Author's Note: This isn't a true chapter, it's only about a page and a half long on Microsoft Word and is just a follow up chapter. After this, it's the Epilogue that will open up for the sequel, and then it is completely finished.
A New Beginning
Two weeks had passed since the war had ended and things were starting to become as normal as they would ever be. Now that Earth was glassed, it was uninhabitable in all places save for the small patch of land around the Ark. Any surviving people had moved to Jecovah; one thousand out of the billions that used to live on Earth. The Marines were busy situating everyone and guarding them incase any Covenant that had been left alive decided to attack.
Blue Team along with Half-Jaw, the Arbiter, and a group of Spec Ops elites were busy searching the universe for any Covenant stragglers. If any leadership was regained, the Covenant could become a threat to humanity again. As the Chief ordered Kelly to arm a charge on a locked door where there had been signs a small group of Covenant were hiding here, he thought back to what everyone from the separate universe might be doing…
Boss and Adams, their armor taken off for fear of recognition, followed Senator Bail Organa out onto the balcony as he showed his wife their new child, Princess Leia Organa, who was Darth Vader's daughter. The baby would be in danger from the powerful Sith Lord, which was why the two of them were to be Leia's bodyguards, watching over her as she grew up. Bail knew who they truly were, as Obi-wan had told him. But now that Darth Vader would be searching for the Jedi as well as the Clones, they would need to be undercover. Though he had Adams with him, he already missed his brothers and thought about what their original plan was.
Boss knew Scorch and Fi would have said their goodbyes to Sev and Atin outside of the Lars' homestead. Luke Skywalker, Vader's other child, would be under the protection of Scorch and Fi as well as the Lars family. The two commandos would act as farmers, Luke being oblivious to the fact that they had fought in the Clone Wars as well as the UNSC-Covenant war. Obi-wan would be there to explain the situation and to hand Luke off to Owen Lars, who was Vader's stepbrother. Him and his wife would raise Luke as their nephew, the boy not knowing who his father truly was. After that meeting, Sev and Atin would go with Obi-wan to hide out with him in a homestead close enough to watch over Luke.
Darman and Etain had never left the planet Kashyyyk. They would remain there in a makeshift house along with Commander Gett, watching over the portal in case the Empire tried to return to that universe. Also, the two of them could finally find the peace that they much deserved.
Niner would be the only one to return to military service, helping the small, newly formed Rebel Alliance with a special mission. They had gotten word of a new weapon the Empire was building, but needed further information for what it was for. Once they did, they would most likely destroy it, but would need the plans and layouts in order to do that. That was where Niner would come in, helping retrieve the plans along with the help of a young man named Kyle Katarn.
Kal Skirata and Ordo, along with Ordo's fellow ARC Trooper and brother Mereel, had their own plans of which no one else knew much about. But it involved a certain Kaminoan named Ko Sai and an attempt to help the Clones from aging so fast and to give them a longer life to live. Boss hoped they were successful, he wanted to live his life to the fullest.
As he watched Bail and his wife play with their daughter, he knew they had some years of peace left before they were thrust back into war. But when that time came, he knew that he would be ready.