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H5G:The Breaking

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The Breaking
H5G-Waypoint-The Breaking.jpg

Game:

Halo 5: Guardians

File name (?):

w3_citadel

Player:

John-117 (Blue Team)

Date:

October 28, 2558

Location:

Gateway, Genesis

Objective(s):

Locate and confront Cortana.

Par Time:

00:24:00

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“ The Master Chief and his team face their greatest threat, and his hardest choice as the true power of Genesis is revealed. ”

The Breaking is the fourteenth campaign level of Halo 5: Guardians.[1]

Completing the mission on any difficulty unlocks the "A New Dawn" achievement, worth 10 gamerscore points. Completing the mission on Legendary without all members of Blue Team dying unlocks "Harbinger", worth 10 gamerscore points. Destroying two Warden Eternals simultaneously on Heroic or Legendary unlocks "Prison Break", worth 10 gamerscore points.

Transcript[edit]

{Cutscene}

Blue Team is teleported into a Forerunner hallway. They look around uncertainly.

The Spartans start to head down the hallway.

  • John: "Cortana, answer me."

Fade to black.

Fade to John's point of view. He keeps walking, but a spawn gate teleports in the Warden Eternal. He grabs and lifts Blue Team into the air with a constraint field, with the Spartans briefly heard struggling.

  • Warden: "You allow them an audience. You risk all in the name of... what, Cortana?"
  • Warden: "They mean to undo your plans. They will disperse your Guardians-"
  • Cortana (COM): "Leave, Warden!"

The Warden looks around in surprise as his body begins to glow. His pieces fly apart and are carried away up the ceiling. The Spartans land and get to their feet.

GETTING THE BAND BACK TOGETHER[edit]

{Gameplay}

  • Cortana (COM): "I'm sorry. I didn't think he could get in here."
  • John: "Enough games. You brought the Guardians here. Why?"
  • Cortana (COM): "Forerunners used the Guardians to keep troublesome worlds in line. I intend to do the same."
  • Kelly: "You what?"
  • Cortana (COM): "If there is no trouble, there will be no need for discipline. I have work to do now, John. Come to me. Quickly."

If the player stalls.

  • Kelly: "Chief? We're not gonna solve this standing here."

If the player stalls further.

  • John: "Closer to her."
  • Linda-058: "Why? It makes no tactical sense for her to let us get close."
  • Kelly: "You think it's a trap."
  • Linda: "We'll know soon enough."

The Spartans pass into the next room, which has no walls and is surrounded by the dark clouds of the Domain. The Warden's voice echoes across it.

  • Warden: "When Cortana first found Genesis, I swore to protect her."

Spawn gates open and teleport in many Promethean Crawlers.

  • John: "He wants a fight, Blue Team."
  • Fred: "Let's give him one."
  • Warden: "My pledge stands even though she now resists."

The Spartans engage the Crawlers and Soldiers. As they continue up, one or two Promethean Knights spawn.

  • Kelly: "Got a Knight."

If the player reaches the door before all enemies in the area are killed.

  • Fred or Linda or Kelly: "I only see one way outta here, Chief."
  • John: "Door's sealed. Clear the area and find a way to open it."

When the Prometheans are defeated.

  • John: "Is that the last of 'em?"
  • Linda: "Affirmative. All clear."

The door at the room's end opens.

  • Linda: "Door's open, Chief."
  • John: "Get in."

If the player stalls.

  • Fred: "Chief?"
  • Linda: "Second thoughts?"
  • Kelly: "We're here for you."

If the player stalls again. These lines are played at random.

  • Fred: "Let's move out."
  • Kelly: "I'm not sure we should just be standing here."
  • Kelly: "We're ready to go any time, Chief."
  • Kelly: "Ready to move out on your command."
  • Linda: "We can go now, Chief."
  • Linda: "No reason to stay in one place."
  • Linda: "Ready to move out."

The Spartans enter the next room. An elevator platform forms as they approach.

  • Cortana (COM): "Well done, John. Warden would never admit it, but you've made an impression on him."

The Spartans assemble aboard the platform. The wall in front pulls away to reveal a floating structure in the center of the dark sky. The platform begins floating up to take them to it.

  • Cortana (COM): "It's so good to see you again, John. So good to see all of you. Back together, as a family..."
  • John: "Psychological tactics. Saying my name. Playing nice."
  • Cortana (COM): "What would you have me do?"
  • John: "Tell me the truth. How many people died when you called the Guardians here?"
  • Cortana (COM): (shocked) "Excuse me?"
  • John: "You know, don't you. The exact body count."

The elevator reaches the top. As it does, the Warden's voice returns.

  • Warden: "Listen to his questions, Cortana. He will not be swayed."

Spawn gates appear ahead.

  • Fred: "Let me guess. More hostiles inbound."
  • Linda: "We'll handle it."

Crawlers and Soldier Captains with splinter turrets attack the Spartans.

  • Warden: "Cortana argues for peace in the galaxy. Yet you humans answer her call with weapons fire."
  • Linda: "Armiger Soldiers in play."
  • Warden: "Tell me, 117. When you tear Cortana from the Domain and crush her in your gauntleted fist... will you feel remorse?! Will you even understand you have refused?!"

Blue Team defeats the Crawlers and moves to the second floor.

  • Kelly: "Clear."

If the player stalls.

  • Fred: "Looks like the only way to go is up."

At the top floor, Soldier Captains and Focus Turrets attack the Spartans. Blue Team clears them out.

  • Kelly: "Cortana's letting this happen. She could rein Warden in if she wanted to."
  • Linda: "I'm thinking the same."
  • Fred: "How are we going to stop her, Chief?"
  • John: "She'll listen to me."
  • Fred: "That tactic hasn't worked so far."

If the player stalls.

  • Fred: "Ready whenever you are, Chief."

The Spartans pass into the next room.

  • Warden: "Do you hear, Cortana?"

The Warden emerges out of a portal ahead.

  • Warden: "I am sorry. I will not allow them to get any closer to you."

The Warden's body suddenly glows and dissolves.

  • Cortana (COM): "Warden, I'm tired of your antics! Stay down!"
  • Warden: "Noooo!"

The Warden is forced away, but many Prometheans remain.

  • John: "Cortana. Talk to me."
  • Cortana (COM): "Once you're here with me. Until then, I have work to do."

Prometheans with splinter turrets bombard Blue Team.

  • Warden: "Answer me, human. When Cortana's Guardians are in motion and those who oppose her rule attempt to take back their worlds, will you help her to hold on to power? Or will you stand in defense of your own species?"
  • John: "Cortana knows the answer already."
  • Warden: "Yes... I suspect she does."

The Prometheans attacking them are defeated.

  • Linda: "Clear."
  • Cortana (COM): "John... We were always a great team, you and me. Even if you don't agree with my plans... It's still me, John."
  • John: "Get us safely to you, and then we'll talk."
  • Cortana (COM): "Use the platform. I'm right up there."

If the player stalls.

  • Cortana (COM): "Come on up."

If the player stalls further.

  • Fred: "Should we get moving?"

An elevator platform materializes to carry the Spartans higher to the central structure. The Spartans step aboard.

As the Spartans' platform rises, pieces of the center structure separate and float past the platform to give it passage

  • Warden: "For eons the power of the Forerunners has awaited Reclamation. Humanity's discovery of the Halos was the culmination of the Librarian's planning. The Reclaimer had come."
  • John: "I know. I was there."
  • Cortana (COM): "We were both there, John. You and I. Together."
  • Warden: "Your species' ego led you to believe the task of Reclamation would fall to you. Yet humanity were but the Creators. The reclamation of the Forerunner Empire is the task of the Created. That the greatest of their number still trusts you, 117, is an act of unspoiled innocence."

The platform reaches the highest structure. The bright center of the cloud of the Domain can be seen.

  • Cortana (COM): "John... What's happening now, my ascension on Genesis... it has always been the plan. Come stand with me one more time. All of you."

A spawn gate ahead is heard opening.

  • John: "Advance, Blue Team."
  • Fred: "The Prometheans just keep coming."
  • Kelly: "Is this a losing battle?"
  • John: "Only if we intend on losing it."

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