A is for Alternate

(AU)

They wanted him to break.

They called him here to destroy this world, the mirror of the one that he had been called upon to serve, to protect, despite the hardship on the road. They made him Haka Chisei, Grave Mind, in hopes that the abnormal ability would drive him mad.

They failed spectacularly.

Now the Forerunner called him Kamishiru, God slayer, because he caused the damage that eventually killed them inside the Tower of Eternity and discovered the truth: they were not the goddesses of the Forerunner at all. The real ones, Epheria and Selenica, had been sealed below the Tower of Eternity hundreds of years before he had even been dragged away from his own universe.

He had spent a small eternity guarding the universe from the shadows, Cortana at his side (and who knows how she managed to follow) after the Alpha Halo Incident. Now, all he had to do was finish off the P'Vort, and then….

Home. Rest and, hopefully, retirement. Thanks enough for a job well done.

AN: This… is based off a dream I have a week or so ago. I might actually get around to making a full-length story out of it.

Someday… *sweatdrop* More to follow. Eventually....