Hello all and welcome to the story, I'll give you the facts:

Chief got off Reach, got to halo, destroyed it, escaped, defended the cario, went to earth, killed a prophet, got captured, released, and got to high charity, and then to earth. Fought, rescued Cortana, got to another halo, blew it up, escaped on the Forward unto Dawn. Finished the fight.

Only the story continues after Halo 3's ending, but the Dawn didn't crack in two, so Chief made it back to Earth.

P.S: Johnson and Miranda are alive. Miranda didn't get shot by the Prophet of Truth. And Johnson didn't get his sss killed by the Oracle. Below, I'll explain both situations. They died, but now do not! (Yay).

P.P.S: Dr Halsey and 3 Spartans are alive too. Fred, Kelly, and Linda. Technically Dr. Halsey didn't die anyway, but whatever. I'll explain that one below too.

If you don't want to read about how each scenario is different, then hit Ctrl+F and type "Story Start.", then enter. And then you will magically tele-port to your destination, and I'll just assume you have used your imagination and your own ideas as to how they're now alive.

As you may have already gathered, I don't like characters being killed off.

*Miranda*

"That the best you got?" Johnson said. The Brute Chieftan chuckled, this human would never learn. He grabbed him by his neck and hoisted him into the air, readying his fist for a punch into it's face. "Awwh, Come on. Impress me" Johnson taunted. He was cut short however.

"STOP! You Imbeceille! He want's you to kill him. ...I'd prefer not." The Prophet of Truth told the Brute. Slinking around to the panel before them. The Brute slammed Johnson into the activation panel with a growl and pushed his head on it.

"Whats the matter Big shot? Can't start your own party?" Johnson said, again trying to provoke the Brute. If it killed him, no one could activate that panel, rendering what Truth was trying to do, useless.

"Fire it. I need your Help, That Secret dies with all mankind." The Prophet said, attempting to persuade Johnson to do so. But also was cut short as a huge rumble, followed by a smashing of glass behind them, happened almost instantly. Truth immanently threw himself to one side and there was a outcry from a few brutes that got hit. Truth looked around to see what this source of chaos was.

A Pelican had crashed through the massive window behind them.

Seconds after, Miranda balled out the Pelican, and blasted the nearest Brute in the chest with a shotgun she held. "Johnson, sound off!" She shouted. Turning to fire another round at a Brute that attempted to come near.

"Get out of here!" He shouted back at her.

"Not without you!"

"Your Delaying the Inevitible. One of you will light the Rings! You cannot hope to kill them all." Truths Voice came, as she shot another Brute.

"You're right..." She said. She threw a Pistol to Johnson. And then rolled to one side, blasting another Brute point blank. Johnson leapt into action. He ran up and jumped onto a Brute, tackling him to the ground, the initial surprise of being taken down was enough for Johnson to place the pistol to the Brutes head and pull the Trigger. Johnson shot it in the head again, Just to be safe. Miranda had taken a punch, and moments later, shot the Brute that did it in the face before it could crush her chest. She went down and was brought to her feet by a Brute second-in-command. Johnson had been restrained by two Brutes that had got the drop on him.

"Your forefathers wisely set aside their compassion. Steeled themselves for what had to be done! I see now, why they left you behind." Truth told them.

Johnson was brought over to the Dais.

"You are weak, and gods must be strong." he whispered in Johnson's ear. Placing the humans hand on the activation panel, pushing it down. (Now why didn't Truth do that in the first place? Would have saved so much time.) At the other end of the bridge. Chief and the Arbiter had gotten up via the lift, John scanned in on his visor and saw Miranda and Johnson captive, he'd have to get to them quickly. He took a step forwards and was stopped by 2 mutated flood vessels.

"Do not shoot! Listen!" They told the pair, "Let us lead you safely to our foe. Only you can halt what he has set in motion." They advanced with their temporary allies only after they were entirely sure they weren't going to be eaten when their backed were turned. Chief took a few steps forward and took cover behind a pillar, sticking his head out as a few Brutes with jet-packs came into view by landing in front of them, Chief fired off a few bursts from his assault rifle and put down one slightly, the beast charged and stopped as a flood sprite jumped on his back, he started to scream and shout in anger, then in fear as it buried itself in his neck, he screamed and screamed as his nervous system was infected and destroyed, being overtaken and changed by the spore, his scream turned and his fur fell out, his skin turned a green colour and he fell over, John turned way as he knew what would happen next.
The other was felled by the Arbiter and his sword. They advanced to take down Grunts and Jackal that were attempting to get around them, blood flying as they carved a path through, a Brute fired it's spiker, the rounds bouncing off John's shields, he fired his assault rifle and delivered a square punch to it's face, firing his assault rifle into it again as it was knocked back, the Brute came back on the attack and was stopped short as Johns knife found it's skull.

It took them a good while, but when they made it to the end, they saw the crashed Pelican. They also saw Miranda and Johnson had survived the chaos of the Brutes. and were supporting each other. "Truth's over there, I planted a bullet in the bastards leg when he tried to run." Miranda said to Chief triumphantly, waving the pistol in her hand about. She handed it back to Johnson.

The Arbiter looked to Chiefs friends, then to where Truth was lying. He walked over to the Prophet.

"Can you see, Arbiter?" Truth Began, "The moment of salvation is at hand."

"It will not last."

"Your kind, never believed in the promise of the sacred rings."

"I will have my revenge, on a Prophet from my blade."

"My feet tread the path! I shall become a God!" Truth was saying loudly now. Chief walked over to the panel, and pressed it. That would stop the rings from firing. They now had to go to the ring and destroy it manually. The lights along the bridge had turned off, everything was now into a standby state.

"NOO!" Truth shouted. "I am Truth! Voice of the Covenant!"

The Arbiter grasped his neck in his hand.

"Then you must be silenced." The Arbiter whispered to him. Then he drove the energy sword in his hand, through Truth's back. Truth died almost instantly, and Thel' dropped his corpse to the floor in a heap. Johnson and Miranda turned and walked onto the Pelican, John and Thel' looked around to survey the area once more, and walked towards the bird. They stopped as 5 massive tentacles sprouted from the floor around them, the Graveminds laughter ringing in their ears. The Pelican was taking off and Chief jumped to clasp onto the back with Thel' holding on to him, but alas a tentacle had come around and smacked them from their escape.

"Now we can test you unmatched, headstones pushed aside. Corpses shifted away, and our fate you must abide." The Gravemind chuckled.

Chief looked at the Arbiter, then to the mass of flood before them, all the dead they'd killed were now back up again, with weapons to boot. Thel' activated his sword and John reloaded his clip.

Looks like they were going to have to shoot their way out.

And that is how Miranda doesn't die. If anyone was wondering, she dies at the end of the level, "The Covenant". Except, not now.

*Johnson*

They all, Miranda, Johnson, John and Thel', entered a large circular room, several bridges extended towards the centre, where there was another activation panel, and a hologram of the halo ring. They walked down.

"Yank me Chief." Cortana said. Chief reached round to the back of his helmet, and pulled out the holo-disk containing Cortana. He chucked it to Johnson who was now walking to the panel, Johnson didn't look happy.

"Lets do this quickly, and get out." As he walked down the narrow stretch, to the centre of the room, the Oracle floated down to him.

"Ah Hello." it said in a cheery voice, "Wonderful news, the Installation is almost complete."

"Terrific." Johnson said sarcastically.

"Yes. Isn't it?" The Oracle beamed. "I have begun my simulations, no promises, but initial results inidicate this facitity should be ready to fire in just a few more days."

"We don't have a few more days."

"B-b-but a premature firing will destroy the Ark!"

"Deal with it."

Chief looked toward the Oracle, it was talking with Johnson, he turned his head to Miranda, who was looking around the room, he turned back to hear a scream of agony.

"AAARRHHH!" Johnson cried out. The Oracle had just fired an extremely powerful beam of heat at Johnson. He fell to his knees. And then to the floor.

"Unacceptable, unacceptable! Absolutely unacceptable!" The Oracle shouted. Chief ran at the monitor, pulling out his assault rifle, but was cut back by the Oracles beam, John shouted out in pain as he flew back, landing roughly on the floor. "Protocol dictates action! I see now that helping you was wrong!" The Arbiter was about to charge, but the Oracle shot at him before he could do anything, he fell to one knee after a blast of heat hit his chest. He then turned on Miranda, firing at her head, she ducked. Only just avoiding it, It then fired again, hitting her leg. She screamed in pain and went down.

The Chief got up weakly, Only to be Blasted by the beam once more. He also fell to one knee. Looking up into the glowing eye of the floating ball of destruction. "You are a child of my makers, Inheriting all they left behind. You are Forerunner! But this ring, is mine." He blared, now directly floating in chief's face. His eye had turned a friendly shade of blue to a ghastly red.

"Go to hell." Johnson said, standing now, the spartan laser on his shoulder glowed red. Then it discharged at the floating ball, the oracle was consumed in the red haze and knocked well to the side. "Kick his ass.." Johnson said. Sliding the laser across to Chief. He then promptly fell over again and looked as if he was zoning out.

"You will be eradicated!" the Oracle said again, coming down on Chief, firing his beam, Chief rolled to avoid it, succeeding only just, he pulled the trigger on the weapon he held to charge the blast, dodging another beam of heat, his laser reached full as he turned it in the Oracles direction, the red heat stretched across the room, passing over the little menace as it did so. The Oracle swerved out of control, "It, You, you, will, c-cease" It said. The laser was scrambling its circuits. John charged the laser again as a injured robot fired a poorly aimed beam past him, the second blast hit it square on. "Ahh, no, ahh, you, ahh, AHHHHHH!" A loud Explosion could be heard as the Oracle fell to pieces.

"Good Riddance" Miranda said, she was limping towards Chief, he turned to her and saw she was okay for the most part, then turned back to Johnson and ran over to where he was lying. Kneeling down, and moving him so he was facing John. Johnson was awake, he gave a half-smile to the Spartan.

"I'm getting you out." John said to him.

"No, no your not.." Johnson said weakly.

"Yeah. I am." Chief said. Picking him up, hoisting him on his shoulder. He picked up the holo-disk containing Cortana, dropped when the Oracle had attacked Johnson, and walked over to the activation panel, placing the card in so Cortana could do her thing.

Cortana popped up in her holograpgic form. "His vitals are bad Chief. Get him to the Dawn ASAP. And, ...There. Halo has been activated. Lets go, like, this very second."

She dispersed back into her disk. Chief took it out of the Panel and placed it back in his helmet. The whole room had started to shake violently, and pieces of the ceiling and structure were coming down, John didn't wait, he turned and ran.

"We've got to get out! Now!" Miranda shouted.

They all ran towards the door as the room caved in. The Arbiter picked up Miranda seeing as she was limping, she seemed surprised at the action.

And then it's pretty much escaping Halo. Johnson and Miranda would share the Warthog's sideseat. Chief would be driving. And the Arbiter would be on the gun. Then they would reach the Dawn, fly in, Miranda would get Johnson to sickbay, and then the Arbiter steers the Dawn away as the halo ring explodes. And Chief stays in the cargo hold with Cortana. Simple.

*Dr Halsey* (Description, I'll come back to thp and is Later and change it to an Action Flick when I get the time)

So, After Reach, Dr. Halsey got Linda up and alive again, (After the events of Halo), And what happened was that Halsey took Kelly to Onyx, the Spartan II's training grounds, they met up with Mendez, they battled a fuck ton of sentinels, then the Covenant came and said hello via huge army. Fred and Linda came along with two other Spartans, (Grace and Lee I believe), but those two died, and they retreated into the Dyson Sphere, (AKA Shield world), as Fred detonated 2 nukes to fuck over the Covenant. Save that I've made it that John went there and and rescued them, got them back to Earth.

"Story Start."

Cortana's New Life.

Chapter One: Familiar Voices, and New Surprises.

"You all right Chief?" Cortana asked.

"Yeah." He said. He didn't want to say what was on his mind. But seeing as Cortana was In his head, he had a good guess she already knew what was bothering him. They managed to land, and depart accordingly. Johnson and Miranda were sent to the sickbay in the base they had landed at.

"They'll be O.K. Chief. I know it" Cortana said, trying to re-assure him. She knew this could possibly not be the case. Miranda, yes. She'd be fine. But Johnson? He was heavily injured. And was hooked up to machines to help him breathe. It seemed his days were numbered.

"Well Chief, at least the war's over. It's definitely something to be happy about, you did make it happen after all."

Right now, they were currently sitting in Chief's quarters he'd been given. Chief looked around at the walls and sighed, he was tired, and he wanted to sleep. He looked up though as the door hissed open and in walked Lord Hood. John stood up straight-backed with a salute. "Sir." He said automatically.

Years and years of drills and exercises made that one second nature to him.

"At ease Master Chief." Lord Hood said. "It's good to see you have your UNSC spirit after all you've been through." Chief relaxed a little. But still held his posture. Looking at the officer.

"Sir. Permission to speak?" Chief asked.

"Granted." Lord Hood said.

"Sir, how is Johnson doing?"

"He... Isn't doing a lot better. But better nonetheless."

"Affirmative."

"Chief, Cortana. I have some good news for you.", Lord Hood started, "Dr Halsey has done two things. You may be overwhelmed at the impossibility of it. But it's happened, so you may wish to go see her. And Chief, it's good to have you back safe. There's a ceremony later today I'd like you to attend. It's in your honour."

"Affirmative sir."

Chief hadn't been thinking on that. What would happen now? He was to go to where he would be showered with praise for saving humanity. On top of that, what would he do now the war was over..? He could think on this later, right now, his objective was to go to the armoury.

"Oh, Hello John." Dr. Halsey greeted warmly with a small smile, "It's good to see you. Are you in there too Cortana?"

"I certainly am." Cortana replied.

"Good, good." She said, "Well, the reason I've called you here is because I've developed upgrades to the MJOLNIR Mark VI suit. I had planned on doing it sooner, but obviously my situation of being stuck in a Dyson Sphere rendered me unable to create it until now, I had much time to go over what I had planned and it all seems to work, I've tested it extensively and it should be twice as good as your suit now. 8 Mark VI suits were delivered to us two days ago from Songnam, it turns out that during the time I had developed the suits, they'd had hopes that I would ensure the creation of more Spartans for the II and III programs to help in the war, little did they understand you cannot just pick a random person for the job, even with the III's we needed to work a Spartan up from a child. Point being that's 8 suits, 2 of them have been upgraded to Mark VII. And one is for you."

Chief was taking it in. "So, what's different about the suit?" He couldn't help but ask.

"Well for one, an advanced fusion-plasma hybrid power system, making the suit deadlier, making you faster, stronger, and tougher. An Atmospheric Insertion ability, or in other words, to make it so that the gel-layer of your suit can lock up and raise a backup shield to impact on a planet just as an ODST does in their SOEIV's. And on top of that, you are able to have different pieces of equipment installed on the system, such as the active camouflage the Covenant use. Since our alliance with the Elites, which, to be honest, surprised me, I contacted them and they shared the information with us. It works by using phased array optics to project a three-dimensional hologram of background scenery around the wearer of the system. So, to mimic that of a chameleon exactly."

"That's impressive." Cortana remarked.

"Indeed. As well as that there's an armour lock implement. The Covenant have a piece of equipment that covers them in a heavy shield stopping all forms of damage to hurt them. We've succeeded in applying this to the armour, but you'd be completely immobile while using it as it uses up around 87% of the suits functions to boost the shield capacity that high and render it re-usable. I'm currently trying to find a way around it. As well as that there's a drop shield that can be deployed, it's similar to a bubble shield, except that the shield is not impenetrable. It will dissipate, but if offers healing properties while in it, useful if you're hurt and need to recover. There's also a holographic projector, so you can produce a doppelgänger of yourself, and whatever direction you're facing, the hologram will run in. Useful for distracting enemies of finding a sniper. There is also the agility boosting device. Or as most refer to it, "Evade". It allows the user to go in leaps and bounds, for example, you need to avoid a heavy barrage of plasma."

"And... all this is in the suit?"

"Yes." She said with another small smile. "I know when I make things they seem to be for destructive purposes only, but it's in humanity's best interests."

A smile twitched on John's face behind his visor. Her "destructive purposes" are practically what saved humanity.

"So, can I try it on?"

"Well certainly. I wouldn't of done it if nobody was going to use it." She mused, "Follow me."

John was happy about this, his fear of what happened now the war was over, forgotten for now. He walked in Dr. Halsey's wake with no reluctance whatsoever, and they stopped outside a door with heavy metal plating, and guards outside it.

"Ma'am, we're going to need you to provide your identity. Please look into the retina scanner." One asked.

"Certainly." She said, walking over to the box placed on the wall next to them, after a moment of looking into it, it beeped.

"O.K, you're clear to enter. And um, I don't think we need 117 to give an eye-scan, only Spartans wear that armour."

Catherine walked in and John continued to follow after he got salutes from the two at the door. As he walked in he saw in pods lined against the wall were the 8 suits, except the ones that had been upgraded looked slightly different. They were darker in colour, a more sage green than leafy green, on top of that, there was a knife placed onto the upper chest of the armour. It looked like the armour he was wearing except for the new part. But he knew that Halsey meant it when she said it had new abilities.

"I do hope you like it." Catherine smiled.

"It's certainly a nice present. Thankyou Ma'am."

She gave a small laugh and put a hand to his arm. "Ah John, you're still as polite as the day I saw you in that playground. You're most welcome. Although, I do fear that this suit won't be put to use, after all, the war is over."

"There are insurrectionists."

"True... but we're babbling. If you wish to get out of the suit you have on, you can put the other one on. While you do that I can speak to Cortana."

John nodded and thought, "And I'll even have a nice shower." He knelt down as Catherine was only standing 5'5" to his 7 feet. He gave her a hug, she wasn't surprised by the action, but he made sure not to squeeze her too tight. And she hugged back. "It's nice to see you in a situation where there's no urgency." She said while he hugged, "You know John, I'd be nice to see your face again."

He let go of her and moved back to face her. He looked to her left slightly, as if to think about it, but then reached up to his helmet and pulled, the suit unsealed itself and the helmet came off with ease. He rested it on his leg and looked into Catherine's eyes. Dr Halsey smiled, there was her John. His short brown hair had gotten ever so longer, looking scruffy from having a helmet on for so long, his blue eyes looking into hers. "Ah, there you are." Catherine laughed, "Your skin is so pale, but you can get some sun now you don't need the suit for ages on end."

John gave a small chuckle. "I have to admit it's actually nice to get some fresh air from outside the helmet. Anyway, if you'll excuse me Ma'am, I will leave you two be for the meantime." He said, getting up to his full 7 feet and placing the helmet back on his head. Catherine nodded and waved him goodbye as he turned and took Cortana out the back of his helmet, inserting the card into a pedastool near Dr. Halsey, he then left.

"O.K. Now here's the proposal", Catherine began again, "Thanks to what technology we salvaged from Reach before it was destroyed. I conducted tests on Onyx as I did the Mark VI suits, I discovered after many tests that It may be possible for an A.I's Core to be tranferred with a procedure into that of living tissue, it would be easy to do so as I worked from how we took an A.I from a human's brain-scan. It'd just be a simple matter of flash-cloning a suitable candidate, and then transferring the A.I over to the body."

Cortana, or her hologram, leaned to the left with her hand on her hip going over all the possibilities, codes and data ran back and forth through her system in a matter of nanoseconds before she had already understood what Halsey was getting at. Cortana asked her without hesitation, "So, you mean... I could be living, in a human body?"

"Precisely."

"I..." Cortana spoke, "I'm not sure what to say." Cortana technically knew it could be possible, she'd already pondered on it by herself multiple times, the fact that Dr. Halsey herself was saying it was more than a mere possibility was indeed interesting. "If I were to say I was interested in the procedure, would that be okay?"

"Perfectly fine." Catherine said, "I should explain that becoming human will effectively terminate your role of being an A.I within the UNSC. But that goes without saying. As well as that Lord Hood has expressed his concerns, you hold vital information on humanity and earth, and we're certain you don't want that tampered with. But being a human means you're vulnerable and should the wrong people take you prisoner, things could be dire. But of course Lord Hood will stand by your decision, otherwise he wouldn't of told you."

Cortana definitly wanted this. But she had her responsibilities. "There's no way I could remain working here?"

"Well that would be up to Lord Hood. But it's most likely a yes considering things.

"This may seem selfish. But I want to go ahead and become a human, and he needn't worry, I'll kep the Info safe in here." Cortana pointed to her head, "It's just that I've always wondered what it would be like, and now I have that chance I don't believe I want to turn it down. So, I say yes."

"It's agreed then, I'll speak to Lord Hood in a second." Hasley said, and walked to her Lab.

"Well... that's interesting." Cortana smiled.

Now they played the waiting game.

AHA, the first re-done chapter of many. If there are any mistakes, feel free to say, and please do review. ^.^

If you have any questions, go ahead and ask, I'll do my best to answer them.

Updating Soon.