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| {{Era|H3}}
| | #REDIRECT [[Floodgate]] |
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| |prev=''[[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]]''
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| |next=''[[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]''
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| |game=''[[Halo 3]]''
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| |image=[[Image:H3_Floodgate_Preview.jpg|300px]]
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| |name='''''Floodgate'''''
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| |player=[[SPARTAN-117]]
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| |date= [[2552]]
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| |place= [[Voi]], [[Earth]]
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| |Objective=*Stop the [[The Flood|Infestation]]
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| *Find [[Cortana]]
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| |enemies=
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| *Flood [[Combat Form|Human Form]]s
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| *Flood [[Combat Form|Brute Form]]s
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| *Flood [[Elite Form]]s
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| *[[Stalker Form ]]s
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| *[[Flood Ranged Form ]]s
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| *[[Flood Tank Form]]s
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| *[[Flood Carrier Form]]s
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| *[[Flood Infection Form]]s
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| }}
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| {{Article Quote|Stop the [[The Flood|Infestation]]. Find [[Cortana]].}}
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| '''Floodgate''' is the fifth [[campaign]] mission of ''[[Halo 3]]''.
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| ==Introduction==
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| It takes place in [[Voi]], [[Africa]], [[Earth]] during the [[Second Battle of Earth]] and is also the first campaign mission where the [[Flood]] is encountered.
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| Upon disabling the Anti-Air Gun in [[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]], a Flood-controlled Covenant cruiser crashes in [[Voi]]. In order to eliminate the infestation, [[Master Chief]] and the [[Arbiter]] must overload the crashed cruiser's engines, wiping out the entire city and the Flood with it.
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| Upon completing it on the [[Normal]], [[Heroic]], or [[Legendary]] difficulties, the player will earn the [[Cleansing (Achievement)|"Cleansing" achievement]] and 30 [[Gamerpoints]].
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| ==Transcript==
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| {{Spoiler}}
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| ''This transcript is incomplete, and comes from an incomplete source of Floodgate's gameplay''
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| '''''[[Voi]], [[Africa]], [[Earth]]'''''<br>
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| '''''[[Second Battle of Earth]]'''''
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| ===01: It Followed Me Home===
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| ''<u>Location</u>: Cliffside Hill''
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| *'''[[Miranda Keyes]] (COM)''': "The [[Flood]]. It's spreading all over the [[Voi|city]]."
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| *'''[[Lord Hood]] (COM)''': "How do we contain it?"
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| *'''[[Miranda Keyes]] (COM)''': "Find the [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|crashed Flood ship]], overload its engine core. We either destroy this city, or risk losing the entire planet."
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| *'''[[Lord Hood]] (COM)''': "Do it."
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| *'''[[Miranda Keyes]] (COM)''': "[[SPARTAN-117|Chief]], make your way to the crash site."
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| ''Some time later, when entering the city''
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| *'''[[The Arbiter]]''': (unintelligible)
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| *'''[[Marine]] Commander (COM)''': "All squads, report!"
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| *'''[[Marine]] [[Sergeant]] (COM)''': "Multiple contacts, unknown hostiles."
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| *'''[[Marine]] #1 (COM) ''': "There! Over there! We're surrounded, Sergeant!"
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| ''Flood screams echo in the air''
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| *'''[[Marine]] #2 (COM)''': "Aaaaah!"
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| ''You find a group of Marines in a loading ramp.''
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| *'''[[Marine]] [[Sergeant]] (COM)''': "Fall back, fall back!"
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| *'''Female [[Marine]]''': "Sergeant, come on!"
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Traxus Heavy Industries]] [[Voi Traxus Factory Complex 09|Factory Complex 09]]''
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| ''[[Infection Forms]] and [[Combat Forms]] (including the new Brute ones) descend on the Marines, infecting and killing or forcing you to kill them. The female Marine who had spoken earlier is the only survivor.''
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| *'''Female [[Marine]]''' (upon spotting the Chief): About damn time!"
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| *'''Arbiter''': "Quickly! Let us find that ship. Make short work of this abomination!"
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| <div class="thumb tright" style="width:150px;">
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| <div class="thumbcaption">The "Infected Marine" is infested by [[Flood Infection Form]]s.</small></div>
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| <youtube width="150" height="150">N-bCMhBINiA</youtube></div>
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| ''The Marine accompanies you into a building, where you run into a lone Marine fighting off a horde of infection forms. It is possible to save him, but more often than not, he will be mutated before your eyes.''
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| *'''Infected [[Marine]]''': "Uhh! Get off me!"
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| *'''[[Marine]] #3''': "Crikey!"
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| ''If the Marine is not saved, the Infection Form dives into the Marine's chest, causing his back to swell and his skin to change color. He collapses to the floor then Whip Tentacles grow out of his right arm and then the sensors on the Infection Form pop out of his chest wound.''
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| ''Marines are pinned down behind sandbags with lots of Flood surrounding the area. The Chief and Arbiter clear the section of the warehouse.''
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| ''(if saved)''
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| *'''Female Marine #2''': "Those things...they eat you from the inside."
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| *'''Marine #4''': "We gotta get outta here."
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| ''Reaching the other end of the warehouses, the surviving Marines who joined the Chief and Arbiter hold position after clearing the area.''
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| *'''Arbiter''': "Rise up and I will kill you! Again and again!"
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| ''Master Chief and Arbiter head upstairs and down a hole in the floor into the office areas.''
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| *'''[[Cortana]]''': "Chief. (with mumbling in background) I can't tell you everything...it's not safe. The [[Gravemind]]. It knows I'm in the system."
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| ===02: Shadow of Intent===
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| ''The Master Chief and Arbiter enter the lake bed of Voi where the [[Scarab]] was previously fought and destroyed, and three [[Elite]]-controlled [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|''CCS''-class Battlecruiser]]s fly in formation as the [[Assault Carrier]] [[Shadow of Intent]] slices overhead from [[Slipspace]], scattering [[Orbital Insertion Pod]]s.''
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| '''[[Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum]]''': "[[Human]]s, take heed. This is the [[Assault Carrier|carrier]] ''[[Shadow of Intent]]''. Clear this sector while we deal with the Flood."
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| ''A [[Major Domo Elite]], a few [[Minor Elite]]s, and some [[Security Elites]] leap out of the landed Orbital Insertion Pods ahead of you, fighting against the Flood.''
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| *'''[[Major Domo Elite]]''': "[[High Charity]] has fallen and become a dreaded hive! A single Flood ship broke our lines and we pursued."
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| *'''[[Arbiter (Character)|Arbiter]]''': "But how? We had a fleet of hundreds!"
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| *'''[[Major Domo Elite]]''': "Alas brother...the Flood. It [[Pure Form|has evolved]]!"
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| ''The Chief, Arbiter and Elites arrive at the crash site.''
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| *'''Miranda Keyes (COM)''': "Chief, the Elites are looking for something. We didn't believe them when they told us."
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| *'''Johnson (COM)''': "It's Cortana Chief! She's on that ship! Find her! Get her out!"
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| *'''Major Domo Elite''': "Hurry Demon! We seek the same prize. But our Shipmaster will sacrifice ''all'' to stop the Flood."
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| ''They make it to the crashed Cruiser.''
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| *'''Arbiter''': "We'll hold here. I will let nothing pass."
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| ''The Master Chief drops in alone.''
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| *'''Gravemind (Gravemind Moment)''': "Do not be afraid. I am peace. I am salvation."
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| ''The Chief reaches a large room''
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| *'''Gravemind (Gravemind Moment)''': "(Not yet recognized). And soon victory, everlast you."
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| ===Ending Cutscene===
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| [[Image:Flood wall.jpg|thumb|right|The Flood biomass-covered walls of the crashed Flood-controlled battlecruiser.]]
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| ''<u>Location</u>: Crashed [[Flood]]-controlled [[CCS-class Battlecruiser]]''
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| ''Inside the central chamber of the Flood-infested crashed [[CCS-class Battlecruiser|cruiser]]. SPARTAN-117 finds 'Cortana' in a small Covenant handheld memory unit.''
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| *'''[[Cortana]]''': "Chief!"
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| *'''Master Chief''': Cortana?"
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| *'''Cortana''': ''High Charity'', the [[Prophet]]s' holy city, it's on its way...
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| ''Cortana's projection above the holographic unit flickers and then disappears.''
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| *'''Master Chief''': "Cortana!"
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| Suddenly, the humming of a [[Phantom]]'s gravitic drives are heard, and a Phantom appears over the open chamber. SPARTAN-117 turns and readies his [[MA5C ICWS Assault Rifle]] at it while [[343 Guilty Spark]] floats down from the Phantom, which continues to hover overhead.''
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| *'''[[343 Guilty Spark]]''': "[[Reclaimer]]!"
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| ''A [[Flood Combat Form]] appears to the right, and 343 Guilty Spark turns and uses a powerful energy beam on it, destroying it in a single glancing hit. 343 Guilty Spark turns back to the Covenant device where Cortana supposedly is, and begins to interface it with a beam projected from his central eye.''
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': "We must act quickly before your construct suffers any further damage!"
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| ''SPARTAN-117 menacingly grabs 343 Guilty Spark and pulls him away from Cortana's storage unit.''
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| *'''Master Chief''': "Wait. Leave. Her. Alone."
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': "If we do not take this device to a safe location, somewhere I can make repairs..."
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| ''343 Guilty Spark continues to try to project his multicolored energy beam into Cortana's storage unit.''
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| *'''Master Chief''': "On [[Installation 04|Halo]], you tried to kill Cortana. You tried to kill ''me''".
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Protocol dictated my response! ''She'' had the [[Index|Activation Index]] and ''you'' were going to destroy ''my'' installation. You ''did'' destroy my installation. Now, I only have one function: to ''help'' you, Reclaimer, as I always should have done."
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| ''SPARTAN-117 stares wordlessly at 343 Guilty Spark, then slightly motions with Cortana's storage device. 343 Guilty Spark takes Cortana's device away, shooting his beam into it, while the Phantom projects a [[Gravity Lift]]. 343 Guilty Spark enters it first and SPARTAN-117 reluctantly follows.''
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Voi]]''
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| ''The scene cuts to an aerial one over the whole town of [[Voi]] at a high altitude. Clouds completely obscure the surface of [[Earth]], but part of the crashed Flood-controlled battlecruiser is visible in the distance. 343 Guilty Spark flies away from the surface while two CCS-class Battlecruisers of the [[Sangheilian Fleet]] "[[glass]]" the town of Voi with plasma beams.''
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Portal]], [[Africa]], [[Earth]]''
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| ''The scene cuts to an aerial one above the [[Forerunner]] Portal. Its 'wings' are open, and blue energy streams from their tips to the open Slipspace portal drifting ominously above the construct. The scene is quiet, and the moon is in the background. Fighting on Earth has ceased, and the [[Second Battle of Earth]] has ended with the departure of the [[Prophet of Truth]]'s fleet through the Portal hours earlier. Four vessels of the Sangheilian Fleet are gathered above the Portal, and 343 Guilty Spark's Phantom arches to the largest of them: the assault carrier Shadow of Intent.''
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Shadow of Intent]], command deck''
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| ''Inside the bridge of the Elite-controlled command vessel, the Assault Carrier Shadow of Intent. Elites and humans are gathered around a long holographic table, with [[Ship Master]] [[Rtas 'Vadum]] floating on a gravity throne at one end with his Elite attendants, Master Chief and the Arbiter in the middle, and [[Fleet Admiral]] Hood and [[Commander]] [[Miranda Keyes]] at the far side of the table. All are silent except 343 Guilty Spark, who is bobbing at the center of the table and interfacing with Cortana's memory unit with his projector beam.''
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| *'''Rtas 'Vadum''': "Will [[Cortana|it]] live, [[Oracle]]? Can it be saved?"
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': Uncertain. This storage device has suffered considerable trauma. Its matrices are highly unstable.
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| ''343 Guilty Spark glances at 'Vadum and Lord Hood''
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| *'''Lord Hood''': Perhaps one of ''our'' technicians-
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| *'''Rtas 'Vadum''': That will ''not'' be necessary.
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| ''Coincidentally, the storage device works again, and a holographic projection of Cortana springs up.''
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| *'''Cortana''': "Chief!.."
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': "Success!"
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| *'''Cortana''': "..High Charity...the Prophets' holy city, is on its way to Earth, with an army of ''Flood''. I can't tell you everything. It's not safe. The [[Gravemind]]...it knows I'm in the system."
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| ''Cortana's image flickers, and SPARTAN-117 turns to the Arbiter and the Elites.''
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| *'''Master Chief''': "It's just a message."
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| *'''Shipmaster Rtas 'Vadum''': "Let it play."
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| ''343 Guilty Spark jolts the device with another beam.''
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| *'''Cortana''': "But it doesn't know about the Portal, where it leads. On the other side, there's a solution; a way to ''stop'' the Flood, without firing the remaining [[The Halos|Halo rings]]. "
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| ''Suddenly, Cortana's skin lights with lightning and she gasps in sudden pain and collapses onto the 'floor'."
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| *'''Cortana''': "Ahh! Ahh-ahh-ahhhhhhh. Hurry, Chief! The [[Ark]]...there isn't much time."
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| ''Cortana's recording ends and pauses.''
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| *'''343 Guilty Spark''': "I'm sorry..."
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| *'''Rtas 'Vadum''': "No matter, Oracle. We've heard enough. Our fight is through the Portal, with the Brutes and the bastard Truth!"
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| ''Special Operations Elites around the room raise their forearms and roar in agreement.''
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| *'''Lord Hood''' (exhausted): "Fine. We'll remain [[Earth|here]]...hold out as long as we can."
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| *'''Rtas 'Vadum''' (arrogantly): "Did [[Lord Hood|you]] not hear? Your world is doomed. A Flood army, a Gravemind, has you in its sights! You barely survived a small contamination."
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "And ''you'', Ship Master, just glassed half a continent! Maybe the Flood is not all I should be worried about."
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| *'''Rtas 'Vadum''': "...one single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter's counsel, I would have [[glassed]] your entire ''planet''!"
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| ''Lord Hood angrily motions at 'Vadum, but Miranda Keyes places a hand on his shoulder.''
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| *'''Miranda Keyes''': "Sir, with respect, Cortana has a solution."
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "Cortana? Did you see her condition? How damaged she is?"
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| ''While Hood and Keyes argue, the Master Chief bends down and observes Cortana's pained collapsed paused figure.''
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "She could be [[rampancy|corrupted]] for all we know. Her "solution" could be a Flood trap."
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| *'''Miranda Keyes''': "We should go through the Portal, find out for sure."
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "What we ''should'' do is, Commander, understand that this is humanity's final stand, here, at Earth. If we go, we risk ''everything''; every last man, woman, and child. If we stay, we might just stand a chance."
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| *'''Arbiter''': "No! If [[Cortana|your construct]] is wrong, then the Flood has already won."
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| *'''Master Chief''': "I'll find Cortana's solution. And I'll bring it back."
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "Earth...is all that we have left. You trust Cortana that much?"
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| *'''Master Chief''': "Sir. Yes sir!"
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| *'''Lord Hood''': "This is either the best decision you've made or the worst. Hell, if it is, I doubt I'll live long enough to find out which."
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| ''Lord Hood turns, looks wordlessly at Miranda Keyes, and then exits the bridge.''
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Shadow of Intent]], hangar bay''
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| ''Inside the Shadow of Intent's hangar bay, both the Elites and the UNSC are readying for battle; the battle through the Portal. While a Phantom drifts into the hangar on the far side, two [[M12 Warthog LRV]]s race to the loading elevator, drawing near a group of [[Marine]]s clustered around some UNSC crates. At uneasy rest opposing the Marines are a [[Major Domo Elite]] and a few [[Minor Elite]]s. The Major Elite's [[Particle Beam Rifle]] is resting on the floor. Sergeant Major Johnson, with his arm full with 'stolen' [[Covenant Carbine]]s brushes past the wordless Elites, scooping to pick up the Major Elite's rifle. The Elites rise in anger around Johnson.''
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| ''Nearby, a pair of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]s are joking with each other as the Arbiter passes by, with an acquired [[M41 Rocket Launcher]] on his shoulder. The ODSTs and a pair of nearby Marines observe the Arbiter in half-awe, half-jealousy over the loss of their Rocket Launcher, when 343 Guilty Spark drifts through the Marines in tow behind the Arbiter, leaving a Marine speechless. Sergeant Major Johnson re-joins the Marines, beginning to hand out Carbines, the scene cuts to the fore of the hangar, where a [[Pelican Dropship]] lays before the hangar's energy field.''
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| [[Image:Hood Pelican.jpg|thumb|right|Lord Hood grimly watches Miranda Keyes and SPARTAN-117 as his [[Pelican]] departs from the hangar.]]
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| ''SPARTAN-117 and Miranda Keyes stand at attention before Lord Hood, who looks at them grimly from the rear of the Pelican as the troop bay door shuts and the Pelican takes off. Keyes glances at SPARTAN-117 wordlessly, and the two leave, going off to their own businesses.''
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| ''<u>Location</u>: [[Portal]], [[Africa]], [[Earth]]''
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| ''Hood's Pelican arcs away from the gathered [[Sangheilian Fleet]] as the Shadow of Intent powers its engines and thrusts into the Portal, followed by five CCS-class Battlecruisers, and later four more battlecruisers and a pair of [[UNSC Frigate]]s (not seen).''
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| {{Spoiler End}}
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| </div>
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| {{succession box | before = ''[[The Storm (Level)|The Storm]]'' <br>| title = [[Halo 3 Campaign|''Halo 3'' Campaign Missions]] | years = '''''Floodgate''''' |after = ''[[The Ark (Level)|The Ark]]''}}
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