In response to a review about the clicheness of time travel: I kinda figured it would be a little cliche, but I thought it would make more sense than Samus happening to stumble upon Master Chief. Besides, it seemed logical to me that Earth has been either destroyed or drained and abandoned by the time Metroid 1 occurs, since it pretty much doesn't exist anymore, so it made sense that Samus had to travel back through time.

As for what's happening. This is occuring in the period of time almost just after Halo 2 ends. I've started at the place where the ship Master Chief stowed away on has landed on Earth, and, according to the official Halo Uprising comics that will bridge the gap between Halo 2 and 3, he's captured for interrogation. It'll be a while before the next chapter is out, because I have to play through Halo 1 and 2 again for some background before I start making up events for 3. When the game comes out, it will undoubtedly make things easier.

Thanks to all those who like the work. This is my first work being read by others, so I'm glad it seems to be going so well.


After an hour of last minute checking of the machine, and then the twelve hour warm up, Samus stood in front of it, slightly worried.

"Now, we won't be able to pinpoint the exact location of Master Chief with this, but we will be able to get you within about a fifty mile range. Chances are, he'll probably be with others, but we can't be sure. Just make sure you don't make any significant movements, since theories are that it'll tear you apart if you do. Also, though this should be obvious, don't fire your weapons in there! We have no theories, but we know it's not a good idea, which is, again, obvious. Lastly, you'll have to shut off the suit while you're inside, and I mean completely. This thing will fry the systems if they're online. Well, I guess that's all, good luck then," the Admiral explained to Samus. After he had finished, he clapped Samus on the back and left the room, along with many other scientists. One scientist stayed behind at a control panel a few feet from the machine, armored like the soldiers who had escorted Samus in.

"Ready?" he asked, his tone anxious and worried. Samus nodded and approached the machine, which was basically a cylinder with a door that slid apart for entry, which did open as Samus stepped toward it. Forcing away fear, she stepped into the cylinder and the doors shut. Acting quickly, since the scientist outside could activate the machine at any time, Samus shut off her suit and felt the weight of it press upon her. Suddenly, and unexpectedly, a bolt of what felt like electric bolt shot through Samus's body. Disoriented, half blind, and mentally numbed by the shock, Samus suddenly found herself in the dark and weightless, which didn't help with the disorientation. In the next second, a blinding white light shone through the darkness and engulfed her. She stopped herself from shielding her eyes just in time, remembering that she shouldn't move. Finally, Samus felt gravity come back, along with a falling sensation, and hit solid ground with a ground shaking thud. A blinding light still filled her vision, and the first thing she did was slip down her visor, which had been up so that she could see when the suit was powered down. Pain seared through Samus, particularly at the spine, because her suit hadn't been able to protect her as much as if the shields had been active when she fell. Groaning, she forced herself up, as the suit began to start back up. When her HUD finally showed up on the visor, she looked at her surroundings curiously. It was, Samus suspected, a rainforest; lush, green, and beautiful. The sight was slightly marred, however, by the sight of dead bodies littering the ground and treetops. They were alien, and Samus could see a slight resemblance between them and the Space Pirates. If this Master Chief really was the Samus Aran of the time, this had to have been his work.

"Follow the bodies," Samus said to herself, judging which way this Master Cheif ought to have gone. Most of the bodies lay on their back, heads facing North-East, so Samus headed that way. The forest was dense, unyielding, and fierce with all manner of spiny and pokey plants that would be sure to rip bare flesh, but merely burned to ash as they touched the suit's shielding. Here and there, paths had been torn open by weapons fire, and as the bodies grew less frequent, these paths were what Samus was forced to follow instead. After about fifteen minutes of walking, Samus heard speaking in the distance. It was an old Earth language, some sort of derivative of English, Samus suspected, which had been the Earth's universal language at one point. The voices were odd, though, not quite human. Grunting, rasping voices that didn't sound quite human at all. Then another voice, more human, yet deep and robotic sounding, spoke up.

"I have nothing to say to you. Kill me or leave me..." the voice said. As Samus passed through the next opening in the dense rainforest, a ship came into view, seeming to slowly expand as Samus's view became less impeded. It was huge, as big as many of the largest flagships of the Federation. It also held a majestic, alien beauty, unlike Samus had ever seen before. If Samus were not sure that the aliens would not be too welcome of it, she would have liked to explore the vessel. A large cracking sound brought her back to her senses. In front of the ship, there was a man, or perhaps a woman, chained to a chair. He or she was wearing a suit much like Samus's own, and was surrounded by about twenty of the alien beings. One of them had just rammed the butt of a rifle into the armored figure's stomach.

"We do not play with you, Demon. Give us the information we want now, or you will regret it!" Samus's suit was barely able to translate, as the aliens' voices butchered the language so badly. The one speaking to Master Chief turned away, and suddenly spotted Samus standing there. Both thinking fast, and scolding herself for being stupid enough to stand in the open, she took off running straight at the alien before he could alert his fellows. He was a large one, but when Samus raised her arm cannon and launched a pair of missles at his chest, he fell back, apparently dead.

"Well, this will be easy," Samus muttered, taking aim at the next one. He was ready, though, and fired a large cannon. The grenades it launched bounced and hit Samus hard, draining a whole energy tank. She retaliated with another pair of missles, but this one managed to stand his ground, and charged straight at Samus. Already, the others were readying themselves, levelling their own grenade launchers. Samus leapt backward, narrowly avoiding the grenades as ten of the large aliens fired at once. She switched over to her ice beam and charged it up, then fired the ice spreader into the main group. Six were frozen, and another missle shattered them all. The Master Chief was simply sitting there, unnoticed by any of them, watching idly as the fight continued. Noticing this, Samus fired a missle near the other aliens, and they leapt backward to avoid it. She ran at Master Chief, realizing as she went that he was bound by energy chains rather than ordinary ones. She switched to the wave beam and fired at the chains a few times before it flickered and Master Chief managed to break away from them. Not hesitating for a moment, he grabbed up one of the dead aliens' grenade launchers, and turned on the others. Together, Samus and Master Chief made easy work of the rest of the aliens.

"You alright?" Samus asked when they were done, as she sat on the ground.

"Fine," Master Chief said, as he took a seat as well, back in the chair he had been previously chained to.

"You're the Master Chief?" The armored man simply nodded. After a long pause, Samus decided that Master Chief wasn't in the mood for chatting, and laid back on the soft grass. Though she tried to resist, it was comforting to be resting for the first time since her problems on Tallon IV. She soon fell unwillingly to sleep.