"I never knew or anticipated that this boy that mysteriously arrived one night would truly soon go on to change the galaxy and the fate of Humanity." - Dr Catherine Halsey
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"Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Tyler Roderick Williams I was born on 21st August 2007 in Edinburgh, UK, now that would naturally make me a Scottish but my father was from England having been born in London making me English and somewhat Scottish, now I am or was a gamer and a huge Halo nerd, I played every game and read almost every book from Halo: The Fall of Reach till Halo:
Shadows of Reach, I know it's quite poetic, read from the fall of reach till the shadows of reach, and I even read a lot of Fanfics to satisfy my thirst for Halo content, but it was mostly encouraged by my pals who were diehard fans. Now I always dreamed to join the British armed forces like my Mum and Pops, my dad being in the royal marines and my mom in the royal navy, although my aims were different you could say, I wanted to become an SAS, yep years of playing COD Modern warfare definitely sparked that inside me, now at the age of 15 l attended the prestigious Royal military academy of Sandhurst, prestigious if you aiming to be in the military and aren't aiming to be a damn...well anything that's not military, now technically I had to be at least 16-17, but I lied my way in, and maybe because my father pulled some strings, now when I turned 16, something happened that would change my life and fate forever, and this is how it all began....
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October 7, 2023, 02:34 PM
Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Third Person POV
"I see a Squad of 3 camping inside the building, northeast" 16 year old Tyler said though his mic playing a game of PUBG with his friends, as Tyler moves through inside the building he stops right at the stairs.
"Yep, they're camping, two of them have AKs, one of them a Shotgun, a nasty one that is mate... who uses a shotgun these days anyways" Tyler said.
"Got eyes on one mate, it's the shotgun one, 'll snipe him that should allow you to rush them." His best friend Robin said
As Robin's shot is heard, Tyler immediately rushes up the stairs and shots his M416 knocking out both of the players with AKs while the one with the shotgun already is knocked on the ground.
"Tyler look out!" his other best friend Emily said, as Tyler turned around he saw the last member of the enemy squad coming in his gun already aimed at him, but before he could shoot the last player got shot in the head knocking him out and thus causing a whole squad wipe, then the screen of his PC shows 'Winner Winner Chicken Dinner'.
"Bloody nice shot Robin" Tyler said
"Make sure to keep your eyes open next time chaps, won't always be there to save ya." Robin said chuckling, as Tyler logs off of PUBG he opens the Discord call from which the three were communicating.
"That was a close match everyone, were it not for that Lucky shot from that sniper I would have probably survived till the last zone." Emily said quite grumpy,
Tyler chuckles and said "Well better luck next time Emi, alright mates I got to leave now, have to buy some groceries, Mum and pops aren't home and I gotta get some food"
"Heh, fatass" Emily said over the voice chat
"Atleast I ain't American" Tyler snorted
"Alright later mate, hey after you're back, wanna play Halo CE, I got a new mod installed" Robin said,
"Damn right I will" Tyler said
"No fair, you boys always get to play CE, I hate it isn't four player CO-OP at times" Emily complained.
"We can play Halo Reach after this or maybe Halo Fiv-"Robin was about to finish but was cut off by Tyler.
"Okay, nevermind about that...'m off, see ya" Tyler turned off his PC and quickly got off his chair, 'Never am I playing Halo Five again, the only good thing there is Blue team' Tyler thought as he changed his clothes.
He gets readied wearing a black shirt that has the picture of the one ring from lord of the ring, with the words One ring to rule them all' written below it, he wore blue trousers putting his wallet which carried his Driver's License, about one thousand five hundred pounds, each note still had the portrait of her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth Il, he puts them all in his left pocket, other than that he had his Samsung Galaxy S24, the badge of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, two medals those being his father's Victoria Cross, and second being his George Cross and his ipod in his right pocket.
As Tyler left his house he made sure to lock the doors, as his mom tells him. He started walking towards the nearest convenient store hoping to buy some eggs which he ran out, it was already nearing 3:00 PM so it was quite late if you ask.
Tyler usually lived alone when not at the Academy as his mom and dad are always on duty and deployment, while his little sister lives with his uncle in London, as he continued walking through the neighborhood he could smell some nice smell of someone barbequing which wasn't as common here in the UK or Edinburgh at least.
'Bloody nice smell, almost makes me want to eat some actual Barbeque' Tyler thought, eating some nice smoked meat was uncommon, and almost unlikely in the Academy.
Tyler continued walking trying his best not to think about food as it would make him hungrier which he hated, as he was nearing the store he got a call from his friend Anthony. "What's the matter Andy?" Tyler asked answering the phone.
"Yo, want to hop on Halo infinite for a match" Andy said.
"Sorry mate, currently out to buy some groceries." Tyler said, while continuing to walk towards the store.
"And Robin's already invited me for a game of CE"
"Aw, damn. Any idea if Emi's up for it?" Andy asked.
Yeah, she's alone and was whining about me and Robin doing a duo CE run-through" Tyler replied
"Nice, guess I'll not hook with her, not literally...So when you're gonna be back?"
"I don't know, ten or fifteen minutes later probably." Tyler answered, as he stopped by the crossing, waiting as the cars drove by.
"Well, I'll probably call up, Emi and Charlie also, he said he's back from France" Anthony informed
"Damn, when did he get back? He didn't hop on discord as he usually does" Tyler asked
"Don't know, probably just hours ago, haha...dude, I'll see you when your back...maybe buy m some crackers haha" Anthony joked to which Tyler chuckled.
"Get outta here" he sarcastically said
"Alright see ya then as well" Tyler said ending the call and putting my phone inside my pocket, as he crossed the road and continued walking, Tyler noticed that the area was quite empty.
'strange' he thought, as he continued walking he came pass an alley way, alley was never a good place to alone...he was about to pass by, until he hear some noise coming from the alley.
Now usually you don't go into dark alley especially alone as there could be thugs hiding there, but Tyler felt confident in his fighting skills as he was a black belt in Taekwondo and Karate, well his skill level was, also he had learned where to aim for in a human body to easily incapacitate the enemy in a hand to hand combat back at the academy.
"Fuck this I'm too curious for my own good" Tyler murmured, and started walking into the alley way.
As he made his way inside he reached a garbage bin were he saw a...cat?
"Damn so it was you that caused that small ruckus" Tyler said sighing in relief at the fact that he didn't have to break someone's bone...breaking bones was an accidental thing he did during mock fights at the academy.
Had this been somewhere in London, it was guaranteed that a blok with a knife would jump you from the shadows, its mandatory for you to carry a knife in London....like...seriously...
As he was about to return back to the main street he noticed a blue light above my head in front of me, Tyler was confused at first but soon got creep out realizing that it could be a drone recording me or something, "Oi mate it ain't nice to record someone in the alley now!" he said, but soon the blue light got brighter and everything went bright for a moment and a mysterious voice was heard.
"Good luck"
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Tyler regained his vision after God knows how long, he found himself in this hallway, and all sides were made of metal, steel maybe? But they seemed a bit too hard, on the ceiling and around, there were some bright stuff shaped in a rectangle...probably lighting.
'Bloody wanker, where the hell am I at now?' Tyler thought as he looked around, the only really path was in front and probably behind, Tyler was preparing to reach for his pocket before he heard a voice.
"Hey! You! Put your hands up!" a man with a thick Canadian accent said... but there were no Canadians in Edinburg...atleast as far as Tyler remembered.
Tyler could feel a gun pointed at his head, and the man's hand was felt reach down towards his hands.
The only instincts that kicked in were that of self defense, 'Neutralize' he thought…..it was one of the things his instructor had thought him back at the academy, if threatened, Neutralize the threat.
Tyler spun around and grabbed the man's arm, with which he was holding the gun, throwing it away while also twisting it. The man groaned in agony as he stumbled back a bit, "You damn pun-" he was about to finish but before he could, Tyler kicked him in the abdomen, the punched him in his right chest, where his lungs were at, the impact made it hard for the man to breath, taking the opportunity, Tyler gave him a 540 degree kick to his face or lower jaw, knocking him out.
Tyler panted a bit as he landed on his feet, 'Moron' Tyler thought as he looked at the unconscious man who laid face first. His gun was on the floor a few feet away. Tyler slowly walked over to the gun, but as he laid eyes on it, he stopped midway, 'What' was all he thought.
What he was looking at was undoubtedly a M6H sidearm from Halo...was this a prop? Maybe a dummy...he picked it up and it felt real... like very real, Goodness, its like a real pistol...maybe a Desert Eagle Tyler wondered as he examined the gun. Every detail was on the spot, it was as it he were holding the real Magnum.
However, his admiration of the gun was cut short as he remembered the downed man, Tyler captiously made his way over to the unconscious man, he wore a grey uniform, with combat fatigues and combat boots it seemed.
Flipping the man over, he got a much better look, the man definitely looked like a North American, but there were some odd features like his hair cut which he was bald, and his facial structure which had some scars.
'Was this a terrorist, former military, mercenary, paramilitary?' Tyler went through all the possibilities, however all those were short lived as an eye catching logo on his left chest caught his eyes. It was an eagle probably, with its wings spread, the bird stood over what seemed a globe of the Earth, and a ribbon wrapped around the globe...on the ribbon it was written...UNSC.
Tyler swore time just stopped for him, this couldn't be real? Could it? Was this a really good cosplay? Or was it simply some paramilitary group using a video games alias...whatever it was, he was unable to swallow what he just saw.
Tyler backed away from the body, his eyes widened and mouth left agape...Impossible...it was all he could think...he looked around, there were only two paths he could go, one was probably where the man came from, the other was probably where he was heading to...
Tyler saw a small keycard poking out of his pockets, Tyler, thing the best, took the keycard; it had the UNSC symbol on it as well which only served to further worry Tyler.
Tyler quickly pulled out his phone and opened it, unfortunately, it seemed there was no network coverage, "What the hell, am I in like the northern most area of Canada or something" Tyler cursed, he still was convinced that maybe he was in Edinburg or somehow in Canada.
Placing the phone back in his pocket, Tyler looked around at each direction, he gripped the pistol tightly, 'Hope this is real... or else I'm cooked he thought.' Each second he pondered what to do next...and he finalized...run.
Taking his chance, Tyler quickly sprinted away towards the direction the man was going towards, he didn't bother to see if he was regaining consciousness, all he needed now was to get clear, and maybe, just maybe, find an exit and figure out where he was at.
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A/N. Well that's the prologue of,' The retainer: Start of the Journey', hope you liked it and all Characters of halo that are not my OCs belong to Microsoft and 343 industries. Peace.