Our big green style, cannot be defeated!
-Sgt. A.J. Johnson - Halo 2 - Metropolis
This follows the events of the CGI trailer for Halo 4.
The portion of the frigate is pulled into the space station. The Chief & Cortana find themselves in the largest hangar they've ever seen. It could hold a Covenant Cruiser inside. Their ship is pulled to the side where hundreds of thousands of engineers & sentinels are waiting. The ships touch the ground while hundreds of engineers brush right past the chief. A sentinel stops infront of the chief & examines him. The chief says, "Hello...?", & at that moment, the sentinel looks back up, & it's eye color changes from blue to red.
Soon after, every sentinel in the room has their eye turned red. All advance on the ship immediately. The chief runs back into the safety of the ship. He gets to the armory & equips himself with a standard pistol, assault rifle, & wields a battle rifle. The ships shakes violently & the temperature increases. The chief exits out a side hatch to find that the sentinels are using their beams to dissect the ship.
The John runs past small & large Forerunner ships. He makes it to a triangular door, & allows Cortana to hack into it, but after, he immediately takes her back into his armors core. Fearing that it's too risky since the Forerunners have AIs of their own. The sliding doors part & the chief enters a long hallway. It twists & turns & shows multiple doors. He enters the only unlocked one, & finds himself in a hangar half the size of the first.
They're surprised to see thousands of different ships. More surprised that they recognize many to be Covenant ships. John walks down & examines them. They all appear to be ready for flight. With the Johns exceptional vision, he notices something very shocking. He sees a black-grey ship, about a mile away. Their are words on the side. He gets a closer words & realizes that he's not mistaken. The letters spell out, "UNSC".
John sprints all the way up to the ship. Staying in the shadows, he peers closer to it. Painted on the starboard side are the words, "Spirit of Fire". Cortana classifies the ship as a colony ship, refitted into a warship, & explains its significance to the Battle of Harvest. They go inside, & find it empty & abandoned. The John takes out the chip with Cortana & slides it into an access panel. Cortana scans the ship & urges John to make his way to the bridge. She's found something...
When John enters, Cortana activates the holo-panel & shows the last footage of the captain. Cutter is trying to regain control of the ship, apparently being sucked into the station the same way the frigate was. The last part shows the captain calling all hands to their station & for everyone to be prepared to be boarded. Cortana ends the video & scans the ships core for the AI Serena. It's empty, but then she tells the Chief that there are in fact life forms aboard the ship.
The chief makes it to storage & is in front of the cryo bay door. Cortana unlocks it & the Chief goes inside. A hundred plus of the thousand cryo tubes are in use. Cortana scans their files & finds that one of the passengers is a scientist that worked with Dr. Halsey. It was Professor Anders. Cortana quickly defrosts her & unlocks her tube. Anders wakes up & explains what she last saw.
She explains that all military personnel were woken while all non-military persons had to stay in cryo. After that, he locked the cryo door, & that's the last thing she saw before going into sleep. They then decide to search & investigate what happened to the rest of the crew, & find out who's in charge of the station. Hopefully, not another monitor.
Cortana powers dow the ship, & Chief takes her into his armor & leads the way out of the ship. With Anders behind she could be of assisstance. Anders looks out a side window & warns the Chief that hundreds of thousands of the robots are surrounding the ship. Cortana then warns the Chief that without her in the system, it would be too dangerous for them to navigate through the station. John decides that that's true, so he runs Cortana up to an access panel & she slips into the system.
She begins to "play", with the space stations security systems & alerts all the sentinels that the intruders are back in the main hanger. She also orders the engineers to repair the "Forward Unto Dawn". With Cortanas help, they navigate through huge rooms, small hall ways, large hallways, & areas with deep chasms. Along the way, the Chief runs into many sentinels, which he destroys. Every time he does, Cortana alerts all the other sentinels that everything's fine.
They finally make it to a larger triangular door, & cortana opens it. Cold mist floats out of the room. The temperature is freezing. Small sentinel monitors fly all over the room, not noticing John or Anders. As they walk along, they find many Forerunner cryo tubes, filled with different species of organisms. They see Sangheili warriors, kig-yar, & even humans. Although, these humans wear clothing that is tight on their bodies, & they have geometric patterns on them.
Cortana suggests that these people may be Forerunner, since humans are related to them. She scans the facility, which is so large, John can't even see the end of it. She finally finds what she's looking for, & leads the Chief through the winding hallways of tubes. Anders runs up to a tube, & wipes it with her hand, to see the frozen face of Captain Cutter. They back up, & see the bodies of marines, all captured & put into tubes.
Cortana defrosts them all. All 100 plus marines along with the Captain. John & Cutter brief each other over what's happened over the years. Both are surprised since, Cutter & his crew have been asleep for the first portion of the war, to wake up & find out that it's over. The devise a plan to escape, by taking control of some of the ships, & having Cortana make a copy of herself to leave in the system, since they've done it before. The all agree, & a voice behind the Chief says, "Sounds good sir." John turns around, to see Spartan Group Omega.
John & Cortana are surprised, since both thought that he was the only Spartan left. The crew for the Spirit of Fire looked indifferent, since they've been used to the company of spartans already. Cortana tells them that there is in fact a monitor controlling the station, & that it went rampant & captured every Forerunner within the station. After everyone was reunited, the marines split into groups, led by Spartans. Cortana multi-tasked so she could monitor everyone. With the same systems the Halos had, Cortana teleported each team into the small hanger.
They were going to retake their ship, along with a few Covenant & Forerunner ships as well. Chiefs team stayed in the storage facility. Cortana led them to what she thought was a high ranking Forerunner, in charge of the station, they defrost him & once he reorients himself, he lifts up his arm to reveal a strange device. The Chief gets in the way & takes the hit of a laser just like a sentinels beam. His shields are down, but he gets up & subdues the Forerunner.
Ripping off the helmet & breaking the device the Forerunner is unconscious. They take him prisoner & he wakes up. He explains to the that the sentinels were taking them prisoner, & equipping them with devices that would control them. He tells them of a super monitor (Think of the large monitor on the Halo 3 Map: Cold Storage) & where it is located. John then contacts Cortana, but she doesn't respond, a voice, like 343 guilty sparks, but different, replies to tell them that they cannot succeed. Will not succeed.
John changes plans & has his team, head for the control center where this monitor is. They walk along dark winding hallways & passages & come across an engineer. It communicates with the Forerunner, & he communicates back. He takes something from the Engineer & hands it to the Chief. It was Cortanas chip. He placed in his helmet & felt the cool tingling feeling. Cortana was there. She explained that this monitor was far more advanced than she was & almost captured her, so she transferred herself into the engineer.
With that, the Forerunner orders the engineer to get help from more engineers, & start manually defrosting all the Forerunners trapped inside cryo tubes. Meanwhile, in the hanger, cutters team, along with Spartan Jerome-092, head over to the Spirit of Fire, to find that this hangar is now heavily guarded by sentinels, along with Enforcer sentinels. The other teams are going to take over some Covenant ships, & once the Forerunners awake, hopefully they will lend them use of their own ships.
The Chiefs team, travels & meets many opposition on the way, with not only sentinels, but smaller monitors. They also come across the Forerunner tanks filled with small dormant flood forms. The Forerunner explains that they were studying them to find out how to stop them. After destroying a small monitor, the super monitor is alerted, & deactivates the stasis cells holding the flood forms, & releases them into the storage facility, where thousands of engineers are hard at working, unlocking all the pods.
All the teams in the hanger, sneak inside their ships, & don't activate them until given the signal. They all noticed the monitor eyes glowing orange, but suddenly red, & all heading in one direction. They look to find out that the flood are in the hanger, & in massive numbers. Cutter radios all the teams to stay out of the fight. John also notices the out break, because as they near the stations control center, they encounter many human flood forms, all with shields & equipped with Forerunner weapons.
Continued...
[Edited on 07.03.2011 4:26 PM PDT]