Sergeant Johnson opens fire on the Flood.

Breaking Quarantine is a story in theHalo Graphic Novel, illustrated and written byJapanese artistTsutomu Nihei. It serves as an expansion on the events of theHalo: Combat Evolved level343 Guilty Spark, depictingSergeant Johnson's escape from theFlood containment facility featured in the level.^[1]

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Following contact with the Flood, Sergeant Johnson manages to avoid being overwhelmed byPod infectors. He fires at a Pod infector which has latched ontoPrivateJenkins, though he fails to kill it. He watches as the Marine transforms before his eyes into acombat form. The combat form delivers a blow to Johnson's arm, throwing the sergeant out of the containment room, across a large observation chamber, and into a wall.

Several infected Marines approach Johnson, prompting him to run into a hallway. He locks the door with aspoofer and proceeds down the hallway. An infected Marine fires ashotgun at Johnson. The pellets hit the wall, missing the sergeant by inches. Johnson dives to the ground, firing the remaining rounds in hisassault rifle into the combat form, ripping its head off but not killing it. He then shoots down the combat form with hispistol. He makes his way across anlight bridge, jumping onto the other side just as a combat form shuts the bridge down. As he jumps across the chasm, he throws agrenade behind him. The explosion kills his pursuers, knocking him to the ground. He steps onto the lift, glad to have finally escaped the Flood.

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Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary contains an achievementof the same name as this story, named in reference to it due to the achievement's requirement to finish the 343 Guilty Spark in a short amount of time.

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• Halo Graphic Novel
• Canon