(Thankyou everyone for the support last chapter, I definitely plan on continuing this story for as long as I can and will try to add new chapters regularly. Please leave reviews, good or bad they help)

(I do not own Halo or The Walking Dead. That goes for last chapter too.)

A brief recap of last chapter:

Chief and Cortana got what was left of the Forward unto Dawn back up and running.

The two discovered the walkers (Although they didn't know what to call them, Sorry I will fix that this chapter) and they figured out how to kill them.

Chief and Cortana raided a radio outpost and Cortana discovered that they were on Earth!

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"We're on Earth!" Chief screamed. "Where are the marines! The ODSTs! They would have sent a rescue crew out to the crash site by now!"

"Chief, I am patched into what I believe is a 21st century Russian spy satellite and I am not seeing any UNSC bases on this continent. There isn't even a trace of the biggest military bases from our time! Chief, I think that Halo somehow sent us back in time or to another reality altogether! If there is anything else from our time out there, it is probably Covenant." Cortana said

"Is there any way to contact the UNSC, or even the Covenant!" Chief asked

"I could set a distress beacon on a loop but I doubt there will be anybody to hear it." Cortana said worryingly "In the mean time I am bringing up what is left of the Internet and attempting to find details pertaining to the initial outbreak of this virus."

"Can you do it from the Dawn?" Chief asked

"I could relay a signal through this outpost to the Satellites from the Dawn, so yes" Cortana said.

"Good" Chief said as he put Cortana back into his helmet.

Outside a few stray creatures had wandered through the hole in the fence that Chief made with the warthog. Chief easily dropped them all with his battle rifle and got back into the warthog. Before Chief started the engine though he realized that it would be night sooner that he could get back to the Dawn and didn't like the thought of driving through herds of the undead for three and a half hours at night.

"Cortana, are there any structures around here that we could use as shelter for the night? I don't want to stay here with the gap in the fence and I don't want to drive back at night either." Chief said.

"Well there is an old railroad station near hear but that would be overrun by now. A little further there is a boarding school that to my knowledge is pretty easily defendable." Cortana said

"I don't like the idea but the boarding school is our best choice for now." Chief said.

Cortana put the coordinates on Chief's HUD and they rode off into the sunset, mowing down any creature they saw along the way.

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Ever since the raider's defeat it had been really quiet at Ericson's boarding school for troubled youth. Clementine had been bit and lost a leg and the loss of one of their best fighters was taking a toll on everyone. They hadn't done much since the rescue mission except repair and reinforce their walls as well as bury their dead.

"Another day of doing nothing." Violet said with a bit of disgust in her voice.

"Well there isn't that much to do Violet." Aasim said. "It's mostly just upkeep and food gathering. You know, like before Clem and AJ got here."

"That's what scares me Aasim, it's too much like before they arrived. And besides, Lily is still alive somewhere out there and she knows where Ericson is."

They heard Omar shout from the other side of the Courtyard. "Dinner is ready everyone!"

The sun had gone down about an hour ago. Everyone came to the table an Omar served dinner.

"Find anything out in the field today Louis?" Clementine asked.

"No, there has been nothing in that field for a week straight now and its worrying me. We might need to search for another hunting ground Clem, because at this rate we are going to be eating plants and fish for a while." Louis responded.

"Agreed, tomorrow you take Mary, AJ, and Ten up to the ridge line to see if there are any other good spots near hear." Clementine said.

"Probably wouldn't hurt to see wear that big herd from last week is too." Louis said.

"Yeah, I know we reinforced those walls but I wouldn't want to test them against that big of a herd." Clementine said.

"Clem, would the walls hold against that herd?" AJ asked.

"I don't want to know the answer to that question AJ, Aasim said there were hundreds of them the last time he saw them. But chances are that the gate wouldn't last as long as the walls." Clementine said with a bit of worry in her voice. "Louis, if the herd is still on this side of the ridge then try and direct them away from Ericson. The last thing we need right now is an army of walkers trying to knock our defenses down."

"Can do Clem." Louis said proudly.

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Willy had never liked watch tower duty, especially since he had held that job for years. However, the simple fact remained that he had much better night vision than even Clementine. Most of the time he would just throw rocks at passing walkers to veer them away from Ericson. He also had a swallow that was particularly fond of him but that was probably due to the fact that Willy fed it regularly. Tonight had been a little different than the last couple. Normally he would wake up around 6:30ish in the afternoon, eat dinner/breakfast with the group, take the dusk watch, relax while Violet or Aasim took the early to midnight shift, cover the dawn watch, and finally hit the hay in the early morning. But tonight he had gotten stuck with all three shifts because Violet had been with Mary getting work done on her eye, or at least where it had been, and Aasim had been hunting with Louis all day. Needless to say they were both pretty wiped out. It was about 8:00 pm when Willy saw his swallow friend again and let it eat some scraps from dinner out of his hand.

"Guess it's just us tonight pal. Violet and Aasim owe me big for this one, don't they little guy." Willy said in a laughing way.

The swallow just chirped as it looked at Willy and turned its head. It suddenly flew off without warning. That was out of the ordinary because normally it would stay with Willy for an hour or two after eating, and when it did leave it would hop a few times and chirp before it flew away. Willy instantly knew something was up. He scanned the near tree line for walkers but didn't find any. He then took out his binoculars and watched the forest ahead of him. Soon he saw a light peek through the tree line for just a second. But that second was all he needed to confirm his suspicion.

"There's someone in the forest heading this way and fast!" He yelled at the top of his lungs to the rest of the group in the courtyard.

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"Are you sure it is a good idea to drive up to this place with your high beams on?" Cortana asked.

Chief simply said, "I am not expecting much if any resistance where we're going. If there is someone there and they want a fight, then they'll have one."

Chief was less than a hundred yards away from the coordinates on his HUD when the boarding school came into sight. It had on orange glow on its interior walls so there had to have been a fire going inside the courtyard, meaning that the place was inhabited by survivors. Chief quickly realized that some sections of the wall had been rebuilt and that the whole wall had been reinforced. He turned off his high beams to hide how close he was to the school but he knew that the engine sounds had definitely alerted its residents to his presence. He parked the warthog about ten yards from the entrance. When he got out of the warthog he saw a dead body chained to a tree with a sign reading "DON'T F*** WITH US!"

"That sends a pretty clear message." Cortana said.

"Let's hope that they're more friendly with us." Chief said. "For their sake."

Chief approached the gate and noticed that it was guarded by a steel chain and a lock. Rather than just breaking the chain, Chief decided to try diplomacy first.

"Hello, I'm friendly and don't mean anyone any harm. I only want a place to stay the night and store my vehicle for the same length of time."

His voice seemed to be almost mechanical to Clem who was behind a table with Marlon's bow in hand. Even though she had lost a leg, she could still shoot incredibly well.

Chief was starting to get perturbed. "Okay, Cortana where are they hiding?"

"There are three behind those turned over tables, two behind that concrete pillar, two behind the benches near the fire place, one on the wall, and one in the watch tower. Funny, all of them seem to be juveniles" Cortana said.

"Listen, I know where you all are and I only want a place to stay the night."

Louis took a chance and stood up pointing a pistol at the gate even though it only had three rounds. "Okay mister you just…" Louis paused at the sight of a nine-foot-tall man in what looked like body armor. This guy held an assault rifle and had what looked like a rocket launcher on his back. To add to all of this his visor was glowing and on the sides of his helmet were what looked like flashlights. His armor covered all the major organs and arteries in his body, or at least all that Mary had told him about, and still maintained a level of intimidation that he could respect. Also on This man's side was an odd looking pistol, much bigger that his own so Louis assumed it fired a much bigger bullet. HE had several frag grenades strapped to his belt as well as what seemed like places for extra magazines.

"Well…y-your armed to the teeth, aren't you?" Louis said in a cowardly way.

"You have no idea kid." Chief said sarcastically.

"H-how do I know that I can trust you?" Louis said in the same way.

"Kid, look at what I'm carrying. If I was going to harm you or your friends, you would all be dead by now. That being said, this gun is more that capable of shooting through tables, benches, concrete pillars, brick walls, and wooden watch towers."

Having just revealed their own hiding spots to them, the Ericson kids stood up to see this guy. Clementine and Mary stood up from behind the tables, Omar and Aasim got up from behind the benches, AJ and Tennessee stood up from behind the concrete pillar, Willy got down from the watch tower, and Violet got down from the wall. They were all as equally taken back as Louis. The kids let Chief in and parked the warthog inside the gate. They were all in awe of the warthog's turret.

"Who are you?" AJ finally asked.

"I am UNSC Spartan Sierra 117, my rank is Master Chief Petty Officer. But most people call me Chief." The Master Chief said.

"Wait what is the UNSC and what's a Spartan?" Willy asked.

"UNSC stands for United Nations Space Command. It is basically the military 500 years from now. As for what a Spartan is, they are genetically and cyberneticly enhanced super soldiers designed to single handedly turn the tide of any fight in favor of the UNSC."

"Wait, how do you know about this UNSC if it's from 500 years in the future?" Violet asked.

"My ship, the UNSC Forward unto Dawn, got cut in half during a battle and was somehow sent back in time. Only those creatures outside were never part of our history. So either I am in a different universe altogether or someone has changed history for the worse." Chief answered.

"Wait, you mean that you're from the future and that the walkers were never supposed to exist?" Mary asked.

"Yes." Chief said. "Also 'walkers' is a much better name than creature or the undead, which is what I have been calling them for the last day and a half."

"Who could have changed history then?" Clementine asked.

"I don't know. I made it here under some pretty extraordinary circumstances. So the chances of anyone else from my time let alone being here, but arriving earlier than I did are incredibly slim" Chief said.

"You said you ship was in a battle and that it got cut in half, who were you fighting and what happened to the other half of your ship?" Louis asked.

"Well, that's a long story. To start, the earliest known alien species in the universe was the Precursors, they went from galaxy to galaxy nurturing new species and eventually passing on their belief system called the mantle of responsibility to one race that they deemed worthy. The mantle of responsibility meant that the species who held it had power and control over all other species, but in tern the species that held it was responsible for the wellbeing and care of all other species. Eventually the Precursors came to our galaxy and fostered many species, but two stood out more than any other. Humanity and the Forerunners. Eventually the Precursors made the decision to pass the mantle of responsibility to Humanity. However, the Forerunners thought that they should have inherited the mantle of responsibility and they declared war on the Precursors and Humanity. Humanity put up a good fight but eventually succumb to the Forerunners, but wasn't entirely destroyed. The poor peaceful Precursors though, weren't so lucky. They were totally unprepared for war. For Billions of Billions of years, they had focused on creating peaceful galaxies where war wasn't a thing. As a result, they barely knew how to fight anymore and were completely destroyed by the Forerunners.

"Sounds like these Forerunners, were some really bad news. But your here so humanity must have avenged the Precursors and destroyed the Forerunners right?" Louis asked.

"Well yes and no. You see before the Precursors were totally extinct, some of them converted themselves into powdered form, hoping to be revived someday by Humanity or other Precursors. But the Forerunners got their hands on the powder first and not knowing what it was, they conducted so many tests on it that it corrupted and rematerialized into the worst enemy ever known to the galaxy, the flood. They were parasitic life forms, their only goal was to feed on sentient life by infecting it and turning it into more flood, not unlike those walkers outside. But the difference between the walkers and the flood is that the flood got smarter with every person that they infected. Slowly but surely taking over entire solar systems at a time. They formed Graveminds, giant monsters that were made of once living people. The Graveminds were as smart as super computers and communicated with smaller flood forms via telepathy. The newly recovered Humanity was completely outmatched and the flood consumed their entire territory forcing the remaining humans into Forerunner space. The Forerunners destroyed humanity again but they had spent their resources on the wrong foe. The Forerunners tried a thousand different plans to stop the flood but they all failed. Eventually the Forerunners were faced with two options. Be consumed be the flood or eradicate all life in the galaxy so that the flood would starve. They chose the latter and built seven planet sized rings called Halos. They fired a pulse that killed all life in existence including the Forerunners. But thanks to a Forerunner who hated what the rest of her kind had done, she secretly preserved Humanity and several other species so that they could repopulate on new worlds after the Halos fired. By the time the rest of the Forerunners found out, it was too late. The Halos fired and destroyed all life in existence including the flood." Chief continued.

"Wow, so you mean Earth isn't actually the home planet of humanity? And that Forerunners saved us in the end" Ten asked.

"Yes. But that's only half the story. After the Halos fired, humanity repopulated and became a space faring race again. The Forerunner who sympathized with humanity created robots called monitors to guard the Halos from any surviving flood and to help humanity attain what was rightfully ours." Chief said

"The Mantle of Responsibility!" Willy yelled with excitement.

"Right kid. But some of the other species that the Forerunners had preserved found the Halos first. How they did it, I don't want to know. But somehow they got it in their heads that the Forerunners were Gods and that they had become Gods by activating the Halos which sent them on the 'Great Journey.' But the Forerunner who helped humanity did us one last favor, she made sure only humans could activate the Halos. So they set out to find a way to activate the Halos, enslaving any other race they came across and forcing them to join their Covenant. But when they discovered the vastly technologically inferior humanity, they wrongly assumed that we were descendants of the Forerunners and that we had been left behind from the original great journey because we were heretics. So they set out to destroy us completely, like what the Forerunners did to the Precursors. They got close until we discovered the truth about one of the Halos from its Monitor. Using this information, we managed to get one of the most powerful species in the covenant to defect and help us win the war. The Covenant however, discovered a way to activate all the Halos at once. Somewhere along the way the flood had returned and were also trying to stop the Covenant too but for their own evil reasons. Eventually we all joined forces to stop the Covenant and succeeded but the flood was still alive and the only way to destroy them was to detonate one of the Halos. My AI, one of the warriors of the defected Covenant and myself took the Forward unto Dawn and active a Halo destroying the flood for good. But while we were escaping, my half of the Dawn was caught in Halo's blast wave and we ended up here. The other half must have made it back to my Earth though.

"So where is your half of the ship? I mean if it fell from the atmosphere we would have seen in." Violet said

"That's the strange thing, it is about 140 miles NE of here. Over that ridge. But when my AI and I came to, we were perfectly level and set down neatly on the ground." Chief said.

"Umm…You wouldn't have happened to have seen a very large herd of walkers headed that way would you?" Louis Asked.

"You mean one with several hundred walkers in a bad mood? Yeah they attacked the Dawn and I wasted them all. Cortana what was the exact kill count again?" Chief said.

Before any of the kids could say something Chief pulled a chip out of the back of his helmet and a Blue woman appeared and said; "Hello, I am UNSC AI Cortana, I am Chief's AI partner. We have fought together for almost three years now. Anyways the exact number of walkers Chief killed was eight hundred and fifty-two. I don't mean to brag but he killed them all with melee combat, but then again that's typical for a Spartan." Cortana said.

The kids were stunned at the AI and at the footage of Chief massacring the walkers. After the initial shock was gone, Clementine said; "Well I don't think we introduced ourselves properly. I'm…" She was cut off by Cortana.

"Clementine Amy Nira, sorry but while Chief was telling stories I was familiarizing myself with all of your historical files. The only person here I don't have a file on is this young man." Cortana pointed to AJ.

Clementine was stunned, she had never known her middle or last name. Then all of a sudden this AI is able to tell her things about herself that Clem might have spent an eternity trying to remember. She had also pretty much confirmed Clem's theory that if the apocalypse hadn't happened then Alvin and Rebecca might never have had AJ.

"I'm Alvin Junior." AJ said.

"His parents' names were Alvin and Rebecca. Sorry but I never knew their last name." Clem said.

"Well taking his facial features into account and cross-referencing them with known married couples with the first names of Alvin and Rebecca, I think these are his parents." Cortana said as she displayed the pictures of two people that no person in the room could recognize except Clementine.

"That's them, that's Alvin and Rebecca!" Clem was almost in tears.

AJ was ecstatic to finally see his parents. He had known for a long time that Clementine wasn't his mother but he was still shocked.

"I guess that would make him Alvin Jr. Persilo." Cortana said as she displayed their last names under the picture.

Clementine noticed that everyone else had either gone to bed or were talking to Chief outside. She still couldn't believe the knowledge that this Cortana had. It all seemed so easily for her to recall, like she had always known it. She remembered that Cortana was an AI from 500 years in the future.

"Cortana, I have a question." Clem said as the AI looked away from AJ and toward her. "What would have happened to all of us if the apocalypse had never started?"

"Well, you would have gone on to become one of the most prestigious Criminal Defense Attorneys in the United States. One of your most successful cases would have been clearing the name of Lee Everett, a man who had spent nearly 40 years in prison for allegedly killing a state senator when in reality the guy died from a drug overdose. Ironically you would marry and go to have four kids with Louis. By the way he would be a world renown detective for his incredible knack at solving impossible murder cases. Violet would be a college professor who taught theoretical physics. Ten would be a professional soccer player and would help the United States team win the world cup three times in a row. Omar would go on to become an iron chef. Willy would be a talk show host for Fox news. Mary would receive the Nobel Prize for curing AIDs. Aasim would become an Army Ranger and earn the Medal of Honor for saving the lives of an entire marine unit in Syria. But there is no record of AJ anywhere." Cortana said. "However, that's not to say that he never existed."

"Thank you Cortana, tomorrow will you guys take off?" Clementine said half in tears. AJ was asleep on a bench and only Louis and Violet were talking to Chief now.

"Probably, we don't want to be a burden for you guys. Besides, it's a pretty short drive to the Dawn from here and Chief wants to get to the bottom of this outbreak ASAP. He said something on the way here about making the person responsible for it wish they were never born." Cortana said

"Well come back if you ever need anything, we would love to have you guys." Clementine said as she regained her composure.

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"You had one job Lily! One dammed job!" A figure in a shady corner said.

"Don't think about getting mad at me! There were unforeseen problems and they had a new leader whose tactics were borderline insane!" Lily screamed.

"Lily, just admit that you messed up. It will make this run a hell of a lot smoother." Jackson said.

"Messed up is one way to put it! Lost a boat full of resources and soldiers to a pack of kids is another!" The figure yelled

"Boss, my agency has been studying this Clementine for a while now and I can tell you that Lilies defeat was absolutely nothing out of ordinary. Let me ask you something, do you remember William Carver?" Jackson asked in a very calm and collected manner.

The figure in the corner stopped as did Lily. "You mean to tell me that the same person who got my brother killed is now leading this group?" The figure asked

"Yes, and she has a boy in her care named Alvin Jr." Jackson said

"Lily, you're incompetent as hell but at the moment you're the only person who has any first-hand experience of this girl's tactics. Now I am going to give you one chance to redeem yourself, you bring me my nephew and the hag that killed my brother alive!" The figure said.

"Understood sir, I won't fail again." Lily said

"You had better not! Or it's the last mistake you will EVER make!"