
In the background, two more Banshees appear. The view switches to Emile, who drops his emptied Grenade Launcher and makes a fist-to-chest salute. Noble Six, grabbing the pilot chair, looks up. The view faces a critically injured Carter. Commander Carter-A259: (strained but calm) "Not sure how long she's gonna stay together.His face is bloodied, and his armor is charred from plasma fire. You are alarming me."Ĭarter-A259 turns back to Noble Six. Auntie Dot (COM): " Please respond, Sierra Two-Five-Nine.Blood splatters cover the cockpit window. Carter, critically wounded but still in the pilot seat, takes off his helmet and throws it onto the ground. The view switches back to the cockpit, and moves in front of Six. Both are taken out, but the Phantom still pursues. The grenade detonates close by, and the EMP disables the Banshee, which swoops up and crashes into its wingman. Emile concentrates fire on a single Banshee. The view turns to the troop bay of the Pelican, and Emile-A239 is seen firing his Grenade Launcher at the two Banshees. Suddenly, several plasma bolts hit the Pelican, impacting Noble Six, flickering the Spartan's shields. Auntie Dot (COM): "Noble Leader, please respond."Įmile in combat with Covenant aircrafts in pursuit.Ĭuts to the cockpit of the Pelican, with Noble Six moving closer to the pilot seat.The view zooms in and follows the Pelican. Auntie Dot ( COM): "Noble Leader, seek immediate medical attention.".After successfully halting the battlecruiser's attack, Noble Six looks on as the Pillar of Autumn takes off and heads towards space to escape Reach, leaving Noble Six stranded with no way off of the planet.Īuntie Dot's satellite view shows Noble Team's Pelican being pursued by two Banshees and a Phantom. Using the mass driver, Six defends the site and shoots down the Covenant battlecruiser just as it is about to glass the area. The SPARTAN-III refuses and offers to defend the Captain as he heads towards his ship. Keyes returns to the landing platform and offers Noble Six transportation to safety. Emile manages to draw his kukri and fatally stab the Sangheili in the neck before he expires. Emile successfully kills one of the Sangheili with his shotgun before a second sneaks up behind him and impales him with an energy sword. Keyes orders Emile to fire on the advancing battlecruiser, however, before Emile can oblige a Phantom attacks the landing zone, destroying one Pelican and deploying a group of Sangheili warriors onto the mass driver. As the package is handed over, a CCS-class battlecruiser is revealed to be moving in on the Pillar of Autumn. Once cleared, Keyes' Pelican arrives and Captain Keyes retrieves the Package from Noble Six.
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Emile mans the facility's mass driver to provide covering fire against incoming Covenant Phantoms, while Noble Six and surviving Marines engage the Covenant on the ground. The two SPARTAN-IIIs are then hailed by Captain Jacob Keyes, whose cruiser, the Pillar of Autumn, is moored at the facility, and are ordered to clear a landing zone for the Captain, who will use a Pelican to retrieve the Package himself. The two SPARTAN-IIIs continue their journey and eventually reach the Asźod ship breaking facility. Realizing that the Scarab's presence prevents Emile and Noble Six from moving on, Carter rams it with the Pelican, knocking it off a cliff and sacrificing himself in the process. Upon reaching the other side, however, they are confronted by a Scarab. After battling through several Covenant outposts, the two SPARTAN-IIIs are forced to continue their journey through a cave system to circumvent a large group of Covenant forces. Emile-A239 and SPARTAN-B312 execute a low-altitude jump from the Pelican outside of the dockyard and are forced to fight their way to the facility. Carter orders SPARTAN-B312 and Emile-A239 to complete the courier mission without him, while he lures the Covenant away from the pair by using the Pelican as a decoy.

The Pelican is critically damaged and Carter-A259 is badly wounded. The level opens with the remainder of Noble Team onboard a D77-TC Pelican, on their way to deliver Cortana to the dry-docked UNSC Pillar of Autumn.
