Pariah
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Sergeant Avery J. JohnsonSgt. A.J. Johnson has been fighting the Covenant since he was old enough to join the Marines. After joining, he was assigned to the troop regiments on Paris IV. When the Covenant attacked the planet in the Siege of Paris IV, Sgt. Johnson fought valiantly. He captured a crate of plasma grenades from the Covenant when his troops needed weapons and used them all against the Covenant to keep them at bay so his troops could evacuate. After they returned to Reach for reassignment, doctors discovered an unusual side effect of using so many plasma grenades: a type of radiation poisoning called Boren's Syndrome had affected Sgt. Johnson's neural electric pathways. He refused treatment, and this ultimately helped him in the future.
After being assigned to the Pillar of Autumn and her secret mission, he took command of the Marines on board. He was instrumental in helping keep the Marines effective even after they were marooned on the ring-world Halo. He was presumed dead after Spartan-117 found a helmet recorder entry from PFC Wallace Jenkins that displayed a parasitic organism, The Flood, attacked Sgt. Johnson, Captain Keyes, and PFC Jenkins. After he had been recovered alive with other surviving members of the Pillar aboard a Pelican Dropship, it was discovered that the Sgt.'s medical condition was the cause for his survival, because the Flood could not force a match between it's neural pathways, and that of Sgt. Johnson's. He is currently still alive and on active duty.
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