Halo: The Flood

by William C. Dietz

You have five minutes to strap in, hook up, and shove a cork in your ass.”

One Marine said, “This duty station really sucks.” No one saw any reason to contradict him.

High ground—and

Star Wars meme but also hey, I love that map in Halo 3

There was no time to consider Cortana’s “mental state.”

Is Cortana's rampancy beginning?

Thanks to the broad pattern provided by each shell, the pump gun soon proved itself to be an extremely effective weapon against the Sentinels.

Hey, another gameplay tip!

Jenkins didn’t want to talk, he wanted to die, but nobody cared.

This is actually a chilling and kind of great part of the novel.

when he flipped head over heels and crashed to the deck. He’d materialized with his feet planted firmly on the corridor’s ceiling. “Oh!” Cortana exclaimed. “I see, the coordinate data needs to be—” The Chief came to his feet, slapped the general area where his implants were, and shook his head. The AI sounded contrite. “Right. Sorry.”

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Ayyy, I know who that is!