Editing Halo: Hunters in the Dark

After passing by a pod of peaceful [[Sky Leviathan|leviathans]], the team encounters a pack of predatory [[Blind wolf|blind wolves]]. Although the group manages to evade the animals upon Vale's advice, they are promptly discovered and attacked by [[chaefka]]. The blind wolves are drawn back to the group as a fight breaks out between the animals and the team. While three Marines are killed, Vale is injured and hears the aforementioned unidentified voice. Vale loses all memory of current events and is lured away from the battle by the voice. She encounters a friendly chaefka, who further leads her away from her team and towards the Citadel. Meanwhile, the rest of the team manages to kill most of the attacking animals, with the remainders fleeing from the area. When Vale's disappearance is realized, Richards sends Usze, Holt, and Lamb to track her down, while the rest of the team continues on towards the Citadel. Those responsible for tracking Vale discover her footprints and those of a chaefka leading towards the center of the Ark. While Richards sends three Marines to return to ''Mayhem'' with the dead, she injures her leg shortly after and returns to the ship for treatment with the rest of the Marines. As they continue on, the cold weather becomes dramatically worse and the team encounters a [[Mammoth (Installation 00)|mammoth]]. To their surprise, the mammoth allows them to ride on its back; N'tho and Mann predict that the mammoth is under the influence of an [[ancilla]] of the installation. Meanwhile, increasing snowfall prevents Usze, Holt, and Lamb from following Vale's footprints and communication attempts with the rest of the team prove unsuccessful. The group resolves to continue to the Citadel, hoping to either encounter Vale or the rest of the team. Along their journey, they discover a sharp increase of temperature as they reach the faltering center of the Ark. After passing the ruins of ''[[High Charity]]'', the group is attacked by four [[armiger]] constructs. The armigers knock trees and rocks down the mountain, which barely miss the group. The three make a stand and begin eliminating the constructs, as more arrive at the area via self-made [[slipspace portal]]s. Usze and Holt, with some help from Lamb, manage to destroy most of the armigers, while the few remaining constructs flee. However, the armiger's attack further displaced the group from tracking down Vale's location.

Mann, Lamb, Usze, Kola, and Drifts find themselves within the Citadel's inner tunnels and discover the Citadel's damaged, central power station. While Drifts works on repairing the station, Lamb and Mann discover a damaged [[Sentinel]], which suddenly attacks Lamb. Usze quickly destroys the construct, but Lamb soon dies from blood loss. While Mann mourns the loss of his friend upon Usze's suggestion, Drifts manages to activate a map of the Ark's inner tunnels, including one that leads to the exit of the Citadel. The four come across a heavy, locked door blocking their path, with the [[Foundry (location)|Foundry]]'s control suite on the other side, followed by the Citadel's exit. Usze and Kola manage to lift the door, barely allowing Mann and Drifts to slide through. While the two Sangheili are ambushed by dozens of armigers, Drifts begins toying with the Foundry's controls and confirms Tragic Solitude's presence to Mann. At Mann's request, Drifts works to take control of the Ark's systems. Meanwhile, Holt, Kodiak, N'tho, and Zon find themselves within a dark chamber, with a large gap in the flooring blocking their path. While the Spartans use their thrusters within [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|their armor]] to aid them as they leap across the gap, [[Aggressor Sentinel]]s suddenly rise out of the gap just as N'tho attempts to jump the hole. Zon and the Spartans quickly destroy the Sentinels, while N'tho manages to grab onto the ledge on the other side of the gap. Once the Spartans pull N'tho up from the ledge, Zon leaps across as well and the group continues forward. N'tho detects the recently awakened Vale's voice and the group walks towards her direction. Tragic Solitude reveals to Vale that her friends have managed to deactivate the Halos' firing sequence, but informs her that he intends to force her to activate the firing sequence once again after he kills the remaining members of the team. He reveals that he had increased the portal's power, allowing the Retrievers to reach Earth in a matter of hours—which also allowed ''Mayhem'' to reach the Ark at a similar speed. The monitor decides to move his plans into motion and sends his army of Retrievers through the portal. As Drifts gains control of the Ark's systems and suppresses the monitor, he opens the door between them and the two Sangheili; Usze and Kola—having managed to defeat the armigers—hazily enter the Ark's control room, moderately wounded. Meanwhile, the Retrievers arrive at Earth and begin mining the planet, while others engage the [[UNSC Home Fleet]]. Establishing a communication link, Tragic Solitude orders Vale to tell Drifts to return full control of the Ark to him. However, Vale defies the monitor and encourages Drifts and Mann to purge the ancilla from the Ark's systems. Vale tells the monitor to kill her, as she does not wish to live as his captive. Instead, Tragic Solitude brings forth a human cyborg, whom the monitor reveals to be the human he had previously used to initiate the firing sequence as well as the lone survivor of the previous expedition to the Ark—Broadside One.

*[[Installation 03]] {{Mo}}

*[[Installation 04]] {{Mo}}

*[[Installation 05]] {{Mo}}

*[[Installation 07]]

**[[Battle of Installation 05]] {{Mo}}

**[[Battle of Installation 00]] {{Mo}}

**[[Treaty of 2552]] {{Im}}

*[[Great Schism]] {{Mo}}