Date: October 30th 2563

Time: 1400 hours

It took almost two hours to make it through the bell of the ship and get to the bridge of the Covenant vessel. With his shot-gun in hand Captain Leonard was surprised at the lack of anything. There hadn't been any resistance; no sign of any fighting which they were glad of, but then Leonard grew suspicious – where were the Covenant?

"Well you've seen the ship…can we go now?" Constantine whimpered.

"Constantine pull yourself together, I need you to access the ship's logs and find out what happened here" Leonard barked. "Do you understand?"

There was a quiet "yes Sir" before Leonard inserted Constantine into the ships data core.

Then Leonard switched his shot-gun for the MA5C Assault Rifle that was on his back and continued to search the ship; he was no Spartan but at least he had been an ODST, which meant he had some protection from the Covenant's plasma weapons or anything else they might have on this ship - his protective armour would see to that.

He'd left his ODST command nine years before and joined the navy but he'd kept his armour. He often wore it on the bridge of the Agamemnon because not only did it make him feel safe, but it made him feel more at home.

Though it made some of the young crewman feel like they were in trouble. Leonard just smiled and told them to get back to work.

"Sir I found something – according to the logs this ship was on a mission to find the Flood's home world."

"What? – that would be suicide. Did they find it?" Leonard inquired.

"Yes they did – they were hit by some kind of device and their ship began to drift. Hold on I'm getting something, we need to leave now!"

"Why?" But Leonard soon had his answer when swarms of Flood infection forms came crashing out of the wall in front of him. Firing rapidly he was able to kill a large amount before the rest stopped and didn't come any closer.

"Constantine, are you seeing this?" Leonard couldn't tell what the hell was going on. By then the infection forms were gone.

"Yes Captain, according to the logs these Flood were made by the Covenant as a weapon to use against humans – they're genetic mutations, homemade Flood if you like. It seems the Flood were made by a race more powerful than the forerunners."

"More powerful but how is that possible?" Leonard was so confused by then he didn't know what to say.

"Sir, this race was the enemy of the forerunners and the Flood was their weapon of mass destruction; a perfect weapon of mass destruction."

"How are they perfect when they eat everyone?" Leonard said angrily

"Well think about it a Flood goes into your body and makes you a combat form right?"

"Right - where are you going with this?"

"And then you join their side whether you want to or not. They were invading our galaxy because they wanted more than what they had. They wanted to spread their influence across other galaxies, but they were not expecting to find the forerunners."

"What happened to them?" Leonard asked.

"They became victims to the very same fate that befell the forerunners; they were annihilated by their very own creations. The only way to destroy the Flood once and for all is to go to their home planet and destroy the AI now controlling their world. There is sort of an off switch which is why Halo couldn't destroy them because they were off at the time," Constantine explained.

"Why didn't the Covenant do it?"

"Were you not even listening to me before, they were hit by that device remember."

"Oh right yeah" Leonard forgot that but who could blame him when it came to Constantine. It was hard to keep up.

"If you're wondering where they got the blue print for the Flood it was on an out post near the prophet's home planet. And if you're wondering why the Flood didn't attack it was because they were incomplete. The covenant troop and crew were teleported off the ship almost a year ago before they were complete."

"I had been wondering." Leonard said sarcastically. "So do you have any ideas as to how we can get to this plane?." Leonard asked.

"Yes I believe I do."