Well, all of the summer challenges have been finished and I'm moving onto fall projects (hello aiw_big_bang and het_bigbang!)  I've got the three big bang fics that I have been rambling about since like March and a dozen or so drabbles from day_by_drabble.  You know, the drabbles suprised me in what I didn't write (What? No Fringe? No Alice in Wonderland? No HALO?!?) and what I did (Um, hello, a Fraiser drabble?) but it was a lot of fun.  I suspect I'll be in for the next round until it's during Christmas and I've got my hands full with yuletide and a certain advent project that I am majorly excited for (if it happens).


Anyway...on with the fic!


The Big Bangs:



( The list! )


Written for day_by_drabble

( The other list! )

Title: Defying the Odds
Word Count: 25,000+
Fandom: Halo
Genre: AU, Adventure, Friendship
Characters/Pairing(s): Cortana, John, Catherine Halsey, Jacob Keyes, Avery Johnson, brief mention of past Halsey/Keyes
Rating: PG-ish
Warnings: None
Summary: In the aftermath of the Halo campaign, some realities are impossible to ignore.
Artist: drakulya was gracious enough to let me use this for the fic. The original picture is here. (Color was added by me.)
Author's notes:  Once upon a time there was a chick (let's call her yappichick) who wrote a Halo fic called Moving Forward for yuletide.  She posted it and thought that was the last time she would ever write in that universe.  Her muse, however, had different plans.
       This universe is based around the 2010 Happy Halodays card.  The concept of the AU in a nutshell: most everyone (with the exception of Miranda Keyes) in the UNSC survived the events in the Halo trilogy and John and Cortana, along with Johnson and the Arbiter, make it back to Earth through the Portal in Halo 3.
       There are references to all of the games (of course), The Fall of Reach, Human Weakness (from Halo: Evolutions), and Halsey's journal (from the Halo: Reach Legendary Edition).
         A huge thanks to my Babe for betaing this sucker and my f-list for listening to be rant and panic and squee throughout the process.
Original Post Date: August 8, 2011 (Written for the au_bigbang)

Chapter 1: You Ain't Getting Rid of Me That Easily
Chapter 2: Denial Isn't Just a River in Egypt
Chapter 3: And You Thought Your Day Was Bad?
Chapter 4: Anger Management: Spartan Style
Chapter 5: Who's Driving This Thing Anyway?
Chapter 6: Don't Mind Me, I'm Going Rampant
Chapter 7: Backseat Driver
Chapter 8: Would Mr. Guest Please Sign In?
Chapter 9: What a Difference an Algorithm Makes
Chapter 10: What’s a Few Trillion Missing Terabytes Among Friends?
Chapter 11: Was There Something You Wanted to Tell Us?
Chapter 12: Lovely Parting Gift
Chapter 13: This Structure Is Not a Natural Formation
Chapter 14: Dude, srsly?
Chapter 15: Shock and Awe
Chapter 16: One Big Happy Family
Chapter 17: What's This Knife Doing in My Back?
Chapter 18: Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are
Chapter 19: Don't Make a Promise...Never Mind

Warnings and disclaimers in Part 1.

( "It’s not my fault she betrayed us." )

Part 6: Full Circle (Part 2)

Warnings and disclaimers in Part 1

( John was driving her crazy. )
Part 5: Full Circle

Warnings and disclaimers in Part 1.

( "I take it you saw Jacob's request." )

Part 4: Pushing the Boundaries

Warnings and Disclaimers in Part 1
 
( So, High Command has finally given us a reall mission, huh? )

Part 3: Crashing the Party

Title: Under the Surface
Author: yappichick
Media Creator: penny
Media Link: http://penny.dreamwidth.org/64129.html
Word Count: 36,300
Fandom: Halo: Combat Evolved (with a little Halo: Reach thrown in)
Characters/Pairing(s): John-117, Cortana, Catherine Halsey, Jacob Keyes, Avery Johnson, James Ackerson, with a tiny bit of John/Cortana thrown in for good measure.
Rating: T
Warnings: Very, very AU. If that sort of thing scares you, then this isn't the story for you.
Summary: The UNSC is fighting a failing war against the Covenant. Strongholds have been taken, hope is starting to fade. The only promising signs that the UNSC would ever would be able to stand against them are Halsey’s Spartans. Now, Cortana, Earth's first human-AI hybrid, has just been assigned to work with the Master Chief to try to stop the power that threatens to overtake the world and destroy those who will not follow them.