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Shortly after the events of Halo 3, Shortly after Halo 3 after the death of the Prophet the Covenant were in frantic confusion. With no worthy Prophet to take the throne a powerful Brute Cheiftain took the throne by force using promises of a better and stronger covenant. He said that the brutes should not be the ones blamed for their current suffering or for the war.
He had no desire to reembark on the Journey as fortold by the prophets. The only thing that has come from the journey is suffering. Instead he wanted to punish the people whose fault it was, the humans. He promised that the covenant would rise up and strike down the humans while they recovered. And so the onslaught began
With full force the brutes and the rest of the covenant went from colony to colony destroying the feeble atempts from the humans to stop them. They had destroyed most of the colonies when the chieften ordered the fleet to move towards Earth.
"But chieften the last time we attacked Earth.", started one of his generals.
"The last time we attacked Earth we were listening to the Prophets.", said the Chieften.
"What will be different this time around?", asked the general.
"This time we will be on Earth solely to destroy the humans for what they have done to our proud race.", stated the Chieften.
"But what about the demon?", asked the general.
"If the demon were still alive we would have seen him by now.", the Chieften responded.
"Indeed sir. All ships are plotting a coarse for Earth. I must ask, are we going to glass it?" the general inquired.
"That would be quick and painless. No, we will invade the pathetic planet and cause as much suffering as possible.", the Chieften answers.
"As you wish sir. What if the demon does show up?", the general inquires.
"Are you questioning my judgement?", the Chieften asked angrily.
"Of coarse not sir. My apologies.", the general quivered.
"Leave me", growled the Chieften.
On Earth the humans have become aware of the Covenant's coordinates. Lord Hood is aware of the fact that without a defense grid set up the Covenant could come in and glass the planet without as much as a scratch on their fleet.
"What if we get the MAC AA weapons optimized?", an officer asks.
"Even with them up and running we couldn't do enough to stop the glassing.", states another officer.
"They haven't glassed a single planet after Reach what makes you think they would start now?", Lord Hood inquires.
"Are you suggesting that they are launching a full scale invasion on Earth?", asks one of the officers.
"They are bringing twice as more than enough ships to glass the planet. Why would they bring more when they could be destroying two planets at once?" inquires Hood.
"Well we have too few forces to stop them. There is nothing we can do.", says the officer.
"Sir. I am sorry to interupt but we have just picked up a homing beacon we believe to be the Chief's." states a corporal.
"Could it really be? Is it possible that he survived the detonation? We need ships out there as soon as possible to investigate wherever it is that he is.", Hood demanded.
"But sir any ships sent out would surely be intercepted and destroyed by the Covenant fleet.", says the officer.
"We will send one ship from one of the few colonies left." Hood states.
"Sir even with the chief I don't think we can stop them. He must also free the squad of spartans that went through the portal on Onyx.", stated the officer.
"Of coarse. Seven spartans and two more brilliant commanders to inspire our troops. It's a long shot but it's the only shot we've got. Deploy a ship immediately." Lord Hood commands.
"The ship will be to where the Chief's beacon is, which appears to be near some sort of Forerunner planet, within the next ten minutes.", states the corporal.
"Let's just hope he is still alive and so are the other spartans. God help us." Lord Hood said.
The ship sent to retrieve the Chief arrived to the Forerunner. The piece of the Dawn was floating in orbit. A squad of marines went in and retrieved the Chief and Cortana. Once back on board the Chief an Cortana were briefed about their situation. The ship immediately embarked to Onyx leaving the planet's exploration for another day.
Once they arrived at Onyx the Chief was informed of the billions of sentinels surrounding the portal which was all that was left of Onyx.
"How will we make it through?", asked the Chief.
"We won't. Only you and Cortana will go through. We will be sending out EMP pods to temporarily stun the sentinels so you can make it in and then again before you exit. We don't have enough pods for us to stun them then bring you in close then stun them again and get in close for the pickup. Getting you in quick is easier so we have made a few modifications to and ODST drop pod. I hope you know how to steer it.", said the ships commanding officer.
"Sounds like it's a do or die moment. Good thing I'm an expert at those now.", remarked the Chief
After they were loaded into the drop pod Cortana asked:
"What if we don't make it?"
"We'll make it", said the Chief
The EMP pods were launched and so was the Chief's pod. They hit their mark perfectly.
Thirty minutes later the chief notified the ship that he had the spartans, Mendez, and Halsey. The ship launched a few pods and started the decent. They continued to launch pods until they had retrieved the Chief, Mendez, Halsey, and the other spartans and had made it to a safe distance. The six new spartans and the two officers were briefed on the current situation.
During this time the onslaught of Earth had begun. The Covenant had overrun parts of Europe and North America with ease and large portions of South America and Africa and even parts of Asia. The ground forces were nothing compared to the Covenant forces.
Back near Onyx they were all briefed and ready for combat. The covenant had their entire fleet in orbit on the side of Earth nearest them to stop most reinforcements from coming.
"How will we make it past the Covenant fleet?", Cortana asked.
"The only way is to jump to hyperspace and to stay in hyperspace until we are on the other side of the planet.", stated the ship's commander.
"But the way the solar systems are alligned at the moment we only have a small window which is"
"I know, Cortana. The only way to the other side of the planet is to go right through the armada of ships. It is our only option. We have to get there as soon as possible.", stated the commander.
"Let's pray we don't hit any of them or all this will be a loss and so will Earth.", said Cortana
They managed to dodge the fleet by some miracle. Once they got ready to make their decent Lord Hood informed them of their first mission.
"The brutes are attacking Washington D.C. because they know we have more information there than anywhere else on Earth. If D.C. falls then the brutes will have all the information they need to defeat us. You seven spartans will be sent in along with few more squads and some vehicles to aid a large force of ODST who are defending it. Halsey and Mendez, the two of you will be commanding the fight." Hood stated.
The seven spartans were launched in drop pods to the surface where they met up with the ODST. They had created a perimeter around the three most important building there, the CIA building, the FBI building, and the ONI site. They held out for hours but eventually the brutes stopped coming. The spartans were immediately evacted and sent to London to stop the onslaught there.
They stopped the London attacks and many other Europe attacks. It was clear that within a week Europe would easily be the humans again. It took the humans longer to recapture Europe than it did for the brutes to capture what they had at the moment only because the brutes were vast in number at first. The Covenant had focused most of their attention on Europe but still lost because of the inspiration that fighting alongside a spartan gave to the marines.
After Europe the spartans helped win back the United States. After that they started on Asia when the brute chieften became aware of his defeat.
"We had this world conquered!", shouted the Chieften, "How could this possibly happen?"
"The spartans. They inspire courage and strength into everyone around them, especially those drop troopers.", his general said.
"I will not lose like the Prophet did. Order the ships to get into postion to wipe this pathetic planet from the face of the galaxy."
"But sir we still have troops down there."
"Did I ask for your comments? Do as I command or more lives will be lost."
"It will take several hours since we are all stationed on one side of the planet."
"Then what are you waiting for?"
An hour into the process it became apparent to Lord Hood what was happening.
"What if we send in ODST or Spartans to the ships?", asked one of the officers.
"There are far too many. There is nothing we can do now. Damnit! After all this the brutes will still win." Lord Hood said with a sense of defeat in his voice.
"Did someone call for some air support?", the Arbiter said over the intercomn
The whole room exploded in cheer. The Arbiter had gone back to the Elites homeworld and had rallied everything the Elites had and had returned. They were still outnumbered but not by much.
A space battle insued the like of which no one had ever seen. Lord Hood took this opportunity to get the MAC AA guns optimized. The AA was just what the Elites needed to sway the battle.
The elites avoided firing upon the Chieften's ship knowing that he would run if they did but staying close enough where he couldn't make a jump.
[Edited on 10.30.2009 10:52 AM PDT]