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As soon as John finished speaking a stream of plasma bolts caught him at chest height, fired from an [[Type-32 Ghost|unseen vehicle]] within the fog.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}} When he could finally see it as it swerved toward him, he fired a [[40mm grenade|grenade]] from his MA5's underslung launcher, which detonated upon impact with the [[Jiralhanae]] pilot's head. With at least four more of the rapid attack vehicles registering on his [[motion tracker]] John signaled [[Gold Team|Gold]] and [[Green Team|Green team]]s to deal with them while Blue went for the ''Starry Night''. Once within forty meters of the avalanche's base John leapt ten meters up in [[Seoba]]'s weak gravity to get a better look at the ship above the fog. It was being swarmed by Sangheili, Jiralhanae, and Kig-Yar, and two Spirits were in position overhead. John called out to Nyeto to ask where their air support was and was reassured it was on its way. At the bottom of the slope he ordered Blue Team to follow his lead in firing grenades beneath where the prowler rested. Before they even exploded, however, a plasma strike sent the mass of snow and ice tumbling further down. John tried in vain to get above it was was quickly buried under tons of snow and ice by 0909 hours.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS14}}{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}} His [[HUD]] showed that only six of his Spartans had escaped being immobilized like he had, so he turned over command to Fred at once and told him to stick with the plan to board and blow up the ''Starry Night''.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}} Unable to do much else, he once again checked on the status of their air support with Crowther and Nyeto to only to be told again that it would be there soon enough. It took John over two minutes to finally dig himself out. Once he was able to reorient himself he confirmed that Fred, Linda, and [[Malcolm-059]] had made it aboard the prowler. Linda was in the midst of arming its [[Fury tactical nuclear weapon]]. John warned Fred that four Brutes, four Jackals, and four Elites were on their way inside and when he was notified that four ODSTs and Sergeant Johnson had survived, with the Sergeant suffering a concussion, he advised that grenades be taken away from him. John additionally agreed to a thirty second timer being set for the blast to give them all time to get away. When John finally pulled himself free of the snow he set off at a run while firing his M6D at the [[Sangheili]] he judged to be in charge. Holes in its chest made the alien collapse but as he fell John grabbed him by the throat and shoved him toward the second Elite. John was just able to get inside the swing from the second's energy blade, grab his wrist, and fold him onto his own sword. He was then caught off guard as he was hit from behind by a shot which ruptured his armor. His suit began to slowly lose pressure as he somersaulted, rolled, and dug into the snow to find ay semblance of cover. John's attacker was dealt with by [[Anton-044]] and Joshua, who offered to assist him with a patching kit. Noticing that [[Worthy Silence|a Covenant ship]] hanging low in the sky over the ''Starry Night'' looked as if it could lift the craft into itself at any moment, John yelled for the nuke to be set off as soon as possible. He, Joshua, and Anton bounded down the slope to but at least half a kilometer between themselves and the blast. Seoba's lack of atmosphere meant they didn't have to worry about a shockwave. As soon as all eight Spartans were accounted for in the wake of the explosion, which destroyed the Covenant vessel above it, John had Joshua then patch him up so he could go check on each one of them.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS15}}<ref name="HSS16">''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'', ''Chapter 16''</ref> The wreckage of the Covenant ship yielded some sort of [[Kelguid|holoprojector]] which the Spartans recovered for study.{{Ref/Reuse|HSS16}}