Halo 

All other Elites and humans head back into the portal while fresh out of Gravemind’s lair, Master Chief, the Arbiter and Cortana take off for the ring in the center of the Ark. Firing this ring will destroy the flood that have established a home base here. Johnson lands the frigate near the control room before meeting them on the surface.

After flying across a pretty impressive matte painting, Master Chief crashes the Pelican into the snowy drifts of the surface for no other reason than that is how every Pelican is parked. The halo is unfinished and Cortana worries that it won’t work.

Full Circle

TERMINAL 07 (t07): From the skull, turn around and when you get back to the lit part of the cave, make another right and head down the foggy length of it. 

• Continue up the hill to a structural element that looks like it is lit with long florescent tubes. - Cortana will ask “Where are you going?”
• Head up and into the room, she will then ask “Wait, what’s that?”
• Walk up to the middle tube and it will open revealing the final terminal. This terminal documents the writers intention to fire the rings.
  

The goal of this level is to get to the control room. Head down the snowy path until you reach a clearing with a huge Forerunner structure. The control room is at the top of that tower. The Flood command quickly deploy Flood dispersal pods and they come at you and the Arbiter slowly, almost like the zombies in a George Romero film.

Climb to the top of the structure using the ramps are on the back side of it.

• Follow the path along the side of the structure, watch out for the bottomless pit along the edges.
• Don’t be afraid to use your missile launcher on groups of Flood, that is what it’s there for.
• Continue to wind around the structure
  

When you reach the top, Johnson requests that Guilty Spark open the large main doorway. The Spark will take a while and, of course, while you wait you will be inundated with Flood.

• There are two pieces of equipment here that when deployed will act as turrets. Pick them up and then immediately deploy them both to help you with your fight.
• If you have the Brute Shot, use the melee function on the Flood a lot because no ammunition will be expended.
• This scene is very similar to the storming of the control room in Halo 1.
  

Johnson reaches the door and is ready for it to open. Cortana, replacing Miranda Key’s role as the female Virgil or is it the female Jiminy Cricket, warns that more Flood are coming. Follow the Nav points to the control room.

Gravemind asks rhetorically “Who is bringing life and who is taking it away?” A definite dig at Master Chief who is ready to fire the life eviscerating ring while the flood operates to reincarnate dead and dying creatures across the Galaxy. But really, Master Chief has made a career of “taking away life” with missiles, grenades, etc, so calling him on it now will do little.

Cut Scene:
The holographic ring spins in the center of the control room and Cortana asks to be “Yanked” into the ring. Johnson wants to have yanking honors so the Chief throws him the card. The Guilty Sparks walks along giving ring status updates to Johnson. But, when the Spark realizes the Sergeant’s true intent is to destroy the Ark, he shoots Johnson and then fires on the Chief. Guilty Spark, I had no idea you had it in you.

So now a pissed off Guilty Spark takes it upon himself to stop the Chief from destroying the Ark.

• His primary and only weapon is to shoot a red beam.
• Strafe sideways to avoid it. Jump over it if you have to.
• Don’t even bother shooting, you have to wait for the next scene to actually hurt it.
  

Johnson musters his strength and shoots Spark with the Spartan Laser. The Spark drops and Johnson looks over at the Chief and gasps “kick his ass” before dying. I hope my final words aren’t so clichéd, that is something that would end up on my tombstone forever. The Chief grabs the Sergeant’s Spartan Laser and tangles with the stunned but not dead Spark.

• Dodge the Guilty Spark the same way you did before but this time shoot the Laser when you have a clear shot.
• After a few hits, the Guilty Spark explodes in a scream and a puff of blue.
  

Cut Scene: Master Chief walks up to Johnson who has suffered his mortal wounds from the easiest end-boss in game-dom. Damn Johnson is incompetent. Chief promises to get the Sergeant out of there. Sergeant looks up, not dead yet, and says “Send me out with a bang.” Cortana is dropped into the ring’s console and she starts the firing process. This old ring immediately starts collapsing around the Chief and he runs.

The Way the World Ends 

Escape the control room. Outside the sky has turned an objective correlative shade of emergency red. Make a right as soon as you get outside and head up the snow bank. Follow the path.

When you emerge from the structure, climb aboard Johnson’s Warthog and ride it straight on through. The snow recedes and you will be driving the Warthog across a huge metal platform. Avoid the suddenly disappearing graham cracker crust.

Drive the path and just follow the navigation icon as it can lead you through this area much better than I can. You may have go through it a few times to remember where all the sharp turns are; it’s like a Bowser’s Castle Track in Mario Kart.

With the ring at 90% firing ability, the structure really starts falling apart. The final jump is, of course, right into the garage of the friggate. The Chief and the Arbiter tumble out of the landed Warthog. A Tank slides right at the Arbiter but a pile of boxes unconvincingly stops it’s momentum. The Chief places Cortana onto the ships dashboard so she can fly them off the Ark. After narrowly being sucked out into the vacuum of space, the Chief secures himself in as the Ark explodes in the background. Cortana Whispers, “it was an honor serving you John.” White light floods the screen.

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