Zhao Heng Lopez

For the Red vs Blue character, see Lopez La Pesado.

Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez was a UNSC Marine stationed aboard the UNSC Red Horse in 2552, and a long time veteran of the Human-Covenant War.

Biography

Lopez led a small squad aboard the UNSC prisoner ship, UNSC Mona Lisa where she was ambushed by an unknown hostile. After the ambush, Lopez and her men split up into two teams. While scouting the medical bay, Lopez found an ONI Major named John Smith locked inside a storage closet/safe room. As they interrogated Smith about the experiments with the prisoner and the Flood, Smith broke free and killed two members of Lopez's team with a concealed knife, leaving her with MacGraw. After the incident, Lopez and MacGraw headed to the bridge of the Mona Lisa in order to enact the Cole Protocol. There they learned that not only had Smith stolen their only Pelican, but a Shiva Nuke was being prepared to be launched at the Mona Lisa. The Captain of the Red Horse then told Lopez that there were two escape pods left on the lower deck, leaving out that the pods were only meant for single occupants. As Lopez and MacGraw defended the pods, Ngoc Benti arrived with Clarence and two new additions, a prisoner named Rimmer and his Sangheili companion nicknamed Henry. Clarence, under strict orders from ONI to not let anything but the Marines leave the ship, executed Rimmer. Henry, madden with grief, begun to strike at Clarence with his cricket bat until Benti, already heavily wounded on the way and showing signs of infection, sacrificed her life by pushing both herself and Clarence into the oncoming Flood horde. MacGraw then escaped in one of the escape pods, leaving both Henry and Lopez to fend for themselves. As the timer for the Shiva launch reached 30 seconds, Lopez and Henry fled into the airlock only to find that the pod couldn't fit them both. Lopez was last seen fighting with Henry for the escape pod with only 10 seconds to spare.

Trivia

• Lopez may be religious as she constantly remembers the smell of pews at her mother's church and usually refers to her men as her Rosary Beads
• It is highly possible that Lopez died in the fight for the pod as she was already wounded and had no ammo left in her MA5B ICWS Assault Rifle. Even if she survived the fight, she would have still likely died from the blast of the Shiva Nuke.