Fireteam Shadow

Fireteam Shadow is an elite special operations team of four SPARTAN-IV supersoldiers. They were assigned to the and fought on the Forerunner shield world Requiem in July 2557. They later fought in the Requiem Campaign of February 2558 under the handle of Spartan Carmichael, and then played a pivotal role in the Battle for Zeta Halo.

Known members
Throughout their service, Fireteam Shadow's team callsigns have not remained static - resulting in several members holding various callsigns at different points in time depending on operational priority.
 * Spartan Horatio Fry (Shadow Leader or Shadow One) - Team leader
 * Spartan Jason Kidman (Shadow Two)
 * Spartan Bonita Stone (Shadow Three) - Recon specialist - KIA
 * Spartan Nina Kovan (Shadow Four) - Marksman

Formation
Fireteam Shadow was formed circa 2550, after the final year of the SPARTAN-IV program's experimental phase. The fireteam was specialized in covert operations to support other fireteams. Two members, Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan, had previously met onboard the reconnaissance ship.

Battle of Requiem
On July 21, 2557, Fireteam Shadow was attached to the when the ship was pulled into the shield world Requiem. Following the ship's crash inside the shield world, Fireteam Shadow was deployed to the flight deck to investigate movements detected outside the ship. The Spartans could not see what was causing the reports of movement outside the ship, but reported that they were experiencing technical difficulties. Shortly after, the Infinity was attacked by the combined forces of Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and Ur-Didact's Prometheans.

Requiem campaign
In February 2558, Fireteam Shadow assisted Fireteam Crimson in protecting the science team at "The Refuge". While Crimson defended the facility from the Covenant ground forces, Fireteam Shadow infiltrated Panom’s Canticle, the Covenant that was deploying the Covenant forces. In spite of heavy resistance, the team overloaded the ship's power core, destroying the cruiser and halting the Covenant's attack.

During the Requiem Campaign, Fireteam Shadow wore and tested GOBLIN-class Mjolnir, with Horatio Fry using it in Operation: VERTICAL UMBRAGE. The other three members also wore OPERATOR, GUNGNIR, and RECON-class Mjolnir.

Other operations
At another point, Fireteam Shadow wore ARGUS, HELIOSKRILL, WAR MASTER, and OPERATOR-class Mjolnir.

Installation 07


On December 12, 2559, Fireteam Shadow was onboard when it was ambushed by Banished forces upon arrival at Installation 07. With the Infinity taking heavy damage, Captain Lasky ordered the crew to abandon ship. Spartans Bonita Stone and Nina Kovan were ordered to evacuate while Horatio Fry and "Shadow Two" remained with Fireteam Taurus to repel Banished boarders from a hangar bay.

Stone and five marines evacuated from the ship on a lifeboat, Echo India Bravo Zero Eight, and landed on an unoccupied area of the ring. Kovan left the Infinity on a drop pod, and she entered the ring's stratosphere, she adjusted her drop pod trajectory for a deployment of Banished Phantoms in an attempt to board one. Kovan successfully took control of a Phantom and landed on the ring's surface, where she provided sniper overwatch for members of Fireteam Taurus as they attacked a Banished anti-air artillery.

By December 19, Stone and Kovan, seemingly the only survivors of Fireteam Shadow, have regrouped. The two, along with a group of marines, rendezvoused with other UNSC forces at the wreckage of, which had been found by Spartan Vedrana Makovich and designated as a UNSC base of operations. For the next six months, Stone and Kovan took part in the UNSC resistance against the Banished, carrying out sabotage operations and recon sweeps. Following Chieftain Tremonius's assault on Reverie on February 2, the UNSC forces retreated and scattered into the valley, and Kovan's fate became unknown to Makovich and Vettel.

On April 26, Stone infiltrated a Banished excavation site but was ambush and killed shortly after by the Hand of Atriox's member Jega 'Rdomnai. The fate of Horatio Fry and Jason Kidman remains unknown.

List of appearances

 * Halo 4
 * Spartan Ops
 * Halo 5: Guardians
 * Halo Infinite
 * Halo: The Rubicon Protocol
 * Vertical Umbrage