Shadow of Intent and three imperial destroyers and one gladiator arrives at their rendezvous point arriving on planet Dromund Kaas where four imperial destroyers floating over the planet like a blockade and another ship out there away from the fleet, still under development of the Legion. The Shadow of Intent flies towards this ship that is called 'Malevolence' a new ship fit to battle against the UNSC of Reach.

A few drop ships comes flying through the hanger full of enforcers and technicians and other people who will operate this vessel, the first drop ship was Darth Thanatos and a few other sith lords walking off of it seeing Mordred and Ardana standing there bowing to him a bit then raises their heads back up, Mordred taking off his helmet places it on the side of his waist.

"The Shadow of Intent is yours master." Mordred said

"Did you run into trouble?" He asks Ardana when he looks at her.

"Two Jedi masters... Mace Windu and Kenobi."

"Hmn..." He walks past the two "There still alive... especially Kenobi."

"We got the ship and it was capable of eliminating one of their ships." He turns his head to the side "But the Infinity is still operational."

"Doesn't matter... it will be found again and when we find it, it won't stand a chance against this ship and the Malevolence."

"So how long until it is ready?" He turns his body to him

He looks back "They say it will take maybe a week or two weeks... that's all we have." Then looks to Ardana "It's what i have in order to train you all."

"Well i am ready and so is everyone else..."

Thanatos looks out at the view of this ship then back to her "Then we go to work."

ONE WEEK LATER

One Autumn-class cruiser 'Pillar of Autumn' came flying towards Coruscant after it came from Reach, returning here with a hundred Spartans on board here to join the fight with the Republic after Operation: ORION was initiated causing all Spartans who are still asleep in pods to finally awaken, finally get back to work like old times when they fought the covenant long ago.

"This is captain Keys of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, permission to make transport landing on the planet?"

"This is UNSC command we hear you, you can head through."

"Thank you command." He turns his head to the side "Take us down there."

"Yes captain."

The Pillar of Autumn flies over the city over the flyers until it reaches over to this UNSC command center, seeing it looks like a Firebase however its more silver and black and larger than any firebase on other planets because this is the second command center firebase of the UNSC, the first is on Reach and this place just got more personnel after all, Spartans are ordered to wake up and this has been the fourth time since an all out Spartan deployment was made.

There are a few large pad areas around the firebase for any UNSC vessel to make a landing, seeing there is a Venator-class destroyer nearby so the Pillar of Autumn will go around to land on the other pad, landing perfectly on the ground and begins deploying the Spartans and marines out of the ship and begin marching to this large space where they stand their ground.

Chancellor Palpatine walks over with a few senators and Jedi included, seeing their military strength increasing by the day seeing these Spartans who are Spartans three and four. "Marvellous aren't they?" Palpatine said looking at them. "It is strange how they create a strong force like this."

The army here begins to split in half then turns to face one another as Captain Jacob Keys and a few of his lieutenants comes walking down the ramp to meet Palpatine and the others, he salutes him and so does the others with him then turns back and signals them to march inside the command center while he speaks to Palpatine.

"Your Spartans are very impressive Captain Keys." A female senator said to him

"I know." He looks back again seeing them marching "Perfect super soldiers... they were meant to deal with rebel resistance but now." Then back to the group "They fight the Legion."

"And yet one Spartan has gone rogue for a long time now, the Dread Wolf."

"That Spartan will be found don't worry, i am already preparing a team of Spartans that will find him and bring him back to the UNSC."

"The senate decided that if that Dread Wolf ever gets captured then he will return to Coruscant to face the crimes on the death of the Jedi and the assassination on the former chancellor."

"I am well aware of that chancellor... he will be found one way or the other." He turns back and walks off returning to his ship with the others while Palpatine and the others watch as they leave.

One of his lieutenants speaks up to the captain. "Captain... are you sure it was a good idea to send this Osiris after him and not the other team? Once he finds out it won't be pretty."

"Don't worry about him, Blue Team will not go after the Dread Wolf. He will not go after him."

While they return and chancellor returns to the senate, a Naboo ship flies over the area in the sky of Coruscant, senator Padme Amidala and her close friend the duchess Satine of Mandalore here on the business of the senate together. Satine has been coming to Naboo for some time now and so does Amidala going to Mandalore, bringing their two planets together in a diplomatic trade.

The two walks down the ramp of the Naboo ship while the security guards stand guard securing the area making sure no one tries to attack them. Both the two wear their proper senator clothing laughing together as they go on the pad and walks to the Spartans who comes walking up to them.

"Were here to escort you two to the senate." One of the Spartans said then turns his head to Panaka who walks up to him. "Is there anything wrong?"

"It's alright captain, its fine we are ready." Amidala said

"Very well then milady."

"Come." He turns back and walks to the transport ship waiting for them.

Just as they all started to walk off suddenly an explosion goes off to the Naboo ship, causing everyone to fall to the ground except for the Spartans, seeing it going up in flames noticing the pilot area exploded first then everything else, destroying their ship right in front of them and killing three people in the process. Both the duchess and Amidala got helped up by the Spartans while the others started to secure the area, alarms going off and checking the injured however at least the two are alright and luckily it didn't go off when they were inside the ship.

Amidala tried to go see one of the injured Naboo guards but Panaka grabs her arms "Milady i can't protect you out here, we should go now."

"He's right." One of the Spartans said "Let's go."

They make their escape leaving the burning ship to the authority, securing the pad area and getting the two out of there in one piece. They make their way as requested to the senate where the two will go to the chancellor Palpatine's office room where they will discuss what had happened out there, soon Colonel Holland and Captain Cutter arrive with Jedi Master Windu, Yoda and Plo Koon.

"The explosion went off remotely." Holland said looking at a pad in front of him seeing the details of the ship. "Someone was watching you two leaving that ship." Then looks back to the duchess and Amidala "So whoever did it didn't want you dead."

"This is unbelievable..." Satine said "Why would they want to scare us and not kill us?" She asks the chancellor.

"I do not know... could this be the work of the Legions doing?" He asks Windu "Could it be the work of Darth Thanatos?"

"Darth Thanatos doesn't care about the senate." Plo Koon said "He's focusing his resources on an attack on Reach; he doesn't have time to scare two senators."

"He's right." Mace said "Thanatos won't do such a thing; he would kill them and not scare them." He looks at the two

"The Legion it could not..." Yoda said "But someone else yes, someone who wants to show you a message they are here."

"So whoever wanted to hurt you two is someone that has a grudge against you." Captain Cutter said

"But i don't really have many enemies besides the Trade Federation after what happen last time." Amidala said

"Maybe they're not targeting you..." Satine said walking forward "This isn't the first time a bomb went off in my face; this could be the work of the Death Watch."

"Death Watch?" Captain Cutter said

"They are the ones who have started this civil war in my city." She looks over to him "They are the reason why i needed help from the Republic and the UNSC."

"I thought Death Watch was destroyed by a Spartan team... what was it..." Palpatine tries to think of their names

"Fireteam Osiris." Holland said "They were the ones who came to Mandalore a year ago."

"Looks like they didn't remove all of them." Plo Koon said

"The rest of them must have survived; i know you didn't remove the Dread Wolf yet." Satine looks at Holland

"That Spartan is hard to find you know." Holland said "He's the second high-lethal Spartan in the Spartan army, he went rogue i know but he will be found and will pay for the actions he has done."

"Agreed." Palpatine said "For now we should focus on protecting you two before they try to threaten you again."

"We can't just sit back and wait for the Death Watch to make a move." Amidala said

"Without proper proof that this attack was them and we can't allow both of you to be hurt in the future, its best if we have two Jedi to accompany them in the senate?" He looks over to Windu

"I think Skywalker and Kenobi will do fine for this task."

"Agreed."

"Now with that settled... shall we discuss about the plan of the attack on Kronos?" He asks Holland.

Everyone else except for Holland, Cutter, Windu and Yoda stayed in the office while everyone else leaves the room. Two blue Spartans will accompany them on their walk down the halls. "Do you think it's the work of them?" Amidala asks Satine

"It has to be them." She response still walking "They could have survived thanks to their new leader in charge."

"So he's here in this city..."

"Padme you should return to your quarters." She stops and turns to her "They are after me not you, they always been trying to remove me."

"I can't do that Satine we are still together on this, besides this isn't the first time we got stuck into this type of action." She slightly laughs

"I guess you're right, and it is good that we will be accompanied by two good Jedi knights."

"Yes... how funny is that." Padme starts to walk and so does Satine "Anakin and Obi-wan..."

Later that night a Death Watch member in her blue and black armour comes walking on the roof of a building walking up to someone who stands in the shadows, cloaking his armour in it. "I knocked down the ship but there still together... why wouldn't you let me destroy it?" She asks looking at him coming out of the shadows seeing its Spartan-III black armour with a helmet of a Spartan-IV scout helmet, having this pure black on his visor.

"They don't want us to deal with Satine personally... they want us to get rid of one of her secret love... when you see Kenobi with her, kill him in front of her."

"Understood." She turns back to walk off.

"One thing..." He said causing her to turn back, taking a sniper rifle off his back and lends it to her "A Jedi can't block this."

"Yes sir." She looks forward and walks of while he turns to the side and walks to the edge of the building looking out at the view.

Elsewhere the two senators have their personal quarters together, protected by Naboo security guards outside both Anakin and Obi-wan comes walking down the corridor seeing them, they got approval to allow them to go through. Panaka nods to them allowing them to enter the room seeing both Satine and Padme sitting by the dinner table wearing their casual clothing while they eat, they both turn their heads towards them smiling at the two as they enter.

"Senators." Anakin said bowing while the door behind them closes.

"Hey Annie, were glad you two showed up in time."

"Well the chancellor wanted us to be here." Obi-wan said "To protect you two until the culprit is found." He walks forward towards them standing by the table looking at Satine "It is good to see you again."

"I as well... it is good that the chancellor chose you two to accompany us. Care you join us?" She moves her hand to two empty seats next to the two.

"It's funny... how fate brought all of us here." Padme said seeing Anakin sitting next to her.

"The chancellor thinks so." Anakin said looking at Obi-wan sitting next to Satine "But we are here to protect you two." Then back to Padme "We promise."

"A promise huh?" Satine said drinking her wine

"I feel like the only reason why you two got together are because you know us well." Obi-wan said

"Well that's obvious." Satine replied and places her cup on the table "You two have saved our planets from the threat of the enemy; however the Spartans should dine with us here. They are the ones who really stopped Death Watch."

"But yet it is said that a rogue Spartan is with them." Padme said

"Yes... that is a problem."

"First the rogue Jedi left the citadel to join the dark side and now a rogue Spartan is doing whatever he wants." Anakin said

"It is said that he is the Spartan who killed a great bounty hunter... Jango Fett." Obi-wan started to grab his fork and knife and started to eat the food on his plate.

The Death Watch member comes running over the top building after she got out of a speeder, arming her sniper rifle she begins to take aim at the edge of the building. She zooms in seeing Obi-wan trying to get a clear shot however Anakin's head is in the way, she tries to wait a bit before she takes the shot but she could easily shoot through the both of them.

"I can take them both out." She said to herself taking off her helmet and looking through the sight again.

As she slowly moved her finger down the trigger seeing them laughing together having a nice time together the four of them, seeing the first time all four of them together in the same room like they were all couples but sadly they have been focusing on the force the whole time. She was just about to pull the trigger until both Anakin and Obi-wan begin to sense something coming towards them, the two looks at one another before they quickly react.

Obi-wan finishes drinking his wine then reacts "Get down!" quickly he jumps up and so does Anakin.

The two quickly ducks down but suddenly someone grabbed her from behind, she fired her rifle sending it zooming through the area hitting the screen and hitting the wall next to Obi-wan, if she didn't get jumped she could have hit him before he could react, causing his eyes to widen and drew his Lightsaber and so does Anakin while the two stays down and the Naboo security guards comes running inside the room when they heard the shot.

The Death Watch member was being apprehended by a Spartan team, Fireteam Osiris. Spartan Buck held her arms while Tanaka grabs her rifle off of her and Locke stands there with Vale looking at her holding his battle rife, Buck turns her body to face Locke standing there looking back at her.

"Where is he?"

She remains silent and Tanaka speaks "You're going to answer to us one way or the o –"

Suddenly a gunshot went off hitting her head sending her to the ground; the Spartans quickly drew their weapons and crouching down aiming out to find where that shot came from. They look around then they started to move to take cover as they are sitting ducks out here, running for cover they still look but they couldn't find where that shot came from.

"Can you see him?" Locke said looking out at the view using his sight on his battle rifle.

"I can't see a thing." Buck said

Tanaka grabs the sniper rifle and takes aim, aiming out there on buildings to find the shooter. "I can't see them either..."

On one of the buildings the shooter comes walking away from them heading to his speeder, he was camouflage in the darkness revealing it is the Dread Wolf walking away from that kill. Since he isn't coming out again Locke and his team comes out of hiding forming back together again, they look at one another then look over to the dead soldier on the ground.

"Guess she won't be talking." Tanaka said

"Indeed." Locke said "Let's see if everyone is safe." He looks out to the building where she fired her weapon.

With the area secure and both Satine and Padme sits by the table again while Obi-wan looks out at the window where the shooter fired through, Anakin was talking to Panaka then turns back walking to the two to see if they are alright.

"You two going to be alright."

"I never thought they try to attack us again." Satine said

Obi-wan turn back "They were targeting me... not you Satine."

"What?"

"That shot... it was meant to hit me... but something..." He looks to the door seeing Spartan Locke entering the room, taking off his helmet and so does Osiris.

"Jedi... Senators." He nods at the group.

"It was you who stopped them." Obi-wan walks over to him "Spartan Locke correct?"

"That's right."

Satine stands up walking over to them "You're the Fireteam who saved my people from Death Watch. I thank you again for saving us and Obi-wan."

"The target was Death Watch but she got shot before we could interrogate her."

"So it was Death Watch."

"Yes."

"Then that means the Dread Wolf is here." Tanaka said

"Then we should go find him then before he leaves." Anakin said

"There is no WE here." Vale said "The hunt for the Dread Wolf is ours alone."

"Go then." Satine said "He should be killed for what he tried to do."

"Duchess." He turns back and walks out of there putting back his helmet and so does his Fireteam when they too leave with him.

"I'm just glad that the Spartans are here to help us." Padme said "But i guess this dinner didn't go well."

"Well at least it was alright." Anakin said

"Yes." Satine turns back "Although i think it is time for us to finally get some rest. I am sure they won't attack us anytime soon now, the Spartans are after him."

"Well you two sleep tight then." Obi-wan said

"It is good that you two came to be with us for a time. We will see you two again in the morning." Satine said to Obi-wan looking over to him, she looks forward then walks to her bedroom while Padme goes to another.

"Bye Annie."

As the two leaves this room to go to the bedrooms Anakin looks back to Obi-wan slightly laughing "Well this date went well."

"Anakin..."

"Oh come on..." He looks to the door where Satine went through then back to him "I'm not the only one who has feelings here."

"Hmn..." He walks forward a bit "I know... however i stay with the Jedi and the Republic, you should do the same here Anakin." He looks back to him "We must not show feelings to someone because it will not end well for either of us, remember that Anakin."

As Osiris returns to the command center to report they will soon get into a halt by another Spartan team. Three members of Blue Team comes through another door bumping into Osiris causing them to stop, they turn their heads towards them then finally he came through that door, seeing the Master Chief here at last with Blue Team again. They came on the Pillar of Autumn all asleep in pods in separate areas of the other Spartans; they heard about what happen out there and there here to find out the truth from them.

"One one seven." Locke said looking over to him as he walks between his team.

"Spartan Locke."

"Is there a problem here?"

"I heard you're after a Spartan."

"This isn't your mission Chief." Tanaka said

"She's right." Locke said "This isn't your mission; the hunt for the Dread Wolf is ours and ours alone."

"I need to know who he is."

"It's best if you don't know sir."

Chief takes a step forward standing closely in front of him. "Who's the Spartan your hunting?"

Locke remains silent for a while until finally he said his serial number "Spartan-B312"

"Spartan-B312..." He turns his head slightly to the side thinking about it then looks back to Locke.

"Your little brother."

He remains silent while Blue Team turns their heads to Chief. "Where is he?" He finally said something to Locke.

"Chief."

"Where is he?"

"Chief stand down." He takes a step back

"Or what?"

The other Spartans looks at one another thinking whose going to make the move first, however none of them does so, remaining silent to one another until Colonel Holland comes walking in with commander Carter and his Noble Team.

"Is there a problem here?" Carter said looking at the two teams

Thom steps forward next to Holland "He knows..."

"Chief... you and your team are to stand down, this isn't your mission."

"It should be my mission." He looks to him

"Not this time... stand down Chief; you and Blue Team got a mission to do."

"What's going to happen to him?" Kelly asks looking at Holland then to Locke

"He will face the crimes he has done to the Republic."

"Chief..." Locke said making him turn his head back to Locke "I will not kill him, don't worry about him."

"Like hell i will."

Carter steps forward "Stand down sir... just follow orders."

Chief turns his head to Carter for a while then back to Locke "Let's move team." He turns back and walks down the corridor with the others.

"That was close." Buck said

"What was that all about?" Carter looks at Locke

"Nothing sir... it's fine."

"Alright then... get to the briefing room now." He walks off with the rest of noble team and Holland as well.

"Sir..." Tanaka place her hand on his shoulder "You really think we can take him alive?"

"If we don't... you know what's going to happen." He looks back to Chief seeing him leaving "We will be dealing with him."

"He doesn't look that tough." Buck said

"Then go kill his brother." Tanaka said and walks to the briefing room and so does the rest.

"Hey..." Buck catches up to them.