3. The Incident

(The prisoner is lying on an operating table)

"Get me some gaze…..hurry up with that iodine…..we're losing him…..he's stabilizing…..we done all we can."

Meanwhile

"Ok! How did this happen?" Asked Chief.

"We don't know sir, but we found this logged into the keyhole."

"I thought you said you searched him."

"We did we must have missed it."

"Yeah well it's a good thing you did otherwise Private Eskavez, and Private Hulagon would have needed body bags with Private Jackson."

"When he wakes up I want to be notified ASAP is that understood?"

"Yes sir!" As the marines left Chief headed to his quarters.

"What do you make of this Cortana?"

"I don't know Chief, Eskavez says he fought a gold Elite and won, with his technology I'm surprised he even alive."

In the recovery room

"Oh man, where am I?" He looked around noticing he's on a strange looking bed, with other beds staked on it. He gets up quickly searching for is equipment. He spots his clothing and items and quickly gets dressed.

"Well well you're in a hurry to leave." He quickly whirled around to see a man in an odd looking green uniform.

"Where am I?" He asked.

"You're safe, my name's Private Eskavez, you saved my life so the least I could do is bring you dinner."

"Thanks, but I really need to be going."

"Not with that wound you're not, besides the Master Chief wants to talk to you."

"Who?"

"The guy in the armor you attacked in the interrogating room, don't worry he ain't mad at you anymore he just wants to talk."

"Okay, but I need to ask him a few questions as well."

"Fair enough…Chief, the man's awake he wants to talk to you." Eskavez said over his intercom.

"What's that?"

"This it's a radio."

"A what?"

"You know, you use it to communicate with others at a far distance."

"I've never seen one before."

"Christ man, where've ya been, under a rock? This stuff is old school. At that moment the Master Chief walked in, Eskavez hands over the tray, saluted Chief and leaves.

"I'm sorry about the Incident...uumm; call me John, or Chief whichever."

"Ok, John I'm sorry about that attack, you see I need to get back, back and fight."

"Woo woo Where? Against the Covenant?"

"The what?"

"That thing you killed out there. It's called an Elite, a captain of the Covenant army."

"My people need me." He said.

"Hold on, let's start at the beginning, what's your name, and where are you from?"

"My name's Link and I'm the current king of Hyrule."

"What?"

"Hold on Chief." Cortana said. "Scanning that there was a kingdom called Hyrule long ago; we're talking early medieval times."

"How did you get here?"

"I don't know, you see our kingdom has had a long confrontation against an evil being known as Ganondorf, he had taken over at one point in time, but I was able to stop him. However he has escaped from his imprisonment, and he is using his power to summon an army of great evil to destroy my kingdom and capture my wife Zelda. As she grew up, Zelda developed powers as well, she was using them to teleport me to other side of our world to call for aid from her stepfather, she must have sent me here by accident."

"How did you plan on getting back to Hyrule?" Asked Chief.

"Her stepfather had found a lonely seer and took her in; she would have brought me back. Please I need to go back is there someone that can help me?"

"No, but we know something that might."