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After months of battle with the UNSC, the Banished were still searching for victory against the UNSC. They unintentionally released the [[Flood]], who had survived the firing of [[Installation 08]] at the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]]. Pavium and Voridus were sent to scavenge old Covenant ships. Despite being told to not investigate High Charity, Voridus breached the containment field around the wreckage anyway. This unintentionally released the Flood onto the Ark. Despite nearly being overwhelmed, Voridus survived and reunited with Pavium. The two | After months of battle with the UNSC, the Banished were still searching for victory against the UNSC. They unintentionally released the [[Flood]], who had survived the firing of [[Installation 08]] at the end of the [[Human-Covenant War]]. Pavium and Voridus were sent to scavenge old Covenant ships. Despite being told to not investigate High Charity, Voridus breached the containment field around the wreckage anyway. This unintentionally released the Flood onto the Ark. Despite nearly being overwhelmed, Voridus and some of his forces survived and reunited with Pavium. The two began thinking of a way to fight the flood. Knowing they were unground they decided to use Forunner drills to ignite explosive materials in the ground to kill a large amount of the flood and buy them time. | ||
After successfully fighting off the Flood and activating the drills much of the Flood were fried by the resulting explosive material. With the Flood temporarily weakened by the culling Voridus and Pavium decided the next step was to reactivate the sentinel defence systems they'd shut down to get to High Charity in the first place, which had been in place to monitor and fight the Flood. Voridus was chosen to go underground and reactivate the systems due to his natural expertise in Forunner tech while Pavium stayed up top with the majority of the forces to hold the line due to his incredible ability to command near impenetrable defensives. Voridus was accompanied by a small group of soldiers to assist him, consisting of elite rangers and brute jumpers. They soon found out the Brute Jumpers were crucial to traversing the Forunner pathways. Despite their small numbers Voridus' infusion gel helped slow the tide of Flood from overwhelming them through several encounters. Occasionally Pavium was able to send small groups of soldiers down to help Voridus through the use of teleporters, but not many due to his defence against the Flood being extremely precarious. Despite the long odds Voridus and his surviving soldiers made it to the sentinel activation terminal but found it covered in Flood biomass keeping it in an off position. Both Brutes took note of how the Flood seemed to know the defence system was dangerous to them. Pavium decided to send down Voridus' own special grenadiers powered by infusion gel and offered any amount of soldiers Voridus needed to clear out and reactivate the the systems. Pavium explained his actions saying that his defence would mean nothing if Voridus failed and that he would be their shield now. Despite stiff Flood resistance Voridus cleared the biomass, and protected the nodes from being clogged up again. After reaching full power he re-aligned the system reactivating the sentinel defence systems. | |||
Voridus used the teleporters to reach the surface again and reunited with Pavium. The two decided it wise to inform Atriox of what was going on. Atriox was furious at them and explained that he would now have to give alot of ground they had earned over the conflict with the Spirit of Fire to assist them in suppressing the Flood. He ordered the two to have the problem fixed by the time he arrived or he'd kill them himself. | |||
With the very survival of the Banished and their own lives at stake Pavium and Voridus led all of their forces deep into Flood territory. Noticing the Floods increase in tactics and intelligence Pavium realized a proto-gravemind must have formed and was commanding the Flood. He also realized that if it wasn't killed soon it would become a Gravemind. If that happened the Flood would be nearly unstoppable short of a Halo firing. So they threw everything they had at the Flood and the proto-gravemind which had emerged in the Flood badlands. The Proto-gravemind used its tentacles to block the Banished forces from reaching it, but Paviums Mega turret was able to blast the tentacle away. Finally in range of the proto-gravemind the Banished forces attacked its hard shell exposing small bulbs. When they destroyed those the proto-gravemind slightly retreated but exposed its open mouth to damage. The Banished shot everything they had, but the beast closed its mouth. Unable to damage it further Pavium set up yet another nearby Mega turret which opened fire on the beast. The damage was enough to force the proto-gravemind from its defensive state. They attacked the monster again holding off ever increasing Flood forces at the same time. This process was repeated several times adding more Mega turrets to the barrage every time the Proto-gravemind went into its defensive position. All the while it was slowly reaching Gravemind status, but with the constant damage it could not add enough biomass to reach that state. Pavium and Voridus noticed it was not taking considerable damage despite their over increasing firepower. Pavium decided to call upon a Retriever sentinel by activating a nearby node specifically meant to control one. With its help, plus the mega turrets and Banished forces the proto-gravemind finally succumbed to the damage and was obliterated. | |||
Pavium and Voridus revelled in their victory, roaring to the sky, but the celebration was cut short when Atriox landed nearby. Despite Voridus' inability to follow orders Atriox allowed them to live because they had shown their worth by fending off the Flood proto-gravemind with limited resources and a small portion of the Banished forces. During his inspection of their work an infection form attempted to infect him, but was stopped mid jump by Atrioxs mechanical hand, the brute crushed it a second afterwards. Atriox then commanded Voridus and Pavium to clean up their mess as thousands of sentinels began cleansing the surrounding areaof the Flood. | |||
After this Pavium and Voridus probably assisted in securing the area around High Charity with the sentinels and most likely found a way to secure the hole in the containment field or set up a defensive line to watch over the hole. It is likely neither the Banished nor the sentinels attempted to cleanse the inside of High Charity, as it would be foolish to send forces into a CQC environment with the Flood in a Flood hive. This would most likely be the reasoning why the caretaker of the Ark made a containment field around High Charity instead of killing the Flood inside. This most likely means the Flood aboard the Ark are still very much alive and waiting for another chance to spread again. <ref>'''Halo Wars 2''', ''[[Awakening the Nightmare]]''</ref> | |||
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