User:WhenThCome4Me/Halo: "The Tidal Saga"/A Breath of Life

01.01.01 - Prologue
The world had forgotten what true peace felt like. The war between Humanity and the Covenant engulfed the world is a thick fog which event the brightest light could shine through. It has been three years since the Halo event, three years since the Covenant tried to destroy us, yet we are still not at peace.

01.01.02 - Forward Unto Dawn
In the dead, beautiful silence of space, the Forward Unto Dawn drifts aimlessly. A faint blue glimmer of light radiates off the walls throughout the ship, Cortana is awake.

"Chief?" she asks, with no reply.

She activates a console which beams up ahead of her, she reactivates Chief, who has been in cryonic sleep for the last five years.

"Why'd you wake me?" asks Chief, as he slowly climbs out of the cryonic chamber.

"''For the past couple of months we've been orbiting an unknown planet," replied Cortana.

"So?" asked the Chief as he slowly approached Cortana.

"They've found us."

"Who?" asks the Chief, desperately.

"The Covenant." shed replies with a blank face.

"How'd they find us exactly?" queries the Chief.

"I don't know exactly. This Covenant doesn't seem to be the same Covenant we've been fighting in the past. I've been watching via the scanners for the past couple of weeks and noticed no change, until now." she says.

"So what do we do?" asks Chief.

"We need to get off this ship. We need to break orbit." urges Cortana.

"We don't need to break orbit. There is nothing out there for us. We should try and get to the surface of the planet, there we can find a ship and get back to Earth ourselves." says the Chief.

"Hurry." shouts Cortana, as an external blast shakes the ship.

Chief rummages the area around him in search of a weapon, and after a quick search only finds an M6H handgun. He takes Cortana's chip and places her in his helmet before moving through the corridors.

He finds is hard to keep his balance as external blasts continue to puncture the ship and bring it off balance. Cortana tells Chief exactly where he needs to go, but suddenly she stops communicating. Chief continually questions where, or what she is doing, but doesn't stop moving through the ship.

Suddenly, Cortana glitches back mid-sentence, at which point Chief stops moving completely.

"What was that?" he asks.

"It's nothing, just a glitch. You've got to keep moving before the Covenant take out this ship." she replies.

Chief stalls for a moment before continuing down a long narrow corridor. He makes a few turns before reaching a room which arcs to his right. Along the left wall are escape pods, which Cortana directs him to quickly get in.

As Chief presses the button to activate and open the pod, a blast pushes Chief back through the doors in which he came. Chief is forced to hold onto the wall as space sucks out all that is inside the ship. Chief inspects the blast, only to see a Covenant ship staring right back at him.

"Chief, jump for the door lock to the left of the door, quickly!" Cortana demands.

Chief lets go of the wall and leaps towards the left side of the door, he slams into the wall, triggering the door lock. The vacuum is sealed, and Chief gets back to his feet. He hears the cries of Elites close by.

"Elites, they've breached the ship." he tells Cortana.

"It sounds like they're to your east, exactly where you need to be heading." she says.

"Lets go."

Sanghelios
A red light accompanied by a subtle beep fill a dark, quiet room. A hand extends towards a red button beside the blinking light.

"A distress call. From the -" says an unknown voice, but it stops before it finishes.

"Dawn. Chief." it mumbles.