Spartan of Equestria

Chapter One - The Fight

Perspective: Commander Ferrum Miles

I run down the hallway with a squad of marines as the sound of gun fire and plasma fire roars behind us, we're making our way to the bridge to defend the Admiral, he needs to escape if we are going to win this war. I see a squad of Covenant at the front of the door. Two elites, five grunts, and four jackals are trying to break down the door. One of the elites is clad in golden commander armor, while the other is in red armor. They both stand over two and a half meters in height and are well built. The grunts are all in their standard orange armor, but one is in green armor, meaning that the grunt is a cannon folder. I raise my MA37 Assault Rifle and take aim, firing seven rounds at the squad, killing three grunts and the red elite. The remainder of the squad begins to open fire at us, one of the marines behind me throws a bubble shield down, saving us from the spray of plasma rounds. The cannon folder grunt is placing down his turret, I have to move quickly or this grunt is going to tear us to bits, and I refuse to be killed by a grunt. I take aim again and fire the rest of my clip at them, which kills all but the commander elite. He draws his energy sword and begins to charge at us. When he reaches the first marine he cuts off the marine's arm, he screams in pain as his arm sprays out blood all across the hallway of the ship. I quickly tackle the elite to the ground and grab his arm. He tries to fight but I hold him down, I pull with all of my might and rip the elite's arm out of its socket, the elite screams and pain and rolls around on the ground. I kick it in the face, sending blood and teeth all over the ground. I kick the elite in the crotch, eliciting another scream of pain. I draw my knife and get in front of his face. Then I ram the knife into the elite's neck. His legs kick upwards and his body twitches and spasms and he gurgles and coughs up blood. The alien's blue blood sprays onto my hand and the floor. I watch the life fade from the elite's eyes, sending the bastard's soul to the void. I look to see the marine lying down against the wall, holding his arm with tears in his eyes. He's moving around in pain and his comrades are trying to do anything to help the poor soul. I walk over to him and get down next to him.

"Don't worry I can patch you up." I say as a reach for my medical bag

"No, There's *cough* not enough time, *cough* you have to get to the Admiral, win this war and tell my family I love them." He says as he bleeds out

I'm angry beyond believe, these Covenant bastards have killed to many good men and women. Every since this war began, our colonies began to fall, one by one. Billions of lives have been lost because of these god damn aliens and I refuse to give up until every single god damn one of them is dead. I stand up and look down at the marine.

"Requiesce in pace, miles." I say as I salute him

"Come on people, we need to get to the admiral and make sure that he gets off this ship safely." I say as I walk towards the door and open it with my ID card.

We walk into the bridge and we can see Harvest, Covenant and UNSC ships are dog fighting while Covenant Battle Cruisers and UNSC Frigates are firing at one another relentlessly, I see Covenant boarding ships heading for the other frigates, and seven boarding ships right towards us. From the looks of the fight, we have the advantage but I know this is only the first wave, there will be more.

"Everyone get ready, we have Covenant boarding parties coming our way, set up the defenses while I get the Admiral to his escape pod!"

"Yes Sir!" They respond as I run to the Control Room

I reach the door and unlock it, heading right inside. I look to see the Admiral standing there looking out at the fighting, he's an older man, most likely in his fifties standing around five foot seven or eight, somewhere around there. His age is shown by the wrinkles of his skin and his very grey, almost white hair. He's in his Uniform, a white with gold commanding officer uniform. He is decorated with different medals, showing his military accomplishment.

"Admiral Hood." I say as I salute him

"Good to see you Commander Miles, but I wish it were under better circumstances."

"Likewise sir, Covenant forces are on their way to the ship, I'm here to escort you to your escape pod."

"Tell me Commander, What makes you fight, what keeps you going?" He asks suddenly as he turns to me, staring into my eyes

"Sir? What do you mean by that?"

"What keeps you going during this war? So many have been lost, what keeps you going?" he says as he walks towards me

I take a moment to think about what he just said. This war has always been a very touching thing to me, and it means almost everything to ensure humanity's survival. The Covenant have posed a threat to all of humanity since 2525, it's been about six years since they attacked Harvest, and Harvest is on its knees

"I refuse to let these bastards gain anymore ground than they already have, they want to wipe out the human race and its my job to defend our people, we are Spartans, we fight for the good of all humanity."

He pauses for a moment and looks up at me, I can see he is trying to look into my eyes but I have my helmet on, but I can still feel as if he is looking into my soul. He smiles and walks to the door to the life boats.

"Well what are we waiting for? Let's get going already." He says as he opens the door

"Sorry sir, but I can't leave just yet. I still have a job to do here and that job is to defend this ship and make sure you get out of here alive, go on without us, we'll be fine." I take off my helmet and smile at him, he returns the smile.

"Get off this ship alive you hear? You're to good of a Commander for us to lose." He says

"Will do sir." I say as he walks to the life pod. He hits the control panel and tries to open the door.

"ACCESS DENIED" says a robotic voice

"What the hell?" I say as I walk up to the control panel, I pull out my military ID card and swipe it

"ACCESS DENIED" it says again

"Maybe it needs to be reset?" I ask as I walk around it.

"I'll work on getting this thing reset, we don't have a long time before-

KRA BOOM

"Commander, Covenant boarding parties entering the bridge, we could use some help down here!" yells one of the marines from the door way.

"Admiral, get that life pod working, we'll hold them off!" I yell

"Will do, stay alive out there!" He yells back

I run back into the bridge to see the fighting before me. Four boarding ships have attached to the glass and are pouring out Covenant forces. I also see that more marines have came to aid us in the fight.

The bridge is roaring with gunfire and plasma fire. The marines have set up two turrets on the corners of the platform leading to the control room. We are mowing them down but they just keep coming, they are slowly inching closer towards us, so I raise my Assault rifle and take aim at the nearest group of Covenant forces. The squad consists of two elites, both of which are wearing standard red armor, and five grunts which are in armor ranging from red to orange. I fire ten rounds at the group, killing three grunts and an elite. They take aim at me and begin to unleash a hail of rounds at me, I feel the heat of several plasma rounds hit my shield, so I dodge to the left and get behind cover. They have me pinned pretty good right now, so I pull out a frag grenade and throw it into the direction of the group. The grenade lands right under the elite and they try to run.

BOOM

That grenade kills the rest of the squad as well as some more that got to close to the grenade. I get up and run towards a group of marines that are manning the turret, I roll to cover beside them and turn to look at the marine sergeant.

"How are you all holding up?" I yell in the fray of gunfire and plasma fire to the marine.

"We're nearly out of ammo, the marine that was bringing our ammo was killed right by the front of the bridge, we need to get that ammo or we're fucked." He yells back as he fires his weapon at an elite, killing it.

"I can get you your ammo Sergeant, hold this turret, we can't lose this advantage or we're fucked." I say firing a round into a jackal's head.

He nods to me, so I get up and begin to run where the marine's body is. A grunt plasma cannon is firing way to close to comfort towards me, but I ignore it and press towards the marine. The plasma cannon then runs out of ammo so I'm in the clear.

Or so I thought.

Three elites suddenly jump in front of me, one in blue armor, one in red, and one in gold commander armor. They all have their energy swords drawn, while the gold elite has two energy swords instead of one. They get into a fighting stance and start to swing their swords mockingly. I spray at them while running, dropping the shield of the red elite and gold elite while killing the blue. They begin to charge at me so I dodge to the right and towards the fallen elite. I pick up his energy sword and turn to the elites. They both begin to charge at me and I do the same. I decapitate the red elite and watch as the blue alien blood splatters across the floor.

"RAAR!!"

I look back to see the commander elite bringing down his swords at me. I quickly raise my sword and block them both. Now, we are fighting for dominance in the fight. He may have a height advantage but I am stronger than him and also out skill him. I then kick him in the leg, causing him to fall to the ground. He quickly swings his swords towards my face, just missing by a few centimeters. I try to stab him in the chest but he rolls and kicks my leg, causing me to stagger. He uses this time to get back up and try to stab me, but I block his attack. He charges at me again, swinging like a wild animal, just to have me block every one of his attacks. I decide that I have had enough of this. I chop of his arm and he screams in pain, dropping his sword to grab his decapitated arm. He stares at me in horror after the realization of what he just did, so I bring down my sword and decapitate him just like the other elite and meet similar results, blood pooling onto the floor.

I reach the fallen marine and grab the ammo, I also grab a few rounds for my assault rifle while I'm here and take off running back towards the marines mounting the turret. I see a squad of grunts ahead of me, so I grab my pistol and fire five shots at them, killing three and injuring two. I raise my energy sword and slice at the remainder of the grunts, killing all of them. After fifteen minutes of fighting various enemies, I finally make it back to the marines.

*click* *click*

Good, I made it back just in time, they ran out of ammo. "Hurry up and refill this turret, we can't afford to lose this position" I yell to the marines around us, "Keep these Covenant bastards from reaching the Admiral at all cost!" I equip my assault rifle and take aim at the Covenant before us, their numbers have nearly tripled in size since I left, and they are getting a little to close for comfort. I fire an entire clip at the Covenant forces, killing four elites, seventeen grunts, and five jackals. That cut their numbers down a decent bit, but I know it won't be enough because I see two my boarding parties heading directly for us.

We end up finishing all of the forces on the bridge before the two additional boarding parties arrive, so I take this time to replenish my ammo and to radio in on the Admiral to check his progress.

"Admiral, are you close to prepping that pod for launch yet?" I say over the com

"Miles, this will take me quiet a bit, can you hold them off for another twenty minutes?" He asks

"Not a problem, hurry, I don't know what's coming on those boarding parties, but I'm sure nothing good."

"Will do, Admiral out."

I turn to the surviving marines, our numbers have been cut in half because of these bastards. I see some marines dragging the bodies of the wounded or dead to safety. While others are replenishing their ammo, or reading for the next wave.

"Marines, we need to hold this bridge for just a little bit longer, so everyone get some ammo for these turrets as well as yourselves, this fight isn't over till the fat lady starts singing!" I yell to them

"OH - RAH!" They yell and response and begin to ready for the fight.

Those two boarding parties are less than five hundred meters away and are closing fast, I already know this fight is going to be hairy because of the size of these boarding ships, they're nearly twice the size of the other ones.

They finally latch onto the glass and break it down, causing the air to rush out and the glass to be replaced with the shield.

"Alright marines, here we go! Fight!" I yell

The first wave of Covenant forces jump out of the ship and are immediately mowed down by gunfire. The survivors quickly get behind cover and begin to fire at us. I quickly get behind cover to avoid a spray of a plasma rifle from a nearby elite. He continues to fire at my cover until his plasma rifle needs to cool down, I take this time to jump up from the cover and spray my assault rifle at him, ripping his body to shreds. Blue blood and flesh splattered Across the walls and floor. I look back to see that the boarding ship has dropped two hunters...

"..."

"..."

"..."

"SON OF A BITCH!"

BOOM

BOOM

Two of their plasma cannon rounds explode beside me, causing me to fly back around ten meters and hit the wall. Hard. I grunt and get up to face the two of them, They are both charging up their Plasma Cannons once again so I quickly dodge behind a large supply create.

BOOM

BOOM

The rounds explode, sending the create flying back a little, but keeping me behind cover. I decide that I'm going to flank these two, so I can get their weak spots. I begin to move towards them at a very high speed, they're looking around trying to see where my body is. While they are distracted, I toss a grenade over to them and dodge away from it. Perfect. I quickly make my way to the edge of the supply crate to see the two hunters charge for where I formally was. I run out from behind cover and spray them in their back weak spots, killing them. I look at my handiwork before turning back to the marines and watch them fight. They are doing well enough holding them back but they still are slowly working their way closer and closer.

"Commander, I got the pod working, get up here quickly so we can get out of here." The Admiral says through the com

"Negative Admiral, my orders were to get you out of here, and I'm not leaving these marines behind."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, completely. Go Admiral, we'll hold them off."

"Vale usque nos obvium iterum, meum amice." he says before shutting of the com

I turn back to the marines and begin make my way up to the marines, but am stopped by a marine yelling at me.

"COMMANDER WATCH OUT!" Yells the marine, I turn back to see two additional hunter finishing charging up their plasma cannons and firing.

BOOM

BOOM

A sharp pain erupts from my side and causes me to fall over and a bright, white light appears, blinding me for a moment. I feel my eyes become heavy, I need to sleep. I think my fight is finally over, I finally get to rest.

Author's Note

Hello everyone, this is my very first fanfiction, I was inspired to create this after reading Man of War, totally badass story by the way, you should read it and Halo because Halo was my childhood game. Anyway I used a mixture of Tallestbrony's and my writing style for this fanfiction. Note that I will not copy the content of Man of War, I'm only going to make the story completely on my own without any planning! I hate planed writing -.-, Any who, here's the first chapter.

If you want to read Man of War, here's the link:
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/14411/man-of-war

Tallestbrony if you see this, keep up the good work man, I absolutely love your story and I want more chapters.