Halo Forerunners Mga Nobela at Kwento

' He looked down at the boy and the woman bleeding in the ash. 'Wipe the floor,' Halloway commanded. 'Drop the Iron Rain. Zero on my coordinates.' Above the dome, the sky didn't just hum. It ignited. A dozen tungsten rods detached from the Carrier’s belly, their targeting reticles locking onto the exact spot where Leo was trying to drive the shard into the Watcher's heart. Leo looked up at the ceiling, his gold-flecked eyes catching the first white-hot streak of the falling rods. 'Mommy?' he whispered.

He stood behind Leo, who had taken the manual driver's controls. "Push us to the perimeter edge," Ren commanded. The massive siege tank ground forward, crossing the final two blocks of the Neon Square, coming to a halt exactly five hundred yards from the towering, shielded base of the Apex Spire. Through the viewport, they could see the Aegis Halo. It was a wall of crackling, superheated blue plasma that completely enclosed the base of the tower. On either side of the massive, sealed plasteel front doors were two heavily fortified, concrete sub-stations.