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{{Title|''The Mona Lisa''}} | {{Title|''The Mona Lisa''}} | ||
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[[File:Evo MonaLisa Kubota.jpg|150px|thumb|The cover of ''The Mona Lisa'' by Jami Kubota]] | [[File:Evo MonaLisa Kubota.jpg|150px|thumb|right|The cover of ''The Mona Lisa'' by Jami Kubota]] | ||
'''''The Mona Lisa''''' is the seventh and longest short story in ''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''. It follows the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Red Horse}} as they are sent to investigate the fate of the [[prison ship]] ''[[Mona Lisa]]'', which has mysteriously come to rest near the destroyed [[Installation 04]]. After boarding the ship, a team of [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] stumbles upon a [[Flood|parasitic nightmare]], and begin a desperate struggle for survival against the parasite. ''The Mona Lisa'' was written by Tessa Kum and [[Wikipedia:Jeff VanderMeer|Jeff VanderMeer]]. | '''''The Mona Lisa''''' is the seventh and longest short story in ''[[Halo: Evolutions]]''. It follows the crew of the {{UNSCShip|Red Horse}} as they are sent to investigate the fate of the [[prison ship]] ''[[Mona Lisa]]'', which has mysteriously come to rest near the destroyed [[Installation 04]]. After boarding the ship, a team of [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] stumbles upon a [[Flood|parasitic nightmare]], and begin a desperate struggle for survival against the parasite. ''The Mona Lisa'' was written by Tessa Kum and [[Wikipedia:Jeff VanderMeer|Jeff VanderMeer]]. | ||
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Lopez and her squad make their way to the ship's minimal medical bay. There, they find a sealed safe room, and it opens to reveal the ship's supposed medical officer, John Smith. After encountering a strange growth within the ship, Lopez verbally interrogates Smith, who reluctantly reveals that experiments were being conducted on Covenant prisoners with an unknown infection, but then the infection jumped to the human prisoners aboard the ship. | Lopez and her squad make their way to the ship's minimal medical bay. There, they find a sealed safe room, and it opens to reveal the ship's supposed medical officer, John Smith. After encountering a strange growth within the ship, Lopez verbally interrogates Smith, who reluctantly reveals that experiments were being conducted on Covenant prisoners with an unknown infection, but then the infection jumped to the human prisoners aboard the ship. | ||
Burgundy sees Cranker and Maller outside, badly wounded but apparently still alive, and opens the Pelican for them to get in. Up close, Burgundy realizes that the Marines are in fact [[Flood combat form|dead and deformed]], yet are still walking, and attempts to stop them from getting to her. She is overpowered and dragged away. Meanwhile, Benti's group makes its way into the bilges of the ship but is soon engaged by a group of the [[Flood]]. As the Marines make their escape, [[Orlav]] is wounded, expires and later wakes up to bite another Marine, [[Gersten]]. Lopez loses another man, [[Rakesh]], to the Flood, and eventually finds that Smith is actually an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] operative | Burgundy sees Cranker and Maller outside, badly wounded but apparently still alive, and opens the Pelican for them to get in. Up close, Burgundy realizes that the Marines are in fact [[Flood combat form|dead and deformed]], yet are still walking, and attempts to stop them from getting to her. She is overpowered and dragged away. Meanwhile, Benti's group makes its way into the bilges of the ship but is soon engaged by a group of the [[Flood]]. As the Marines make their escape, [[Orlav]] is wounded, expires and later wakes up to bite another Marine, [[Gersten]]. Lopez loses another man, [[Rakesh]], to the Flood, and eventually finds that Smith is actually an [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] operative. Killing [[Mahmoud]] with a concealed knife, Smith breaks free from Lopez and makes it back to the ''Red Horse'' in the Marines' Pelican. Benti finds a human survivor, a prisoner named [[Patrick Rimmer]], and a befriended Sangheili armed with a cricket bat Rimmer has dubbed "[[Henry]]". | ||
Rimmer points out that one of Benti's party is infected. The infected Marine, Gersten, is promptly shot in the head by Clarence, reanimates and is shot again. During an engagement with an infected Sangheili, Lopez's group loses two more Marines, [[Raj Singh|Singh]] and [[Percy]], leaving only herself and MacCraw. On the bridge of the ''Mona Lisa'', Lopez makes contact with the ''Red Horse'' one last time, and she is informed that Smith had stolen their Pelican and Foucault will destroy the ''Mona Lisa'' to ensure that the Flood do not escape. Benti's team, now only consisting of herself, Clarence, Rimmer and "Henry", finally reaches the engine room and witnesses Burgundy being dragged to [[Proto-Gravemind|a huge growth]] on the engine. Realizing that the Flood are trying to "hot wire" the slipspace drive to work, Benti throws her last grenades at the Flood growth to destroy it, and begins to fall back to the escape pods. | Rimmer points out that one of Benti's party is infected. The infected Marine, Gersten, is promptly shot in the head by Clarence, reanimates and is shot again. During an engagement with an infected Sangheili, Lopez's group loses two more Marines, [[Raj Singh|Singh]] and [[Percy]], leaving only herself and MacCraw. On the bridge of the ''Mona Lisa'', Lopez makes contact with the ''Red Horse'' one last time, and she is informed that Smith had stolen their Pelican and Foucault will destroy the ''Mona Lisa'' to ensure that the Flood do not escape. Benti's team, now only consisting of herself, Clarence, Rimmer and "Henry", finally reaches the engine room and witnesses Burgundy being dragged to [[Proto-Gravemind|a huge growth]] on the engine. Realizing that the Flood are trying to "hot wire" the slipspace drive to work, Benti throws her last grenades at the Flood growth to destroy it, and begins to fall back to the escape pods. | ||
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==Appearances== | ==Appearances== | ||
{{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5|title-1=Characters| | {{Featurelist|secondcolumn=title-5|title-1=Characters| | ||
*[[Ayad]] {{1st}} | *[[Ayad]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Burgundy]] {{1st}} | *[[Burgundy]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Clarence]] {{1st}} | *[[Clarence]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Chauncey]] {{Fm}} | |||
*[[Cranker]] {{1st}} | *[[Cranker]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[George Crispin]] {{Fm}} | *[[George Crispin]] {{Fm}} | ||
*[[Gersten]] {{1st}} | *[[Gersten]] {{1st}} | ||
*"[[Henry]]" {{1st}} | |||
*[[James MacCraw]] {{1st}} | *[[James MacCraw]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[John-117]] {{Mo}} | *[[John-117]] {{Mo}} | ||
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*[[Rabbit]] {{1st}} | *[[Rabbit]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Rakesh]] {{1st}} | *[[Rakesh]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Rebecca]] {{1st}} | |||
*[[Simmons]] {{1st}} | *[[Simmons]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Sydney (Marine)|Sydney]] {{1st}} | *[[Sydney (Marine)|Sydney]] {{1st}} | ||
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*[[Tsardikos]] {{1st}} | *[[Tsardikos]] {{1st}} | ||
*[[Zhao Heng Lopez]] {{1st}} | *[[Zhao Heng Lopez]] {{1st}} | ||
|title-2=Species| | |title-2=Species| | ||
*[[Flood]] | *[[Flood]] | ||
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*In the motion comic adaptation, [[Threshold]] is depicted as being blue, while all other appearances depict it as somewhere between purple and orange depending on its position relative to Soell. The animators may have confused the planet with [[Substance]], the blue gas giant which [[Installation 05]] orbits. | *In the motion comic adaptation, [[Threshold]] is depicted as being blue, while all other appearances depict it as somewhere between purple and orange depending on its position relative to Soell. The animators may have confused the planet with [[Substance]], the blue gas giant which [[Installation 05]] orbits. | ||
*The famous [[Wikipedia:Wilhelm Scream|Wilhelm Scream]] is heard in Part 9 of the motion comic adaptation, in the scene where Foucault is watching a recording of a Marine being attacked by the Flood. | *The famous [[Wikipedia:Wilhelm Scream|Wilhelm Scream]] is heard in Part 9 of the motion comic adaptation, in the scene where Foucault is watching a recording of a Marine being attacked by the Flood. | ||
==Gallery== | ==Gallery== | ||
