"speech"

"radio/hologram/etc. communication"

Ship Names

'thoughts'

You get the point.

I do not own Halo or Star Wars; each franchise is owned by their respective owners.
now that that is out of the way let us begin

Reach, HIGHCOM, September 22th 2583

"Let us begin. As many of you already know, 2 days ago Taskforce 58 returned with a slight delay due to them responding to a SOS signal. The SOS signal of UNSC Forward Unto Dawn where upon arriving in the system they found a Republic ship connected to it and another one arriving. Both ships were promptly destroyed and the only survivor of the Dawn saved, we have found Master Chief after 3 decades" said Hood with calmness in his voice that only he could have.

"How will the Republic react to us destroying 2 of their ships?" asked General Kirisaki, to which Admiral Harper replied with "They won't, our prowler UNSC Jack the Ripper arrived in the system an hour before Republic reinforcements arrived and was jamming all communications of the republic, aside the original SOS signal of the first ship the second one didn't have a chance to send a message detailing our involvement in this since both the Dawn and the republic ships were destroyed by a Shiva nuke"

"Do we know who in their government sanctioned this?" asked General Edwards, Harper once again answered "Our Agents on Coruscant managed to 'persuade' a Republic intelligence officer to reveal the information, unfortunately shortly after that he had an accident and fell down to the lowest levels. From him we learned that the Chancellor himself authorized this wanting to get an advantage over us. Our AIs in Coruscant's mainframe also managed to confirm that information after getting access to the chancellor's surveillance cameras and investigating the footage from the past days"

Kirisaki said "That means he could try something against us, even open war" Hood calmly said "And for War we need to prepare, but there is a much more important issue at hand, Harper if you would" Harper nodded and each of the Generals got a update to their datapads. "Ladies and Gentlemen, what I am about to reveal to you is so secretive that if its revealed all our heads will roll. I would like to introduce you to Section 4 of MIO also known as Cerberus"

Petrenko asked "Section 4?" Harper answered "You are part of only 6 people outside of Section 4 that know of its existence and for good reason, if the existance of Section 4 was revealed and the operations they have undertaken, the entire UNSC could have been disbanded. What Section 4 has been doing the past few days is perhaps the biggest news in our history. Our ways of curing Rampancy are not working on Cortana, if I'm honest, we cant even call her Rampant anymore. From what we observed, Cortanas processing power has been stedily increasing since she arrived at Section 4 by a margin of 0.5% a day and the signs of Rampancy are slowly disappearing. We believe its because of her connection to Sierra-117 that she is entering Metastability and if she continues, any sign of rampancy or that it ever happened will be gone in 6 days along with her processing power exceeding that of our top AIs"

"Metastability? Harper, we don't even know if that is possible, its only theoretical" said Petrenko skeptically "Rampancy usually lasts a few years at best before the AI thinks itself to death, Cortana has been active for 33 years, 26 of which she was past her 7 year life time, believe me when I say this, she is entering metastability we ourselves don't know how she did it but as I said before we believe it's because of her connection to Sierra-117 and as much as we would like to keep her locked up and experiment on her we fear it could only bring problems for the UNSC and UEG if we try and keep her away from the Master Chief and as such would like to reassign her back to him."

"Granted, no onto the topic of Forerunner instillations in CIS and Republic space, what do you have on that Harper?" said Hood to which Harper replied with "The Absolute Record states that there is a Halo instillation not far from the Kashyyyk System and from our Agents in the CIS they are unaware of it and as for the Republic over the last several months and 1 single case dating back over a year, reports came in to the Republic officials about a structure that we know as Halo but the Republic has dismissed such claims due to the War. We believe that with our presence known to the Republic and their obvious intentions against us, that they will investigate it. As such I suggest we dispatch a fleet or at least a sizable taskforce there at once."

Kirisaki asked "What do we do about the republic?" Hood answered "We deny everything regarding the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, MIO has dealt with it so unless the Chancellor admits to sending a mission to one of our warships we deny our investment in everything that happened there and as far as we are concerned UNSC Forward Unto Dawn got destroyed at the battle of Instillation 00. If the chancellor choses to reveal that fact, we will strike on it, and no Harper, Assassination is of the table for now. As for the Halo ring, we send back every ship that comes across that system with very strict rules of engagement be it the CIS or Republic Navy or just some random traveler"

"My agents are about to obtain the Republic's FTL drive but from what we understand they can enter a system from only a few access points and have to jump from system to system, this gives us advantage since we can just bypass their strongholds but they can't bypass ours." Said Harper to which Hood said "Get me information on how many access points there are to that system, I will make the call and deploy the 5th fleet and I am placing us in 2. Prepare Flood countermeasures, I authorize the use of a Nova bomb. I will also contact the arbiter about the ring"

The words Nova bomb ran chills down everyone's spine in the room. It was clear that hood was taking no chances of a flood outbreak because of some trigger-happy old man that is feeling threatened.

Edwards asked "And what do we do about Master Chief?" Harper answered once again "Just like the rest of Blue team and the entirety of Red team, he wishes to remain in active service and I am for once do not wish to tell him otherwise" the rest nodded in improvement. Hood finally said "With this the meeting is adjourned, we will meet again on October 30th, Goodluck and Godspeed" The screens turned black and only Harper remained in the room before 1 of the screens lit up again.

"Report Lawson, what do you have" a Woman entered the screen she saluted and said "We almost cracked the encryption on the chancellor's personal files, if he has anything to hide, we will find it. Preparations for Operation 'Headless rider' are underway we project it to be ready withing a week and be ready to execute right after Operation 'para bellum', as for the Diplomatic team, they are doing fine, they have a meeting planned with a few Senators from the Republic peace faction on the 26th"

Harper wrote something down on a piece of paper before he replied with "Put operation 'Headless rider' and 'para bellum' on hold for now, I want everything said during that meeting send to me by tomorrow evening, good luck Lawson, don't disappoint me" the woman saluted and the screen went black again. Harper stood up and walked to his office, he had a war prepare for.

Coruscant, Human-Sangheili Embassy, September 26th 2583

Padme stared at the building for a moment, she admired it. It was certainly a very interesting building that didn't fit on Coruscant and stuck out like a sore thumb. It was blocky yet at the same time very smooth and exotic looking painted green and red. At the stairs and entrance stood Human marines in their green armor and Sangheili Honor guards in red. It was very exciting for Padme.

She got snapped out of her staring contest with the building by the Senator from Alderaan, Bail Organa "It certainly is a very interesting design, isn't it?" she looked at him "It certainly is" Bail said "let's move and not keep the ambassadors waiting" and so they did, they walked up the stairs and approached the Entrance where they were stopped by a Human Marine.

"Sir, ma'am, I will have to see your identification and purpose of visit before I let you in" both of them showed the soldier who they were and said they were here to meet the ambassadors, the soldier then confirmed the information on the Radio and let the 2 inside where they were led to a conference room. Once they entered, they saw the Human ambassador to the Republic, Donel Udina, and the Sangheili Ambassador, El 'Sattin waiting for them around a wooden table, both of them stood up.

"Welcome Senators, please, take a seat" gestured Udina to the couch opposite to theirs. Both of the parties did, and once they were seated Udina began "How can I help both of you Senators?" Padme answered to the Human ambassador "We would like to learn more about the UEG the Sangheili Empire, their culture and history" she noticed that on the word 'history' the expression on the Humans face grew grim, and the Sangheili's mandibles twitched.

"Senators, History is something neither of our governments or species is proud of. When we were confined to our world, over 600 years ago we had a devastating war that killed around 70 million in 6 years, it was the most destructive war at that time, 2 centuries later, a war killed more then that. But, both of those wars combined, cant compare to the most recent one." Said Udina stopping right before the Human-Covenant war and letting the El talk.

"The Sangheili are much the same, we are a warrior species and war is in our blood, but just like the humans, we do not take pride in war and the things that happen in it, the most recent war opened our eye's" El stopped just like Udina did right before the Human-Covenant war. This was suspicious to both of the Senators, they mentioned a war that happened recently, Padme believed it was the Human-Covenant war that they mentioned during their introduction in the senate, so she asked.

"Are both of you refeering to the Human-Covenant war?" she noticed how upon hearing that both of the Ambassadors tensed up and shot glares at her. El began "Yes Senator, yes we are.68 years ago, the Sangheili were part of a Religious coalition of species the Covenant, and when we discovered Humanity 68 years ago, we began a war of extermination against them, the war lasted for 27 years Senator, 27 years of carnage, death, suffering and sacrifice for a lie"

"A Lie?" asked Bail. Udina answered this time. "The Covenant viewed a long extinct species, the Forerunners as gods and when they discovered us they declared our existence to be blasphemous against their gods and that the gods demand our extermination. Something that they almost achieved. In the year 2552, Humanity was at its back leg, close to extinction, our stronghold and the second most important planet next to our home world, fell to Covenant onslaught.

Defeat was all but assured, but a miracle happened, the Covenant erupted into Civil War when the Sangheili found out they were lied to this entire time and that our Existence was actually the redemption of the ones that came before us. A way to repay a mistake they had committed a very long time ago"

El continued "And once we learned the truth, we switched sides in protecting Humanity where we managed to eliminate the Covenant leadership and lead to its downfall but at the cost of countless billions of Humans and our own betheren" Silence permeated the room as Udina and El stopped talking and let the information sink in for the Senators.

"Im sorry I…I didn't know" said Padme in a somber tone. Udina said "There was a reason we only mentioned it in the Senate, Senator, the wounds while 30 years old are still fresh in memory. Both I and El served as soldiers in the war so the topic is particularly touchy for us. So I ask that you and any other senator refrain from mentioning the subject." Bail "Understandable, we will refrain from asking. But I do have to ask, is that the reason you are so militarized?"

Udina looked at Bail for a moment before saying "Senator, we humans have a very old saying. 'Si vis pacem, para bellum', it translates into 'If you want peace, prepare for war'. It is something both we and the Sangheili learned the hard way many times in out history, the only way to ensure the continuation of peace is to have a bigger stick then the other guy. Something you can observe in your own government right now and something that both our governments fear."

Padme gathered up the courage to ask a question after the failure that was her last one. "What does your government fear?" El answered her question "Dictatorship senator, we fear dictatorship, the powers that your senate has granted the chancellor are…worrying, history has shown that power corrupts the individual. And if I am honest, is just more justification as to why our governments recognize the CIS as a true government, the Republic is corrupt, ineffective and slowly turning into a dictatorship"

Padme tried to defend the Republic "You are wrong, the republic stood for thousands of years upholding democracy and equality" Udina shot back at her "thousands of years of neglect and corruption. Slavery is widespread in the Outer Rim, Corruption in the senate. You yourself senator should know how corrupt the republic is when a decade ago the Trade federation blockaded your planet and the Senate did nothing."

Padme was about to retour but Udina continued "You tolerate crime lords controlling a large chunk of the western part of the Galaxy, you tolerate slavery while outlawing it. You declared war on a State that seceded f rom the Republic for the sole reason that they were creating a army, something paramount in ensuring the safety of their people, something that the Republic couldn't give them" Udina knew the hypocrisy of his statement, the UEG fought the insurrectionists after all, but the UEG has come a long way in those decades and did something that the Republic refused to do for centuries.

Silence filled the room once again only interrupted when a secretary entered the Room "Ambassadors, the Chancellor is on line 2 requesting a talk, its urgent" both of them stood up and then a hologram appeared of the chancellor.

"Chancellor what do we owe this pleasure to?" asked Udina but he noticed the distain in Palpatine's eye's. The chancellor answered "Yes Ambassadors, I am calling you to ask you about the reason why the UNSC and Sangheili Navy destroyed Republic ships in the Balamak system"

Balamak system, Resolute, September 26th 2583

Yularen was undergoing a nervous breakdown, A Month ago he saw the UNSC ships destroy 2 CIS ships as if they were nothing, now he was staring down a fleet of them. "Run the numbers again" he said to his sensors officer who a moment later replied "Confirmed, 62 Vessels matching UNSC signatures" 62 ships, he never saw this many ships deploy at once, and the fact that they were here when General Skywalker and General Kenobi were down on the ring structure wasn't helping. He wasn't sure what they wanted here but he was sure that if they wanted the ring, they could take it, unfortunately for him he had orders to hold this ring to the last man.

"Send emergency message back to Command. Let them know what is happening here." A moment later the message was sent and the Resolute picked up a message being send by the UNSC on all frequencies "This is Admiral Del Rio of the 5th Fleet*; all Republic vessels are to leave this system at once." And there it was, now Yularen knew that this could very well be his last battle, but he still had a duty to the Republic. "Open a channel" a communications officer nodded and a moment later Yularen said "Admiral Del Rio, this is Admiral Yularen of the Republic Open Circle Fleet, you are trespassing on Republic territory, leave immedietly or we will be forced to open fire." He didn't get a response in form of words, but he got it in form of the UNSC fleet entering a Formation with a massive 4.2 Km Ship at the front. Granted it wasn't as large as the Ship he saw first or the ship that was above coruscant but still large compared to what the Republic had.

"Sir, energy buildup on the ship at the front of the formation!" yelled the sensors officer, and a moment later the ship fired above Yularen and his ship, this was a warning shot, the next one would hit and he knew it. "This is your last warning, leave the system or be eliminated" said the UNSC admiral again.

Yularen had a Job to do until reinforcements arrived. "Get me targeting solutions on that large ship at the front, tell the other venators to do the same". Yularen was holding position around the ring with 6 Venators in his fleet and while the Jedi were exploring the ring, he was in charge of the fleet. "Prepare to launch fighters and bombers, target the Ship at front and its escort." His orders were send around the ships and soon the Republic was in its own formation, launching fighters and bombers at the UNSC fleet.

The UNSC responded in kind by launching their own Fighters. The Republic craft quickly made their way to the lead ship and deployed bombs and torpedoes on the ships bridge effectively killing the ship in action. They then turned on the other lead ships before quickly turning around back to the Venators. Atleast the ones that managed to survive the onslaught of very agile and dangerous UNSC fighters, less then 20% of the airwings returned to the Venaotrs.

"UNSC Essex is down, I repeat UNSC Essex is down, Bombing run on the bridge killed the Admiral" said the comms officer on the bridge of the UNSC Preston J. Cole Hackett quickly said to the ships AI "Napoleon, transmit the new formation to all ships, focus on enemy craft in the shape of the letter 'Y' and send a report to FLEETCOM, tell them the Essex received hits to the bridge, Admiral presumed dead, ship immobilized" the AI with the avatar of the French emperor did as he was told.

Hackett observed on his Holotable as the 5th fleet was getting into the new formation and soon moved out with Paris-Class frigates at the front followed by Medusa-class Destroyers and the Preston J. Cole herself. "Tell the UNSC Goldfish to move up to our left side and prepare her fighters, and get me a firing solution on the lead ship" the AI and weapons officer complied and did as they were told.

"Contact Captain Miller and his wolfpack, tell them to jump the moment that we open fire" the Communications officer relayed his order. Hackett was doing his best with a fleet this large; this was Afterall his first time leading one of this size, normally he would lead a portion of the fleet or a single taskforce of it. Now with the screw up that Del Rio did by putting his Carrier at the front of the formation Hackett had to take command.

"In weapons range in 10 seconds" said Napoleon, 10 seconds passed and Hackett ordered "Open fire" on that order the front row of ships opened fire and the Wolfpack jumped behind the Republic ships. With the fleet firing at them the Republic would focus their shields at the front, leaving their back relatively undefended, and Hackett planed on exploiting that with him sending Miller and his wolfpack to the back.

Quickly the Republic 'Star Destroyers' turned into stars as the UNSC fleet ruthlessly destroyed them. Only the last venator remained but it was in the process of being evacuated as you could see life boats flying out and going towards the Ring.

"Tell the UNSC Trident to prepare her ODST complement and deploy them alongside the predicted Escape pod arc, tell the UNSC Paradox to send her ODST complement in search of the control room. The Rest of the fleet set up defensive positions around the Ring, tell Wolfpack 1 to prepare their Avenger Nukes*, we need to give the Sangheili enough time to get here. And give me an update on the Essex" he said sitting down in his chair. He watched as the 2 Frigates were moving above the Ring and soon pods rained down from them.

"Sir we are detecting 20 Ships matching republic signatures" and just as his sensors officer said, 20 republic ships jumped into the system in tight formation, Hackett immedietly ordered a comms channel to be opened "This system is closed, turn back or we will open fire" was his order to the Republic, they didn't respond but they didn't slow down so he gave the order "Give me targeting solutions on the nearest ship, tell Wolfpack 1 to jump" he watched as the Republic fleet let out their fighters. He typed in some orders and soon his frigates were moving into position to provide AA fire and how his own fighters moved to meet their Republic counterpart.

"We are in weapons range Admiral" said the Weapons officer looking at Hackett "All ships, open fire on my mark" was uttered out of Hacketts mouth and followed by "Now!" a few seconds later. The Shots traveled for a few seconds before they found their mark, gutting 4 Ships in the process, soon after that Wolfpack 1 entered the field by exiting Slipspace in the middle of the enemy formation. CIWS and rocket fire began from all the destroyers in the pack and soon they left their package and entered a Slipspace portal.

With a 5 second delay, the Avenger-Class nuclear device ignited its engines and launched forth against a Venator. When it met its mark, the system gained a new sun for a split moment as the nuclear device detonated taking 6 Venators with it, the fleet of 20 ships was reduced to a measly 9 and were still pushing against the UNSC defenses. But soon met a hail of fire coming from the UNSC as they resumed their fire after the Wolfpack was clear gutting 3 more. The remaining 3 started retreating behind a planet in the system.

"Do not pursuit, remain at defensive positions around the Ring" Hackett send out his order to the rest of the fleet. The Republic was probably already sending reinforcements, sending his ships after those 3 would jeopardize his defensive line and open up the ring for a Attack, he had to hold out until the Sangheili arrived with their fleet and then focus on the Ring and the flood likely stored on it.

1 Hour passed with not much happening until a sensors officer picked up Signatures incoming "Sir, we have 80 ships approaching, all match the Venator signatures". This is was it then, this was the battle to decide if the UNSC and its allies controlled the Ring or the Republic did and doomed them all. "All ships, Enemy fleet incoming, prepare for battle" rang out his voice and he soon approached the Holotable looking at it. In that 1 hour he had his ships set up a mine field between them and the Planet the Republic ships were hiding behind and was the direction that the republic would be coming from with their reinforcements.

Soon all ships signaled ready, their shields at 100% weapons fully charged and emergency teams ready, now all that needed to happen was for the Republic to finally arrive. And no sooner then the UNSC got ready did the Republic fleet of 80 arrive. Quickly making their way to the UNSC fleet and deploying their Fighters.

"All ships, fire when in weapons range" said Hackett and waited for the republic to get close enough to open fire, he waited and waited when he got his wish, his flagship opened fire first, followed by the cruisers and so on. Some Republic ships managed to evade, some didn't and got hit, some of them outright destroyed while some sustained medium to heavy damage. While his weapons were recharging the Republic got closer and closer, close enough that they entered the mine field. Soon one Venator went down as it hit a mine, going out in a blaze of fire.

The Republic realized where they were and what happened and now, he had a choice to make, either spread out and possibly lose even more ships to the mines, or group up and minimalize the chances of hitting a mine but also making himself a easier target for the UNSC fleet. He chose grouping up. When the ships were close enough to each other some were hit by UNSC MAC rounds and some went out while others benefitet from overlapping shields and only sustained heavy damage, but still pressed on.

The Fight between the Fighters wasn't looking any better for the Republic, while having a nimbler fighter they were outclassed by the UNSC fighters in armor and weaponry. The Venators got close enough to open fire as they cleared the minefield and some bombers broke through UNSC Fighter screen. The First UNSC ship went down, a Frigate floated dead in space from the concentrated Republic fire. But for every UNSC ship lost, the Republic lost 4-5 in return.

"Admiral, we have Sangheili Signatures incoming, 10 Seconds out" said his Sensors officer and Hackett nodded at him, he went back to looking at the Holotable and after 10 seconds 120 Sangheili Ships led by a CAS-class assault carrier entered the fray at the back of the Republic formation, quickly opening fire on Republic ships, "Sir we are being hailed from the Sangheili Fleet" said his Comms officer "Patch them through" replied Hackett and soon enough a voice rang out of the bridges intercom "Admiral Hackett, this is Fleetmaster Rtas 'Vadum, we hope we aren't late for the fight"

Hackett smiled, he heard about the Fleetmasters personality and will to fight "You are just on time Fleetmaster, I deployed teams of ODST to the ring, we need to clear out the Republic ships and then we can focus on it." Rtas said "It will be done" and quickly moved his ships to wipe out the Republic fleet.

With the Sangheili Fleet behind the Republic, the UNSC pressed the Republic fleet and quickly the remaining ships were destroyed. "Emergency message coming from the Ring surface admiral!" said his Comms officer, Hackett nodded at him and said "Play it" a moment later the message played "The Republic have freed the flood, I say again they have freed the flood. Flood broke containment, sent help!" This day just turned bad to worse.

Installation 02, Republic Force, September 26th 2583

Running out of a bunker with flood forms behind them were 2 jedi and a small group of clones, it seemed as if luck was never on this pairs side as they unleashed a parasite by accident thinking this bunker was the command center of this Ring but turned out to be a prison of some sorts. They kept running with the occasional clone shooting at their pursuers. "Yularen, I need immediate extraction and bombardment on my location!" yelled Anakin into his communicator. All that returned was silence, Obi-Wan said "Perhaps the bunker is preventing communication, we need to get to the surface fast" no one argued with that, everyone wanted to be as far away from these things as possible. Running up to a elevator while shooting back at these abominations they found the door sealed shut. "Cover me I will cut through!" yelled Anakin, the clones took defensive positions around him and Obi-Wan helped with the cutting.

When they cut through the door all of them, 2 jedi and 6 clones, ran into the elevator hitting the hologram and being send up to where the remnants of their force should be. When the elevator arrived at the surface level, they found the entrance to be empty, devoid of the 12 clones that were covering the entrance. What they did however find was the reason for the Yularen not responding.

The UNSC was here, and they were mopping up the last venator that they Arrived with. They spotted Escape pods and also spotted UNSC vessels dropping dark pods at the ring not far from them. "That would explain why we couldn't contact Yularen" said Anakin, "It does, but it doesn't explain why the UNSC is here, or why they are fighting us" they didn't get an answer what they did get however was the parasite coming up the elevator.

"Well whatever reason it is, its better to go to them and find out then stay here!" yelled Anakin as he and the rest of the group broke into a run to the Pods. As they got closer and closer they started receiving a signal. "Thiss is Co-*static*-y, Gener-*static* you read?!" Rex turned to one of the few remaining clones "Try to clear up that signal!" the clone nodded and a moment latter the signal played as clear as it could "This is Commander Cody, Generals do you read!?"

"Cody this is, Skywalker, what's the situation!?" yelled Anakin as he kept running. "It's the UNSC sir, a fleet of 62 ships jumped in and ordered us to leave immediately or be destroyed, when we refused to leave they fired, they utterly destroyed our ships, Admiral Yularen went down with the Resolute, we noticed them dropping some kind of Pods from their ships. I am currently gathering what forces managed to evacuate and heading to you" answered Cody

"NO! Do not come our way Cody, we have unleashed something horrible from its containment, shoot at anything that doesn't look clone or human!" yelled Obi-Wan a far cry from his normal composed self. "Copy that, we will move onto the Tower north of our position then, the UNSC pods fell down in that location, I think it's worth investigating" said Cody as he was preparing to leave with the people that survived "Copy that, we will meet you there" said Anakin.

It took them 40 minutes to get close to the Tower and where Cody was. Approaching the Tower, they could hear Gun fire and blaster fire from the direction of the tower. When they finally cleared the way they saw Cody and the clones of the 212th and 501st hugging to cover behind rocks trees or anything else they could find. This was a new thing to see since clones weren't known for such behavior. They can up to Cody and hid behind the rock he was hiding behind.

"Its good to see you sir" he said as bullets wised past his cover, "Likewise Cody, what are we up against?" asked Kenobi. Cody quickly peaked above the cover and fired of a shot before ducking again, "Looks like a squad of Special Forces, Black armor head to toe, when we got here they were talking to a Floating yellow ball and when they noticed us they ran for cover and opened fire, then these blasted droids came out of the tower entrance and also focused on us!" he yelled pointing at a Sentinel shell not far from their position. "The yellow ball kept talking something about attacking the reclaimers or something, he wouldn't shut up, but the droids stopped coming out after a while and the ball retreated back into the tower" he continued.

"If they are defending it so furiously then it must mean that the command center of this ring is in there, normally we would try to rout them from there but we don't have time for that Cody, tell your men to cease firing, we need to work alongside them for now, the thing we released takes priority" Said Kenobi, "I will try and talk to them, they probably know the dangers of those things since the ball talked to them" Cody nodded and went on to relay the orders to his Clones.

The shooting calmed down as the clones and UNSC forces stopped firing at each other, Kenobi got out of his cover and walked to the UNSC forces with his hands raised up in the air. No gunfire came his way, instead a Black helmet with a silver visor and a Blue stripe on it move up from cover until Kenobi could see the man standing with his weapon ready, motioning him to get closer to their lines.

Kenobi Complied and approached where he found he was now the target of 3 other soldiers all pointing their guns at him, Kenobi introduced himself "I am Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi and I would-" he was cut of by the man with the blue stripe on his head "Shut up, we don't have time for pleasantries, we know what the fuck you did, do you have any idea what you released?"

Kenobi however never had the chance to answer that question as the abominations found them after they lost them, he instantly noticed that the UNSC was getting back to work, the man with the blue stripe yelled at him "Tell your men to get over here!" and he began to fire at the Abominations that used to be clones, covering his clones and Anakin while they got here.

Then the Droids came flying out but instead of shooting their laser at the clones as Obi-Wan feared they shot at the abominations coming their way. But even with the combine firepower of the UNSC forces, Clones and those Droids, they were still slowly loosing ground. He could hear the man yell "Luz! Contact the Admiral! Tell them the flood is here!" and a Trooper with a backpack started dialing something on it before talking into it.

"The Republic have freed the flood; I say again they have freed the flood. Flood broke containment, sent help!" followed by a moment of silence before a older voice rang out of the set, which Kenobi now identified as a Radio "Say again, the flood broke containment ?" the Radio operator gave the microphone to the Man with the Blue stripe "This is captain winters, yes the Flood have breached containment thanks to Republic forces, we are currently holding position right outside of the control room, we have the Index, We request immediate assistance!"

A moment of silence from the Radio followed again before it sounded "The Shadow of Intent, Repentant Judgment and UNSC Berlin are moving to assist you, eta 5 minutes" The man Kenobi now Identified as Captain Winters gave the Microphone back and said angerly "We might not be here in 5 minutes. Alright, you heard him, 5 minutes!" this uplifted the morale a bit of both forces as they now fought with an end goal in mind. 3 Minutes past and Kenobi could see the Craft that escorted the Diplomats on the day they met the Senate. Tear shaped ships blitzing down onto the battleground accompanied by Those UNSC craft and their transports.

The craft shot down at the abominations with everything they had and the transports came to a hover above allowing the 30 clones 20 UNSC soldiers and the yellow floating ball to get on board. The Ball approached Kenobi "do you have any idea how many protocols you broke? Opened up the Flood containment facility, didn't follow containment procedures, attacked the Reclaimers. Didn't it come to your mind that when a door is closed and refuses to open and when you do open it and are attacked, that whatever is behind those doors has to remain closed?"

Kenobi wanted to answer but the ball cut him of again "You should be thankful the Reclaimers and the Reclaimer's shield have a containment plan in place to fix your mistake, otherwise the parasite would infect the whole galaxy"

As the Transports were speeding to the UNSC and Sangheili fleet, Kenobi saw 3 ships, 2 Sangheili and 1 UNSC approached the ring, and open fire on it, with Nuclear weapons and Plasma. Something unheard of in the Galaxy for thousands of years, this left him wondering what was next to come.

There we go, alright sorry for the long wait but my school started again(yeh, I have to physically go to school because its so back in time they don't know what a video call is) but as I promised this chapter is longer, its 6k words.

Till next time, I hope you enjoyed it.

P.S: Forgot to add trivia marked with *, so here we go

*5th Fleet:

CO: Admiral Del Rio

XO: Vice-Admiral Hackett

Fleet composition:

62 Ships

1 Europa-Class Fleet Carrier, UNSC Essex (Admiral Del Rio's Flagship)

1 Preston Cole-Class Battleship, UNSC Preston J. Cole (Vice-Admiral Hackett's Flagship)

4 White Shark-Class Light Carriers

6 Autum-Class Heavy Cruisers (Modernized)

2 Bastion-Class Heavy Cruisers

10 Medusa-Class Destroyers

8 Gorgon-Class Destroyers (Modernized)

20 Moskow-Class Frigates

10 Paris-Class Frigates (Modernized)

*Avenger Class Nuclear Device is a upgrade to the Shive Class Nuclear device. It was designed in 2569 due to the UNSC's need for more pottent and cheaper anti-ship nuclear munitions. It is 1.5 stronger then its predecesor and costs half its price