Hi random people that read my stories! If you were here when I did my first chapter that got messed up and was switched to my second, I'm sorry. Stupid computer. If you have no idea what the heck I'm talking about, don't worry. It doesn't change anything for you. So yah. Read it. And then go check out Codester 145 on you tube if you like videogames. Okay? Good. Read on!

Chapter 1

Halo Reach: The Last Spartan

I slammed my fist down on the couch I was sitting on as I watched my character's lifeless body fly thirty feet before hitting the ground with a splat. My friend, David, had just killed my in-game avatar in Halo: Reach. We were playing online, and I could almost imagine my kill/death ratio slowly being lowered. I was pissed, but waited for my character to respond without changing my class. Mike laughed a deep, throaty laugh before watching his character get sniped in the head by Ellie's sniper rifle. On my screen's background, I saw a huge red laser come from the tree's and hit a sprinting Sophia who was trying to jack David's Wraith.

I should mention what the heck this about, shouldn't I? Well, I think I'll start out with the people,.

At the time there were three boys and three girls. Mike was the first boy. He was the biggest guy in our group at about 6'2 and weighed about 250 pounds. Of course, he defiantly wasn't fat. Well, maybe a little… but most of it was muscle. He was a "blond cowboy" as we liked to call him. He liked to wear cowboy hats a lot. He played center on our local football team, first string( the part of the team that gets to play the most). I have to say, he was my best friend. He, like everyone there, liked videogames, and especially Reach. His favorite class, which he had designed himself(like everyone here), included a machine gun and grenade launcher. His armor ability was armor lock. His controller was covered with stickers of footballs and other sports things.

The next boy was David. He was the male techie in our group, but was quick and agile. He was about 5'7 was good at videogames and computers, but was defiantly kind hearted. He had black hair that hung down over his glasses. His favorite thing to do was videogames. That was one of his main things in life. In Reach, his strategy was to just get to the vehicles, no matter the cost, distance, or height. His favorite was the wraith. His class was the needler and the magnum for getting around quickly, but enough firepower to kill. His armor ability was the jetpack so that he could get just about anywhere. His controller had a picture of the main character from every Halo game. He already had Noble 6 on there.

The final boy was me, Jared. I was about 5'9 and weighed 180 pounds. I had black and brown hair. Weird, right? I played quarterback(the guy who throws the football) and linebacker on our local high school football team. I'd like to say I was popular with a lot of people, but not quiet. There was one guy at our school, Daniel, who despised both Mike and I because we were on the football team. He played basketball for an "elite" team, the guys who had a chance of getting into the NBA. He annoyed us a lot… but back to me! I was probably one of the most aggressive people playing, and that probably showed in my class. I had a gravity hammer and shotgun, and my main thing was to be the first to the other team's main group. If I had a mic or was just playing with the people around me, they would know I was about to attack someone because I would start screaming like a lunatic. My armor ability was sprint so that I could hit hard and fast. My controller had footballs and dragons on it.

All the boys are done. Onto the girls

The first was Ellie. She was a kindhearted girl, smaller but more energetic then the rest of us. She was about 5'5 and weighed 130. She had red hair that was short but still reached her neck. She was good at just about everything that was related to sports. She was also elusive. When we all used to play hide and go seek as kids, she would almost always win when she was playing. When IT, all she had to do was sit somewhere we couldn't see her and wait for one of us to get bored and move around. She had very keen eyesight for that. Her class was a sniper one. She used the human sniper with the needle rifle for an excellent combo. Her armor ability was the bubble shield, so she could continue sniping the enemy even after they saw her. Her controller had a picture of a huge scope on it, looking through at a jackal from Halo 1. I had a suspicion at the time that Mike, of all people, liked her.

The second girl was Sophia. She was the female techie and hacker. I mean, she could hack just about anything. She was about 5'6 and weighed 145 lb. She had brown hair that hung over her face most of the time. She was hoping to join an military weapons company so she could build weapons and then use them to take over the world with robots… At least, that was when she was a little girl. Now she just wanted to be a government techie. Her class was always different, for she always tried out every weapon so she could find the right one for her to dominate with(of course, she usually added her own customizations to this gun, or just designed her own!). This game, She was using the covenant plasma rifle with a plasma pistol. The plasma rifle had been upgraded with a scope and a quicker reload(done by the owner herself), and the pistol had been upgraded with two barrels and became more like a shotgun, but with the same firepower for each shot and the same range. Her armor ability was the clone so that she could lure the player into a trap so she could try little experiments. I KNEW that David liked her, but he wouldn't say anything.

The last one was Amanda. Ever crazy Amanda. She was quick and agile, ready for any melee combat. She had long, brown hair that came down over her shoulders and ended in curls. She was the captain of the cheer squad, but she wasn't an air head. She was smart enough to get strait A's, and physical enough to beat the crap out of any boy who tried anything on her. So yah. That was the girl, I admit, who I like/ed. Of course, I would never tell her that back then. Her class was the Spartan laser and the energy sword. She wouldn't usually use the laser for kill anybody, just to attract them so she could sneak up and murder with the energy sword. She used the armor ability invisibility to do this.

At the time, Halo: Reach had come out THAT day, and I was hosting a sleepover. Of course, the girls wouldn't be staying here for that. At about 10 PM, Amanda's mom would pick all the girls up to go to her house, where we would keep in touch with everyone's cell phones, multiple home phones with speakers, and video chat. I had two TV's and X-box 360s to play Reach. Sophia had hacked it so we could use one copy to play it on both TV's. We were all drinking soda and eating pizza to go along with the night. At this point, we had been playing the game online for so long that we were already corporals.

In the game, I respawned from my death by David, and was ready to kill. It was Amanda, Sophia, and I versus Mike, David, and Ellie. Amanda was doing the same as me, leaned over towards the TV. Sophia was hunched over a small pad that was connected to her controller with multiple USB ports, which was connected to the TV. I charged forward from the spawn point, ready to kill anything that got in my way. As soon as I was in the open, though, I was bombarded with multiple sniper, machine gun, and needler shots. I sprinted for a rock, but I knew I was a dead man when three Spartan laser shots rang out, and the firing stopped. I made my character look up to where the shots came from, and I wasn't too surprised.

There sat Sophia's character in a warthog on a hill, with the turret changed from the regular turret to five Spartan lasers. Obviously hacked. I also assumed it was auto-aimed because the shots had gone in wild different directions at the same time. I grinned over at Sophia, who took a quick second to smile back before getting to work. When I looked up and the screen again, though, I saw a wraith come over a different hill. David. He immediately started firing, and I had to sprint and jump al around just to survive. I started shooting with my shotgun and throwing grenades, but it was to no avail. I was ready to die when the wraith suddenly exploded. I checked to make sure David hadn't gotten out before looking around, knowing that it couldn't have been Sophia because she had just left to go to the bathroom. I finally found Amanda, standing beside the wraith with her energy sword still out. I realized that my grenades and shotgun rounds actually HAD done some damage, and that just one energy sword slash was required to kill the wraith. I gave the thumbs up to the real Amanda, and she replied in same. We won the round, and started a new game. I was starting to get tired, so I closed my eyes for a second… and opened them to Sophia's gasp.

"Challenge?" Ellie read off the screen, slightly perplexed. I was too, but I was willing to do anything to get extra points.

"Hit it!" I said, and Sophia hit the yes button. All of a sudden, the screen showed a loading screen. A different one too. It had a picture of an Elite and Spartan fighting each other on top of a pile of bodies, the top being 5 Spartan bodies. I recognized the fighting Spartan, but couldn't place who or what it was. Then, the screen seemed to start swirling, twisting in red and blue. A weird video showed an dead elite and a dead human, both pouring out color into the screen. Red and blue blood. Suddenly, I felt a sensation of being lifted of the ground. I realized that I was being pulled towards the TV! I stomped my foot down, but nothing worked. I was slowly pulled into the TV, which couldn't really be called a TV because it was now just a big swirl of blue and red. The sensation got stronger and stronger until I was literally pulled into the TV. I blacked out.

I woke up to a small breeze, rain, and mud on my face. I was lying face down in a puddle, covered in the wet dirt. I got up… and gazed through a helmet. I realized that I had a weird helmet on, full head cover with random numbers zipping around. I looked down at myself and gasped again. I was wearing armor, and I realized just what type too. Spartan armor. I felt a fury of shivers go down my already freezing spine. I couldn't quiet see the color, but I guessed it to be black and red. I started walking around, searching for everyone. I first found Mike, slumped against the cliff… wherever we were. He was wearing the same armor, and I shook him a couple times before he groaned and opened his visor and eyes.

"What the heck just happened?" He asked, rubbing his eyes. I explained that I had no idea, then helped him up and started to search for everyone else. In about half an hour, we had. We had been scattered in a thirty yard radius, but it was still hard to find everyone, due to the rain. Once everyone grouped up, we started talking.

"What the heck happened?" "What should we do?" "Oh god…" were some of the comments. I just sat patiently for a bit before answering.

"Well, lets take a look around, shall we? We have no idea, and if we look around, we might find out." So that's what we did. We split into teams. Me and Amanda, David and Sophia, and Mike and Ellie. No surprise, right? Well, we split up in four different directions. As I walked alongside Amanda, I kept stealing glances at her. She had her visor open and she kept staring up to drink some rain. So pretty…but I didn't tell her that day. No way. We walked until we hit another cliff, then started walking back, with small chat being exchanged every now and then.

"So…" I said casually "bet you DO like someone and your just not telling us!" Amanda glared at me, and I could see she was ready to throw a fist at me. I just grinned, which made her even more mad and she started to walk faster. I just jogged up next to her. This was something we would always do, say that the other liked someone. She looked me square in the eye and said "Jared John Brokmen, you are SOOOOO stupid to think that I would like anybody. So will you PLEASE leave me alone, for this one god D time please?". I took a step back, surprised. Jeez, was she MAD. I wasn't used to this kind of anger, so I backed off and stopped talking.

And that's when I saw it. A flash of lightning lit up the sky, along with thunder, but I saw something that horrified me. In the small second of light, I saw a metal strip built into a cliff. And this metal strip was oh so familiar. It was one of the entrances to a place I knew so well… in Halo: Reach. Sword Base. I took a step back, horrified, then started sprinting and calling for everyone to come. In about five minutes, we were all together again.

"What was THAT about?" Mike asked, slightly huffing and puffing from sprinting back. I just stood there, frozen, as everything that I saw I slowly started to recognize. Sword Base, the small cliff where a rocket launcher was leaning against a rock, the cliffs that should be or would soon be splattered with blood. Finally, I slowly came back to my senses.

"You guys…" I whispered "I think that we're on Reach. At Sword Base.

Sorry guys for the messed up tech problems from before, but I just had to retype my WHOLE first chapter that had taken me so long to make in the first place. So yah. Please don't get mad. The second chapter is also going to be slightly edited to fit this chapter. So yah.