How does johnson survive halo 1

Witnessing three more lifepods flying overhead, Cortana had Foe Hammer disengage her Warthog for John to find the survivors. After making his way through an underground forerunner structure and another brief skirmish with Covenant forces, John found another lifepod abandoned and with no sign of survivors or bodies.

However, in the nearby forerunner structure at the of a cliff, John found the missing survivors under attack by Covenant. After clearing out the structure, Echo went to picked up the survivors. After an encounter with two Covenant Banshees, John found another group of survivors at the top of a hill fending off Covenant attackers.

With the help of John, the marines killed off the Covenant forces, including those that were dropped off by another Spirit Dropship. After the fight, Echo managed to land her Pelican and to pick up the survivors. John located the last group of marines hiding in a rock formation and helped them fend off several waves of Covenant forces. With the area secured, Echo picked up the marines as well as John. At the same time, Cortana, having hacked into the Covenant Battlenet, discovered that Captain Keyes was alive but had been captured by the Covenant.

Chief and the survivors returned to Alpha Base to plan a rescue mission for the captain. After fighting through the maze-like corridors, the team captured the ship's command center. Furthermore, Echo was under attack from Covenant air patrols and was unable to pick them up. The following day, a Marine assault group led by John launched an attack on the Silent Cartographer island in their attempt to uncover the location of the ring's Control Room.

Fighting their way through the heavily defended Covenant positions, John and a handful of Marines, supported by Echo and Bravo 22 , discovered the location of Alpha-Halo's Control Room. However, a pair of Covenant Dropships landed and engaged the Marines defending the LZ killing most of the Marine assault group. Meanwhile, a team of Marines led by Captain Keyes landed nearby in Pelican dropship Victor and proceeded to infiltrate a Forerunner structure in a swamp, which they had been revealed by the captured Sangheili 'Qualomee that it was a weapons cache.

They later met up with Staff Sergeant Avery Johnson 's " Fire Team Charlie ," and engaged the small Covenant forces throughout the upper levels of the facility.

As the teams of Marines made their way towards the lower levels, they noticed dead covenant that had been killed by neither friendly fire nor the Marines. While exploring the lower levels, the UNSC forces eventually came across a sealed door, locked down by the Covenant. With increasing curiosity the UNSC opened the door and explored the room. After a short time, the "weapons cache" Keyes was looking for revealed itself in the form of the Flood.

The Covenant had sealed the facility after they had unwittingly released the monstrous parasite. The Flood attacked the members of 2nd squad who barely got a message to Keyes before being consumed by the Flood.

However, the message was too late as the Flood attacked Keyes and Sgt. He managed to escape from the Flood and eventually make his way out of the facility. Another Marine , who was eventually found by John, also survived from the Flood by playing dead. They succeeded in destroying a large force of Covenant including several Ghosts, Banshees, a Spirit dropship, and many Covenant troops.

The assault group successfully retrieved a large squad of Warthogs , trailers and four Scorpion tanks from the cruiser's vehicle bays and drove them in a convoy to Alpha Base.

At a trio of hills, the Covenant attempted to ambush the humans with a strong force of Wraith mortar tanks, Banshees and Ghosts. Despite the size of the attack, The Covenant forces only managed to inflict moderate damage before losing the tanks and a large portion of their ground forces to the Scorpions' return fire. Meanwhile, the Covenant sent the captured Pelican Charlie and its captured pilot Lt.

Although six of the Sangheili managed to enter the base, the rest were killed when the ODSTs flooded Charlie with jet fuel before igniting it, killing all of the Sangheili on the platform. The surviving Covenant Spec Ops Sangheili had by this time neutralized the human control rooms and liberated a large number of Covenant prisoners.

The MLA auto-cannons and various other defense systems managed to destroy one of the Spirit dropships and killed many of the Covenant troops in the others. Several Marines armed with Rocket Launchers inflicted additional casualties. Despite this, the Covenant ground assault, led by Zealot Field Master Noga 'Putumee , made significant progress against the humans due to their use of Spirit dropships clearing the way ahead of the ground forces.

However, the rout was designed to lure the Covenant into the firing range of a pair of concealed Scorpion main battle tanks, which tore into the ranks of the aliens and inflicted major casualties. Field Master 'Putumee was killed by the third shot from the tanks, throwing the alien forces into chaos, and of the infantry with him, only a few survived to retreat.

By this time, however, the Covenant ground assault was in full retreat. Zuka 'Zamamee and the Unggoy Yayap were the only known Covenant survivors. They later fled the battle in a recaptured Banshee. Meanwhile, John was inserted into a network of tunnels by Foe Hammer.

After fighting his way through, he received a radio transmission from Fire Team Zulu , who were pinned down in a valley.

John rushed to assist, fighting his way across a bridge to an elevator, which he rode down to the floor of a canyon. Upon reaching the room, Cortana accessed Halo's systems and discovered a horrible secret buried in the ring, and that Captain Keyes had walked right into it. Three hours after the assault on the Control Room, John arrived near Victor 's crash site on board Echo As John made his way through the facility, he found the place to be in ruins: security doors had been broken and wrecked parts of the facility were in flames.

The only resistance that John encountered was from a few groups of terrorized Unggoy and Kig-Yar. After entering one of the Containment Room, John found the remains of one of the Marine squads including Private Jenkins' helmet with a built in video camera. After seeing the gruesome events through the eyes of Jenkins, John was attacked by the Flood spewing out of the nearby doors. John fought them off and then proceeded to escape the facility, combating Infection and Combat forms.

John soon caught up with Corporal Lovik 's squad and was advised by Echo to take refuge at a nearby tower for pick up. As the group made its way through the swamp towards the tower, large swarms of Flood attacked them.

After making it to the structure, John and the other survivors, were aided by a mysterious floating constructs known as Sentinels.

The Sentinels, commanded by a Monitor , Guilty Spark , defended John and eliminated any Flood in the vicinity of the tower. The Monitor then teleported John into the Library , referring to him as " Reclaimer. Covenant forces from a crashed Spirit dropship fled the Containment facility, but were all wiped out.

Sentinels began to wipe out the Flood forces in the vicinity of the swamp area. However, the majority of Flood forces escaped the Containment facility and began to spread across the Installation, infecting any appropriate hosts. Captain Keyes was later taken to the Truth and Reconciliation by the Flood. Shortly after the Flood was released, the Covenant Spirit dropship Brilliant Gift attempted to reinforce its allies in the swamps surrounding the containment facility, only to be captured by the Flood.

The parasite used it to escape into space, approaching a Covenant agricultural support ship known as the Infinite Succor.

The ship's crew ordered it not to land in the hangar to no avail, and the hangar's Unggoy defenders were unable to stop the Flood from advancing further into the ship. Word eventually reached Thel 'Vadamee , supreme commander of all Covenant forces on and near Installation 04, that the Succor had been boarded and that the intruders were using human weapons. He immediately assumed that the Demon was involved and sent for SpecOps Commander Rtas 'Vadumee , whom he ordered to lead a boarding operation to retake the ship.

After being given his objectives, 'Vadumee set out with a team that included his executive officer Bero 'Kusovai in a Phantom dropship called Glorious Advance to follow through with his mission.

Shortly after entering the ship, the boarders found that the intruders were not humans, but Flood combat forms. This nullified their main objective, which was to eliminate the Demon.

However, they still had a chance to fulfill their secondary objective of rescuing the ships legate, the Minister of Etiology. They found him in the security room, the only room that had not been compromised, and then attempted an evacuation of the ship. However, after discovering that the Flood were planning to leave the system, they split up and attempted to handle both of the tasks at hand. Upon arriving at the ship's bridge, 'Vadumee was contacted by the Minister, who informed him that he had joined the Flood because there was no way to stop them, when in actuality he had been assimilated and used to form a Proto-Gravemind.

The two then dueled with their energy swords, and 'Vadumee killed 'Kusovai at the cost of his own left mandibles. At the time classified as Project Orion, Johnson was a test subject for an enhancement program to fight a far more familiar foe than the Covenant or Flood — human insurgents, seeking independence from the UNSC United Nations Space Command government.

Before fate would send him hurtling against the Covenant, Johnson was a black ops soldier taking on everything from assassination missions to locating bomb threats as humanity tore itself apart. The wise-cracking badass we know from the games was almost ground down into nothing but a walking, talking gun, were it not for being reminded of his humanity during his time on the farming world of Harvest.

What gets weirder is how things diverge from there in William C. Not only does the novel adapt the events of the game, but it explains away several glaring questions, like where the UNSC holed up over the course of the battle for Installation 04, aka Alpha Halo.

The majority of the UNSC forces still active were killed aboard the captured Covenant vessel the Truth and Reconciliation to contain the Flood outbreak from reaching Earth. Avery was ordered to kill the woman from his position, but he hesitated due to the risk he would be putting the child at.

Byrne yelled that if Johnson would not take the shot, then he would kill her himself. Johnson affirmed that he was firing, but as he waited for an opening that would minimize the chances of harming the boy, the boy's father lunged at the woman and she detonated the bombs.

Both her purse and tires on the truck outside engulfed the diner in fiery explosions that killed everyone inside but Staff Sergeant Byrne.

In total, the dead numbered thirty-nine civilians, including the woman and three marines. After the incident, Johnson came home and found his aunt dead of natural causes, [11] and soon went on a massive drinking binge. Johnson met Healy as he came to Harvest. After the man tried to get drinks and women instead of heading straight to where they were ordered, Johnson angrily confronted him. Upon meeting Byrne again in the barracks shortly after arriving, he was confronted on why he didn't take the shot to kill the Insurrectionist.

Johnson tried to explain that he didn't want to hit the child she was holding hostage, and apologized for the loss of Byrne's squad. This did not deter Byrne from starting a brawl. Initially, Johnson had the upperhand, nearly choking the larger man into unconsciousness with a belt, but was kicked in his unprotected groin, stunning him for a few moments. Before Johnson could recover, he was grabbed by the throat and lifted off the ground.

Byrne rebuked Johnson, before Captain Ponder entered. Ponder threatened to shoot Byrne if he did not release Johnson, forcing Byrne to do so. Ponder warned the two marines that if they wanted to take any anger out on each other, this was the last time they could do so. Johnson refused at first, but after being punched by Byrne, he swung so hard that the other Staff Sergeant's tooth was knocked from his mouth, coming to rest by Healy.

However, while lying in wait on a bait freighter, he and Sergeant Byrne, who was also assigned to the position, fought and defeated four bird-like extraterrestrials in the first official battle between the UNSC and the alliance of alien species known as the Covenant. Johnson and Byrne with the rest of the militia of Harvest were also present at the initial negotiations between the Brutes and the humans. Jilan al-Cygni in repelling the Brute ship Rapid Conversion long enough to allow most of the planet's population to escape into the Tiara , a station attached to seven different space elevators stationed on the planet.

Later, he would become romantically involved with al-Cygni after escaping from the planet. Although Johnson and al-Cygni seemed quite taken with each other it is unclear whether they formed a relationship, or how long it lasted.

With the war with the Covenant getting desperate, the three discussed options and revealed that they wanted Johnson, as a veteran of the First Battle of Harvest and a member of the ORION Project , to be a part of whatever solution they came up with. Based on his own experiences on Harvest, Johnson offered his opinions on the various Covenant races he had encountered. As the Spartans were only fifteen, Stanforth felt that they needed a sergeant to help lead and teach the Spartans, albeit one who wouldn't give orders.

Though disgruntled about being effectively made into a babysitter, Johnson agreed to take up the role. While the Spartans continued to outclass the individual ODSTs, victory was no longer certain when facing large numbers that now knew how to coordinate an effective assault. Four days into the training, Colonel Marmon Crowther had the Spartans and the entire battalion of Black Daggers gather to be briefed on his plan to board and destroy Covenant vessels. When Crowther presented a plan that made poor use of the Spartans' abilities, John spoke out and Johnson backed him up, helping to convince the colonel to consult with John before making his decision.

Arriving at the ice quarry on Biko 's moon of Seoba that had been selected as the staging point for their mission, Johnson was positioned in the troop bay of the UNSC Ghost Song alongside John for a practice deployment set up by Colonel Crowther.

However, it was discovered that insurgents aligned with the Biko Independence Army were occupying the quarry already. John disobeyed orders and jumped from the prowler before his designated time, knowing that he would withstand the fire long enough to take out the nearest bunkers.

Shortly afterward, Johnson regrouped with the Spartans in the shadow of a derelict mass driver as they formulated a plan to destroy a convoy of insurrectionist Civets climbing out of the quarry to repair a communications relay that had been damaged during the insertion run. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss what went wrong during the operation and what led to Alpha Company's unusually-high casualties.

Ultimately, the conversation turned to the Spartans and their qualifications, which then led to a discussion about their true ages. It was revealed that they were only fifteen at the time, giving Crowther a reason to sideline them for the rest of the operation.

Then, the group began to discuss the insurgents' seeming preparedness to defend the quarry. Just then, a Covenant flotilla arrived in-system.

Johnson and the others rushed out of the room to prepare for battle. Ascot was alerted of this, and she ordered the four prowlers to launch immediately.

Before it could clear the edge of the quarry, the Starry Night was struck by the bombardment, [21] sending it crashing into the quarry's terraced ice walls, coming to a rest halfway up a fresh avalanche of ice.

Johnson—now with a concussion—and four ODSTs survived the crash, but Captain Ascot and the rest of the crew were killed. To delay them and also bring the Starry Night down to the quarry floor, John had his team fire just below the prowler with their grenade launchers , causing another avalanche.

The Spartans fought off Covenant boarders and the concussed Johnson "guarded" the ship's escape pod as Linda finished arming the nuke. With it set to detonate in thirty seconds, Fred led his two fellow Spartans, the ODSTs, and Johnson into the Starry Night 's escape pod and ejected into the moon's low gravity. With everyone clear of the blast radius, the nuke blew, destroying the prowler and the corvette that had been drawing it upward via gravity lift.

Johnson was still recovering from his concussion the next day, March 20 , when he attended a funeral service for the two-hundred-and-three UNSC men and women killed at Seoba. After a chaplain gave the eulogy, Lieutenant Commander Hector Nyeto —Task Force Yama's de facto commander following Captain Ascot's death—had Johnson call the two formations of the honor company to attention, order the hangar crew to raise the pressure barrier , and then open the outer hatch.

Johnson performed these duties with the appropriate pomp, and the capsules were lifted out into the void of space by the decompression wave. Nyeto saluted and recited the Committal he had prepared, having Johnson close the outer hatch and dismiss the honor company once he had completed his brief speech. Most of those present filed out of the hangar, only leaving the six Spartans well enough to attend and a few senior officers.

When Nyeto promised to John that he and his compatriots would continue to see action despite their young ages, Colonel Crowther contested this, saying that the Spartans reported to him. In response, Nyeto reminded Crowther that he now reported to him , and that Admiral Cole surely knew about their unique situation before assigning them to the operation. What followed was a heated debate that ended in Nyeto conceding to Crowther after being threatened with a report to a UNSC board of inquiry.

As the remaining personnel departed from the hangar in a shocked silence, Johnson was joined by Crowther on the walk back to the Black Daggers' quarters. Crowther apologized to him for having that exchange in front of everyone, but he told the colonel that he had seen worse. Truthfully, Johnson had never seen two commanding officers openly threaten each other with career ending charges like that.

He also warned Crowther that his disagreement with Nyeto was not a "pissing match" he was going to win, as it had been decided far above his pay grade that the Spartans were not children and that they were the right fit for the mission.

Crowther surprised Johnson by agreeing with this sentiment, saying that the young supersoldiers had saved them at Seoba and that they were ready for battle. He then revealed that he was suspicious of Nyeto and his strange attitude toward the Spartans. It had seemed to him that Nyeto had purposefully stalled in supporting them during the previous day's battle.

As such, Crowther wanted to keep the Spartans away from Nyeto until he figured out what was going on. Inwardly, Johnson agreed that he had similar suspicions about the lieutenant commander. To keep the Spartans away for a time, Crowther informed Johnson that he was sending them on a mission to sabotage the Covenant's supply chain at Etalan.

Despite Johnson being ordered to get some rest and let the effects of his concussion subside, Crowther sent him to visit Blue Team in one of the Vanishing Point 's maintenance hangars later that day. At this point, a Covenant fleet had arrived and begun its assault on Biko, and the Black Daggers had been deployed to attempt boarding operations.

When Johnson strode into the hangar still in pain with a hangover-like headache, he was dressed in blue light-duty utilities and a pair of boots. After John and Fred asked him how he was feeling, Johnson asked Blue Team if they were just going to sit in the hangar all day bellyaching and watching the battle from a distance.

John told him that's all they could do with Crowther standing in their way. With that, Johnson informed them of their new mission from the colonel. The Spartans—especially Linda and Kelly —were skeptical given Crowther's apparent past attitude toward them. Johnson leveled with them and admitted that the secrecy was warranted given the suspicions surrounding Nyeto.

While the Spartans had their own suspicions of the lieutenant commander, John presented the possibility of Crowther using this mission to Etalan as a way to eliminate them—the Black Daggers' primary competition. Johnson admitted that the idea had never crossed his mind, but that it was possible. However, he asserted that the only way to determine if the mission was a setup would be to accept it. With this, John agreed. Johnson later worked closely with the Spartans of Blue Team and acted as a sniper covering John during the destruction of the Covenant logistics fleet.

Along with Crowther, Johnson cautioned John about "leading from the front" and what could happen if they lost John in combat. Before going their separate ways, John thanked Johnson for showing him how much John didn't learn during Spartan training on Reach and Johnson promised to help him again anytime.

During the attack on Zhoist , Johnson was stationed on the prowler UNSC Ghost Song with Crowther and waited on the flight deck as backup for Crowther to relieve Hector Nyeto of command when he revealed his true colors. After Nyeto tried to betray Sierra Force to the Covenant, Crowther made his move to relieve Nyeto of his command and arrest him for treason.

However, the entire Ghost Flight turned out to be Insurrectionists loyal to Nyeto and the bridge crew turned on Johnson and Crowther, killing Crowther. Johnson killed the sensor operator, Crowther's killer and fled, single-handedly taking down seven Insurrectionists on board the Ghost Song.

However, Nyeto blew the Black Daggers, who were all wearing sealed assault armor, into space. To stop Nyeto's plot, Johnson briefly activated his distress beacon , drawing the Covenant's attention to Nyeto and ultimately forcing the traitor to flee into slipspace. Having realized what Johnson was up to, John managed to keep Sierra Force from giving away their position by reacting to the beacon and subsequent Covenant response.

Following the betrayal of Nyeto, Johnson was left floating in space, but was rescued alive. The last person rescued alive from libration point three, Johnson had nearly frozen to death because his suit's heaters had failed and had run out of rebreather time resulting in a nearly fatal buildup of CO2 in his system. Wrapped in a space blanket and wearing an oxygen cannula, Johnson shared Sweet William cigars with John as they, along with the rest of Blue Team, watched the destruction wrought by the successful operation upon the Covenant world of Zhoist.

Every time debris from the Ring of Mighty Abundance entered the atmosphere, Johnson cheered, particularly when six ships of the Fleet of Inexorable Obedience were destroyed by the octas carried by Black Daggers who had been taken prisoner upon those ships.

Johnson began to reprimand Daisy for acting like succeeding in the operation meant they won the whole war, but stopped himself and left it to John as her rightful commander and praised John's response.

Johnson was later present in the fall of the planet Reach. After coming out of slipspace, the Pillar of Autumn came across a Forerunner artifact known as Halo. The Covenant, cautious not to damage the ring world by firing at the Autumn in space, began boarding actions to "cleanly" neutralize the Autumn by boarding the ship and wiping out the crew and altering its course away from the Installation, before planting charges and blowing it up.

On board, Johnson helped defend the Autumn from the invading Covenant boarding troops, but like everyone else was forced to abandon ship when Captain Jacob Keyes issued the order. Sergeant Johnson's escape pod and one of his fireteams landed on the ring, with most of his Marines surviving. However, as soon as they regrouped, Covenant strike teams viciously attacked them. With his platoon scattered all over the valley, he was glad to see John coming up to assist in the nick of time.

The crew intercepted a Covenant transmission detailing the transport of numerous weapons to somewhere in the swampy regions of Installation This, as well as a captured Elite's testimony of a large weapons cache located in a swamp, prompted Keyes to investigate. Johnson, being an experienced and respected sergeant, accompanied the captain along with his squad. Shortly after they were dropped off, the squad came across a structure leading underground.

As they ventured further into the facility, they came across several Sangheili corpses with scrambled innards. Passing them off as friendly fire, they proceeded deeper into the facility until they entered a seemingly empty room.

Annoyed by Private Manuel Mendoza 's paranoia, Johnson shrugged off the situation until massive numbers of Pod infectors barged out of the nearby holding cells and attacked the squad. As each Marine fell, Johnson was forced to kill a few of his own men, who were mutating before his eyes and would have killed him if he had done otherwise.

Johnson, however, was able to survive the ambush uninfected due to his skill, tenacity and physiological enhancement, though when asked how he survived, he claimed that the Flood had not been able to infect him.