Team Bayonet

Team Bayonet, also referred to as Fireteam Bayonet, is a Spartan-III fireteam formerly under operational command of and currently under operational command of and is composed of five Spartan-IIIs, all of which are Gamma Company. It had an active role in the tail-end of the and fought during the and . Team Bayonet is currently active and stationed aboard the as of October, 2558.
== History ==
Initially created in July of 2544, in preparation for the arrival of , Team Bayonet would later host one of the best teams of Gamma Company.
=== Training ===
Initially spotted as a team with high potential, greater results were normally expected from Team Bayonet compared to most other teams. Team Bayonet would often place highly in their training simulations, usually placing between 1st and 3rd overall. CPO often praised the team among the other trainers, citing their high levels of unit cohesion and chemistry as a team. Despite what was seen to the instructors, Team Bayonet had major problems. Trainee-G076 had become team leader of Team Bayonet through his natural ability to lead, which was furthered when instructors asked for Bayonet's team leader and Trainee-G076 would go up. Trainee-G036 did not like that one bit. He felt that he would be a much better leader given the chance, despite the fact that when he had been put in charge of leading Bayonet during various war games initially. When Trainee-G036 held command, Team Bayonet's training scores were significantly lower than when under Trainee-076. Trainee-G036's resistance toward Trainee-G076 peaked in December of 2547, when the two briefly brawled before being thrown apart by trainees Trainee-G091 and Trainee-G278. From that point on the two had a very hard time working together, causing rifts in Team Bayonet. 
==== "Team Rebel" ====
Trainee-G036 began to talk to other trainees who shared similar views on their team leaders, usually all having one thing in common, a heavy dislike toward CPO Mendez. When in down time, Trainee-G036 would meet with his impromptu team, which he nicknamed "Team Rebel". "Team Rebel" underwent their first "mission" on the night of January 4th, 2548, while Mendez and Ambrose were talking in latter's office. The group sneaked out of the boys barracks and into Mendez's office where he kept his cigars. The goal was to grab the cigars, hide them until morning, throw them away, then return the empty cigar case to Mendez's office the next night. The plan was a total failure. Trainee-G036 and his "team" made it into the office and after grabbing the cigars they headed for the door. When they opened the door "Team Rebel" was shocked to find Trainee-G076 and around six other trainees including Trainee-G091, , and . Trainee-G076 had a feeling that Trainee-G036 was planning something and stayed up to alert the other trainees he had become friends with. Trainee-G036, who was very disorientated after the ordeal, was dragged back to his bed without further issue. The cigars never left the office, and Mendez never found out there was ever even a plan to take his cigars.
==== Operation: JAILBREAK ====
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Following the failure of "Team Rebel", Trainee-G036 had developed a newfound respect for his team leader, beginning to follow his orders and treat him as his leader. He was highly impressed with Trainee-G076's ability to rally and lead people, admiring that quality. A few months after the plan to steal the cigars, on July 7th, 2548, a few teams from Gamma Company decided that they had endured enough, running into the jungles surrounding prior to a Trial by Fire exercise. Initially, Trainee-G036 began to step away from his team, before turning to see Trainee-G076, looking back at him with a disappointed expression. Upon realizing how it would affect the rest of his team, S-G036 stepped back into line. About an hour and a half later, instructors gathered the remaining teams to begin the hunt for their fellow trainees. Team Bayonet was then ordered to set out and find their comrades. At one point during the hunt, Team Bayonet discovered a small waterfall, and Trainee-G278 (who always maintained some sway over her team leader) convinced Trainee-G076 to stay and relax for a bit. While relaxing, Trainee-G036 noticed another Team relaxing behind the waterfall, and alerted his team lead to their presence. Upon discovering the team hiding was amongst the teams who made a run from Currahee, Team Bayonet would detain them, returning them to Camp Currahee. Over the next weeks, Team Bayonet would collect a further two of the runaway teams, with one of the trainees who was resistant in returning, giving Trainee-G076 a scar across his brow from a strike with a tree branch, resulting in a nervous Trainee-G141 shooting the attacker in the shoulder, not killing him, but severely injuring the boy. After all the runaways were caught and accounted for, the teams who aided in the capture of the runaways received much praise from the instructors, and a bit of resentment from the trainees who ran. The trainees would later jokingly dub the endeavor as Operation: JAILBREAK.
==== Augmentations ====
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Prior to their augmentations, the trainees of Gamma Company were shown multiple films of both failed and successful augmentations from both Spartans IIs and prior IIIs. After everyone from Bayonet agreed to continue with the augmentations, they would be given growth hormones, along with cartilage, muscle, and bone supplements, nine months prior to their augmentations. All members of Team Bayonet and Gamma Company were successfully augmented aboard the during the week of February 17th, 2551. The trainees received the following chemically induced augmentations.
 
Drug 	Description 	Effect
8942-LQ99 	"carbide ceramic ossification catalyst" drug. 	Skeletons become virtually unbreakable, allowing survival in harder impacts.
88005-MX77	"fibroid muscular protein complex" drug. 	Increased density of individual's muscles, greatly enhancing physical strength.
88947-OP24	"retina-inversion stabilizer" drug. 	Color sharpness is significantly improved upon, and night vision is heightened.
87556-UD61	"improved colloidal neural disunification solution" drug.	Greatly improves the individual's reaction time, decreasing the time taken to react by 300%; "Spartan time".
009762-OO 	Neural-altering non-carcinogenic mutagen. 	Alters key regions in the individual's frontal lobe to enhance aggressive response, making the animal part of the brain more accessible in times of stress. This allows the subject access to enormous reserves of strength and endurance and enables them to remain fighting even under the influence of a wide systemic shock that would be instantly fatal to a normal human. Depresses higher reason centers of the brain over time; requires regular doses of 009127-PX and 009927-DG to be taken to avoid uncontrollable aggression.
009127-PX 	cyclodexione-4, bipolar integration drug 	Counters the effects of 009762-OO.
009927-DG 	miso-olanzapine 	Counters the psychological effects of 009762-OO.
==== Post-Augmentation: ====
Following Gamma Company's augmentations, the trainees were furthered trained for another year as they adapted to their augmentations. During this time between their augmentations and graduation, Team Bayonet really established what role they would play in the team, with S-G076 as team leader, S-G036 as second-in-command, S-G278 as the marksman, S-G091 as close quarter specialist, and S-G141 as the heavy weapons specialist and engineer. The Gammas would also begin running training missions which simulated real combat, one of which led to S-G036 getting hit by a training rifle and needing medical attention. They also would begin getting used to the armor they would be wearing during their service, the . At some point during training, Team Bayonet utilized their free time to come up with a modern twist on the ancient technique of the bayonet charge. Nine months before the end of their training, Kurt Ambrose announced a tournament for top honors among the top performing teams. Team Bayonet would be selected to participate, being in the top five performing teams among Gamma Company. Competing directly against the other teams, Team Bayonet would try out their new Bayonet Charge, eliminating another team catching them off-guard. Their boldness and creativity would impress their instructors, placing 4th overall, just barely losing to to participate in the final three for top honors. Team Bayonet would immediately pulled under NAVSECWARCOM, being designated as a Cat-2 Spartan-III team. Immediately deploying to Earth, Team Bayonet would avoid the , instead taking part in the Battle of Mombasa. 
== Human-Covenant War ==
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While enroute to report to to receive their Mark V MJOLNIR Armor, Team Bayonet, only equipped with the Mk II SPI Armor and MA5K Carbines, were redeployed to Mombasa. 
=== Battle of Earth ===
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==== Battle of Mombasa ====
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Team Bayonet, now deployed in Kenya, were tasked with searching for, rescuing, and evacuating any civilians still within the city. Along with an ODST fireteam, Team Bayonet would first move to establish an evacuation point atop a hospital, fighting Covenant through the building. Team Bayonet would fight further Covenant as they moved through the city to find civilians, but would avoid any serious combat outside the hospital. 
==== Attack on Sydney ====
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The following day, Team Bayonet was brought to the , being issued Mjolnir Mark V, with every Spartan adding compatible variations to their armor. 
Equipped with their new armor, the Spartan team was put on stand-by. After about an hour on stand-by, HIGHCOM launched a request for a Spartan team to their headquarters at , in fear of a recent Covenant attack on the Capital of Earth, Sydney. Team Bayonet would leave immediately, taking jet packs and deploying via Pelican jump at around three thousand feet. Upon landing just outside the facility, the Spartans immediately began to take fire, moving to establish a perimeter around the Facility, returning fire. As more and more forces began to besiege Team Bayonet, Dan would notice a in the rear directing the assault. He ordered Tyler-G278 to target the War Chieftain, killing him with a single round, causing the assault to falter and fail. Team Bayonet would then lead a few platoons of Marines to drive out the remaining Covenant forces from Sydney, leaving HIGHCOM Facility Bravo-6 completely untouched, unlike the Spartans who were all injured in the fight in one capacity or another.
For his actions in both Mombasa and Sydney, Tom was awarded with a Bronze Star with "V" devices, and Purple Heart. Additionally, Team Bayonet and Tom would be awarded the Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation for their actions, and following the wars closure, would be awarded the Presidential Naval and Marine Unit Citation upon review of the mission.
==== Battle of Cleveland ====
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Team Bayonet would be kept in Sydney, repelling a few more Covenant attempts to attack the city. After about a month, an attack on Cleveland, Ohio began and Team Bayonet would be spun up, deployed again in support of the defense of the city. Once again, deploying from the rear of a Pelican and jumping into the city, Team Bayonet would link up a group of Marines who held a strongpoint near a bridge, establishing an LZ for civilian evacuation. Team Bayonet was sent into the city to hunt down and attempt to drive the Covenant out of the city, rescuing civilians if possible. While out hunting, Bayonet came upon a small park, which had been turned into a communications relay and forward command outpost, containing a Jiralhanae Chieftain, two Jiralhanae Captain Majors, four Jiralhanae Majors, twelve Jiralhanae Minors, three Lekgolo, and a large collection of Unggoy and Kig-Yar. Establishing a battle plan to launch an assault on the command post, Team Bayonet sprung into action. Theo made an attempt to take on the Chieftain, receiving a powerful Gravity Hammer swing directly to his chest, sending him twelve feet in the air, breaking three ribs, his collarbone and rupturing his chest armor. Leaving the Spartan severely injured and in a pile on the ground. Dan, watching one of his best friends get tossed aside, and broken, was sent into a fury. Charging the Chieftain head on, he caught the hammer mid-swing, tearing it from the Brutes hands, proceeding to beat the beast until its head was a bloody pulp, before turning his attention to the remaining Covenant. Without a word, Team Bayonet's team leader proceeded to literally tear apart the rest of the Covenant force while Team Bayonet watched, stunned, as Dan was not one to show much emotion, let alone hyper-aggression as was common with most Gamma Company Spartans. Turning back to Team Bayonet, he simply stated "Time to go." before heading back to the evacuation point, still carrying the Gravity Hammer. 
Returning to the evacuation point, Team Bayonet loaded Theo onto a Pelican as a casualty, while not dead he was out of the fight, with Dan sending Alex back with Theo. Before the left, Dan would give Theo the Gravity Hammer, telling him to "hang on to it, as a reminder of what not to do." before sending them to Korea. 
With now three members of Bayonet in Cleveland, they began their search for civilians, eventually finding around eighty people trapped inside an apartment complex, many of them children. As they made their way back to the evac point, the group were ambushed by a much larger Covenant force, later estimated to be a company sized element. Nearing a bridge, Dan ordered Tom to lead the survivors back toward the evac point, while he and Tyler would stay to hold off the Covenant forces. For about an hour and a half, the two Spartans held back the Covenant, under intense fire, Tyler's shields were depleted when she was struck directly in the head with a fuel rod from a Hunter, shattering her visor and knocking her unconscious. Dan would continue to hold off the Covenant for a further fifteen minutes, hoping Jen would wake up but to no avail. Dan would maneuver near the bridge, laying explosives while continuing to fight off increasing Covenant forces. Preparing to make his retreat, Dan blew bridge, throwing Tyler over his shoulder and making a dash for the LZ while the Covenant were forced to find an alternate route across the bridge. After returning, Team Bayonet was about to pull out from Cleveland, following the destruction of the CCS-class battlecruiser Harbinger of Piety, when Dan received a transmission from an ONI Commander, who had gotten word his daughter and wife were trapped in their home in the heart of Cleveland, which was now infested with Covenant forces. The Commander requested that Team Bayonet retrieve his family, and evacuate them to London. Dan alerted the Commander to Team Bayonet's situation, to which the Commander stated "You're Spartans. You'll know how to get it done." Despite Tom's requests to go with him, Dan ordered his intelligence specialist to evacuate with Tyler, undertaking the borderline suicide mission alone, stating they would meet in Korea. 
Dan would make his way through the ruined city, fighting non-stop until he reached the Commander's house, finding the Commander's family being questioned by a Brute. Retrieving the family, they began their journey through downtown Cleveland, eventually meeting three Wraiths patrolling. Dan was able to destroy the Wraiths, but with significant injury to himself and his armor, which pieces were literally melting off. Continuing to push forward despite his injuries, the trio would pick up a further twenty-four survivors. Two Pelicans awaited them, with all twenty-six survivors being alive and well, they evacuated to London. Dan was thanked by the Commander who was waiting in London, telling him that "Thank you doesn't do my appreciation justice. Expect a promotion and maybe more". 
While Dan was still Cleveland, Tom and Alex were reassigned to help deal with the . Tom and Alex would work alongside Marines, Soldiers, and Elites in order to prevent the Flood from pushing deeper into Voi. Never having faced the Flood before, Tom and Alex were shocked at the Floods ability to take a host, witnessing the spores take the personnel around them as their hosts. The two would remain there until the Sangheili were able to glass the surrounding area, cleansing it of Flood. 
For their actions in Cleveland, Team Bayonet was awarded another Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation for their actions, and again after the war were awarded another Presidential Naval and Marine Unit Citation. Dan would be awarded a Colonial Cross for his rescue mission and a Legion of Honor for his defense of the bridge, allowing the eighty civilians to escape, and obviously a Purple Heart. Tyler would be awarded the Navy Cross for her actions in defending the bridge, as well as a Purple Heart. Alex and Tom would be awarded the Navy Distinguished Service Medal with Theo being awarded just a Purple Heart. 
== Post Human-Covenant War ==
In the months following the end of the Human-Covenant War, Team Bayonet was often sent on high-risk missions to quell Insurrectionist activities, destroy Covenant remnant groups, etc... In June of 2553, Team Leader, Dan-G076 was requisitioned by , becoming a Spartan-III ONI Operative, leaving Tom-G036 as Team Leader. Later the same year, Tyler-G278 would also join ONI, leaving Team Bayonet with three members. By September of 2553, Team Bayonet was moved under a new command in the form of the newly created . 
=== Spartan Operations ===
As the began to develop further, more and more trainers were needed to help the new Spartans adapt and train with their augmentations. Relocating to Mars, Team Bayonet would be outfitted in , becoming full time Spartan-IV trainers, which was a bit weird, as all of their students were up to ten years their elders. They would help train almost all of the new Spartans-IV from the second class. They would remain on Mars until October of 2556, when the team was relocated to the UNSC Infinity, where they would be available for deployment, while continuing to train Spartan-IVs and themselves. 
=== Battle of Requiem ===
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On July 21st, 2557, the UNSC Infinity was pulled into the   of , after hearing an emergency distress beacon from within the planet. The remainder of Team Bayonet was one of the fireteams who were paired with a platoon of Marines and sent to the surface of Requiem. On Requiem, Team Bayonet lead a company of Marines in defending the Infinity. The Battle of Requiem was Tom-G036's first battle which he held command. Tom performed well in the battle, but lost multiple Marines who were under him. After the battle ended, Tom mentioned to Alex-G141 that he felt Bayonet was better led while under Dan. Two weeks after the battle, Tyler-G278 was released by ONI, folded into the Spartan Branch and was sent to the Infinity to rejoin her old team. 
=== Requiem Campaign ===
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Dan-G076 was released by ONI in late December of 2557, rejoining his team in the Spartan Branch and reclaiming his command over Team Bayonet. Dan also brought a new addition in the form of the "smart" AI, Freyja, which Dan was attached to while with ONI. She would become the team AI for Team Bayonet, despite the protests from Tom as he was team's intelligence specialist. During the campaign, Team Bayonet performed very well, racking up a total of 846 hostile killed, more than any other Spartan Operations fireteam deployed. Each member of Team Bayonet would receive a Purple Heart, except Tyler who finished the Campaign virtually untouched. Team Bayonet was awarded a second Presidential Naval and Marine Unit Citation as a result of their actions in the Requiem Campaign. 
== Created Crisis ==
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When the Created Conflict started up, Team Bayonet was aboard the Infinity. Fearing that Freyja may join Cortana, Dan immediately began talks with his AI, who ensured of him of her loyalty to Team Bayonet and the UNSC. Team Bayonet were still aboard the Infinity when it began random jumps throughout space. Prior to the Battle of New Mohács, Team Bayonet was fitted with . 
=== Battle of New Mohács ===
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Team Bayonet was among the Spartan Fireteams deployed alongside Sarah Palmer onto Reach's surface in support of the Master Chief in securing New Mohács. Team Bayonet provided critical assistance in securing the region. Following this, Team Bayonet was able to return to Infinity where they remained following the success of Operation: WOLFE.
== Installation 07 ==
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On December 12th, 2559, when the began to pour aboard the UNSC Infinity, Team Bayonet took it upon themselves to defend and then evacuate the Infinity's medical bays following order to abandon ship. While evacuating the medical bays, Theo volunteered to cover Team Bayonet's evacuation to the hangar bay. Dan-G076 would soon after order Theo to evacuate as well, and on his approach to the hangar, as their Pelican was about to launch, Team Bayonet would watch helplessly as Theo was struck with a , before being impaled to death by a . 
=== Surviving the Banished's Ring ===
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After landing on the ring, far from the break in the ring, Team Bayonet first went about establishing a foward operating base, high in the hills of the ring. They would then attempt to reach fellow survivors via comms and tracking distress signals within one thousand meters of the base. Linking with approximately fourty marines, to include six ODSTs, the group would mostly focus on staying out of sight of Banished patrols. This lasted about a week an a half, before a Banished force drove them from the hills and into a network of caves. Now a group of fourty four in total, to include four Spartans, four ODSTs, twenty-four marines, and twelve medical personnel, they focused on one objective; survive by whatever means necessary. After a few days, the Spartans discovered a Banished outpost holding around fifteen UNSC survivors captive, and decided to break them free, then relocate again. Freyja found a destroyed three kilometers from their position which was resting on the side of a mountain. With their discovery, the Spartans put the plan into effect, launching an assault on the outpost, with no support from the surviving marines. Initially, the plan went off without a hitch, each Spartan attacking from a different direction, assaulting into the main holding area. Freeing the marines, the Spartans then began a unified push out when the Brute Chieftain in charge of the outpost blocked their path. The team engaged the Chieftain, during the engangement the Chieftain would manage to slam Tom-G036's left arm with his Gravity Hammer, crushing the armor around his shoulder, nearly tearing it from its socket. The Chieftain would fall after Tyler manged to pull off a shot to the Brute's head, killing it. Arriving at the frigate, establishing its bridge as their primary hold-out, it became evident Tom's arm would have to amputated, luckily the frigate's medical bay had a number of usable prostetic limbs, and the medical personnel were able to replace Tom's arm. Three weeks later, the Spartans received a distress call from a team of ODSTs who were under attack, thus the Spartans took it upon themselves to attempt to rescue them. As they approached the source of the call, it was clear the ODSTs had not managed to survive the attack. Dan, fearing Banished patrol were still in the area, ordered Team Bayonet to return to the frigate. A few seconds after Dan gave the order, a round pierced through Alex-G141's abdomen, causing Tyler to fire off a few rounds, fully revealing their position. Dan and Tom then carried Alex all the way back to the frigate with Tyler maintaining security, as the arrived back at the bridge, the medical personnel were dumbfounded when attempting to treat the wound, as they had never seen a Skewer rounds effect on a soldier's body. As a result, they were unable to remove or treat Alex's wounds, and she would die the following die of her wounds. After this, Dan decided that he would leave an open channel active, for survivors to request their location, and that no one would leave the ship and that any needed supplies could be found within the frigate. The Team would slowly collect more marines, maintaining their silence from the Banished. 
As of May 28th, 2560 whats left of Team Bayonet is still aboard the frigate.
== Roster ==
* Dan-G076 (Bayonet One): Team leader, among the top twenty-five performing Spartans of Gamma Company, former ONI operative, SPARTAN-IV trainer in between missions.
**Freyja: Team "smart" AI, attached to Dan while with ONI, transferred to Spartan Branch along with Dan.
* Tom-G036 (Bayonet Two): Intelligence and team tactical planner
*Tyler-G278 (Bayonet Three): Team marksman, #4 overall marksman of Gamma Company, former ONI operative, SPARTAN-IV trainer in between missions.
* Theo-G091 † (Bayonet Four): Close Quarters and Demolitions
**KIA: December 12th, 2559; Killed by a Jiralhanae who impaled him with a .
*Alex-G141 † (Bayonet Five): Heavy Weapons Specialist
**KIA: February 19th, 2560; Died of wounds sustained by a .
==Decorations==
The following is an incomplete list of Team Bayonet's awards, which have been given to Team Bayonet as a whole.
Team Bayonet Unit Citations
	
Team Bayonet Unit Citations Descriptions
Presidential Naval and Marine Unit Citation (2 bronze stars)	Presidential Naval and Marine Unit Citation (2 bronze stars)	Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (2 bronze 3/16 stars)
== Trivia ==
* The Bayonet is the iconic weapon and symbol of the Infantryman, it symbolizes the history of the Infantryman, and bravery in combat.
**The Bayonet was chosen for the team as it represents a piece of the author, an Infantryman in the United States Army.
* The Team Emblem contains two M1905 Bayonets, used on the US Army M1903 Springfield Rifle during World War One.
*The team Mantra "Rendement Non" meaning "Yield Not", it is taken from the Infantryman's Creed of the US Army.
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