The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa is the seventh and longest short story in Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe. It follows the crew of the as they are sent to investigate the fate of the, which has mysteriously come to rest near the destroyed Installation 04. After boarding the ship, a team of Marines stumbles upon a parasitic nightmare, and begin a desperate struggle for survival against the parasite. The Mona Lisa was written by Tessa Kum and Jeff VanderMeer.

Characters

 * Sergeant Zhao Heng Lopez
 * Corpsmen Ngoc Benti
 * Clarence
 * MacCraw
 * Burgundy
 * Patrick Rimmer
 * "Henry"
 * Captain Tobias Foucault
 * AI Rebecca