Chapter 3

Unknown contact

Aboard 'Into the Light'

uncharted space

unknown time

Troy woke up with a nasty headache and a creak in his neck. He pushed himself up off the ground and dusted off his shoulder pads. He was left a little disoriented and couldn't recall too much.

He quickly looked around the bridge of 'Into the Light'. Computers shot sparks every which way, bits of glass showered the floor from the shattered computer screens. Blast doors were raised along the windows of the bridge. His motion tracker was still down but he noticed something new on the side of it.

A video feed like thing of Serina was on it. She was laying down on a floor made of blue 1's and 0's, walls looked the same, only the numbers were constantly moving and changing. Some of the numbers were flashing red and blue.

"Serina?" He said. His voice sounded like it would make any smart covenant grunt run for the hills. She was barely moving. He said again in a bit calmer voice "Serina, you there?"

She blinked a bit before picking herself up off her floor.

"What happened? All I remember was going through a weird slip-space portal, then nothing. Just blank memory." She said. More numbers flashed between red and blue.

"You alright?"

"I'm not sure, no notable damage or anything out of place. But I still feel like something is wrong."

Troy looked toward Jewel's terminal. She seemed to of had it worse. Bits of the glass projecting her was cracked, sparks flew everywhere, she was on her side, same as Serina.

"Jewel?" he asked. She flickered a bit as she rose. The doors behind him creaked a bit.

"Y..y..yes Sierra o..o..one-seven-t..t..two?" She stuttered a bit. She must have been hurt or damaged.

"She doesn't sound good. Think that portal fried her bad." Serina observed. He had almost forgotten about that portal. It wasn't exactly on the top of his 'check out later' list, but if it knocked him out and damaged the ship and her AI, it was on the top now.

"I'm fi..i..ine Serina, just a lit..t..tle glitched out right now." Jewel said trying talk. Her avatar flickered more.

"Do you have any idea where we are?"

"un..n..ncharted space. No...o..o other signs of l..life ab..b..board." She stuttered more. This was worrying Troy. The ship's AI who replaced more than 1,000 highly trained men is glitching out in uncharted space, yea he was just a little worried.

"Can you open the blast doors?" he asked

She flickered a bit more before giving a response. "I th..h..hink so. Let me se..e..e"

She typed in a few things on her pad before shields over the windows started to rise. A small blue planet appeared really close to the windows. Looked a bit like earth, mainly blue with water, bits of green masses for the continents. There was no planetary defense stations anywhere, no starships anywhere, barely any visible satellites. Like one or two maybe.

"What do you make of the planet?"

"Fro..o..om what I gat..t..ther, it has an atmosph..h..here like earth's, human signatures mi..i..ixed with Unk..k..known ones." She explained. He saw she was getting worse. Maybe she absorbed too much when the portal hit, could that cause her to malfunction this badly?

"Is the ship able to land anywhere?" he asked

Jewel typed a few things into her broken terminal and flickered more.

"Negative, the ship's lan..n..n..nding gear is stuck, stabilizer thru..u..usters are fried, weapons systems of..f.. might have an aircraft still in the ha..a..anger." She said glitching more. Troy looked out to see the planet getting closer rapidly. But a green serpent thing with arms came flying toward them.

"Oh goody, another alien species. Hope this one doesn't try to exterminate us" Serina observed with a bit of sarcasm. It gave a deafening roar before a orange beam charged from it's mouth. It was going to attack them.

"Why did I even get my hopes up?" Serina asked.

"Jewel, take evasive maneuvers." Troy ordered. She turned to look at his still flickering.

"I can't. m..m..my memory is too corr..r..rupt to hand..d..dle the thrusters. I sug..g..gest you get off the ship ASAP." She said with a look of worry on her face

"I'm not leaving you behind." He said as the serpent outside fired his orange beam. It slammed into the starboard side fusions engine. It shook the ship violently and caused many light to turn red and alarms to blare.

"Starboard engine is destro..o..oyed, pressure lo..o..os through out the lower h..h..half of the ship. You ne..e..ed to get off now" She said getting worse. "I'l..l..ll be fine, Just G..G..GO!" She yelled. The front hand of the ship started to form a flaming orange cone which meant one thing. They were going to crash-land.

He took off running out the door, well breaking through the door and then ran. Sparks flew as he ran down the hall, past several fried bodies of the crew.

'What the hell happened?' Troy thought to himself. The ship shook violently again.

"Warning, haul integrity at 25%, pressure loss on multiple levels. all personnel please evacuate the ship." A prerecorded computerized female voice said.

"You heard the computer. Get your ass moving!" Serina yelled. Troy quickly grabbed his rifle and ran. More alarms blared as he ran down to the hanger. It shook even more violently.

"Warning, all integrity at 10%, fission engines exceeding critical levels. all personnel evacuate the ship immediately." the same voice from earlier said. Troy quickly opened the blast-doors to the hanger and jumped into the pilot chair of the pelican. His HUD displayed the weapons and integrity of the bird. He plugged Serina into the computer and started the take off sequence.

The pelican started to take off. An explosion echoed though out the walls of the ship which only meant one thing. The reactors just blew, he had less then half a minute to get away from the ship.

"What are you waiting for, someone to kick us out?" Serina asked

He ignored that comment and pushed forward on the controls. The pelican shot forward out of the hanger. A HUGE ball of fire engulfed the hanger as he shot out at high atmosphere. He looked at the side monitor to see it showed 'Into the Light' breaking in half with the back half exploding, propelling the front half faster toward the planet below. He hoped no one would be hurt when it hits the ground. The air filled with the deafening victory roar of the weird serpent.

Constant beeps and warning whistles filled the cockpit of the Pelican. It shook violently and out of control. Troy struggled to gain control of the bird.

"Engines two through twelve are not responding, the ship sustained extensive damage when entering atmosphere from extreme speeds." Serina said through the pelican's radio

"Where are we going to land at this rate?" Troy asked as he kept fighting the controls to keep it straight with only one engine working.

"Let me get a geological read real quick, imputing speed."Serina mumbled to herself "At this rate we're aiming straight through a small town. Bet insurance won't cover this." She said chuckling at the last part. "But there is a forest a little bit to the right but if you go too far at this height we'll hit another town, whoa" She said shocked at the sudden course change as Troy threw his weight to the right causing them to move right violently, one of the may joys of being a spartan. The bird broke free of the clouds and a forest emerged in front of him and falling fast.

"Brace for impact!" Serina yelled as the nose of the pelican hit the first tree, effectively snapping it in half. The ship jolted and bounced as it skid across the ground and tore trees apart. A slight explosion was heard from the cockpit.

"We just lost connection engine one, think something got sucked in. All engines are down." Serina informed. Branches hit the windshield and stones were thrown, causing small cracks in the windshield. Wild animals fled all over the place. But he could still feel the ship bounce when they ran one after another over.

"Roadkill." Serina joked each time wild animals were being flattened by the ship. The nose of the ship started tilting toward the right and slammed into a lake with full force. A huge tidal wave hit the shore of the other side of the lake as the Pelican laid still in the water on it's side.

Windshield was cracked and few spots busted, glass littered the floor of the cockpit and the faint smell of smoke filled the air. Sparks erupted from the consol. Serina flickered a bit.

"Well, any landing you can walk away from is a good one." Serina said with a slight chuckle. Troy looked at the treeline on the other end of the lake. He noticed that there was a few minutes of daylight left, he'll have to work fast.

"I'll survey the area first. See if this is a good spot to hunker down for the night, we'll go for help in the morning." He said looking to the back of the pelican with it's ramp/door going up/down slowly. "We don't know anything about this world, we could have crashed right into an Insurrection or Covenant controlled world."

He Took Serina's chip out of the Pelican's computer and ran out the back of the ship to survey the area. His wonderful parking made a huge path in the forest, knocked down a lot of trees, uprooted a couple dozen. He didn't know how bad the rest of the trail was.

He found a few weird black rabid lion looking things on the ground. One flattened and the other with no head.

"Lux!" one of the weird lion things yelled as it tried to pounce on him with lightning coming from one of it's fangs. He knew the animal wouldn't even be able to put a scratch on his armor or shields but his instincts forced him to move left and kick the animal square in the chest. A crunching sound told him that he broke it's ribs and crushed it's internal organs. It went flying and was dead before it hit the dirt lifeless beside the other lion things.

"Well that was interesting." Serina said as she was being displayed on his HUD.

"You can say that again." He agreed as he scanned the area. A dozen or so meters from them was a big orange rat thing barely moving. He quickly ran to see what was wrong with it. He turned it over to see lots of cuts and bruises on the poor thing

"Serina can you tell me what it is?" He asked as he took her chip out and placed her chip in front of the new life form in front of him and knelled down for a closer look. He didn't want to save this animal, but something inside of him compelled him to help it out. Pity maybe because he might of hit it when he crashed. Serina put her finger on her chin and thought.

"Well it is obviously female, the way she is holding her egg and lack of male parts for a mammal is a dead give away. Assuming she is a mammal or mammal like." She answered "Looks like a large mouse like creature, bit malnourished for what a rat this size should be if you ask me, about 10% of the body weight that is suppose to be there is gone. Again, we know nothing of these creatures."

"Can you tell me what's wrong with her?" He asked. Serina shook her head. A slight rustling in the bushed indicated something was watching him. He did a quick check around the area. Nothing that his crash didn't already destroy was out of place. His training taught him that he should be suspicious. He remained alert as he turned back to the poor rat in front of him.

"Just by guessing and looking at her. She has internal bleeding along her abdomen, serveral of her ribs are broken, one of which is puncturing her right lung. Without an autopsy, I can't say for certain on what is wrong with her." Serina explained. Troy knew a punctured lung would require surgery to fix, he didn't have the tools nor knowledge to preform a delicate operation. Serina doesn't have a physical body to do the operation either. He didn't have any bio-foam. He would have to take her to the closes town or have someone come to them, but maybe he could do something to help her now, but it did make him wonder. How did this animal get so hurt when it wasn't near the crash?

(A/N He may not find out but you will. Sad pokemon back story time! Get the tissues ready.)


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few minutes earlier

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A mother Raichu was running through the forests near 'Lake Verity' with her only surviving egg in her hands. A ruthless pack of luxray have been stalking her since 'Hearthome city' a few days ago. She has been tirelessly protecting her egg day and night, most she's eaten in the past 3 days was an Oran berry before they found her and she had to go on the run again. They killed her mate, ate her other eggs, and were hunting her.

Her body was covered in cuts, bruises, and scraped. Three of her ribs were broken from a cliff fall two days ago. She barely had any energy left in her body, and she was running on fumes and her natural instinct to protect her egg.

The only attacks she knew were basic electric, with a Luxray being electric as well. Her attacks did next to nothing to them, at most it only pissed them off more. She was huffing and puffing to catch her breath but a blue thunderbolt struck the ground next to her. These bastards don't give up quick.

She put her egg down and quickly launched a thunderbolt right back. She picked her egg up and started running again. They couldn't be too far away if they launched a thunderbolt at her. She knew they were close and only gaining on her.

A loud boom filled the air before she finally collapsed by the shore of a lake. Just out of the forest. Not able to take another step to save her life. Emerging from the forest behind her were 3 panting Luxray. They didn't look as bad as her. If anything they were just exhausted from running so far and for so long. They started forming a circle around her and snarling.

Raichu used the last of her strength to pick her self up and faced her attackers. She had no where to hide, no where to run. She was outnumbered and out matched. But she wasn't going to just lay down and die when hope is lost. She was going to make her final stand here. She still wore a look of determination to defend her egg. She'll protect her egg with every living fiber in her body, even if she has to give her life to protect it.

Luxray one pounced toward Raichu, she quickly jumped out of the way and hit him with her tail with what strength she had as Luxray two launched a powerful thunderbolt. Luxray three ran in and tried to take the egg from her. She dodged the thunderbolt and quickly picked up her egg and tried to kick one of her attackers away but he was too fast. He sent her skidding across the beach with a iron tail that hit her in the chest, she couldn't move her legs and barely able to move her arms now, she was having a hard time breathing, the right side of her chest hurt beyond description. She knew then and there she was going to die and there was nothing she could do. She held her egg and braced herself for the worst

Her attackers smiled as they got closer but froze when a another boom filled the air. Before they had time to react a giant metal thing slammed into the trio and the lake, Flattening one while it's metal wing decapitating another, the last one was knocked to the side, got up and growled at the new opponent who dared mess with his hunt. A huge tidal wave hit the opposite shore as the metal beast stopped in the water and started to smoke from many places. Her ears where still ringing from the boom.

Coming from the back of the beast...no, an aircraft. Was a blue giant, he reeked of death as he walked out. Luxray two got in a pouncing position and leaped at his new target with a thunder fang.

It noticed and quickly jumped to the side. Before she could figure out how he reacted so quickly he kicked his attacker right in the chest. The luxray landed next to his buddies not moving. This giant had just killed her attackers without getting a scratch and in one hit. It looked right at her, to say she was terrified was a terrible understatement. It ran over to her and knelled down and placed a chip next to her with a glowing human woman on it. She held her egg tighter.

"Serina, can you tell me what it is?" It asked with a voice that sounded scratchy and terrifying. She tried to pick herself up but couldn't. Her chest felt like it was on fire and bones where made of broken glass.

Don't be afraid my child. A rather heavenly voice said in her head. He has been summoned here by a old friend to save us all from a impending doom.

She felt a little more comfortable but wondered who was talking to her?

"Well it is obviously female, the way she is holding her egg and lack of male parts for a mammal is a dead give away. Assuming she is a mammal or mammal like." the little blue female explained "Looks like a large mouse like creature, bit malnourished for what a rat this size if you ask me, about 10% of the body weight that is support to be there is gone."

She didn't know what to think of these humans in front of her, if they where humans at all. One smelled like the seven gates of hell, was freaking huge, covered in blood, and had no face. Just a golden cracked plate that showed her reflection. While the other was way too small to be human. She knew it was female by the tone of her voice and other distinct features. Plus, human's didn't glow blue or be see through in a few areas.

The woman is with him, she won't hurt you either. the heavenly voice said again. She was seriously wondering who was speaking to her in her mind. Did she eat a bad berry or something?

"Can you tell me what's wrong with her?" He asked. She saw a young girl and a walking green snake quickly run behind a tree. The Giant turned to see what it was but shook his head and looked back at her.

"Just by guessing and looking at her. She has internal bleeding along her abdomen, several of her ribs are broken, one of which is puncturing her right lung. Without a autopsy, I can't say for certain on what is wrong with her." The tiny blue woman said. Raichu had no idea what she was talking about but it didn't sound good. She gripped her egg tighter but was sure not to damage it or hurt herself even more.

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back to present time

(A/N Okay, this part will switch between the two points of view. So you'll know what both of them are thinking about the other. May get a little confusing.)

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"Is there anything we can do for her right now?" Troy asked looking down at the orange creature in front of him. It was holding it's egg pretty tightly, obviously she didn't want it to be hurt. "I won't hurt you little one. Don't worry." He said in as gentle and soft of a voice as he could. Still sounded like he could rip your guts out and strangle you with them, but not as severe as he normally would.

Raichu was a little terrified at the armored thing in front of her. He said 'he means no harm' but she was still skeptical, he crashed into the lank, killed one of the luxray who attacked her like it was nothing, then wanted to help her? Forgive her for being on the safe side but she was warming up to the man.

Serina looked back at troy like he was a idiot. "She's dying, you didn't grab a med-kit before jumping on the Pelican, closest settlement is two miles away. Even at your top speeds, she'll die before we can find anyone to help her in time." Serina explained looking back at her and sighed. "There is only one option you can do."

Raichu didn't like the sound of that, if she truly was dying them who would be there to raise her unhatched egg, who would take care of it. Her mate was dead and her parents were too far away to do anything, her egg could hatch at any time. She looked as the tiny woman disappeared into a chip and the man slipped it in his skull. He pet her head a little bit. She kind of liked being pet, Was a new feeling for her to have someone pet her.

But with that aside she realized she has no choice, Her child needed someone to take care of it. If he truly wanted to help her, he would have to raise her child in her place. She didn't like the though of having a complete stranger take care of her egg but what choice did she have.

It's okay. The heavenly voice spoke to her mind again. He will take good care of your child. He'll be sure it grows up healthy, safe, and strong.

She mentally sighed as she didn't like what she was going to have to do next. Using what little strength she had, she lifted her egg away from her chest and toward him. She forced a smile as her arms felt like they were going to break off, lungs burning, every fiber in her body begged her to stop moving. She wasn't going to stop till she was sure her egg was in his hands.

"Rai." She weakly said collapsing when her egg was in his hand.

Troy was beyond confused on why she handing him her egg? She looked mammal like but most mammals don't lay eggs, well platypus was a different story. Maybe her species was a distant cousin?

"Why is she giving me her egg?" He asked Serina. Behind his helmet he was trying to think of what to do with it. It was a little bigger then his frag grenades, maybe make a big omelet with it later, but he didn't have anything on his ship to cook it with. Eh, he'll find a way when the time comes to it. He would need sustenance at some point.

"I don't know anything about the animal's behavior here, but she appears to be in a lot of pain" Serina said sighing from inside his helmet. "You know what has to be done. Don't let her suffer anymore then she already has." She said.

He didn't like wasting a bullet to put a poor animal down but he couldn't just leave it to die painfully, his old instructors would have his ass if they found out he left it like this. At lest this way it will be painless, she wouldn't even feel a thing. He was hoping that the poor animals understands what he has to do.

Raichu was starting to breath very irregular. She felt death's cold fingers grip around her very soul and squeeze tightly. The man put the egg down gently in the grass, pet her head one more time before pulling something from his side and was aimed at her head. She knew this was going to be her final moments.

"I'm sorry." The man said. She took her last deep breath, closed her eyes and smiled. The last thing she heard was the bang that relieved her from the pain.

She felt nothing but utter bliss as her soul was floating away in the distortion dimension, where all pokemon go when the die. It was a lot like the world she left, only small orbs floated everywhere that showed random places. It was as the world's name suggested, it was distorted, twisted in many areas, and just plain reversed. Giratina was flying toward her with Arceus following behind him

You made the right choice in the end, my child. Arceus said as he got closer to her. So He is the heavenly voice who was talking to her. I trust he will take good care of yours.

Giratina floated close by her and gave her a smile. Well, his vision of a smile. Was rather creepy if you asked her.

You'll be in good hands, forever at peace for your noble sacrifice. You can be with your mate and unhatched children again. He said. She couldn't help but smile as her her lover floated behind Giratina and Arceus. He had a smile on his face as three small pichu's followed. But she couldn't help but worry about the future on her final egg, the one she gave everything to protect. Arceus sensed her worry and bowed his head a bit.

I understand your worry. No parent should have to go through what you went though. As a token of deep sorrow, I will personally keep an eye on your child as the Spartan raises it from afar, but the ancient laws forbid me to directly intervene if he gets in trouble.

So that is what the man who she gave her egg to was, a Spartan. Helps that she didn't know what a Spartan was or what it could do. It did comfort her that she was finally back together with her true love and their children. She deeply hoped that her last egg would be safe as the god of pokemon promised.

Troy wiped a bit of red blood that splattered off his visor. The monotreme rat laid lifeless before him. Flocks of birds took to the sky as nightfall covered the land. Serina sighed as she appeared on his HUD.

"You know you did the right thing." She said softly. Before he could reply he heard a gasp from behind him. He switched the safety off quick and turned around. Barrel of his rifle aimed at the trees the gasp came from.

"Who's there? Show yourself!" He demanded. It was more then likely someone spying on him or checking out the crash. Whether it was civilians, rebels, law enforcement, Covenant, or some backwoods hillbilly. He wanted to know before he shot the wrong person.

A young, pink haired woman emerged from the trees with her hands up. She couldn't be no older then 16-17. Her face showed genuine fear for her life. He couldn't blame her for that one. He had been deployed in many hostile areas where civilians ran scared for their lives all over the place, most of the time in the worst possible places at the worst possible time. Next to this woman was a walking snake thing with a scarf and bow. Obviously the girl's pet.

"I'm Emily Blitz, a Pokemon trainer. This is my partner Grace." She responded with her hands still in the air.

"Snivy sni." The one she calls 'Grace' said. It looked a bit uneasy. It's hands were in the air still. He didn't know what 'snivy sni' meant or what a pokemon was. He kept his rifle steady but switched the safety back on. He could turn safety off just as quick as it can take him to fire.


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"Men, we lead those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep 'em from getting their filthy claws on earth. But, we stumbled into somethin' they're so hot for, that they're scrambling over each other to get it. Well I don't care if it's god's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant hula hoop, we're not going to let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I right marines"

"Sir, Yes, Sir"

"Mhhhhm. Damn right I am. Now move it out. Double time"

~Staff sergeant Avery Junior Johnson's speech on legendary difficulty from 'halo: combat evolved' aboard 'pillar of autumn' before the battle of installation 04. September 19th,2552.

Another chapter done. Sorry it took so long. Internet was down for a while so I couldn't update, as a i'm sorry gift here's one of Johnson's funniest quotes. I have chapters stockpiled so I'll be sure to update back to once a week till it runs dry. Hope this answers a few question from earlier but raises new questions. Like for example...

Who was the one who summoned him there?

Would Emily and Grace survive?

Will he make the egg into a omelet?

Though I do admit, I always wondered what a pokemon egg made into an omelet would taste like? Or even If it could be made into a omelet? Oh well, Stay tune for the next update next week. If the raichu third person POV was a bit too much sorry, I figured I might as well add it to help make sense on how she got hurt and why she gave our Spartan her egg. Now, Time to answer some reviews

Zyphex: thank you for your answer to that question, anything is possible with the right mindset and time.

Guest(1): also thank you for your answer, I'll read the halo books as soon as I can find the time.

Dracologistmaster: thank you, seeing reviews like that is why I love writing.

G: I know there are a few typos. I plan in going back and re-editing each chapter for typos after the story is done. Till then I will worry about minor typos later. I will not let this story die, as long as I got the will to write it shall live. I do admit I push myself a bit but I need to set a deadline for updates other wise I won't get done. I have several that died because I forgot about it and couldn't get it back up. Minecraftia survival is a example of this. It was a early work. I didn't like where it was going. I deleted it and am in the process of a total rewrite for it.

TANK9811: You'll have to wait and see. I won't give out spoilers to this.

Now, before I put this off any longer, And by put off I mean I completely forgot about it till now.

Disclaimer: I do not own halo or Pokemon. Nintendo owns Pokemon. 343 industries/Bungie/ Ensemble studios owns halo. One of the three owns halo now, not sure which one. Take your pick

With that out of the way and your reviews answered, I'm signing out for now. See you all later.