User:117Jorn/Mythic Team

"You know as well as I do that we wind up with some that she would have chosen - not just kids unlucky enough to survive a glassing. Orders are still being followed and those Spartans are in the field, but they are armed as SPARTANs - and they are making a difference." - LCMR Kurt Ambrose to SCPO Franklin Mendez

Mythic Team (occasionally stylized as MYTHIC Team), sometimes referred to as Team Mythic or simply Mythic, is a fireteam-sized unit composed mostly out of SPARTAN-III Supersoldiers, one SPARTAN-II Commando and one SPARTAN-IV as of 2558. Like their 'twin' Fireteam - Noble Team - they were not subordinate to Naval Special Weapons, but rather under the operational control of the UNSC Army's Special Warfare Group Three, although until the founding of the SPARTAN Corps post-war, its members were all part of the UNSC Navy.

Overview
Mythic Team was primarily composed of SPARTAN-IIIs pulled out of their main companies by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose and Senior Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez before large-scale operations where the companies were mostly wiped out, Operation: PROMETHEUS in the case of Alpha Company and Operation: TORPEDO with Beta Company.

Prior to the Fall of Reach, Mythic Team had managed to survive countless battles, always coming back from suicide assignments against not only the Covenant, but Insurrectionist Suppression missions as well. Initially Mythic Team was a two-man team between SPARTAN-III's Kai-A019 and Rosenda-A266, but over the years it steadily increased in numbers, with Rosenda - a former member of Noble Team - becoming their Squad Leader and Commander.

Mythic Team also operated with non-Spartan military personnel more extensively than other Spartan teams, much like Noble Team did. To grant them more operational freedom when interacting with regular military personnel, the members of Mythic Team had been given higher ranks than most of the Spartans by their CO.

The SPARTAN-IIIs of Mythic Team - much like Noble Team - were issued with equipment on par with the SPARTAN-IIs, such as the MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor, which is far more advanced than the cheaper SPI armor worn by the rest of the SPARTAN-IIIs. The team was issued with the Mark V MJOLNIR armor on January 19th, 2552. Unlike the mainline SPARTAN-IIs whose armor was fairly uniform in coloration, the members of Mythic Team sported a variety of color schemes and field-customized armor variants to each individual Spartan's specialization. By 2555 after the Human-Covenan war was over, they had upgraded into MJOLNIR GEN2 Armor.

Team Composition

 * Commander Rosenda-A344 (Mythic One): Identified as being 'Sassy' and a former member of Noble Team, Rosenda served as the leader of Mythic Team.
 * Lieutenant Commander Kai-A019 (Mythic Two): Rosenda's second-in-command, Kai was was the Demolitions Specialist of Mythic Team.
 * Lieutenant Leon-B170 (Mythic Three): Considered the second-most aggressive member of the team, Leon was Mythic Team's Heavy Weapons Specialist.
 * Chief Warrant Officer Nicole-458 (Mythic Four): The only SPARTAN-II in Mythic Team, Nicole was an expert specialist in Close-Quarters Combat.
 * Kasumi (Mythic Five): Kunoichi of the Mugen Tenshin clan of an alternate universe, Kasumi quickly became Mythic's Covert Ops Specialist.
 * Lance Corporal Kojo "Romeo" Agu (Mythic Six): One of the newest additionst to the team, the cocky ex-ODST Romeo became Mythic's Designated Marksman.
 * Warrant Officer Jaden-G300 (Mythic Seven): The newest and youngest of Mythic Team, Jaden is the chief expert and specialist on engineering, programming, and alien languages.

History
The team which would eventually evolve into Mythic team began as a two-man Headhunter team, consisting of Spartans A019 Kai and A344 Rosenda. They participated and conducted dozens of covert missions involving assassinating Insurrectionist leaders, sabotaging Covenant supply routes and conducting advance reconnaissance for future attacks on enemy bases. However for a brief time Rosenda and Kai were assigned to SPARTAN Noble Team, and learned more squad-oriented tactics. The two headhunters found themselves draw towards fighting alongside other Spartan, and felt that the could accomplish more as a full team than just headhunters doing more or less 'pine pricks' against the Covenant war machine.

Thankfully their requests were answered when Lieutenant B-170 Leon was transferred out of Beta Company, ans assigned as the next member of the soon-to-be SPARTAN-III Fireteam codenamed; 'Mythic'. The Three-man team served in several operations against the Covenant, though their largest fight was during the Fall of Reach, where their team was assigned to aid in evacuating civilians and conducting a raid on a SDV-class Heavy Corvette bombarding the New Alexandria Spaceport. During this mission, Mythic Team briefly met up with fellow Spartan team Noble, and supported them in New Alexandria until Noble left to conduct the neutralization of Covenant jammers and the evacuation of ONI personnel, and to regroup with Noble Six.

Despite Mythic Team's best efforts, Reach fell to the Covenant, however the three Spartans were able to escape Reach along with over 900 civilians and 400 military personnel onboard the Paris-class Heavy Frigate UNSC Andraste, and retreated from the doomed planet.

Afterwards, the UNSC Andraste finally arrived at Earth, where Mythic Team was honored for their actions on Reach and for saving so many lives, though their mission was far from over, as they were assigned their fourth member - Nicole-458 - to conduct a mission utilizing the Orbital Defense Platform Nassau Station. However before the mission could be carried out, the UNSC Apocalypso - a Prowler - tumbled into real-space, being carried along in the wake of a freak Slipspace anomaly due to the activation of a mysterious Forerunner artifact, the anomaly intersected Nassau Station and the docked UNSC Andraste; creating a semi-stable "bubble" in the space/time continuum on its way back to the 21st Century.

Mythic Team is trapped in the 21st century, where they are forced to guard Nassau Station's secrets with anything but lethal force, since they realize killing someone in the past could have dire consequences in the future, and await for the "bubble" to collapse and hopefully returning them to the year 2552.

However, after conducting a reconnaissance mission on Earth's surface, and by compairing the information of the 21st century with what the know, they deduce that this is not the same earth from the 21st century that they know, due to the presence of the organization known as the Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee (DOATEC), and the Mugen Tenshin Ninja Clan, quickly discovering they are indeed in an alternate version of Earth. During their visit, Mythic encounters the Nukenin Kasumi, formerly of the Mugen Tenshin clan. After helping her escape from pursuing Mugen Tenshin hunters, she asks the UNSC to help stop DOATEC before they and the Mugen Tenshin clan harm her friends.

Seeing that they no longer have to worry about altering the future of their own timeline, Mythic Team deploys to Earth where they confront DOATEC leader Helena Douglas. However after Helena attempts to kill her, Mythic intervene, but at the same time Ryu Hayabusa arrives, and mistakes the Mythic Spartans for DOATEC soldiers, leading to a four vs one battle, where Ryu and Mythic find themselves surprisingly evenly matched. However, Helena escapes, and after Kasumi explains to Ryu the situation, they head out to confront and destroy the Clone of Kasumi - Alpha-152 - and believe to have destroyed it. During all of the confusion of the battle at DOATEC, Kasumi - wounded from her fight with Alpha-152 - is taken back to Nassau Station for immediate medical care. However shortly after arriving, the Slipspace bubble anomaly collapses, as Nassau station, the Andraste, and Mythic are sent back to the 26th Century, along with Kasumi.

When Nassau Station returned to the 26th century of their universe, they discovered the human-covenant war was finally over, with the majority of the Covenant leadership KIA, and the new Swords of Sangheilios forming the Separatists faction of Sangheili lead by Arbiter Thel 'Vadum. However while the war was officially over, Mythic found itself involved in a series of missions regarding the newly revived Insurrection as well as Covenant Loyalists. Kasumi, knowing she was trapped in their universe for the foreseeable future, volunteers to help Mythic Team in fighting these new enemies. ONI - after hearing of Kasumi's abilities of Ninjutsu - accepted her offer, the idea of having a super-assassin ninja with 'magical' abilities being to much for ONI to refuse access to.

Mythic team continued functioning with Kasumi as an unofficial member for four years, as they conducted multiple missions across the galaxy, the Mugen Tenshin Kunoichi becoming more and more fascinated by the wonders of space, however her opinion on the Insurrection and the Covenant continued to dwindle as she saw first-hand what the aliens were capable of doing, but she did in time develop a soft-spot for the pacifist Huragok, and to a lesser extent the weak Unggoy. In order to allow her to keep up with the SPARTAN's of Mythic, she was augmented to SPARTAN-IV standards, and she was given the first prototype of RDK's variant of powered assault armor, designd after combat footage taken from Ryu Hayabusa by Mythic during their time in the alternate universe, named HAYABUSA Powered Assault Armor.

In 2556, Mythic aquired its next two members - SPARTAN-IV Kojo "Romeo" Agu and SPARTAN-III Jaden-G300. The two Spartans joined the team for Operation: FIRESTORM, the UNSC offensive on the Covenant Loyalist stronghold. During this mission, Romeo proved himself to be an expert marksman to Mythic, as Jaden proved to be an experienced technician, engineer, programmer and linguistics expert while dealing with Covenant loyalists, managing to jury-rig a Phantom's controls to operate a squadron of Banshee's using the onboard computer during their escape from behind enemy lines, however also proving he is incapable of speaking with women without stuttering whenever Kasumi talked to him.