Halo: The Forgotten Spartans

Part 3 (1x3)

: 30, 2008

The video goes back to the arrival at Valhalla, where the three talk and conclude that the Elites have occupied the base camp and that the Hornet was here all along. Darknal however dismisses it as irrelevant, saying that an answer to why they were left on the ring is more important. The sequence returns to the stand off and the charge; one Spartan is killed by an energy sword, but the Elites are all killed by the hammers. Overconfident about his victory, Cosmic keeps charging, while the rest fall back. When Cosmic reaches the hill, he notices hundreds of Covenant vehicles and Elites await him on the other side of Valhalla. He manages to warn them about the trap before a spike grenade detonates next to him, seemingly killing him. After the loss of his fellow squad member, Darknal prepares to take charge of the Spartans and orders them to defend the base. The first wave charges over the hill and open up with a vicious wave of firepower. However, the majority of shots fail to reach them and no casualties are taken from the Spartans, while the first wave is massacred by the turrets. The second wave consisting of Ghosts and infantry head over the hill. Darknal tactically orders his fellow Spartans to equip rockets while riding the Mongoose transports, the plan works and the Spartans again, take no casualties. Knowing the third wave will be too much for them on the mongooses, Darknal and the others fall back to take the Warthogs; one driving and one in the turret. The Elites, seeming desperate converge on the Spartans position only to be halted in their path by the anti-air machine gun turrets, although they manage to destroy one Warthog in the process. The four survivors get to the hill and disembark, but disaster strikes. The Wraiths bombard the hill and kill two of the Spartans, the only survivors being Darknal and Conan. Taking the opportunity, the Elites advance and Darknal attempts to fall back. Doing so left him wide open to attack by two Brute Choppers whom splattered him. During his seemingly final moments however, he takes out his attackers with a single trip mine. It is later revealed he is knocked out, but his armour is damaged and he is forced to swap his helmet for a downgrade to a Mark V. Conan briefly mourns his leaders loss, before advancing with a missile pod and destroying the Wraiths. He then switches to a ripped-off turret and mows down what seems to be the final wave. After holding a formidable and heroic stand against his attackers, Conan then finds the Hornet and takes to the air but is met by more opposing Elites exiting the structure. He uses the machine-guns on the Hornet and kills most of them, but two Elites with missile pods attack him, he escapes quickly seconds before the hornet's destruction. A group of eight Elites surround and stand in front of him, Conan making no attempt to fend off and escape the enemy simply tells them "Other Spartans will come, and end this war." The Elites showing no remorse or mercy, stick him plasma grenades, seemingly ending his life. This Part was the only one in the whole movie not to have the 'To be continued...' ending as it was deemed to be the last one to be made by Darknal, however popular demand has led it be further expanded to more than 10 parts as a whole, a related side-story created by one of his body actors titled 'Spartan Squad Alpha' and a planned new addition to 'The Forgotten Spartans Universe'.