Chapter 5- Answers
After disposing of the bomb, Thel'Vadam left back to the Shadow of Intent along with his squad and Lord Hood to discuss their plan of attack with Rtas'Vadum.
"We need to hit them back and hard." Lord Hood said.
"I agree, but we need to discover why did they attack here, why the Earth?" Thel'Vadam said.
"I don't understand as well." Rtas'Vadum said.
"Wait, if their goal is to activate one of the rings, won't they have to travel to the surface and retrieve the index." Thel'Vadam said.
"That's right, but even if they do that, we will need to figure out which ring they would go to." Lord Hood said.
"I will investigate this matter, in the meantime Thel, we have received information that some Loyalists survived the attack. You can capture them so we could interrogate them." Rtas'Vadum said.
"That could work. I will just need three other Elites just in case." Thel'Vadam said.
"You can take a Phantom, head to the battle field, and capture enemies." Rtas'Vadum said.
Thel'Vadam left with three Spec Ops Elites in a Phantom to the battle field. They soon spotted three Jackals.
"I shall go first." Thel'Vadam said.
Thel'Vadam surprised the Jackals and knocked the weapons out of their hands. He killed two Jackals. He approached the other one, it tried to run but Thel grabbed it by the neck.
"Where shall we put it?" One Elite said.
Thel walked towards an old shack, put a device on the floor, threw the Jackal towards the wall, the device had set a barrier and locked the Jackal.
"You, guard this barrier incase any other Loyalist forces come." Thel said as one of the Elites stayed as the others left with Thel. They came upon two Brutes arguing.
"You fool, we should go this way!"
"No, this way!"
The Brutes began hitting each other.
"Beasts." One Elite whispered.
"No matter, Arbiter what will we do?" Asked the other Elite.
"Activate Camouflage, wait until I give the order to attack." Thel'Vadam said.
"Yes Arbiter."
Thel and the Elites approached the fighting Brutes.
"Now!" The Arbiter yelled.
Thel'Vadam killed one Brute, as the Elites held down the other. The Brute then began berserking. Thel stabbed the Brute.
"The Brutes are to dangerous to be held as prisoners." Thel said.
"You are right." One Elite said.
"Do we continue?" Another Elite said.
"Yes." Thel'Vadam said.
"Where?"
Suddenly they heard gunfire. They searched the area and found Loyalist forces contacting one of their ships. Thel and the Elites investigated and found that the Loyalists are planning to go to Installation 02 and enter the library to retrieve the index. They went back to the Shadow of Intent and told Rtas'Vadum. They prepared for the battle. But unknown by the Separatists, Humans, or Loyalists an old threat was coming back to try to finish its goal.