Terminal (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary)/Nine
Campaign level: Keyes (video-guide)
The ninth terminal can be found after the player find Keyes absorbed into the Proto-Gravemind. Eliminate nearby Covenant and Flood forces, then search the sunken crevices to the side of the raised platform. The terminal is a red holographic panel, and will be on one the right crevice's wall.
| “ | Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK. | ” |
[044657.04.21.21.34.56]
Fade in to Jacob Keyes' eyes. They are shut, with a pained expression.
- Jacob Keyes: "I, forgot something..."
A bright sun rises amidst a cloudy sky.
- Jacob Keyes: "What did I- My name. I forgot... Oh! Uh... Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK."
Keyes' name patch and medals are shown.
Fade to black, then to Keyes' closed eyes.
- Jacob Keyes: "What is that noise? What is that damned noise?!"
Keyes imagines himself standing at attention in uniform, saluting.
- Jacob Keyes: "Where am I?"
Keyes' memories take him back to the Flood containment facility, as his contingent of Marines battle the Flood. All hell breaks loose in slow-motion; every sound is distorted as though underwater.
The Marines open fire at a charging combat form, to little effect. A Marine runs away from a horde of Flood as another is overwhelmed behind him. Keyes is shown, screaming.
- Jacob Keyes: "Covenant captured me. Didn't they? I - I can't, I can't remember..."
Keyes' eyes have opened. He is now part of the Proto-Gravemind.
Keyes imagines himself standing at attention again.
- Jacob Keyes: "Keyes, Jacob..."
The Keyes standing at attention screams as his arm mutates to that of a Flood combat form. Blood pours out of his stomach.
- Jacob Keyes: "Oh, God... It hurts!"
A partially-infected Keyes is shown firing an assault rifle.
- Jacob Keyes: "This - will - never - work, you Covenant bastards! I'll never lead you to Earth!"
The UNSC Home Fleet is shown in Earth orbit. Fade through a human city, a desert highway, and Sydney Harbour at night.
- Jacob Keyes: "Keyes, Jacob... Captain. Service number...01928-19912-JK."
Human teeth flash for a moment.
- Jacob Keyes: "Oh God. You don't want Earth...you want everything! Get out of my head!"
Keyes' eyes look around in terror. A human combat form flashes by, as Keyes screams again.
- Gravemind: "Everything..."
Jacob imagines his daughter Miranda, as an adult and in her uniform.
- Jacob Keyes: "Miranda...? Is that you?"
- Gravemind: "Forget everything."
Fade to another shot of Miranda, who vacantly nods her head.
- Jacob Keyes: "No. Please! Don't let me forget-"
Miranda slowly fades to black, as Keyes' memories of her are taken from him. Keyes strains in effort.
- Jacob Keyes: "-Keyes, Jacob..."
Cut to a swinging ceiling fan, then to a young Catherine Halsey in a nightgown.
- Jacob Keyes: "Captain. Service number...01928-19912-JK!"
A human Flood combat form darts around with inhuman speed.
Cut to the Proto-Gravemind.
- Gravemind: "No more, what you were. Memories..."
Keyes is standing in uniform, then shaking hands with Halsey.
- Gravemind: "Emotions..."
Flashes of memory. Keyes is standing in a starship's bridge, taking a walk with Halsey, holding a slip of paper, two Marines in battle dress. Cut to black.
- Gravemind: "All is now ours."
Keyes has now lost all trace of fear, showing only determination.
- Jacob Keyes: "Keyes, Jacob. Captain. Service number 01928-19912-JK!"
Keyes' voice grows more and more distorted, matching the Gravemind's.
- Jacob Keyes: "You will not! Have! Me!"
Cut to black.
- Gravemind: "...we already do."