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Picking up from where [[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]] left off, Issue 10 opens with [[John-117]] having a flashback of his childhood prior to his [[SPARTAN-II]] conscription and reflecting on his life while the [[Ur-Didact]] crushes his helmet, cracking his visor and exposing his left eye. The Master Chief realizes that despite having faced death countless times, he is not ready to die yet. Before the Didact can kill him, however, the rest of [[Blue Team]] rush to his rescue. The Didact throws John at [[Frederic-104]], incapacitating the two, while [[Kelly-087]] and [[Linda-058]] engage the Forerunner. However, the Didact's armor becomes immune to the Spartans' attacks and he promptly throws both to the ground. Towering over the Spartans and gloating his victory, the Didact allows Fred to fire his weapon one more time to grant him an honorable death. However, [[859 Static Carillon]] suddenly attacks the Didact from behind, disabling him and translocating him away via an emergency [[slipspace translocation|teleport]]. | Picking up from where [[Halo: Escalation Issue 9|Issue 9]] left off, Issue 10 opens with [[John-117]] having a flashback of his childhood prior to his [[SPARTAN-II]] conscription and reflecting on his life while the [[Ur-Didact]] crushes his helmet, cracking his visor and exposing his left eye. The Master Chief realizes that despite having faced death countless times, he is not ready to die yet. Before the Didact can kill him, however, the rest of [[Blue Team]] rush to his rescue. The Didact throws John at [[Frederic-104]], incapacitating the two, while [[Kelly-087]] and [[Linda-058]] engage the Forerunner. However, the Didact's armor becomes immune to the Spartans' attacks and he promptly throws both to the ground. Towering over the Spartans and gloating his victory, the Didact allows Fred to fire his weapon one more time to grant him an honorable death. However, [[859 Static Carillon]] suddenly attacks the Didact from behind, disabling him and translocating him away via an emergency [[slipspace translocation|teleport]]. | ||
While the Spartans recover the monitor lectures them on the [[Warrior-Servant]]s' ability to attune their armor to enemy weaponry. It is then revealed that the Didact was teleported into the Halo's [[ | While the Spartans recover the monitor lectures them on the [[Warrior-Servant]]s' ability to attune their armor to enemy weaponry. It is then revealed that the Didact was teleported into the Halo's [[control room]] — the most secure location on the ring. While Static Carillon admits this was "severe tactical error", it reasons that the Didact would have killed the Spartans otherwise and reached the control room anyway. John then picks up the [[activation index]] the Didact was previously carrying, stating he knows a weapon he cannot adapt to. | ||
Finding himself in the control room, the Didact expresses puzzlement over the monitor aiding the humans, yet seemingly furthering his own plans in bringing him to the control room. The Master Chief appears behind him and tells him Blue Team went ahead of him into their ship — the final confrontation is between the two of them. The Didact is bewildered about the Spartan's lack of a weapon and apparent attempt at negotiation; John explains to him that since his many attempts to kill the Didact conventionally have failed, he must now take a different approach and inserts the index into [[the Core]]. The Didact asks if the Spartan would fire the Halo just to kill him; John replies that he initially proposed this, but the monitor reminded him of the Halo's destructive power. Instead, he will manually disable the Halo's safety protocols, allowing the monitor to scuttle them into the planet below. Gamma Halo then ejects the entire structural plate housing the control room, sending it down to the Forerunner planet housing the [[Composer's Forge]]. As the fragment impacts the Forge, the Master Chief is teleported away while the Didact is digitized by the Composers,<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/didact '''Halo Waypoint - Universe''': ''Didact'']</ref> disintegrating his body and leaving his smoldering remains on the control center's floor. | Finding himself in the control room, the Didact expresses puzzlement over the monitor aiding the humans, yet seemingly furthering his own plans in bringing him to the control room. The Master Chief appears behind him and tells him Blue Team went ahead of him into their ship — the final confrontation is between the two of them. The Didact is bewildered about the Spartan's lack of a weapon and apparent attempt at negotiation; John explains to him that since his many attempts to kill the Didact conventionally have failed, he must now take a different approach and inserts the index into [[the Core]]. The Didact asks if the Spartan would fire the Halo just to kill him; John replies that he initially proposed this, but the monitor reminded him of the Halo's destructive power. Instead, he will manually disable the Halo's safety protocols, allowing the monitor to scuttle them into the planet below. Gamma Halo then ejects the entire structural plate housing the control room, sending it down to the Forerunner planet housing the [[Composer's Forge]]. As the fragment impacts the Forge, the Master Chief is teleported away while the Didact is digitized by the Composers,<ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/didact '''Halo Waypoint - Universe''': ''Didact'']</ref> disintegrating his body and leaving his smoldering remains on the control center's floor. |