Onyx - Monitor

Ahead there was a crevice in the rock, a sinuous two-meter channel that could
have been a deep river a million years ago before this place dried up…


…Ash understood with perfect clarity "neutralize." The drone advanced, spreading its booms apart like an open maw.

He was out of ideas.

A rock hit the drone, a granite chunk a half meter across. It glanced off the drone's ventral boom.

The impact made the drone dip, but it recovered, and its booms shifted, geometry rearranged so it now stared up at the edge of the channel.

Team Saber stood there, looking downall of them hefting large rocks.

Two stones collided into the drone's spars, and one shattered directly on its eye.

It dipped to the ground with a crash, and the spherical eye heated to blazing white-hot. The dirt around it fused to glass and bubbled

A boulder barely fitting within the channel bounced off the wallsand flattened the drone. The eye, crushed to an oblate shape, crackled and cooled to dull red and then black. The thing's three metal spars radiated out from under the rock like a flattened spider.

- Halo: Ghosts of Onyx, Chapter 14