John-117: Difference between revisions

At some point during the course of the war, John, aided by Fred and the rest of [[Blue Team]], boarded a Covenant vessel called ''[[Perpetual Devotion]]''.<ref name="H5GBT"/> Once aboard, the Spartans overloaded the ship's reactor and made it off just before it exploded.<ref name="H5GBT">''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'', ''[[Blue Team (level)|Blue Team]]''</ref> On one occasion a large city on a colony world was under attack from a {{Class|CAS|assault carrier}}, which had launched hordes of [[Type-26 Banshee]]s and landed ground troops, both of which were killing civilians indiscriminately.<ref name="H4P">''[[Halo 4]]'', ''[[Prologue]]''</ref> John and six other Spartans jumped from two [[D79-TC Pelican]]s, using their armor's integrated thrusters to land in the city and immediately begin engaging the enemy with [[MA5D assault rifle]]s. At another time, John found himself alone far outside a human city facing down a hulking [[Jiralhanae]] with a [[Type-2 gravity hammer]]. Surrounded by a crashed Pelican and the corpses of dead [[Sangheili]], and himself having been rendered weaponless, John met the Brute head-on and kicked off its chest, sending it reeling backwards.<ref name="H4P"/> John met the ODST and future [[Spartan-IV]] [[Edward Buck]] at some point during the war post-[[2528]] and the two fought together.<ref name="HNB1">''[[Halo: New Blood]]'', ''Chapter 1''</ref><ref name="12/5/2528">[[Halo (disambiguation)|Halo]] on Twitter [https://twitter.com/HaloWaypoint/status/408611799164940288 Halo on Twitter]</ref> Some time prior to the Covenant's [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV|attack]] on [[Sigma Octanus IV]] in [[2552]], John was awarded the [[Legion of Honor]] medallion by Admiral Stanforth for saving a platoon of [[marine]]s.<ref name="HTFOR25"/> The marines had been pinned down inside a bunker by a stationary energy weapon emplacement but John came to the rescue and took out twenty Covenant troops by himself.<ref name="HTFOR25"/>

{{Main|Operation: SMOKING ACES}}

{{Quote|As you surmised, this was all for your benefit. We scraped our fissile material together and made sure it was done so sloppily that even your Office of Naval Intelligence saw it happen. We anticipated the miraculous Blue Team would be sent. I am not disappointed that your leaders' minds are still so easily read.|General Graves to John-117}}<ref name="HGOO1"/>

John led his team to the perimeter of the rebel base and in quick succession, they silently eliminated perimeter guards by approaching them stealthily.<ref name="HGOO1"/> For his part, John wrenched a guard's neck upward until he heard the sound of a dislocation. Once he got confirmation from his team regarding the others, he signaled them to move forward. John, Kurt, and Kelly ran for the base's gatehouse three-hundred meters away while Linda started to pick rebels off with her [[sniper rifle]]. Kelly surprised those within by dropping [[flashbang grenade]]s from a hatch in the roof right before John breached the door by tearing the door and its frame from its steel reinforcement to the wall. By the time John brought his weapon to bear on the enemies inside, Kurt had already killed three. John dispassionately executed seven remaining men struggling to orient themselves with head-shots. He delegated the task of dealing with New Hope's security system to Kurt and Kelly, who put cameras and detectors into loops so that they wouldn't be revealed further in. She stated that they would only have a fifteen minute window in which they wouldn't have to deal with [[MAKO drone|drone]]s or dogs, given the current rotation and refueling schedule. John ordered everyone to move out, even though Kurt hesitancy and doubt about their ability to not being spotted. The Spartans skirted around one warehouse, went underneath an officers' barracks, and finally arrived at a central warehouse which John was certain held what they were seeking, thanks to a radiation counter he had been outfitted with for this operation. He had Kurt go secure a modified [[Warthog]] that was parked nearby so that they would be ready for a quick exit while the rest of the team spread out around the building. He authorized Linda to begin sniping rebels in her sight and then charged inside, followed shortly thereafter by everyone else but Kurt. Three FENRIS warheads were prominently displayed on steel racks but before John could do anything about it, he and the others were caught off guard by the sudden effects of an old [[antigravity plate]] pointed at their position. The URF commandos who had sprung this trap intended to trick the Spartans' [[Mjolnir]] into thinking it was under ten times the force of Earth's gravity. In response, the armor automatically increased its internal pressure and momentarily rendered its wearers unconscious.<ref name="HGOO1"/>