Chapter 10: The Maw

**Part 02: Light Fuse, Run Away**

* Destroy all four fusion reactors
* Get to the elevator

**Part 03: Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts**

* Escape the *USG Ishimura* before it's too late

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## Transcripts

### …And the Horse You Rode In On

*Opening cinematic-The camera skims low over a large body of water, tinted gold by an oncoming sunrise.*

*The camera slowly pans up as it flies over the sand, revealing a burnt coastline, and a giant gouge where the terrain has been ripped away and the sea has flooded into the newly-formed canyon. At the top of that canyon rises the massive stern of the USG Ishimura, relatively intact. The camera circles around the side and front of her, revealing that her nose is hanging just slightly off a massive cliff, and that the antennae along the bow have been bent and torn away. The entire bow has been burnt badly; the metal is scarred. The once powerful cruiser looks almost pitiful, and it is clear its only purpose left is to destroy Halo. As the camera circles around to reveal the starboard side, a slightly damaged, smoking Banshee drifts into view.*

*The camera cuts to a view of the outside through one of the ship's Bumblebee docking slips. The damaged Banshee comes into the frame and veers wildly towards the* Pillar of Autumn*.*

* **Cortana**: *(panicked)* "This thing is falling apart!"

* **Abdullah**: *(calmly)* "It'll hold."

* **Cortana**: "We're not gonna make it!"

* **Abdullah**: "We'll make it."

* **Cortana**: *(urgently)* "Pull up! Pull up!"

*The Banshee drops just before reaching the Bumblebee slip and smashes into the side of the* USG Ishimura*, sending debris and fire hurling out madly.*

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* **Cortana**: *(sardonic)* "You did that on purpose, didn't you?"

*Abdullah's hand appears from below and grips the edge of the slip, and he pulls himself up and onto the* USG Ishimura*.*

**{*Gameplay*}**

* **Cortana**: "We need to get to the bridge. From there, we can use the Captain's neural implants to initiate an overload of the ship's fusion engines. The explosion should damage enough systems below it to destroy the ring."

*As Abdullah heads for the bridge, he discovers Covenant, Flood, and Sentinels and Yangires fighting through out the ship. Eventually, he reaches the bridge.*

* **Cortana**: "The bridge. We made it. Let's get to work."

*Abdullah clears out the Covenant Spec Ops team guarding the bridge.*

* **Cortana**: "I need you to enter the Captain's Nest and upload me into the control systems. The terminal is located next to the main view screen."

*Abdullah takes Cortana's Data Crystal Chip from his Inventory and inserts it into the cylindrical terminal near the front of the bridge. Cortana's avatar appears above it.*

* **Cortana**: "I leave home for a few days, and look what happens. This won't take long."

*She concentrates for a moment, and the main screen flickers to life. "Self Destruct Sequence Initiated" is displayed across the top, and numbers begin counting down from what is, as far as we can tell, a random starting point between five and fifty-nine minutes.*

* **Cortana**: "There. That should give us enough time to make it to a lifeboat and put some distance between ourselves and Halo before the detonation."

*Abdullah moves to unplug Cortana from the terminal, but stops abruptly when he hears an all-too-familiar voice.*

* **343 Guilty Spark (COM)**: "I'm afraid that's out of the question, really."

* **Cortana**: *(groans)* "Oh, hell."

* **343 Guilty Spark (COM)**: "Ridiculous! That you would imbue a warship's AI with such a wealth of knowledge! Weren't you worried it might be captured? Or destroyed?"

*Cut to Cortana.*

* **Cortana**: "He's in my data arrays, a local tap!"

*Cut to 343 Guilty Spark in the engine room. He's busy scanning a console.*

* **343 Guilty Spark**: "You can't imagine how exciting this is! To have a record of all of our lost time! Human history, is it? Fascinating."

*343 Guilty Spark flutters around Engineering, as groups of Sentinels hover around in the background, and scans another console.*

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* **343 Guilty Spark:** "Oh, how I will enjoy every moment of its categorization! And to think that you would destroy this installation, as well as this record. I am *shocked*. Almost too shocked for words."

*Cut to the bridge. A tone sounds over the ship's speakers. The countdown timer freezes.*

* **Cortana**: *(with a note of frustrated awe in her voice)* "He stopped the self-destruct sequence..."

*Abdullah surveys the bridge carefully with his any Weapons, never missing a beat.*

* **343 Guilty Spark (COM)**: "Why do you continue to fight us, Reclaimer? You cannot win! Give us the construct, and I will endeavor to make your death relatively painless and -"

*He is cut off as another tone sounds.*

* **Cortana**: "At least I still have control over the comm channels."

* **Abdullah**: "Where is he?"

* **Cortana**: "I'm detecting taps throughout the ship, Sentinels most likely. As for the Monitor ... he's in Engineering. He must be trying to take the core offline! Even if I could get the countdown restarted ... I don't know what to do." *(She shrugs her arms in desperation)*

* **Abdullah**: "How much firepower would you need to crack one of the engine's shields?"

* **Cortana**: "Not much. A well-placed grenade perhaps, but why-"

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*She turns to see Abdullah, who is calmly tossing a fragmentation grenade up and down*

* **Cortana**: *(nods)* "Okay, I'm coming with you."

*Abdullah reaches for Data Crystal Chip just as a squad of Sentinels descends from above and take position along the shattered windows of the bridge*

* **Cortana**: "Abdullah! Sentinels!"

*The Sentinels open fire, shattering the main display and touching off Abdullah's shields. John quickly drops behind cover, removes Abdullah 2 from the terminal and places her into his helmet, and raises his rifle.*

**{*Gameplay*}**

*Abdullah dispatches the Sentinels and leaves the bridge.*

* **Cortana**: "The ship was heavily damaged when it crashed. Head to the cryochamber. We should be able to get to the engine room through there."

*Abdullah heads for Engineering, fighting past more Flood, Covenant, and Sentinels. Along the way, he makes a brief detour to the ship's Armory to stock up on weapons. Inside the Armory, he is ambushed by a group of Flood, including several cloaked Combat Forms (presumably infected Stealth Sangheili). He defeats these enemies and hurries to Engineering.*

### Light Fuse, Run Away

* **Cortana**: "Engine room located. We're here."

*Abdullah enters Engineering which is crawling with Enemies. Guilty Spark is also present.*

* *Cortana'*: "Alert! The Monitor has disabled all command access. We can't restart the countdown. The only remaining option is to detonate the ship's fusion reactors. That should do enough damage to destroy Halo. Don't worry; I have access to all of the reactor schematics and procedures. I'll walk you through it. First, we need to pull back the exhaust couplings. That will expose a shaft that leads to the primary fusion drive core."

*Throughout this entire sequence, 343 Guilty Spark mumbles randomly at Abdullah, trying to convince him to spare the installation.*

* "You would destroy this installation, as well as this fascinating record?"
* "Do you require medical attention?"
* "Your behavior is not in accordance with established protocols."
* "Oh, how touching."
* "Detaching the failsafe just now?"
* "Please. Surrender the construct and I will endeavor to make the necessary repairs as quickly as possible."
* "The Flood continue to multiply, Reclaimer!"
* "Why do you continue to ignore your task?"
* "Are you perhaps ill?"
* "Why do you continue to resist us, Reclaimer?"
* "Inconsistent!"
* "Inadequate safeguards."
* "This AI construct possesses far too much data."
* "Weren't you worried it might be compromised?"
* "Unacceptable, Reclaimer!"
* "Not acceptable, Reclaimer. You must surrender the construct, so that we may return to our appointed task."
* "Your behavior necessitates repair and revision."
* "Surrender the construct to me, or I will be forced to take you offline permanently."
* "Reclaimer, we must keep moving ... Reclaimer?"

*Abdullah opens one of the manifolds.*

* **Cortana**: "Good! Step one complete! We have a straight shot into the fusion reactor! We need a catalyst explosion to destabilize the magnetic containment field surrounding the fusion cells. Use an explosive. I recommend a grenade or a rocket. If you run out of explosives, there is an armory station located near the engine room's entrance."

*Abdullah knocks out the first reactor.*

* **Cortana**: "Analyzing. Fusion reactor number one destabilizing. Use explosives on the other three reactors. That should be enough to trigger a wildcat explosion of the engines."

*Abdullah destroys two more reactors, leaving only one left.*

* **Cortana**: "Keep it up! Only one more fusion reactor to go!"

*Abdullah takes out the final reactor. Alarms and klaxon begin to blare as the reactors go into critical meltdown from the Chief's sabotage.*

* **Cortana**: "That did it! The engine's gone critical! Based on the current rate of decay, we should have fifteen minutes to get off the ship; we don't have much time! We should move outside and signal for evac. Accessing schematics... there's a service lift at the top of the engine room! It leads to a class-7 service corridor that runs along the ship's dorsal structure. Hurry!"

*Abdullah reaches the elevator. A mass of Spec Ops Covenant descends to meet him. He defeats the Covenant and starts the long ride up.*

* **Cortana (COM)**: "Cortana to Echo 419, come in Echo 419!"

* **Foehammer (COM)**: "Roger, Abdullah 2. I read you, 5 by 5."

* '*Cortana (COM)**: "The*** **USG Ishimura**s engines are going critical, Foehammer! Request immediate extraction! Approach the crash site and be ready to pick us up at external access Junction 4C as soon as you get my signal!"

* **Foehammer (COM)**: "Affirmative. Echo 419 going on station."

*A few moments later, still on the elevator.*

* **Foehammer (COM)**: *(concerned)* "Echo 419 to Cortana. Things are gettin' noisy down there. Everything okay?"

* **Cortana (COM)**: "Negative, negative! We have a wildcat destabilization of the ship's fusion drive core. The engines must have sustained more damage than we thought! *(Off radio)* Analyzing... we have six minutes (five minutes if on Mythic Mode or Hard Core Mode or Impossible Mode or Legendary Mode or Zealot Mode) before the fusion drives detonate. We need to evac *now*!"

*Abdullah reaches the top of the elevator.*

### Warning: Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts

* **Cortana**: "Activating final countdown timer. When it reaches zero, the engines will detonate. The explosion will generate a temperature of almost 100,000,000 degrees. *Don't* be here when it blows."

*If you leave the Tram station on foot:*

* **Abdullah 2**: "Hey! That's explosion is still coming we gotta go NOW!"

* **Abdullah**: (upsetly) "i'ts all i got!"

* **Abdullah 2**: This was our mission we knew better than anyone how important it was now we've got to finish this FOR US! GOT IT?! DO YOU GOT IT?!!

* **Abdullah**: "Yeah.."

* **Abdullah 2**: "THEN LET'S GO!!!

* **Abdullah 2**: ABDDDDDDUULLLLLLLLAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*If you're still leaving the tram station on foot:*

* **Abdullah 2**: ABDULLAH! We need to get moving get back in Tram Station before countdown is running out!

*Abdullah drives down the corridor. Flood, Covenant, and Sentinels and Yanderes are fighting all around him. Eventually he nears the site where Foehammer is supposed to extract him.*

* **Cortana (COM)**: "Cortana to Echo 419! Request extraction now, on the double!"

* **Foehammer (COM)**: "Affirmative, Cortana. Foehammer inbound."

*Abdullah arrives at a wide open platform.*

* **Cortana**: "Wait, stop! This is where Foehammer is coming to pick us up. Hold position here."

*If you wait for Foehammer:*

*Echo 419 appears, banking around the hull of the* USG Ishimura*, listing badly and flaming at the engines. The Pelican approaches Abdullah. A pair of Banshees close in on the Pelican from the rear at both sides.*

* **Cortana (COM)**: "Cortana to Echo 419! Two Covenant Banshees are approaching on your six! Evade! Say again, evade!"

*A loud explosion erupts from the Pelican's starboard wing dips sending it into a shaky dive, ablaze and out of control, Foehammer yells into the speaker as she passes under the platform.*

* **Foehammer (COM)**: *(panicked)* "I'm hit! Mayday! Mayday! Rear port thrusters have been shot to hell! I can't hold her! I can't hold her!"

*Foehammer continues to yell into the speaker, her words becoming inaudible as the roar of the damaged engines are heard in the background. The Pelican flies into the distance, still ablaze, the Pelican struggles it's way down and out of sight with flames and smoke trailing*

* **Cortana (COM)**: "Echo 419!...*(off speaker)* She's gone. Calculating alternate escape route. *(Timer restarts)* The ship's inventory shows one Longsword fighter still docked in Flight Hangar. If we move now, we can make it!"

*If you hurry past the platform, Abdullah 2's message is cut short.*

*If you go where the Thirsty Grunt is.*

* **Thirsty Grunt**: "Ugh... Good thing that the food nipple will be waiting for me at the starship, cause man; I worked up a Big, Grunty, Thirst!"

*Abdullah comes around the final S-curve in the corridor.*

* **Abdullah 2**: "I'ts gonna overtake us!"

* **Abdullah**: "No shit! drive faster!

* **Abdullah 2**: "OK What happens when we maked the explosion of the ship?!

* **Abdullah**: "Look for a Flight Lounge! We'll have to enter through!

* **Abdullah 2**: "Is that even possible?!

* **Abdullah**: "Would you trust me?!

*Abdullah and Abdullah 2 and Abdullah 3 goes the Flight Lounge. As they reaches the Flight Hangar, heavy fighting between the Covenant and Flood and Yanderes is seen. A Longsword fighter is docked at the end. A barricade forces Abdullah to get out of the Warthog and finish the journey on foot.*

**Abdullah 2**: "That's the ship! *Move*! We need to get aboard *now*!"

**Abdullah**: "I see it!"

*If the timer runs out before Abdullah reaches the Longsword:*

*Fades to an exterior shot of the* Ishimura *as it explodes.*

*If Abdullah makes it to the Longsword:*

*Abdullah and Abdullah 2 and Abdullah 3, with no weapon in hand, makes a break across the platform for the Longsword, the Flood and Yanderes closing in behind them in a vain attempt to stop them. they makes it through the open door just before them, and slams the hatch closed as they runs through.*

* **Cortana**: "We're cutting it close!"

*Abdullah and Abdullah 2 and Abdullah 3 sprints for the cockpit, but is jarred by an explosion and braces themselves against a wall, shaking their head. They reaches the cockpit, jumps into the seat, quickly punches a series of buttons, and takes the controls in their hands.*

* **Abdullah**: "Let's go. Let's go!"

* **Abdullah**: (quietly) "We need a hurry up.

* **Abdullah 2**: We may just get saved by Enemies again! Just drive the damn joystick!

*The Longsword rises above the platform slowly, turning to face the open end of the bay, and lights its engines, rocketing away from the exploding ship. The camera cuts to an exterior view of the* USG Ishimura*, as it burns and explosions flare all along its length. A horde of Enemies stumble slowly towards it, and the Longsword arrows from the starboard side of the ship away into the sky the camera cuts to follow the Longsword, looking back towards the* USG Ishimura *as the explosions intensify. The Longsword clears the atmosphere, flying away from Halo. Abdullah stares straight ahead, piloting the fighter as quickly as he can. Cut to a frontal view of the Longsword; as it sweeps past the camera, the distant side of Halo is drowned out in a blinding explosion, which grows and grows, and then a massive shock wave sweeps across the ring, shattering it into sections. In the cockpit, a screen beeps and displays: "ENGINE TEMP CRITICAL."*

* **Cortana**: "Shut them down, we'll need them later."

*Abdullah and flips a few switches and the Longsword's engines die, leaving it drifting. Debris from the blast hurtles past it, still hot and glowing.*

* **Cortana**: "Fancy a look ?"

*Abdullah rises from his chair and moves to one of the Longsword's windows. Halo has broken into a few dozen large fragments, all of which are slowly spinning away from each other. As Abdullah watches, one massive fragment comes swiftly from the far side of the ring and collides with another, closer one, splitting it in half, and the two go spinning off in a giant gout of fire and debris. Silent explosions spread throughout Halo's remains. The ring has been destroyed.*

* **Abdullah**: *(braces himself against the frame of the Longsword cockpit)* "*(quietly)* Did anyone else make it?"

* **Abdullah 2**: "Abdullah." *(quietly)* "Hey! Keep it together. come on dude. don't fall apart on me. Look. 343 Guilty Spark is headed down to the Installation 08's Control Room we can't let him activate the halo!"

*Abdullah 3 shakes his head and moves back to his seat.*

* **Abdullah**: "Then we're gonna make sure he never gets there YOU GOT THAT?!

* **Abdullah 2**: Alright.. alright.

*Abdullah And Abdullah 2 and Abdullah 3 removes their helmet*. but the cockpit's frame views of their head. The camera tracks the Longsword's cockpit for a few a moments, Basis looming large in the background, before panning to focus on a large spiral galaxy hanging in the sky, an ornament emblazoned across the heavens. A few final, dark notes of a cello play, and everything fades.

## Enemies

* The Flood
* Flood Infection Form
* Flood Combat Form
* Flood Carrier Form
* The Covenant
* The Forerunners
* Yanderes
* Yandere Combat Form
* Yandere Stalker Form
* Yandere Teal Form
* Yandere Infector Form
* Yandere Vampire Form
* Yandere Stealth Form
* Yandere Bloody Form
* Yandere Harmless Form
* Yandere Viral Form
* Yandere Carrier Form
* Yandere Ranged Form
* Yandere Tank Form
* Yandere Pure Form
* Yandere Juggernaut
* Yandere Infection Form