Revise paste Halo First Strike 31

The large pillars blocked his view, but he saw on his motion tracker that Fred was behind a pillar down and to John's left, and Will behind the pillar to the right. There was no tag indicating Grace's location. There were, however, blurry motion
contacts beyond the wide arched entrance to the temple.

John clicked the COM once, a status query.
The instant he did this, two Brutes wheeled from their cover on either side of the entrance archway. They held weapons with large-caliber muzzles and padded stocks, fixed with razor-edged blades.

One of the Brutes saw John, aimed, and fired.
John darted back behind the basalt pillar; he saw the flash and thunder of a grenade launched from the weapon-heard two more rounds fired immediately after that. The first grenade impacted on the opposite side of the pillar and exploded. The overpressure rattled his teeth.

The Chief turned and dived, hoping to get behind the next stone column before the second and third grenades impacted and detonated on the pillar he had stood behind a split second before. The solid
stone crumbled into fist-sized chunks. He skidded and scrambled for cover as the upper part of that
column collapsed, raining stones that shattered the floor...and would have crushed him.-Chpt.34 pg.376