"damn! when are they going to stop giving me delivery missions." said alex unsatisfied with his courrent mission.

Alex is currently delivering a forerunner artifact to an ONI lab in new pheonix for study.

"the eggheads might be drooling to get their hands on this but for me this is boring as hell!" alex complained as he stared at the dreaded package in his hand.

Since he was kicked out of the spartan III program and enlisted as an ONI agent, he kept getting delivery assignments.

Of course he is going to be pissed, he was a spartan candidate for crying out loud, sure he might missed the cut but that was not because he weak. In fact he was one of the best, the only flaw in him was that he refused to be "sacrificed" for the "greater good" or as he called it suicidal. During training missions he was always the one to emerge unscathed , not because he lucky or powerfull but because he always found a way to not be the heroic sacrifice.

That was the reason he was kicked out of the program. He would have made a good spartan II and he probably have his name next to the master cheif and noble-6 on the hall of fame but as a spartan III he'll be liability. As ackerson put it "you can't have a disposable solder who refuses to be disposed" and with that he was kicked out of the program.

Alex was not mad at him for kicking him out the progam or kidnapping him as a child, alex understood his reasons and he was not the evil basterd as he acted out to be or as everyone put him. He died at the defence of earth taking an enemy ship with him to hell.

As he walks towards the lab a beam of golden yellow light flashed from the sky and hit the ground. Turning everyone to ashes.

At the same time the artifact in his suitcase reacted to the cartographers' beam and sends alex to another universe.