. The Nemacyst were attacking it also. There was a metal air-foil out back, and it slowed. As it hit the ground in front oh him, the pod split to reveal, something. Seven feet tall, clad in iridescent green armor, a helmet with faceplate covering his head. What ever it was it seemed to be on their side. It shot a burst from a strange looking assault rifle and a Drone fell. He then switched to a bulky looking weapon. It was really just two tubes with a launcher area. The newcomer sighted the Seeder, and unleashed his rockets. That was it. It was a rocket launcher. The Gear heard gunfire from his left, which reminded him he still had work to do. He pulled up his Lancer assault rifle and fired into the tide of Locust. Another Drone fell, but it wasn't going to be enough. Even with this new ally, there was simply too many Locusts. And then as if things weren't bad enough, the Gear heard a guttural roar, "Boom!" And felt something rush by him. The grenade hit a Gear in back of him and tore him to pieces. "Oh great," he muttered.
The Master Chief had been fighting ever since he had dropped. There was some kind of weird bipedal monster. Not Covenant. But these soldiers seemed to know them. It shouted "Boom!" and fired its massive grenade launcher, which reminded him of the brute shot. He knew he needed more fire power to take this beast out. He threw a frag grenade, but was surprised when the thing kept coming. It was like a Hunter. The thing was pretty pissed off. It fired its gun at him.
The Gear saw the movement, but there was nothing he could do. The grenade hit their mysterious helper, and he vanished in the explosion. But when the smoke cleared, the figure in green was still there. "Jesus, who is this guy?"
The Master Chief shrugged off the impact. It had dropped his shields by half. Now he was pissed. He un-slung his rocket launcher and calmly looked at his target. He hit the trigger, and the rocket whooshed out of its tube and hit the Boomer right in the chest, blowing it to pieces. Its blood rained down on them.
The Gear, named Mitch, walked up to the Chief. "Thanks, man. But um, what, who exactly are you?" "Master Chief Spartan-117." Right then the history freak, Gabriel came up. "Spartan? I've heard of that. It was a program to make super soldiers 400 years ago during the Human-Covenant War." "400 years ago?" asked Mitch. "then why is he still alive?" Gabriel replied before the Master Chief could. "One of them, John-117, was the hero of the war. He destroyed the Halos, ancient super weapons and also the Flood. He was lost however when the frigate he was on was trapped inside a Slipspace Portal. I guess he was stored in cryo and that's how he survived so long." Gabriel paused to take a breath. "Dude, Shut, Up." Mitch said, smacking Gabriel upside the head. "He's right actually." The Master Chief said. Gabriel grinned in triumph. "Ha! I was right, Sarge!" "Yeah whatever, so Chief, where you going now?" "I have to go retrieve Cortana, my AI." Gabriel spoke again "An AI, as in Artificial Intelligence?" "Yeah what of it?" "Wow man, those haven't been around for years." Mitch interrupted, "So where is this AI of yours?" The Master Chief pointed in the direction where a huge plume of smoke had appeared. "Well let's go then!" The Master Chief looked down at his assists rifle's ammo counter. Only three rounds left. Mitch threw him a Lancer. "Welcome to Sera Chief," Mitch said, and grinned.