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While walking to Team Black's last known position, Linda discovered Crawler footprints in the sand leading to the camp. As Blue Team entered the camp, they discovered the corpses of several researchers. Shortly after, Fred found the bodies of Black Team, dead. While looking for Spartan Black's assailant, the Spartans were suddenly attacked by Promethean Knights. After a short firefight, Blue Team destroyed the Knights and discovered the former location of the Composer. Upon entering the structure, the Spartans discovered the [[Composer's Abyss]], a facility used to store the Composer's victims. At the end of the Abyss, the Spartans discovered a [[slipspace portal]].<ref name="HE8"/> | While walking to Team Black's last known position, Linda discovered Crawler footprints in the sand leading to the camp. As Blue Team entered the camp, they discovered the corpses of several researchers. Shortly after, Fred found the bodies of Black Team, dead. While looking for Spartan Black's assailant, the Spartans were suddenly attacked by Promethean Knights. After a short firefight, Blue Team destroyed the Knights and discovered the former location of the Composer. Upon entering the structure, the Spartans discovered the [[Composer's Abyss]], a facility used to store the Composer's victims. At the end of the Abyss, the Spartans discovered a [[slipspace portal]].<ref name="HE8"/> | ||
Meanwhile, Static Carillon informed the Didact of Blue Team's actions. However, the Didact did not consider the Spartans a very serious threat and told the monitor that he looked forward to welcoming them to "his world". <ref name="HE8"/> | |||
===The Composer's Forge=== | ===The Composer's Forge=== | ||
[[File:Escalation - Composer's Forge Battle.png|thumb|left|250px|The battle at the [[Composer's Forge]].]] | [[File:Escalation - Composer's Forge Battle.png|thumb|left|250px|The battle at the [[Composer's Forge]].]] | ||
After they entered the portal, Blue Team arrived in a seemingly empty Forerunner city. They moved further into the city and soon discovered six [[Composer]]s, just before the Didact appeared behind the Spartans. Holding Installation 03's [[activation index]], the Promethean leader told Blue Team that they have arrived at the [[Composer's Forge]]. Blue Team | After they entered the portal, Blue Team arrived in a seemingly empty Forerunner city. They moved further into the city and soon discovered six [[Composer]]s, just before the Didact appeared behind the Spartans. Holding Installation 03's [[activation index]], the Promethean leader told Blue Team that they have arrived at the [[Composer's Forge]]. Blue Team opened fired, to no avail; the Didact stomped the ground, generating a shockwave that caused the Spartans to stumble and fall to the ground. The Didact then summoned an army of newly-created Promethean constructs and a frantic firefight broke out.<ref name="HE9"/> | ||
As the outnumbered Spartans fought for their lives, | As the outnumbered Spartans fought for their lives, 859 Static Carillon arrived on the scene, furious that the Didact violated their agreement in having created more Promethean Knights. In retort, the Didact physically and aggressively ordered the monitor to fulfill its part of their bargain. The monitor obliged, and transported Gamma Halo over the Forge via slipspace. Satisfied, the Didact took one of the Composers from the Forge and departed for the ring, intending to repair the installation and use it against humanity and Earth. However, while the monitor was indifferent to mankind's fate, it took issue at the Didact's creation of new Knights from the humans of New Phoenix due to its abhorrence of the machines and deemed their presence on its installation unacceptable. Static Carillon helped the Spartans retreat back to the Gamma Halo portal in pursuit of the Didact, holding off the hordes of Promethean machines. As the Spartans entered the portal, Static Carillon told John that he would attempt to close the portal behind the Spartans.<ref name="HE9"/> | ||
{{Clear}} | {{Clear}} | ||
===Return to Gamma Halo=== | ===Return to Gamma Halo=== | ||
[[File:BrutalDidact2.png|thumb|160px|The Ur-Didact crushing John-117's helmet.]] | [[File:BrutalDidact2.png|thumb|160px|The Ur-Didact crushing John-117's helmet.]] | ||
Blue Team returned to the surface of [[Installation 03]] from the [[Composer's Abyss]] and made it just in time to witness the Didact's new Composer rising from the Abyss. John fell behind the rest of Blue Team—due to his conversation with Static Carillon—while the Didact confronted Fred, Kelly, and Linda. The Didact attacked the Spartans and prepared to kill them, unaware of John's location. As the Didact was about to execute Kelly, John snuck up behind the Forerunner and stabbed him in the eye with a [[combat knife]]. Intending to correct his mistake of not having killed the Spartan when he had the chance, the Didact grabbed John | Blue Team returned to the surface of [[Installation 03]] from the [[Composer's Abyss]] and made it just in time to witness the Didact's new Composer rising from the Abyss. John fell behind the rest of Blue Team—due to his conversation with Static Carillon—while the Didact confronted Fred, Kelly, and Linda. The Didact attacked the Spartans and prepared to kill them, unaware of John's location. As the Didact was about to execute Kelly, John snuck up behind the Forerunner and stabbed him in the eye with a [[combat knife]]. Intending to correct his mistake of not having killed the Spartan when he had the chance, the Didact grabbed John, lifted him up in the air, and crushed his helmet.<ref name="HE9"/> However, the rest of Blue Team intervened, forcing the Didact to throw John aside. The Forerunner quickly subdued all four Spartans, but Static Carillon attacked the Didact from behind and teleported him away before he could finish them off.<ref name="HE10">'''Halo: Escalation''', ''[[Halo: Escalation Issue 10|Issue #10]]''</ref> | ||
The monitor revealed that he had teleported the Warrior-Servant into the Halo's [[Control Room (Installation 03)|control room]], as it is the most secure location on the installation. Although Static Carillon admitted that teleporting the Didact to the control room was a "severe tactical error", it reasoned that the Didact would have killed the Spartans otherwise and reached the control room anyway. After the monitor told the Spartans that the Didact's armor had the ability to attune itself to enemy weaponry, John grabbed the installation's activation index (which the Didact dropped when Static Carillon attacked him) and formulated a new plan to defeat the Didact. | The monitor revealed that he had teleported the Warrior-Servant into the Halo's [[Control Room (Installation 03)|control room]], as it is the most secure location on the installation. Although Static Carillon admitted that teleporting the Didact to the control room was a "severe tactical error", it reasoned that the Didact would have killed the Spartans otherwise and reached the control room anyway. After the monitor told the Spartans that the Didact's armor had the ability to attune itself to enemy weaponry, John grabbed the installation's activation index (which the Didact dropped when Static Carillon attacked him) and formulated a new plan to defeat the Didact. | ||