By Andrew (aperson30)
After the destruction of halo, a high ranking covenant elite who was defending it is stripped of his armor and tortured for his failure in the covenant holy city known as high charity. Meanwhile above Earth, Spartan-117 is getting his armor upgraded to mjolnir mk6, and attending an award ceremony held by Lord Hood for Sgt. Avery Johnson and Commander Miranda Keyes, Captain Jacob Keyes daughter.
During the ceremony, the covenant suddenly warp to Earth and begin bombing space stations, Master Chief finds one of these bombs and jumps into space where he guides the bomb inside a covenant super carrier, just before it detonates. Master Chief conveniently lands on Sgt. Johnson's pelican to take the fight to the surface.
Once on the surface, Commander Keyes intercepts a covenant radio transmission, all she can hear is "regret". a covenant scarab shoots down the pelican and Master Chief along with Sgt. Johnson and his marines are forced to trek the city on foot. along the way, Cortana finds out that the Prophet of Regret (one of the covenants leaders) is on a ship above the city and he did not expect to find humans on Earth. After destroying the scarab, Chief boards a pelican that takes him back to Keyes ship, the In Amber Clad, and follows Regrets ship as it jumps into Slip Space and Destroys New Mombasa.
Meanwhile, the Elite that was tortured for failing to protect Halo is given the position of Arbiter by the prophets to silence the true heretics, the Elites who know what halo is really meant for. after destroying the Heretic hideout in the orbit of Threshold (the planet that Halo was orbiting), and a run-in with the flood, the Heretic leader tells Arbiter that the Prophets are wrong, and that the Oracle can prove it< after killing the Heretic, 343 Guilty Spark reveals himself to be the Oracle as Tartarus, The brute Chieftain, takes him captive.
After the slip space jump, the crew of the In Amber Clad discover another Halo ring, Master Chief joins a team of ODST's for a drop pod invasion on the covenant from orbit. after the invasion Cortana discovers a hologram of Regret singing a prayer that translates into a plan to use halo. Master Chief discovers the location of Regret just as High Charity (the covenant holy city) warps into orbit along with the entire covenant fleet. Once Chief killed the prophet, the covenant decide to glass his location since they fear him and know him as the demon. Master Chief is pulled underwater by an unknwon entity.
The prophets take military power away from the Elites, no longer trusting they can protect the prophets, and hand it over to Tartarus and the brutes. After interrogating 343 Guilty Spark, the covenant learn that Halo requires a key, a Sacred Icon. Arbiter sets out to find this Icon, but on the way he learns that the Flood have once again been released, only this time its worse, Halos defenses have been activated, all the sentinel forces are sent to defend the ring, making Arbiters job much harder.
After arriving at the Library to retrieve the Icon, also known as the index by humans, Arbiter learns the humans are after it as well, Miranda and Johnson retrieve the index, only to have it stolen from them by Tartarus. Tartarus reveals to Arbiter that the prophets no longer trust the Elites and pushes him down a shaft. Arbiter wakes up in the grasp of a giant flood creature, right next to the master chief. This "Gravemind" (a nickname dubbed by Cortana) knows that the Covenant are close to activating the Halo, so he tells them that they will each have a task and teleports them to two different places.
Master Chief arrives on High Charity, now in the middle of a Civil war between the brutes and the Elites, and makes his way through the city to find the two remaining prophets, Truth and Mercy. Arbiter arrives in a jungle near the control room, and fights his way through an army of brutes aided by Elites sent by the Shipmaster, grunts, and hunters. Chief sees the In Amber Clad crash inside the holy city, the flood have taken the ship. Truth and Mercy are just about to board there Phantoms as they are attacked by flood, truth leaves his brother to die.
Master Chief arrives at the landing pad and kills the flood attacking the prophet, he asks Mercy where Truth is going and learns that he is headed to Earth to finish what they started. Cortana tells the Chief to leave and that she will stay behind to blow up In Amber Clad to destroy High Charity, after battling through the Flood infested city, Chief arrives at a beam that shipped supplies into a forerunner ship in the center of the city, Chief jumps into this beam as the ship takes off.
Arbiter and the Elites team up with Johnson and the humans to stop Tartarus from using Halo and to rescue Commander Keyes, using a Scarab, Johnson blows a hole into the control room, just as Tartarus forces Keyes to use the Index, Johnson and Arbiter take down Tartarus as Keyes stops Halo at the last possible second, 343 Guilty Spark says that the Halo Array is in stand by mode and can only be deactivated at the Ark. Master Chief arrives at Earth announcing to Lord Hood over the intercom that he plans to Finish the Fight.
During the ceremony, the covenant suddenly warp to Earth and begin bombing space stations, Master Chief finds one of these bombs and jumps into space where he guides the bomb inside a covenant super carrier, just before it detonates. Master Chief conveniently lands on Sgt. Johnson's pelican to take the fight to the surface.
Once on the surface, Commander Keyes intercepts a covenant radio transmission, all she can hear is "regret". a covenant scarab shoots down the pelican and Master Chief along with Sgt. Johnson and his marines are forced to trek the city on foot. along the way, Cortana finds out that the Prophet of Regret (one of the covenants leaders) is on a ship above the city and he did not expect to find humans on Earth. After destroying the scarab, Chief boards a pelican that takes him back to Keyes ship, the In Amber Clad, and follows Regrets ship as it jumps into Slip Space and Destroys New Mombasa.
Meanwhile, the Elite that was tortured for failing to protect Halo is given the position of Arbiter by the prophets to silence the true heretics, the Elites who know what halo is really meant for. after destroying the Heretic hideout in the orbit of Threshold (the planet that Halo was orbiting), and a run-in with the flood, the Heretic leader tells Arbiter that the Prophets are wrong, and that the Oracle can prove it< after killing the Heretic, 343 Guilty Spark reveals himself to be the Oracle as Tartarus, The brute Chieftain, takes him captive.
After the slip space jump, the crew of the In Amber Clad discover another Halo ring, Master Chief joins a team of ODST's for a drop pod invasion on the covenant from orbit. after the invasion Cortana discovers a hologram of Regret singing a prayer that translates into a plan to use halo. Master Chief discovers the location of Regret just as High Charity (the covenant holy city) warps into orbit along with the entire covenant fleet. Once Chief killed the prophet, the covenant decide to glass his location since they fear him and know him as the demon. Master Chief is pulled underwater by an unknwon entity.
The prophets take military power away from the Elites, no longer trusting they can protect the prophets, and hand it over to Tartarus and the brutes. After interrogating 343 Guilty Spark, the covenant learn that Halo requires a key, a Sacred Icon. Arbiter sets out to find this Icon, but on the way he learns that the Flood have once again been released, only this time its worse, Halos defenses have been activated, all the sentinel forces are sent to defend the ring, making Arbiters job much harder.
After arriving at the Library to retrieve the Icon, also known as the index by humans, Arbiter learns the humans are after it as well, Miranda and Johnson retrieve the index, only to have it stolen from them by Tartarus. Tartarus reveals to Arbiter that the prophets no longer trust the Elites and pushes him down a shaft. Arbiter wakes up in the grasp of a giant flood creature, right next to the master chief. This "Gravemind" (a nickname dubbed by Cortana) knows that the Covenant are close to activating the Halo, so he tells them that they will each have a task and teleports them to two different places.
Master Chief arrives on High Charity, now in the middle of a Civil war between the brutes and the Elites, and makes his way through the city to find the two remaining prophets, Truth and Mercy. Arbiter arrives in a jungle near the control room, and fights his way through an army of brutes aided by Elites sent by the Shipmaster, grunts, and hunters. Chief sees the In Amber Clad crash inside the holy city, the flood have taken the ship. Truth and Mercy are just about to board there Phantoms as they are attacked by flood, truth leaves his brother to die.
Master Chief arrives at the landing pad and kills the flood attacking the prophet, he asks Mercy where Truth is going and learns that he is headed to Earth to finish what they started. Cortana tells the Chief to leave and that she will stay behind to blow up In Amber Clad to destroy High Charity, after battling through the Flood infested city, Chief arrives at a beam that shipped supplies into a forerunner ship in the center of the city, Chief jumps into this beam as the ship takes off.
Arbiter and the Elites team up with Johnson and the humans to stop Tartarus from using Halo and to rescue Commander Keyes, using a Scarab, Johnson blows a hole into the control room, just as Tartarus forces Keyes to use the Index, Johnson and Arbiter take down Tartarus as Keyes stops Halo at the last possible second, 343 Guilty Spark says that the Halo Array is in stand by mode and can only be deactivated at the Ark. Master Chief arrives at Earth announcing to Lord Hood over the intercom that he plans to Finish the Fight.