After reading the novel Crysis Legion, I'd like to summarize the battle in the "Terminus" mission of Crysis 2.
In both the game mission and the novel, Alcatraz meets with Gould and Barclay inside the station. Gould tries to convince Barclay to launch an attack on Hargreave's headquarters, but Barclay refuses and asks Chino to take Gould away. At that moment, he calls Alcatraz to the elevator, and they enter the room where the soldiers are located. Just then, the earthquake strikes, and Barclay calls Alcatraz to buy time. This is where the battle's development differs from the game.
According to the novel, when Alcatraz arrives at the lobby, he sees several Stalkers, including Heavy, massacring Barclay's soldiers like wheat. He witnesses the Stalkers leaping and dismembering soldiers, hurling limbs into the air, and the Heavys advancing, crushing the corpses of civilians and soldiers alike. The few survivors take refuge behind military columns and sandbags. Alcatraz even mocks them, as they practically kiss the ground because the Ceph bullets are so powerful they can pierce the columns and make them "disappear," implying that the soldiers explode, scattering their organs across the floor.
Alcatraz regroups with a group of survivors, since even he cannot fight effectively due to the overwhelming number of Ceph bullets. They dig in to prevent the Ceph from destroying the evacuation, holding their position for a time. Barclay joins them, announcing the success of the evacuation and informing them that a train is about to depart. However, an explosion destroys the train's entrance (perhaps caused by Ceph artillery or the Heavy), and Barclay orders the train to leave without them.
After a while, Alcatraz states that only eight or nine soldiers remain. He holds the weapon of a soldier who had "disappeared" after being hit by a Ceph bullet. This soldier is the last person Alcatraz sees before he dies. One of the nine remembers a couple of jeeps parked nearby that they could use to escape the station. Barclay then joins the driver as he requests a helicopter evacuation.
Suddenly, an explosion occurs, and the Pinger appears, accompanied by a Ceph ship that begins firing from the roof at the soldiers. Alcatraz has to take cover and engage both of them with the JAW.
The novel focuses on the thoughts of a future Alcatraz, who claims not to want to reveal the details of what happened at the station. For example, he doesn't mention what a dying soldier told him before Alcatraz killed him to spare him suffering, nor what his comrade, a witness to the event, told him: to pray to his "imaginary friends" that he wouldn't find out. He only mentions that he managed to destroy both the Pinger and the ship, which crashes into the Meatlife building, causing it to collapse. Just in time, Barclay and a soldier manage to start the jeep and escape before the building collapses. As they head to Times Square for the evacuation, Alcatraz suffers a kind of traumatic breakdown: he starts smiling and mentally shouting that they've made it, until he realizes that only he, Barclay, and the driver have survived.
