Chronicles of the Fractal-Verse 2 Continuation Of, Zerg Swarm Empress

by NOOBZILLA

Protoss purity of form. Zerg purity of Essence. Terrans Purity of Will. Centuries after the events on Earth Ellenes story continues as her actions and those of her swarm have far reaching effects across the galaxy. First on Earth, Then the Koprulu Sector. The ring world know as Halo 04. A world named named Remnant. And eventually to the Lesser ARK.

52. Chapter 52

[Ripping the Band-Aid Off]

I'm discontinuing this Story. There I said it. The reason is because the story has gotten off topic with all these side characters and side stories all of which is making it far far too complicated and far too long. Ellen's the main character but now she's become a side show for the others. I admit I failed to make the star-craft and brood-war arcs properly. I should have just stuck with Ellen's POV and went from there.

But its not all bad news. I did at least improve my writing skills, a bit at least. Though I'm not writing for money just for fun.

I do plane to write a Reboot of [Empress of the Swarm] that will be very different. One of the other major problems that I also failed at was properly showcasing the individual Zerg breeds, types, abilities and skills. I really like that about other Zerg stories so in the Reboot that's going to be a focus.

The reboot story will be centered on one planet and mainly from the main characters perspective with limited POV of others for extra context but never as a side story. The character MAY or MAY NOT be Ellen or another version of Ellen from yet another dimension or not even another person. I'm keeping things like that obscure until I make any final decision on it.

I already have two chapters done on the reboot and the other story [Raise of a Demon Lord]

Also I'm changing up my writing schedule and focusing on one story at a time that way I'm not switching from story to the other too quickly. I'll spend the rest of this year 2021 on the story [Raise of a Demon Lord] and then switch to the new reboot so I can get lots of work done on each before switching from one to another and It helps with my focus on them if im not jumping from one to another too often.

My other story [Raise of a Demon lord] Will continue and I could swing it that it's now a separate story or just leave it as is and skip everything about the original now discontinued [Swarm Empress story].

Though I know all of you maybe interested in Ellen's current story and perhaps would like want to know what I had planned. That's why I wrote a rather long compressed explanation/synopsis of the rest of the story.

Given how long this is I would imagine it would have took me four more years to write the full story. I'm not that dedicated to writing to endure that when I can work on other stories that I have more interest in.

This is just a general over-view of the rest of the story so perhaps not all aspects are accurate as they would have been.

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[Empress of the Swarm: A General Synopsis: End of Brood war arc]

After suffering a huge defeat at Selvarias and the UNSC's sneak attack on Char Ellen would have directly attacked Amon on Skygeirr Platform. At around the same time as the previous chapters the Protoss would attack Revanscar hybrid production facilities destroying them it would be at this time Ko'toss would change his name to Talandar. After words Karax would find date of the main production facility at Skygeirr Platform and arrive a little after Ellen had begun her attack. At the same time the Terran dominion told of the facilities location by Rindol would launch their own attack joining the others in a collective attack. But this was what Amon had planed for and He summoned a large Covenant fleet from the other side of the galaxy having had used Duran/AKA Narud as a agent to form a alliance years ago.

The Zerg, Protoss, and Terran forces fight the much more numerous Covenent forces in a giant fleet battle over the planet. Meanwhile Ellen, a infested and ressurected Stukov, Haruka, Rindol, Talandar, Raynor, Rindol, Kerrigan and Nova all land on the platform fighting their way through the defenses and many Hybrids until confronting Dr. Narud. They banter a big before Stukove tries to kill Narud but He summons Hybrids who block the former vice admirals attack and teleports away. After defeating the Hybrids the group discovers the Xel'naga temple below the platform and continue their assault. But before they get on the elevator Selvaria attacks and Rindol stays to finish her business with her sister. They have a big battle resulting in Rindol winning just barely. They talk and Rindol opens a dimensional portal with the two disappearing and their arch is completed.

Down in the temple Ellen, Haruka and Talandar are joined by both Tassadar, Zerion, Zeatul and Raszagal and continue fighting their way to Amon. They finally meat him and they banter a bit before fighting. But even out numbered Amon nearly kills them. He grabs a weakened Ellen and sends a powerful psionic attack at her mind. But dew to a Valkyrus powerful aura the attack fails giving Ellens little but a nose bleed and headache. But the point was not to break Ellens mind it was to signal a old enemy to awake and act from within. Azrumath the main enemy from the first-arc on earth wakes from his hibernation deep in Ellens inner-would world. Having never burned his soul Ellen forgot about him making the mistake that a mere sould she had devoured could never hurt her.

Azrumath awakened attacks Ellen's psych from within causing her will and mental defenses to to weaken. This had the effect of allowing Ellens split personality Red-Ellen to free herself. Now free Red-Ellen seales her Blue-Ellen counterpart in the same mental seal she had been in. But her freedom is momentary as Azrumath attackes her and tries absorbing her to gain control over Ellens body. This is when my insert character comes in using his twilight breacelets date-drain to seperate a partly absorbed Red-Ellen from Asrumath. Asrumath and My insert character fight with Azrumath ultimetely loosing and being burned as souls fuel by Red-Ellen.

Now powered up by Azrumaths soul Ellen becomes even stronger and now having switched personalities becomes much more violent and aggressive and a little crazy. No longer holding her power back as surprise surprise Ellen has almost always held back as she did not want to destroy everything around her. The red side to her personality, not so much. Ellen shifts her aura into it's crimson state and begins absorbing Amons power and quickly and easily defeats in a short fight while the others recover. Before his avatar body dies Amon states that this victory was shallow and meaningless as the Light will ultimately return to this plan of existance to exert its dominance. And when that day comes Amon in his true form will kill them and make Ellen the Lights loyal servant as it should have been this day.

Everyone thinks the battle is over but true to her new personality and nature as Red-Ellen, Ellen attacks the others challenging Tassadar and everyone to a fight and if she wins they have to serve her. Tassadar rebukes Ellen telling her to come back to her senses. Ellen tells everyone about her split personalities and that now the red version is in charge of the body. Ellen calls them cowards mocking their honor as warriors and knocks Talandar around cutting off two of his legs with a half maddened grin.

Angered Tassadar and The other protoss prepare to fight her but Haruka knowing how powerful she really is and about her ability to absorb psionic energy warns them to just run. Tassadar knows they all can't escape and so he stays along with Raszagale and Zeratul to delay Ellen while the others make their escape. Raynor, Haruka, Kerrigan Nova, Zerion and Talandar reach the upper levels as the facility shacks violently from the battle below. They quickly reach the drop zone taking a dropship into orbit.

Narud now on a Covenant ship shifts into a Shangheili form just before a Prophet in a hover chair enters the room. They talk having regret that the facility was lost but all the research date was safe on a box Narud held in his hands. The scene cuts to a smoky scene below Skygierr of Ellen in a giant red auora monster form with the defeated and broken bodies of Tassadar, Raszagal and Zeratul scattered around. Red tendrils impale all of them and turning the bodies to dust. The scene then cuts to Ellens inner-world where My insert character greets them and explains that their souls had been devoured by Ellen. Tassadar is greatly upset by this having been cut off from and not gone to the Khala after death.

My insert character explains that technically their not dead but just transfurred into another vessel and in the future could be transferred into new bodies. Tassader dosen't like the idea much but calms down.

On the Spear of Adun, Haruka, Kerrigan, Raynor, Nova, Artanis and Selendis all discuse what happened while Talandar is getting his body repaired. Artanis and Selendis are angered at Ellens actions and orders the ship to target skygierr station. The orbital attack causes the station to collapse onto Ellen but is then slices to pieces by a dozen atom thin aura tendrils. Ellen in her monster form summons the DZK and enters it and lands on a Leviathan. She blasts her way through several Covenant ships and warps away Leaving Artanis fuming.

The brood war Arch Epilogue ends with Ellens swarm fleet arriving at Slayn the Tal'darim home world and challengs the current high lord to Rak'shir with a leviathans worth of Solarite and Terrazine gas as reward if she losses. Ellen only osing her aura as a armor and blades easily wines and then challenges the whole arena of spectators if they challenge her rule. Finding it hard to accept a non Tal'darim as high lord many ascendants attack only to be brutally beaten but not killed. After the lengthy brawl first Ascendant Alarak accepts Ellen as the Tal'darims new high lord and after seeing just how powerful she is the others quickly fall in line.

After securing the Tal'darim as her new servants Ellen calls Alarak and Jinara for a personal meeting in which Ellen explained her future goals and planes and then because of her less inhibited side to her personality being in control propositions both of them for sexual relations. Jinara shocked and disgusted rejects the offer turning to leave. Ellen produces aura tentacles that easily restrain Jinara. Alarak also feeling some what uncomfortable given the situation askes why in the galaxy would Ellen want to do such a thing. To which Ellen explains about her two personalities and their recent switch.

Ellen using her red aura drains energy from Jinara producing great and shortly after insert a tentacle into Jinaras reproductive organ, {I would think Protoss are the same as most other races in that one biological quality}, reversing the flow of energies infusing her with power. The feeling changes from painful to extreme pleasure and a sense of, as well as a real increase to her power making Jinara more accepting of her intimate proposal. Eventually Alarak after sensing Jinaras actual increase in her own power accepts Ellen's proposal and they have a three way.

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[Halo Arch]

The Halo arch takes place years later in the future and mostly follows the events of the games with some differences. Reach has a fleet of over a thousand ships along with two orbital rings also armed to the teeth with weapons platforms and battle stations of small fleets and armies.

The spartan 2 program is very different as it is the next step in the program. Aliasse a extreamly powerful and immortal valkyrur like Ellen now serves as a major figure in Reaches political and military complex holding a considerable amount of authority over both. She is also the one who recruited Dr. Catherine Halsey for the Spartan 2 program. The spartan 2 program is created for the purpose of granting the spartan super human warriors psionic powers. The program works much like in original cannon of Halo with the exception that the recruits are not kidnapped but instead their families are given extremely good incentives to join the program like never paying taxes again.

John and all the other Spartans are in the program which has all but been perfected and the same genetic markers are used to find useful candidates who naturally have great psionic abilities and compatible genetics fore the spartan conversion program. This allows the Spartans candidates to retain and in some cases gain boosted psionic abilities in addition to the physical and mental enhancements of the spartan enhancement. John-117 gains a sixth sense that's a precognitive ability that borders on seeing the future. But he rather feels what's going to happen then sees it allowing him to instinctively know and react as quickly as possible. The other Spartans also develop even greater or equally unique abilities as ghosts and over the past decades the Terran dominion and UNSC on Reach have been fighting together against the Covenant while the Protoss have stayed out of the conflict and the Azure swarm has all but disappeared.

The story begins on Reach and follows the story of the Fall of Reach novels but with some significant changes such as The Covenant fleet numbering two thousand ships along with Kerrigan, Nova and Raynors son Johnny being trainers in the Spartan-2 program as a military exchange program between the Dominion and UNSC who have formed a alliance against the Covenant allowing the war to go much better for the Terrans. How ever because of date from the Moebius foundation that Dr. Emil Narud handed the Covenant their technology is much more advanced with a number of Terran technologies.

During the events of the Covenant attack on Reach Kerrigan, Johnny Raynor,( Jim Raynors son) and the other Sparten 2s fight off the covenant like in the book. While John-117 along with Linda and James are sent to destroy a navigation crystal on a ONI prowler that had failed to follow the Cole protocol. The team is attacked on the station but because of John-117s precognitive advice spartan James-005 avoids getting hit by Needler fire and stays alive and with the team joining the others in the station.

They encounter Sergeant Johnson and his Marines, and they all fight off the covenant and destroy the ships nav-core but fail to destroy the date to a sufficient degree as to prevent Huragok from recovering it. After Linda's severely wounded by multiple plasma blasts but survives every one retreats back to the Pillar of Autumn and flee the system.

Back on Reach Kerrigan, Nova, Johnny Raynor, Aliasse Catherine Halsey and the other Spartans, UNSC forces with the Dominion Marines and Ghosts fight off the Covenant onslaught more effectively then in the original cannon thanks to the larger fleet defending Reach and the orbital rings and battle stations and even keep the Covenant's main ground forces off the planet far longer period of time allowing a stronger resistance to be formed. Aliasse and everyone else fell back to Menachite Mountain to organize and prepare for the Covenants forces to breach the orbital defenses. During this time Aliasse explained to everyone about the Forerunner facility and artifact below the mountain and forms a team consisting of her and four others in retrieving the artifact before the Covenant get planet side.

On the Pillar of Autumn Keys watches as the UNSC, Dominion fleets and Reach are all surrounded by the still over one thousand Covenant ships. Cortana informs him about the Forerunner glyphs found by John-117 on Sigma Octanus IV and that she's decoded them and that a secret order by Aliasse states that if this situation ever happens that the Pillar of Autumn with as many Spartans as possible but must include John-117 to jump to those coordinates.

Keys quite skeptical reluctantly agrees as his bridge crew report several dozen Covenant ships heading for them. The Pillar of Autumn jumps away and soon arrives at Halo 04 but soon find that the covenant ships had followed them or rather had arrived a head of them. The Autumn comes under fire as Covenant as Keys orders them into full combat readiness. However Cortana again acting under secret orders from Aliasse explains that the alien ring construct is called a halo and the Covenant regard it as sacred and so will not risk its destruction. Keys after getting annoyed at these secret orders thinks as the Cortana fires the ships evasive thrusters and deploys orbit plates which are armor plates that can detach from the hull and intercept covenant plasma fire before it hits the actual ship its self.

After surviving a bombardment Cortana is ordered by Keyes to crash the ship on the Halo. After some close maneuvering Cortana is able to get close enough to the Halo that the Covenant that they stop shooting. The Pillar Of Autumn crashes on halo and is quickly followed by the Covenant ships who quickly deploy a assault force to take the ship but they only find a empty and heavily damaged vessel. The whole crew of the Autumn had already evacuated during re-entry or after using the Halos curving structure to block direct line of sight and blocking the Covenants chances of seeing the ships crew evacuating.

Meanwhile in orbit of the gas giant Threshold a Azure Zerg Leviathan had observed the whole event and quickly sends a report to Ellen who calls several of her generals to meet her. The first is brood queen Nysha and the second is a infested and resurrected Alexi Stukov. She informs them of the Covenant forces and sends them to Halo-04 to destroy the covenant presence and recover forerunner tech in addition to analyzing the flood and developing a counter-measure to their infestation ability which is why the evolution master Abastein was accompanying them. After they leave Ellen summons first ascendant Alarak ordering him to prepare a fleet which is to go to Reach.

Meanwhile on Halo Captain Keys and his group of survivors recover and organize on a beach after landing on a island that Cortana, now installed in Spartan John-117s suit, directed them to land on. While Keys organized the scattered survivors of his crew via encrypted radio and telepathy from the crew members with such abilities, the spartans explored the island under suggestion by Cortana who again said it was information and orders from Aliasse.

The Spartans took a warthog across the islands beach talking about the ring with Cortana as they went. Eventually they reached a structure on a beach. Cortana said it connected to more structures further along the islands beach. Driving further around the island they found a building that connected to the inner island. Driving the warthog up the beach to a natural land ramp they parked right in front of the building on a raised platform. Slowly and cautiously they entered the building with Cortana noting its not made of any known materials.

They progress further in passing through a open area and passed a forested area before entering the elevated structure they passed while along the beach. They reach a sealed door but Cortana bypasses its locks with effort. Walking down a series of winding stairs and rooms they arrive at a important looking room. Cortana goes silent a moment analyzing the chamber then states its a map room of some kind. She connects with the local network downloading a full map of the ring. As she's about to disconnect another intelligence contacts her introducing its self as Monitor 343 Guilty spark who is quite happy to have guests after spending so long alone. Cortana and Spark talk a bit before Spark gets distracted and informs them of a group of Covenant dropships attacking the other humans on the island.

Cortana informs John and the other Spartans who quickly proceed out of the structure but are quickly attacked my waves of covenant forces. After nearly a hour of fighting they fight out of the structure returning to the beach Keyes was left at only to find the captain gone and every one else dead. With little options they try and radio for transport from the other survivors. After a hour a pelican dropship designated as 419 foe-hammer arrives with and transports them to a isolated high butte plateau where the majority of the Terran survivors had taken from the covenant. The Terrans strategize on how to find and rescue Captain Keyes.

Using the map data she found in that facility Cortana informs everyone that she has located Keyes by tapping into the ring worlds systems but given their lack of numbers and man power they should gather all the survivors before assaulting the covenant ship holding captain Keys.

At this point Nysha and Stukov arrive with their small fleet at Halo-04. They quickly begin assaulting the orbiting Covenant ships destroying several before both forces disengage with the Covenant forces suffering heavy damage before retreating allowing the Zerg fleet to make ring fall. Nysha informs the others they should split up with Stukov and Abastein searching for the Flood containment while She searches the ring for the control room to prevent a firing of the halos weapon.

Meanwhile a Covenant elite force reaches the deepest depths of a structure encountering a locked door. They talk a bit but after getting a transmission stating Zerg have arrives they decide to return to their ship for further orders. But as they start to leave one of them instead walks to the sealed door. The units commanding officer orders the Sangheili or leave with everyone else but the Sangheili ignores the officers orders. The officer draws his plasma blade shouting as he orders the Sangheili to follow orders and leave. Again ignoring the officers commands the Sangheili extends their arm producing a vivid green energy blade from their palm. In shock at event the Officer is momentarily stunned and is subsequently cut down in a single stroke by the rogue Sangheili.

The rogue Sangheili then cuts the sealed door into several pieces causing a alarm to sound. With fanged smile the Sangheili shapeshifts into the form of a Terran ghost and cloaks. Hearing their commanders last cry of pain the remaining elite units members return to find the body of their commander and the door open. Suddenly a horde of green gray tentacled blobs rush out if the chamber quickly over taking the covenant team.

Back with the Terrans John-117 and his team along with several groups of Ghosts and Marines all take drop ships to the Truth and Reconciliation where captain Keyes is being held. Approaching in the few stealth dropships that they had the spartan 2s and the others approach from a valley close to the ship. Arriving on a lower area of the plateau the ships hovering over the Terrans silently kill their way through the Covenant forces with the held of John-117s precognitive-sensory-ability and the Ghosts cloaking ability. They eventually reach the gravity lift leading up to the ship but are discovered by covenant adapted sensors at the lift that discover the Ghosts. The Spartans who had been hanging back rushed up to the lift as Covenant reinforcements descended from the ship.

After a fierce fire fight and taking several casualties the Terrans take the lift and split up. With the wounded and a few others taking stealth dropships back to the plateau base they hold. And the rest consisting of the Spartans and ghosts continue their mission. Infiltrating the ship Johns sixth sense leads them through close quarters battle after battle through the ship allowing them to more often ambush the covenant in their own ship and avoid being flanked by the covenant forces using side corridors. They eventually reached the prisoner cells and free Captain Keyes along with a few others. After fighting their way back to a hanger their picked up by a cloaked dropship and flee.

Meanwhile Nysha finds and secures the Halos control room with a force of Zerg. She quickly encounters 343 Guilty Spark and they talk about each other much to the lonely floating eyes glee. Nysha informs Spark of her intention to not let the halo fire even if the flood are released. Spark tells her that procedure dictates that in the eventuality of a flood breach the only way to ensure the parasite is completely wiped out is for the ring to fire. Nysha informs him that the Zerg will adapt and destroy the flood. Spark doubts that but expresses his curiosity at the possibility.

Stukov and Abastein arrive at a swamp on a Harbinger with small army having detected Covenant in the area and odd behaviour in the local life forms in the area. Scattering Zerglings around the swamp they find a entrance to a underground structure. Stukov joins the Zerg forces to infiltrate the facility while Abastein stays on the Harbinger safe in the air. Using the lifts Stukov with his forces descends deeper into the facility passing Covenant corpses along the way. Eventually He encounters a large room that holds a containment chamber. Stukov and Abastain talk about what happened to release the Flood and Stukov wondered where they are.

At that time several Overseers detect a UNSC pelican arriving carrying Captain Keyes and his group. Abastein informs Stukov who decides to meet the Terrans. Captain Keyes and the others make their way through the facility eventually encountering a group of Zerg and Stukov in the large chamber. Guns are pointed and Zerg hiss as Stukov introduces him self. He and Keys talk a bit and Stukov informs him of the purpose of this facility and the Flood warning Keys that he and the other Terrans should leave before the Flood show up again.

The Flood infection forms appears attacking both sides. Bullets fly and claws slice as the Zerg and Terran forces work together to take out the common enemy. Abastein observes through the Zerg hive mind and intentionally makes on Zergling get infected by the Flood. Another Zergling, (because Stukov having ordered his Zerg to protect the Terrans and Kill the flood) lunges at a marine crushing the infection form that had jumped on his back crushing it in his jaws. Another marine comments that Jenkins must be a lucky bastard as they continue fighting off the Flood.

After a short but intense fire fight the Flood infection forms are defeated. Several Zerg had been infected but Zerg being much stronger then Terrans survive the initial infection process but the flood super cells are still flooding into the systems. However the Zergs natural ability to resist and adapt along with the hive-mind seems to have aided resisted the Floods attempt at rewriting the neural pathways of the Zergs brain, forcing a resonant frequency match between the host neural signals and the floods own. Thus allowing the Zerg to retain control of its body despite still having Flood matter running through their bodies.

Stukov bid Captain Keyes farewell and the two groups split up going their separate ways. Stukov brings the infected Zerglings to a accompanying Behemoth while Abastein on the Leviathan experimented remotely with the Flood essence discovering quickly it has a weak but wide reaching psionic field that grows larger and stronger the more biomass it infects eventually reaching galactic scale. The Leviathan detects that the Covenant fleet has taken a offensive maneuver against the Zerg and are on a intercept course for the Leviathan. Stukov bids Abastein good by and leaves to deal with the Covenant while the Evolution master completes his work.

Meanwhile Captain Keys, Sgt. Johnson and the others return to the plateau where the survivors of the Autumn are gathered. In a meeting John-117 and his team return from assisting the Marines and ODST forces in gathering supplies from the crashed Autumn. In the meeting Captain Keys informs everyone of the Flood and Zerg and they plan their next move.

It's at this time the Zerg and Covenant fleet clashed. The Covenant forces under the command of Thel-Vadam supreme commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice started long ranged plasma bombardment of the Zergs Leviathan and Behemoth fleet. Using new focused plasma beams emitters the Covenant forces did considerable damage to the Zerg forces until Star-fish started being deployed intercepting most of the attacks giving the Zerg forces commanded by Stukov the opening to return with a heavy bombardment of their own.

Thel cursed as his fleet took heavy damage as the psionic projectile spine's of the Zerg could pierce their shields far easily then conventional mass weapons. Thel also commented that he would rather be back at Reach fighting the Terrans then dealing with these monsters. One of his officers commented that it is a greater honor to defend the sacred ring from the vile Zerg then to glass a simple planet even if its the enemies string hold.

Thel scoffed a moment thinking over the matter a moment. The ship shook violently from multiple clusters of Scourges impacting the shields and refocuses on the space battle.

Stukov watches the enemies moves carefully deploying waves of Scourges and other Zerg to harass the covenant forces while his Behemoths flank around via a short warp jump and hit the Covenant fleet from the side and above. As soon as the Covenant take the bait and focus all their fire on the two flanking forces Stukov warps the Leviathan right above the suspected enemy capital ship. The Leviathan deploys Nydus worms that wrap around the shields of the ship crushing them until they pop. The worm like tentacles begin eating into the hull deploying hordes of Banelings and Zerglings.

Stukov him self enters the ship and leads the attack to the bridge. Dozens of Sangheili and Unggoy die delaying the Zergs advance but ultimately the Zerg pierce the bridges defenses. Thel-Vadam him self is forced to fight and his officers die quickly along with the first Zerglings into the bridge. The second wave lead by Stukov enters the bridge. Seeing a infested Terran Thel comments about the Zergs foul tactics of subverting and taking over honorable warriors. To which Stukov states that he was killed by a man named Narud and brought back to life to serve the swarm. He may have not wanted it but it gave him the opportunity to take revenge. After the exchange of words the two fight in single combat for a few minutes as honorable warriors.

After getting a arm severed by Thel's plasma sword Stukov punche's Thel into the wall crushing his ribs. Bleeding internally and with little strength Thel admits defeat. But instead of killing the Sangheili Stukov reaches out his hand and explains that He's acknowledged Thals skills and is under his empresses secret orders to take Thel alive. Thel questions why to which Stokov explains that Thel and his people the Sangheili and the rest of the covenant have been lied to by the prophets as to the purpose of the war with humanity and the Halos. Stukov is contacted by Nysha at that moment and she tells him to bring Thel-Vadam to her in the halos control room.

Back with the Terrans John-117, Linda-059, and James-005 along with Avery Johnson and a force of marines fly to the local area of the halos control room to secure it from Covenant forces. They move through a series of frozen valleys under the Covenant antiair radar and fight through multiply strong points of resistance until finally reaching the pyramid shaped control room half buried in a massive ice mountain. Upon reaching the area around the control room The Spartans and the other Terrans forces that had survived the battles start encountering thousands of dead bodies belonging to both Covenant and Zerg forces all along the ice bridge, the area below it and on the Pyramid. Making their through the battle between the two forces the Spartans finally reach the top of the pyramid encountering the Zerg commander Nysha.

They exchange words with Cortana suggesting that since they both want to keep the control room out of Covenant hands they should work to gather for the moment. James questioned why Zerg would be so friendly and help them to which Nysha jokes that the Zerg are the only ones allowed to pick on Humanity and that the Covenant are stealing their favorite toy.

John-117 shrugs commenting that it would be a waste of lives to force a battle when both sides are willing to cooperate. Linda scoffs but follows Johns decision. They enter the control room leaving a odd mix of Terran and Zerg forces to guard the entrance and the Spartans still weary of the Zergs motives and actions keep their guard up. After entering the control room Stukov and a still wounded Thel arrive via a Overlord through a warp gate in the control rooms expansive interior.

After explaining why a Covenant commander was there Stukov told Thel to explain why he thinks the Covenant started the war with Terrans. To which he explained the High Prophets started the war because humanity was violating the sacred creations of the Forerunners. In that moment 343 Guilt Spark showed him self and corrected Thels ignorance explaining that Terrans/Humanity were designated as a possible candidate to take on the mantle of responsibility in protecting the lesser races of the galaxy and as such would inherit the Forerunners technology.

Thel was both surprised and shocked that such words came from a creation of the Forerunners themselves. Cortana being curious asked Guilty spark what the halos purpose was to which he explained that its a weapon of mass-destruction that kills all life that the flood feed on. It was a weapon of last resort that may have to be used now that the flood has been released and is currently spreading all over the ring. Linda-058 askes how they were released to which Guilty spark states that the security log show a Sangheili elite squad at the point of the floods containment breach in the same time.

Thel questions why any of his people would knowingly release the flood. Nysha theorizes that it might have been a infiltrator making them selves look like a Elite. Stukov states it must have been Narud. They question back and forth why Narud would release the flood to which no one had a idea. Guilty spark looks off into the distance stating that the halo rings index has just been stolen from the archives.

Cortana askes what the index is to which Guilty spark states its the key to firing the halo. Suddenly all the Spartans and Thel become agitated at the prospects of the halo firing. Nysha requests the Spartans to aid in finding Narud and the key to which they ask what the halos range is. Guilty spark says the each individual halo has a maximum effective range of 25,000 light-years.

The Spartans agree to help in the search and also ask to take Thel Vadam into custody. Thel is less then enthusiastic. Nysha tells them that her empress told them to capture him to begin informing the Covenant people about the Prophets true motives which could start a schism splitting the covenant part and ending the war. Thel admits that such information could indeed cause a split in the Covenant but questions why he should aide them.

Stukov askes Guilty spark if he could explain everything to Thel to which the company starved Spark agrees. Spark also notes that Thel is injured and requires medical attention. Spark abruptly teleports him self and Thel to another part of the ring.

Back at the plateau Captain keys is informed by Cortana of the current situation. Though surprised Keys is happy to have allies and a real plan in ending the war. If more then a little hesitant about the methods. Keys is also highly interested in this guilty spark and its teleporting ability. As if listening in on their conversation Guilty spark enters the com channel stated that the flood has begun spreading in the direction of the plataue the Terrans are occupying. Highly disturbed Keys orders a full evacuation not wanting to risk any of his people getting infected.

Meanwhile on the Zerg behemoth where Adastein was conducting his remote research the evolution master makes several key discoveries ab out the flood and their exponential growth and psionic effects. He then discovers that while slowed by the Zerg constitution the flood super cells are still transforming the now sick Zerglings. But they are unable to communicate because of the Zergs own psionic hive mind drowning the link out. Wanting to see what happens Abastein cuts several of the infected Zerglings off from the hive mind causing them to go feral. Monitoring their biological statues Abastein observes the Zerglings begin to rapidly mutate.

He notes that the flood cells and infected Zerg biomatter is now all communicating and the signal is getting stronger the more biomass is added to the network. He wonders if such exponential growth of psionic fields could be applied to the Azure swarm before promptly calling several Roaches to attack the infected Zerglings. The infected Zerglings are melted in a spray of concentrated acid. Abastein notes the flood psionic fields dropping to nothing before quickly expanding as the now melted bodies flood infected blood and flesh spills out across the chambers floor infecting the Behemoth. Abastein notes that this is bad before contacting Stukov and Nysha. Nysha advises Abastain to dissable the infected Behemoth so it can't warp away and sends Stukov to assist.

Having evacuated the plateau Keys and the rest of the humans return to the Autumn to secure it and prepare to leave Halo on as many drop ships as possible before the flood reach them. Meanwhile John-117 with Linda-058 and James-005 are directed by Guilt spark to a facility called the archives where the index was stored. They fight through flood forms for hours before reaching the top level and scan the area. Cortana notes that the sheath that held the index has traces of DNA that she can't confirm as belonging to any known species. Gulty spark and a healed Thel vandam teleport to their location. After scanning the index sheath spark exclaimes anger and worry that the intenty is a shapshift with dozens of genetic structures within it's DNA patterns.

Spark distributes the date to all his sentinels and begins a rind wide scan only to detect the source in the same room as them. John-117 gets a intense feeling of a threat and pushes Guilty spark out of the way as a green void blade manifests from thin air slashing at the monitor. John is injured but not seriously as his shield took most of the blow but a large gash is still cut along his side. Reacting instantly Linda and James open fire at the spot the attack came from hitting the cloaked hostile. Thel pulls a plasma pistol Guilty spark had given him joining the fire fight but all their attacks are blocked my the plasma shield of the target.

Laughing mockingly Emil Narud in the form of a Sangheili in black armor decloaks drawing a plasma rifle. He banters a bit explaining he had no need for the index but just used it as bait for guilty spark and mocked his reluctance to kill the uninvolved Terrans and Covenant.

Thel challenged the elite imposter to a honorable duel without any tricks to which Narud agreed. Linda and James get John to safety while Cortana assures them hes not seriously injured. To which John exclaimes his life may not be in danger but that energy blade still hurts like hell. James patches John up while Linda keeps a eye on the fight while Guilty spark stayes behind the spartans.

Thel rushes Narud evading that void blade getting a few punches and kicks in before retreating a few feet away. Narud counters and turned the fight in his favor depleting Thels shields and kicking him several meters away. As he lands Thel holds the plasma pistol in overcharge as Narud approaches to finish the job with his blade. Thel rolls away evading a lethal void-blade strike blasting Narud with the over charged plasma bolt. Naruds shields are knocked off line only for him to laugh and shapeshift into a black skinned Protoss and psi-dash around Thel impaling him through the back. Linda shoots Narud in the head sending him back a few steps dropping Thel. Spark comments that he just fixed Thel and now hes going to have to do it all over again.

Narud laughs a gain asking why she would interfere in a honorable duel to which Linda counters accusing him of using that teleportng trick to get behind Thel. Narud laughs again stating he was playing around with them and hand no intention to play by any rules. Narud psi-dashes up to Linda cutting her sniper rifle in half. James dashes in shoulder bashing Narud away and pulls his psi-blade knife out goading Narud to attack. John startes recovering finally getting on his feet as James and Narud duel with their blades. Cortana states Thels still alive but wont survive for long with out medical treatment. Considering that Thel could help end the war John orders Linda to go with Spark and save Thels life while he stayes and holds Narud off.

John raises his rifle shooting at Narud only for his bullets to be blocked as Naruds shield had regenerated. As Linda and Spark grab Thel and flee teleporting away Narud growls in frustration commenting he laid around to much. He telekinetically lifts John as he continues firing at Narud emptying his clip. James rushes in from behind stabbing Narud in the back quickly rolling away before the void blade slashes at him. The invisible grip on him weakening ever so slightly John pulls his M6D Pistol and aims at Naruds head and proceeds to empty the clip.

Meanwhile Keyes is informed of the fire fight with Narud by Cortana. Keyes informs the Zerg reluctantly requesting them for help. Nysha responds agreeing and informs Stukov who immediately warps to the archives. When he arrives James had lost a arm and John was dodging a slowed strike from a injured Narud. Raising his clawed arm Stukov fires a spore striking Narud in the chest and damaging his shields. Stunned by the sudden sneak attack Narud turns to Stokov giving James who was still conscious the opening to throw his psi-knife impaling in to Naruds back. John taking the opening pulled a grenade letting it tick down a few seconds before throwing it at Narud. The grenade explodes mid air sending Narud flying backwards near the edge of the floating platform.

Stukov rushed him delivering a series of brutal punches and strikes ripping off one of Naruds arms and breaking his leg. Holding Narud by the wrist if his bladed arm Stukov smiles looking into Naruds eyes and says.

"Remember me."

Narud scoffs admitting his order to kill Stukov. Narud also states his surprise at the Zerg having any interest in such a weak Terran. Stukov angered raises a arm to finish Narud but he shap shifts into a smaller form slipping through Stukovs grip and falls into the depths of the chamber out of sight. Stukov growls at not having finished Narud off. He tunes back to the Spartans one having lost a arm and bleeding out. Stukov approaches them and warps them all to the Autumn where James gets medical attention.

John-117 thanks Stukov for getting them there and is handed James severed arm. Stukov and John talk a bit before the infested Terran has to leave to deal with the flood infected Behemoth. Having disabled the half transformed creature the Other Zerg keep a close eye on the Behemoth as the flood infection runes it's course. On her Leviathan with Abastein, Nysha warns Abastein to complete his research into the Flood infection methods and destroy the infected Zerg. Abastein explained that the flood super cells are reproducing at a explosive rate not unlike cancer. But guided by the instinctive psionic mind that controls all flood.

Nysha asks how the floods psionic mind can survive complete annihilation down to the individual atoms. Abastein theorized that the Flood must be a fractal minded existence codified as a imprinted psionic echo like a finger print that is the same no mater how scattered or dispersed they are. Meaning they will always act the same and want the same thing when they reach a biomass level sufficient to reach self awareness.. Nysha questioned if there was a way of erasing the Flood soul echo as she called it. Abastein thought a bit stating more research will be needed. Nysha ordered the destruction of the infected Behemoth and any other Zerg in it. As waves of Scourges showered the crippled Behemoth Nysha sent a message back to her empress stating that all Halos should be found and secured to prevent further Flood outbreaks.

Thel vadam, Linda and Guilty spark return to the Autumn to debrief Captain keyes about what happened. After going over their options Keys asks Guilty spark if there was any way off Halo and back to Reach. Guilty spark banters a bit before getting to the point stating that halo has no such vessels in order to keep containment of the flood. Cortana suggests taking one of the remaining Covenant ships. Nysha and Stukov interrupt stating that they could take everyone including the Autumn back to Reach If they don't mind being tugged along by a Leviathan.

Keyes again askes why the Zerg are suddenly being so helpful to which Nysha explains that the Flood were not the only threat to the galaxy. Cortana askes what she means and is answered by Guilty spark who explains about the Light and its other worldly abilities and forces. Nysha elaborates further saying that Narud the one who stole the halos firing index and ambushed John and his team to kill Guilty spark.

Keys, Linda, John and Cortana all wonder why Narud wanted to kill Guilty spark to which everyone turns to the floating light bulb. Spark speculated that it was to gain control of the halo array as all the halos monitors are networked on both locally and galaxy wide scale allowing the distribution of information between the far flung rings. This systems primary purpose however was to in form installation 00 of the need to replace destroyed halos should such one be destroyed.

Cortana asked if the halos has any way of reaching this installation-00. Guilty spark replied no as such would be a breach of security. But should a halo be destroyed its secondary effect of blocking the dimensional connection to the Lights dimension would be weakened and if enough halos were destroyed then the Light would be able to bring its armies to our plan of existence.

Keyes asked if this dimensional jamming could be stopped without destroying a halo ring. Guilty spark answered yes in realization and explained that only a monitor or a reclaimer has the authorization to do so. Everyone realized that that was what Narud was after. Suddenly the Autumns warning alarms start blaring as a rumbling noise shook the ship. Keyes stood up shouting what the hells going on. Guilty spark quips a "Oh no" as Cortana scanned the ships systems also exclaiming "Oh no." John asks what's going on and gets a simple reply.

"The ships reactors cooling systems been sabotaged. Their beginning a uncontrolled cascade reaction that will cause the ship to detonate like a small sun resulting in a temperature of 100,000,000 degrees."

With little time and options Keyes turned to Nysha and Sukov requesting them to evacuate his people. The two quickly accept and Keys informs his surviving crew of the situation. Reluctantly everyone begins evacuating to the main hangers where Nysha opens several warp gates to her Leviathan. Spark floats around stopping over Keys head and warningly informs him that a large horde of Flood is approaching the Autumn. Cursing the damn parasite for its timing Keyes tries thinking of a way of delaying them. Nysha tells him to relax and calls down a bombardment of Scourges. A cloud of Scourges rain down on the plains surrounding the Autumn killing and delaying the Flood horde long enough for everyone to escape.

On the Leviathans bridge Nysha, Stukov, Keyes, Linda and Guilty spark watch on the bio-screen as the ring world slowly spines. Seconds later a sun ignited on the far side of the rings inner side. The blast shattered the ring and sent the mega structures fragments spinning, tumbling and splitting into more fragments creating a massive debris cloud.

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[The Fall or Reach, Kind of]

This part of the story starts with the continuing orbital battle between the Covenant fleet and the Reach defense forces and Reaches orbital defenses. As the battle rages in space Aliasse, Dr. Halsey, and several spartans including Fred-104, Kelly-087, Joshua-029 as well as Kerrigan and Nova all descend into Menachite Mountain entering a series of tunnels. Aliessa explaines that centuries before Ellen had showed her that a forerunner facility was under the mountain as well as a special crystel that had been left in a odd spacial maze. The group arrives at the maze eventually reaching the crystal and securing it. Returning to Castle base the group prepares for the eventual Covenant planet fall while Dr. Halsey and the other scientists analyze the crystal.

At the far edge of the system two fleets of Ta'darim ships exit warpspace. First ascendant Alarak and second Ascendant Ji'nara talk on strategy settling on a two pronged assault from the Covenants rear left and right flanks.

Meanwhile back with John-117 and the others at the ruins of the destroyed halo Nysha informs them that a Covenant battle group of seven Covenant starships had enters the system, along with a Covenant flagship. Stukov comments that this is a lucky break because they could steal one of the ships and use it to attack a nearby Covenant staging ground. Cortana asks why they plan on doing that to which Stukov states it would delay a direct attack on earth.

With a shrug Keys agrees as he comments hge would prefere a captured Covent ship to being in the literal belly of a Zerg beast. Linda and James agree and they make planes to capture a covenant ship. Nysha deploys her fleet to cut the Covenant fleets numbers down before she parked her Leviathan next to the largest Covenant ship named the Ascendant Justice and deployed Nydus worms. The worms slowly pierced through the ships shields and hull deploying a initial wave of Zerglings followed by Marines and the spartans. After a firece fire-fight the spartans and marines reached the bridge taking it with minimal casaulties. Cortana takes full control of the ship with some trouble from Covenant A.I. which Guilty Spark captures and destroys. Cortana opens all the ships doors and passag-ways exposing the Covenant crew to the vacuum of space except for areas the Terrans were in.

Having a ship of their own the Zerg say their good bus and leave. Shortly after Keys orders Cortana to take them back to Reach to rejoin the fight. After a short warp back to Reach they discover new player has entered the stage as two Tal'darim fleets have engaged with the Covenants forces catching them in between the Tal'darim attacking and the Reach defense forces. Unfortunately the Covenant commanders order a full charge into the Reach atmosphere to deploy their ground forces. A large part of the Covenant forces are severely damaged and destroyed but most mak planet fall attacking cities all over Reach. Five large ships unfortunately makes a landing right over Menachita mountain.

In space the Captain Keyes and the others on the Ascendant Justice observe as the Tal'darim begin capturing Covenant ships one after the other taking them as war trophies and for their fleets. Wanting to avoid friendly fire and becoming a victum of the Tal'darims whims Captain Keyes contacts Reach high command and move to the opposite side of the planet. Reach high command is more then surprised at Captain Keyes brief report of the events on the Halo and how they came into possession of a Covenant flagship but none the less would take any and all help they could. Captain Keys was ordered to make planet fall and use the Covenant ship to take out the other Covenant ships currently attacking Castle base and secure the spartans there.

Using the Ascendant justice as a trojan horse John and his team again infiltrate and sabotage the Covenant ships attacking Castle base. One after the other the covenant ships are destroyed or captured. The crew killed in various ways by Cortana using gravity plates, atmospheric pressure and other methods. The ploy is eventually revealed and the last two ships attack the Ascendant justice doing significant damage until being destroyed by the stolen ships superior weapons.

John-117, Linda-058 and James-005 reunite with the rest of the spartans that had stayed behind on Reach. Dr. Halsey is surprised at everything Cortana tells her regarding Halo and the recently recovered Thel Vadam finally regained consciousness.. With the Covenant fleet all but exterminated or retreting and the armies that made planet fall being slowly delt with by a counter attack lead by Aliasse, Kerrigan and Nova Reach high command called captain Keys and the spartans in for a full debrief. It was then that Dr. Halsey and Cortana informed them of a Covenant staging ground that if destroyed could slow the Covenants movements and prevent a direct attack on the Sol system.

Thel Vadam and Guilty spark arrive at the meating under spartan guard. Thel informes the Reach high command that the purpose and meaning of the war between the Covenant and Terrans was all staged by the three high prophets in order to retain religious control of the Covenant. Thel expressed his under-standing that they perhaps wanted to keep the Covenant from fragmenting because of the truth but stated such mass killing for such a selfish goal was dishonorable at the least to out betrayal of the ideals the Covenant was created for in the first place.

After a long conversation between Thel, Guilty spark and the Reach high command regarding the halos and Forerunners it was decided that Thel in a attempt to end the war would join the attack force designated to destroy the Covenant staging ground. A day passes and everyone prepares for the attack. The Ascendant justice is made the lead vessle in the attack and equipped with a NOVA bomb as a last resort. Captain Keyes Cortana, John and several dozen spartans as well as Guilty spark and Thel, Vandam launch from Reach quickly making their way to the Unyeilding Hierophant where Thel vandam revealed was the staging location for his fleet before the attack on Reach.

Upon Reaching the Unyielding Hierophants location Cortana scanes the Covenant date net discovering through decoded Covenant transmissions that the location of Earth was now known to the Covenant, and they were preparing a massive attack. John and Captain Keyes both seem quite disturbed at this worrying that the previous mission to secure the date from that prowler failed.

Thel stated that if his people will not listen to him to end the pointless war then they by the very nature of the Covenant and their beliefs must trust Guilty sparks words. Spark quips that he'll do his best.

The Ascendant justice sends a transmission to the Unyielding Hierophant. Thel states to the stations commander a Sangheili that he wishes to talk on his ship and that it is in reguards to the resent discovery of the sacred halo ring. The Unyielding Hierophants commander questions Thel on how he came about to be on the Ascendant Justice and where the commander is. Thel explaines everything will be explained in person. The Unyielding Hierophant's commander reluctantly agrees seeing Tghels still a higher rank. Upon boarding the ascendant justice Thel and Guilty spark meet the station commander and his personal guard.

The station commander and his guards are greatly surprised and seemingly honored that a creation of the gods(Forerunner) was here speaking to them. But the mood quickly turned sour when John and the other spartans surround the station commander and his guards. Guns are pointed accusations of Thel being a traitor thrown by the station commander. Cortana tells Guilty spark that that's his que and the flying light bulb intercedes telling everyone to lower their weapons so that a dialog can be made between both parties. Reluctantly the station commander does as spark says along with his men and the spartans quickly follow.

Everyone moves to a meeting room where Thel Vadam explained to the commander of the Unyielding Hierophant that the high prophets had lied about the real purpose of the war and with-held information about the Oracle in the Forerunner Dreadnought. Guilty spark surprised the possible events that happened. Explaining that during first contact between the Covenant that date about the Terrans reached a Forerunner ancilla that must have been on the Key ship the Covenant know as the Forerunner Dreadnought. The Prophets must have learned the truth and feard it fractering the Covenant and so stopped the Ancilla from speaking or acting and started the war to erase the last evidance of their lie which was the Terrans themselves.

Showing visible anger the station commander and his guards took the information hard. The Unyielding Hierophants commander looked Thel vadam in the eyes telling him that if he alone had said these things that his head would have rolled. But if this information is coming right from one of the creations of the forerunner themselves it must be true. The station commander vowed revenge against the Prophets for their deception and gave his word to Thel and the Terrans that this injustice will not stand.

They talked a while longer making their planes. The station commander explained that the fleet orbiting the Unyielding Hierophant will launch in two days with the intention of attacking the earth. Captain Keys and the others were now more then a little on edge with the attack on earth so close. Thel said that they have at least one day to change things two at most and that they have the element of surprise and truth on their side. John-117 getting another of his gut feelings agrees prompting Cortana to also agree and stated that she had a sort of plan in mind.

She explained that what if instead of attacking the earth the fleet joined the Earths defense and sent a transmission to the capital of the Covenant of the truth causing descent in the covenant. Thel thought on the idea coming to a complete agreement. Thel then proposed to the station commander that he calls all the Sangheili officers and ship commanders into a series of meetings so that they can be informed of the truth like he was. The station commander agrees but informes the Terrans that the prophet of regret will be arriving tomorrow to lead the attack.

John stated that its a chance to complete their original mission if they can capture the Prophet. The station commander laughs agreeing with the human that its would be a good way of getting the old fool to tell the truth and use it as leverage to end the war. Thel and Guilty spark went with the station commander to the Unyielding Hierophant to begin their side of the operation while the Terrans prepared to capture the Prophet of Regret. A day passed and the ship carrying the Prophet arrived and was quickly usered into the docking arms of the Unyielding Hierophant. The station commander and his guards greeted the Prophet doing well to hold their anger back.

The station commander told the Prophet that several of the ranking fleet commanders want a privat meeting to discuss the final planes of the invasion before proceeding. Though some-what dismissive of the need for such a meeting the Prophet agreed to the meeting. In a private meeting chamber the Prophet met with nearly five dozen Sangheili captains which included Thel who stayed in back of the others for the moment. After some brief explanation of the basic strategy the Prophet accepted the Sangheili plans and wanted to end the meeting so he could get something to eat.

That's when Thel challenged the Prophet stating his identity and what he saw on the Halo. The flood and the Oracle that told him that Humanity were the reclaimers of the forerunners and that he and the other high Prophets were lying to everyone. The Prophet was stunned and quickly rebuked the clams ordering the madman to be thrown in prison. The Prophet was shocked that his words fell on def ears. None of the Sangheili moved a muscle until Thel walked towards the Prophet talking about his lies and deceate all to keep his power over the people of the Covenant.

The Prophet continued refuting Thels clamis as nothing more then lies and was greatly perturbed that none of the other Sangheili weren't obeying his orders to arrest Thel. Thel Vandam then reveals his identity as the former commander of the Fleet of Particular Justice. One of the fleets that attacked Reach. Thel now stood meters from the Prophet who was slightly raving for everyone or anyone to kill the heretic. Thel looked the Prophet in the eyes stating that no one will follow the orders of a dishonorable lier.

The Prophet seemingly desperate at this point asked why Thel thinks hes and the other Prophets are lying in a attempt to turn the conversion in his favor. A door opened and Guilty spark showed him-self greatly surprising the Prophet. Guilty spark refuted the Prophets words stating the true purpose of the Halo array and the events that lead up to their creation and use many thousands of years ago by the Forerunnners. The Prophet has no words to fight back with and seemingly gave up. He flexed a finger glancing at the weapons button on his his hover throne. A instant later another door opened and John-117 dashed in leaping into the air landing right on the back of the Prophets chair and pulled the frail San'Shyuum off hanging him in the air.

The Prophet yelled and shouting about the appearance of a Terran demon. Thel told John to drop him and John did letting the weak Prophet flop on the floor. Thel looked at the gravity throne noting that the weapons safety had been deactivated and were ready to fire. He deactivated them letting the chair fall to the ground.

The Station commander picked the Prophet up handing him to John who agreed to take good care of him. Thel thanked Guilty spark for his help in this little performance. Cortana informed everyone that she had gotten everything on recording. It was revealed that several cameras were being held by some of the Sangheili in back of the meeting as well.

A day later the supposed attack on earth began with the fleet of hundreds of ships arriving at earth. However a section of the fleet broke off accelerating towards the Earths defense fleet and orbital rings. However the Earths defenses didn't fire on the splinter fleet and instead the splinter fleet turned around arming their weapons on the rest of the Covenant fleet who were mostly commanded by none Sangheili captains. A part of the Earth defense fleet joined the Sangheili fleet just as they started transmitting a message to the rest of the Covenant fleet showing a recording of the talk Thel had with the High Prophet of Regret.

Chaos and confusion erupted through the main covenant fleet as the truth was shown for all to see. At the same time a identical transmission was being sent all through-out Covenant space including on High Charity. The Prophets of Truth and Mercy were agasp at the contents of the recording and quickly made their move to counter the fallout. The Prophet of Truth quickly called a meeting with several high ranking Brute pack leaders he had close ties with.

Meanwhile on earth John and his team including Linda, Kelly, James and several others watched from a orbital fortress over Earth. Kelly and Linda made comments as to the shit storm that's about to fly with James commenting that at the least that the wind has started blowing in their sails again. Cortana quips that the ONI spooks must be having a field day interrogating that Prophet and also adds that the Covenant Luminaries on the now allied Sangheili ships are are picking up readings of a massive structure under the city of voi in africa and said that Earth command has called them to help investigate it.

At the same time Miranda Keyes was standing on a orbital station looking out at the covenant fleets as they begin shooting at each other with no clear side other then the Sangheili fleet siding with the humans. She heard a voice call behind her and turned around saluting to her father now admiral Keyes.

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[RWBY: Final Arc]

This would be the final arch of the story and would primarily be on Remnant. The events of Seasons 1 to 4 would occur at roughly the same time as the previous events on Halo. The arch begins the same as in the series up to the point when Ruby and Jaune are walking around Beacon talking after just arriving. Rwby would get jumped from above by a dragon Faunus with red colored hair, horns and a tail. Jaun watches from the side lines as Rwby and the Faunus boy have a fast paced close quarter hand to hand battle which ends in the two cross countering each other then bowing and laughing. Jaune awkwardly asks if the two know each other to which Ruby explains that all through-out last year in Signal the Faunus guy who introduces himself as Dante taught her all about hand to hand combat.

Danta flicks his scaled tail looking Jaune over with his reptilian slit eyes commenting that Jaune may look like a doofus but he has some potential if He puts the work in on his training. Danta then shows the two to the meeting hall. As they walk off a pair of Faunus boys, one a white fox Faunus with fox ears and tail and the other looking like a twin of Danta except for his blue colorations.

The story progresses as in cannon from there with the exception of Danta meeting with Ozpin talking about how Ruby and Jaune have potential but require proper guidance to bring out their true abilities. Ozpin comments if Dante means to forcibly awaken Ruby silver eyes powers. Danta shrugs saying that that issue will deal with itself and walks away. Again the story progresses mostly unchanged with the exception of Wiess meeting the White haired Faunus fox boy from before. The fox boy introduces him-self as Shiro a second year student of Beacon with two older brothers. Shiro always acts happy and jovial towards everyone and in most situations. Wiess and Shiro talk often becoming close acquaintances.

A divergence from cannon is a exam in which two teams are pared for a Grimm extermination mission in the mountains surrounding Vale. Teams RWBY and CFVY are paired along with ten other teams with the teachers observing the students from airships over head. The exams purpose is to reach a pick-up location located higher up on the mountain and is a constant up-hill struggle for most of the paired teams. Teams RWBY and CFVY quickly butt heads mainly Yang and Coco who develop a bad habit of mouthing off about each others clothing style. However during a intense fight with Grimm half the members of both teams are separated when the ground collapses sending them falling into a underground cave network.

The other members of both teams have no choice but to join their other teammates in the cave to maintain their fighting strength and to escape the caves. They fight through insect type Grimm reaching a large chamber with a giant insect Grimm hive hanging above a series of black slug pools. After a long difficult battle the two teams emerge victorious and find the cave systems exit and reach the evacuation point. During the return flight to Beacon both teams mainly Coco and Yang reconcile finally developing a close bond and friendship through battle. Because of this during that scene when Cardin picks on Velvet during the scene in the cafeteria. Yang stands up to kick Cardins ass for bullying Velvet but Virgil Dante's twin and Shiro's brother tells her to sit down and that infractions of school violence by academy first year freshman is a bad mark on their records.

He then interceds on Yangs part walking up to Cardin as he pulls at Velvets ears. A faint slicing noise is made as needle thin lines trace around Cardin. A moment later his clothes all fall off in confetti ribbons leaving him exposed down to his under-where. Virgil then shouts at Cardin for indecent exposure grabbing his hand making him let go of Velvet and decks Cardin with a right hook telling his team mates to take their team leader to get properly clothed. Cardin sees stars as his teammates take him away and Velvet thanks Virgil. Virgil smiles at Yang before joining his own team at their seat.

Yang and the rest of teams RWBY and JNPR stare at the scene dumfounded a second before Yang and the others break out laughing. Yang askes who that guy is to which Blake heard he was a second year student in team DVS(Devils). Pyrrha explains that she's heard team DVS was the highest ranking and most skilled team that has been at Beacon academy in decades and that they only have three members. Ruby and everyone display curiosity over the question of how Virgil made Cardins clothes go away. They start talking about team DVS which eventually escalates into the food fight scene.

During the events of the Vytal festival arch a red star falles to Remnants wastelands where the Salems castle is. In the creator a massive red beast with six black eyes and nine tails each with eyeless dragon heads on the tips stands up and roars as it sprints towards Salem's castle in the distance. Salem and her inner circle Arthur Watts, Tyrian Callows, and Hazel Rainart feel the impact quickly going to a balcony to see the giant beast charging at them while demolishing all Grimm in its path. Salem senses the overwhelming power emitting from the beast and is almost scared as it reaches the castle. The others are about to run until Salem holds her arm out saying that despite the beasts looks it has no intention of harming them. She's proven correct when the beast slows and stops right in front of the balcony.

The beast stands on all four legs staring down at them and speaks.

"Hi Salem. Im the one who murdered your master Amon. Well technically he's alive in another dimension but hes not coming back any time soon."

Salem holding her anger and fear in check askes the beast its name. The beast laughs its voice booming causing Salem's men to hold their ears from the noise. The beast leaps into the air flipping end over end as it shrinks down into a semi-nude female human wearing the vivid red aura as a strapless dress that goes down to her feet. She lands on the balcony arms extended and sites down on the hand rail with a smug smile. She introduces herself as Ellen the empress of a swarm of space faring monsters that make the Grimm look like ants in comparison.

Ellen with that crazy smile of smugness stares Salem down stating that shes just introducing her-self to the small timers of this world and that for the time being she has no intention of killing or meddling in the events that are to come stating it would get boring if she did. Ellen then dashes up to Salem casually punching her into the wall. Salem pulls her head free of the stones regenerating and asks why Ellen did that if she just said she wasn't going to kill anyone. Ellen replies that Salem can't die from a attack like that anyway. Ellen then states that she's going to experiment a little producing a small claw of her red aura on her index finger. With the claw she slashes Salem across the arm drawing blood. But unlike before the wound doesn't heal quickly and is noticeably slow in closing as it continues to bleed.

The fact Salem's immortality and regenerating was slowed at all is a enmormus shock to not only Salem but her the men of her inner circle as well. As Salem makes a shocked expression holding her bleeding wound she glances at Ellen who is just grinning with satisfaction enjoying Salem's expression of shock. Ellen Laughs stating her glee at a successful experiment and wordlessly turns away and leaps off the balcony. She raises into their air in the form of a red dragon flying off into the sun set. Salem's wound finally closes as she covers her face while grinning and laughs uncontrollably much to the confusion and fear of her men. Salem then says in a low quiet voice that no one else hears that Ellen could actually kill her and seems happy about it as she makes a half crazed Joker like smile.

Back at Beacon the Vytal festival is fast approaching. The story at Beacon progresses unchanged with the exception of a mysterious person contacting Cinder fall via scroll communications. Cinder names the man as Dr. Merlot thanking him in his assistance for the final curtain call of Beacon. Merlot intern thanks Cinder and her master for their assistance in his own plans and they cut communication.

The story progresses to the tournament in Amity Colosseum up to the fight between Pyrrha and Penny with the former tearing the later apart. As the negative emotions of so many people attracts hordes of Grimm resulting in complete chaos a single person sits on the upper ledges of the Arena roof giggling at the chaos. Standing up on the arena roof Ellen basks in the chaotic situation sensing the emotions of the people much like the grimm and finds it all to funny and entertaining because most of the foolish people know that their attracting Grimm but don't get a grip on their emotions even when they know the consequences.

Ellen remarks to her-self that she really can't bring her-self to pity or empathize with foolish people like That and finds no reason to help them. She watches as the young academy students gather in the arena and fight against flying Grimm that start attacking. Once everyone is gone she jumps down to the arena walking over to the fragments of the android Penny. Soon after a remote controlled robot arrives stopping as the one controlling it asking who Ellen is. Ellen states that she's just a observer and formes a set of red feathered wings and flys off.

Ellen watches from the air as the Grimm the Hunters and Atlas forces fight until the Atlesian android are taken over my Torchwick making the situation worse. Ellen sensing Ruby battling Torchwick flys over to the Atlesian ship observing from high above. The fight between Torchwick Neo and Ruby goes more in Rubies favor this time as she evades their tag team attacks and gets in more hits of her own with her improved CQC skills. But the events end the same with Ruby literally spin throwing Neo off the ship and Torchwick getting swallowed by a Grimm. Producing a aura tentacle Ellen shoots it down to grab the grimm that ate Torchwick.

Pulling it up to herself she splits the grimm in half dropping the corpse as a bloody and somewhat traumatized Torchwick stares back at her as they glid through the air.

As the battle intensifies a new Mutated type of Grimm arrives on the scene attacking all the others including other Grimm. The battle tunes into a four way fight between The Hunters, White fang, Grimm and the new Mutated Grimm. After a difficult fight in which Weiss, Blake, Yang team CSVY and some of the teachers take out dozens of Grimm and White fange Paladins more of the new Mutated Grimm just show up surrounding them and seemingly using tactics as they block attacks and protect each other much to the Hero's horror. Weiss fearfully theorizes that the Grimm seem like their more intelligent or under some-ones control to which Yang states is not good either way. Team DVS arrives on the back of a giant white Grimm wolf to much surprise and shock to everyone most of all Weiss. The wolf tackles a mutated deathstalker easily ripping its tail off and crushing its shell in its massive jaws. Dante draws his three swords, (one in each hand and the third by his tail while Virgil draws his single katana which shifts growing larger in to a great sword) and they leap off killing multiple mutated Grimm in a flurry of blades.

The two tackle the Mutated Grimm with the others providing back up. They defeat the mutant grimm and split up to cover more ground with a member of DVS going with each of the three groups to secure the academy and help with the evacuation.

During the proceeding battle the events come to a head with Ruby witnessing Pyrrha's "death" and awakening her powers as a silver eyes warrior. In the aftermath Ellen walks down the destroyed hallway to the chamber where Ozpin was killed by Cinder. Following behind her is a hesitant and semi wounded Torchwick. Ellen using her aura crushes and slices the hallways collapse debris easily like foam blocks. They reach the battleground where Ozpins corpse lies along with Amber's still in the container. Torchwick quips a witty one liner about mortality and death remembering that his own life was nearly lost.

Ellen grabs the bodies of Amber and Ozpins previous host stitching their wounds together and opens a warpgate portal. As she enters the portal she sternly orders Torchwick to follow which he does. They arrive at a chamber of living chitin and flesh. Torchwick lifts his foot as a long piece of mucus slopps off. He sighs stating his shoes were new and gets grabbed by Ellens aura tendril and pulled through the air with a yelp. Ellen strips the bodies of Ozpin and Amber of their clothes before placing them into green liquid filled recesses in the wall.

Torchwick questions what morbid shit Ellen's doing to the bodies of the dead to-which Ellen states she's bringing them back to life. Torchwick looks at Ellen raising a eye brow and sighs while shrugging stating he's seen weirder stuff today.

Ellen walks off as the pods close around the bodies. In another tunnel identical to the previous one Ellen stops watching as a hooded person helps a naked red head out of one of the same pods. As Torchwick rounds the corner smiling with a raised eye brow as he catch's sight of the red-heads exposed body. Ellen slaps him in the face with a tendril of her aura knocking him on his ass.

The read headed girl gets her clothes on quickly spotting Ellen and Torchwick. The Hooded person turns around keeping half her face covered. Ellen states that since Pyrrha is properly clothed she and Summer should come with her now for a explanation. Ellen abruptly walks away dragging Torchwick with her. Summer and Pyrrha follow. They quickly reach the surface to which Pyrrha is surprised to see is a advanced civilization but whose architecture which looks roman with lots of pillars and rounded towers taller than any city she knows on Remnant. Ellen pulls Torchwick up to his feet. Torchwick huffs gasping for breath quipping that Ellen was trying to kill him.

Torchwick and Pyrrha both recognize each other and banter back and forth much to Ellens enjoyment. But she gets board of their fighting knocking both on the head with a wip smack of her aura tendril. Rubbing their soar heads the two shut up as Ellen walks away. All four of them eventually reach the palace which was a sort distance away. Summer waves the guard away as they know her as a guest of the king.

The guards escort them inside to the throne room where a young man in a royal clothes sits as if waiting for them. As soon as Ellen enters the room the king stands up and walks slowly to her kneeling stating, "its good to see you my empress but you seem different since we last met?" Ellen shrugs explaining everything that happened to her in the brood war. Ellen then told Solus to stand up. Torchwick comments his need for answer of what the hell was going on and who everyone was to which Pyrrha agreed as she was even more in need of answers.

Ellen walked to the throne sitting in it and crossing her legs. She told everyone to sit as she formes chairs from her dress shaped aura in front of her. After everyone was seated She explained who and what she was much to Torchwick and Pyrrha's surprise. Summer explains that she was saved by Solus under orders from Ellen. When Pyrrha asked why, Ellen replied with that she just wanted to. And because her kind is rare. To which Summer commented in question her kind meaning silver eyed warriors.

Ellen admitted she was interested in them but not as a weapon but rather to find out how they related to Valkyrur like Ellen. Ellen explained that she suspected that the silver eyed warriors like Summer and her daughter Ruby were a intermediate stage of the development or Valkyrur like Ellen. Torchwick stated that that was nice and oh so interesting but asked why was he saved.

Ellen leaned her head on her hand explaining She was just following a whim but now that she thinks about it she could use her as a go between with the UNSC. Torchwick asks what's that and Ellen explains about all the other space faring civilizations in the galaxy. Pyrrha seemingly having her world blown up is greatly surprised at the news along with Torchwick. Ellen says she'll have Torchwick a full lesson in the languages of the other civilizations as well as a ship. She also stated she would like Pyrrha to go with him after the other two wake up. Pyrrha seriously asks why she should to which Ellen without warning slices one of Pyrrha's arms off with a cold expression. Pyrrha cry's in pain holding her bleeding shoulder stump.

Ellen just says because she says so and that she'll not ask nicely again. Shock at the implication of a even worse punishment Pyrrha nodes accepting the job. Ellen becomes cheery using her aura to fuse Pyrrha's arms back into place again with no visible damage other then blood. Pyrrha was more shocked at how easily her arm was just placed back on like it never happened.

As Torchwick, Summer and Pyrrha were escorted away to their rooms Summer stated that they should stay on that monsters good side to which Pyrrha nodded and Torchwick said that it goes without saying.

The story progresses mostly the same as cannon up to the point when Ruby, Nora, Jaune and Ren who had formed a team of their own reach Shion Village. Instead of a dead town they find a damaged village with a prison filled with several bandits. When Ruby askes what happened one of the villagers states that a giant white wolf and a fox faunus attacked the bandits and then the Grimm that followed saving the village. The team askes around eventually finding Shiro performing tricks with his summoned creatures at a inn with a crowd applauding and throwing money into a case on the floor.

After the show Shiro sends his summoned creatures away and meets with Ruby and the others. They talk a bit with Shiro explaining that after the fall of Beacon he and his brothers split up to keep the peace in their own ways. Shiro asks where the other members of their teams are to which Ren reluctantly explaines that Yang had lost her arm and Weiss was called back to Atlas by her father and that Blake had disappears and worse that Pyrrha was dead.

At the mention of Pyrrha being dead Shiro started acting funny and apologized. Ruby said he didn't need to apologize. Shiro stood up and bowed stating he really did need to apologize. He then stated that he should go see Weiss and see if she's doing ok. Jaune asked why he's going to see her to which Shiro replied that perhaps she could learn a thing or too from him since their powers are similar. Before Anyone could inquire any more in that statement Shiro leaped out the window landing on his giant wolf which took off like a race car quickly hopping over the wall of tree logs ringing around the village.

A bit later on Patch island at night time Virgil approaches the house of both Yang and Ruby with a large covered canister hanging from his side. Looking in a window He sees that both Yang her father Taiyang, as well as professors Port and Oobleck were all talking. Hesitating a moment he paced around outside talking to himself a bit seemingly nervous until Taiyang opened the door inviting him in and asking about the canister. Eventually after a talk Virgil and Yang talked up stares in her room much to her fathers annoyance. Virgil and Yang talked about how they first meet going into a flashback of that night club Yang trashed while looking for Ruby and also had their first duel. They had made bets with Yang getting the damages she caused to the club paid off with Virgil betting a date with Yang if he won.

During the duels start Virgil activated unfolding armored gauntlets and greaves covering his four legs and forearms. Yang asked why he's using a pair of weapons like that instead of the sword at his side to which he replied that their not his primary weapons but just armor for hand to hand CQC. And the reason he's not using his sword is because he would have longer reach if he did use his sword and that this way their fighting power is more even.

With a serious slightly angry smirk Yang asked if he's underestimating her Ember Celica. Virgil replies stating that if the fight is more even that she would have less to complain about when she lost. With a laugh and a smirk Yang got into a fighting stance and they started their duel. The flash back ended with them dashing at each other returning to the present. Yang smiled stating that that date was nice indicating she lost and that Virgil still had to pay for the damages to the club. Virgil moved his hand over his jaw jokingly commenting about her mean right hook.

This made Yang mournful about her lostarm as she grabbed for the stump. But remembering the conversation she had had minutes ago with her father and the professors she stood up feeling determined again and stating that she's moped around enough and that she needs to get back out their and find her sister and friends. Virgil sighs stating that she wouldn't need this then gurstering to the covered canister. Yang looks at the covered canister asking that it couldn't be what she thinks it is. Virgil removed the cover exposing the liquid filled glass container with Yangs lost arm in it.

With a stoic emotionless expression at her severed arm Yang stated, "really". Virgil pulled a object from his coat revealed to be the other half of Ember Celica. Yangs eyes light up grabbing the missing half of her weapon set stating with a happy expression, "Oh wow thanks!" and then hugs Virgil.

The story flashes back to the past on Harvest where the events of Halo wars begin. The events play out as in cannon with the exception of Zerg fleet following the Spirit of fire in its pursuit of the Covenant forces. During these events the Spirit of Fires crew activates a Forerunner docking station and enters the planet's interior. During the Spirit of fires journey into the planet they are boarded and attacked by Flood and Sentinels all the while Ellen watch's from the cloaked Abyss-ray following closely behind the Terran ship.

After entering the shield world the Spirit of fire finds itself on a collision course with a covenant destroyer. Watching from behind Ellen contemplates about weather or not she should help them. But just before the collision between the two ships She opens a warpgate in front of the Spirit of fire allowing them to bypass the destroyer without taking any damage. Ellen then orders her Leviathan to her position. A massive warpgate opens above the covenant destroyer and the multi mile long alpha Leviathan appears smashing into the Covenant destroyer obliterating it.

Ellen reveals her-self to captain Cutter and makes a agreement with him that they will stay out of eachothers business for the moment as both sides have their own objectives. Ellen then leads a full invasion of the shield world as a fleet of Zerg Behemoths and Leviathans warps into orbit over the outside of the shield world and begin planetary invasion. Ellen's Alpha Leviathan does the same creating a series of hive clusters on the inside of the planet while the Spirit of fire battles the covenant forces while the Zerg occasionally help randomly attacking Covenant forces.

Captain Cutter seeing the situation had changed with the arrival of the Zerg contemplates capturing the shield worlds technology if only a small amount before leaving after eliminating the Covenant forces. The ships AI Serena and the other officers talk a bit with everyone deciding that they can neither let the Zerg or Covenant have the shield world and plan on destroying it. After the defeat of the Arbiter by Forge and the Spartans they plant the Spirit of fires faster-than-light drive and leave the planet before the Zerg know whats happening. As the Spirit of fire escapes the blast zone the shield world appears to detonate in a great flash of light.

After the seeming destruction of the shield world Serena states that her sensors recorded a odd slip-space anomaly just before the explosion and finds that they are not in the same system as the shield world any more. The crew scanes the system finding themselves close to a habitable world with what appears to be radio signals that show both humans and odd demi-human like people. Serena hacks the primitive local date net of the planet learning the worlds name is Remnant and is not even entered its space age yet and uses a strange mineral called Dust in their technology.

Captain Cutter faced with a first contact situation takes some time to think out their next move eventually concluding that they should enter stasis for several years until the civilization advances by twenty years and is able to send spacecraft into orbit. The Spirit of fire fly's into the shattered moons debri cloud parking itself in a safe place as the ships crew enters cryo-stasis.

Back on the shield world Ellen comments that fooling the Terrans into believing that they destroyed the shield world was oh too easy showing that she had warp gated the Spirit of fires translight engine away to a safe place before creating a massive illusion with her psionic powers that simulated the explosion while simultaneously warp-gating the Spirit of fire to Remnant. Ellen's personal Zerg fleet is joined by the Tal'darim death fleet as Alarak contacts Ellen. Ellen tells Alarak that this shield world will serve as the Tal'darim's home world for a while.

Second Ascendent Ji'nara enters the conversation questioning who will over\see this worlds take over to which Ellen orders Ji'nara to prove herself by cleansing the world of Flood. Ji'nara accepts the challenge to both prove her-self and gain favor leading a major operation to see the shield world purified of all Flood forces.

Back in the present Serena who, thanks to technology created centuries ago survived for twenty + years while her crew remained in stasis. Using a orbital stealth probe she had watched as the events of the fall of Beacon played out. Serena wonders again to her self why the Dust mineral doesn't work off world seemingly frustrated at that fact. If Dust did work off of Remnant then she would have woke her crew up years ago when the Native people of Remnant attempted to travel into space.

Serena continues to procrastinate and think the situation over for quite a while before before finally deciding to let captain Cutter decide and wakes him up. A hour later after He has woke up fully Serena informs him of the events on the planet over the past few years as well as everything else she has discovered about Remnant. Captain Cutter quickly decides to wake up the rest of the crew and make limited contact with the people of Remnant.

After Anders, Forge and the three spartans Jerome-092, Alice-130 and Douglas-042 are informed of everything Forge advises that taking back the Beacon academy would be a good place to start making friends. Captain Cutter gives the go ahead and Forge and the Spartans with a contingent of marines readies for the mission. Meanwhile Serena also informes Captain Cutter of Zerg activity on the western continent. Cutter askes Anders to investigate with remote probes.

Eventually Anders probes make contact with a Zerg Overlord which allows Anders to open a communication with the the nation of Atlantis. The king of Atlantis who calls him-self Solus informs them that his empress Ellen is on the world and wishes to make contact.

Captain Cutter while still being being cautious allows a meeting on Remnant. Anders and a marine escort take a pelican down to the planet landing in the royal palace of Atlantis. Meeting with Solus and Ellen Anders learns of the truth regarding the shield worlds survival and its cleansing of the Flood by the Tal'darim. Ellen then informs them of the recent events on Reach and Earth and the now civil war between the divided Covenant.

Anders and Captain Cutter (whos listening in through Anders helmet camera) both express their joy at these events. However Ellen also informs them of the coming storm that could see all the nice things go up in smoke. Ellen explains about the Halo rings and their function as well as the Light which they keep at bay. Ellen states that the Halo array will fail one day and she would rather be prepared to fight rather then try and delay it.

Cutter reluctantly agrees and joins in a alliance with Ellen and her forces to this end. Ellen then gives them a Zerg Warpgate Bio-organ which Anders and the Spirit of fires crew installed into the ships former Trans-light engines unit.

While the new engine is being installed Cutter meets the representatives of Remnant that Ellen sent to the Spirit of fire. They included Pyrrha, Torchwick, Amber and Ozpins former host who simply went by the name Ozuma now. All of them were more than a little hesitant to leave the planet but knowing about the wider galaxy and its dangers made Pyrrha more willing as she could help protect her people. Amber was quite reluctant but with encouraging from Pyrrha and Ozuma she agreed. Torchwick was at first not interested but after Ellen said she planes on him being the merchant of the group of Remnant representatives and would handle the economic dealings he after considering agreed with more gusto.

Forge the Spartans and their marine back up along with three dozen Pelicans and four Albatross super heavy dropships loaded with supplies left for Beacon. Before they left Ozuma informed them to look for professors Bartholomew Oobleck, Peter Port and Glynda Goodwitch as they were his colleagues at Beacon. Forge nods saying he'll look for them.

Forge and the others fly away from the Spirit of fire as the ship warps away to Earth. The dropships enter the atmosphere and land at Beacon with the Spartans clearing a landing zone. Forge and the marines land next as the aircraft provide air support gunning Grimm down as they swarm around the area. A beach head is quickly established as gun emplacements and walls are quickly deployed and constructed on sight with fabrication tech. In a hour the Grim stop coming and Forge decides that Grimm dragon is a eye shore ordering its demolition. By the morning the whole of Beacon academy is cleared with a sensor network, gun turrets and patrols of guards and aircraft circling around the academy grounds.

Eventually Glynda Goodwitch is informed of the strange events at the ruins of Beacon and investigates bringing with her several other hunters and huntresses including Cardin whos alone after the other members of his team were killed at the fall of Beacon. The ten member group make their way via bullhead aircraft to Beacon. They are quickly intercepted and flanked by several of the much more advanced UNSC Sparrowhawks and ordered to land at a designated location. After landing Glynda is meet by a man introducing himself as Sergeant Forge of the UNSC. He explains the situation to her much to the huntsmen great surprise.

But Forge informs her that the situation is still dire and requires a soft touch as first contact situations can be sensitive. Glynda being astute fully understands and tells all of her people that everything they saw here regarding the UNSC forces is to not be discussed with anyone until the Vale council makes a decision on it which she herself must inform them of.

Forge agrees to go with her as representative to which Glynda agrees. Spartan Alice-130 joins Forge as his guard and they leave returning to the capital of Vale. Hours later after Glynda has arranged a meeting with the Vale council. She with Forge and Alice enter the council chambers to begin their talks. Forge explains all about the wider galaxy and it's dangers and the council quickly start wanting a alliance with the UNSC seeing it as the god send it is given recent events.

The cannon events of RWBY progress up to the end of season-6 but with Virgil and Shiro having joined Ruby's group after the events of season 5. Around this time Ellen getting board decides that it's her time to meet the wannabe hero Ruby. Ellen arrives at their location after Ruby and the others had talked with Jinn learning the truth about Salem and Ozpin. Ellen fly's over head following them up until after Maria helps Ruby activate her silver eyes ability. As the group flees the village Ellen crashes down creating a crater stunning everyone.

Ellen floats in the air in her red aura dress as Ruby and her friends watch stunned. Ellen glances at Virgil and Shiro, smirking before introducing herself and challEnging Rubys motivations and dream of becoming a huntress and a hero. Rubys friends defend Ruby rebuking Ellen's words demeaning their friend and leaders motivations. Ellen giggles back stating that maybe Pyrrha would still be alive if Ruby had killed Cinder when they first met at that robbery with Torchwick. Ellen then continues stating that in the grand scheme of things the world is a loose group of people that protect and kill each other and if Ruby really wants to keep her loved ones safe that she's going to have to become a killer.

This shocks Ruby as she admits her dep regret in letting Pyrrha die and starts to despair at her own weakness and hesitation. Rubys friends start attacking Ellen at this point only to easily be evaded and thrown about like toys but her aura tendrils. Virgil and Shiro knowing who Ellen really is and are hesitant to engage her knowing that she's playing at something but don't know what. Ellen rips Yangs new prosthetic arm off and basses her on the head with it sending Yang flying at Ruby's feet. Ruby stapes out of it attacking Ellen who forms her aura into a copy of Crescent Rose even copying Ruby's clothes. Ellen challenges Ruby's resolve to be a hero and her motivations again as the two fight a intense battle which Ellen fully enjoys.

Virgil helps Yang up while Shiro takes care of the others. Yang asks why Virgil hadn't joined the fight to which Virgil awkwardly comes clean stating that Ellen being Virgil's dads boss. Virgil states that he'll explain everything later and tells Yang that he'll stop hesitating. Virgil draws his sword as Ruby's crescent rose is cut in half by Ellen's aura copy. Virgil catch's Ruby setting her down beside Yang and the others and tells Shiro to take care of them. Ellen smirks at Virgil asking if he's going to go against her. Virgil askes in turn why Ellen's trying to kill Ruby while She had went through so much trouble in helping her. Ruby holding the destroyed fragments of Crescent rose watch's as Virgil glances back at her.

Ruby and her friends wonder what Virgil means as Ellen laughs and shifts her aura scythe into a copy of Virgil's katan. Ellen reply's stating that Ruby's innocent additude pisses her off because she's just another wannabe hero who can't take out her enemies because shes hesitant about killing people.

Virgil growls dashing at Ellen drawing his blade in a lightning quick slash. Ellen having blocked the strike easily just smirks tilting her head with a, is that all you got comment. Virgil smiles stating that Ellen can demean and insult him all she wants but to never ever insult his girlfriends sister. Ruby and the others glance at Yang whos states that they only dated once. And kind of make out when no ones around. Everyone's attention is brought back to Virgil after he transforms in to his devil form much to everyones shock.

With a powerful stroke of his sword Virgil sends Ellen flying back several dozen meters. Ellen looks like she getting serious stops smiling taking a combat stance. For a moment Ellen and Virgil stare at eachother then in a instant seemingly disappear followed by shock waves of mini explosions as they dash about at high speeds crossing swords. The new level of the battle completely shocks Ruby and the others as they can do nothing but watch. The battle lasts well over ten minutes until Ellen kicks Virgil with enough force to smash him into a stone wall and uses her red aura to drain his energy. Virgil shifts back into his faunus form and falls to the ground weakend.

Turning to the shocked Ruby and her group Ellen states that maybe it would be better if she just got this over with and killed Cinder, Salem and their followers herself instead of leaving it to kids barely out of their dippers who are probably just going to get themselves killed anyway. Shiro steps between Ellen and Rubys friends asking Ellen if she's really going to do this. Ellen points her aura sword at Shiro extending it in a instant impaling him through the gut. Ellen asks in turn if he's going to get in her way like his brother. Virgil starts recovering at this moment raising to one knee. Shiro and Virgil glance at each other, turning back to Ellen Shiro says yes.

Ellen rolls her eyes raising the blade up as Shiro moves his upper body to the side avoiding having his head split open like his torso. Shiro falls on his back as Ruby has flashbacks of Pyrrha dying and in a moment of emotion activates her silver eyes. Grabbing the two halves of Crescent Rose she attacks Ellen who easily blocks the attack. But much to Ellen's surprise her aura starts weakening from Ruby's silver eyes power. Kicking Ruby away Ellen dashes around Ruby attacking from her side. Ruby barely avoids the counter attack. Matching Ellen's high speed movements Ruby and Ellen properly cross blades in a fast paced battle. Even so after almost twenty minutes of fighting Ruby's stamina drops and she's defeated again.

Standing over a exhausted Ruby Ellen coldly states that if that's all she got then she's better off dead because she could never beat Salem in a far fight. Having used up everything she has Ruby admits defeat but refuses to be anything but whos she is. Ellen shrugs raises her blade and strikes at Ruby. In that instant another blade extends from out of a portal blocking Ellen's aura blade. Ruby opens her eyes seeing Ellen's blade stopped by another that's extending from a portal. Ellen comments that he's finally decided to stop watching then as Dante steps out of the Portal.

Virgil comments that he's finally done with that special training as Shiro who had regenerated sits up scaring Weiss and the others who had though him dead. Dante stares Ellen in the eyes stating that he's going to knock some sense into here. Ellen laughs stating for him to come and try it. Dante swings his sword up knocking Ellen back. They engage in a hour long battle while Ruby and the others have gotten away moving a distance from the destructive battle ground as its destroyed the surrounding area. Dante and Ellen's battle only becomes even more intense when Ellen shifts her aura into the giant beast form she had a when she first landed on Remnant.

Ruby and her friends watch from a distance as the head of the giant beast roars looking down at Dante. The aura beasts dragon headed tails start shooting beams out at Dante as he evades dashing around the area. Trees boulders and parts of the hills are obliterated one after the other as the beams sweep around. Jumping away from a blast Dante transforms taking a more advanced devil state. He then uses his semblance to emit powerful beams of his own aura that cut into Ellen's aura beast. Moving at super high as if teleporting speed He evades the beasts beams while slicing chunks off the beasts body.

Ellen counters making the aura beast smaller and resealing the wounds. The battle progresses until Dante deciding the fight will just go on until he's all out of power puts all of his power into one final attack. Anchoring himself onto the ground he raised his three swords above his head combining them into a great sword that he transferred all of his power into. Both he and Ellen fire at each other. Ellen shooting a aura beam while Dante creating and launching a massive crescent energy blade.

Before the two attacks collide Shiro creates a barrier around everyone who were now over a mile away.

The resulting impact of the two attacks creates a massive nuclear level explosion that destroys the surrounding area for multiple miles around ripping up the ground and distant trees and destroying parts of the nearby hills and causing landslides. When the dust clears Dante's back in his human form and Ellen's laying on the ground at the center of the crater with no aura and naked. Her eyes pop open and she slowly gets up to her feet. Nearby Dante breaths weakly as Ellen stands over- him and promptly falls on him. Dante gets the wind knocked out of him again as she lands on him and promptly tells her to get off.

Ellen says no as she can't move and states that this is the firsts time she's been exhausted to this point and seems happy about it. She then askes if Dante if he's dating anyone to which he replies with a loud "what?" She states she's serious. Dante sigh's saying no making Ellen grin and stat that next time their going to have sex until their this exhausted. Dante sighs again. In Ellen's subconscious My self insert character tells red-Ellen that if she's satisfied now that she needs to fulfill their deal and releash her other half. Red-Ellen sigh's but agrees. Blue-Ellen is releashed and join's Red Ellen in controlling the body together.

Ruby and her group finally reach Argus and after finding a place to stay at Shiro and Virgil explain about the Zerg Atlantis and the agreement between Solus the king of Atlantis and Salem to stay out of each others way and not fight against each other. They also explain about them and Dante all being hybrids of Human, Faunus and Zerg and about their transforming ability that greatly boosts their combat potential and that how their Zerg sides make them able to survive much more grievous injuries.

Then at the point when Jaune is looking for Oscar he finds a memorial to Pyrrha. He then encounters Ellen and Dante who apologizes about her earlier behavior. The three of them then return to the others much to Ruby's shock. And surprising everyone Ellen gets on he hands feet apologizing to everyone. Everyone sits down and listens as Ellen tells them the whole story about her self from when she awoken as a Valkyrur to the present point and about her split personalities. Not only are they all shocked about everything but the fact Ellen's immortal like Salem peeks Weisses interest stating if its possible for a immortal to kill a immortal.

Ellen then produces a claw of red aura explaining that its her semblance. The ability to drain not only energy from others but their very souls as well. Ellen also tells everyone about the UNSC ship Spirit of fire that has recently returned to Remnant along with a few old friends. Ruby askes what she means by that to which Ellen states that its a secret. Ellen then apologizes about Crescent rose and tells Virgil to tell Captain Cutter to help them with getting some upgrades. Ellen then bids everyone goodby as they are now going to travel to the Zergs ancestral home world of Zerus.

In the next events Ruby gets attacked by Cinder and Neo while looking for Oscar who had run away. She's almost killed by Neo before Cinder shows her self confidently enjoying having Ruby's life in her hands and threatens Ruby to know where the Relic of Knowledge is. Ruby just says they lost it on the way to Argus much to Cinders frustration. Despite having her legs stabbed by a grinning Neo enjoying the pain she's inflicting Ruby refuses to tell where the Relic was lost which frustrates Cinder to no end but Cinder then has the idea to use Ruby to get her friends to find the Relic for them and takes Ruby back to a abandoned warehouse where Cinder contacts Salem explaining her plan. Salem still angry with Cinders previous failure barely agrees to Cinders plan to both find the Relic and kill the hero's after they find it stating that this is Cinders last chance to make her self useful allowing Cinders former underlings Emerald and Mercury to work with her again for this mission. Meanwhile Yang, Weiss, Blake and the others worry about not having seen Ruby in a while and start looking for her as well as Oscar.

At the same time Sienna Khan wakes from her infestation and resurrection pod in the under ground hive cluster below Atlantis. As she tries leaving the central chamber Solus avatar form meets her and hands her new clothes before explaining the situation. Then they retrune to the palace a furious Summer storms out of the central building passing them. Solus askes where shes going to which Summer states that she's going to crush some skulls. A armored warrior in red valkyria styled armor accented with gold follows Summer as they leave for a transport.

Meanwhile Jaune gets a transmission from Cinder on his scroll explaining that she's got Ruby and wont kill her IF Jaune and Ruby's other friends find and gives her the Relic of Knowledge. Jaune quickly tells the others showing them the message. Reluctantly they return to the village wiped out buy the Apathy Grimm and retrieve the Relic before quickly leaving.

At the same time on the Spirit of fire Captain Cutter, Anders and Forge meet via transmission with the leaders of Vale, Mistral, Vacuo and Atlas. Cutter explains to the leaders of the nations of Remnant about the greater galaxy and the recent and all but over war with the Covenant. They talk and explain about many things before the matter of a exchange of technology is brought up.

Serena shows her self at this time and explains that the trade in dust and any technology that uses it would be a issue. Ironwood admits that for some unkown reason Dust looses all its unique properties after it leaves the atmosphere which has completely blocked all attempts at any expansion into space. Serena states that she's had a long time to scan the planet and conduct experiments and believes that dust is a off shoot of a another crystal like material known and highly valued by the UNSC as Ragnite which it's self is a alternate version of another crystal called Khaydarin crystal. Serena then explains that ever since the Spirit of fire arrived at Remnant she's detected a low level psionic field covering the whole planet.

Anders wonders is its a massive deposit of Ragnite in the planets mantle like on Aiur and under the nation of Gallia on earth. Serena and Anders talk a little more going over some date to which they quickly conclude and explain to everyone that the Dust on its own is useless unless powered by a massive network of Ragnite that cris-crosses the whole of Remnants tectonic crust and Dust looses its powers when it leaves the range of the Ragnite in the planet. Cutter then explains that this means Dust can be a viable product that Remnant can trade to the UNSC for technology but it must be paired with a Ragnite power source. Everyone agrees and Ironwood says he'll have the best scientists get working in it at once. Cutter also agrees to aid the nations of Remnant with their problem with the Grimm as best he can but also states that delegates and military reinforcements from Earth will arrive soon to have more official negotiations.

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On high charity the Swords of Sangheilios de fact to leader Thel Vadam entered the empty chambers of the former High Prophets growling at the cowards running like a (unknown animal). He looks out the window into the distance seeing the Forerunner Dreadnought begin launching from High-charity. In the Forerunner Dreadnought he prophets of truth and mercy talk about the fall of the Covenant by the traitorous unbelieving Sangheili and their allies who had sided with the Terrans. The Jiralhanae (Brute) Chieftain Tartarus entered the room bowing before the Prophets stating his warriors are all in the ships.

The prophet of Truth launches the Forerunner Dreadnought leaving High Charity. It meets with a Jiralhanae fleet that are fighting with another fleet of Sangheili ships. The Jiralhanae fleet breaks off their engagement with the Sangheili joining the Forerunner Dreadnought entering warp space.

Inside the Forerunner Dreadnought The Prophets and Tartarus are joined by Narud in the form of a Protoss. Narud explains that his work is completed. Narud shows them a holo-screen of a large chamber on the Forerunner Dreadnought with a dozen Zerg/Protoss Hybrids in growth tanks. The Prophet of truth places his hands togather smiling at his new warriors and states that they will begin the great journey with the help of these new warriors. Narud then tells them that the gate way to the Ark on earth is too heavily guarded but knows of another on a planet called Remnant.

The story them moves to Zerus where Ellen and Dante arrive onboard a alpha Leviathan. Ellen lands right on top of the First spawning pool discovering the underground ruins of the Forerunner facility in the mountain and the Giant green crystal at the center of the facility. Ellen communicates with the copy of the Librarian in the crystal like before on Aiur. The version of the Librarians copy in the green crystal explains that the Zerg were created as a weapon against the Flood. While the Flood only change their basic form and use technology the original Zerg were created to adapt to the Flood ability to infect any organic life form and even corrupt and use technology and AI.s. The librarian then states that if Ellen a Valkyrur has finally come to Zerus then its time for her to merge with her other half.

After Ellen askes what's that supposed to mean the librarian answers with explaining that after the galaxy was cleansed by the Halo array the Monitors who manage the Halo installations all worked to complete the final mission given to them by their creators before the last of the Forerunners left the galaxy. That mission was to create a weapon that could kill the light and to prepare the races of the galaxy to fight against the Flood and the Light. To that purpose the twin Monitors of Installation 00, the ark, lead and over saw the experiments that would be conducted on a world now known as Remnant.

They failed once to create a proper environment that could lead to the creation of a proper weapon or warrior against the Light and chose to wipe out the whole civilization and started over with new conditions and variables. Ellen comments that this must be the first age on Remnant where people could use what they called magic that was most likely just psionic abilities of a short. The librarian nods regretfully at the loss of life but stated that the work must continue. That work lead to the creation of three groups of powers. One the Aura that all hunters on Remnant has. The second the Glyphs which are the hereditary Semblance shared by the members of the Schnee Family. And the third was the powers of the silver eyed warriors. These abilities after allowing to develop for a time were combined creating a unified ability that was so much stronger then the individual components.

After the three powers of the Glyphs, Silver-eyes and Aura were all successfully unified the new blood line now designated as Valkyrur and the data and facilities were moved to Earth as it was the location of a gate to the Ark. The copy of the librarian then explained that the green crystal and the blue counter part on Aiur are a part of a incomplete set of three and can be used to greatly amplify psionic and biological abilities and that such can be used to great effect if use properly. After learning everything she could Ellen ended the connection and went to the first spawning pool. After calling down a army of her Zerg Ellen established a fortress around the first spawning pool. Then with a hesitant Dante watching from the shore Ellen entered the pool removing the broken crystal at its center and began her transformation. As soon as Ellen touched foot in the center of the pool the water and organic matter reacted strongly growing up around her legs and over her body into a giant chrysalis. There was a distant roar as primal Zerg tribes gathered to attack the invading Azure Zerg guarding the area. As the trees moved in the distance Dante draw his blades.

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Back on Remnant Yang, Weiss, Blake and the others entered the warehouse where Cinder had told them to meet. Holding the Relic of knowledge Yang called out for Cinder to show her self. Surprising everyone Adam appeared along with Cinder, Mercury, Neo and Emerald. A battle ensued in which nearly all of Ruby's friends were severely injured and beaten into a corner. Then the roof exploded and Summer rose and the valkyria warrior whos face was covered by her helmet dropped in. Ruby watching from her cage above took great interest in the white hooded woman. The still disguised Summer Rose glanced around growling at the sight of Yang with a prosthetic arm and Ruby in a cage. She drew her weapon, a staff that extended four smaller scythes that combined into two blades one on each tonfa, two at each end and transformed into twin bladed tonfa shot-guns.

The masked valyria said in a muffled voice that she'll take Cinder on alone. Neo using her semblance gets behind the masked warrior and attacks only for her weapon to be blocked by the super charged aura barrier protecting her. The warrior grabs Neos blade snapping it with a twist of her wrist and punches Neo in the gut sending her flying into the wall knocking her out. The two disguised warriors fight Cinder and her remaining minions until Yang and the others can get back on their feet. Then just as Adam was going to be turned into past on the floor Yang grabbed the hooded warriors arm telling her that She's got unfinished business with Him and that She'll finish him.

The hooded warrior wordlessly nods and backs off, turning her attention to Ruby who was still in the cage freeing her as Ruby fauns over the hooded warriors weapon. Yang joined by Blake both started their revenge match against Adam. At the same time Cinder, Mercury and Emerald were fighting against against the masked valkyria at the other end of the warehouse. Having recovered from the ambush Jaune, Nora and Rin all arrived to see the lone masked warrior holding her own against the three opponents. Eventually Mercury and Emerald were both knocked out by the giant lance of the armored warrior. A angry and frustrated Cinder starts loosing her temper as all of her attacks with the maiden powers were easily deflected or avoided by the warriors lance and shield. Seeing her opponent in such a state makes the masked valkyria warrior laugh and reminisce about their last fight in which Cinder won. Cinder as well as Jaune, Rin and Nora wonder who the masked warrior could be.

The masked warrior glances at them then to Cinder stating that last time she only lost because she was not using her semblance to its full potential because she was afraid of being to powerful and being only recognized for that one trait instead of who she was. She then said that she just wanted to be a normal girl with friends. But that this time she's decided to stop being so hesitant because that hesitation caused the people she care about most to cry for.

The helmet of the masked armored warrior shifts open revealing it to be Pyrrha to everyone's great surprise. Pointing her lance at Cinder she states that this time she's going to win and gets into a combat stance stating she's ready when Cinder is. Cinder shakes off the surprise that Pyrrha's alive stating she doesn't know how she survived or came back to life but that she's just going to put her in the ground again. The two clash in a intense battle with Pyrrha deploying the metal feather blades on her back into a swarm of flying daggers that swarm around and attack Cinder from every direction leaving small cuts and wounds all over her body as she attempts to evade the 360 degree attack. Eventually a dagger pierces into the back of Cinders legs crippling her. Unable to evade Pyrrha knocks Cinder into the wall and cuts her Grimm arm off and then kicks her in the gut hard slamming Cinder into the metal container nearly knocking her out. As Cinder lays there bleeding from her shoulder she weakly looks up at Pyrrha standing over her and then loses consciousness.

With Cinder defeated Pyrrha takes in a deep breath and turns to her teammates. Jaune lunges at her giving Pyrrha a bear hug. Pyrrha tells Jaune to knock it off because she can't breath and He lets go. Rin and Nora join them celebrating Pyrrha return.

On the other side of the building Yang and Blake finish up their battle with Adam. Killing him with a double attack from both sides. Yang breaks Adams neck as Black stabs him in the back and He falls dead. Everyone gathers at the entrance. But as they do they notice the Relic of knowledge is missing. In another area away from the Warehouse Tyrian Callow walks away holding up the Relic stating that it was too bad Cinder lost but she made a decent decoy and walks off with the Relic.

Ruby and her friends celebrate Pyrrha's return as she explains how she's still alive and that she has no idea if the body she's in now is a clone or that the body Cinder destroyed was the clone. Jaune questions if it really matters to which Pyrrha thinks a moment agreeing that it really doesn't. Ruby looks around the hotel room noticing that the other hooded person was gone. She askes Pyrrha who that person was to which Pyrrha says that shell show her self when she's ready.

In another part of the city the disguised Summer rose finds Oscar in a back ally. She approaches Oscar saying hello to both the boy and Ozpin. Oscar askes Summer who she is to which she reply's with hesitation that she's Rubys mother. At this Ozpins personality surfaces desperately asking Summer how she's still alive. Summer explains everything and that Pyrrah, Amber and Ozpins previous host are also alive thanks again to the nation of Atlantis and their king Solus. Summer askes a surprised Oscar and Ozpin to come with her back to the others and with hesitation and reluctance they do.

Ruby and the others are still talking and asking Pyrrha questions about the galaxy and earth when Oscar returns with Summer trailing behind. Jaune apologizes to Oscar and Ozpin about how he snapped at them saying he can't really imagine all the bad things Ozpins been through with having being reincarnated over and over. Summer enters the room keeping one side of her face covered as she awkwardly waves with a hello at a shocked Ruby and Yang. Before Summer has a chance to say anything both Yang and Ruby jump on her with a double bear hug with all three of them falling to the floor.

A little later Summer still keeping one side of her face covered explains that Solus the king of atlantis the only city state on the far western continent recovered her body and brought her back to life. Ruby can't stop being happy about her mom being back and comments that their dad and uncle Qrow are going to flip out. Yang askes why she's still keeping her face covered. Pyrrha says she's not exactly the same woman they knew.

Pyrrha looks Summer in the eyes saying they'll understand. Not knowing what Pyrrha means Yang and Ruby askes Summer what's She means by that. Summer pulls her hood down a bit more stating she's always been a bit shy and that's why she wore a hood. Reluctantly with a sigh Summer looks her two daughter's in the eyes stands up and takes her hood off. Everyone gasps as they see that one side of Summers face is covered in chitin with her hair replaced on that side by armored hair tendrils with one of her silver eyes having a bluish hue. Summer jokes that she'll never need to wear makeup ever again. Yang and Ruby sigh glancing at each other and gave Summer a big huge saying that no mater what she looks like she's still their mom. Summer embraces them too and they cry from the seemingly impossible reunion. Everyone else is happy for them and Pyrrha askes her team why she didn't get water works like that. Maria, whos stayed with the team also expresses her joy at having met another silvered eyes warrior.

Summer whos shocked and happy as well at meeting Maria askes her to teach her daughter. Ruby askes why her mom can't teach her to which Summer awkwardly comments that she's not the best at that sort of thing. Maria says she's already agreed to teach Ruby and that perhaps they both should help teach her. Summer agrees and shakes Summers hand and after a short silence awkwardly askes that if the Zerg could bring people back to life maybe they could replace a person eyes. Giggling at the request Summer says she would be happy to do that for Marias as she's been with the Zerg in Atlantis for a few years and has learned a thing or two.

Summer held her infested chitin covered hand out producing a small amount of creep. Weiss comments that that's gross while also asking what she's doing. Summer explains that the biomatter is called Creep and is the most basic building block of the Zergs biotechnology. The creep turned white and Summer formed it into two eye sized orbs. She says that the next part will be painful and Maria should lay down. They go into a bedroom with Maria laying on a bed. Everyone in the living room hears suppressed screams of pain as Summer pulls out Marias damaged eyes replacing them with the white creep. Summer then keeps her hand over the white creep orbs for a few minutes and then tells Marina to keep her eyes lids closed for the night. Maria comments that she's tired anyway and relaxes drifting off to sleep.

Black states that its getting late anyway and that they should get to sleep to which Weiss and Rin agree.

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Back on Zerus Dante and the Azure swarm forces continue fighting off the primal Zerg tribes. Hours of frantic combat goes by while Ellen was transformed and turned into a primal Zerg. Eventually the crysalis opened releasing a massive wave of psionic energy across the planet. Sensing the powerful force Zurvan awakens and begins devouring any and all creatures in his path. As Zurvan cuts a path of destruction across the planet Ellen finally awakens as the chrysalis explodes.

Ellens body is bigger, covered in blue scales accented with thin red lines around their edges. A thin long reptilian tail and feathered wings all blue with a red and purple accent lines around their edges like the scales and also has two sets of horns on the sides of her head with a smaller fifth on her forehead. A faint purple energy glowing in between the scales and along parts of the body. As Her eyes open they are revealed to have heterochromia with one a vivid red and the other a vivid blue with both having spiral purple lines.

The new Ellen floats into the sky and quickly starts firing hundreds of aura blasts into the forest killing the attacking primal Zerg in droves. In minutes the battle is over and she lands beside Dante. He askes how she's feeling to which she replies great and then states that its his turn to be in the primal evolution pool. He sighs with a shrug.

Much later Ellen and Dante, whos gone through the primal evolution as well, attack the primal Zerg pack leaders killing them one by one until leaving Dehaka. Ellen seeing as he had little value to her opted to just eat him along with the other primal pack leaders before being stopped by Dante who said it would be a waste. Ellen sensed the approach of Zurvan and decided to let Dante handle Dehaka as he sees fit. Ellen and Zurvan battled destroying a large part of the forest for miles and left a massive crater of devastation in their wake. Ellen won in the end devouring Zurvans essence.

Returning to the Alpha Leviathan in orbit she found Dante had let Dehaka fight and eat her Zerg forces in a arena style battle. Having devoured Roachs, Predators and Wyverns Dehaka regenerated his arms with the larger pair having evolved into wings. He's also gained octo-camo ability and sets of deadly scythe claws and spine launchers. Ellen shrugged saying he might me useful now and states that its time to return to Remnant.

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At the same time the forerunner dreadnought belonging to the prophets exited warp space above Remnant. On the forerunner dreadnoughts bridge the Prophets hover in their thrones observing the planet as Narud starts scanning Remnants surface stating it will take time for him to find what their looking for.

On the Spirit of fire Serena activates the alarm alerting Captain Cutter and Anders to the presence of the forerunner dreadnought. Captain Cutter tells Anders to warn the governments of Remnant and for Serena to ready a pair of slip-space messenger probes to be sent to Reach and Earth.

Back in Argus Ruby continues her training to master her silver eyes powers making quick progress with two teachers. But despite her progress with her powers she still feels down about having lost Crescent rose. It's then that Weiss reminds her that Ellen told them to get in contact with a guy names captain Cutter. Summer states that she knows how to get in contact with him and assures Ruby that the UNSC will have advanced tech that can easily make her a weapon even more powerful then Crescent rose. Ruby seeming glad at the prospects of getting a new weapon but states that she would rather have Crescent rose repaired and maybe upgraded.

At that moment Summer gets a telepathic warning from Solus that a Forerunner key-skip had entered high orbit over Remnant shocking Summer. Thinking Summer tells Pyrrha of the situation that its time for them to meet the UNSC. Shiro and Weiss who at the moment were training get interrupted by Virgil who tells them the situation. Everyone gathers and Virgil and Summer contact the Spirit of Fire in orbit alerting them to their situation. Reluctantly Cutter allows them to board his ship and sends a dropship to the outskirts of Argus.

While on the ride up to orbit everyone becomes exuberant at the prospect of going into space let alone getting to go on a real spaceship. Landing in a hanger Forge meets them along with Amber and Ozuma the previous host to Ozpin. Ozpin is down right dumbstruck at Amber and his last host body being alive. He then sighs stating that with all the people coming back to life lately he should have expected this. Forge shows them to the bridge and they meet with Captain Cutter. Everyone is brought up to date in the situation between the UNSC and the governments of Remnant beginning trading and exchanging of technology. Cutter then states that hell be more then happy to have Anders help them get up to date with their weapons and gear. He also explains that that their ship would have no chance of fighting off that forerunner dreadnought anyway and that they have to just hope it doesn't attack the planet.

At that moment Ellen's Alpha Leviathan arrives taking stock of the situation. Ellen orders her Leviathan to fly in between Remnant and the forerunner dreadnought. Ellen and Dante scan Remnant for Ruby and her group finding them on the Spirit of fire. Warp gating onto the bridge Ellen surprises everyone with her arrival and new form. Summer explains the situation to Ellen while Captain Cutter calls off the guards that had rushed onto the bridge. And with no little anger He tells Ellen that if she wants to keep their little alliance she would not do that ever again.

With a sigh Ellen apologizes and agrees stating she's sorry for scaring him. Ellen then gets pulled to the side by Ruby who profusely thanks Her for saving her mother and Pyrrha and also Ozuma and Amber. With a awkward hesitation Ellen tells her your welcome and askes Ruby and her friends and teammates if they want to become stronger. After a moments hesitation everyone accepts. Ellen looks at Captain Cutter asking if he can take them to Reach. Cutter getting what she mean's nods reluctantly. Ruby and the others ask what Ellen means to which Ellen explains about the Spartan 2 program. Some what reluctant Captain Cutter agrees to escort the group to Reach for spartan enhancement while Ellen and her Leviathan keep that Forerunner dreadnought from attacking Remnant.

After this point Ruby and her group go to Reach meeting Dr. Halsey and undergo Spartan 2 enhancement. Ruby gets her Crescent rose repaired and upgraded with UNSC psionic plating and Remnant Dust tech.

Back on the forerunner dreadnought Narud finds what he's looking for and leads a attack on the central desert region in Vacuo. Ellen and Dante help evacuate the people and fight off Naruds Hybrids while Tartarus and his fleet exit slip-space where they had been waiting and attack the landing location of the forerunner dreadnought. They find a massive buried warp gate identical to and apart of the network of gates that had first brought the Zerg to earth centuries ago.

By the time Ellen learns what their doing its too late as the forerunner dreadnought jumps through the portal and lands right on earth and having bypassed the need for a partner gate on the other end thanks to the Key-ship.

The Key-ship arrives right over Voi on earth with the massive artifact having been excavated by the UNSC. Destroying all opposition the Prophets land the key-ship on the excavated platform and begin the activation process. During this time John-117 and his fellow spartan's fight off the ground invasion.

Having figured out the Prophets goal Ellen travels to Reach in her Leviathan while Dante stays on Remnant with a Zerg army to protect the noncombatants. Tartarus and his fleet quickly follow after the Prophets reinforcing their position on Earth. Ellen warns Aliasse on Reach and a fleet is quickly assembled following the Leviathan through its warp-gate to earth. Arriving over earth Aliasse keeps the orbital weapons platforms from blasting Ellen's Leviathan out of the sky while getting informed of the situation at Voi. The artifact slowly powers up producing a massive energy dome over its self keeping the key-ship and the Jiralhanae fleet safe until they leave through the portal.

Ruby and the others complete their enhancement spending a few hours getting used to their new bodies and their custom mjolnir armor. Their reorientation is cut short when they are informed of the events on earth. A day later contingent of Sangheili and Protoss ships arrive to help open the shield over the portal. Protoss Phase-smith Karax and others break the field cohesion allowing the shield to be deactivated allowing the combined fleets of UNSC, Sangheili and Protoss to enter the portal.

Trailing behind everyone a annoyed Ellen sits in her Leviathans bridge as Ruby and her group arrive in the In Amber Clad, Commanded by Miranda Keyes. But just as they arrive several slip-space portals open with dozens of covenant ships pouring through. Scanning the ships as the Earths defense grid activate and open fire on the new contacts Ellen's Leviathan senses that the ships are infected with the flood. Growling in frustration Ellen tells Ruby's group to go on ahead without her. The In Amber Clad pulls away from the Leviathan entering the portal.

The rest of the story has Ruby and her group fighting on the ark against the remnants of the Covenant along with Master Chief and the other spartans who were on another UNSC ship. Thel Vadam's forces join them together and they all hunt the Prophets down across the lesser ark. Eventually they corner the Prophets at the Arks superluminal communication terminal to the Halo array. During the battle the UNSC marines, spartans and Sangheili forces hold the entrenched forces of the Prophets at bay while Master chife's team and Rubys group split up and take the shield generators off line. With the way clear Thel Vadam, Master chief and Rubys group pierce their way through the chaotic battle into the building. As they fight Guilty spark and Cortana talk about how the com emitters have been extended and time is short.

The groups of Humans, Faunus and Sangheili fight their way through a small army of Brutes until Tartarus him self and his elite guards are the only ones standing in their way at the entrance to the last chamber. Pyrrha parries the brutes gravity hammer stating that Chief and Thel should go a head without them while they handle this guy. Master Chief and Thel finally reach the two last Prophets and kill them just before they enter the communication code to activate the Halo array. However the coms relay activates anyway seemingly on its own. Guilty spark and Cortana stat that the orders the station sent was not firing orders but a request for their locations. The Halo array replies showing their locations in the galaxy on a large holo-mape. A booming laughter echo's in the chamber just as Ruby and her group rush in brushed and injured but alive.

Narud in his (unknown alien form) Decloaks thanking the dead Prophets for their help and teleports away.

Everyone recovers and regroups as the battle is won but fell like they lost the war. As the drop ships descend to pick up the ground forces Master chief and his team pass Rubys group. He comments that for kids they are quit skilled fighters. Yang says thanks holding up the dead Brute chieftains gravity hammer as a prize of war. Everyone returns to their home worlds with Ruby and her group returning to a newly rebuilt Beacon Academy.

Ellen sulks that she missed the battle on the Ark because of the flood with Dante stating that Narud was still out there and he now knows the locations of the Halo array. Sighing Ellen stands up acknowledging the threat.

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Back in Argus Cinder and her group sulk in prison as Torchwick saunters down the hallway spinning his cane. He stops at Neos cell scaring the life out of her. He explains all that's happened to him and how he's now a merchant working for the now united governments of Remnant in their trades with the UNSC and the rest of the galaxy. Neo gives him a look like why are you selling out to the man.

Torchwick scoffs pulling out a wallet filled with Lien casually pouring it on the floor like water. Torchwick states that its for the money. Its always been for the money. And also know he gets a ship of his own and gets to travel around the galaxy. He then askes if Neo wants to rejoin him along with Emerald and Mercury. Mercury almost instantly agrees with Emerald hesitating and calling Mercury a traitor. He retorts its not doing us any good to be locked up here to which Emerald reluctantly agrees but is still feeling loyal to Cinder for her saving her before.

Cinder tells Torchwick to fuck off as everything she wants to have is forever out of her reach. She then comments that she wonders why the Atlas government hasn't killed her yet to get her maiden powers. Winter Schnee arrives replying to Cinders question stating that its because Ellen asked them not to. Standing up Cinder askes who this Ellen is and why she cares about her so much. Winter gives a half hearted laugh glancing down then looking Cinder in the eyes saying. Its because she's more powerful and scarier then that immortal bitch Salem who just wants to die and take the world with her. Winter then comments that if she wasn't hesitant because of Ellen shed kill Cinder and take her powers right then and there.

Meanwhile at the Branwen Tribe village Summer and Taiyang arrives smashing their way in through the front gate. After they defeat several members of the tribe Raven storms out of her house quickly getting uncomfortable and curious at Taiyang's presence, not realizing the hooded person is Summer and refusing to listen to her instincts at that oh so familiar white hood. Taiyang tells Raven that things are changing across Remnant. And that the governments of the world won't continue to overlook renegade groups like hers if they keep attacking villages. Taiyang then states that him being here was a courtesy for old times sake.

Still confident and ignorant Raven tells Taiyang to leave or he'll be forced to leave dead or alive. Summer then scoffs commenting that Raven hasn't changed since they last saw each other and revealed her face. The Branwen Tribe members were shocked at Summers half Zerg face with Raven even more so seeing a dead woman standing in front of her. Summer askes if she doesn't want to fight then they can talk. Raven denying the truth in front of her and thinking its a semblance trick attacks Summer impaling her in the chest. Summer now having the anatomy and resilience of a Zerg casually looks down at the blade sticking in her and sighs while Taiyang comments that its going to take time for him to get used to that.

A now freaked out Raven pulls her sword out of Summer stating she has to be a illusion. Summer sighs punching Raven. Raven blocks with her sword only for it to break and sends her flying a dozen meters onto her back. Sitting up Raven looks at her broken weapon in shock. She looks up staring at Summer who shrugs asking if she wants to keep fighting or talk it out.

Reluctantly Raven nods with a yes. Summer smiles extending her hand to Raven who hesitantly takes it standing up. The three of them walk to Ravens house and talk with Raven enormously surprised and shocked at the news of the aliens and the fact humans exist on another planets. As the scene ends Taiyang explains that while the new government doesn't care what the Branwen Tribe does it will not tolerate them attacking villages and if they continue doing it the next hunters that arrive at their door wont be here for talking.

Some time after hordes of mutated Grimm like the ones that had attacked Beacon started appearing in various locations around Remnant. All the heros of Remnant fight off the new mutated and more intelligent Grimm for some time before their revealed to be the creations of a Dr. Merlot who now works for Salem after Cinders failure. Eventually it all culminates in a final show down between Rubys team and allies and Salems new Grimm forces.

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Speeding things up the next part of the story would have Narud using his Hybrid armies attacking the halo array and destroying them one after the other until the Light can finally send its forces into the material plane. The flood that escaped halo-04 and that took over halo installation 05 continue to spread with a massive military force of Sangheili, Protoss and Terran unifying against them. The Azure Zerg who have now fully adapted to the Floods infection methods hunting the parasite down on their own. The flood is finally defeated at the battle of delta halo or installation-05 by a combined force of Terran, Zerg and Protoss forces. The ring is completely cleansed of Flood and replaced by Zerg biomatter and forces.

At this point only three Halos remain but the vail between the two realities of the immaterium and material planes is weak enough for the Light to send his forces through and begin conquering the galaxy at this point. Legions of starship sized angelic creatures begin attacking worlds all over the galaxy taking many worlds and slaughtering or brain washing whole populations into the worship of the Light. While the UNSC, Protoss empire and Sangheili and other former covenant Races unify against the great threat Ellen and her Azure swarm stays out of the main fighting for the moment. At the Shield world the Spirit of fire discovered Ellen uses the combined psionic power of the whole Tal'darim people to create a red giant psionic crystal while Nysha, Zavara and the other high ranking Zerg brood queens steal the giant blue Khaydarin crystal from the underground city on Aiur.

The three crystals are unified on Zerus in the first spawning pool with Ellen who undergoes a new evolution with all three crystals in the pool with her. A new giant chrysalis forms around the entire first spawning pool forming into a half sphere. As the chrysalis is completed a massive number of the Lights forces arrives and begin bombarding the Zerg fleet in orbit and the planet. Ellen's Brood queens hold the attack off with Dante arriving with reinforcements from the primary Azure swarms home planets. The battle is still a close call with many millions of Zerg dying every minute and large chunks of Zerus being blasted away during the battle. But at the last minute Ellen emerges from the chrysalis transformed yet again.

Her new form is a more evolved version of her previous body but with massive aura wings and a brighter glow to the purple lines along her body. With a single step Ellen jumps into outer space and uses her red aura to devour hundreds of the angelic forces energy. The battle turns and the Lights forces are routed. Using her new greater level of power Ellen senses the events occurring across the galaxy. She then starts teleporting her fleets instantly across the galaxy from one battlefield to another winning battle after battle and unifying the remaining allied forces. Eventually they arrive at the lesser ark where the twin monitors reveal themselves to Ruby and the others as the gods of Remnant explaining all of their goals and reasons.

Ruby and her allies from Remnant display extreme anger at the two machines actions and treatment of the people of remnant as lab rats. But at the same time they say that it was because of their actions that Valkyrur like Ellen were able to exist and Ellen to become as powerful a she is and able to fight back against the Light. By this point Remnant is acting as a refugee planet as many worlds have been destroyed or conquered including Aiur, Earth and others. Reach and Remnant being the few safe worlds left along with Installation 00.

The Lights forces converge on Installation 00 just as it completes a third halo ring. The three rings spread out weakening the Lights forces but can't cast them back into the immaterium now that they have a foot hold as that would take at least five rings. The massive allied force fleets numbering in the tens of thousands combat the angelic forces better then previous battles as counter-measures have been created. The story enters its final act with Ellen leading a large part of her swarm and the allied forces of all the races into the immaterium to fight the Lights true form in a final battle.

They arrive at a massive solar system sized structure in the other dimension resplendent with white ivory material over laid with gold material and gem stones of every color. Amon and Narud in their true angelic forms and a army at their back block The fleets progress. Ellen and Amon have a final dual as Stukov and the other Zerg commanders fights off Narud and the Angelic forces blocking the entrance to the Light. The battle lasts a whole day but eventually Amon and Narud are defeated for the last time.

Even with Ellen doing her best to protect the fleet they still take heavy losses as they continued into the structure and after a week of hard fighting finally reach the Lights inner sanctum. The bloodied but far from defeated the fleet finally reach's the Light itself.

The Light took the form of a massive faceless star sized humanoid with pure white skin with metallic gold plating and gems styled the same as the building across it's body. Words are exchanged as the Light askes why the mortals are refusing its grace. The material plane is imperfect so only a perfect being such as the light can heal it asking why Ellen and the other races reject the Lights offers of immortality and eternal bliss in its realm.

This talk almost makes many of the people in the allied fleets turn against their fellows because of the loss and destruction that has been caused by rejecting the Lights dominion. But Ellen using her Aura blocks the mental manipulation making the Light annoyed and restoring the fleets will to continue. Ellen declares that she may be a monster but at least she doesn't tell other people how to live their lives. The light replies asking if that was case then why would Ellen bring the dead back to life. As that is the greatest way of forcing ones own ideals on to others to force them to live just because one wants it. And that's only the beginning as Ellen has manipulated the history of humanity and the galaxy to suit her own desires no different then the Light.

Ellen just scoffs stating she was just doing her own thing and that she doesn't and has never acted with the intention of controlling others against their will and states that there's a difference between manipulating others, guiding them and or manipulating them and that She doesn't have to take the Lights BS which is just a trap to make them hesitate and doubt themselves.

Ellen and the Light begin a no-holds bared battle that sees the giant solar system sizes structure half destroyed with massive fragments drifting around or falling to the polished pearl floor as it falls apart. Most of the allied fleet and the micro-halos destroyed. Ellen is wounded and finds her powers weakening. Its at this point the souls of Tassadar, Zeratul and Raszagal encourage Ellen to not give up. Ellen intern feeling annoyed states that she doesn't know the meaning of the word and resumes her attack on the Light but barely scratch's his body.

Tassadar, Zeratul and Raszagal tell Ellen that they had been watching all she has done and her motivations declaring their willingness to be burned as fuel by Ellen to empower her. Ellen hesitates at this stating she didn't eat their souls to use them like that. My self-insert character Noobzilla suggests a alternative using all of the souls that he had collected in the Dark-souls universe telling Ellen to use them. Not hesitating at the new plan Ellen accepts and burns all of the souls boosting her power by many factors and her attacks begin severely injuring the Light.

As the battle winds down the last of the allied fleets leaves while Ellen counter attacks the Light destroying the building completely and warping the immaterium into a chaotic storm of energy. The Light takes serious wounds and is soon crippled but not defeated. Ellen forms a massive lance with wings on its back that segments into scales. The lance thrusts at the Light only to be stopped by a shield. The Light taunts Ellen stating she and all who follow hers doomed to a eternal hell for defying Him and his utopia and that all her actions thus far were ultimately meaningless.

Ellen snaps laughing as she uses her trump-card. The two pairs of the original Valkyrur lances and shields from Gallia with the completed Keystones and the Crystal fragment found on Reach. Ellen's aura lance transforms into a segmented fractal drill lance with three long rainbow colored tail like wings extending off its handle each shimmering with many fractal colors.

The Light recognized the weapon as the same type the Forerunners used to win the battle in which they collected a fragment of the light it's self that eventually was used to create the Valkyrur and Ellen. The Light explained its a suicide weapon that converts ones own soul into energy.

Ellen promptly told the Light to fuck off activating the weapon. As her own soul was burned for a final boost of power the shield shattered. However in the instant the Lights body was pierced by the lance it's expression of anger and shock turned into a gleeful smile. The Light thanked Ellen for all her help revealing that while it had once desired to rule this universe its time sealed in the warp gave it time. Time to think how small one universe was and that instead of conquering one universe it would and should conquer all universes becoming the ultimate god of everything. But it couldn't create enough of a reality warp by itself to do that and needed another who was its equal and that's why it needed Ellen and had intentionally let her acquire power.

As the Light explained this a massive portal opened behind the Light. Ellen noticed the Lights soul detached from it's now destroyed body and flew swiftly into the tunnel in reality that lead into the rift between universal dimensions. The Light now shell of a body grayed out turning to dust.

With one last burst of her remaining power Ellen flew into the tunnel chasing the Light. She struggled to keep up getting just close enough to land one strike. The Light desperate to survive split its soul into three fragments to avoid the attack. Each fragment flew off into a different direction. Having exhausted all of her extra souls and her own souls power Ellen lost consciousness. Her body drifted on it's own path through the extra dimensional rift.

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In the epilogue everyone that survived the war returned to their worlds and homes and families making new lives for themselves and building a future for the generations to come. All of them remembering the Valkyrur, the Monster who ended the galaxies darkest hour.

In a blank space between universes a Transcendent (different from Psyon) with short Red hair chuckled to him self as he collected the last of the Lights three soul fragments.

"These look like fun toys. Lets see what can I do with them."

The red haired transcendent thought a bit as its saw into the fragments past and memories. He then with the greatest of ease created a fake fleet Adeptus Mechanicus fleet along with several squads of Ultramarines and ships for them along with several hundred other imperium ships from the Warhammer40k universe. And gave them all false memories and identities about being pulled into the warp and told by the machine-god to kill this Ellen person in the past. If for nothing more then His own entertainment and to to see if she can survive. He then added one of the Lights soul fragment in among the false space marines and opened a time portal transporting them into the past.

"Two soul fragments to go. What to do? What to do?"

Reading the past of the one known as Ellen again the transcendent cast another of the Lights soul fragments into another dimension onboard Noobzillas ship.

"One left. What next?"

Thinking it through the Transcendent decided it would be funny to send the last soul fragment into a very special dimension filled with monstrous xeno's aliens, chaotic paranoid empires, sadistic space elves and war loving green skins. The transcendent laughed to him self.

"Im going to enjoy this little show."

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In another part of the rift between dimensions Ellen's soul was collected by Psyon.

"Your not meant to be here little one. Nor are the others resting in you."

With a wave of his hands Psyon separated the four souls. Sending the souls of Tassadar, Zeratul and Raszagal back to their own dimension while letting the soul of Ellen drift into another universe to start over again.

Psyon then took the soul of Noobzilla giving it back a physical body and sent him back to his own dimension.

[Story End]