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'''Team Alpha''' was a splinter team of the [[Spartan-II]] [[Red Team]] of the [[United Nations Space Command]].

Team Alpha was the command team of Red Team during the [[First Battle of Reach]] and included: [[Frederic-104]], [[Kelly-087]], and [[Joshua-029]]. Team Alpha was in charge of the other Spartan splinter teams and the four surviving [[Marines]] of [[Charlie Company]]. Their objective was to destroy a Covenant ship that was supplying a large number of Covenant troops in a valley nearby.

As the team made planet fall, their [[D77-TC Pelican Dropship|Pelican]] came under attack. The pilot was killed and the Spartans had to jump out of the rear exit. On landing, they suffered four casualties, and many Spartans were wounded. Upon arriving at the [[ODG Facility A-331]], they found the remaining members of [[Charlie Company]]. Red Team split up after receiving a distress call from  [[Admiral Whitcomb|Vice Admiral Danforth Whitcomb]].<ref>'''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]''', ''pages 2-22''</ref>

Red Team split up into Teams Alpha, [[Team Beta|Beta]], [[Team Gamma|Gamma]] and [[Team Delta|Delta]]. Team Alpha set out to destroy the [[Covenant]] encampment in a valley nearby. There was 10,000 assorted [[Covenant]] troops in the valley. The team commandeered three [[Banshee]]s and flew into the valley. They planned to deploy several [[Fury Tactical Nukes]] into the [[Covenant]] ship and destroy all the troops. This went according to plan, except that Joshua was killed due to the fact the Covenant figured it was a ambush. The group then fell back up the valley to a river (after barely succeeding with their plan), where they were attacked by a [[Hunter]] pair. One [[Hunter]] was killed when [[Kelly-087]] crashed her [[Banshee]] into one of them. After that, they received a transmission from Team Beta that the generators were over-run and they might be able to save one of the last generators. After they contacted the other teams and told them to fall back to [[CASTLE Base]], the two [[Spartan II]]s then came across a vehicle depot full of [[Wraiths]] and [[Unggoy|Grunts]]. Secretly commandeering two [[Wraiths]], they blew a path to [[CASTLE Base]] and to Team Delta.

Regrouping with Team Delta outside CASTLE Base, they couldn't gain access until they whispered [[Oly Oly Oxen Free]] into the microphone to a metal reinforced door, and inside was [[Dr. Catherine Halsey]]. Dr. Halsey tended to their wounds and sent Fred on a supply run. Soon after, the base came under Covenant attack again, forcing them to activate "[[Operation: WHITE GLOVE]]" and seek shelter in the Titanium mines below the base. Whilst traveling through the caves, Frederic came across and tunnel which led to a [[Forerunner]] construct and a [[Forerunner Crystal]] that warped reality.

After a short period of time in the cavern, they came under attack and the group fell back to a tunnel, but [[Spartan-039|Isaac-039]] and [[Spartan-030|Vinh-030]] were killed when they activated satchel charges and blocked the tunnel. Some time later, the tunnel was unblocked and they found [[Spartan-117|John-117]], the members of [[Team Gamma]], [[Sergeant Major]] [[Avery Johnson]], an ODST named [[Corporal (UNSC)|Corporal]] [[Locklear]] and [[Admiral Whitcomb]]. After a few minutes, the group realized that they were surrounded by thousands of [[Covenant]] troops; they then escaped after a brief firefight. They escaped Reach in a captured [[Spirit]] dropship, piloting it to the captured [[Covenant]] [[flagship]] ''[[Ascendant Justice]]''.

{{Main|Operation: FIRST STRIKE}}

Team Alpha participated in the destruction of the Covenant space station [[Unyielding Heirophant]]. This mission was going alright until they came across a pack of [[Brute]]s and [[Spartan-093|Grace-093]] was killed in the skirmish. The station was destroyed by blowing the fusion reactors. The operation destroyed almost 500 Covenant ships, a sizable portion of the Covenant armada.

{{Main|Battle of Earth}}

When the [[Covenant]] attacked [[Earth]], Team Alpha defended against several attacks made by the [[Covenant]] for over two weeks, shortly after the [[UNSC In Amber Clad|In Amber Clad]]s slipsapce jump to pursue the [[Prophet of Regret]]. These attacks included a mission to [[Antarctica]] and the ocean floor. The most recent was to [[Cuba]], to defend one of the last [[Space Elevator]]s on Earth, the [[Centennial Orbital Elevator]]. During this mission, the [[Spartan II]]s were reassigned to [[Onyx]], and stole a [[Covenant]] ship to travel there.

Having fought their way to the centre of the Sentinel Building Plant, they destroyed it, but at the cost of a Spartan-III, Dante. When the [[Covenant]] attacked, the large team holed themselves up at the top of a pyramid-like structure. after a while, the battle turned ill, with the traps all destroyed by the Grunts. A pair of Hunters reached the top of the structure and would have killed [[Kelly]], had it not have been for Holly's sacrifice. [[Spartan-043|Will-043]] then engaged one of the Hunters in hand-to-hand combat and killed it before getting shot and killed. The rest of the Spartans then retreated to the [[Dyson Sphere]] while Kurt detonated the nukes and killed himself and every [[Covenant]] in the area.

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