The impact kills another four spartans and leaves others seriously injured. The narrative then follows Red Team as they ride a Pelican down to the surface, but are forced to make a supersonic hard landing to the ground after the pilot gets hit by plasma fire from a Seraph-class starfighter. Fred-104 is made leader of Red Team and ordered to take the other Spartan II's, Kelly, Josh and Will down to Reach's surface to defend the MAC Gun Generator's powering the Super MAC's above. Captain Keyes is giving Master Chief the mission to secure the NAV Data from the UNSC Circumference.
The Prologue begins during Chapter 38 of Halo: The Fall of Reach.