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The misadventures of Fireteam Crimson, based on a true story.

This is @bellygunnr’s and my Fireteam Crimson with our OCs and shenanigans. Spartan Ops needs more love, I say, showing up years late.

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Fireteam Crimson had been going nonstop since the mission to protect Dr. Boyd’s equipment almost 72 hours ago. 

Listening to Miller and Roland may have had them muting mics to snicker quietly into helmets, but the missions and the sarcasm dragged on their nerves after the third round of scientists with the wrong priorities screaming at them to save data and equipment while robot dogs skittered down the walls and jumped them.

They’ve had to defend scientists, marines, generators and entire outposts. Then they were sent on a hunt for Spartan Thorne who had somehow ended up on Requiem despite the rest of Majestic still being aboard the Infinity.

That wild goose chase had led to a drawn out battle followed by them captured, rescued, and then rescuing Icebreaker squad with Murphy, their new pilot, commandeering a phantom. They almost got to go home too, but of course, nothing is ever easy with Requiem.

So when the phantom gets called down to a Covie outpost and Commander Palmer wants to know why, they have no choice but to land and investigate.

And get shot at.

So the illustrious Fireteam Crimson is running on empty and running out of ammo when the slip ups start to happen.

But then you look at the IVs for more than 10 seconds and you go, oh shit. You’re in your 20s? You were scouted by the shadow military organization to sell yourself into service for as long as they want? You don’t know how long you’ll live but you have a shorter leash than the other generations (not counting the Gammas of the IIIs and their need for smoothers) because IVs need a team of people to keep them running. Techs and tune ups and faulty experiemental augmentations?

The IVs grow on you when you give them a chance. You can even feel bad about DeMarco. sometimes.

And the number of IVs who have the most tragic backstories because they don’t realize it (Tomas Horvath, Sarah Palmer) as well as the ones we know have left the UNSC (Vladimir Scruggs, Isla Zane). I want to see what they do with Thorne if he’s still alive.

Also, I mean come on Horvath, dude, if I lived after a catastrophic equipment failure on my first drop as an ODST I would not continue my service. That’s a sign from some higher power saying get out dude.

Today is his -509th birthday!

DeMarco began his military career in the UNSC Marine Corps before transferring to the ODSTs. He was recruited into the SPARTAN program and assigned as the fireteam leader of Fireteam Majestic.

He and Majestic, minus Thorne, were assigned to keep the peace on Earth after ex-Covenant members sought asylum in Rio de Janeiro. He and Majestic were reassigned to Infinity in 2558. There, they received orders to return to Requiem six months after Infinity fled the planet to prepare it for study. The shield world was occupied by Jul 'Mdama's Covenant and the Forerunner forces under his command.

It was at this moment, he knew...