Alpha-Zulu Corps

The Alpha-Zulu Corps is comprised of twenty-six, six-manned Spartan super soldier teams and became active as of 2542. The Corps had has its fair share of skirmishes between the Covenant, but became much more prominent during the Post War Era. 
== Background ==
After seeing the tenacity of the Spartans, James Avery went to the UNSC Security Council and requested to create an elite operations unit. The council though denied his request with only one branch agreeing, ONI. ONI went to work secretly gathering members of Alpha Company before Prometheus to join Avery. After the operation, ONI pulled about six surviving members of Alpha were then placed in the Corps. ONI went to Avery and gave him full command of all the units given to the Alpha-Zulu Corps. 
Meeting Roderick-A207 and Alpha Team after the creation of the Corps, they were deployed to New Amsterdam. After the battle, Avery did not see Roderick as a subordinate but as his equal and thus promoted the young spartan. But ONI then demoted Roderick to a captain as he was to young for that high of a rank. 
== Battles ==
=== Battle of New Amsterdam  ===
The first mission for the Alpha-Zulu Corps, Tiger Team was renamed as Alpha Team and were deployed to New Amsterdam, Steven's home world. Alpha was deployed to Fulcrum City and given full freedom on what to do. Steven would use his knowledge of the city and navigate Alpha through to hit strategic spots for both the Covenant and UNSC. Stewart, Elizabeth and James would later run a distraction for the Covenant leading a large attack force while Roderick and Steven went underground to eliminate the Covenant. 
Using the swears of the city, the two were able to place several explosives right underneath large Covenant deployments surrounding the city. After the UNSC pulled out of the city, Roderick and Steven detonated the explosives and almost sunk the city, but were able to destroy almost an entire Covenant army and cause a large enough distraction for the UNSC Hamlet to shoot down at least one corvette. 
==== Mission to Salem ====
Alpha was then deployed to the city of Salem, Steven's home town which was decimated by Covenant forces and was attacking several army bases there. Surprisingly, the spartans were ordered for civilian evacuation as it was left to Sierra Team to reinforce the front lines. Moving through the city, the spartans found a civilian but Steven was angered by who they found, Pablo Martinez. Almost killing Martinez for running his life, Steven stopped once he heard Pablo knew where is father was. Agreeing to take him to his father in exchange for his life, Pablo lead Alpha to a warehouse were several civilians were in hiding with Steven's father Maxwell leading them. 
Steven and his father were able to re-connect but then the Covenant attacked the warehouse. Alpha, Pablo and Maxwell went to work defending the civilians with Pablo severely injured. Though his hatred for Pablo was large, Steven would let him die. Calling in pelicans, Alpha held out the best they could but soon a Jackal sniper was able to slip through onto a rooftop and shoot Maxwell in the head, killing instantly. Pushed to the point of pure rage, Steven shot the Jackal throw down his sniper, pulled out his knives and went at the Covenant with his bare fist. Killing a dozen Covenant, it was only when the pelicans with Sierra Team that Steven snapped out of his rage. Though his city and father were dead, the UNSC was able to pull an entire fleet to New Amsterdam and resulted in an UNSC victory.
==== Front Lines ====
After recapturing Juniper City, Sierra Team was redeployed to the front lines while Alpha Team went to Salem to the west of the front. Arriving at the front, Sierra moved through the font and meet the Covenant face to face. After a few hours of a stalemate, the UNSC along with the spartans pushed the Covenant back into a kill zone and let the Grey Hound Fleet bomb the Covenant. Gathering in pelicans, Sierra divided themselves to enter Salem with Ace, Otto and Hunter acted as Sierra-1 and went to find Alpha Team in the outskirts while Lance, Rufus and Martin became Sierra-2 and attacked the Covenant in the heart of the city.
Sierra-2 came under heavy fire and were shot down in a Covenant hive. Once there, Rufus took to defending his knocked out teammates. After waking up, Lance and Martin assisted Rufus in their personal defense. Meanwhile, Ace and Sierra-1 found Alpha and and rescued them along with a group of civilians. Contacting Lance, Ace and the other spartans learned of Sierra-2's situation and made their way over to their location and were able to get them out. Afterwards, Wolf Hound Fleet and Battlegroup 44 nicknamed "Sentinel Fleet" came to New Amsterdam and chased the Covenant off world.
=== Battle of Demos ===
The first mission for Juliet Team in the Alpha-Zulu Corps, the team was deployed to Demos to investigate possible Insurrectionist activity. Once arriving on the planet, the team deployed towards an old ONI facility where a distress signal was sent from. After entering the facility a signal insurrectionist try to shoot the team but in a chase, he was wounded. Moving in for the arrest, the spartans saw several plasma burns and dead insurgents across the floor. Interrogating the insurgent, the man was called Garret Rogers and was a private and helped the spartans defend against a Covenant attack. 
==== Apogee Crossing ====
After the attack, Charlie and Juliet teams were sent to Apogee Crossing and secure both a UNSC Army barracks and a LZ for civilian evacuations. While Charlie Team defended the barracks, Juliet Team secured several LZ's for the evacuations including on top of the Titan Tower, headquarters of Titan Industries, a organization who mainly develops UNSC weapons and ships. Once civilians were evacuated, Juliet Team was sent to secure a defense bunker on the east side of the city with Echo Team. Engaging Covenant forces and saving members of Echo, Juliet Team and Echo Team completely secured and reactivated the bunker's defenses. 
==== Battle of Crowe ====
Soon afterwards another Covenant fleet attacked and decimated almost the entire Human resistance there. Juliet and Hotel Teams were deployed to combat Covenant forces but as they entered the area, both teams were instantly shot down by Phantoms patrolling the air space. Luckily all spartans survived and Juliet took command of the situation. The twelve spartans were divided into four teams dubbed Juliet-1 (Mia-A371, Lucas-A380, and Sophia-A335), Juliet-2 (Meredith-A377, Anna-A378 and Jackson-A379), Hotel-1 and Hotel-2. Juliet-1 and Hotel-2 attacked a Covenant landing site and hijacked two phantoms and made their way towards a Covenant Spire.
Juliet-2 and Hotel-1 handled land stations of the Covenant and met up with a marine squad lead by Sergeant Garret Rogers who was recommissioned back into the UNSC. The spartans and marines slowly made their way towards the spire while the other spartans attacked the spire by flying into the shields and crashing into the ground below. Hotel-2 was ordered to stay on the ground and cover Juliet and kill remaining Covenant forces. Juliet-1 then entered the control room of the Spire and killed the remaining Covenant and then shut down the shield.
After the shield was decommissioned, several UNSC aircraft attacked the spire and destroyed it. Afterwards, the marines and Juliet were sent to Crowe Research Facility to secure information of a possible Forerunner artifact. Arriving at the station, the teams entered and were meet with the standard Covenant resistance. Meredith, Rogers and some of his marines made their way up to the intel hub and recovered all intel possible from Covenant forces. Once outside the facility, the teams saw five Covenant ships glassing the surrounding gulches and mountains killing thousands of civilians and UNSC personnel. 
Along with the glassing, the teams also laid witness to three UNSC ships being shot down and the UNSC Hamlet servilely damaged. Both marines and spartans were recalled to the Hamlet for a later deployment. But as they were recalled, another Covenant fleet entered the system. Fearing for the worst, Avery and the rest of the Corps fled the planet and escaped.
=== Operation TORPEDO ===
During the third year of the Corps, ONI began taking members of Beta Company for Operation TORPEDO. Doing his best to not have any of his spartans taken to the operation, Avery unfortunately failed and eventually had about twenty-six of his Beta Company spartans taken to the operation, leaving only fifteen as ONI saw them as too valuable. Out of all the Beta Company from the Corps to make it out, the members of Foxtrot Team (during the operation was Romeo) were shot down and ever made it to the reactor core. Calling in an evacuation, Romeo was able to survive but for the other Beta Spartans, no one got out alive. 
=== Battle of New Century ===
The Battle of New Century began with the Covenant attacking the capital New London. After a day, the Hamlet was deployed with the Corps to defeat the Covenant.  Captain Avery would devise most of the plans including the opening assault, OPERATION Dive-bomb, deploying Bravo Team. The spartans were successful, and thus Alpha Team deployed to Next Dawn Base along with Delta Team to prepare their next assault in OPERATION Red Rover. Far into the night, Delta Leader reported the operation a failure as several marines laid dead and soon, Delta went dark. Roderick would send Bravo to save Delta with both teams made it back alive.
==== Operation: Phoenix ====
After the success of Operation: Dive-Bomb, Juliet and Sierra Teams were deployed to Kronos Square to take out a Covenant dig site on a mountain there. Sierra Team took command and lead Juliet to ridge lines and Covenant mine fields. Sophia-A335 and Otto-A444 were sent to a ridge to prove cover while the rest of the spartans were sent to the site. Once at the site, Sierra's AI Hoffman went into the Covenant systems while Juliet explored the area. Discovering the site was found by codes from Crowe Research Facility, both teams of spartans retreated the area and set charges around the site in hopes of destroying the artifact. 
After returning to the Hamlet, it was learned that the artifact was not even scratched and that the Covenant launched more ships to uncover the rest of the artifact. Redeploying back to Kronos, Juliet found a pathway down to the artifact and cleared out the local Covenant resistance. After clearing out the local Covenant forces, the spartans placed TACT nukes around the artifact, but before they left a  came to the area and began to study the artifact. 
Contacting command, the spartans were ordered to kill the prophet and set of the nukes. Sophia and Otto successfully killed the prophet and regrouped with the rest of the spartans and called in a evan. Once at a far enough distance, Ace-A220 detonated the nukes and destroyed the artifact, burying it under 40,000 tons of rock.
==== OPERATION: Sandstorm  ====
Afterwards the Covenant captured the Lapus Desert and Gorge, forcing Roderick and Avery devised OPERATION: Sandstorm. Spartan Teams Alpha, Bravo, Echo, Yankee, and Zulu were deployed each attacking three massive Covenant stating areas in the Lapus Desert. During the attack, George-A255 and William-B303 found and hijacked a scarab tank and began to use it to aid the spartans. Bravo Team then joined in as Julius-B301 managed the weapons while Benjamin-B300 provided outside fire. Echo Team would join Bravo and hijack banshees but only after one of their own died by a wraith blast.
As one successful unit, the spartans made their way to three massive stating areas in Lapus Desert. Willian-B303 and George-A255 used the scarab they hijacked to obliterate the center area while Benji, Julius and Echo Team cleared the far east area about four cliques out. Alpha Yankee and Zulu were then tasked with eliminating the area to the west about 10 cliques away from the central area. After four hours of battle, Roderick reported the operation as a success despite the heavy air force causalities and the single dead spartan.
==== Attacks on New London ====
Just six days after the recapture of the Lapus Desert, New London was hit hard by multiple Covenant ships. Benjamin then deployed Bravo Team to assist with civilian evacuation and UNSC retreat to somewhere either off world or to the Lapus Desert. On the 24th the Covenant began to attack Next Dawn Base with Bravo being deployed to secure the area. While Julius and George stayed at the base to drive off a Corvette, Benji and Will went to the surrounding buildings to rearm several AA guns around the facility. Successfully driving the Covenant away from the base, Bravo Team gave the go on using orbital rounds, said rounds destroyed the corvette. 
==== Battle of Argo City ====
Deploying to Argo City, Juliet Team was paired with Rogers' squad dubbed the Renegade Commandos. Once at the city, the commandos took point while the spartans went on recon and provided cover fire for the marines. After a few minutes of ground work, the teams encountered Covenant transports and stored away on a spirit by hijacking a Shadow. After arriving at a Covenant cruiser, the teams cleared out the hanger bay and divided and conquered. Mia, Meredith, Jackson, Rogers and Bazin attacked the bridge while Anna, Sophia and the rest of the commandos covered Lucas and provided a distraction. 
After clearing the bridge, the spartans took command of the ship and began to glass some other Covenant cruisers and carriers, but it was not enough. The ship was shot down by a carrier and crashed beyond Argo City. After waking up from the landing, the humans discovered the city was glassed and were evacuated to the Altman via pelicans.
==== Battle of the Southern Ice Plains ====
Acting as Sierra's first ever classified operation by ONI, the spartans were assigned to guard the head scientist, Dr. Matthew Willson of Project: ICON, to the Southern Ice Plains where a suspected Forerunner artifact was located. Moving through the terrain, the group was meet with Covenant forces who began to race the UNSC to the artifact's location which was already in Human hands. Arriving just a few minutes after the Covenant, the spartans were able to link up with Whiskey Team and help defend the facility. 
While Doctor Willson began to take scans and prepare data for transport, the spartans defended the outside permitter from the Covenant. However, a group of Spec-ops elites broken through the facility and killed the scientist and allowed Covenant into the building. Within time, the spartans became surrounded and soon almost over ran if it was not for Foxtrot and Xavier Teams saving them. Before leaving, Xavier placed several beacons around the facility and once the group was cleared, MAC rounds bombed the station, burying the artifact and Covenant. After the blast, the spartans were redeployed to the UNSC Altman and escaped the planet.
==== New Stellic City ====
On November 29th 2545, Covenant forces invaded New Stellic City, and turned it into a dark zone.  Alpha Team along with Bravo and Foxtrot move into the Covenant dark zone which contained the whole city, in order to get a full read on New Stellic. Moving into the city at 23:30 hours, the spartans made their way through, silencing all Covenant they found. 
By 1 o'clock in the morning, Benji and Steven-A231 had found the Covenant command center. Benji along with Foxtrot Team were deployed to the center and easily took it over. Clearing the skies for an opening for the Hamlet, Benjamin-B300 contacted Captain Avery stating the mission was a success. Roderick and Bravo were then deployed to New Stellic's beachhead East Defense facility when Captain Avery ordered all members of the Alpha-Zulu Corps onto the UNSC Altman including Stein. Knowing that the beachhead was far to important, Bravo stayed behind and sacrificed themselves so that the Altman could escape with Roderick onboard. 
Bravo Team then defend the facility against waves of Covenant forces, but soon George-A255 was killed by an energy sword in his spine. Now deploying brutes, the Covenant sent another ship to combat the Hamlet. Within five minutes, Julius-B301 was wounded and his skull crushed by a gravity hammer. Soon, the Covenant won the skies and shot down Avery, killing him in the process. At 11:24 that morning, William-B303 was then beheaded by an elite. Running out of ammo, Benji then charged down several grunts, taking their weapons, but was no match as a spec-ops elite split his thought. Benjamin-B300 was dead along with Bravo Team.
=== Fall of Reach ===
Arriving on Reach on July 21st 2552 along with Noble Team the Alpha-Zulu Corps was deployed to local regions of Visegrád for investigation of disappearance of animals and people. Spartan Team Xavier were the first spartans to engage Covenant forces after the Winter Contingency was declared. Deploying in full force, the Alpha-Zulu Corps went to several UNSC outpost and bases to reinforce them against Covenant forces. Roderick-A207 proved to be a excellently tactician, fighting Covenant where the arrived next. 
As OPERATION Uppercut began, Charlie Team was sent with Jun-A266 to retrieve Noble Team after NOBLE's 5 and 6 were sent into space to continue the operation. Getting shot down a few minutes after take off from the SABER launch facility, Charlie Team and Noble Team were standard and were force to fight through waves of Covenant and soon came across a Covenant research facility. Charlie would lead a distraction while Kat-B320 and the rest of Noble infiltrated the base. Gaining access to the base and Comm channels, Kat opened a channel for the UNSC to listen in as well as a distress signal. 
Within a few hours, several phantoms and pelicans arrived at the comm base. Roderick-A207 along with Alpha and Delta Teams came to retrieved the spartans. After the spartans were on a pelican, Roderick ordered a full retreat and thus the pelicans flew away with phantoms giving chase. Trying to shake the phantoms, the pelican crews decided to enter space. Before they could do so, the Altman came and using its MAC rounds destroyed several phantoms and forced the others to retreat. 
The following day, the city of New Alexandria was under attack and thus the Altman and the Corps was deployed. Assisting in numerous civilian evacuation operations, the corps was also placed on the front lines while Team Foxtrot handled air operations. On the 23rd of August, Alpha Team was sent to guard the New Alexandria Airport whist Spartan-B312 got a defense station back online. Succeeding in their goal, after another two days the Altman was removed from the battle with the Corps. 
=== Battle of Earth ===
Deployed all across the planet, the Alpha-Zulu Corps was prepared for when the Covenant hit Earth as a team was deployed to almost every mega-city on the planet and several orbital stations. When the Covenant struck, the Alpha-Zulu Corps were sent all across the planet. Teams Alpha-Golf were deployed to New Mombasa, teams Hotel-Whiskey Teams were deployed to Moscow and teams Xavier, Yankee and Zulu were sent to Sydney to secure the capital. While in New Mombasa, Foxtrot Team was sent to the above city and stayed there for almost four days. After witnessing the devastation of the city, Liam-B310 and Lenard-B334 became inseparable and forced Liam to become a mute as his vocal cords were servilely damaged in battle. 
==== Siege of Moscow ====
After the initial assault on New Mombasa, Sierra Team was deployed to Moscow, Russia to secure valuable UNSC data on Earth and remaining human colonies and strongholds. Arriving just before the Covenant, Ace and Hunter began to combat the Covenant on the outside while Lance lead the rest of the team to retrieve the data. Once arriving at the terminal, Lance downloaded everything and destroyed the source, rendering the station useless. 
Ordering a full retreat, Ace and the rest of Sierra planted charges and prepared to blow the station before more Covenant arrived. After the station was destroyed, the spartans moved further towards the city and engaged a Covenant Convoy heading towards the city. Stealing a , the spartans followed the remaining forces of the convoy into the city where the Covenant were taking civilians as prisoners. Ditching the shadow, the spartans then moved towards prison camps and killed the Covenant guards. Calling in a pelican for evac, the spartans could not get one due to heavy Covenant defense. In response, Ace lead Rufus, Martin and Otto to attack the Covenant defense net while Lance and Hunter protected the civilians. 
Finding Covenant jammers and AA guns, Ace had himself and Rufus take out the AA's to punch a hole in Covenant defense while Otto and Martin would reestablish communication of the UNSC Command. Easily taking out the jammers, Otto and Martin regrouped with Ace and Rufus who had trouble with banshees. After the banshees were eliminated, the spartans were able to clear the skies and the pelicans came in and soon, Moscow was liberated from the Covenant.
During the assault on Moscow, Romeo Team was sent deep into Covenant territory without any cover to scout out possible Covenant Staging Areas. Gathering the rest of the teams deployed, Romeo Team and Local Russian Forces attacked the Staging Areas and completely were devastated with almost all UNSC forces killed or wounded an the spartans severally wounded. Getting recalled to Voi for in order to secure it after a massive assault was placed there led by Roderick-A207, Romeo and the Moscow Spartans were then recalled to assist with orbital defense. 
==== Returning to Voi ====
After the assault on Voi, Sierra Team reunited with the Alpha-Zulu Corps and prepared for an assault on the surrounding areas of the city to complete the final effort against the Covenant. Sierra was tasked with cutting down a Covenant carrier just outside the city. Capturing the station's LZ with some ODST's, After entering the ship, the spartans made their way towards the core and lifeboats. Hunter and Martin were able to destroy all lifeboats while the rest of Sierra was able to take down the core. After the core's destruction, Sierra Team escaped and made their way towards Sydney for their next deployment.
Almost a month later, the entire Alpha-Zulu Corps was deployed to New Mombasa and surrounding areas to assist with the destruction of a Covenant line to attack their main control center. After the assault and the leave of Master Chief John-117, the Corps was deployed to secure and wipe of all remaining Covenant and flood. Later the Corps joined Alpha Team on Mars for a memorial service. 
=== Battle of Sitren ===
In the beginning of March in 2557, the Corps was sent to stop the Covenant faction, Servants of the True Reclaimers from claiming the planet. Fighting off Covenant in the northern regions of the planet, Echo Team along with Whiskey and Zulu Teams were defending a teleportation lab when Covenant struck the facility hard. Defending the lab Echo Team ordered Whiskey and Zulu to go through the teleports to escape as they were the last forces in the labs. As Whiskey and Zulu entered the teleporter leaving Echo Team to destroyer the teleporter. After another ten minutes, Covenant reinforcements came and within minutes, killed Jackson-A295. Calling in a pick-up from an near by Falcon Base, Spartan Louis-A292 and the rest of Echo made their way towards the landing platform and made it out alive. 
Meanwhile, Tango Team and Kilo Team were deployed to lead an assault against a Covenant Spire in the Logos Mountain Territory. Attacking in a force equal to that of the defense of New Mombasa, the UNSC and the Spartans, being advised by Sierra Team, struck the spires in a three front attack. Tango Team lead the front assault while Kilo Team slipped in from the back and took out the spire from the inside. After lowering the shields, Kilo Team escaped the spire via a falcon pick-up and orbital rounds destroyed the spire. Once the spire was destroyed, several Covenant craft left the planet and entered slip-space to unknown location.
=== Battle of Installation 02 ===
==== Arriving on the Ring ====
After being teleported from Sitren, Spartan Teams Whiskey and Zulu found themselves on at unknown location. After exploring for a bit, they discovered they were teleported to a Halo Ring. Assuming command, George-A446 and the other spartans found a small UNSC outpost on the ring. The outpost was maned by the crew of the UNSC Shakespeare and their captain, Captain Lucas Arc, ONI codename Archangel. Whiskey Team then deployed Zulu to round up and find the other commanders of the ship and to unit them under one banner yet again. 
After days of searching, Zulu returned, but all the other commanders denied their request. Deciding to take action, Arc and George then decided to attack a local Covenant installation over the ridge and they attacked in force. Easily claiming the island base for themselves, the commanders had then returned to the rest of the crew with the discovery of a forerunner AI they deemed, Cassi. Using Cassi, the UNSC was able to learn more about their current location and soon learned of a Covenant assault. Gearing up and preparing, the Covenant struck at the crack of dawn, with Zulu defending the west and Whiskey on the east. After hours of battle, the Midsummer's Night Air Force came and drove off the rest of the the Covenant. 
==== Assault on the Spire ====
Once fully recovered from the attack, Captain Arc and George-A446 then agreed to take the fight to the Covenant. Returning to the canyon they were previously stationed at, the UNSC struck a Covenant Spire with hard force. Capturing the Spire, the spartans and Arc then attacked a Forerunner palace over-looking the island. Spartan Team Whiskey, and Lucas attacked the palace. Taking it out local Covenant defenses, the spartans entered the building. But soon they realized it was a trap as all the spartans were separated and trapped, with Archangel and George losing contact with everyone else. 
==== Reuniting ====
After waking up, George made his way through the palace and found an open area for communications to the island. Getting picked up by the rest of Whiskey, George was informed that Archangel was dead and now he had full command. Going to a far tower discovered by scouts, Zulu Team found a large Covenant `deployment. Breaking into the facility, Zulu learned that the facility was holding the ring's Care-taker, 871 Peaceful Holder. Taking the monitor back to the island, Holder told the humans that the Covenant were planning on activating the ring. Mobilizing their forces, the UNSC moved to the control room for their final assault.
==== Attacking the Control Room ====
Before the UNSC attacked the Control Room, members of the Swords of Sanghelios came to their aid lead by Field Marshal Ooskoo. Attacking in full force, the spartans and Ooskoo entered the facility and confronted the Covenant leader, Fleet Master Raghath. Ooskoo and Rahgath began to duel the other while Peaceful Helper, and Whiskey entered the control room whilst Zulu assisted with outside assault. 
Stopping the ring just as it fired, the spartans returned only to see Ooskoo lying dead on the ground. Rahgath the began to attack Whiskey but was stopped by Holder and killed. Using captured Corvettes, the spartans, swords and UNSC returned to Earth. 
=== Battle of San Andreas ===
On June 18th 2558, a Covenant fleet, the Fleet of Regretful Redemption attacked San Andreas. Roderick-A207 then deployed Echo, Foxtrot, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Romeo, Whiskey, and Shield Teams to combat the Covenant. Alpha soon also deployed only after almost every member of Shield Team was killed except Kyle-A245. Foxtrot Team was then assigned with Kyle to strike at a Covenant Dark Zone within the north western region of the city. As the clock struck one, Cody-B314 was killed by a Wraith blast, placing Kyle in command yet again. Soon, Kyle and Foxtrot was ordered to fall back to Earth to assist Echo Team. 
==== Outcast Prison ====
On the 27th, Spartan Teams Lima, Romeo and Whiskey were sent to retake Outcast Prison from Covenant forces. Within half an hour, spartans Ben-A449 and Emily-A450 of Whiskey were killed by Energy Swords to the throat and back respectively. Another fifteen minutes would pass until Tyler-A420 of Romeo Team was killed by several plasma rounds. Holding out for a bit longer, though it wasn't long until Veronica-G201 was killed by a ghost and a hard place. As the battle raged on, the Covenant grew desperate and dropped a Scarab Tank to deal with the spartans. The plan succeeded as all of Lima was killed placing Oscar-G091 in command of the operation. After another hour of holding out, Oscar, Romeo and Whiskey Teams were evacuated from the prison. 
==== Little Rock Outpost ====
As the end of the month came, the UNSC Hercules deployed reinforcements to Little Rock Outpost on the outskirts of the city. After receiving their assignment, Alpha Team lead the UNSC on OPERATION Sunrise to retake the San Andreas Outskirts. Only an hour long assault, Roderick reports the operation as a success and the UNSC begins to fortify the area. On July 1st, 2558 during the cover of night, the Covenant attacked the outpost with extreme force and within twenty-minutes, destroyed the whole facility. 
==== Tamarin Island ====
July 6th 2558, Spartan Team Whiskey was deployed to strike at a new Covenant Outpost currently being built on Tamarin Island, a small island off the coast of San Andreas. After a short deployment, Whiskey reports the attack a failure as the Covenant force there was larger than expected. Ten days later, the Alpha Team was deployed along with the Hercules to finish what the corps started. Striking the Island in force, Tamarin Island was quickly recaptured and placed under UNSC command. 
==== Separatist Alliance ====
On the 18th of July, Alpha Team and Mike Team lead a large attack force to retake San Andreas. Surrounded, the UNSC was surly done for if it was not for the assistance of traitors to the Covenant, the Separatist. The Separatist were a group of hundreds of Sangheili who rebelled against the Fleet of Regretful Redemption and joined the Swords of Sanghelios. The Alliance was lead by Field Marshal Uhze Nostrum and a Zealot Zaz 'Solok. After the alliance was made, the separatist base was placed under attack by the Loyalist. Ordering Alpha to escape, Roderick and Nostrum found a way to escape and reunite with the spartans almost six hours later. 
==== High Command ====
The following day, Vixel's High Command Center was placed under siege by three CCS-Class Cruisers. In response, Alpha Team is deployed with Quebec Team. Breaking into the facility, Quebec Team fought their ways to the top floor and freed the High Council members and escorted them down outside for evac. Clearing a path, Alpha Team eliminated banshees whilst two pelicans came to take the spartans home. Just before the spartans could leave, he were forced to witness the glassing of dozens of civilians and innocents. In response to that assault, the UNSC and Separatist agreed and devised Operation: DOUBLE FRONT. 
==== Operation DOUBLE FRONT ====
Launching a massive assault on the Regretful Redemption's last major hold on the city, Alpha Team, November and the Separatist Alliance launch a four front assault. Nostrum would lead the distraction whilst Alpha would slip in past enemy lines to strike the heart of the Covenant and Alpha-Zulu Corps would supply the air defense. Once entering the mining district, Alpha received word that a super nuke, able of leveling the whole city was nearby. Ordering Steven-A231, James-A208 and Elizabeth-A221 to continue their mission, Roderick-A207, Stewart-A210 and Edward-B234 headed for the nuke. 
Stoping the nuke with assistance from India Team, Alpha Team was able to complete their objective. But, a large portion of the city was decimated as an earthquake spawned to due a second nuke that went off. In response, Roderick orders the rest of the Separatist off world along with the Alpha-Zulu Corps, therefore, Steven and the rest of the Spartans follow suit. Roderick and Nostrum then depart for the main nuclear weapon and Fin Krudom. 
As Nostrum and Krudom engaged in a honor duel, Roderick opened fire against the incoming remnant forces. Roderick was able to fend off the soldiers, but Nostrum was defeated in battle and killed by Krudom. With a simple bullet, Roderick killed Krudom and effectively ended the battle. After the battle the entire corps attended a memorial service to the fallen heroes of the battle along with the Separatist would then joined the Swords of Sanghelios. 
=== Battle of Installation 06 ===
==== Old Friends New Faces ====
After the discovery of Installation 06, Orange Team with the final member of Purple Team, Gary-009 were assign to join Juliet Team of the Alpha-Zulu Corps to investigate the ring.  Together, Gary-009 and orange team formed the Spartan Joint Operations Units with Juliet Team as the first joint team.  On board the UNSC Hammer of Dawn the spartans discussed the plan of attack, but once out of slip-space, a Covenant fleet was already around the ring.  Able to slip past the fleet to let the Hammer of Dawn handle the Covenant, whilst the spartans land on the ring.  Ordering Juliet Team to secure the rig-line, Gary and Orange team pushed trough a forerunner facility to clear out Prometheans and Covenant.  Once secured, the Hammer of Dawn was able to send down reinforcements and the spartans pushed on.  
==== The Fire Storm ====
As the spartans press on, they find a Covenant communication station and quickly capture the facility.  Once captured, they learn of a plot to activate the halo ring forcing the spartans into action.  Captain Hendricks of the Hammer of Dawn orders the spartans to stop the plot, but in order to do so, they must cross over hundreds miles of terrain littered with Prometheans.  Marching through a small hollow, the spartans are ambushed by Promethean Knights, and quickly disposing of Anna A-378 by implying her in the stomach.  After barely escaping the hollow, the spartans then pushed on to form a camp sit for the night and resume the next day.  
==== Bad to Worse ====
The following day, the UNSC Hammer of Dawn was able to shoot down a Covenant CCS-cruiser near the spartan’s location.  In order to stop the plot to activate the ring, Gary and Tim-127 decide to instead make the engines of the cruiser go critical and blow up the ring.  Unable to land reinforcements to the spartans, they were forced to travel on foot.  After almost seven hours of hiking, the teams came across a cliffside in which they were forced to climb.  But only half-way up, Prometheans and Phaetons attack and hindered their progress.  After all but two spartans (Luke A-380 and Meredith A-377) make it to the top, knights quickly ambushed the spartans.  Able to defeat the knights, a Phaeton was able to shoot both Luke and Meredith off the cliff to their deaths.  
After resting for a bit, the team pushed forward to the cruiser the next day.  Luckily, the Hammer of Dawn was in the clear to land Pelican drop ships to the spartans.  Unfortunately for the spartans, the cruiser was surrounded by Prometheans and Covenant.  While Mia-A371 went inside the cruiser to prime the core for destination, the other spartans would guard the outside.  As the pelican came to get the spartans, the remote activation was damaged and Mia had to detonate the core manually.  While the other spartans escaped, Mia sacrificed herself to destroy the ring leaving on Sophia-A335 of Juliet left.  
=== Battle of Surgeon ===
Hunting down the remnants of the Fleet of Regretful Redemption, Shield Team called upon Foxtrot and two members of Orange Team, Clark-055 and Thomas-012 to assist. Foxtrot Team was tasked with areal cover fire along with Orange Team whilst Shield Team killed the fleet's leader, Zaz 'Vadem. Easily being able to complete their task, Foxtrot Team returned to the Altman just to see all of Shield and the two Spartan II's fall in battle. 
== Legacy ==
The Alpha-Zulu Corps is one of the strongest military units in the UNSC. Being deployed to several skirmishes, campaigns and several battles, the corps stood against the test of time and, once the Human-Covenant War ended, became the face of the Spartan III's. Though not every spartan was able to see retirement and peace, several of those who died in battle were able to make Humanity one of the largest threats in the current galaxy. Along with being the face of the Spartan III's, the corps also inspired several military and civilian personnel to enlist into the Spartan Branch and into the Spartan-IV program.
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