Once aboard the Spirit of Fire, Isabel explains who the brute was that attacked red team, his name was Atriox and he leads a covenant splinter faction called The Banished. The three barely scratch him and Douglas-042 is critically wounded after the brute crushed a portion of his Mjolnir armour, the brute then proceeded to crush his helmet after knocking him to the ground, the three spartans then retreated, with Alice-130 remaining behind to ensure that Jerome and Douglas could escape.

named Isabel, Jerome-092 the leader of red team, tries to ask what happened, but the team are soon ambushed by a single brute. Serena gone, having initiated final dispensation back in 2537, he begins to plan with Professor Ellen Anders on what to do, ultimately he sends a small recon team down to The Ark to figure out what’s going on, lead by Spartan red team, however once they reach a human research outpost they find a logistics A.I. James Cutter, the captain of the Spirit of Fire, awakens to find the ship board A.I.