Disclamer: I don't own Halo, as much as I wish I did.

Also, this is a pilot chapter for now. I came up with this idea and will likely be posting with OC's later on. Tell me what you think in the review section please. NOW READ IT! please.


Office of Naval Intelligence Earth Headquarters

Admiral Margaret Parangonsky's office

July 19, 2552

1236 hours Military Time

Margaret was contemplating the state of humanity. So many colonies had fallen to the Covenant, so many lives ended, so many ships wasted. She was tired of it, so she had thought up Operation: RED FLAG. She went over the partial plan in her head.

Phase One — The first objective of the operation consisted of the disabling and capture of a Covenant flagship carrier.

Phase Two — Involving the boarding of the captured Covenant vessel by a group of Spartan-II's. They would then neutralize the onboard defenses and commandeer the ship. They, with help from the mission specialist, would then crack the navigation database of the ship and discover the location of the Covenant capital world, High Charity.

Phase Three — With the help of the mission specialist, the Spartans would then pilot the captured Covenant carrier to High Charity.

Phase Four — The final phase of the operation involves the infiltration of High Charity and the capture of one of the three Covenant Prophet-Hierarchs for negotiating an end to the war.

The only problem was that they needed some way to bait the Covenant into sending a carrier. She had some of her subordinates working on calculations for each major planet or system's probability of discovery by the Covenant. Just then one of her scientist underlings brought her a data-pad with some information on it. She looked over the information, then looked up at the scientist who was waiting for permission to leave.

"Get the Vice-Admiral on the horn, we just found our bait."


AN: So? What did you think? Mystery, intrigue, cliffhanger. I need at least one review, favorite or view before I will post another chapter. This is going to have characters made by me and characters made by 343 & bungie. Until next time:
Semper fi,
C1aytonator