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After the Flood's escape, the Covenant forces across [[Installation 04]] were overwhelmed by the Flood's assault. While the Covenant were occasionally able to hold the line by using vehicular and air support, most of the weaker Covenant soldiers such as [[Unggoy]] and [[Kig-Yar]] succumbed easily to the Flood, and the few Sangheili who remained were outnumbered and thus infected. The UNSC, having a much smaller presence on the installation, found out about the Flood's might a short while later, when an [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|ODST]] force engaged with the Covenant near [[Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base]], was ambushed by the Flood and suffered heavy casualties. However, one of the attacking combat forms, [[Private First Class|PFC]] [[Wallace A. Jenkins]], who was one of the Marines in the original expeditionary mission to the supposed arms cache, was infected by a weak and elderly infection form whose powers of infection had been dulled by centuries of hibernation, making Jenkins' transformation into a combat form incomplete. Jenkins was still able to resist the pervasive Flood entity in his mind, and although incapable of articulate speech and with a physiologically devastated body, Jenkins was still able to betray the Flood through hand gestures during an interrogation with [[Major (UNSC)|Major]] [[Antonio Silva]], informing the UNSC Marine battalion that the Flood planned to assault the UNSC base from a series of underground catacombs underneath their current base of operations. In response to this intelligence, the UNSC moved to secure them, and prevented the Flood from staging another attack.