Unidentified UNSC Marine Squad

The Unidentified UNSC Marine Squad was a United Nation Space Command's Marine Corps unit lead by Sargent Zhao Heng Lopez that participated during the Human-Covenant war. The squad was assigned to the Prowler UNSC Red Horse under Commander Tobias Foucault for reconnaissace missions.

Post-Battle of Installaion 04
With the destruction of Installation 04 in 2552 and the final stages of the Human-Covenant war around the corner, the UNSC assigned what appeared to be a single Prowler, the UNSC Red Horse to the debris field performing reconnaisance and surveying the rubble, of which a piece of the hull of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn' was floating.

The squad is introduced in a broad form when an escape pod from the freighter-turned-prison-transport UNSC ''Mona Lisa is captured and brought aboard. ''The occupant of which, is a fatally wounded prisoner who is secured and then stabalised by the teams Medic, Ngoc Benti. He reveals little to the Marines but it becomes obvious their mission is about to change and their leader, Sargent Lopez, after a brief discussion with the Red Horses Commander, Tobias Foucault, are disembarked aboard a pelican to locate and investigate the Mona Lisa.

The Mona Lisa
Aboard an unnamed Pelican flown by Burgundy with Rabbit in Co-Pilot, this unnamed squad, using a docking overide, landed in the hanger of the Mona Lisa. Upon exiting the Pelican with flash-lit Assault Rifles and Shotguns at the ready the squad detected movement and it wasn't long before they killed four unarmed Covenant Sanghelli, one of which landed atop Benti, dead.

The fight scattered the squad but they regrouped, except for Rabbit, who the Marines subsequently searched for whilst leaving Cranker behind to guard the Pelican. She was found crushed under the boot of a fifth unarmoured Sanghelli who, upon discovery, was riddled with 7.62mm bullets by the horrified members. Upon collecting Rabbit's Dog Tags a length of her insides was observed and not believed to be human or covenant.

Moments later Cranker was attacked in the hanger and broke contact. Seperated from Burgundy in the hanger the team split up with the new primary objective being to destroy the ships "Navigation Data" as per the Cole Protocol. Benti's team consisting of Orlav, Gersten, Clarence and Tsardikos would go after the back-up in the engine room whilst Lopez along with Singh, James MacCraw and Mahmoud found and interrogated ONI Major John Smith who was the Chief Medical Officer of the Mona Lisa. Within a few short minutes he unlocked a door that held a tentacle-based flood mass that grabbed Mahmoud. The door was sealed cutting the tentacles and Lopez prompty punches Smith who they searched again locating his ID-card revealing his rank and affiliation with ONI.

In the Hanger, Burgundy see's a human figure approach the Pelican, she opens the hatch, grabs an assault rifle and screams for Cranker to get aboard, upon viewing him in the light however, he is seen to be mangled and infected. Cranker impales her leg and she is dragged away.

Meanwhile in the belge of the ship, Benti's team hear and run from a screeching noise heard to their rear, they soon engage mutated infection froms along with covenant and humans combat forms of the flood. Tsardikos is killed and Orlav is wounded deeply about the back in which Benti removes a feeding infection form from. At the next locked door Orlav begins to turn and mutate, she breaks free and violently bites Gerstern, but Clarence kills her before she can do any more harm. Benti, finally working the door, moves the team through and seals it behind.

John Smith informs Lopez that they abandon ship immediately, angered by the thought of leaving his soldiers behind she strikes Smith again and they head to the bridge. Along the way Smith reveals a concealed door that leads to the research labs, here he explains to Lopez about the flood then, removing a blade from a drawer, cuts Mahmoud's throat, takes his rifle and shoots back at the Marines wounding Lopez briefly only to disappear behind a locked door.

Safe, Benti's team met companion inmates Patrick Rimmer armed with a knife and a Sanghelli he named "Henry" with a Cricket Bat. They discuss the flood briefly after Gerstern is killed by Clarence for showing similar signs of infection to Orlav. However he reanimates and is shot again. Agreed upon the danger faced with the Flood Clarence and Benti take a shakey alliance with the two in order to get to the engine room. Along the way they're attacked by infection forms in which Henry saves Benti twice from the horde. They reach the engine room and witness Burgundy, being carried by Cranker- get tossed into the proto-gravemind.

After further fighting Singh is crushed whilst reloading and only MacCraw and Lopez make it to the Bridge closing the door on persuing Flood forms. There they make contact with the Red Horse and Commander Foucault who informs them to make it to the life pods as Smith has stolen their Pelican. Lopez shares the message out over the ships intercom in which Benti's group along with masses of flood hordes hear it. Breaking from the birdge door assault rifles first, the two fight their way to the pods reaching them shortly.

Meanwhile Benti lobs two Fragmention grenades to destroy the Slipspace Engine, she ruptures it sealing the ships fate and they evacuate to the pods. On their way Benti is knocked aside and impaled by a flood form, Clarence points his rifle at her but Henry takes her onward to the pods. There Rimmer and Henry surrender to Lopez and MacCraw who are shocked to see them with an Elite. Clarence shoots Rimmer in the head and MacCraw escapes in one of the two single-occupant pods. Benti claims Clarence is ONI-affiliated and he replies saying no one was supposed to survive. Clarence instructs Henry to let Benti go, she then tackles him down where an oncoming horde of flood swoop upon them.

Lopez and Henry lock the door and eye the last pod, she brings her assault rifle to bare but realising it is out of ammo, holds the muzzle and prepares to use it too, as a melee weapon. The two presumably fought eachother for the pod and likely died doing so.

Squad Roster

 * Sargent Lopez (Squad Leader)
 * Private Ngoc Benti (Medic)
 * Singh (Technical Specialist)
 * Orlav (Intelligence)
 * Clarence (Field Support)
 * Mahmoud (Field Support)
 * Tsardikos (Field Support)
 * Gersten (Field Support)
 * Cranker (Field Support)
 * James McCraw (Rookie)

Additional

 * Burgundy (Pilot)
 * Rabbit (Co-Pilot)

Trivia

 * Being embarked aboard an ONI-Based Prowler, it is likely this squad is well trained, but they are potentially a specially utilized force.
 * Command Foucault reinforces this by stating that they are more tha capable of handling the Covenant presence aboard the Mona Lisa
 * Opposingly, they may simply be veteran UNSC Marines selected for the mission, given their armour.
 * They have a large portion of female members (including Rabbit and Burgundy, 5 female 6 male), in fact, the Squad is female-dominated being lead by Sargent Lopez.
 * Lopez says some of the team are strangers to eachother prior to introductions. This is likely due to the ever-growing casualties and replacements which have been noted by Gunnery Sargent Edward Buck.