*This is my own attempt at a what-if fanfiction. What if Noble Six did leave with Keyes and got on the Pillar of Autumn, and how much could he and Master Chief do together. This Intro may be relatively short, but if people like the idea, I'll move forward with doing the Halo: Combat Evolved story. Hope you like it.*

Noble Six sat in the hanger of the UNSC ship Pillar of Autumn, taking in everything that had happened. Spartan rarely show emotion, and sometimes don't even feel. There are times though, rarely, where something comes through, and hits them hard. Six was having one of those moments.

He thought he would have to die, but Emile saved them all. Blasting the Covenant ship in the center, and allowing them to go.

As the Pillar of Autumn flew into space, the last time he saw each one of his team members flashed into his mind.

Noble Five, Jorge, handing him his dog tags, and carrying him out the Covenant Corvette. Telling him his last words. "To make it count."

Noble Four, Emile, handling two Elites on the cannon, Six watching below. Shooting one with his shotgun, and just barely dodging another behind him. Stabbing it with his kukri knife. He holstered it, removed it and with his might, tossed it to Six. Telling him to fight on, and get moving.

Noble Three, Jun, seeing them off at the dig site, escorting Dr. Halsey off planet. Some time ago on a stealth mission, he gave Six a magazine of sniper rounds, high powered ones, telling him they weren't cheap. Six kept them with him in case of a tough situation, and if he had a good sniper rifle.

Noble Two, Kat, running with him off an elevator as the Covenant decimated it. She had never seen a glassing before, she told him. As they exited, she didn't even get to finish what she was saying as a sniper hit her through the head. Six took her pistol to shoot back, and dragged her off. He kept it with him since then.

Noble One, Carter, his team leader, injured and flying a Pelican. Telling him and Emile to get off while he distracted the Covenant. He held them off for quite some time, eventually saving them by crashing into a Scarab. Six wasn't sure why, but Carter, before they jumped gave him his Tactical/Tacpad he kept mounted on his left wrist.

Noble Six had something to remember each Spartan comrade by. He was all that was left, and now he had finally left Reach. Delivering the A.I. to the Pillar of Autumn, and the Captain took him aboard.

Six took the mounted Tacpad and put it on his left wrist, put the kukri knife where his normal knife was, putting his old knife on the back of his waist, Kat's pistol on the leg holder on his armor, found an ammo holder and put the four sniper rounds in them, fixing it to his right shoulder. He picked up his M392 DMR and mounted it to his back.

A voice came over the loudspeaker, it being the Captain, Keyes. He rushed off to the bridge to get ready for launch, taking priority of the time they had.

"Noble Six report to the bridge." Keyes announced.

Six started walking, looking for someone who could guide him. He didn't quite know the layout of a Halcyon-class cruiser. Finding a crewmen, he got his attention.

"I need to get to the bridge." He asked plainly.

The crewmen was a bit surprised, but obliged. "Of course sir, this way."

After going up a lift and then a lot of walking, Six finally arrived at the bridge standing in the middle in his white uniform was Captain Keyes. Six approached him.

"Captain." Six addressed.

Keyes turned to look at him. "Good to see you Noble Six." He greeted the Spartan. "I'm going to have to make this quick. It'll be some time to our destination. In the meantime I want you to go into cryostasis, everyone else on the ship will as well."

"Where exactly are we going sir?" Six asked.

"I think you should wait and see." A female voice said, then on a stand nearby formed an A.I.. "Good to see you again Lieutenant."

The A.I. took the form Her chosen avatar is a nude female human, roughly in her early twenties. She appeared to have blue skin, shoulder length blue hair cut shorter at the back, and blue symbols scrolling down her body, taking away all the details of her body.

Six just looked over to her, the A.I. seeming familiar to him.

"This is Cortana, our ship's A.I. You helped bring her here." Keyes explained.

Six turned his head down a bit. "Not just me sir." Repeating what he said when they first met. Something clicked in his mind again, was he feeling sad over the loss of his team? He had been one of ONI's biggest secrets, and seemed voided of all emotions. Could being with Noble Team have changed him somehow?

"You did them proud. Noble Team will be remembered for what they for Humanity." Keyes said to the Spartan, trying to ease his mind.

Six tried to keep focused. "Where should I go sir?"

"There's a cryopod waiting for you not far from here. I'll have one of my crew bring you there." Keyes explained.

"You won't be sleeping alone. We have another Spartan on board. He's already sleeping through." Cortana added.

"Another Spartan got off Reach?" Six asked, curious.

"He is from the Spartan II program. Spartan 117, rank of Master Chief." Cortana explains.

A Spartan II, just like Jorge. Whatever the case, having another Spartan on board somehow made Six feel less alone.

"I'll head there now." Six said.

Keyes waved for one of his crew to guide him, and then he headed off.

"Strange, we have the two most dangerous Spartan on our ship." Cortana stated.

Keyes looked over to her.

"Both are registered as Hyper-Lethal. The only two there is. We might just survive this." She added, slight sarcasm in the last sentence.

Six was taken to a large empty room with a column in the middle. A few cryopods lay around it.

"Your armor will be fine, but I'll need to take your weapons, the cryo could damage them." The crewman explained.

He handed him his DMR, but hesitated on the pistol. "I'll leave the pistol by the pod."

"That's fine I guess." The crewmen replied, and then left.

Two crewmen were visible on a platform above, separated by a thick glass window. The second pod facing them opened up, and not wanting to waste time, Noble Six entered.

He looked over briefly to the other pod. The Spartan was wearing a MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V version. It had a distinct olive green color and gold visor. While technically the same armor as what Noble Six wore, the helmet that this one was wearing was an upgraded version of the Mark IV helmet. Six also couldn't place why it looked a bit different to his eyes.

With that, he layed in the pod. It closed, and he slowly fell asleep.

*I imagined Noble Six wearing the basic armor set from Halo: Reach, the standard Mark V [B] suit and helmet with steel color palette. That last line with the "different look" was my own attempt at a joke at how Master Chief's armor looked different in the Anniversary edition, cause of the different game engine. Anyway, I hope to explore Noble Six delving back into his humanity, since Spartan's are far removed emotion wise. And having something from each of Noble Team, would have him constantly thinking of if he was doing their memory right. We'll see how it goes. I hope you like this, and again I apologize if this chapter seems really short. The next one will definitely be much longer.*