Alex was confused and in pain, one moment he was on his way to an ONI lab then a bright yellow light and the next thing you know your body feels like your burning alive and his head feels like its about to explode.

His body is being trasported to another universe and his body is being changed to be able to live in that reality.

His head feels like spliting because of the information being downloaded in to his brain, the cartographers' beam did more than power the device he was trasporting.

When the pain finally subsides he realized, he was no longer in where he stood moments ago. He was now in a crater in the middle of a forest.

He stood there fore a moment taking in his surroundings and trying to make sence of what just transpired, he suddenly stopped realizing ther is new information in his mind.

He stood there digesting and arranging the new information that was downloaded in his head, theres a lot more than he first thought,

A few moments later he finally finished prossesing the new information in his head, it seems that the beam gave him few perks. He can now think faster and has photographic memory, faster reaction speed, super strenght and an exosuit, one that looked like a promethean knight from what was downloaded in to his head.

"strange." he said to himself, from what he gathered it was not suposed to do that. The beam was supose to turn him to a mind less robot to surve the didact. He theorised that he was exposed to just the right amout of that beam and him being trasported here at the right time, for him to end up like this.

Realizing that he exclamed "wow, now thats lucky not master cheif lucky but still lucky none the less."

With all that done, he now looked at his surroundings trying to figure where he is, an idea suddenly came to him and he looked up at the star.

He used the stars and forerunner knowledge to pinpoint his location.

And he came up with a 99.9% it's earth, as for the 0.1% there is a few stars that shouldn't be there, thoes stars should have died long ago when the forerunner made go super nova to wipe out part of the flood fleet to buy time for halos completion.

Even with the vast distances in space and light would take a long time to cross it and even taking the delay in to consideration, earth should have stop reciving lights from those star 10000 years ago.

Mars and luna too should be already colonized.

He then monitored earths comunications, a few moments later, from what he gathered he was in the mid 21century and several events have happened that shouldn't have happen and several event should have happen didn't happened.

He came to a conclusion that he had traveled to another universe.

He then started thinking of a way back, but quickly gave up on the idea for a number of resons. He would need a forerunner to shoot with the cartograhper with him carrying an alien artifact witch he doesn't know the locations to find the thigs he need and even if know where to find them he still most likely can't reach them with no starships and all, even if he finds some way to recreat it or he finds another way there is still no guarantee that it will take him to his univers not some other parallel universe and even if he reaches home he was hit by cartographer's beam there is no telling that he will not turn in to mindless the moment he steps through it.

"the UNSC pays great and has all the modern comforts but the risk is to great and so much trouble I could waste my whole trying to find a way home , so i'll be staying " and just like that he gave up going back home.

"now what to do now?" he asked himself.