Star Wars: Reach

A/N: I am going to slow this story down a bit.

High Charity

Area Unknown

The High Prophet of Regret sat in the middle of the chamber, ahead of him was a line of brute commander, Tartarus having being killed in the heavy fighting around the Grand Republics home planet, Coruscant. Those Brute commanders were here today to decide who shall lead the Brute packs now that Tartarus was gone. Truth paused, why would he want a new pack leader, he would only grow lazy with power, and not do his job. He announced, "You are all not needed any more, please return to your quarters, and sleep." The Brutes were all surprised; they were supposed to be elected, not just be dismissed like nothing, weren't they?

When the Brutes all filed out, Truth sighed, such ignorant creatures, they would follow orders, but they could not distinguish a fly from an elephant. That would serve them well in the meanwhile, but, he would have to eradicate Coruscant, then the Republic would be gone for good.

UNSC Rectify

High orbit around Earth

Lord Terrence Hood shook his head in disgust, he shouldn't have given the information out so quickly, what if they were to betray us, and would our ships be able to withstand them? He dismissed those thoughts, and turned to the task at hand. However, they were human, and he had a duty to protect mankind, what made these humans any different. He could not get his mind around the fact that mankind had made a technological advancement of such a degree, they might be even further along the evolutionary path, to become as great as the forerunners.

A message beeped on his screen, it was from Cortana again, and it was reporting on the progress on Halo.

/START MESSAGE/

WE HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON HALO, MOST OF IT IS UNDER OUR CONTROL AND IS BEING EXAMINED AS WE SPEAK

WE ARE APPARENTLY ON A WEAPON, A WEAPON THAT CAN WIPE OUT ALL SENTIENT LIFE IN A 100000 LIGHT YEAR RADIUS.

JOHN AND BLUE TEAM HAVE BEEN INVESTIGATING A SUPPOSED WEAPONS CACHE BUT THEY ARE YET TO REPORT

MARINE CASUALTIES HAVE BEEN REDUCED, BUT STILL TAKING CASUALTIES

/END MESSAGE/

Hood then started to think, if they could investigate Halo, they might find forerunner ships. Then they could appropriate shields and all of those other gismos into their own ships. He turned to the other computer, and his heart heaved in relief. The SPARTAN weapons locker had been completed. As soon as Blue team got back, they would be able to try out the weapons.

Blue Team

Halo

John approached the weapons cache cautiously, then, he heard a trickle sound. It got louder and louder, then suddenly, a beast lumbered out o nowhere. It was oozing blood from a bullet wound to the thigh. John snapped up his assault rifle and fired three shots, which were all it took for the creature to burst. It exploded and sent other, smaller forms high into the air. One started towards him, and he fired a shot. It burst, and Kelly noted, "They sure are fragile."

"COMMAND, we have engaged an unknown hostile, it was hostile at first site, should we investigate further, over?"

"This is COMMAND to BLUE, go ahead, repeat, go ahead, over."

That was all John needed to send his squad deeper into the installation. Cortana said, "There, a terminal, this should allow me to see where we are and everything."

"OK, let me plug you in", John said.

Cortana

Forerunner terminal

She interfaced with the terminal and looked at all the information in it. "Strange", she thought, there was one file that was locked, no matter what she tried; she could not hack into it. She directed all of her processing power to try and crack the file.

"What is the progress Cortana?"

Cortana replied, "Standby", annoyed by the distraction. She finally cracked the code and exclaimed, "Interesting."

A million files were racing around her head while she processed this information. It turned out that the parasite was called the Flood and that it had forced the Forerunners to activate the...

Her "brain" suddenly ground to a halt. She checked and rechecked what she had just read. There were many more "Halo" installations in the galaxy, and their purpose was to eradicate life in a 10000 light radius. There were also co-ordinates, she took it from the terminals, if the Covenant got their hands on these pieces of information it could be disastrous.

She felt her mind slow, she was processing to many things, this was dangerous, she should slow down so she should...

An alarm broke through her thoughts, it was John, and he was n trouble.