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*With the Index secure, the Arbiter ordered that the remaining [[UNSC]] forces relocate to the [[Separatist]] ships and escape back through the Slipspace portal to [[Earth]] while he, [[SPARTAN-117]] and [[Sergeant Major Johnson]] moved in on the Control Room of the incomplete Halo, the latter coming in alone aboard the ''Forward Unto Dawn''. The Dawn was left behind as the only means of escape. By now what was left of the Gravemind had relocated to the new Halo. The Arbiter, Johnson, and SPARTAN-117, along with with 343 Guilty Spark made it through waves of Flood to the Control Room. 343 Guilty Spark explained that the new Halo would be ready to fire within days, but with Flood moving in all around them Johnson explained the necessity of firing the ring immediately, prompting Guilty Spark's protest that activating Halo now would destroy both the Ark and the installation, and Johnson's subsequent reply of, "deal with it," as he prepared to activate the ring. Unwilling to let "his" ring be destroyed again, Spark went rampant, attacking Johnson, [[SPARTAN-117]], and the Arbiter. However, with the help of mortally-wounded Johnson and his laser, [[SPARTAN-117]] managed to destroy Guilty Spark and start the firing sequence for the new Halo. Just after Johnson's final remarks to [[SPARTAN-117]], he died. SPARTAN-117 and the Arbiter then escaped the control room by taking Johnson's [[Warthog]] to the ''Forward Unto Dawn''. Due to the unstable, incomplete nature of the ring as it fired, the Slipspace portal collapsed as the ''Dawn'' entered it, causing it to be sheared in two. The forward half with the Arbiter made it to [[Earth]], crashing into an ocean (presumably the Indian Ocean). Cortana and SPARTAN-117 were in the hangar area at the time of the separation, and were thus left in the aft section of the ship, which fell out of Slipstream space at an unknown location, eventually drifting towards an [[Legendary Planet|unidentified planet]].