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Halo: Last Contact is a fan-fic about the The Second War with the Covenant in the years 2557 to 2583. After the Human-Covenant War, the Prophet of Exclamation ordered secret clandestine operations from the separated and scattered Covenant against the human race.

After the Arbiter and some Separatist Elites found this out, they reported it to the humans. Unfortunately, the New Covenant was already ready, and just as the humans and Sangheili were orbiting the New Covenant ship, the Covenant Dreadcruiser, they were destroyed. Thus the Second Human-Covenant War began.

Prologue
Exodus system, Freedom II, UNSC cruiser The Savior, 0844 hours, January 3, 2557 [Military Calendar]

Captain Joshua "Hothead" Binder watched one of his ensigns rapidly type in commands to the port and aft cameras. Nothing. So why did he have such a foreboding sense of danger?

"Starboard," he ordered shortly.

"Yes, sir." The ensign, Ensign Li, also was nervous. He pressed four keys and the large flat-screens on The Savior turned to the starboard side. A small growing, white speck.

Just a star, the captain thought hopefully. "Front." The cameras switched to in front. A small star-like speck not unlike the one on the starboard side. "All." The twelve screens on board each showed three of front, aft, port, and starboard. A rapidly-growing speck. It grew--

"Get behind that moon!" Binder nodded his chin at a small, rotating, gray, lifeless moon orbiting Freedom Two.

"Yes, sir," muttered Li nervously, anxiety nearly overcoming him. After all, it was only his fourth month on a UNSC vessel.

The Savior fired rear thrusters and rotated neatly behind the moon. Binder put his thumb and forefinger to his chin in thought. "Hm. Send out the ARGUS drones."

"Aye, aye, sir, ARGUS drones firing. Requiring coordinates, captain."

"Four zero two by six four three," ordered the commissioned officer.

"Aye, aye, four zero two by six four three..." The ARGUS spy drones no bigger than an average business 26th-century swivel chair switched on cameras as they quietly, silently zoomed toward the growing specks.

"Sir. You have to see this. The Behemoth and the Labyrinth are--what the--?"

Four rapid chain-explosions washed over the Behemoth and the Labyrinth, both supercarriers. Debris rained on the Savior. "Counterthrust!" shouted the Navy captain, watching the steadily-growing stars, attempting to ignore the explosions. Finally, he tore his gaze from the white dots, and as he looked at the explosion, a burning hole where his heart should be cooling down. He looked up at the sky, saw faces of Insurrectionists he had killed before the Human-Covenant War, breathed a sigh of relief, and slumped to the ground, dying slowly.

Exactly three and a half seconds later, The Savior exploded, sending debris raining down all over the place.

Chapter 1
Sol system, Chicago, The Zone

0555 hours, March 13, 2563

"The ship's gone," said Daniel-B002, reloading his MA7K carbine. The yelling and panicking civilians continued on screaming and shouting, until Daniel yelled with finality: "The Covenant is gone!" Everything fell silent.

Over the horizon, a SPARTAN-II SpecOps soldier tromped, holding a MA7K.

Everybody looked in wonder at the muscular body of the SPARTAN-II, who simply raised his MA7K rifle, and put it comfortably on his shoulder. Then in a deep voice, "I'm here."

Orbiting Mars, Sol system

Aboard UNSC supercarrier The Sword, 0009 hours, April 1, 2563

The last of the evacuating civilians off the face of Earth orbited over Mars, with hundreds of other UNSC supercarriers, superdestroyers, cruisers, destroyers, carriers, frigates, and other civilian-owned ships.

There was no time to play April Fools' jokes. Kyle-000, a SPARTAN: White SpecOps SPARTAN-II supersoldier cleaned the four-hour-old fresh barrel