I played the HALO series (created by Bungie); I thought it was the best sci-fi game I could ever play. I also read Eric Nylund's novel "Halo: The fall of reach". It was a very good book. I was eventually inspired to create a fan-fiction.....

I introduce to you…..Halo: The civil war.

For those who have not read "Halo the fall of Reach", I suggest you read it if you want to understand this story.

I do NOT own anything from Bungie what's so ever, or any of the characters from the X-box Halo games and Halo: The fall of Reach mentioned in this story. "Halo: The civil war" is just a fan-fiction made by me.

This story is dedicated to: The Sponsor of the science fiction and fantasy club at my high school and all my friends there, all Halo fans, and my cousin (who introduced me to HALO).

I know it's been a bad run for the older version of Halo: The civil war. But I made it up, for those who are giving this story a second chance I would like to thank you very much….and that this "modified" story will show my thanks.

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Chapter 1: Prologue

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Taking place during "Halo: The fall of Reach". Were the long war between the UNSC and the alien force, the Covenant, continued on…A planet in the galaxy, a planet called Orta, was in this war as well. Orta had its own UNSC military organization that ruled the planet. It wasn't far from planet Reach, were the Spartan 2 project began…..Planet Orta played a major role in weapon production in the war against the Covenant….once.

On December, 3, 2517, on planet Orta, there was a secret project lead by an expert scientist named Ronald Galena along with the assistance of Dr. Halsey herself…..It was another Spartan 2 project. At first, the project went well for a while. But on July, 18, 2552….another war for planet Orta's UNSC would begin….It was NOT against the Covenant though….

One side of the Spartans in that Spartan 2 project turned AGAINST Orta's UNSC and allied with a mysterious rebel military organization. The OTHER Spartans of the Spartan project continued to fight alongside the UNSC. Orta's UNSC found out that the rebel organization with the opposing Spartans had former marines in their military as well…..for whatever reason, some marines betrayed Orta's UNSC as well, they were called "UNSC rebels"…..A civil war has begun….between marines….and between the Spartans of that project. The Spartans of planet Reach continued to fight the Covenant….The Spartans of planet Orta….were at war against each other…..

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Planet Orta, Central continent, Hon valley (north side)

July, 21, 2552

3:38 pm

A squad of UNSC marines ran towards and up a wide hill, they all quickly looked back as they then ran down the other side of the hill at quick pace. The squad was running away from something…..At the bottom of the hill slope, the marine squad knelt down and quickly looked around, nothing was in sight. The squad leader of the group turned on his COM link and said to another person very far away.

*"Genesis command, this is marine strike team three. Our attack against the UNSC rebels in the town failed, we lost the other squads with us. The rebels brought in heavy weaponry. We had to go to our fallback position."*

*"Hold your position. THEY will arrive over there….We also have reinforcements on their way as well."* A communicator in Genesis command replied calmly. The squad sergeant took a deep breath in relief. Him and his squad faced hell a few minutes ago….They barely survived a firefight and were forced to fall back.

"Sir" One of the sergeants squad comrades said in exhaustion "Who's they? Who's arriving over here?"

"I already told you and the others earlier Richard….We have a Red army Spartan squad with us that's fighting rebels at the west side of this place." The squad leader answered to his comrade with slight impatience. "We have to just wait for them and the reinforcements, which ever arrives first; we need to plan a new form of attack with them."

All the marines in the squad were suddenly silent. They waited for their reinforcements to arrive, hoping the tide of the battle in the evacuated area would soon be turned. Little did they know; the enemy, the UNSC rebels were on their way….

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Inside a Pelican ship in the air, a squad of Spartans sat inside. They were checking their weapons and equipment. The inside of the Pelican was dark; it was hit earlier in the battle in Hon valley today, the hit disabled most of the lights. The Spartans in the ship were hardly noticeable. One of the shadowy Spartans turned on their COM link and said calmly.

*"Commander Randy, this is Red army Spartan squad seven, we cleared the west part of the area and inbound to the fall back position."*

*"Okay, good work. But prepare for enemy contact at the LZ, strike team three and the reinforcements are under attack by UNSC rebel troops down there."* The commander replied informally.

At quick pace, the Pelican landed and the back door opened. Gunfire was going off far ahead of the landing zone. The Spartans knew what to do. They emerged out of the darkness inside the airship and laid foot into the light on the grass ground…..Five RED MJOLNIR armored Spartans walked away from the landed Pelican. Two of the Spartans were armed with MA5B assault rifles, one of them had a BR55 rifle (battle rifle), another one of them had a M19 SSM rocket launcher, and the last Spartan in the group had a S2 AM sniper rifle…There Pelican then took off into the clear blue sky.

The red Spartan with the battle rifle looked distantly ahead. There were many marines in a firefight with the enemy; they used the large hills for cover. The field of battle had many grass green hills for cover, and a few wide trees. There were tall grass areas at their right, and a forest at the left. One of the Spartans armed with an assault rifle, named Jonnie, asked the BR55 rifle equipped Spartan while watching the firefight.

"Squad leader, what will be our battle formation for this one?"

The red Spartan with the battle rifle, the leader of squad seven looked back at Jonnie, he replied clearly. "You and Victoria will join the marines at that hill ahead of us, go."

The two Spartans with the MA5B's ran forward to aid the marines. All the other Spartans with their squad leader started moving quickly towards the hill ahead as well. The red Spartan squad leaders name was Aaron….He faced the rocket launcher armed Spartan and said to him while moving forward. "Marcus, you take position at the left hill. Prepare your M19 SSM for any possible enemy armor."

The Spartan with the rocket launcher quickly replied "yes sir, will do" and headed to a hill at the left were a few groups of marines were shooting at the enemy. Aaron then looked at the red Spartan sniper who was ready for orders.

"Nico…go to the tall grass at the right and take them by surprise…."

The Spartan sniper, Nico, nodded and said with his quiet and deep voice. "Yes sir…."

Nico hid in the tall grass and slowly crawled his way to get sight on the enemy. Aaron joined Victoria and Jonnie. The intense firefight begun for them, they opened fire.

~DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH!!!~

The UNSC rebels fired back.

~TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA!!!~

Aaron caught a firing rebel in the scope sight of his battle rifle. He fired at the enemy twice.

~BAAM-BAAM!!!~

The rebel was hit in his upper body; he dropped his assault rifle and then fell to the ground, rolling down the hill he used for cover….This was Aaron and his squad's first battle against the UNSC rebels. The squad leader just realized that, and now knows what the rebels truly looked like…..

The UNSC rebel soldiers were dressed in dark blue shirts, dark gray cargo pants, and combat boots. Also equipped with backpacks and ammo belts, some of them had ski mask on, hiding their identity.

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The red Spartan sniper, Nico crawled to the top of a tall grass hill. He watched the firefighting going on from the sides; he could watch both the marines and rebels shooting at each other. The Spartan slowly settled down his S2 AM sniper rifle and calmed himself….

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~BAAM-BAAM-BAAM-BAAM!!!~

~DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH-DUH!!!~

~TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA!!~

A UNSC marine was shot in the head. He fell to the ground. "Man down over here!!" Another marine yelled out.

~BAAM-BAAM!!~

~TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA!!~

So much commotion was going on. Bullets zipped from left to right.

"Frag out!!" A marine warned as he threw the grenade at a distant hill were enemy rebels were in.

~TKA-TKA-TKA-TKA!!~

~BOOM!!!~

Two rebel bodies went flying in the air and slammed to the ground. Suddenly a UNSC marine was shot in his left shoulder next to Aaron. The wounded marine rolled down the hill slope to the ground, safe from gunfire, and yelled out "medic!!!" Aaron knew the person for the job, his trustworthy squad medic….

"Victoria! Aid that down marine!"

"Aright, I'll take care of it!" Victoria said to Aaron at a fast pace as she rushed to the down marine. She took out her medic kit and begun aiding him. Aaron then noticed two enemy rebel machine gun equipped warthogs at a dirt road to his left, heading towards them. He quickly informed Marcus on COM link.

*"Marcus, you know what to do, destroy those enemy warthogs."* Aaron then got behind cover as a few rounds from the machine gun warthogs went by.

~DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU-DU!!~

Marcus, still at the left side of the battlefield, locked the sights of his rocket launcher onto the first warthog and fired.

~PUUH!!!.....~BOOM!!!~

The rebel warthog was blown away. Thanks to the UNSC marines cover fire; he was able to get a good shot. A second opportunity for Marcus to fire again came up, he quickly fired his second missile at the remaining hog….it was no longer a threat. A marine then yelled out to everyone. "We got enemy reinforcements heading our way!!!" Right after that was said, gunfire from the rebels grew more intense. Aaron then said on COM link to Nico.

*"Nico, take out there reinforcements, at those hills."*

Instantly…four shots from Nico's sniper rifle were fired. And four UNSC rebel soldiers were on the ground….Aaron noticed one rebel get shot in the head by Nico and flipped to the ground, just before he was forced back to cover. The enemy fire was now decreasing slowly.

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After emptying a magazine in the S2 AM, Nico reloaded. His sniper spree was cut off from another sniper bullet fired from someone else...The round pierced the ground, about an inch away from Nico….It was an enemy sniper.

The red Spartan quickly got up and ran from the tall grass, and to a lone mid-sized hill. As Nico ran to that cover, he was shot in the left side of his body by the enemy sniper. The hit disabled his shield system, but he still made it to cover. Nico waited for his shield to regenerate…..few seconds later, the shield system recovered. His top objective at this time was eliminating the rebel sniper. He was determined to make damn well sure that enemy didn't get in the way of his mission….

Nico peeked out the right side of the hill, and was quickly forced back to cover as a armor piercing 14.5mm round hit the side if the hill, three small chunks of surface was blown off and thrown in the air. The red Spartan already noticed were the enemy was before he was suppressed, thanks to his quick reflexes.

"That was the third shot…." Nico said in his mind, strategizing against the four shot S2 AM sniper rifle. He wanted to put an end to this quickly. Aiding his comrades was his main intention.

After Nico anticipated the enemy snipers location and were to fire, he quickly exposed himself out of cover, spotted the enemy, and fired. The shot hit the rebel sniper in the throat….the target was eliminated.

The red Spartan sniper got back in cover for a moment. Then he heard Aaron warn everyone on COM link. *"Comrades, we got five enemy warthogs coming towards us."*

Nico peeked out of cover and noticed two troop transport warthogs, and the other three armed with machine guns. The enemy hogs fired aggressively as they went to aid their rebel comrades distantly away from the Spartan sniper. Nico got back to cover to avoid enemy fire.

*"It looks like the rebels are retreating!"* A UNSC marine said informally.

*"Yeah…"* Aaron replied. *"Marines, stay in cover. Jonnie, Victoria, Marcus, and Nico, keep them suppressed. We don't want those warthogs to close in on us."*

*"Right, will do."* Jonnie said positively.

Then Nico did as he was told and strapped his sniper rifle on his back and took out his M6D pistol. Due to the aggressive fire from the rebel warthogs, the red Spartans couldn't do much; just let them retreat….Two rebels were shot down as they all quickly boarded the troop transport vehicles. All the enemy warthogs drove away quickly, firing as they went. Moments later, the hostiles were gone…..

The Red army Spartan squad and the UNSC marines regrouped. Victoria and Nico examined the tragic aftermath of the battle. A few marine and rebel bodies were settled on the hill slopes….more lives put to an end…..

The Spartan squad leader, Aaron took a quick look around the area, he then said to all his company. "Ok troops; let's gather both the marine and rebel dog tags and ammunition." He then looked at his squad comrades: Victoria, Jonnie, Marcus, and Nico. Then he said to them. "Commander Randy wanted to see us after this mission. Us and strike team three will be returning to Genesis base shortly…."

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Planet Orta, Genesis military complex, Genesis command

4:34pm

Inside an important UNSC base, standing straight, arms folded behind him, and glancing out the large and wide window away from the Genesis command operatives, Commander Randy noticed a group of red armored Spartans, and UNSC marines approach him. It was Spartan squad seven and strike team three.

Commander Randy Ed Domeman has much experience in the UNSC military, and knowledge. His skin was pale, had green eyes, and red hair. He is somewhere in his early forties, and worn a commanders uniform. Also, he's the leader of Red army Spartan squad seven and all the other Red army Spartans. In other words, commander of the Red army…..

"Sir" Aaron said as he saluted "We came here to report about the battle sir."

"At ease…" Randy said calmly. He stared out the window momentarily, and then asked Aaron. "So, did you and your squad manage to find out at least something on why the BLUE ARMY Spartans and the UNSC rebels….or should I say, former marines, betrayed us?"

"No…we just recovered UNSC rebel dog tags. We spotted two Blue army Spartans when we battled rebels at the west side of Hon valley. I think they were just scouting, they ran off when we spotted them….."

"Hmm" Randy said in thought. "It's only a matter of time till the Red army Spartans and Blue army Spartans start fighting…..None of them fought each other…yet….It's just the UNSC rebels we been fighting so far…." He looked at Nico and said to him in a less serious tone. "Heh, with your luck, Nico Markmen….I thought you would find something…."

"Luck" Nico said in wonder. Randy looked at him differently for a moment and said to him.

"Well you survived many, many sniper battles, your rumored to be the best sniper in the Red army. And you did find the Blue army Spartans and UNSC rebels DECLARATION of this war….To me, you have a lot of luck at your side."

Nico remained silent…Randy then commented him. "…You're still the quiet one in your squad…."

The red Spartan wondered what the word meant….Luck….No answer came across Nico's mind. That word was unfamiliar to him….He didn't let the pointless question bother him….

Randy then said to the red armored Spartans in a more serious tone. "That was all I needed from all you, you may return to your post."

All the Spartans saluted respectfully and said "Yes sir". They then walked towards the self opening slide door. The red Spartan sniper looked back at Commander Randy and the marines for a moment, and then followed his squad….that Spartan named Nico Markmen…..

Randy faced the marine strike team that was in the battle for Hon valley. He looked away from them and asked. "What were the casualties in the battle?"

"I think…seven casualties, and two wounded. But the rebels faced more, I know that." The marine sergeant of strike team three said calmly. Randy looked down momentarily in a little sorrow towards the fallen…..

"That will be it" Randy said. "You know where to go…"

Then one of the marines in the squad said to the commander. "Commander Randy, sir?"

Randy looked at the marine. "Speak freely private." He said after noticing the private symbol on his shoulder, the marine was a rookie. The commander also noticed his name tag. His name was Richard.

"May I ask you a few strange questions?"

Randy nodded to Richard. The marine was silent momentarily; unsure if this would be good questions, or stupid questions….He continued.

"How exactly did the civil war start? Who are these Red army and Blue army Spartans anyway? Why did some of OWN marines and Spartans betray us? I don't fully understand all this...I was just curious, sir…." Richard then looked down for a few seconds, thinking he just said something stupid. The rest of his marine squad looked at him…But then there focus was broken when Randy calmly replied to the private ranked marine.

"Well, we don't know why some of the marines betrayed the United Nations Space Command. Or why the Blue army Spartans betrayed us.…" Randy then glanced out the large window, giving him a good view of the outside world. He then looked back at Richard and said. "You should know the war you're in….I'll give you an explanation….."