EDIT: Fixed a minor mistake near the ending.

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Chapter 2

"I guess it's you and me now Chief, nice to work with you again caveman." Cortana commented as the Master Chief began to walk towards the teleporter.

The moment they stepped inside the beam, they end up in a sort of dimension that one could most accurately describe as slipspace travel.

"Amazing, the Forerunners were able to manipulate slipspace in order to create an actual long-distance teleporter."

A few seconds later, an exit appeared in front of them, which they fell into, they expected to find themselves on the surface of Earth, although Provident did not specify where they would land.

But the moment they adjusted their eyes on their enviroment, The Chief's eyes widened, this was almost impossible to do in most standards especially as he was a veteran supersoldier who had fought in hundreds of battles, but it was for a good reason.

They were a good half kilometer in the air!

–-

In the middle of the devestated city, four gun-toting men and some who had melee weapons had been shooting or hacking at whatever they wanted to, regardless of whether it was "them" or survivors, they just wanted to have fun.

One of the men, carrying a shotgun, shot of "Them" as it approached, the resounding gun shot panicking the people who began to scream and ran away.

"That's right. You run, all of you run like hell!" The man said as he let out a diabolical laugh.

Two highschool students riding a motorcycle suddenly sped past them.

"Huh, hey!" The man pointed to the pair and gestured his literal partners-in-crime to fire at them.

The boy muttered something and increased the speed of their vehicle, narrowly dodging a meat cleaver directed at them and a shotgun blast before escaping.

"Damn, they got away."

"I've seen enough." A voice came up from behind the men.

"Wh-what was that?" one of them said as they turned around, only to find nothing at all that could have been a source of the voice.

A behemoth of a man appeared in front of them as he took out a cyclindrical object that unleashed a mean-looking orange blade... and proceeded to decapitate all of them before they could say a word... or even blink as their heads rolled on the ground with their eyes wide open.

"We end up five hundred meters in the air, land in a devestated city, encounter shuffling corpses that feed on the living which presumably caused said devestation, saw a would-be rapist and killer fail miserably and finally we meet with these guys who're killing the survivors and these things just to get a kick out of it and you return the favor. It hasn't even been 24 hours."

–-

Flashback

Takashi was searching for any cash that he may find in a cash register to trade for gas after being separated from their group and with a stroke of luck, finding a motorcycle after "dealing" with it's turned owner.

He was about to break open the cash register with his baseball bat when he heard a scream outside, presumably from Rei who preferred to wait outside after a minor argument. Takashi immediately ran outside to see whatever happened.

"Rei, What's wrong?" He said as he ran out, his eyes widening.

There was a guy in black T-shirt, yellow baggy pants and a white cap with a bandana as well as braces on his teeth, but what was more telling was that he had a knife to Rei's throat, he definitely looked and acted insane, which was further confirmed upon his actions, he himself admitted that his mental state was shattered after "Them" attacked his family and they were eventually turned to "Them" the guy was forced to kill them all and had been that way ever since, he also proceeded to sexually grope the highschool girl that he was holding at knifepoint and taunting Takashi after she attempted to escape him and failed.

He also proceeded to force them to surrender their vehicle to his so he could escape, Takashi tried feinging that it had no gas but unfortunately, the guy thought otherwise as he had heard Takashi's earlier explanation that they could get gas with enough cash.

Takashi tossed his baseball bat aside, emitting a sharp metallic noise it it made contact with the ground, attracting some of "Them" that was around the area, then proceeded to place some cash that he extracted from the register earlier in a self-service gas machine.

"Hey, will you let us go now? You can have the bike, we need to check if our families are alright." Takashi said as he gassed up the vehicles.

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" The madman snapped. " I don't care about your parents, they're gonna end up just like my family did you bastard."

Takashi stayed silent as he tightly sealed the cap on the gas tank, "It's done."

"Away from the bike and start walkin' !"

Takashi merely walked up to the madman and his hostage.

"Come on man-" Takashi was interrupted as the guy threatened him.

A tense moment happened when the man was enraged, then he made a mistake.

He raised his free arm holding the knife, leaving him wide open to Takashi as he drew a revolver from his pocket and aimed it right at their agressor's chest in point-blank range.

Another tense standoff, mostly to the would-be offender, as he had no means to defend himself since it would take too long to swing it down against Takashi.

It eventually ended after a bit of not-so-casual talk and a gunshot, leaving the man on the floor clutching his chest.

The pair proceeded to leave after leaving the man to his fate.

A large shimmering figure nearby contemplated saving him but decided against it as what he did wasn't exactly the most pleasant of things and although it was out of desperation, the figure knew that the person would only spell more trouble in the future for any remaining survivors that he would happen to come across.

It then moved on to stalk the two teenagers who had recently left the scene hoping to get solid answers on his current situation.

"Something tells me that this is just the beginning." Master Chief said as he hid the Hardlight sword and readied his combat knife.

"Where are you headed Chief?"

"See if you can track the kids that just passed by, they could be heading towards an evacuation area or at least another group of survivors."

"Good idea, give me a sec... I've managed to increase the range of your motion tracker towards their general location and remove all the other ranges, this and the increase of the suit's data storage should be able to keep them in your radar for at least a kilometer or so. But I recommend you hurry." Cortana said as the Spartan engaged in a full-blown sprint, tearing apart any of the undead that were unlucky enough to get in his way.

–-

Back to the present.

"John, I just received a message from Provident Guardian, looks like it is possible to send a message through dimensions." Cortana suddenly mentioned while the Master Chief was jogging to follow the two students.

"Bring it up Cortana."

Suddenly, a large amount of code popped up on his HUD, almost causing him to crash into a wall, almost.

"What is this?"

"Well, it looks like the monitor's message was scrambled quite a bit during the travel through dimensions, but what from what I can piece together here, Provident mentioned that it found out we are currently stuck in a different dimension and is attempting to help us, but this is the only message it could send as this supposedly took most of the remaining power from the entire planet A-512... and he said something about a code that would allow us to unlock the full potential of the Interspace system, there were plenty of other things that Provident had mentioned but most of it was distorted beyond anything I could do..."

"At least this may provide us with a small chance to return to our dimension. And what do you think did he mean by a code to unlock the full potential of the Interspace system?"

"There is a line of code in his message, but it also looked to be distorted due to it's random nature, but for all I know, it may actually be what it is, I could implant it in your suit's Interspace system as Provident gave it the ability to accept codes, I'm not sure how exactly but it just does, should I do it Chief?" Cortana voiced her doubts.

"Do it." The Chief said as Cortana complied nonetheless.

The small list of two items that the Chief had on his HUD suddenly grew longer and smaller, much smaller and longer to the point that half the HUD was filled with it, making the Spartan suddenly stop as he knew that it would be too dangerous to run around with his vision obscured, it took a few moments until the list turned into a grid and eventually stopped expanding, but the Chief could feel that the sheer amount of items that had apparently came out of nowhere are of UNSC, Covenant and Forerunner make.

"Anything turned up Chief? I did what you said." Cortana asked, ignorant of the recent development.

"It looks like I have an entire arsenal of UNSC, Covenant and Forerunner weaponry in my pocket." The Chief replied with noticeable interest, which in itself was rather unusual as it had only happened a few times during his entire lifetime, one of which was when 343 Guilty Spark revealed the existence of combat skins many times stronger than his current MJOLNIR one.

"W-What?" Cortana stuttered, also very unsual.

The Chief pulled out a Storm Rifle in a flash off vibrant orange light.

"Amazing, this feature must have been built-in... but how did Provident know about UNSC and Covenant weaponry?" Cortana thought to herself.

–-

After a few hours of tracking down his subjects, the Chief heard a soft, yet piercing sound, as if it launcehd some kind of projectile, he eventually narrowed down the sound to a few other noises that he was familiar with and figured out that it was some kind of handheld compressed-air weapon in less than half a second due to his superior mental capabilities, but he wouldn't know for sure if his guess held out unless he took a look for himself.

"Chief, I think there may be survivors there, seems like you made the right choice following these kids after all." the voice of his long-time partner rang through his head, to which he silently acknowledged.

He followed the two students as they sped up a ramp that just so happened to be there and carefully followed them as they flew through the air and landed on a bridge, the Spartan sprinting leapt in a control jump as he landed on top of the bridge and swiftly activated his camouflage and took a look at his surroundings.

He saw a few survivors, three females and one male as they were slowly starting to get surrounded by "them", they were presumably his subject's fellow survivors judging by the way they did not hesitate to rush to their aid at once.

He stared at them intently and weighed his choices.

On the positive side, he could assist them and help escort them to a safe zone, in turn, they might give the Chief the info that he really wanted, a first-hand account of what was going on as well as a way to escape and though it was highly unlikely that they knew any deeper details, he would take his chances.

But on the other hand, he would have to reveal himself to them and possibly the entire world and attract unwanted attention if the entire world recovers as according to news reports that Cortana had managed to broadcast, the "pandemic" had spread worldwide, one of the worst case scenarios that could happen was that these people could be hostile to him and he would be forced to defend himself.

He took a second to gather his thoughts and finalize them: His duty and purpose was to defend and serve humanity no matter the cost, regardless of whether they were the ones he was familiar with or happen to belong in an entirely different dimension, after all, it was technically his decision to be where he was in the first place.

The Spartan began to walk towards the group who was finally making headway against their attackers after the two students that he had stalked begun taking out some more of the undead.

He suddenly deactivated camo and raised his Storm Rifle, empyting the entire clip as he fired the weapon in semi-auto mode annihialating every last one of "them" leaving their heads cauterised and unrecognizable as they fell to the ground, a weakness noted by him after a few hours of killing the things.

Naturally, all of the survivors were surprised to see a man easily seven feet in futuristic-looking green and black armor that covered him in head to toe carrying an equally futuristic-looking gun. But what was more surprising was how he killed every last one of "them" in less than two seconds with a weapon that looked to be firing blue bolts of a superheated substance, evident by the smell and sight of burnt flesh, you'd either have to be an sci-fi movie hero... or a seven-foot tall walking tank.

They all froze in place as the Spartan approached them.

End of Chapter.

Finally, mopping up with this chapter hadn't been easy for me at all as I have been sufferring ranging from mild to implacable ones due to staying up very late due to studies and of course writing, I'll try to get more sleep so as to think more clearly.

Reviewer Response.

Christian. 1

I personally thought that the intro left a lot to be desired as I rushed it in two or three hours starting from midnight.

New Universe Returns

Right now, I don't find it necessary for UNSC personnel to get involved in the story due to Chief getting access to basically every gun from the entire Halo series by way of one of my half-cooked ideas.