>Immediately kills off hyper-lethal badass because reasons.
>Arbitrary, implausible explanation for why his team can't save him.
>Mickey betrays the team because angst.
Yup. Good book.
Edit: I forgot to mention how fucking pitiful SPARTAN-IVs are, and how half of them are traitors for no apparent reason.
Not to mention the fact that Buck didn't know what he was doing. In real life, you don't send one person to clear a hostile building. At the very minimum it's two-by-two.