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Half of the twelve-Spartan squad was buried under the avalanche, prompting John to give Fred command of the six mobile Spartans, ordering them to board and destroy the ''Starry Night'' as he dug his way out of the ice. Fred gathered Linda and [[Malcolm-059]] as they prepared to board the vessel through the massive breach in its bow. Meanwhile, John was once again demanding Nyeto's support over the command channel, and the available members of Gold and Green Teams were dealing with even more approaching enemy ground vehicles. Once within the ''Starry Night'', Fred's team found five survivors: four ODSTs and a concussed Staff Sergeant Johnson. As Linda got to work manually arming the prowler's [[Fury tactical nuclear weapon]], Fred reported the situation to John, who told Linda to take her time, but warned of an enemy squad preparing to board. She was surprised that he would tell her to take her time with hostiles approaching, but John explained that he did not want to pressure her. Nyeto's support finally arrived in the form of prowler strafing runs which destroyed two nearby intrusion corvettes, but spared the one that was still attempting to recover the ''Starry Night''. When the Covenant boarding party made their move, Fred and the others repelled them with explosive weapons as John distracted the rest outside the ship. Linda had just finished arming the nuke and began dragging Johnson into the ''Starry Night''{{'}}s escape pod when John ordered her to initiate its thirty-second timer immediately. The looming corvette had activated its gravity lift system and was trying to draw the prowler up into its hangar. Linda followed the order and John warned all local Spartans to evacuate the area immediately. Linda, Fred, Malcolm, Johnson, and the ODSTs boarded the prowler's escape pod and launched through Seoba's low gravity while under fire from the corvette's surprised gunners. John informed Crowther and Nyeto of the escape pod and the imminent nuclear explosion. All of the Spartans made it to safety before the detonation, which destroyed both the ''Starry Night'' and the intrusion corvette. Crowther sent prowlers to recover them and the other survivors after the nuke's [[electromagnetic pulse]] had dissipated.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS15|HSS|Chapter=15}} Some of the Spartans also assisted in the recovery of a Covenant [[Kelguid|starholo]] from the wreckage of the intrusion corvette. They and the starholo were transported back to the ''Vanishing Point''.{{Ref/Novel|Id=HSS16|HSS|Chapter=16}}

On [[2526#March|March 20]], John-117 and five other Spartans who were not confined to the infirmary attended a funeral service for the two-hundred-and-three men and women who lost their lives at Seoba. Held in the command hangar of the ''Vanishing Point'' as it sat in a high parabolic orbit around Biko, the ceremony included an honor company of a hundred-and-one enlisted personnel in their dress blues, including the six Spartans and Avery Johnson. After the service, Lieutenant Commander Nyeto—the de facto commander of Task Force Yama after Ascot's death—approached John, who asked if he'd reconsider sidelining them. Nyeto promised that the Spartans would be seeing all the action they could handle for the rest of the operation. However, Crowther again contested this on the basis of them being too young, forcing the lieutenant commander to back down by threatening him with a report to a UNSC board of inquiry. The Black Daggers would board the [[Fleet of Inexorable Obedience|incoming fleet]] alone. As everyone left the hangar, Crowther revealed to Johnson that he did not trust Nyeto. He believed that the Spartans were combat-ready, and he was instead sending them on a mission to disrupt Covenant supply lines at [[Etalan]].{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}