The Forgotten war
Prologue
No matter how intelligent the humans are they still never realized that the covenant had been at two wars the entire time. The flood at the first ring were not the first flood the covenant had encountered. There was an entire cover-up created so only a select few knew the truth. That's where my fleet comes in, I command the Awakening Dawn. I run an operation to make sure the flood can never bother the covenant again. Unfortunately, after Regret was killed I lost much of my resources and my fleet slowly withered. I had docked at High Charity when I sensed rebellion in the air. Against the orders I swore too, I spoke about the great flood mission. Many elites swore to join me and soon my fleet doubled. I left with my amazing new fleet just as the fights broke, unfortunately I was still caught in the space battle and lost a few of my gun ships.
While the rest of the covenant and rebellion were fighting out around the second ring I made my way to the remains of the first halo. The sight was horrible, the rings pieces were brought into the orbit of the nearby planet and had crashed into its ground. As we investigated we quickly realized that the whole planet was infested and beyond cleansing. As horrible as it was I still hated destroying the entire planets ecosystem when I ordered the ships to glass it. As the flames licked at the planets trees I turned my back and ordered the ships to end the glassing and make their way to High Charity. The trip their allowed me to think of my choices in the past few days. I quickly realized that this war was going to come down to which side was crazy enough to pull a suicide mission into the heart of the enemy. I didn't realize how right I would become.
The sight at High Charity was awful, the glittery surface was covered in grime and ash. The lights were fading and human ships that were aflame were colliding with the surface. Since humans would never crash there ships on purpose I knew that there was an infestation about to hit the covenant stronghold. I ordered the ships to land in the highest dock and prepare for war. I equipped myself with an energy sword and another experimental weapon designed to hit at the heart of the infestation.
I was on the second phantom to land in order to guarantee myself some of the action. When I landed however I was stuck with most of the action because the first squad was overrun by flood. I ordered the third and fourth phantoms to come in together, and had the fifth and sixth phantoms in the dock next to ours. After a long and heated battle my men came across a gruesome and horrific sight. The demon was stepping into the power beam and was instantly thrust into the engine bay of the blessed ship. I knew I had to follow so I quickly fought my way back to the docks and got in the phantoms. Earth was an even worse sight because of its battles.
I now saw the true war, the inevitable war, the forgotten war.