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What if you could decide what the story for Halo 2 would be? What do you think will happen? Please post on this thread your ideas for the entire Halo 2 storyline, from start to finish, based on whatever knowledge you have of the Halo universe. Or you could post single events that you think will happen, such as The Flood being found under the pyramids, or the Forerunner coming back, but please no obvious single events like "the Covenant will invade Earth".
Also, please don't flame people for saying things that you think will just NOT happen, like Keyes returning, or for saying things that conflict with the books. (I haven't read the books, so my Halo 2 storyline might be completely wrong.)
Here's my Halo 2:
The Chief and Cortana are travelling back to Earth, with news that a Covenant armada will soon be here. They dock their ship at an orbitting station and mass preparations begin to defend Earth. The UNSC's main fleet was defending other colonies, and has been given orders to return to Earth.
After 2 days, 1000 Covenant cruisers drop out of hyperspace/subspace to begin their attack on Earth. Many enter Earth's atmosphere and others begin attacking the orbitting defences. Most of the orbitting defences are destroyed within an hour, with little dent made on the Covenant force. The chief's station is heavily damaged, and has long been evacuated, with all the lifeboats landing on Earth, leaving the chief and Cortana trapped on the station.
Cue Halo 2 announcement trailer.
The chief kills every Covie on the ship and then takes out a few other Covenant cruisers. They escape on a Covie lifeboat and enter Earth's atmosphere near UNSC HQ. They hitch a ride to where the worst affected area is, New Mombasa, Africa.
Cue Halo 2 E3 2003 Real-Time demo.
The chief only had to deal with low-level infantry up to this point, but now has 7 (Bungie with their 7s) sword-wielding elites to kill. He does so, and takes some marines and ODSTs and hijacks the cruiser.
Numerous fights follow, but for every fight the chief wins there are 50 lost elsewhere.
Every major city in the world has been destroyed, and one last human stronghold remains, an underground fortress miles under the Atlantic. The Covenant believe that a Forerunner facility exists on Earth, the pyramids. Switch to a cutscene showing an engineer messing around with something in the pyramids, and activating it. The flood, suddenly awoken, start to pour out of the pyramids and wipe out the unsuspecting Covenant forces there. The Covenant, terrified of the Flood, get every uninfected ship away from Earth and run home.
The UNSC's main fleet returns to Earth, and makes contact with the under-ocean survivors. They rescue the survivors, knowing that Earth is lost to the flood.
A plan starts. Several missions to the ground begin, where the chief and others try to bring back samples of the flood. The capture millions of spores.
To cripple the Covenant, we decide to destroy 3 of their races. Humanity unleashes the flood spores on the Prophet homeworld (so that their leadership doesn't exist), the Elite homeworld (so the greatest warriors are killed), and the Grunt homeworld (to make the greatest dent on the Covenant population).
After many battles on each planet, the Grunt homeworld succumbs to the spread of the Flood. The Prophet homeworld falls, leaving only the Elite world. The Flood spread, but the Elites do well to fight them off. The Elite's organisation HQ remains untouched and well defended. The chief takes a force of marines and ODSTs to try to infect their command. The plan: get inside, break open the flood spores and then get the hell out.
They break into the HeadQuarters with severe casualties. The chief and Cortana pick up through an Elite com system that there are hundreds of reinforcements on the way, only to have them instantly arrive and surround the now sole survivors, Master Chief and Cortana.
There is no way they can win the battle, so the chief unleashes all the Flood spores, allowing himself to be taken over by them, and also infecting all the Elites in the HQ.
The Elite world is taken over by the Flood, and the Covenant are broken, with only a few races remaining. The chief had sacrificed himself to destroy the Elites, and saves humanity.
THE END.