"Noble Six. The team's most recent addition... Hyper-lethal, there's only one other Spartan with that rating..."

— Catherine Halsey

Planet Reach

August 30, 2552 20:00 Hours

Vincent–B312 or better known as Noble Six sighed as he looked on at the army of Covenant troops coming into his view. After shooting down the Covenant CCS-class battle cruiser to allow the UNSC Pillar of Autumn to depart into space with the package, Six was stranded on the doomed planet Reach. But for a lone wolf like Noble Six, he wouldn't have had it any other way.

Six walked over to the fallen body of his comrade, Noble Four or Emile. Shaking his head, Noble Six grabbed Noble Four's dog tags and pocketed them along with Noble Five or Jorge's tags. Six grabbed his shotgun from the holster on his back and held it over his shoulder as he walked towards his impending doom in the form of the covenant army.

As plasma shots began to soar over his head, Six hunkered down behind a wall and returned fire every couple of seconds. Reloading his weapon, Six glanced over the wall and waited until there was a pause between the shots being fired. As soon as the grunts stopped firing and began walking towards the wall, Six hopped over the wall with inhuman speed and opened fire, taking down the entire squad of grunts with impeccable precision and speed.

Without so much as a word, Six ran over to another wall in order to reload and keep out of the enemy's vision. Six continued this type of guerilla warfare taking advantage of his lone wolf status, opening fire and then disappearing into the shadows again. The Spartan continued to mow down the covenant troops with extreme efficiency, not taking a single hit throughout the firefight.

As Six reloaded his DMR, his Shotgun back on his holster due to a lack of ammunition, he noticed that the endless flow of Covenant troops began to lessen. Looking over his cover, Six saw the reason why the Covenant had stopped sending in hordes of troops.

Casually walking onto the battlefield in all their glory, a squad of six Sangheili Zealots headed towards his location. Standing at well over 7 feet, the Sangheili Zealots all wore golden armor that seemed to shine in the sunset. The apparent leader of the Zealots drew his energy sword and shouted a loud primal battle cry and charged toward Six's location, his squad drawing their own energy swords and falling in line behind their commander.

"Cocky bastard aren't you?" Six muttered his first words since the start of this battle.

Noble Six merely locked in his DMR rifle onto the Zealot commander and opened fire, taking him down immediately. The rest of the Zealots seeing their commander down dispersed and charged at the Spartan from different directions.

Six responded by falling back and opening fire at any Sangheili that got within his sights. Taking down two elites on his right, Six turned to his left and was met with an energy sword swiping down at him. Dodging the first swing Six lifted his DMR and took aim, but before he could pull the trigger, the Zealot had cut his DMR in half and swung at Six again. Side stepping the slash, Six drew one of his M6 pistols from his holster and quickly unloaded a clip in the face of his enemy.

Taking him down, Six began to reload his M6 before he heard the sound of someone stepping on something. Quickly looking behind him, Six saw the outline of a Sangheili in stealth form. Finishing his reload, Six took aim and opened fire with his M6 but the elite cut the pistol into two pieces before any real damage could be done. The elite lounged at Six forcing him to dodge, the elite gave Six no time to react at all and continued slashing at Six with inhuman speed. As Noble Six was forced into dodging the attacks of an all too happy elite, he remembered that there were six Zealots and so far he had only encountered five.

Almost as if to answer his question, Six noticed a new red dot on his radar closing in from behind him. Jumping and rolling to his left, Six dodged an attack from behind and the two Sangheili ended up clashing swords with each other. As Six got back up he looted an energy sword from a dead elite nearby and decided to go on the offensive charging at one of the elites. As Six closed in on him, the Zealot responded by lounging for an all or nothing strike, with an almost impossible reaction, Six managed to somehow sidestep the stab and impaled his sword into the chest of the Zealot, killing it immediately.

Before Six even had a chance to draw out his sword from the now dead body, he was forced to jump out of the way from a vertical slash. The remaining Zealot continued its attack and rushed straight at the weaponless Six. The Zealot lounged at Six and as the Spartan was about to evade the attack, his back foot tripped on the carcass of an elite that he had killed earlier. The Zealot seeing this took advantage of it and ran Six through with his energy sword.

As Noble Six coughed, splattering blood all over the inside of his helmet, he used their momentum as the two were falling back and grabbed the arm of the Zealot that was currently holding the sword in his stomach. As the two fell on the floor, the Zealot was on top of Noble Six while Six gripped the elites arm tightly so it couldn't pull out the sword. With his free hand Six grabbed his remaining M6 out of his holster and emptied the entire clip onto the now wide eyes of the Zealot. Taking the eight rounds to the face, the Zealot dropped dead immediately on top of Six. Six used his remaining strength to throw the dead Zealot off him to the side and then proceeded to drop back down onto the dirt. It had begun to rain as Noble Six lay in a puddle of his own blood slowly but surely dying.

Coughing up some more blood into his visor, Six could now barely see in front of him. As Six's consciousness began to fade, he saw something dropping into Reach's atmosphere. As the clouds began to move out the way, Six could see that it was another Covenant battle cruiser. This one was even bigger than the one that Six had just shot down!

"Fuck…" Six swore with his last breath as he saw the cruiser.

The Covenant cruiser began to charge up its plasma lasers for orbital bombardment. More Covenant cruisers began to appear from the clouds and they too began to charge their lasers.

As Six saw the bright lights of the cruisers charging their weapons, he realized that the Covenant were going to "glass" (otherwise known as orbital plasma bombardment) planet Reach. Six lifted his right arm and raised it towards the sky, almost as one last ditch prayer to whatever God that was out there, Six wanted to live.

As the cruisers finished charging, the skies lit up almost as if someone had shot fireworks all throughout Reach. Dropping his arm onto the bloodied dirt, Noble Six's world went black as plasma destroyed planet Reach.

Planet Earth, Japan

August 31, 2010 12:00 Hours

Noble Six's eyes shot open and he jumped to his feet taking in his surroundings. His Spartan training kicking in immediately as he checked for any hostiles. After looking around and checking his radar, Six relaxed a bit and things finally started to sink in. Quickly checking his stomach where the energy sword should be, Six noticed that the only thing left was a small hole in his MJOLNIR Mark V armor. The wound seemed to have been cauterized most likely from the sword itself, being energy. Although how the sword was removed from Six's body safely was another question that the Spartan had no answer to.

Six had questions and he needed answers, looking around again more carefully this time he noticed that there were tall buildings around him. But something didn't look right about them, Six was sure that there weren't any buildings like this on Reach.

"Fuck." Six swore in frustration.

Just earlier he was fighting the battle of his life, against all odds and now he was in god knows where. Shaking his head Six decided to be productive and take stock of what he had on him. After about 10 minutes, Noble Six had laid all of his belongings on the grass in front of him. Six's remaining belongings consisted of a M6 pistol with 3 clips left, a M45 shotgun with no bullets, his combat knife, and the dog tags of Noble Team.

After a long sigh, Six gathered up all his belongings and began to walk towards the buildings, hoping to get some answers.

As the Spartan walked his way onto city streets, he took note of the chaotic state the city seemed to be in.

"Well, it looks more like Reach now…"

As Six continued walking through the eerily quiet streets, he finally saw a person. Walking up to them, Six was about to speak before he noticed something odd. The vital signs on the "person" were all negative. When the said "person" turned around, Six now knew why its vitals were negative; the "person" was missing half its stomach and a part of its neck. Almost as if it had sensed Six, the "person" lounged its self at the Spartan.

Deciding that the thing was no longer human, Six pulled out his combat knife and quickly stabbed it in the chest. As Six was about to pull out his knife, the "person" opened its mouth and tried to take a bite of Six's shoulder. However the bite had little effect, Six's shields barley took any damage. With a grunt, Six turned his knife upwards while still imbedded inside the things chest cut the "person" vertically in half from the chest to the head. Blood splashed all over Six's armor but the thing now finally seemed to be dead.

Looking at the body on the floor, Six wanted to perform an autopsy, the body before him looked like it had jumped right out of a horror movie, but then he heard a scream. As Six sprinted in the general direction of the scream, his radar picked up on someone, someone with positive vitals. While running, Six's mind began to process the new information he had gathered mainly involving those "things". Following his radar, Six turned the corner and saw a little girl surrounded by a group of what Six now classified as "infected" all around her.

Six was not in any danger but the girl was, Six had to get rid of them fast. Drawing his M6 pistol, Noble Six quickly pulled the trigger emptying his entire clip. Every shot connected and the clip was just enough to wipe out the whole group. Reloading his M6, Six put the weapon back into his holster and made a mental note about having only 2 clips left. As Six walked towards the girl, she began to scream again and closed her eyes. Six quickly stopped and held up his hands and tried his best to not look threatening. Although a giant man in metal covered in blood isn't exactly the most peaceful looking thing ever.

"I'm not going to hurt you." Six kept his hands in the air as he spoke through his helmets speakers.

The girl still had tears in her eyes when she opened them and looked at the Spartan.

"N-nani?"

Six didn't understand what she said, but his AI quickly started translating and began feeding Six information. Japanese, a language from Japan, a nation apart of Asia on Earth. Then it hit him, Six was on Earth and he still had no idea how. Deciding to worry about that later, Six spoke again except this time with the translators help.

"I'm not going to hurt you."

The girl's eyes grew wide, but then she backed up some more.

"Y-you're lying… you're scary looking."

Six mentally swore, he didn't have the patience to deal with civilians. It was always Jorge who got along with them… Jorge. Six has always felt guilty about having to leave Jorge behind, even to this day. Shaking his head Six brushed that out of his mind before sighing and taking off his helmet.

Noble Six was conscripted into the Spartan-III project at the age 6. He was a part of Beta company for the Spartan-III project. He was then immediately taken out of Beta Company once his training was complete and would begin his illustrious career as Spartan Vincent-B312, but that is a story for another time. Because of his early conscription Six was only 21 years old.

As he took off his helmet for the first time in a long while, his eyes were unused to the sunlight and he flinched. Noble Six's black hair had grown long, too long, his hair now covered his ears and he had bangs. Opening his eyes again, one could see that his eyes had turned blue from the Spartan augmentations; along with a scar over his right eye brow Six seemed to be of Asian descent and did not appear too much out of the norm.

Turning his attention to the girl, Six once more tried to calm her down.

"Look, I'm not here to hurt you."

The girl, seeing that the giant metal man was actually human, seemed to finally give in and believe him.

"O-okay onii-san."

Seeing that the girl finally calmed down, Six put his helmet back on. Noticing a large amount of hostiles starting to close in on his location, Six grabbed the girl and picked her up. The girl looked surprised and started to panic.

"W-what are you doing onii-san?"

Six wasn't paying much attention to her and focused on finding a way to get the girl to a safe location. Looking around, Six ran past a corner and sprinted down the street. As Six continued running down the street, the girl began to squirm. As Six continued to sprint, he started noticing less large buildings and more of the smaller buildings.

Probably living quarters. Six decided to run to the nearest one and hopped over the fence with little effort. Six opened the door and to his surprised it wasn't locked. After getting inside he put the girl down and closed the door, locking it with the rather primitive lock in his opinion.

After locking the door, Six turned around and faced the girl who had started crying again. Six mentally groaned and thought about what Jorge would have said. Here was the great Noble Six, someone that had accomplished the impossible and he couldn't get a little girl to stop crying. The Spartan decided to scout out the home they were in and went up the stairs, but the real reason was that he just didn't want to hear constant crying.

The little girl noticing that Six had left the room, sat down on a couch and cried into a pillow. After a while, Noble Six came back downstairs and saw the girl sitting on the couch hugging a pillow tightly. Six gave her a brief look over and then he looked over himself. The two were both covered in blood from various sources. Six mentally groaned again as he thought about all the problems the two faced. He would have to find food soon and he didn't have any rations on him. Six could take care of himself no problem, he always had, but now he had to look over someone else as well, this was something the Spartan had little to no experience with and quite frankly, Six didn't know if he had the patience to deal with it.

Seeing that the tall "onii-san" hadn't said anything for a while, the little girl let out a little whisper.

"My daddy… he died."

Hearing this Six's battle worn eyes softened a little bit. A mixture of emotions and memories ran through Six's mind, memories of his parents and the pain of losing them. Suddenly Six remembered, when he found the girl, there was already a body next to her. It must have been her father.

Her father must have died trying to protect her. Six looked over towards the girl sitting on the couch again and saw the sadness apparent on her face. It looked like she was about to cry again and Six genuinely felt bad. He hadn't felt a feeling like this since Noble Team's demise... Sighing, Noble Six walked over to her and gently crouched down to floor next to her.

"I'm sure he was a good father. He died trying to protect you after all."

The girl didn't move, deciding to keep her silence. After a while of silence between the unlikely duo, she finally spoke with a small smile on her face.

"Yeah… Hey onii-san, what's your name?"

"You can call me Six."

The girl looked confused at this and raised her eyebrow at the Spartan.

"You mean like the number? Is that really your name onii-san?"

Six returned her confused look with a blank stare of his own. Although with his helmet on, the girl might as well being staring at the wall.

"You can call me Vincent as well… But I prefer Six."

The girl gave Six a little pout before folding her arms and speaking.

"I like Vincent onii-san better. I'm Alice by the way." Alice said the last part with a smile.

To Six, being called Vincent unnerved him, it just felt unnatural. Six was a lone wolf and always had considered himself one until he was transferred to Noble Team. Before being known as Noble Six, everyone just called him by his call sign, hell most people tried to avoid talking to him at all. With a sigh, something he had been doing a lot recently, Six walked over towards the wall and leaned on it.

"Call me what you want. It's getting late, you should get yourself cleaned up, and I'll see if I can get something for you to eat."

With a smile, Alice hopped to her feet and headed towards the bathroom that was just a room down the one they were in right now.

"Okay Vincent onii-san!"

Noble Six continued to lean on the wall and closed his eyes, trying to process what in the actual fuck was going on. He goes from being marked for death on Planet Reach to waking up on Planet Earth, literally light years away. It was obvious to Six that he wasn't in the right time anymore, things just looked too much like 21st century Earth. He knew the history of Earth well enough to know that nothing like this... "plague" happened in the timeline he was from. The question was how and why he ended up here instead of being "glassed" to death along with Planet Reach. The more Six thought about it the more it didn't make sense. With a a small grunt Six let himself slowly slide down the wall towards the hardwood floor and decided to get some sleep; it had been well over 24 hours of constant battle for him so sleep would do him wonders. Six laughed to himself a little when the thought occurred to him that this was all just one crazy dream before falling into a deep sleep.

The Spartan slept, while the girl wept to herself in front of the mirror. That little girl was a strong one indeed. The two make an unlikely pair they do, an emotionless killer and a innocent little girl stuck in a world that now seemed like Hell on Earth. How could something like this occur? Was it on the whim of one higher power? Or is it something else entirely? I guess what they say is true, Spartans never die, they just go missing. Here lies the story of one MIA Noble Six.

I have no idea what I was thinking when I decided to cross over these two entirely different series... But whatever, give me a review so I know whether or not I should continue this.