Veronica Dare/Quotes

Campaign Quotes

Prepare to Drop

• "Replacements?" - To Buck, regarding the new members in his squad.
• "At least they listen."
• "Orders are orders." - When Buck tells her that they're not going like the new mission.
• "My orders. And Buck? Call me Captain." - After Buck protests the mission.
• "I'll pass on that dance. But you can show me where to sit."
• "Latest intel reports Covenant troops are massing beneath the carrier." - After entering her pod.
• "We're not going to find out way up here." - When Buck asks why they;re pulling back.
• "Stand by to adjust trajectory. On my mark."
• "Mark!"
• "We're headed exactly where I need to go." - After changing the drop pods' trajectory.
• "No. The carrier's going to jump! It's a slipspace rupture! You need to-" - After seeing the Solemn Penance prepare to enter slipspace.

Tayari Plaza

• "Squad, what's your status? You still with me, Buck?"
• "I hit pretty hard. My hatch won't open. How about yours?" - After Buck responds.
• "Right. When you get done fooling around, I could use some help." - When Buck reports his door has opened.
• "That's what I miss most about you, Buck. The way your mouth's always move a little faster than your brain. Look, don't start about my job. We both agreed to end it." - When Buck brings up their former relationship.
• "First, you're the best soldier I know, and second... You don't really remember, that night? What you asked me in the morning?" - When Dare recalls Buck's proposal.
• "Say again Buck? You're breaking up." - When Buck responds that he remembers not getting an answer.
• "We missed our LZ. This grid is packed with Covenant. Be careful."
• "Won't be much of a rescue if you're dead."
• "What do you mean?" - When buck inquires about multiple dead Elites.
• "It's classified." - Dare regarding the Great Schism.
• "An overcharged Plasma Pistol shot will neutralize their shields, should also take down a Brute's armor." - After Buck encounters several Jackals and asks for help.
• "Still trapped inside my pod." - After Buck protests this sudden knowledge.
• "Buck, location?" - After several enemies begin approaching her.
• "Multiple hostiles closing in on my position. Listen carefully, if I don't make it..."
• "Too late, they spotted me!"

Mombasa Streets

• "Can anyone hear me? This is Captain Veronica Dare!" - After finding all the beacons.
• "My beacon is active - need immediate assistance! Someone, please respond!"

Data Hive

• "Buck, is that you? (Static) They've got me cornered! I'm low on ammo! If you can hear me, I'm on sub-level nine, near station t-"
• "Buck? Who knows if he can hear me but... I'm sorry. I should have told you more about this mission, more...about everything."
• "It's you! I thought... Never mind... What was your name again?" - After encountering The Rookie.
• "Inside! Now!" - After a Drone screeches down the hallway.
• "This way, and stay quiet!"
• "Some idiots blew the building at the top of the shaft. Woke the whole hive." - Dare remarking on the destruction of the ONI Alpha Site.
• "Down there? That's the Superintendent. The AI that runs every system in the city. My mission — our mission, is to secure the Superintendent's data."
• "Problem is, there's only one way in from here...right through the hive."
• It would've been suicide to go alone, and I was hoping for more backup. I guess you're it."
• "You've been solo since we dropped? Fighting on the surface?"
• "Unless you spent all night hiding in your pod...you must know your stuff."
• "Show me."
• "Company!"
• "Hostile reinforcements!"
• "This is just the start of the hive. It'll be worse down below. Come on, we'll have to find a way down."
• "Here trooper, through the door."
• "We'll have to jump."
• "It's getting warmer. We must be right under the hive. Head across the bridge. Let's see if we can find a way up."
• "Trooper! Through here."
• "I found an elevator! Come to me."
• "Trooper, come to my position." - If the player stalls.
• "Get on the elevator, trooper." - Alternate line if the player stalls.
• "...bugger central." - Dare sarcastically remarking on the Superintendent's comment about the elevator's next stop.
• "Let's stick together. Move fast and quiet."
• "Damn! Here they come."
• "We can't go back. We have to keep pushing through."
• "Good shooting trooper. Keep it up! We're almost there."
• "Follow me. I see a way across. The data center is close."
• "It won't be long before they smash through that door. Let's take them out, now!
• "Nice and slow. Check your corners." - After arriving at the core.
• "Don't shoot!" - To the Rookie regarding Vergil if the player has not collected all the Audio Logs.
• "We've seen them before on other ops, but we've never gotten this close."
• "Best we can tell? They're prisoners, or slaves. Either way, they don't like the Covenant any more than we do."
• "The Slipspace event fried most of the Superintendent's circuits. I thought it might be finishing the job. But now I see that you weren't trying to hurt the Superintendent."
• "You were trying to fix it."
• "ONI calls them Engineers, believes they're some sort of biological supercomputers. If I'm right, this one's taken the Superintendents data and combined it with its own."
• "Everything we need to know about the Covenant, what they're looking for under the city is right...in...here."
• "Damn! Buggers must have raised the alarm." After seeing a video feed froma security camera showing Jetpack Brutes arriving to attack.
• "Buck!"
• "Hey! Watch where you put that!" - On the level, Coastal Highway.
• "Win this war, then ask me that again." - At the end of the level, Coastal Highway.
• "Sergeant Major please, it's extremely flammable" - After Avery Johnson tosses his lighter at Vergil

Gameplay Quotes

• "ONI Officers know a hundred possible ways to kill a man. For you...one hundred and one ways." - Said after looking at her for too long. IWHBYD possibly needed.
• "I order you to stop looking at me like that." - When stared at too long. IWHBYD skull possibly needed.
• "Ask Buck what happened the last time he looked at me like that." - When stared at. IWHBYD possibly needed.
• "We made it out of there, we'll make it out of here."
• "Getting slapped in the face in a helmet still hurts." - If stared at.
• "You know I outrank you?" - When shot by the player.
• "Not bad. You do know your stuff."
• "Wow. I'm impressed!"
• "Something tells me you're not a rookie..." - If the player successfully kills a Brute Chieftain..
• "That doesn't...... look bad at all." When stared at. IWHBYD needed.
• "I know you're not asleep, I can hear you breathing through your mouth!" When stared at. IWHBYD needed.

Firefight Quotes

• "In one ear, out the other." - When getting a headshot.
• "Yeah, I'd be afraid of me, too."
• "That's what you get for shooting a girl." - Killing an enemy with the IWHBYD skull turned on.
• "Don't you wish you shot like a girl?"
• "I recommend trying a lot harder."
• "That's how you do it, boys."
• "Yes, boys, that was me."
• "Frag out!" - Grenade throwing.
• "You're blocking my view." - When you stand in front of her in a firefight.
• "What's the Covenant word for kiss my ass?"
• "No really, impress me!" - said when watching enemies firing at her.
• "Sit down!" - said after beating down an enemy.
• "Dodge this!" - said while throwing a grenade.
• "Nailed it!" - after killing an enemy.
• "Yes!" - after killing an enemy
• "FYI, this is the part where I kill you!"
• "You throw like a girl, oh yeah." - IWHBYD needed.
• "Not bad for a rookie, not bad at all" - When goes past her while goes through tunnel and not encountering Covenant yet (Possibly when Rookie equipped all weapons with Covenant weapons)
• "Affirmative" - When Rookie trade weapons with her.
• "Don't lose it, I want it back" - When the Rookie trades for her M6C/SOCOM.