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| {{Title|''Breaking Quarantine''}} | | {{Era|HGN}} |
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| {{Disambig header|the short story|the achievement|Breaking Quarantine (achievement)}} | | {{stub}} |
| [[File:Hgn-johnson.jpg|thumb|300px|Sergeant Johnson opens fire on the Flood.]]
| | '''''Breaking Quarantine''''' is a story in the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'', depicting [[Sergeant Johnson]]'s escape from the [[Flood]] [[Flood Containment Facility|Containment Facility]] on [[Alpha Halo]]. It is illustrated by [[Tsutomu Nihei]] and its length is 14 pages. |
| '''''Breaking Quarantine''''' is a story in the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'', illustrated and written by [[Japan]]ese artist [[Tsutomu Nihei]]. It serves as an expansion on the events of the ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' level [[343 Guilty Spark]], depicting [[Avery Johnson|Sergeant Johnson]]'s escape from the [[Flood containment facility]] featured in the level.{{Ref/Site|Id=Announce|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=7867|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Bungie Official Announcement|D=13|M=10|Y=2014}} | |
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| ==Official synopsis== | | ==Summary== |
| {{Article quote|One of the untold tales from Halo is Sergeant Johnson's escape from the clutches of the Flood menace. Now's the time to reveal how the UNSC's toughest marine got out of an inescapable trap.{{Ref/Reuse|Announce}}}}
| | [[Image:Hgn-johnson.jpg|thumb|right|Sergeant Johnson opens fire on the Flood.]] |
| | Following contact with the Flood, Sergeant Johnson, through some [[Boren's Syndrome|miracle]], managed to avoid being overwhelmed by [[Infection Form]]s. He fired at (but failed to kill) an Infection Form which had latched onto a fellow [[Marine]] (presumably [[Private Jenkins]]). He watched as the Marine transformed before his eyes into a [[combat form]]. He took a blow to his arm from the Flood's tentacle-like arms and was thrown out of the containment room, across a large observation chamber and into a wall. |
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| ==Plot summary==
| | Several infected Marines started to approach him and he made a run for it, into a hallway. He locked the door with a [[spoofer]] and proceeded down the hallway. An infected Marine fired a [[shotgun]] shell that hit the wall, missing the sergeant by inches. The sergeant dove below, unloading the last remaining rounds in his [[Assault Rifle]] onto the infected soldier. He grabbed his [[pistol]] and shot down the Combat Form. He made his way across the [[Energy Bridge]], throwing a [[grenade]] behind him, killing his mutated pursuers. He stepped onto the lift, glad to finally escape the Flood. |
| Following contact with the Flood, Sergeant Johnson manages to avoid being overwhelmed by [[Pod infector]]s. He fires at a Pod infector which has latched onto [[Private]] [[Wallace A. Jenkins|Jenkins]], though he fails to kill it. He watches as the Marine transforms before his eyes into a [[flood combat form|combat form]]. The combat form delivers a blow to Johnson's arm, throwing the sergeant out of the containment room, across a large observation chamber, and into a wall.
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| Several infected Marines approach Johnson, prompting him to run into a hallway. He locks the door with a [[spoofer]] and proceeds down the hallway. An infected Marine fires a [[M90 shotgun|shotgun]] at Johnson. The pellets hit the wall, missing the sergeant by inches. Johnson dives to the ground, firing the remaining rounds in his [[MA5B assault rifle|assault rifle]] into the combat form, ripping its head off but not killing it. He then shoots down the combat form with his [[M6D magnum|pistol]]. He makes his way across an [[light bridge]], jumping onto the other side just as a combat form shuts the bridge down. As he jumps across the chasm, he throws a [[M9 fragmentation grenade|grenade]] behind him. The explosion kills his pursuers, knocking him to the ground. He steps onto the lift, glad to have finally escaped the Flood.
| | The Infection Forms seem to be capable of instantly infecting victims in this story, but, canonically, they did not gain this ability until ''[[Halo 3]]''. |
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| ==Appearances== | | ==Characters== |
| {{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5
| | *[[Sergeant Johnson|Staff Sergeant A.J. Johnson]] |
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| | *[[Flood Infection Forms]] |
| *[[Avery Johnson]] | | *[[Flood Combat Forms]] |
| *[[Wallace Jenkins]]
| | *[[Private Jenkins]] |
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| *[[Human]]
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| *[[Flood]] | |
| **[[Infection form]]
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| ***[[Pod infector]]
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| **[[Flood combat form|Combat form]]
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| ***[[Flood attacker form|Attacker form]]
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| |title-3=Organizations|
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| *[[Unified Earth Government]]
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| **[[United Nations Space Command]]
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| ***[[UNSC Marine Corps]]
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| |title-4=Locations|
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| *[[Soell system]]
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| **[[Installation 04]]
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| ***[[Flood containment facility]]
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| |title-5=Events|
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| *[[Human-Covenant War]]
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| **[[Battle of Installation 04]]
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| ***[[Outbreak at the Containment Facility]]
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| |title-6=Weapons|
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| *[[MA5B assault rifle]]
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| *[[M6D magnum]]
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| *[[M9 fragmentation grenade]]
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| *[[M90 shotgun]]
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| |title-7=Technology and equipment|
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| *[[Elevator]]
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| *[[Hard light]]
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| **[[Light bridge]]
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| *[[Spoofer]]
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| *[[UNSC Marine Corps Battle Dress Uniform]]
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| **[[CH252 helmet]]
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| ==Trivia== | | ==Trivia== |
| {{Linkbox|gallery=yes|gallerypage=Breaking Quarantine images}}
| | *When being shot at, the Combat Forms bleed red blood instead of the standard yellowish one seen in the games. This could be because the marines had been recently infected, so they would not have undergone a full transformation yet. |
| ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'' contains an achievement [[Breaking Quarantine (achievement)|of the same name]] as this story, named in reference to it due to the achievement's requirement to finish the 343 Guilty Spark in a short amount of time.
| | *At the beginning of the story, Johnson and his teammate appear to be in a different place inside the Containment Facility, unlike the one seen in the level [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]. |
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| ==Sources==
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| {{HGN}}
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| [[Category:Halo Graphic Novel]] | | [[Category:Halo Graphic Novel]] |
| [[Category:Canon]]
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