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After the '''Flood's''' escape, the [[Covenant]] forces, who were widely stretched across [[Installation 04]], were heavily engaged, and were being overwhelmed by Flood forces. While at places, the Covenant were able to hold the line by using vehicular and air support, most of the weaker Covenant soldiers such as [[Grunts]] and [[Jackals]] succumbed easily to the Flood, and the few Elites who remained were outnumbered and destroyed. The [[UNSC]], having a much smaller presence on the Ring, found out about the Flood's might a short while later, when a UNSC [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]] force engaged with the Covenant near [[Alpha Base]], was ambushed by the Flood and suffered heavy casualties. However, one of the attacking combat forms, [[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 years of hibernation, making Jenkins' conversion 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]] [[Silva]], informing the UNSC Marine battalion that the Flood planned to assault the UNSC base from a series of underground catacombs underneath their base. In response to this intelligence, the UNSC moved to secure them, and prevented the Flood from staging another attack.