StarCraft II:The HALO chronicles

by sadist writer 2010

It's 2565 and the UNSC and Covenant Separatist launch Project Hope to rescue the Chief in Brute controlled sector, however he is picked up by the Spirit Of Fire, the rest, you have to read on as I'll try to include Dr Halsey and many other pivotal figures

1. Chapter 1

Sol system, Earth

2565,July 25th

Mission catalogue:3 Days

Primary objective: Gathering of Separatists and UNSC leaders to discuss Project Hope(ONI PENDING)

CodeWord:Alpha-niner-sixer-Foxtrot-Tango

Status:In-Progress

Two Covenant Cruisers flanking the left and right of the capital ship, the infamous Shadow Of Intent broke formation to

dock on the side of the newly upgraded Cairo Station while the Shadow Of Intent itself docked at the USM Valor, the

the largest space station built in 2562, there the meeting would begin. Immediately a phantom was dispatched from the

capital ship onto a landing pad.

"Watch Tower 1 be advised, we have visual confirmation of the Phantom, give em a nice welcoming comitee"

"Roger Command we got ODSTs ready to roll out the welcome wagon. Watch Tower 1 , out."

The Phantom landed meticulously,"We have landed" warbled the Sangheili pilot. The blast doors opened and several

Sangheili politicians stepped out. among them was Rtas' Vadum and Thel Vadam in doamir fur cloak, two iconic war heroes during the

Human-Covenant War. A unique sight greeting them, several UNSC marines were restraining reporters screaming questions such as "What can you tell

about Project Hope?" or other distasteful remarks, "The folks on Earth does not welcome you, go back to where you came from they say!" however the councilors

knew better to entertain them as it was classified information ONI LEVEL 4. Immediately, 6 ODSts marched right up to the politicians, "Thanks for coming on behalf of Lord Hood, we

welcome you, we'll be your escorts to the meeting chamber," said the ODST trooper in the middle."Follow us," and followed the

Sangheili did.

"Alright security teams 1 and 2 get me eyes on the Councilors, we gotta have visual contact as well as radio with escorts at all times. I want this quick and clean." fizzed the commms.

"Roger that," confirmed the ODST escorts, the Sniper lookouts and Marine personnel. Upon reaching the entrance of the

building, the ODST troopers stopped and addressed the Sangheili," We're here, before you enter we have to retrieve your weapons, They will be returned afterwards

"This is an outrage!" thundered one of the councilors, "To bring weapons to meetings is a sign of power in our customs! I shall not enter without my sword!" cried another

After a long wait, the Sangheili relented however the Arbiter was allowed his prized doamir fur cloak. Inside the facility

UNSC personnel presence intensified, the marines watching every move the politicians make, creating an uneasy atmosphere. "No problems out here, we're almost at the meeting chamber,"

"Roger that, the board is ready to see them, you may usher em in once you're there."

"Copy that Command, Escort 2 out." Eventually they reached a door with a large ONI insignia on it."Alright, here's your stop. Don t forget to collect your weapons at security centre 1."

One by one, the Sangheili entered, the human leaders were already seated, leaving 8 large Sangheili sized chairs for the aliens."Are we all accounted for?" asked

Lord Hood, everyone nodded, "Alright, lets begin. Colonel Ackerson, screens all yours and please restrain your hate towards our allies,"

"Thank you, I am Colonel Ackerson, head of ONI section 0. And here are the UNSC HighCommand leaders, United Earth Government and so-on and so forth,

I am still uneasy sharing information with split-chins"

Many Sangheili except Thel growled in response to Ackerson's mockery.

"Ackerson you say such things again to our Allies again I'll have you court marshaled and kicked out of ONI."

warned Admiral Margeret Parangosky. Grumbling the Colonel nodded and continued, "At 1830 Eastern Time, our probes monitoring the jiralhanae controlled sector picked

up a UNSC priority 1 channel broadcasting for rescue, we sent another probe to collect images and we got this," The screen showed a wreckage of a ship that made the Arbiter mutter "Impossible,"

he recognised the wreckage from the ship known as the Dawn, the late Miranda Keyes' ship.

"By the forerunners that s-"

"The Dawn, So he survived, "continued the Arbiter, "Is the salvaging of said wreckage the mysterious Project Hope?" said Rtas as he turned to face the humans.

"Yes. It is." replied Lord Hood.

"Why would you require our aid for a recovery mission, surely you could spare 2 ships?" asked Councilor Daulanee.

Ackerson came forward. leaned closer to the alien's face to say"If we could do it ourselves, we won't need your damn help

!" hissed the ONI Personnel, his spittle mottling specks on the Councilor's helmet. Swelling with rage, the Sangheili managed

to regain posture before replying."You mock me with your filth. On Sanghelios, I would not hesitate to take your head. Fortunately your pathetic life is not worth taking"

"ALL RIGHT THATS IT! I've HAD ENOUGH!" roared Lord Hood, startling both humans and Sangheili as he had never lost his temper."Ackerson get out!" he thundered,

sending the Colonel swearing loudly outside." Sorry about that, Right. Our economy is barely stable as we lost more than just lives in the War. We only

have 50 ships to defend ourselves should those damn Covenant attack us again. We could spare only the Roosevelt and the Abraham.

two UNSC ships is not enough against one single Covenant Frigate. So please would you assist us?"

There was a brief silence on both sides. "I will go." All eyes fell on the one that spoke, the Arbiter.

"Are you sure Arbiter?" asked a Councilor in his native tongue." I am. Many years ago that Spartan and I fought through many foes

not just the Jiralhanae, over time we respected each other as comrades, soon as battle brothers. I would be damned a thousand hells for not being in the rescue team."

As the human leaders whispered among one another, Rtas stood up "If he goes, I shall go."

"You too?" asked a human in ONI uniform. "Yes that Spartan has earned my respects and I would like to be part of the rescue team. Besides, the Arbiter shall need a ship."

replied Rtas with a Sangheili version of a grin. "Are we agreed on this?" asked Lord Hood. Both sides nodded unanimously.

"As of now Project Hope is a go, you will move out with the Abraham and the Roosevelt tomorrow at 0600 hours sharp. Meeting adjourned, the Sangheili may collect their weapons at

Security centre 1." continued Lord Hood.

Unknown Time and Location.

"Captain wake up."

immediately, Captain Cutter's eyes flung wide open out of cryo sleep. Groggily he sat up and wore his Navy uniform.

"Ugh Serina, where are we and time and date?" he groaned as he got some minor freezer burns. Instead the Spirit Of Fire

's AI, Serina said "Sir, I've prepped the Spartan Red team and Professor Anders. A lot of things happened while you were

asleep." The doors opened and in walked the 3 Spartans, Douglas, Jerome and Alice along with professor Anders. "Now that we're all here,

i've recieved many horrifying transmissions. this is the first. "Help! Fucking help anyone there! The Covenant is on REACH!

Oh my god they've broken through! Hold em back-" the transmission was cut short but there was no doubt the sound of people screaming

, bullets whizzing around and the Covenant plasma based weapons."Think it s a hoax?" spoke Anders, "No. I've scanned it over and over but its a secure channel

not even the Insurrectionists could crack the encoding. REACH...is gone." stated the AI grimly. Cutter slumped back on his chair too shocked to think while the Spartan

IIs stiffened, they knew REACH was their home, their training grounds. Each muttered a short prayer for their lost Spartan brothers and sisters and vowed to kill as many Covenant

as long as they lived. Jerome swallowed and tears trickled down his battle scarred cheeks. He was a Spartan trained to

contain emotions yet this training had failed him .

"I got another transmission, this one is real bad."

"Wha-what could be worse than REACH's fall?" probed Anders "Attention all UNSC colonies, direct all UNSC armed vessels

back to Earth. Earth is under attack i repeat Earth is under attack!"

There was silence for a long while. "Serina wake everyone in cryo and prep this ship to jump for Earth,"

there was still a chance Earth held out, his family is there, what if-"Sir i can't do that. Cole protocol-"

"Fuck the Cole Protocol! The Covenant found Earth what's the point!" thundered the Captain. Meanwhile Jerome had stormed off, he entered his quaters and with a yell, he punched the metallic wall

and his fist went through the Titanium plating. slowly he tossed the helmet aside and cried. The door to his room opened and in came Alice and Doug,

"Hey man, you okay?" chided Douglas. "Jerome, we're here for you and you know that right," continued Alice.

slowly Jerome looked up and smiled."Yeah, I do and thanks."

"Wanna get something to eat?"

" Yeah, and i cant wait to start killing Covenant."

Alarms all over the ship blared and the Spartans suited up and had to wade through UNSC marines, ODSTs manning battle stations. As they enterd the bridge, they saw Captain Cutter keyeing orders.

"Situation, Captain!" barked Douglas as he and his team saluted. Captain Cutter turned and addressed" 30 seconds ago, we picked a wreckage of a UNSC ship not registered in our database, most probably recently built,

we recieved a distress beacon from that wreckage," he snapped his fingers and Serina played the audio" This is UNSC AI Cortana, We are calling for assistance

the Master Chief is in cryo repeat the Master Chief is in cryo and we need rescue!" The Spartan Red team were stunned, the Master Chief was a legend among the Spartan IIs

within 15 minutes a rescue team of 10 Marines were off to the wreckage. They activated their helmet recorders so that the people on the bridge would have a feed of them

and serve as the eyes and ears.

"John, wake up." The 7 foot tall Spartan immediately blinked a couple of times and stood up." Master Chief ready for combat" grinned John.

"I'm picking up UNSC transponders closing in on us, we're going to be rescued." then Spartan felt relief and grabbed his assault rifle, loaded it, cocked it and left the small area to meet the rescue team.

"Bravo team, I m picking up something moving up. It's coming to us!" yelled Jackson. Quickly, Jackson's squad and Bravo squad took up defensive positions along the floating wreckage,

then, something green and humanoid entered the fray "Jesus Christ stand down, it s a Spartan!" yelled a trooper.

"Sir, we're the rescue team, come with us we'll bring you back to the Spirit of Fire," spoke a trooper. "Thank you but my AI is back there, could you retrieve her?"

the same Marine nodded "Alpha squad get inside and dig up this Spartan's AI!"

15 minutes later , they were all onboard the Spirit Of Fire. John got a bit of a shock as he met up with 3 other Spartan IIs, since he thought he'd never see another one of his kind again and that he was the last. They saluted and said, "Sir come with us,

Captain Cutter wants to debrief you." the chief nodded and followed. On the way he remebered Cortana and slotted her back into his helmet."Thanks, thought you forgot about me,"

this made the Spartan grin. As they entered the bridge, the captain nodded at the Spartan Red Team. "Alright, i got some questions." John nodded in response.

"One, is it true REACH has fallen? my ship has been no doubt MIA for many years." slowly the spartan nodded sadly causing everyone else to stiffen in anger and sadness especially Jerome.

"Two is it true, Earth has finally been found?" John nodded again, "My god, its-

"The war's over." stated the Chief calmly "WHAT!" yelled the people on the bridge. "We won, the Covenant separatists-"

"Hold on what do you mean Covenant separatists?" cut in Captain Cutter. "I think my AI, Cortana can explain more in detail."

the captain nodded and watched as John slipped a chip form his helmet onto the mainframe of the Spirit Of Fire.

"A woman of about 6 inches appeared, with short hair and wierd data streaming around her naked body. "I'm Cortana,

a new class of smart AI, i was entrusted to the Master Chief by the late Captain Jacob Keyes," Cutter nodded solemnly since he and Keyes were close during their Navy Cadet days.

"The Covenant experienced a shift of leadership near the end of 2552," "So now we're in the year around 2553 right?" asked Alice.

"No its 2565, July 26," the captain, Anders and the Red Team were shocked but remained silent," The Elites, better than known as Sangheili were being replaced by the Jiralhanae

by order of the 2 remaining leaders, the Prophet of Truth and Mercy since the Prophet of Regret was killed by MasterChief and the Sangheili were shamed for not

being good protectors they are." Jerome grinned at that. Ellen Anders was recording every bit of info with a recorder.

"The Jiralhanae then were ordered to commit genocide on the Sangheili and which they were more than happy to, causing over 3.5 million deaths-" "HA! Serves those bastards right,"

whooped Jerome. "Spartan restrain yourself!" barked John who was not pleased with Jerome's attitude as a professional.

"The Sangheili retaliated and rebelled by the newly formed Arbiter, Thel Vadam." Anders jumped the opportunity to ask," Wasn't the Arbiter killed by Sergeant Forge?"

the AI continued, "Well there were many Arbiters, however there can only be one Arbiter at a time. As i was saying, the

Sangheili forged a new path and broke away from the Covenant along with the Unggoy and Mgalekgolo, sorry, Grunts and Hunters.

They made a temporary alliance with us and we managed to stop them and defeated the Covenant from activating Halo, a Ring like

artificial world, a weapon by the forerunners as a last resolve to stop the Flood, a parasitic alien race bent to infect all sentient life,

judging from your records, you have been in contact with them and survived." "Why would the Covenant want to activate the Halos if it

was said to destroy all life.?" asked Alice. "The leaders of the Covenant misintepreted the use of Halo and thought it

would make them gods. Well the detail and the rest is too long but i would be happy to send a report on the ending of the War."

Captain Cutter nodded." That would be great. Serina-"

"Captain Slip space ruptures detected, Covenant Captal ship on our arse!" warned the ship's AI. "Sound the alarm this time its no wreckage."

Power the fusion reactors and turn us around, divert all power to shielding, we're gonna be taking hits when we turn," Master Chief quickly intervened

"Captain that ship is Covenant Separatists," Cutter stopped giving orders and growled,"and how would you know that?"

"I know that ship its the Shadow Of Intent, if memory serves me correctly." "I am not going to risk my crew on some hypothesis that ship is not Covenant, get ready to blast the ship all hands-"

"Captain, I am detecting UNSC ships behind the Shadow Of Intent, they're not firing at it."

"That answer your question? Captain?"chipped in Cortana."Fine, power down weapons system and hail them." grunted in Cutter in defeat

while Spartan Red Team were rather anxious on the situation as the last time humanity tried being friendly they got blasted out of the galaxy.

A screen came into view this time it was a Sangheili in Arbiter armor,"Humans, we come in peace. We're on a rescue mission to extract a Spartan-117, codeword Project Hope.

" Cutter growled in response," Yes we have him, rescued him from a wreckage you aliens probably caused." The Arbiter this time nodded and said,"I would like to speak to him. Please."

"Fine," turning to the chief, he said "You got 5 minutes."

"Greetings old firend." warbled the Arbiter,

"Likewise," replied the MasterChief. As the two conversed, Anders and the Spartan wondered how the two could become close friends

when they had a ceasefire after 30 years of war. Finally John turned, yanked Cortana into the helmet, and said calmly,

"They're coming aboard along with the captains of the Abraham and the Roosevelt." Cutter was not pleased , the Spartans too but they knew better than

let petty emotions get in their way. "I don't mind having those two captains coming over for tea but i will NOT tolerate having genocidal alien bastards on my ship!"

John smiled in his helmet," Well you don't have a choice, they're already here," and he sprinted off to the hangar closely followed by the 3 other Spartans, then some Marines, and some ODSTs joined the fray.

He reached just in time to see the hangar bay filled with pelicans and phantom dropships and they began unloading their own troops, The Unggoys poured, out then spread out

making way for the Sangheili, The Arbiter and Rtas, a few Majors and Minors. "I say, Spartan, you haven't aged a bit."

chuckled the Arbiter which caused the other humans to be quite appalled as they never heard Elites laugh before. "But you have,"

rebutted Spartan-117. "Aye, age has finally caught up to me but i am still ready for a fight." replied the Arbiter enthusiastically.

Upon seeing, Captain Cutter an the Spartans he extended a hand," I am the Arbiter, Kaidon of Vadam state, and you are?"

"Cutter, James Cutter." and the both shook hands though the Captain was still angry at the Elite as they had caused many deaths in the war.

"I'm Admiral Jones, captain of the Roosevelt, and this is Captain Ali, captain of the Abraham," "Sir!" snapped the Spartan Red Team to greet the human

Captains. Jerome and many of the Marines on board the Spirit Of Fire were getting the itch to shoot the aliens but stopped when they felt Master Chief's

gaze on them. As the leaders of the Covenant Separatist along with the UNSC leader exchanged information in the bridge, John and the 3 Spartans retired to the canteen without their Mjolinr where they saw a mix of races

between humans from the Spirit Of Fire and Covenant separatists slowly mingling although a few of them chose to stay with their

own species. For a full 10 minutes, they never conversed as they focused on downing their food, it was Jerome who started the

conversation. "Sir, how can you stand it? Working alongside the aliens." Alice and Douglas both curious leaned closer.

"Yeah, chief, we've been on the brink of extinction fighting them. How'd you make friends with that THING," Alice jerked her

thumb back for emphasis of the Arbiter "back there?" The Masterchief exhaled before answering, "Things weren't really

that simple." He began to look towards the floor for a long while befrore answering. "When I met the Arbiter on Earth, I

almost killed him. Worse when I realised he and his kind along with many Grunts and Hunters were our allies, I was well, rash

I gave him many distasteful comments when he apologised for the genocide he and his Covenant had done to our race. I

mean. Who could ever forgive the ones that glassed REACH, PARIS IV, SIGMA OCTANUS IV along with the other hundred Outer Colonies

. While we were retaking New Mombasa on Earth, a Brute Chieftain had me, he was gonna execute me but the finishing blow never

came. The Arbiter took him out and helped me up. At that moment I realised he really was being sincere in repaying his blood

debt and we've been watching each other's back ever since. These Elites, these Sangheili aren't as evil as you think just

misguided by their leaders. At that, John took a bite out of his mashed potatoes, leaving Spartan Red Team to think for themselves

. 2 Sangheili Majors approached the Spartans, Alice glared at them while Douglas and Jerome reached for their M6 sidearms

however John-117 remained calm. "Demons, your shipmaster of this ship will be jumping slipspace to Earth right now, he requests

you 4 to be on the bridge while we rally the Covenant Separatists on this ship back to the Shadow Of Intent."

"We'll be right up." replied John dryly. As they left the mess hall they headed to the armoury for their respective MJOLINR

armour. They ran into an Unggoy Major waddling past squealing while clutching his groin, it didn't take a genious to figure out

where he's headed.

15 minutes later...

As they were near the bridge, the alarms went off and the ship began to shudder however there was a distinctive sound of a

MAC being fired. "All hands battle stations, Brute Cruisers detected. All personnel to your battle stations. This is

not a drill! Repeat a drill!" The spirit Of Fire shuddered as it unloaded another barrage or Archer and was met with plasma torpedoes, causing massive tremors. Ugh, damage report now.

coughed Captain Cutter as he recovered from the plasma torpedo. Serina s avatar appeared with a hum Engineering decks 4-5 has been compromised, life support has been purged from Barracks-407,

a crew is currently fixing the problem. Casualty reports: 17 Marines and 4 technicians our shields are at 4%, the Abraham and Roosevelt have their shields at 67% apparently being of newer model and stronger shields.

Shadow Of Intent holding with 89% shielding. Shipmaster Cutter, we are jumping to Earth, my scanner indicates 3 more Jiralhanae ships have entered the fight on our starboard. We cannot destroy them all. Have your ship ready to follow suit." Reasoned Rtas Vadum over the FLEETCOM.

As the Spartans entered the bridge, James Cutter managed nodded at them,"All hands brace for slipspace jump, we are following the Elite ship through their slipspace rift." However, before the last ship, which was the Roosevelt could eneter, a stray plasma torpedo enetered the slipspace

and detonated causing an extremely unstable portal. There was a bright flash and everything went dark. As John blanked out, he swore he heard Cortana whisper the same words when he was running for his life to get out

Crow's nest after activating the bomb. "This place will be your tomb..."

END OF CHAPTER 1

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