Halo: Nightfall: Difference between revisions

While Ramos, Horrigan and Arris attempts to go back to the tug, Arris tries to put Ramos against Horrigan by saying Horrigan is using both of them. Meanwhile in the Condor, Locke, Aiken and Macer find some weapons and finds the Condor, now damaged, doesn't have the capacity to get them out of the ring, but they can go to the tug. Ramos confronts Horrigan but he replies him that the tug has autopilot but also a biometric scan. With less than 30 minutes left, Aiken and Locke try to start to detonate the HAVOK nuke, but Macer reveals that there's a problem: the Condor has enough thrusters to get them out the ring but its cells are damaged, meaning they cannot get out of the canyon. Aiken then makes a plan: if they use the HAVOK's emergency cell, the Condor will have energy. Aiken orders Macer to put it into the Condor's system, but Locke answer him that they can't leave the bioweapon source intact. Aiken answer him that the only way they can complete the mission is only two of them go to the tug and the third manually activate the HAVOK. Near the tug, Ramos begins to suffocate, and he and Horrigan being to use the last air source, but Arris manage to escape with the help of a laser cutter to cut his binds.

In the Condor, Macer manage to activate the ship and Aiken orders to both of them to go to the tug, but Locke refuses. Aiken then breaks his daughter's necklace and empties some of the beads in his hand. He then explains that it will decided by luck: the one who draws a red bead from his enclosed hand will stay behind while those with white ones are spared. At the end, it seems the one who will activate the HAVOK is Aiken. Before they part ways, Locke promise Aiken they will see each other in Valhalla. When Locke and Macer leaves in the Condor, Aiken reveals he cheated by hiding his white bead from view since he wanted both of them to survive. Almost reaching the tug, both groups are attacked by Lekgolo worms, Horrigan betrays Ramos by activating his backpack, breaking his leg, and left him to be killed by the worms. The Condor crashes, Locke help a crippled Macer and races to the tug. Arris starts the tug and the Lekgolo are going to the tug. Desperate, Horrigan turns on his assault rifle and kills Arris, but on his way to the ship, he is devoured by the worms, and they begin to envelope the tug. With no means to escape, Locke and Macer hides behind a few rocks. With a few minutes to the sunrise left, Aiken activates the HAVOK and, unconsciously, draws the Lekgolo out of the tug and towards him. Locke and Macer enter the tug and escape the ring. At the same moment, the HAVOK detonates, killing Aiken, the Lekgolo, and destroys the ring fragment with its deposits along with it.

Locke and Macer watches the ring being destroyed and return to Sedra. While there Locke walks though the outdoor market in Sedra City while in deep thought. In these sequences, a final monologue from Aiken is heard: