Ghost and his new squad are tasked with carring out the Cole Protocol during an invasion by the Covenant forces on a planet. Their job is to destroy all navigational data and a Prototype Powered Exoskeleton. The marines are pinned down awaiting extraction. Ghost in defiance of orders suits up in the heavily armed Exoskeleton, while it's self-destruct time counts down, and takes the fight to the Covenant forces by himself.
For a while Ghost is able to fight the Covenant forces off and give them one hell of an ass kicking. This buys his remaining squad mates the time they need to evacuate but unfortunately Ghost soon finds himself over powered, out of ammo and out of time as the count Down time has reached it's end and asks ghost for one last voice command to self-destruct. Ghost looks at the two words and remembers a time long ago when he's caring for one of his fallen squad mates. While they are talking the dying soldier tells Ghost to "be human." Ghost stairs at those two words on the screen and with one last defiant look at the advancing Covenant forces speaks those words "BE HUMAN" setting off a nuclear detonation fulfilling the Cole Protocol.
This was a pretty awesome and enjoyable episode that while it didn't involve the Spartans it did show that everyone must do their part and pay the price to ensure humanities survival. The fights were well done and the story was good and now I only have two more episodes to watch before the DVD comes out. Although AOTS DVDuesday already reviewed the DVD so by that it should be out already so I don't know what's going on but I'm thinking I'll have to check out Wal-mart tomorrow and see if it indeed already come out. How knows maybe it did.
You can check out a video clip of Halo Legends: Prototype below
