Halo Contact Harvest 8

"Get down!” Avery yelled to Thune, as the shorter escort tossed the leader its hammer.

Then he tackled Jilan, driving her roughly to the ground. In an instant, the silver-haired giant had the cudgel above its head, ready for a cross-body strike. Thune would have gotten his head knocked clean off his shoulders if Captain Ponder hadn't
pushed him out of the way and taken the blow himself. The hammer hit the Captain in his prosthetic left arm and sent him twisting through the air. He landed north of Byrne and slid a good twenty meters on the dew-slick grass.-Chpt.15

It was difficult to see with his uniform on, but the Captain’s torso was wrapped in a hardened biofoam cast. The gold-armored alien’s hammer had broken half his ribs and shattered his false arm. Ponder had discarded the prosthetic; Healy had neither the time nor the expertise to fix it.-Chpt.17