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In the 26th century, humanity relentlessly continues their fight for survival, an enduring conflict set against the backdrop of the enigmatic and ancient ringworld known as Halo. Trying to escape the glassing beam, the Patels attempted to seek refuge inside a tunnel located at Cochineal Pass.
Although the Patels barely managed to escape the glassing beam, their vehicle collides with the back of a truck inside the tunnel, killing Gotam and Brigid in the crash. One day, Yong and Asha came home early, informing Molly that they would be leaving Anaruka because they had been hired by the Office of Naval Intelligence to study Forerunner technology on Sarcophagus , living alongside Sangheili and Unggoy from the Swords of Sanghelios.
Molly roundly refuses to move with them because of her hate against those species and the Covenant as a whole, even if the Swords are allied with the humans, but when her Newparents mention Spartans will be present to secure the shield world from any threats, both internal and external, she reticently accepts the move, but plans to leave Sarcophagus when she turns After the battle, they inform Franklin Mendez that the armigers were protecting the site, not attacking it.
On Hesduros , Dural 'Mdama , "the Pale Blade" and new leader of the Servants of Abiding Truth , leads his forces to the planet and forges an alliance with the kaidon of the Panom keep to gain access to the same slipspace portal Dural's father, Jul 'Mdama , used to escape from Sarcophagus five years ago. Days later, Molly, along with her Newparents and other families, are transported to Sarcophagus onboard the UNSC Milwaukee , a Poseidon -class light carrier repurposed as a civilian transport and refitted with some Forerunner technology recovered inside the shield world.
On the ship, they are received by Doctor Hugo Barton , who fills them with the history of Onyx and some information about Sarcophagus. After being dismissed, Molly hides to hear what the Spartans, Mendez, and her Newparents are talking about, hearing about the incidents happening on Project: GOLIATH's site and how it is repeating itself on several human colonies, and some internal problems between the humans and the Sangheili inside Sarcophagus. After hearing that, Molly interrupts the discussion to express her opinion on how hard it is to get over the ghosts of the war.
During the discussion, Molly notes Kasha 'Hilot , headmaster of the Pax Institute , is outside her home. Although initially reluctant, Molly greets Kasha, with both talking about the Institute and its students. Kasha hopes Molly and her family became good allies with the rest of Paxopolis, but Molly is not very convinced of it. On Hesduros, "Pale Blade" orders to some of his forces to bring Even Keel , a Huragok , to fix the slispace portal near Panom, and, as a sign of "gratitude" to Panom's kaidon, he leaves behind a complement of vehicles and weapons for Panom's warriors in case the Swords of Sanghelios show up again.
After crossing the portal, "Pale Blade" and his forces arrive inside Sarcophagus, where he has a heated discussion with Buran 'Utaral , and recalls his mother's death, the disappearance of both his father Jul and his brother Asum , and his recruitment into the Servants by Avu Med 'Telcam.
The Servants establish a base inside a Forerunner facility and take notice of a pair of Marines, who were exploring the surroundings; "Pale Blade" orders them both killed and the facility secured. Dural kills one of the Marines himself, noting she is technically the first human he has ever slain. Once settled into her new home, Molly begins to attend the Pax Institute.
It quickly becomes apparent that despite the unique location and situation, the school is little different from any other, much to Molly's displeasure.
The school is large enough to allow her to avoid interacting with most of the other students, especially the alien ones. She observes she is not the only student to attempt this, as a trip through the school lunch room shows.
Students segregate by species. This leaves her sans table, however, and without hesitation, she simply takes an empty one for herself, declaring herself "Molly Patel; nation of one". Her self imposed exile does not last long, however, as another human joins her; Kareem El-Hashem , who turns out to be a fellow self-imposed exile and a survivor of the Covenant assault on Luna in the Sol system. Warming to Molly with sarcasm and the commrodare of the lonely, they chat over lunch and then exit into the school's courtyard, he reveals his mother is an expert into Unggoy culture and Kareem came along with her when she was invited to Paxopolis to study the local culture of Unggoy that have settled there.
One of them joins moments later, cheerfully introducing herself as Gudam Keschun. She, like Molly and Kareem, is a bit of an outsider, and the daughter of one of the math teachers at the Pax Institute. Molly, at first a bit wary, actually warms to the Unggoy, though a bit startled by their biological differences from humans as a whole. The three's friendly bonding session is broken rather abruptly by an incident of cross species bullying.
Three humans, who Kareem introduces as Karl and Zeb Zakovsky and their friend Andres Malez, are picking on a young Sangheili male who doesn't seem particularly interested in defending himself. Kareem notes those three are the biggest bullies in the school. The three watch the altercation between the humans and the Sangheili, which rather quickly turns aggressive and threatening.
Gudam attempts to break it up, and Karl instinctively lashes out at her hard enough to draw blood and knock her breather pack off. The altercation increases the tension between the Sangheili and Karl, and Molly steps in to break it up. The confrontation quickly devolves into a full on brawl that is only broken up by Dinok 'Acroli , another Sangheili instructor at the school. The parents of those involved in the incident are brought in, and Molly comments on how this is the worst first day of school ever.
Luckily for Molly, her Newparents aren't too upset by what happened. Instead they are proud of her for standing up to a bully. She and Kareem both get suspended for a day, the bullies sent home for a week though rumors whisper their parents took them out to dinner , and the Sangheili and Gudam are left alone. The incident does loosen her Newparents' lips about why they are inside the Shield World however. The project is focused on a gigantic Forerunner machine that Molly's Newparents discovered and explored on a colony world; there are more of them, they're becoming active, and ONI wants to know why.
They ask Molly to help them by staying in school and not getting into trouble, leaving them free to work on their research. They then leave for the day, and end up staying the night on-site, leaving Molly alone in the house. She decides she doesn't really want to go back to the Pax Institute, but she receives a surprise visitor; Lucy. The Spartan explains the reasoning behind why Molly should go back to school. She also reveals that the Sangheili male Molly helped save is named Bakar, and she offers a deal; if Molly goes back to school, she and Tom will teach Molly self-defense lessons.
Molly accepts and heads back to the Pax Institute the next day. Finding herself shunned by the majority of the students, Molly decides to simply make it through her schooling and leave at 18, as she originally planned to do. She receives thanks from Gudam's mother during her math class however, and sees Gudam herself, none the worse for the wear following the fight. She invites Molly over for dinner, skating over Molly's various objections.
During that day's lunch period she attempts to avoid both Kareem and Gudam, but finds that the only other table with any open seats is taken already by Bakar. Having nowhere else to go and having crossed the social point of no return, she seats herself at the table as far from him as she can. The two exchange heated words about the fight the day before, Bakar stating that Molly made him look weak for stepping in to save him.
Molly counters she stepped in to save Gudam, not him, and a moment later Gudam herself shows up, followed by Kareem, attempting to make friends with Bakar. In response, the Sangheili storms out. The three settle into the table, now theirs, and finish their lunch. They contemplate why the bullies picked on Bakar, but no answers are found.
Over several days, they turn the facility into a citadel, installing gunnery stations and armories and command and control equipment, as well as shuttling all the vehicles they can through the portal from Hesduros.
The Sangheili within it grow restless quickly, however, sparking arguments between "Pale Blade" and Buran. To do so, the Servants will utilize "utter chaos". Spartans Tom and Lucy are sent on Jackrabbits to investigate some tripped sensors near the structure from where Jul 'Mdama escaped. They encounter and easily dispatch a group of Sentinels around the facility with their vehicle's machine guns, and then investigate on foot.
They spot tracks left by a Sangheili, and Tom notes that either its a field trip from Paxopolis, or they have a breach. The latter seems more likely, and Lucy comments on their lives getting a lot harder. Back at the Pax Institute, Molly eagerly goes to her first self defense lesson with Tom and Lucy, only to find that its not the private session she originally envisioned.
Kareem, Gudam, and Bakar have all been pressed into the class as well. Molly argues with this, but Tom and Lucy both quickly shoot her down with the logic of soldiers with decades of field experience and an entire Spartan Company's worth of recruits trained.
They give her the bottom line; train with the others, or not at all. Molly accepts, realizing that it's not her opponent that she has to change, it's herself. Though pleased with the self defense class, Molly's life at school has become much more complicated.
Effectively shunned by the majority of the school still and almost babied by Kasha, she finds herself with Kareem and Gudam more often than not. Even her parents are distant, busy with their project, but not enough that Asha can't give her a kiss goodnight and tuck her into bed, though Molly thinks that at 16 shes far too old for that kind of thing.
The next day, she and her entire class of about 50 students take a field trip to a jointly secured facility known as the Repository, a Forerunner hanger of sorts now also used to store human, Covenant, and hybrid vehicles of all forms. The facility is beyond the Inner Barrier, the sensor-laden security ring around Paxopolis and the majority of the settlements, and situated in the far less populous but still mostly secure Outer Barrier, along with her Newparents work place.
Kasha warns the group to be careful, as Onyx is so large there still may be dangers lurking in the area despite the UNSC's sweep and clear.
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