I do not own HALO or Puella Magi Madoka Magica

This time no one (except for a several minor characters and a lot of extras) are dying.

FORERUNNER: Advent Magica

Chapter 1: Begin

SPARTAN Ari-676, originally one of the few SPARTAN III's who had been given the MJOLNIR Mk. II armor, and one of the shorter SPARTAN III's, being only 6 foot, 1 inch, was on the Chronicle of Dusk, a UNSC destroyer trying to get away from the planet Cytosis, as the Covenant Loyalists glassed the world, and the only thing actually piloting the ship was a recently made smart A.I named Pace, as the ship took off at the last moment before a crew could actually get on, actually they were dead before they got on.

On the ship was myself, five ODSTs, and two Separatist Hunters, and I gave Pace command of the ship, and she told me the Slipspace coordinates were gone, and that it would be a blind jump.

Seeing as there was no other way, and the drive came online as we entered a nearby nebula.

Not even aware of the large ring-like structure the size of a small moon with six prongs on it all pointing in one direction, and then as the drive charged up, the ring activated and soon a blue hue of energy surrounded the ship and then the prongs lit up as well, and then a slipspace portal appeared, and in that next second, we were shot straight through.

The ship disappeared, but just before that the ends of the prongs came off and affixed themselves to the ship, and then the portal device blew up.

Claiming the loyalist forces that were following us in a large slipspace explosion.

Pace did everything possible to control the jump, and soon managed to line up some co-ordinates and made a bee-line through slipspace to the coordinates.

Pace believed that they would come out in space near a planet and then she could use the star maps to plot a route to friendly space.

Then the exit came up ….

… and the ocean met them with a vengeance.

Pace immediately had the ship go FULL REVERSE, and soon every system, anti-gravity and otherwise was active and the ship stopped itself just above the water's surface.

"Whew, that was close," said Pace.

Then she decided to map out where they were and sent out several Clarion spy drones, and found out they were on a planet.

The planet was Earth, but at the same time it wasn't.

Just as the two Hunters came stomping into the bridge, Pace had found some very, shocking discoveries.

It was the year 2012, August 3rd, and they were off the coast of Japan, though Pace luckily remembered the ships new stealth/cloaking field and soon the ship was invisible to sensors and the naked eye.

Then as Pace was getting herself together, an unknown energy surge, actually several surges came from a nearby city known as Mitakihara, in fact if it wasn't for the enhanced sensors on the Dusk the surges would be invisible.

Pace then decided to get everyone up and moving.

'God, cryo-sleep is always a bitch, the least they can do is make the nutrients taste better,' thought Ari as she came out of cryo, along with the other personnel.

"God getting woken up sucks"

"Can't even see right, man it will take a while for my vision to clear up"

"Achoo, god that thing is cold"

Ari flexed her currently stiff body, looked the armor over and then got out and then started walking out to the bridge, Pace having to tell them something.

Soon one Spartan, three ODST's and two Seperatist Hunters were on the bridge for Pace's announcement.

"So Pace," said Ari, "what is the situation."

Pace's holographic form came up, looked at the gathered group then lit up a screen showing the city of Mitakihara and then said, "you might want to sit down for this."

The group was having headaches, and the Hunters, who were given universal communicators, looked visibly upset.

It appeared that at first they had gone back in time, but according to Pace, the city they were looking at did not exist in the records and there were in fact several differences, such as whole cities that did not exist in records or some events that did not seem to match up, which led to one explanation.

"An Alternate Reality," said Ari, "is that even possible."

"By what we are seeing, yes, and actually there is something else," said Pace.

Pace displayed the unknown readings, shown in the EM spectrum as very faint disruption signals spread throughout the city, in fact they were so faint the only reason why Pace could even detect them was because the Dusk was given an enhanced and hardened sensor package that allowed it to pick up the faint energy signals of a covenant stealth ship, which had better stealth qualities than a UNSC Prowler, of which we had one in the large hangar along several new Sabre II's and some Longswords, along with enough weapons to fight a war.

"These energy distortions worry me, they are very low and appear to be always moving, like the signals are alive in some way, and this is what's more disturbing," said Pace, and she pulled up a large list of deceased and missing people, "I decided to get into the satellites, which really wasn't difficult, and looked at images from the past few years to look at the pattern of these distortions, what I found was …. disturbing, to say the least, most of the people on this list were in areas close to or in the area of the distortion when they either died or disappeared, and I know this because I pulled up some satellite photos, enhanced them, and it showed these people were literally heading for these distortion areas."

The group was now quite worried, there were people dying due to some unknown events and it appeared that others were not even paying what was happening any mind, and then Ari said:

"We've got to get to the bottom of this," she said.

The others looked at Ari and slowly took in what she said, and then a female ODST said:

"Well it's not like we have anyone stopping us, and currently the Spartan holds the highest rank, and also something is killing people and nobody in this world, police, military or anyone is doing anything to stop it, so I guess the only ones who can do anything right now, are us," the ODST finished.

"Yeah, I say we figure this out, because it's either that or try to explain to people how three elite soldiers, a super-soldier in incredibly advanced powered armor, two aliens in very powerful and armed exoskeleton units, and a super advanced A.I connected to a high grade, super powerful military space ship with enough firepower to turn a place the size of the U.S territory into a desert of glass," snarked another ODST.

"…. I just want to not be stuck here doing absolutely nothing for the rest of my life," said a rather young, yet grey haired ODST holding a Sniper Rifle and a Rocket Launcher.

Everyone looked at each other wondering when the girl took the time to go to the armory.

"Well I guess the first place to start would be a distortion that appears to be emanating from a building," said Pace, "the importance of going there being that the building in question appears to be the cities main hospital, also I have managed to make a sort of counter-signal that should protect all of you from the effects of the energy, and have put it into all of the armors, the signal will only last about twelve minutes, twenty for the Spartan armor, so be quick in there."

"All right," said Ari, and then she turned to the others, "we don't know what we will encounter and we don't want to start a panic, so we will be using a prowler to get on top of the Hospital, and it will wait on the roof while we find the source of the distortion and destroy it, everyone got it."

"Yes ma'am."

With that they got several weapons, the ODST Amy White got a BR-55 and an M319 Individual Grenade Launcher (IGL), the other, the only man left, named David Roan got an M392 Designated Marksman Rifle and an M90 shotgun, the other girl, Rena Harris, kept her weapons, and Ari got an SR Battle Rifle and a Spartan Laser.

They soon left after telling the Hunters to 'hold down the fort', and soon they got onto the Prowler and headed into the city.

In the Hospital …

The Grief Seed in the hospital had activated and a young blue-haired girl and a familiar were within a the barrier of the witch and were walking through large amounts of desserts on the a rather frozen field, and just entering was a magical girl and a young girl, and also as another magical girl who had been put in a bind and left behind.

Non aware of the cloaked ship on the Hospitals roof, and the soldiers as they got off.

Ari got off first and soon was followed by three fully armored ODST's, and using the newly added cloaking feature that was added from the Elites when they joined, they stealthily walked the halls of the hospital.

Ari led the team and they soon walked to what appeared to be a physical manifestation of the distortion, which was in a broom closet.

They entered and what they saw caused their jaws to go slack.

"Okay …. Any reason why we somehow ended up in Sweetsville," said Amy as she looked at the very bizarre and very out of place and depth reality they were in.

"This place looks like something a six year old with a taste for all things gothic would draw up, this place is seriously giving off a very bad vibe," said David.

"I second that motion," said Rena.

"Ditto," said Ari.

"Okay, well split into groups of two, Amy and Rena will guard the way out from whatever may be in here," and after Ari finished, at least five strange and bizarre creatures with bloated and spotted bodies and heads that appeared to be like a bull's-eye and wearing old era Nurse hats and had floppy ears ranging from blue to red showed up, and the most disturbing part was that the creatures looked like they had come right out of a four year olds drawing and were running around.

Amy leveled her battle rifle and the high grade armor-piercing bullets of the rifle easily tore the creatures apart.

"Okay, and while you fight these, 'whatever they are's', David and myself will go to that large door and find out what the heck is causing this, let's go David," finished Ari.

"Right behind you," David said.

With that David and Ari soon headed straight for the giant door, and heard what sounded like gunfire along the way.

Then as they neared the door, they saw the one responsible for the shooting, and what a surprise it was, and also a shock.

Pace was looking over the ship running diagnostics and sending repair drones to do maintenance as well as look over the new add-ons from the portal device when a call came in on the encrypted channel.

"Pace ….. -is is Ari come in, I repeat come in over," said the voice of Ari from the other end, and Pace answered.

"This is Pace, did you find the distortion," Pace replied.

"Oh we sure found it, sending video your way," said Ari.

Pace got the video and started streaming, and what she saw caused her logic to go into doubt, but the video was real and live, streaming what looked like a child's gothic rendering of Ice Cream Land, along with creatures that, for all intents and purposes looked like the drawings of a child come to life.

"And here is the topper," said Ari as another video file was sent.

Pace opened the file and her logic core almost crashed, because she was now seeing a rather young (yet quite well endowed (FROM LOGIC CORE: Focus Pace)) yellow haired girl in a very tight fitting yellow outfit with a short skirt, long dark socks that went above the knees, boots, a Beret, and a hair clip that seemed to be giving of a rather strange and unknown energy, and what grabbed Pace entirely was the fact that the girl was summoning strange Flintlock-type rifles from virtually nowhere and shooting from them unknown bolts of a strange energy that was not any that was recorded anywhere, neither UNSC or Covenant, but unfortunately the energy and getup bore similarities to stuff that Pace found when looking at Japanese Comics (From Logic Core: Manga) and the only conclusion, the only actual conclusion that could be reached was that the girl was a …

"If you say that that girl is a Magical Girl or in this country it would be called Mahou Shoujo," Rena said as she saw the feed through her helmet cam, "I swear that one of us or all of us will lose it."

"Sorry Rena but right now, there is nothing I have that can say otherwise, and since this is an alternate dimension and all, I think it's safe to say that the rules of this dimension include … well …. You know," said Pace as her logic core struggled to make sense of it all.

"You mean 'Magic'," said Ari.

"'sighs' … Yes, I mean magic, okay just right now go and find out what's going on and try to come back, all I'm asking," said Pace.

"Roger," the squad chorused.

With that Pace cut the connection and then sent drones to her logic core in order to repair any type of damage that may have occurred due to the information received.

In the barrier, Ari and David followed the magical girl as she headed for the large door, Ari getting the Spartan laser ready, since logic would dictate that someone or something made the messed up reality, and it dictated that they were the largest thing within the reality, and like in a video game they would be the bosses, or the toughest opponent and would be the toughest to beat.

Except that was video games were you could do the as many times as necessary in order to win, in real life you only got one chance, and Ari was not about to be killed in a land of candy and ice cream.

So she and David activated their cloaking fields and stealthily followed the magic user and another pink-haired young girl as they opened the door to what would more than likely be the boss's lair.