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The elevator led to a subterranean garage beneath Crow's Nest which opened into a short series of caves leading to the surrounding savanna.<ref name="H3TH"/> Keyes reached out to John through a strained signal, asking for his status and noting that if he could hear her, then he should find transport and get to the town of [[Voi]]. He was unable to respond due how far underground they were. John was accompanied in the dark bay by Sergeant Reynolds and a number of other marines, one of whom activated a generator to give the place emergency power. As soon as light flooded the garage the Chief was the first to climb behind the driver's seat of an [[M12 Chaingun Warthog]]. The others followed suit in mounting up, both in John's hog and an [[M831 Troop Transport Warthog|M831 troop transport]]. Together, both vehicles left the garage behind and set out through the adjoining caves. At a gate leading to their exit, they ran into and saved two marines from [[Second Squad]] who had been pinned down there by Unggoy and Kig-Yar. Some of the Kig-Yar attempted to flee into the savanna but were pursued and killed. As the Chief and marines proceeded onward in the direction of Voi, Reynolds let him know that he was still unable to reach Keyes due to [[COM]]s still being a mess and Pelicans in the area being scattered. They soon overtook the site of a crashed [[Type-52 Phantom]] and made sure to eliminate all of its survivors. At a [[Wikipedia:Dam|dam]] John and the marines met heavier resistance. After breaking through it a plea for help from Gunnery Sergeant [[Marcus Stacker]] barely managed to reach them, informing any who might be listening that his convoy had been hit and he was dealing with wounded on [[Tsavo Highway (location)|Tsavo Highway]] just east of Voi. [[Type-25 Chopper]]s, [[Type-26 Shade]] turrets, and infantry were waiting for them when they got to the highway, but after a short fight John exited his vehicle and found Sergeant Stacker where he'd been holding out against the Covenant forces. Stacker had been heading to Voi as well to deliver supplies to the marines there, but he urged John to continue onward to give them a hand himself. An [[Anti-vehicle barrier|energy barrier]] across a nearby tunnel prevented anyone from journeying any further toward Voi in vehicles but Stacker was aware that one could still walk through it and disable its power supply on the opposite side. John did this, but not before he and others around him had to deal with a swarm of [[Yanme'e]] first. John, Reynolds, and those accompanying them exited the tunnel to a bridge on the other side but had to halt their advance when they reached a place where a gap had been blasted into the road. Undeterred, John and the others crossed the gap via exposed beams and continued on foot. Right before stopping their Warthogs John had picked up transmissions between Captain Keyes and [[ONI Recon 111|an ONI reconnaissance unit]] and shortly thereafter both she and Sergeant Johnson realized they could communicate with John once more. Johnson told him to just keep pushing to Voi and promised that Pelicans could resupply his group in the next valley they'd enter.<ref name="H3TH"/>