The small device held the power to destroy C.te d’Azur—wipe the Covenant1 infection clean off theplanet.
John carefully removed the bonding strips on the HAVOK tactical nuclear device and attached it to thewall of the sewer3. The adhesive4 on the black half sphere stuck and hardened to the concrete. He slippedthe detonator key into a thin slot on the unit’s face. There were no external indicators5 on the device;instead, a tiny screen winked6 on his heads-up display indicating the nuke was armed.
HAVOK ARMED, flashed across his HUD. AWAITING DETONATION8 SIGNAL.
The device—a clean thirty-megaton explosive—could only be detonated by a remote signal . . . aproblem here in the sewers9. Even the powerful communications package on a starship would be unableto penetrate10 the steel and concrete overhead.
John quickly rigged a ground-return transceiver, placing it on the pipes overhead. He’d have to set upanother unit outside to relay the signal underground . . . a hot line that would trigger a nuclear firestorm.
Technically11, his mission parameters12 had been fulfilled. Green and Red Teams would have the civiliansevacuated soon. They had scouted14 the region and discovered a new Covenant species—the strangefloating creature that disassembled and reassembled human machinery15, like a scientist or engineerstripping down a device to learn its secrets.
He could leave and destroy the Covenant occupation force. Heshould leave—there was an army ofJackals and Grunts16—including at least a platoon of the black-armored veterans—on the streets above.
There were three medium Covenant dropships hovering17 in the air as well. The advance Marine18 strikeforces had been slaughtered19, leaving the Spartans20 no backup. His responsibility now was to make surehis team got out intact.
But John’s orders had an unusual amount of flexibility22 . . . and that made him uncomfortable. He hadbeen told to reconnoiter the region and gather intelligence on the Covenant. He was positive there wasmore to be learned here.
Certainly they were up to something in C.te d’Azur’s museum. The Covenant had never before beeninterested in human history—or indeed, in humans or their artifacts of any kind. He had seen a disarmedJackal fight hand to hand rather than pick up a nearby human assault rifle. And the only thing theCovenant had ever used human buildings for was target practice.
So finding out the reason they seized and were protecting the museum definitely qualified23 as intelligencegathering in his book.
Was it worth exposing his team to find out? And if they died, would he be wasting their lives . . . orspending them for something worthwhile?
“Master Chief?” Kelly whispered. “Our orders, sir?”
He opened Blue Team’s COM channel. “We’re going in. Use your silencers. Don’t engage the enemyunless absolutely necessary. This place is too hot. We’ll just poke24 our noses in—see what they’re up toand bug25 out.”
Three acknowledgment lights winked on.
The Master Chief knew they implicitly26 trusted his judgment27. He just hoped he was worthy28 of that trust.
The Spartans checked their gear and threaded silencers onto their assault rifles. They slipped silentlydown a wide side passage of the sewer.
A rusty29 ladder ran up to the ceiling, and a steel plate had been welded in place.
“Thermite paste already set up,” Fred reported.
“Burn it.” The Master Chief stepped to the side and looked away.
The thermite sputtered30 as bright as an electric arc welder31, casting harsh shadows into the chamber32. Whenit finished there was a jagged, glowing red circle in the steel.
The Master Chief climbed up the ladder and put his back against the plate—pushed. It popped free witha metallicsnap .
He eased the plate down and set it aside. He attached the fiber-optic probe, fed it up through the hole.
All clear.
He flexed33 his leg muscles and sent the MJOLNIR armor up through the hole, pulling himself into thenext chamber with his left hand. His right hand held the silenced assault rifle as if it were no heavierthan a pistol. He braced34 for incoming enemy fire——Nothing happened.
He moved forward and surveyed the small room. The stone-walled chamber was dark, and was linedwith shelving units. Each unit held jars filled with clear liquid and insect specimens35. Boxes and crateswere stacked neatly37 on the floor.
Kelly entered next, then Fred and James.
“Picking up motion sensor38 signals,”Kelly said over the COM channel.
“Jam them.”
“Done,”she replied.“They may have gotten a piece of us, though.”
“Spread out,” the Master Chief ordered. “Get ready to jump back into the hole if this gets too hot.
Otherwise, initiate39 the standard distract-and-destroy.”
The clatter40 of alien hooves on marble echoed behind a door to their right.
The Spartans melted into the shadows. The Master Chief crouched41 behind a crate36 and unsheathed hiscombat knife.
The door opened and four Jackals stood in the door frame; they held active energy shields in front ofthem—warping their already ugly vulture faces. The blue-white glow of the energy shield pulsedthrough the dark chamber.Good, the Master Chief thought.That should play hell with their night vision.
The Jackals held plasma42 pistols at the ready in their free hands; the barrels of the guns moved erraticallyas the aliens whispered to one another . . . then steadied as, in careful, slow movements, they moved in.
The aliens fanned out into a rough “delta” formation—the lead Jackal a meter ahead of his compatriots.
The group approached the Master Chief’s hiding spot.
There was a slight noise: the clink of glass bottles on the other side of the room.
The Jackals turned . . . and presented their unshielded backs to the Master Chief.
He exploded from his hiding place and jammed his blade into the base of the closest Jackal’s back. Hesnapped his right foot out, caught the back of the next Jackal’s head, crushing its skull43.
The remaining aliens spun44, glistening45 energy shields interposed between them and him.
There were three coughs from silenced MA5Bs. Alien blood—black in the harsh blue-white light—spattered across the inner surfaces of the energy shields as the silenced rounds found their marks. TheJackals toppled to the ground.
The Master Chief policed their plasma pistols and retrieved46 the shield generators47 clamped on theirforearms. He had standing49 orders to collect intact specimens of Covenant technology. The Office ofNaval Intelligence had not been able to replicate50 the Covenant’s shield technology. But they weregetting close.
In the meantime, the Spartans would use these.
The Master Chief strapped51 the curved piece of metal to his forearm. He touched one of the two largebuttons on the unit and a scintillating52 film appeared before him.
He handed the other shield devices to his teammates.
He pressed the second button and the shield collapsed53.
“Don’t use these unless you have to,” he said. “The humming and their reflective surfaces might give usaway . . . and we don’t know how long they last.”
He got three acknowledgment lights.
Kelly and Fred took up positions on either side of the open door. She gave him a thumbs-up.
Kelly took point and the Spartans moved, single file, up a circular stairwell.
She paused a full ten seconds at the doorway55 to the main floor. She waved them ahead and they emergedon the main level of the museum.
The skeleton of a blue whale was suspended over the main foyer. The dead hulk reminded the MasterChief of a Covenant starship. He turned away from the distraction56 and slowly moved over the blackmarble tiles.
Oddly, there were no more Jackal patrols. There were a hundred Jackals outside guarding the place . . .
but none inside.
The Master Chief didn’t like it. It didn’t feel right . . . and Chief Mendez had told him a thousand timesto trust his instincts. Was it a trap?
The Spartans staggered their line and moved cautiously into the east wing. There were displays of thelocal flora57 and fauna58: gigantic flowers and fist-sized beetles59. But their motion sensors60 were cold.
Fred halted . . . and then, with a quick hand signal, waved John to move up to his position.
He stood by a case of pinned butterflies. On the floor, facedown in front of that case, was a Jackal. Itwas dead, crushed flat. There was an imprint61 of a large boot where the creature’s back had been.
Whatever had done this had easily weighed a ton.
The Master Chief spotted62 a few blood-smeared prints leading away from the Jackal . . . and into the westwing.
He flipped63 on his infrared64 sensors and took a long look around—no heat sources here or in the nearbyrooms.
The Master Chief followed the footprints and signaled the team to follow.
The west wing held scientific displays. There were static electric generators and quantum fieldholograms on the walls, a tapestry65 of darting66 arrows and wriggling67 lines. A cloud chamber sat in thecorner with subatomic tracers zipping through its misty68 confines—the Master Chief noted69 it wasunusually active. This place reminded him of Déjà’s classroom on Reach.
A branch opened to another wing. The word GEOLOGY was carved on the entry arch.
Through that arch there was a strong infrared source, a razor-thin line that shot straight up and out of thebuilding. The Master Chief only caught a glimpse of the thing—a wink7 and a blink then it was goneagain . . . it was so bright his IR sensors overloaded70 and automatically shut down.
He waved James to take the left side of the arch. He had Kelly and Fred drop back to cover their flanks,and the Master Chief edged to the right of the arch.
He sent a fiber-optic probe ahead, bent71 it slightly, and poked72 it around the corner.
The room contained display cases of mineral specimens. There were sulfur73 crystals, raw emeralds, andrubies. There was a monolith of unpolished pink quartz74 in the center of the room, three meters wide andsix tall.
Off to one side, however, were two creatures. The Master Chief hadn’t seen them at first—because theywere so motionless . . . and so massive. He had no doubt that one of them had crushed the Jackal thathad gotten in its way.
The Master Chief got scared all the time. He never showed it, though. He usually mentallyacknowledged the apprehension75, put it aside, and continued . . . just as he’d been trained to do. Thistime, however, he couldn’t easily dismiss the feeling.
The two creatures were vaguely76 man-shaped. They stood two and a half meters tall. It was difficult tomake out their features; they were covered from head to toe with a dull blue-gray armor, similar to thehull of a Covenant ship. Blue, orange, and yellow highlights were visible on the few patches of exposedskin the creatures sported. They had slits77 where their eyes should be. The articulation78 points lookedimpregnable.
On their left arms they hefted large shields, thick as starship battleplate. Mounted on their right armswere massive, wide-barreled weapons, so large that the arm beneath seemed to blend into the weapon.
They moved with slow deliberation. One took a rock from the display case and set it inside a red metalcase. It bent over the case while the other turned and touched the control panel of a device that lookedlike a small pulse laser turret79. The laser pointed80 straight up—and out through the shattered glass domeoverhead.
That had been the source of the infrared radiation. The laser must have intermittently81 scattered82 off thedust in the air—flashed enough energy into his sensors to burn them out. Something that powerful couldbeam a message straight out into space.
The Master Chief made a slow fist—the signal for his team to freeze. Then, with slow, deliberatemovements, he signaled the Spartans to stay alert and get ready.
He waved Fred and Kelly forward.
Fred crept closer to him. Kelly slid up next to James.
The Master Chief then held up two fingers and made a sideways cut, motioning them into the room.
Acknowledgment lights winked on.
He went in first, sidestepped to the right, with Fred at his side.
James and Kelly took the left flank.
They opened fire.
Armor-piercing rounds pinged off the aliens’ body armor. One of them turned and brought its shield infront of it—covering its partner, the red case, and the laser beacon83.
The Spartan21 bullets didn’t even leave a scratch on the armor.
The alien raised its arm slightly and pointed at Kelly and James.
A flash of light blinded the Master Chief. There was a deafening84 explosion and a wave of heat. Heblinked for a full three seconds before he recovered his vision.
Where Kelly and James had been there was a burning crater85 that fanned backward . . . nothing butcharcoal and ash remained of the Science Chamber behind them.
Kelly had moved in time; she crouched five meters deeper into the room, still firing. James was nowhereto be seen.
The other massive creature turned to face the Master Chief.
He hit the button on the shield generator48 on his arm and brought it up just in time—the nearest alien’sweapon flashed again.
The air in front of the Master Chief shimmered86 and exploded—he flew backward, crashing through thewall, and skidded87 for ten meters before slamming into the wall of the next room.
The Jackal shield generator was white-hot. The Master Chief ripped the melted alien device off andthrew it away.
Those plasma bolts were like nothing he had seen before. They seemed almost as powerful as thestationary plasma cannons88 the Jackals used.
The Master Chief sprang to his feet and charged back into the chamber.
If the aliens’ weapons were similar to Covenant plasma guns, they would need to be recharged. Hehoped the Spartans had enough time to take those things out.
The Master Chief still felt the fear—it was stronger than it had been before . . . but his team was still inthere. He had to take care of them first before he could indulge in the luxury of feelings.
Kelly and Fred circled the creatures, their silenced weapons firing quick bursts. They ran out ofammunition and switched clips.
This wasn’t working. They couldn’t take them out. Maybe a Jackhammer missile at point-blank rangewould penetrate their armor.
The Master Chief’s gaze was drawn90 to the center of the room. He stared for a moment at the monolith ofpink quartz.
Over the COM channel he ordered, “Switch to shredder rounds.” He changed ammunition89 and thenopened fire—at the floor underneath91 the enormous creatures’ feet.
Kelly and Fred changed rounds and fired, too.
Marble tiles shattered and the wood underneath splintered into toothpicks.
One of the creatures raised its arm again, preparing to fire.
“Keep shooting,” John yelled.
The floor creaked, buckled92, and then fell away; the two massive aliens plunged93 into the basement below.
“Quick,” the Master Chief said. He slung94 his rifle and moved to the back of the quartz monolith. “Push!”
Kelly and Fred leaned their weight against the stone and grunted95 with effort. The slab96 moved a tiny bit.
James sprinted97 forward, slammed into the stone, put his shoulder alongside theirs . . . andpushed . Hisleft arm had been burned away from the elbow down, but he didn’t even whimper.
The monolith moved; it inched toward the hole . . . then tilted98 and went over. It landed with a dull thudand a crunching99 noise.
The Master Chief peered over the edge. He saw an armored left leg, and on the other side of the stoneslab, an arm struggling underneath. The things were still alive. Their motions slowed, but they didn’tcease.
The red case was balanced precariously100 on the edge the hole. It teetered—no way to reach it in time.
He turned to Kelly—the fastest Spartan—and yelled: “Grab it!”
The box fell——and Kelly leaped.
In a single bound, she caught the rock as the case dropped, she tucked, rolled, and got to her feet, therock safely held in one hand. She handed it to the Master Chief.
The rock was a piece of granite101 and glittered with a few jewel-like inclusions. What was as so specialabout it? He stuffed it into his ammunition sack and then kicked over the Covenant transmission beacon.
Outside, the Master Chief heard the clattering102 and squawking of the army of Jackals and Grunts.
“Let’s get out of here, Spartans.”
He threw his arm around James and helped him along. They ran into the basement, making sure to givethe pinned giants under the stone a wide berth103, then jumped through the storm drain and into the sewers.
They jogged thought the muck and didn’t stop until they had cleared the drain system and emerged inthe rice paddies on the edge of C.te d’Azur.
Fred rigged the ground-return relay to the pipes overhead and ran a crude antenna104 outside.
The Master Chief looked back at the city. Banshee fliers circled through the skyscrapers105. Spotlights106 fromthe hovering Covenant transport ships bathed the streets in blue illumination. The Grunts were goingcrazy; their barks and screams rose to an impenetrable din2.
The Spartans moved toward the coast and followed the tree line south. James collapsed twice along theway and then finally slipped into unconsciousness. The Master Chief slung him over him shoulder andcarried him.
They paused and hid when they heard a patrol of a dozen Grunts. The aliens ran past them—they eitherdidn’t see the Spartans, or they didn’t care. The animals sprinted as fast as they could back to the city.
When they were a click away from the rendezvous107 point, the Master Chief opened the COM link.
“Green Team Leader, we’re on your perimeter108, and coming in. Signaling with blue smoke.”
“Ready and waiting for you, sir,”Linda replied.“Welcome back.”
The Master Chief set off one of his smoke grenades and they marched into the clearing.
The Pelican109 was intact. Corporal Harland and his Marines stood post, and the rescued civilians13 weresafely inside the ship.
Blue and Red Teams were hidden in the nearby brush and trees.
Linda approached them. She motioned for her team to take James and get him onto the Pelican. “Sir,”
she said. “All civilians on board and ready for liftoff.”
The Master Chief wanted to relax, sit down, and close his eyes. But this was often the most dangerouspart of any mission . . . those last few steps when you might let down your guard.
“Good. Take one more look around the perimeter. Let’s make double sure nothing followed us back.”
“Yes, sir.”
Corporal Harland approached and saluted111. “Sir? How did you do it? Those civilians said you got themout of the city—past an army of Covenant, sir. How?”
John cocked his head quizzically. “It was our mission, Corporal,” he said.
The Corporal stared at him and then at the other Spartans. “Yes, sir.”
When Green Team Leader reported that the perimeter was clear, the last of the Spartans boarded thePelican.
James had regained112 consciousness. Someone had removed his helmet and propped113 his head on a foldedsurvival blanket. His eyes watered from the pain, but he managed to salute110 the Master Chief with his lefthand. John gestured at Kelly; she administered a dose of painkiller114, and James lapsed54 intounconsciousness.
The Pelican lifted into the air. In the distance, the suns were warming the horizon, and C.te d’Azur wasoutlined against the dawn.
The dropship suddenly accelerated at full speed straight up, and then angled away to the south.
“Sir,”the pilot said over the COM channel.“We’re getting multiple incoming radar115 contacts . . . abouttwo hundred Banshees inbound.”
“We’ll take care of it, Lieutenant,” John replied. “Prepare for EMP and shock wave.”
The Master Chief activated116 his remote radio transceiver.
He quickly keyed in the final fail-safe code, then sent the coded burst transmission on its way.
A third sun appeared on the horizon. It blotted117 out the light of the system’s stars, then cooled—fromamber to red—and darkened the sky with black clouds of dust.
“Mission accomplished,” he said.
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