Okay... I hate to disappoint, but I realized that the direction I was going with this fan fic has been taken before and I don't want to rip off any ideas. I'm going to be re-writing the first two chapters and re-posting them in a new thread so no one gets confused with this one. In case you were curious, the direction I was headed with this fan fic was something I've "dreamed" of since I first started playing Halo. I was going to have the Master Chief get sent back in time to recruit Samus Aran to help him in his battles, thus the subtitle Spartan-XSA... the X stood for nothing, but the S and A stood for Samus and Aran. But I found a fanfiction site that I was going to take some inspiration from for writing styles and whatnot, and found that someone already wrote a fic where the Chief goes back in time to retrieve Samus. Therefore, I'm scrapping the idea. The new story I'm going to write is going to be the exact same, except there will be no Samus Aran, but there will be other twists and surprises. I hope you guys enjoy it. [edit] Here's the link to the new fic.