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Glassed is the fifth campaign level of Halo 5: Guardians.

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{Cutscene}

Two Pelicans arrive at Apogee Station. POV shot as Locke and the others exit one of the Pelicans, and armed Meridian settlers exit the other.

{Gameplay}

• Edward Buck: "Looks like we got an escort."

• Holly Tanaka: "Be surprised if they weren't. Sloan can't be happy about UNSC marching around out here."

• Governor Sloan (COM): "The lady is correct. My team's there to keep an eye on things while you look around. Nothing personal, Spartans."

• Jameson Locke: "(hesitantly) No offense taken, Governor. We'll find our targets and be out of your way shortly."

The Spartans and miners head into the station. Leaving the dock, they pass the hallways to reach an outdoor. Other miners are already there, fighting attacking Promethean Crawlers.

• Locke: "Prometheans."

• Tanaka: "Clear them out! Sloan's people can fight, but they shouldn't have to."

The Spartans and miners defeat the attackers.

• Olympia Vale: "Area's clear."

• Buck: "Let's move on. See if we can find any signs of Blue Team."

If the player stalls.

• Vale: "A lot of money going into this, where's the profit?"

• Buck: "Sure your mom was signal intelligence? You sound like a banker's daughter."

• Tanaka: "Liang Dortmund pays a couple generations of chumps to break off the glass, then has land rights to an entire planet. It's a long con. But it'll pay."

The Spartans pass through the area and head up the stairs. They reach a landing dock, in which is parked the ONI Acrisius prowler. Several Prometheans, including Knights and Soldiers have surrounded it.

• Locke: "Clear the Prometheans. I want a look at that Prowler."

More Knights and Soldiers warp in, bringing their support class Watchers.

• Vale: "Knight spawned a Watcher."

More Prometheans warp in.

• Buck: "Reinforcements. Look sharp."

When all the Prometheans are destroyed.

• Locke: "All clear."

• Vale: "Blue Team just left their Prowler parked in the middle of everything?"

• Tanaka: "Must've landed here for a reason. Ship's log might tell us something."

• Locke: "Let's run a scan."

If the player stalls.

• Vale: "You know, we've seen Promethean attacks since Requiem, but no record of any this intense."

• Tanaka: "Something riled 'em up, that's for sure."

Locke enters the Prowler and activates his Artemis system. His HUD shows images from the Prowler's databanks.

• Tanaka: "Look at this."

• Buck: "Looks like a map of Apogee Station. It leads down inside the mountain."

• Tanaka: "Marked a path to the door outside to the mines."

• Locke: "Governor Sloan."

• Sloan (COM): "Spartan Locke?"

• Locke: "We're looking for access to the mine near our position."

• Sloan (COM): "You think this soldier you're chasing is down there? Not likely."

• Locke: "I'm asking politely for access to your facility, Governor."

• Sloan (COM): "Opening the door for you now. (heavy static) You watch yourselves down there."

A door on the side of the landing dock opens. The Spartans pass through and reach an enormous debris hill.

• Miner: "Stand back! Snipers perched ahead!"

The miner is suddenly shot by a binary rifle and disintegrates. Promethean snipers fire at down at the Spartans.

• Buck: "The Prometheans have this entrance bottled up."

The Spartans push up the hill and defeat the snipers.

• Locke: "This area's secured. Governor Sloan, there's a door blocking our way at this location."

• Sloan (COM): "Opening now, Spartan."

The door into the mine opens, leading to a dim cavern path.

• Buck: "Don't see any signs of Blue Team being engaged in combat through here."

• Vale: "Think they found another entrance?"

• Buck: "My money's on the Prometheans never engaging them."

• Vale: "That doesn't make any sense."

• Buck: "Making sense and being a fact aren't always the same thing."

The Spartans head into the cavern. They open the door at its end, leading to a large underground room with mining platforms. A Soldier at a weapons cache inspects a SAW.

• Soldier: "Primitive. Yet functional. It will serve our purpose."

The Spartans engage the Promtheans. The room around them shakes.

• Tanaka: "Earthquake!"

• Locke: "Watch your heads."

The Spartans clear out the Prometheans and head to the next platform, but more begin to warp in.

• Locke: "Spawn gates bringing more Prometheans!"

The Spartans destroy them and head to the end of the platform. A Promethean Knight arrives with troops.

• Locke: "More Prometheans inbound."

The Prometheans are defeated.

• Locke: "Area's clear. Move into the structure."

The Spartans head up the stairs and enter a quarry site, which had uncovered Forerunner ruins.

• Vale: "There's no record of Forerunner artifacts on Meridian. They must have just uncovered this."

The Spartans drop to the bottom of the quarry. Floating Forerunner droids pass them by.

• Locke: "Something here. Similar design to a Monitor."

• Vale: "Non-communicative. And they don't seem interested in us."

• Locke: "Move forward. But keep an eye on them."

The Spartans head into the ruins. They reach a Forerunner elevator platform, adorned by circular roof rings and lava falls.

• Buck: "Forerunners did not lack a sense of style."

• Locke: "Looks like the only way is down."

• Vale: "Look at all this!"

• Locke: "Record everything. We can get a good luck at it later."

SALVATION LIES WITHIN

The Spartans step onto the elevator and it slowly lowers into the cavern.

• Sloan (COM): "(heavy static) Spartans- I'm- losing- your- signal..."

• Locke: "Governor?"

• Buck: "Privacy at last."

• Vale: "This place is huge. Why wouldn't Sloan report a find of this size?"

• Tanaka: "Mother hell..."

• Locke: "Tanaka?"

• Tanaka: "Just realized. Buck was saying Blue Team didn't fight Prometheans? Well, they didn't have to sweet-talk Sloan either."

• Vale: "You think Sloan let them down here?"

• Tanaka: "Reckon it's a possibility."

• Locke: "A possibility, but not a certainty. If Sloan's hiding something, we'll draw it out of him after we investigate this structure."

The elevator touches down at a platform. The Spartans step off and approach its door.

Fade to black.

{Cutscene}

The Spartans enter an enormous room vigilantly, looking around for any signs of Blue Team. Ahead of them is a light bridge leading to a platform, and above it around scale-like pods. As they approach, a loud echoing voice calls out. The Spartans turn to guard each in a circle formation.

• Voice: "She calls the Guardians to serve her!"

• Tanaka: "What was that?"

• Buck: "Let's go find out, we're sitting ducks here."

• Locke: "Agreed. Move!"

The Spartans run down the light bridge to the platform. They reach it but its door shuts before they can enter. The Spartans halt and hear the voice again.

• Voice: "Your presence in the Guardian's shelter is undesirable."

Bird's eye view of the pods, then POV shot from below. Most of the pods pull away, but one opens up to reveal a strange mechanical body. Its parts fall out of the pod, land on the platform, then float together to create a tall skeletal Promethean.

• Locke: "Are you the Guardian?"

• Warden: "I am the Warden Eternal. I stand in service to Cortana."

• Vale: "Cortana?"

• Warden: "The other humans are approved for passage. Regretfully, you are not."

The Warden brandishes an enormous sword.

• Tanaka: "That sounds like a threat."

• Warden: "Vacate this shelter now!"

The Warden punches the floor, creating an shockwave that blasts the Spartans away. They're knocked to the edge of the platform, but regain their feet as the column the Warden's standing on rises.

• Buck: "Yup, that was a threat, all right."

Fade to black.

{Gameplay}

Locke and the other Spartans prepare to battle the Warden. Their shields, broken from the blast, recharge as the Warden summons a pack of Crawlers.

• Buck: "What is this guy? Where'd he come from?"

• Locke: "Something new. Defend yourselves."

• Warden: "You are not necessary to her plans. Leave now and be spared."

The Warden attacks, as do his droids.

• Locke: "He's heavily armored. We need to get fire on his back."

The Warden is defeated. His body fragments, and the pieces are sucked into a slipspace portal as he screams.

• Tanaka: "What the hell was that thing?"

• Valee: "The Warden Eternal... he said he served Cortana."

• Buck: "Not anymore he doesn't."

The cavern shakes and rumbles.

• Vale: "Another quake."

• Tanaka: "Bad news. Should get moving."

• Locke: "The Warden was protecting whatever lies beyond those doors."

• Buck: "He called it the Guardian."

• Locke: "Cortana is connected to this Guardian somehow, and that makes it the Master Chief's most likely target. We find it, we find him. Let's go."

The door inside disintegrates. The Spartans pass through into its hallway.

Level ends.