Nearing the end of the war against the Covenant a branch from the 'newly' formed alliance the sangheili had started to rebel against all forms of government, calling themselves the hand of prophecy, and leadership. Many proclaimed them as a terrorist group, they were denounced by the sangheili government shortly after their own raids on human planets nearly wiping the population of a city each time. They were smaller than the covenant was but held just as much power during this battle a man named Jared Peloski had joined the Office of Naval Intelligence(ONI) just as the war against the covenant ended. He was sent to sanghelios as a war strategist to help fight off the terrorist group. Lowly respected by the sangheili he was almost always discarded as an ally each time he spoke. His location was disinclined to attacks the ONI base was deep underground the sangheili unaware of the true base deep underground with just a modicum building with a few offices. Only major sangheili officials knew about the actual base itself.
Jared woke in his room which could be nearly defined as a house, he didn't find it pleasing about how big it was he had originally been trained to sustain some of the harshest conditions being an Naval Officer he was chosen to help assist the elites as he preferred to call them he sat up in his bed and stretched, yawning rather loudly. "Good morning Mr. Peloski a voice called, a small gold tinted AI appeared on his night stand, the AI has the ability to make themselves look however they pleased, this one wore a suit and tie, he viewed himself as a official and preferred to be considered one, rather than an AI. It wasn't natural for humans to have AI to themselves but because of Jared's position he was in he was forced to have him.
Letting out a sigh "good morning Cato" he let out. Jared didn't enjoy having him around he took the AI as a nuisance. As he stood up the young AI began to state the possible weather outcome along with his duty schedule.
After he finished getting dressed, wearing combat pants and a rather light combat suit, which he wore by choice and strapped on his ONI issued pistol to his pant leg and stepped out the door. A neural link between the AI and himself, spoke in his head as he got into the passenger seat of a warthog that was waiting for him the driver a UNSC marine "morning sir" the marine spoke loudly over the engine of the warthog as they drove heading through the small base to the building atop the headquarters which is below the surface. As the warthog comes to a stop he exits the vehicle and drives away. As he enters the building he's greeted by one of his subordinates "Sir!" He nearly shouts into the half empty lobby and renders a sharp salute, Jared returns the salute "any new Intel today lance?" He said undisturbed by the people around him, some being sangheili. "Mr. Peloski, you can't just voice things like that, you never know who's around" he heard Cato say what could only be as described hearing someone whisper loudly into your ear. Lance remained quiet not responding till they entered an elevator. As the doors closed Jared scanned a keycard in a small thin slot next to the buttons on the elevator opening a secret back door to another elevator to the bottom of the facility. Lance pushed a button and began to speak after the door shut "nothing to big but we caught word that the Hand of Prophecy has been planning an attack on a nearby city to the east, the UNSC have put more marines on that side of the base" he spoke not skipping a beat. Jared pulled a small tablet out from inside his cargo pocket "Cato pull up a security camera in the city." He said tapping on the tablet.
A camera came up, Jared changing through other cameras, some were down, usually because the people didn't enjoy ONI spying on their day to day lives. He came across one while a few marines patrolled the street, a young sangheili child came up to a troop and shook his hand, his mother came and pulled the kid back away from the marine. He scanned through more, finding a senghili arguing with a human. Followed by elites coming to break up the argument before it broke out into a fight.
The elevator eventually made it to the bottom and he put the tablet into his pocket and stepped out. Only humans were seen, elites were not allowed down there regardless of rank. Lance made his way to his own small office. As did Jared, opening the door to his office and closing it, the AI once more appeared on the desk looking at Jared. "What?" He said to Cato who turned to the adjacent wall and brung up cameras around the base "something is off, over the past day the activity around the ONI base has risen." He said Jared sat in his chair "it's probably because of the upcoming holiday, the end of the covenant." He let out a grateful sigh, the city surrounding the base was created for defence, many of the residents in this what to better describe as a town were people who worked for ONI as defence operatives
The screen shutting off Cato spoke up "your probably right" he said doubtfully but the AI has learned not to say anything when he'd made his decision. Jared logged into his computer and began typing up a report on the past weeks attack to send to his leadership. The Hand of Prophecy had attacked a small post far off from the city to the east which fell under his jurisdiction. There was a knock on his door and before he could speak the door opened as his commander, Chief Petty Officer Harden walked in, Jared calling to attention and saluting "at ease Peloski" he said, returning his salute.
"Im assuming you've heard the news about the possible attack on Silket? He asked he nodded his head "well aware, after i finish this report i was going to begin investigating and preparing for a counter attack, in case they do attack, sir" he responded. The Chief Petty Officer nodded back before walking out the door and closing it.
Eventually he finished the report and began analyzing the audio of the transmission from the radio that picked up the discussion, most was nonsense and code words some leading to amount of troops possibly to use and targeted areas. There was no date given but all they could do is send down the information to the UNSC post there including what to use followed by Jared's strategic advice for them to help counter the attack. After he sent it to the outpost a thud shook the inside of his office followed by screams outside. He stood up, pulling his pistol out expecting the worse. Cato shimmered on the desk "plug me now! They're getting in!" He yelled. Jared quickly pushed a button under his desk, a small circle of glass popped off his desk, he pulled a small chip out of the cylindrical glass, the location where Catos' chip stayed to keep secrecy of the chip. Jared stuffed it into his pocket and opened his door.
Jared looking down the hall to the left, then the right he proceeded to continue down the left side of the hall to the safe room. Hearing plasma shots he continued down the hallway into a big opening, the lobby, plasma burns scattered along the walls as he walked through bodies littered the floor mostly human with a few elites.
"How did they get in without setting off alarms?" Cato asked, Jared remained silent Cato understood the situation was still ongoing. He cleared the lobby, the elevator was destroyed. They were trapped, Jared continued to search through the area going door to door to find most empty. Reaching the final door before the safe room he heard yelling inside, the hostiles were inside "Cato" he whispered "still have access to the building?" He asked "already trying to access the room" Cato responded. Jared placed an ear next to the door trying to listen in but couldn't understand it "there's at least three inside, do not go in" Cato said. Jared took a step away from the door tripping over a filing cabinet, cursing under his breath he began to run down the hall the door swung open an elite took chase after. Faster than he was the elite tackled him, his head hitting the floor hard making his vision blurry, he elbowed the elite in the face striking his eye, screaming the elite released one arm letting Jared pull from his grasp. "Duck!" Cato screamed in his ear, just as he got down another elite took a swing just barely missing his head, just as fast he moved to hit an uppercut knocking the elite back slightly he turned and sprinted down the hallway he came from. Taking a turn he ran into another group of elites, two stood before him, both ran after. Jared turned back and ran to get caught by the other three. Jared aimed his pistol at the two and unloaded, their shields flickered but not enough to take the shields offline before he ran out "they can't get me Peloski, cole protocol" Cato said, Jared cursed under his breath again. Eventually one elite began sprinting and landed a hard hit to Jareds abdomen side, sending him into a wall he laid for a second before attempting to stand up another kicked his chest screaming in pain he received another to his stomach
An elite spoke in their language and the hitting stopped. Spitting out a wad of blood Jared looked up at the elites all wearing a light blue save for one wearing dark blue. The dark blue lifted Jared up from the throat trying to choke him. He began punching and kicking the elite till his body became too weak to move. He eventually began to black out.
The elite dropped him to the floor after he fell unconscious. The dark blue armored elite barked orders to the others one picked him up by the waist and carried him away.