Editing Breaking Quarantine

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'''''Breaking Quarantine''''' is a story in the ''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'' that depicts [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Avery Johnson's]] escape from the [[Flood]] [[Flood Containment Facility|Containment Facility]] on [[Installation 04]]. It is illustrated by [[Tsutomu Nihei]] and is fourteen pages long.<ref>'''''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]'''''</ref>

==Summary==
[[Image:Hgn-johnson.jpg|thumb|right|Sergeant Johnson opens fire on the Flood.]]
Following contact with the Flood, Sergeant Johnson manages to avoid being overwhelmed by [[Flood Infection Form|infection forms]]. He fires at an Infection Form which has latched onto [[Private]] [[Wallace A. Jenkins|Jenkins]], though he fails to kill it. He watches as the Marine transforms before his eyes into a [[Flood Combat Form|combat form]]. The combat form delivers a blow to Johnson's arm, throwing the sergeant out of the containment room, across a large observation chamber, and into a wall. 

Several infected Marines approach Johnson, prompting him to run into a hallway. He locks the door with a [[spoofer]] and proceeds down the hallway. An infected Marine fires a M90 Close Assault Weapon System|shotgun]] at Johnson. The pellets hit the wall, missing the sergeant by inches. Johnsnon dives to the ground, firing the remaining rounds in his [[MA5B Individual Combat Weapon System|assault rifle]] into the combat form, ripping its head off but not kill it. He then shoots down the combat form with his [[M6D Personal Defense Weapon System|pistol]]. He makes his way across an [[Energy Bridge|energy bridge]], jumping onto the other side just as a combat form shuts the bridge down. As he jumps across the chasm, he throws a [[M9 High-Explosive Dual-Purpose Grenade|grenade]] behind him. The explosion kills his pursuers, knocking him to the ground. He steps onto the lift, glad to have finally escaped the Flood.

==Characters==
*[[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson]]
*[[Private]] [[Wallace A. Jenkins]]
*[[Flood Infection Form]]s
*[[Flood Combat Form]]s

==Trivia==
*When shot, the combat forms bleed red blood rather than the yellowish fluid seen in the games. This could be because the Marines had been recently infected, so they would not yet have undergone a full transformation.
*At the beginning of the story, Johnson and his teammates appear to be in a different place inside the containment facility from the one seen in the level ''[[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]''.
*In the story, the Flood are able to infect the Marines in mere seconds. This behavior was not seen in-game until ''[[Halo 3]]''.

== Sources ==
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[[Category:Halo Graphic Novel]]