Chapter Five - Meet The Princesses

Perspective: Miles

I'm running down the corridor of the ship as gun and plasma fire roar behind me, at the end of the corridor I see a figure standing in the door way to the bridge. As I start to run, I make out the figure looks like me, but it isn't. Its eyes are glowing red and black and white energy is seeping from its arms and legs. It sees me and smiles evilly, I raise my pistol and try to take aim, but it snaps it fingers and my gun disappears. I try to charge at it, but it snaps its fingers again and transports me to a full black room. The room doesn't have a single feature, it's just pure black.

*flash*

I turn around to see the false me standing there, its eyes staring at me with a hunger and more energy begins to seep from it.

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!" I yell as I try to charge at it. It chuckles before shooting a beam of pure white energy towards me. The energy slams into me and sends me flying back towards the wall of the room. I wince in pain and look up to see that it's walking towards me, a blade of black energy in its arms. It reaches me and kneels down beside me and points the blade towards me.

"LET ME GO!" I yell as it chuckles again while standing up. It frowns and it kicks me in the face, knocking me down. The room suddenly goes white and on one of the walls a image begins to form. I see a picture of the Admiral, his eyes are a full black and blood is dripping from them. He stares at me, looking into the soul of who I am.

"Why did you leave?" he asks

"I couldn't control it, it wasn't my fault.."

"We fell to the Covenant, everyone is dead."

"No, that can't be..."

"Why did you leave?!" he yells

"I didn't want to, I'm sorry."

"WHY DID YOU LEAVE?!" he screams louder. I try to run away, but more Admirals begin to form and look at me.

"WHY DID YOU LEAVE?! They scream as the circle around me, I hold my ears, praying for them to stop.

"Miles..." I hear Twilight's voice

"Miles."

"MILES!"

I shoot upward with a scream, hitting Twilight in the face and knocking her on the floor.

"Twilight! Are you alright?" I ask as I grab her ha- I mean hoof.

"I'm fine, I was trying to wake you up, you were having a nightmare, are you alright?" She asks as she looks up to me.

"I'm fine, it was just a dream." I say as I quickly walk out of the room.

"You're sure, you can always talk about it..."

"Positive. I'm fine."

"Well, I made breakfast, Spike's already up and I want you to meet him." She says as we walk towards the kitchen. Spike is sitting in at the table, eating some gems while reading.. wait WHAT?!

"WHY ARE YOU EATING GEMS?!"

"AHH!" He shouts as he looks up at me, I can see the fear in his eyes, man I really shouldn't have done that.

"Twilight?! What is that thing!" he says as he backs away from me

"Spike, this is our new house guest, his name is Miles."

"Hi, nice to meet you. Now, more importantly, WHY ARE YOU EATING GEMS?!"

"Miles! He's a dragon, dragons eat gems."

Wat. Brain.exe has stopped working, please reboot.

"Do you have any idea the value of what you are eating?!"

"They're just gems that Rarity and I got on our gem hunt, there nothing special really." He says as he takes a bite out of a huge sapphire. I want to do something, but I can't. I turn to the wall and bang my head against it. This place is only going to get more weird isn't it? *sigh* of well, I can't really do much about it anyway.

"Miles, the pancakes are done." Twilight says as she places a plate of pancakes at my seat. Pancakes. Hunger.exe is eating 75% of CPU, would you like to stop it? No, go away. I sit down with a audible thud and dig into my food. These are the best pancakes I have ever tasted in my entire life, I quickly devour all of my food in around thirty seconds. Twilight and Spike are looking at me in awe and I chuckle.

"What? I was hungry and those were the best pancakes I've ever had in my entire life." I say, getting Twilight to blush.

"They're not that great."

"They beat the military rations that I lived off of."

"What was in the rations?" Spike asks

"Dried fruits, vegetables, anything that really kept us going. Though meat was a rarity to have."

"YOU EAT MEAT?!" They both yell in unison before backing away from me.

"Not always, it was a very rare thing, I've only had it a few times in my life."

"You're not going to eat us are you?" Spike asks nervously.

"Of course not, for one it's rude to eat your hosts and secondly it's considered taboo to eat reptile or equine in human society, but some cultures still do it." I say, getting them to sigh in relief. I look at the clock, it reads nine hundred hours, perfect. I walk back into the living room and retrieve my helmet. I put it back onto my head, getting the air lock to seal. My hud appears and shows that I have thirty seven rounds of pistol ammo and one hundred and sixty rounds of assault rifle ammo, this will do just nicely. I turn and begin to walk for the door, but Twilight stops me.

"Miles, where are you going?"

"I have to get back to my supply crate, I need to bring it back here so that ammo doesn't fall into the wrong hands, or in this case hoofs." I say as I begin moving for the door.

"But Miles, the Princesses are going to be here soon, they need to meet you."

"Well come get me when they get here." I say with a chuckle and open the door.

"Ah, Twilight nice to see you, we came here about the....woah."

Standing in the doorway are two alicorns, one stands about a foot under me and has a white coat. Her hair is divided into four different colors, pink, blue, purple, and green. It also flows with a some type of energy, but there's no wind around. That is sick as fuck. She stares up at me in awe, not sure of what to say. The other alicorn is slightly smaller than the white one, her hair flows with the same energy, but her hair is a single midnight blue. It also has what looks to be twinkling stars moving in her hair, that is really pretty looking. There are also two ponies clad in what looks to be gold plated armor. One of them is a Pegasus and the other is a Unicorn. But they both share the same white coat and eyes for whatever reason. Luna looks at me with the same look as her sister. The guards stare at me briefly in awe, but quickly turn their stares back to the blank stare they wore before. Twilight sees this and she moves to greet them.

"Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, this is the human that I crashed in the Everfree, His name is Miles, Miles say hi."

"Commander Ferrum Miles, Leader of the Spartans of Harvest." I say as I extend a hand.

"I am Princess Celestia, co ruler of Equestria and this is my sister, Princess Luna." She says as she shakes my hand with her hoof. How she grabbed my hand and shook it, I will never know.

"Hi..." she says nervously, avoiding eye contact with me. For a ruler, she's pretty shy. That is actually really cute for some reason. We walk into the living room, and take a seat at various places. I take my seat down on my cot while the others sit on the couch. The guards move and stand on both sides of the princesses.

"Commander, we need to ask you a few questions before we can determine if you are a threat or not." Celestia says

"Please, call me Miles, and I can answer some of your questions. If they are classified, then I can not tell you. I am bound by law not to give away UNSC secrets to anyone whatsoever for any reason." I say

"Ok, first off. What is the likely hood that your people will come and look for you?"

"Not likely at all, if they were still alive, they wouldn't come looking for a soldier that went MIA twenty thousand years ago." I say sadly. Luna's ears perk up and she looks at me with a sympathetic expression, like she's experienced the same pain I have. I also realize that I still have my helmet on.

"Oh, where are my manners, let me remove my helmet." I say as I remove the helmet. I take a look at them and this causes their expressions of awe to return. I chuckle and lean back.

"Miles, why are your eyes glowing green?" Luna asks as she stares into my eyes.

"Pretty cool huh? It's a rare condition that I was born with, a few elements are reacting with each other, giving my eyes their glowing green color. It serves as a advantage for me because for one, it helps me see better in the dark and two it looks really cool." I explain

"I want my eyes to do that...." Celestia says

"And I want hair like yours, you and Luna's hair are just absolutely amazing, I need hair like that." I say with a chuckle.

"Getting back on track, are there more of you that landed here?"

"Not that I know of, if there are, I need to find them. We could very well be the last of humanity left in existence."

"Why is that?" Luna asks

"Because we were at war with the Covenant. Their goal was to wipe humanity from the face of the universe, and they may have succeeded." I say with anger.

"I'm sorry to hear that.," Celestia says "Moving on to the third question, are you armed with any weapons as of now?"

"Yes, currently I am armed with my MA37 Assault Rifle, my Magnum, and my energy sword." This causes the guards to draw their swords, they really don't like the fact that their leaders are in the room with an alien that could be hostile, can't say I blame them.

"Relax, I have no intention of causing harm to anyone, I have no reason to." The guards re sheave their swords, but they still stand in a ready stance.

"Well then, do you mind turning in your weapons for examination?" Celestia asks

"I'm sorry, but these are property of the UNSC armed forces, any non UNSC personnel are forbidden to inspect these weapons."

"Did you just deny the Princess you disrespecting foal?" One of the guards says with anger, drawing his sword.

"Guard! Miles is a guest in our country, he is not a citizen of our country and therefore does not have to turn in his weapons to us. I wouldn't even force him to even if he was a citizen, it's his property, not ours." Celestia scolds

"Sorry Princess." The guard lowers his head and bows

"It's quite alright, just don't let it happen again."

Wow she is really nice, being this kind to a foreigner, to an alien for that matter.

"Is there anything else that needs to be gone ever?" I ask

"No, I believe that's all."

They sit there awkwardly, I know they want to ask me more questions. Probably about Harvest and humanity itself. Might as well get this over with.

"*sigh* Fine. Go ahead, you can ask more."

"Where are humans native from?" Celestia asks

"Well we come from Earth, but we expanded out to the galaxy and colonized planets."

"But this is Earth, and there are no humans here." Luna says

"Humanity may have been wiped out by the Covenant, but I'm not completely sure that this is the same Earth that home to humans." I say sadly

"I'm sorry for bringing that up." Celestia says, with her head lowered

"It's fine, you don't need to feel bad about my problems, you didn't cause them." I smile at her and she smiles back.

"Can you give us some history about humanity? Like what lead to human colonization?" Twilight asks as she holds a notebook and a quill with her magic. When did she get those? Deciding to ignore it, I start to explain the history of mankind. I tell them about how humans came out of continent of Africa, how we spread all across the world and made mighty civilizations that rose and fell. I talk about the various different diseases and plagues that nearly wiped out humanity, and how we over came them and built in the rubble of the nations that fell to them. I also tell them about the first and second world wars, seeing as these are a major turning point in human history and caused our technology to boom for over 600 years, continuing on. They stare at me in disbelief as I get into the nuclear age.

"You mean humans made a bomb that could destroy an entire city?!"

"Yep, sure that may sound bad, but it ended the second world war and gave humanity its first steps in providing to energy to everyone in the world."

We eventually get to space exploration, which really perks Luna's interests. I tell them about the first man who stepped on the moon and how we lunched missions to all of the different planets. I also get into the invention of slip space travel and how humanity had to search for a new planet to provide supplies. Which leads to the colonization and our finding of the Covenant. Because I gave them a brief overview of everything, we've only been sitting here for about an hour. I stand up in stretch, and move to get a drink. I come back to see that they are all chatting away. I walk back into the living room and see that they are staring out the window.

KRA-BOOM!

A fire ball strikes the middle of the street outside, causing the nearby ponies to scatter. I look for the source of the explosion to see that there is a massive dragon flying overhead, looking really hungry for blood.

"Oh you have got to be kidding me."

I run towards the door and reach for my assault rifle. I open the door to face the dragon, seeing that it's about to fire at one of the houses.

"HEY, DIP SHIT!" I yell, causing the dragon to turn and look at me.

"Hmm, what are you?" It says in a deep voice, looking down at me.

"I am Commander Ferrum Miles, and you are attacking innocent civilians." I say as I draw my sword.

"Is that so? Well, I'd like to see what you can do, little hairless ape in armor."

"Bring it bitch." I say as I charge at the dragon.

Author's Note

Hey guys, sorry for the poorly writing chapter, I'm having writer's block right now and it was so painful to write. I also put a lot more dialogue then I normally like, but next chapter won't be like this, I promise. I'm also really running with the flow with this story, I don't really have a plan. If you have any ideas or suggestions, please private message me. I really need some help with this. Anywho, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, even though it wasn't the best. I'll see you next chapter!