Trouble on Requiem.....

.......Back on Requiem, John-117 and Cortana have made it out of the Didact pulse field and have crossed the Plain of Seraph. During this they run into a Covenant patrol searching for Retriever.......

..in the ensuing engagement, Cortana was pinned down behind a gravity well sensor cluster and the patrol picked up her energy trace.......as they closed in.....John-117 took out a Sangheili Commander and two Jiralhanae guards.........but the engagement left him injured, bleeding heavily and with only 1 cycle left on his Spartan Pulse Laser..................