Fire Team Charlie: Difference between revisions

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During the final stages of the of [[Fall of Reach|Fall of]] [[Reach]], an element of Fire Team Charlie, consisting of [[Sergeant Johnson]] and Privates [[O'Brien (Reach)|O'Brien]], [[Bisenti]] and [[Jenkins]] were stationed aboard [[Gamma Station]] above the planet. The team were struggling to take out a large group of [[Kig-Yar]] [[Kig-Yar Ranger|Rangers]] when a group of [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-II's]] lead by [[John-117]] intervened. The Marines assisted the SPARTANs with their objective, destroying the NAV database of the [[UNSC Circumference|UNSC ''Circumference'']] which was docked in the station. After this was accomplished, the Marines left the station and boarded the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The ''Autumn'', with Fire Team Charlie aboard, then [[slipstream space|jumped]] away from the battle.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: The Fall of Reach|Chapter=37}}

Some of the pods had been destroyed on impact, killing the unprotected Marines within.{{Ref/Level|HCE|The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn}} The escape pods who had survived were spread out, and as a result, the Covenant located them quickly, attacking the Marine survivors. Fire Team Charlie soon found themselves under attack by Covenant strike teams. Thankfully, the Master Chief, who had landed in a nearby valley, arrived to provide assistance. The SPARTAN helped the Marines hold out until a [[Echo 419|Pelican]] dropship arrived to pick them up. The team was brought to [[Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base]] while the Master Chief went on a mission to rescue other surviving Marines. Part of Fire Team Charlie was assigned to board and rescue Captain Keyes, who had been captured by the Covenant and was being held aboard the {{Class|CCS|battlecruiser}} ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''. The team was deployed to assist the Master Chief and a team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs]] who had secured the ship's [[gravity lift]].{{Ref/Level|Id=TnR|HCE|The Truth and Reconciliation}}

During the assault on the ''Truth and Reconciliation'', Fire Team Charlie, led by [[Sergeant]] [[Parker]] remained at the ships bridge while the Master Chief continued alone to rescue Keyes. Once seperated from the SPARTAN, the team were killed by [[Stealth Sangheili]] armed with [[Type-1 energy sword|energy swords]]. However, from Cortana's reports, the Marines put up a good fight against their attackers, as John-117 came across several Covenant [[Sangheili]] corpses ridden with bullet holes. Fire Team Charlie did not die in vain: Captain Keyes was freed from his Covenant prison cell by the Chief and successfully extracted from the ship.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=TnR}}

The remaining portion of Fire Team Charlie lead by [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]] went with Captain Keyes to search for a [[weapons]] cache that turned out to be a [[Flood containment facility]].{{Ref/Level|HCE|343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark}} Fire Team Charlie's Marines were either turned into [[Flood]] [[Flood combat form|combat forms]] or went [[Missing in action|MIA]]. Sergeant Johnson managed to escape from the facility, killing several of his infected comrades. PFC [[Chips Dubbo]] managed to link up with Corporal [[Lovik|Lovik's]] [[Second squad (Pillar of Autumn)|squad]] and was extracted by Echo 419. The only other known "survivor" of the expedition to search for the "weapons" was Jenkins, who was controlled by a weaker Pod infector.

Jenkins proceeded to alert the Marines of the Flood's presence below Alpha Base, allowing them to exterminate them. Later he was brought onboard the newly captured ''Truth and Reconciliation''. His actions lead to the destruction of the ship, preventing the Flood from escaping Halo. The victims of the [[Pod infector]]s were either killed by Johnson during his flight from the weapons cache, destroyed by the Master Chief during his escape from the facility, defeated by [[Melissa McKay|McKay]]'s ODST Platoon, destroyed aboard the ''[[Infinite Succor]]'', killed either by [[Covenant]] troops, when the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' crashed, or during the destruction of [[Installation 04|Halo]].