Upon entering the structure's lobby, the two are immediately taken hostage by Marshall Glick, an unstable ex-cop who had apparently had a run-in with Mike earlier in his career. Mike tells Sadie that Vergil could be re-activated at the NMPD headquarters. Mike and Sadie narrowly escapeout of the machine's rear just before it is obliterated.Īfter Sadie tries to contact her father again, Kinsler shuts down the Superintendent. The Wraith soon notices Tom's shouting and responds to his offerings of peace with a plasma mortar. There is a Zurdo-pattern Wraith patrolling which, until now, ignored the garbage truck because it was an automated machine controlled by the city's AI. Tom, overreacting to the news that Covenant were trying to help the Superintendent, eagerly opens the Olifant's top hatch, then looks around and shouts to grab the attention of any nearby Covenant so that he could "negotiate" with them. Endesha tells her that seven Engineers were trying to repair the Superintendent before they attempted to escape their Covenant captors, and then that six of the Engineers sacrificed themselves for their brother, the seventh. While traversing the war-torn megalopolis, Sadie and Mike meet Tom Uberti, a salesman who has hitched a ride on the Olifant. Once Sadie and Mike get inside the Olifant, Sadie continues talking to her father. Sadie then opts to use the garbage truck to continue across the bridge toward the city. Just before Mike and Sadie board his Pelican, Vergil saves them, crashing an Olifant into the Pelican and emptying its contents onto the Commissioner. Sadie then explains who Vergil is to Mike while he follows her over the bridge leading to the main island of New Mombasa.Īs they cross a bridge, Kinsler, now armed with an SMG, arrives in a modified Pelican dropship decked in police livery and forces Mike to throw his holstered service pistol off the edge. Before the Brutes can kill Sadie, Mike returns, running them over with his police car. Sadie remains silent whilst hiding in the dumpster, but she is discovered by the alien patrol after her father contacts her on her Chatter. Sadie hides behind a dumpster while a pack of Brutes rip the ATM from the wall and throw it on top of the Crone before killing her with Maulers. She finds one that is operational, but a looter (referred to in the audio logs as the Crone) forces her away with a shotgun. Sadie tries to resume her conversation with her father in the casino district, but widespread looting has ruined all of the ATMs. Unable to get through to him, Sadie accepts Jonas' final offering of two kebabs and continues her journey, now leading into the casino district. Sadie still persistently pleads with him, telling him that she will try to find a forklift or a garbage truck that she could use to transport him, to which he makes repulsive and sarcastic remarks to her efforts, calling her his "brave warrior princess" coming to rescue him while riding "her mighty forklift". Jonas condescendingly informs her that, due to his massive size and weight, he is unable to keep up with the boisterous mob around him, and accepts the fact that he was going to die. While expressing her gratitude for his admirable efforts in helping the city's populace, Sadie urges the man to flee from the Covenant with the rest of the refugees. Before he can continue, Sadie interrupts the conversation to meet Jonas, an 800lb butcher who is giving out free kebabs to the fleeing refugees. He tells her that the Covenant only came to New Mombasa presumably for Vergil's discovery. Sadie continues toward the city center on foot, talking to her father on her chatter. After a brief argument, Sadie tells him to stop the car so that she can go look for her father on foot, to which he obliges, leaving her in the market district. He refuses, however, to bring her to the war zone in the city center. When Mike hears this, he stops the car and kicks Kinsler out of it, leaving him on the street. She accepts, only to be told that Kinsler was abducting her to rape her. Sadie cuts him off and (over his protest) states her intent to go downtown and save him from the Covenant.Īs Sadie cuts off contact with her father, NMPD Commissioner Kinsler and NMPD officer Mike Branley arrive in a HuCiv Genet car modified for use by the NMPD, and Kinsler offers to pick her up. Endesha at the Superintendent's data center, who tries to tell her about a discovery made the previous day. As soon as Sadie convinces Vergil to let her go, the Covenant arrive in New Mombasa. Daniel Endesha, to monitor and take care of her. To her dismay, she is caught by Vergil, a sub-routine of the New Mombasa Superintendent written by her father, Dr. On October 20, 2552, 19-year old Sadie Endesha is leaving New Mombasa by train to enlist in the UNSC.
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