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Background: A lone surviving Spartan is secretly sent off of Reach during its invasion in the year 2552. When a Covenant Carrier exits slipspace while the Spartan's pod enters its own slipspace, the pod is sent into an anomaly sending him over 150 years into the future. What only would be a matter of seconds, the pod carrying the lone Spartan exits slipspace over a not-so familiar Earth. Humanity is now in "The Second Age". The world is a far more different place than it had once been. Now, the Spartan must grow accustomed to his new surroundings, customs, and a whole new world.
"U-Uesugi…" He sputtered, attempting to hide his saddened thoughts.
"Yes sir" the A.I. replied.
"You said something about an anomaly-".
"A slipspace anomaly sir; I am still trying to run the files over. Janice correctly entered Sol System's coordinates as I am now scanning over; and I traced our location through slipspace correctly to Earth, but due to the current situation," a data map flickered over his visor with a line being traced from Reach to Earth, "but the planet where we are currently gives me the slightest conformation of being located in the Sol System. Without a UNSC Sat-com signal sir; I was unable to locate our location. This being; an anomaly."
Numbers and data raced across the visor screen; his head panged with pain again making him dizzy. "But Uesugi, that doesn't explain why—"
"According to my calculations and the Pod's exfiltration data from our "journey"; we seemed to have been sent through a cross-slipspace of some being. As in— oh my," Uesugi stopped himself. "Sir, I managed recover a video file from the Pod's exterior camera." The visor screen flashed yet again as his head reeled with pain.
Plasma streaks jolted across the image in the blackness; space. This must have been when the Pod was exiting Reach's atmosphere. A Covenant Banshee vehicle flashed across the screen and the Pod shook violently. The screen then was covered with a blue aura; the Pod was activating its slipspace sequence. Without a moment's notice, what appeared to be a rip in the very fabric of space itself, an astronomic portal appeared before the camera. A large Covenant CAS-class assault carrier bore through the portal. The screen fuzzed as the Pod, opening and entering its own portal, was now being enveloped in the large Covenant slipspace portal. The screen then faded to black.
"According to the video recording and my data, it seems our Pod upon opening its slipspace stream was pulled into the Covenant carrier's own stream of slipspace. Sir, this kind of anomaly has not even been ventured yet—we might have broken the very fabric of space and time! Resulting in a catac—"
"Whoa-whoa. Slow down, you're telling me that whatever happened when the two streams connected screwed with the pod's jump?"
"In latent terms, yes sir."
This was too puzzling for him as he tried to assess the situation. He extended his arms and leaned back stretching. Exhaling, he lifted himself from the damp log. Clenching his panging head, Kai slowly made his way back to the pod.
He extended his hand grasping the open pod door above him and attempted once again to lift his SPI helmet from his head but with no avail, it stayed tight to his cranium.
"Sir, check your radar. Picking up seven-no eight life-forms moving in fast southeast from our position."
Kai turned shifted his hips and looked southeast as directed. "Are they friendlies? I'm getting white blimps popping left and right-how the hell are they moving in so fast?" He quickly reached inside the pod unlatching the silenced M45 Tactical Shotgun ripping it from the emergency sling bringing it to his side.
Four dark cloaked and masked figures appeared to his left behind a fallen tree. Two more ahead of him from a farther distance crouching in front on an older man with a cane and wrapped cranium with only half of his face exhibited. Kai had never seen people like this before. Was this a new rebel group on Earth? His research led him to understand all active rebellions in the UNSC; none had matched the appearance of these figures. Were they friendly? Only one way to find out.
"Um...Hello there! My name is Kai, I'm a "representative" from the Office of Naval Intelli—""Silence!" The older man with the cane spoke; Japanese! Luckily Kai was taught many different dialects when he was in Spartan training. The older man spoke once again, "You will come with us or be forced to stand down. This is your one and only warning."
"They don't seem very friendly," Uesugi said. Kai's eyes shifted left and right, analyzing the situation. He wasn't going to stand down until he had answers. He cleared his throat changing his dialect to match the man's, "I don't mean to be a bother to anyone," his head panged again with pain as he leaned slightly forward, "I would just like to ask a couple of questions first-"
A metallic object flew towards his him as he quickly torque his body left; the object scraped his helmet and pierced the bark of a tree behind him. He turned his head back to the tree seeing the object was none other than a kunai. A kunai? Who were these people? "So this is how you greet newcomers," he said under his breath. Without a moment's notice one of the masked figures from his left burst forward at breakneck speed towards him.
Kai's reflexes tap in; quickly grabbing the masked figure at the neck with his left hand, shotgun lowered in his right. He tightens his grip at the man's neck staring at him as if he was seeing right through the man, "That's definitely not the correct way to greet a newcomer, and you definitely picked the wrong day to fuck with me." Multiple kunai were thrown in his direction. He shifted the choking figure as if he were the weight of feather in front of him protecting himself from the blast of kunai; the figure taking the impacts of his own group's weapons. The man gasped for air and went limp. He threw him to the ground.
Kai shifted his gaze to the astounded older man that seemed to head the group. "Now you listen to me," Kai said. "I'm going to be the one asking the questions here." Again with no avail two more men flashed before him. One attempts to flank Kai, in attempt to stab him in the back only to be deflected by Kai's SPI armor. Without energy shields at full capacity the situation could get tacky he thought to himself.
Kai ducks his head from an attempted barrage of kicks. He kicks back the man in front of him. Raising his left arm, he back-fists the man behind him; the figure is blasted back and slams into a tree. Slumping over, the man becomes silent and motionless. Recovering his stance, he raised his shotgun to the charging figure in front of him and pulls the trigger. A shell pierces the figures chest and is jolted to the ground. He pumps the shotgun with his left hand raises his knee into another charging figure's chest; raising the shotgun Kai blasts him back into underbrush.
Kai glanced quickly at his radar again. "Wait, there were eight… where's—""Above you sir!" Uesugi shouted.
Another masked figure flew towards him from above with a short blade. Kai raised his shotgun in defense but with no avail the gun's barrel was sliced in two; part of the sword piercing through his weak shield scraping his forearm.
Kai dropped the destroyed weapon and grasped the figures leg kicking his own into the man's knee breaking it. With enough force, he pushed the man to the ground impaling his fist into the face of the man breaking his mask and skull. Kai retracted his body from the corpse reaching for his sidearm at his waist. He pointed it to the last three remaining men standing now about 30 feet away from him. One man threw a smoke bomb of some sort at his feet the three disappeared.
Kai looked to his left and right as to where the corpses once laid of the mysterious figures were now replaced with ash piles. He kneeled down to catch his breath, "Uesugi, who were those men?"
"I just ran a scan though my files and don't seem to have any link to those men and ONI's files."
Kai reattached his sidearm to his utility belt clip and placed his hands on his waist looking at one of the ash piles. "Where there's a group, there's always more." Kai said.
To his surprise, Kai felt the presence of a hand on his shoulder. With a slight tweak, he felt the pinch of a nerve in his neck and heard the voice of someone behind him. In a calm voice as his knees gave way, the person behind him spoke. "Relax."
Kai's eyes closed as his body fell to the ground; everything went dark…
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