Charlie 3by BronyKiller1ChaptersPrologueChapter 1: Stranded Chapter 2: First Contact?Chapter 3: Kidnapping PrologueThe sky was dark as Charlie 3 was being evacuated from Reach. The 6 soldiers were all staring out the cockpit watching the covenant cruiser fall. Hooahs erupted from the soldiers within the pelican. Every man present breathed a sigh of relief. "This is Pelican Alpha Two-Zero-Five requesting permission to land in bay five of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, over." Said the female pilot. "Permission granted... Hold on.... We are picking up signs of covenant slip space drives activating. Do not land, I repeat do not land." Said the voice over the comms. The soldiers then turned their gaze out of the left side window to see 300 Heavy Covenant cruisers. "Oh my god." Said Charlie 3's leader. Soon the comms were flooded with commanders demanding evacuations of their men, requesting fighter support, or reporting casualties. The cruisers mashed straight through the MAC guns orbiting the planet. 12 of the Covenant Cruisers went down to the atmosphere and began glassing the planets surface. The rest set up a blockade not allowing the escape of any UNSC vessels. "The Pillar of Autumn is making a break for it. I will try to get us to one of the landing bays before it escapes!" Yelled the male pilot. The pelican then rattled as a banshee shot at it. "Everyone into your seats I'm try and see if i can shake this bastard." Said the female pilot. All soldiers rushed to theirs seat clenching the bars that held them in place for dear life. Then a heavy plasma round hit the left engine of the pelican. "Brace for impact were on a crash course with the Pillar of Autumn!!!." Yelled the pilot from over the speakers. ~~~~ And then the heavy ship blasted a plasma round straight into the Soth Ship and... The book Rainbow Dash was reading was engulfed in a purple glow and yanked away. . "Hey!? What was that for!?" Rainbow Dash demanded to know Why she was being interrupted during he reading time. "I've been shouting for you for about 10 minutes." Said Twilight. "Oh sorry, I was reading this book. Its about how this alien race was invaded by this other alien race because their god willed it. I was at the best part of it before you interrupted me." Rainbow Dash said folding her hooves to show how irritated she was. "Rainbow I highly doubt aliens would be raging war with one another. If the are intelligent enough to take to the stars they probably abandoned war long ago. If anything there is a huge alien alliance not an alien war." Twilight explained. "How do you know? Its not like you are some weird space traveler... Are you?" Asked Rainbow. "No I'm not a space traveler. And, well look through out histo-" Her sentence was cut short by the sounds of explosions. ~~4 minutes earlier~~ "WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!?" Shouted the male pilot. The pelican tried to reach Pillar of Autumn before it went into slip space drive. They got 'sucked' in with its space slip drive and now found themselves under attack by two Banshees and descending to a possibly hostile planet. "Damn I can't shake off these banshees. We might be able to lose them in the atmosphere of the planet... The stats show that the left engine is operational. Lets see what these Covenant bitches are made of." The female pilot then turned off the engines causing the two banshees to speed ahead of the Pelican. When pelicans are built for breaking atmospheres and fighting at the same time there is a distinct and unfair advantage for them against any other ship. "Target locked. Firing now." A massive wall of 40mm APHE rounds hit one of the Banshees causing its engine to catch fire as it spirals down to the surface of the planet. "Where is the other? I can't see it and the sensor isn't picking up any movement." Said the male pilot. "I'm not sure it might be above y-" Then the last Banshee went on a high-speed dive straight into the pelican. ~~~ "Sister! Sister! Come quick!" Luna called Celestia over to the balcony that over looks the valley bellow the mountain. There were what appeared to be three asteroids falling to Eqius. "Luna is this your doing!?" Celestia asked. "No sister." Luna said in a slightly angrier toned voice "They are some kind of metal asteroids . But I can't control them with my magic. I am as baffled by this as you are sis." Luna said in her defense. "They seem to be cashing near the Ponyville lake." Stated Celestia. 'I can see whats happening too. You don't need to point out the obvious' Luna thought. "Guard!" Celestia shouted. "Yes your highness?" Asked the guard with a salute of his hoof. "Send word to Captain Shinning Armor... And tell him to lead a squad of soldiers to investigate the objects that have crashed near the Ponyville Lake." "Yes your Majesty." With that the guard excited the room. ~~~ Sergeant Major Thomas Kryncki was the first to wake. The bodies of his fireteam were either strapped in their seat on the floor of the Pelican dead. He then unhooked himself from the seat but as he did he heard a cough. Thomas turned each way until he found Sergeant Kate Amsel lying on the ground coughing up blood. "Kate!" He rushed to her side. 'Her rifle must have misfired and shot her in the chest. That high power rifle round easily would break straight through any A-11 power shield and chest plate.' Thomas thought to himself. "Thomas? Is that you? Man you look like shit" Kate then slipped into unconsciousness "Hang in there Kate." He then grabbed a canister of bio foam and shoved the tube into her just plate to cover her bullet wound. "Kate hang in there you're gonna be fine... I-I promise..." Author's Note Ok that was a slow chapter. I promise the second one will be full of tension and action! *Cough* maybe *Cough*... Note from Editor: Replaced A-205 with proper military call-sign of 'Alpha Two-Zero-Five", Fixed grammar mistakes, Fixed misspellings, and replaced improper military terms. Replaced 7.62x51mm rounds with 40mm APHE since Pelicans were usually armed with 40mm Rotary Cannons before 2525. Changed "Clestia" to "Celestia". Made toast and coffee and stayed up all night. -Major Rainbow Dash Chapter 1: Stranded Chapter 1: Stranded (A/N Thanks to Major Rainbow Dash editor of grammar and revising work and to RyanPAPP makes sure I get my Halo shit down right. You guys have been and are going to be a real help. Also many people have said the UNSC doesn't have an Army i can assure you they do... Look up http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_Army for more information... Well enough with that. Hope you enjoy. ) Many of the books in the library were scattered around the room. Twilight proceeded to the door... It seemed she wasn't the only pony in town who was curious. Everypony was outside looking to the east as the smoke was rising. Spike said no words as he ran to the table to get a quill and a piece of parchment. "As for you," She said turning her attention to Rainbow Dash. " I want you to get Fluttershy and Applejack; I'll get Rarity and Pinkie Pie... Meet me back at the library okay?" "Okay I'll be back in no time!" Rainbow Dash then dashed(Eyup, we just did it.) out of the library. Twilight then exited the library and began her trot to Carousel Boutique. ~~~~ Thomas finished dragging out the last body in the ship other than the pilots. He was saving those for last. It was hard enough to fetch them in tighter corners but there was a massive branch that had broken through the windshield of the pelican and impaled itself into one of the pilots. "Oh god this is just fucked up... Okay I have to do this, she's blocking the Long Range Communications." Thomas began to yank out the branch that had jabbed itself into the pilot. ~~~~ "Ya sure 'bout this Twi? I mean shouldn't we just stay 'er till the princess send some Royal guards?" Applejack was unsure about investigating a crash of something they had no information and to top that neither Celestia or Luna said it was okay to do so. "Applejack I sent a letter to the princess nearly 30 minutes ago. If she didn't want us to do this she would have sent a message back." Applejack mulled the words over and over in her head. The rest of the galls already signed of on it, but... shucks I'm just being paranoid. " Alright lets do this." The rest of the girls other than Fluttershy let out some kind of hurrah. The Elements then began to make their 20 minute journey to the lake. ~~~~ Thomas sat there in a puddle of blood, covered in blood, and frustrated as he was flipping through the 17 emergency frequencies sending out his distress signal. "This is SGM Krynicki, requesting emergency evac from Pelican Alpha Two-Zero-Five. Coordinates are unknown. We have 6 dead 1 wounded and 1 capable. Requesting immediate evac, over" Nothing but white noise that came from the radio filled the cockpit of the pelican. "Dammit! That was the last fucking frequency." He then began to punch the dashboard of the pelican. Giving a long sigh after his little out break he went to the second most important thing on his list to do. "Okay I have to set up a perimeter around the pelic-" "Sergeant Major....is that you?" Kate was now awake sounding like a man who has went without water for 3 days. Thomas ran to her side. "Thomas? Where is the lieutenant? Wheres Jacobs? Where are we?" She asked coughing up little droplets of blood. She was so pale from the loss of blood. To put it simple she looked 'like an angel who fell from heaven and hit the pavement pretty fucking hard.' "Dead, Kate... All dead." Thomas said with a firm and slightly eerie voice. "Dead... Where are we?" "I'm not sure." "So we're lost?" "I'm never lost just temporarily disoriented." Kate chuckled, only slightly at his joke. ~~~~ "Captain ETA to Ponyville is 7 minutes, sir." Said a guard in golden armor. "Good. Lets see what has the Princesses all riled up." Said Shining Armor turning back around to enjoy the scenery of the valley below Canterlot. ~~~~ Thomas stood an a hill over looking the lake. Covered from head to toe in standard UNSC Army Battle Uniform holding his MA37 Individual Combat Weapon. Something caught his eye as he then picked up the binocular that were resting in his pack. Adjusting the view length on his binoculars the figure came int perfect... View? "What the hell...?" Thomas stood in total disbelief at what his eyes laid on. A group of horses... No not just a group but 2 unicorns, 2 pegasi, and 2 earthponies. They were multiply colors. From purple to blue, from orange to white. "Kate... I have a questions for you." "Yah Tom?" She said standing up thanks to about 20 pain killers. "Are you sure those painkillers I took weren't LSD?" "Yah I'm positive... Why?" She was no standing to his left looking up at his face. She compared it to the look he father got when he saw something horrific. "Oh I was just wondering... Hey one more question. Can you see this too?" He then passed the binoculars to her and pointed to a small patch of forest. Kate was staring in shock... No just not shock but confusion, shock, and fear all mixed into one. The ponies were now approaching at a decent jog (trot) and the small party was no more than 3 kicks away... "Kate... Start heading for those trees on my 3 o' clock. I'm gonna grab as much stuff as possible." Kate stood there frozen for a few moment still in utter disbelief at what she saw. Thomas looked ate her and yelled. "RUN!!" It was easily heard by the ponies approaching. ~~~~ "What was that!?" Asked Rarity. There was a loud sound in some... Strange language that could be easily heard from Ponyville. "I'm not sure... But it kinda sounded like somepony was hurt. We should get the, FAST!" The girls started sprinting to the lake, other than Rainbow who was dragging along Fluttershy. Author's Note Hey i got the tension down right... But in the next chapter i plan on some deaths to happen... Editor Note: Did a quick edit job, fixed some grammar mistakes and incorrect terminologies. -Major Rainbow Dash Chapter 2: First Contact?Kate laid under the brush within a dark thick forest. "Come on... Hurry up they are almost to the pelican!!!" She said through the comms set in her helmet. "I know... But I have to get all the medical supplies if we're gonna dig that bullet out of you." Thomas said with a load of medical supplies in his arms. "This will just take a few more moments." ~~~~ Twilight and her friends were nearing the pelican but stopped dead in their tracks when they found a row of bodies... No not just bodies...alien bodies.. "What are those." asked Dash as she and Fluttershy just caught up to the group. "Oh those poor things, who could have done this?" Asked Fluttershy approaching the bodies. "I'm not sure. But I think I'm looking at it." All eyes were turned to a creature leaving the metal asteroid carrying two very large bags. ~~~~ Thomas stopped dead. Baring to his right wear the horses. Damn these fucks can run... Why are they looking at me like that? Oh right, I'm an alien to them.... The horses then proceeded to step closer whispering amongst themselves. Thomas then set down the 2 bags and pulled out his M6G Personal Defense Weapon System. "Freeze in the name of the Unified Earth Government." Thomas said now pointing his gun at the horses. The horse all stopped and looked at themselves. They then continued. "I said freeze!" Thomas then shot at their feet (hooves?) for his warning shot. They froze as the dirt flung up into the hair. Out of no where an armored unicorn levitating a spear charged Thomas. "BANG, BANG, BANG!" ~~~~ Twilight was on the verge of tears as she saw Corporal Feathered Heart fall to the ground... Bleeding... And not moving. "TWILIGHT!!!" Twilight turned to see Shinning running up to her with a group of Royal guard units. "Shining!!!" Twilight ran to embrace him. Shinning then gave the hoof movements to tell his men to surround the alien. "Shining be careful... You don't know what its capable of... He killed Feathered Heart." Twilight's face was now grim.. ~~~~ "GET OUT OF THERE!!! You can take them all down. Hell it took you three shoots to take that one horse down." Kate was now reading her side arm. "Kate calm your fucking shit! I am the superior, so calm down. That's an order..." Thomas responded from over the comms. ~~~~ Thomas began to drag the medical bags with his left hand and his pistol in his right. Pegasus guards started to fly over. Clever devils, surrounding me. Let the game begin., Thomas then flipped the bags over his shoulder and began running. Soon the pegasi started to fly after him. I wonder whats it like to get shot in a wing? He then flung around and let off 3 shots. Two pegasi soon fell to the ground blood squirting from their wings. Hmm 3 shots 2 hits... Damn I'm getting rusty with this thing... Thomas ran into he tree line of the forest and began running to Kate's position. "Kate take this!" Thomas tossed her one of the bags. "C'mon lets go!" The two began running deeper into the forest. Dodging trees, jumping over roots, and ducking under vines. "Keep running Kate, Don't look back!" ~~~~ "Get those two Pegasi to the hospital, YOU!" Shining pointed his hoof to a unicorn. "Send a message to the princesses requesting more troops. The rest of you set up a perimeter!" "Shining what was that thing? What is all this?" "I'm not sure Twilight... Whatever it is it isn't friendly and we are gonna stop it... You are free to explore the asteroid under my supervision" Twilight was reading to say something but was cut short by Shinning. "No buts Twilight. I can't have you getting hurt... Now U would like you to return home until we have a secure perimeter set up." "Ok Shine... I'll see you tomorrow." Twilight waved her friends over to follow in suite. ~~ 4 minutes later~~ "*pant* Kate I think were in the *pant* clear..." Thomas said as the two reached a clearing. "Okay good *pant* I need more painkillers *pant* really bad." Kate set the bag down and sat down in the shade. Thomas joined her... "Okay lets set up camp here... Cause I'm tired as fuck." Thomas then opened one of the bags and pulled out two brown packages. They read MRE on the front. "Which one do you want? Chili and Macaroni or Chicken Pesto Pasta?" "I fucking hate chili." She responded in a way that elected a chuckle from Thomas . After eating and minutes of talking they moved on too long term plans. "Thomas what do you do when you want to make diplomatic relations with an alien race?" Asked Kate. "Uhm I don't know, what?" Thomas set down a bottle of water he was drinking from. "You kindly raise the white flag and ask for an audience with their leaders... Then what do they do?" "I don't know." Thomas replied slightly irritated. "They try to arrest you. Then what do you do?" Kate then pointed to Thomas with her index finger. "I'd say fuck that alien and I'd kill them." Thomas replied in a comical voice. "Yes you could do that. But then you'd be a murderer... See you first need a bargaining chip... Like a hostage... Someone to level the playing field... To force their hand... Thomas we need a prisoner." Thomas only smiled in response. "I think I know who." Thomas remembering that one purple unicorn who seemed to be in relations with the soldiers commander. Author's Note Some may ask how she knows Feathered Heart... Well in this fanfic that was a good friend of hers while she was in Canterlot. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED! :) Editor Notes: Finally got back, had to do something. Made grammar corrections. Don't say people needs a better editor if they haven't edited yet, jeez. -Major Rainbow Dash Chapter 3: Kidnapping Chapter 3: Kidnapping (A/N I finally of off my lazy arse and posted something!!!!!) Kate laid there heavily sedated while Thomas was cutting open the area right under her left breast. Once the cut was made Thomas then began to pull out the shrapnel that had been lodged into her, most of the shrapnel didnt make it that far... God its gonna be a pain to get the ones that landed close to her lung. After several minutes of digging through flesh Thomas finally got out all the shrapnel. He then began to sew the cut. "Oh god....I need some hand antiseptic." Thomas was dumping water on his hands to wipe the blood away. What he didn't realize is that the blood attracted some very hungry predators. "What in bloody hell is that disgusting smell... its like a cat rotting in the center of a bog." The smell was getting stronger with every passing second. "This thing must be wrong... The scanners show movement but there's nothing around here. Wait a minute!" Thomas grabbed the UNA standard M6J Carbine. They were disgusting, just animated walking piles of rotting wood. They seemed more curious than aggressive but it was no excuse for Thomas... He had an incapacitated teammate that they wanted, and he was the only thing that stood between them and her. Thomas raised his rifle and began to fire in 3 round burst. "BANG BANG BANG... BANG BANG BANG... BANG BANG BANG." Something unexpected happened. The rest of the wooden wolves fled while the three that were hit exploded. "That was... Easy enough." Thomas turned to face Kate then back to... Where? The piles of wood were? What the fuck!? They were just right there. Thomas then turned to his left to see the wolves fleeing. "Clever bastards." ~~2 days later~~ "Okay Kate from my observations the purple one goes to the pelican everyday... I think it is some sort of scientist." The two made a decent camp under the over grown roots of an old tree. Behind Thomas was a crudely drawn map of the pelican crash site and the land around it. "And you think there's only 40 men or so on patrol at a time?" "Yes and they trade places every 6 hours or so..." Thomas then began to explain his action plan. "Okay so you'll be in this big tree here, giving me a birds eye view... There is a fifteen minute gap where the patrols aren't guarding this area. So we have to time it just right. Understood?" "Hoorah, well this is gonna be exciting." Kate turned and grabbed her sniper rifle. "We better get some sleep, nightfall is in about 3 hours. And we're gonna need all the sleep we can get." ~~~~ "Need any help getting up the tree old man?" Thomas was standing under Kate who was currently climbing up the largest tree in the area. "Oh shut up... You are probably enjoying this." Kate said those words with a strong malice. I am enjoying that view, god she has a tight arse....."Besides I was cut open no more than three days ago..." Once up the tree Thomas turned to face the large grass lands surrounding the lake. "Kate you ready?" Thomas was now whispering through his comms set. "Affermative." Kate raised her rifle and looked though the digital scope and switched the settings to night vision. "The window opens... Now!" Thomas the crouched down slightly and started a slow jog to the pelican "Target locked, on the right side of the pelican, do you see it?" "Yes." Thomas picked up the pace only slightly to reach the pelican... Thomas was now in prone as he was no more then ten feet from the target. God I hope this works. Thomas the got up and made his way over to horse. ~~~~ "Hmm..." Twilight was look at a strange device. It was all black except for what appeared to be a small square under a glass screen. "I wonder." Twilight lifted a twig up with her magic and pressed the square in. The thing sparked to life showing an apple that had a bite taken out of it and under that it said 'iPod Infinity' "What language is thi-" Her sentence was cut short by by something covering her mouth. ~~~~ Thomas just put the horse into an awkward choke hold. He then tightened his grip until the purple unicorn stopped moving. Making sure the horse was unconscious Thomas then flipped it onto his left shoulder. And grabbed the iPod "Thomas... Window closes in 5 minutes." Kate spoke through the comms. "Okay, I'll be back in about 3 minutes." Thomas started picking up the pace... Once to the tree line he waited for Kate to get out of the tree. "Look what i found." Thomas was waving the music device in his hand. "Oh goody a 20 year old music player." Kate said in a very sarcastic way. Once back at camp they muzzled the unicorn and secured her with ropes. "Okay Kate... Draw a picture with the horse tied up and add a lot of humans guarding it." 'Why me? You have hands." "Because you can actually draw, I can only make stick figures... I mean I've seen your doodles on the seats of the pelicans, they're actually pretty good. Here." Thomas handed Kate the paper on a clipboard. About 20 minutes later Kate finished the drawing and handed to Thomas... "Man this is really good. Hell you even got the unicorns tattoo dead on." "Thanks, So Tom... Whats gonna happen to you?" "Well I'm gonna take the translator with me and hopefully it can decipher their language so we can communicate." Then Thomas grew a dark expression. "If I don't come back don't come after me. Now lets get some rest, we have a big day tomorrow." ~~Back at the pelican~~ "Twilight its getting late I think its time you get some sle-" Shining Armor went to where Twilight was. "Huh? I guess she went home already." ~~~~ "You sure they won't find it?" The time was about 15:00 and Thomas was taking off his gear and all things valuable. "Yes I highly doubt they are gonna check my ear and find the ear piece... Okay all I need is a white flag." "I have this white rag, I could tie it to a branch." Thomas and Kate made their way to the edge of the forest. "Here I go." Thomas walked out into the open raising the white flag. Guards rushed to him and quickly encircling him. Once he was captured he was brought to Captain Shining. ~~~~ "He is captured sir!" Said an Earth pony arriving to Shinning Armors tent. "Good." Replied Shinning. "Sir we found this on him." The soldier handed Shinning the price of paper. Shining was in complete shock. Twilight had been captured and was under heavy guard by the aliens. "Get a convoy ready! We're taking it to Canterlot!" Author's Note E/N: Well, I'm back. Had personal business to take care of, probably will be gone again. Did a speed edit, could be some errors in there.
PrologueThe sky was dark as Charlie 3 was being evacuated from Reach. The 6 soldiers were all staring out the cockpit watching the covenant cruiser fall. Hooahs erupted from the soldiers within the pelican. Every man present breathed a sigh of relief. "This is Pelican Alpha Two-Zero-Five requesting permission to land in bay five of the UNSC Pillar of Autumn, over." Said the female pilot. "Permission granted... Hold on.... We are picking up signs of covenant slip space drives activating. Do not land, I repeat do not land." Said the voice over the comms. The soldiers then turned their gaze out of the left side window to see 300 Heavy Covenant cruisers. "Oh my god." Said Charlie 3's leader. Soon the comms were flooded with commanders demanding evacuations of their men, requesting fighter support, or reporting casualties. The cruisers mashed straight through the MAC guns orbiting the planet. 12 of the Covenant Cruisers went down to the atmosphere and began glassing the planets surface. The rest set up a blockade not allowing the escape of any UNSC vessels. "The Pillar of Autumn is making a break for it. I will try to get us to one of the landing bays before it escapes!" Yelled the male pilot. The pelican then rattled as a banshee shot at it. "Everyone into your seats I'm try and see if i can shake this bastard." Said the female pilot. All soldiers rushed to theirs seat clenching the bars that held them in place for dear life. Then a heavy plasma round hit the left engine of the pelican. "Brace for impact were on a crash course with the Pillar of Autumn!!!." Yelled the pilot from over the speakers. ~~~~ And then the heavy ship blasted a plasma round straight into the Soth Ship and... The book Rainbow Dash was reading was engulfed in a purple glow and yanked away. . "Hey!? What was that for!?" Rainbow Dash demanded to know Why she was being interrupted during he reading time. "I've been shouting for you for about 10 minutes." Said Twilight. "Oh sorry, I was reading this book. Its about how this alien race was invaded by this other alien race because their god willed it. I was at the best part of it before you interrupted me." Rainbow Dash said folding her hooves to show how irritated she was. "Rainbow I highly doubt aliens would be raging war with one another. If the are intelligent enough to take to the stars they probably abandoned war long ago. If anything there is a huge alien alliance not an alien war." Twilight explained. "How do you know? Its not like you are some weird space traveler... Are you?" Asked Rainbow. "No I'm not a space traveler. And, well look through out histo-" Her sentence was cut short by the sounds of explosions. ~~4 minutes earlier~~ "WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE!?" Shouted the male pilot. The pelican tried to reach Pillar of Autumn before it went into slip space drive. They got 'sucked' in with its space slip drive and now found themselves under attack by two Banshees and descending to a possibly hostile planet. "Damn I can't shake off these banshees. We might be able to lose them in the atmosphere of the planet... The stats show that the left engine is operational. Lets see what these Covenant bitches are made of." The female pilot then turned off the engines causing the two banshees to speed ahead of the Pelican. When pelicans are built for breaking atmospheres and fighting at the same time there is a distinct and unfair advantage for them against any other ship. "Target locked. Firing now." A massive wall of 40mm APHE rounds hit one of the Banshees causing its engine to catch fire as it spirals down to the surface of the planet. "Where is the other? I can't see it and the sensor isn't picking up any movement." Said the male pilot. "I'm not sure it might be above y-" Then the last Banshee went on a high-speed dive straight into the pelican. ~~~ "Sister! Sister! Come quick!" Luna called Celestia over to the balcony that over looks the valley bellow the mountain. There were what appeared to be three asteroids falling to Eqius. "Luna is this your doing!?" Celestia asked. "No sister." Luna said in a slightly angrier toned voice "They are some kind of metal asteroids . But I can't control them with my magic. I am as baffled by this as you are sis." Luna said in her defense. "They seem to be cashing near the Ponyville lake." Stated Celestia. 'I can see whats happening too. You don't need to point out the obvious' Luna thought. "Guard!" Celestia shouted. "Yes your highness?" Asked the guard with a salute of his hoof. "Send word to Captain Shinning Armor... And tell him to lead a squad of soldiers to investigate the objects that have crashed near the Ponyville Lake." "Yes your Majesty." With that the guard excited the room. ~~~ Sergeant Major Thomas Kryncki was the first to wake. The bodies of his fireteam were either strapped in their seat on the floor of the Pelican dead. He then unhooked himself from the seat but as he did he heard a cough. Thomas turned each way until he found Sergeant Kate Amsel lying on the ground coughing up blood. "Kate!" He rushed to her side. 'Her rifle must have misfired and shot her in the chest. That high power rifle round easily would break straight through any A-11 power shield and chest plate.' Thomas thought to himself. "Thomas? Is that you? Man you look like shit" Kate then slipped into unconsciousness "Hang in there Kate." He then grabbed a canister of bio foam and shoved the tube into her just plate to cover her bullet wound. "Kate hang in there you're gonna be fine... I-I promise..." Author's Note Ok that was a slow chapter. I promise the second one will be full of tension and action! *Cough* maybe *Cough*... Note from Editor: Replaced A-205 with proper military call-sign of 'Alpha Two-Zero-Five", Fixed grammar mistakes, Fixed misspellings, and replaced improper military terms. Replaced 7.62x51mm rounds with 40mm APHE since Pelicans were usually armed with 40mm Rotary Cannons before 2525. Changed "Clestia" to "Celestia". Made toast and coffee and stayed up all night. -Major Rainbow Dash
Chapter 1: Stranded Chapter 1: Stranded (A/N Thanks to Major Rainbow Dash editor of grammar and revising work and to RyanPAPP makes sure I get my Halo shit down right. You guys have been and are going to be a real help. Also many people have said the UNSC doesn't have an Army i can assure you they do... Look up http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_Army for more information... Well enough with that. Hope you enjoy. ) Many of the books in the library were scattered around the room. Twilight proceeded to the door... It seemed she wasn't the only pony in town who was curious. Everypony was outside looking to the east as the smoke was rising. Spike said no words as he ran to the table to get a quill and a piece of parchment. "As for you," She said turning her attention to Rainbow Dash. " I want you to get Fluttershy and Applejack; I'll get Rarity and Pinkie Pie... Meet me back at the library okay?" "Okay I'll be back in no time!" Rainbow Dash then dashed(Eyup, we just did it.) out of the library. Twilight then exited the library and began her trot to Carousel Boutique. ~~~~ Thomas finished dragging out the last body in the ship other than the pilots. He was saving those for last. It was hard enough to fetch them in tighter corners but there was a massive branch that had broken through the windshield of the pelican and impaled itself into one of the pilots. "Oh god this is just fucked up... Okay I have to do this, she's blocking the Long Range Communications." Thomas began to yank out the branch that had jabbed itself into the pilot. ~~~~ "Ya sure 'bout this Twi? I mean shouldn't we just stay 'er till the princess send some Royal guards?" Applejack was unsure about investigating a crash of something they had no information and to top that neither Celestia or Luna said it was okay to do so. "Applejack I sent a letter to the princess nearly 30 minutes ago. If she didn't want us to do this she would have sent a message back." Applejack mulled the words over and over in her head. The rest of the galls already signed of on it, but... shucks I'm just being paranoid. " Alright lets do this." The rest of the girls other than Fluttershy let out some kind of hurrah. The Elements then began to make their 20 minute journey to the lake. ~~~~ Thomas sat there in a puddle of blood, covered in blood, and frustrated as he was flipping through the 17 emergency frequencies sending out his distress signal. "This is SGM Krynicki, requesting emergency evac from Pelican Alpha Two-Zero-Five. Coordinates are unknown. We have 6 dead 1 wounded and 1 capable. Requesting immediate evac, over" Nothing but white noise that came from the radio filled the cockpit of the pelican. "Dammit! That was the last fucking frequency." He then began to punch the dashboard of the pelican. Giving a long sigh after his little out break he went to the second most important thing on his list to do. "Okay I have to set up a perimeter around the pelic-" "Sergeant Major....is that you?" Kate was now awake sounding like a man who has went without water for 3 days. Thomas ran to her side. "Thomas? Where is the lieutenant? Wheres Jacobs? Where are we?" She asked coughing up little droplets of blood. She was so pale from the loss of blood. To put it simple she looked 'like an angel who fell from heaven and hit the pavement pretty fucking hard.' "Dead, Kate... All dead." Thomas said with a firm and slightly eerie voice. "Dead... Where are we?" "I'm not sure." "So we're lost?" "I'm never lost just temporarily disoriented." Kate chuckled, only slightly at his joke. ~~~~ "Captain ETA to Ponyville is 7 minutes, sir." Said a guard in golden armor. "Good. Lets see what has the Princesses all riled up." Said Shining Armor turning back around to enjoy the scenery of the valley below Canterlot. ~~~~ Thomas stood an a hill over looking the lake. Covered from head to toe in standard UNSC Army Battle Uniform holding his MA37 Individual Combat Weapon. Something caught his eye as he then picked up the binocular that were resting in his pack. Adjusting the view length on his binoculars the figure came int perfect... View? "What the hell...?" Thomas stood in total disbelief at what his eyes laid on. A group of horses... No not just a group but 2 unicorns, 2 pegasi, and 2 earthponies. They were multiply colors. From purple to blue, from orange to white. "Kate... I have a questions for you." "Yah Tom?" She said standing up thanks to about 20 pain killers. "Are you sure those painkillers I took weren't LSD?" "Yah I'm positive... Why?" She was no standing to his left looking up at his face. She compared it to the look he father got when he saw something horrific. "Oh I was just wondering... Hey one more question. Can you see this too?" He then passed the binoculars to her and pointed to a small patch of forest. Kate was staring in shock... No just not shock but confusion, shock, and fear all mixed into one. The ponies were now approaching at a decent jog (trot) and the small party was no more than 3 kicks away... "Kate... Start heading for those trees on my 3 o' clock. I'm gonna grab as much stuff as possible." Kate stood there frozen for a few moment still in utter disbelief at what she saw. Thomas looked ate her and yelled. "RUN!!" It was easily heard by the ponies approaching. ~~~~ "What was that!?" Asked Rarity. There was a loud sound in some... Strange language that could be easily heard from Ponyville. "I'm not sure... But it kinda sounded like somepony was hurt. We should get the, FAST!" The girls started sprinting to the lake, other than Rainbow who was dragging along Fluttershy. Author's Note Hey i got the tension down right... But in the next chapter i plan on some deaths to happen... Editor Note: Did a quick edit job, fixed some grammar mistakes and incorrect terminologies. -Major Rainbow Dash
Chapter 2: First Contact?Kate laid under the brush within a dark thick forest. "Come on... Hurry up they are almost to the pelican!!!" She said through the comms set in her helmet. "I know... But I have to get all the medical supplies if we're gonna dig that bullet out of you." Thomas said with a load of medical supplies in his arms. "This will just take a few more moments." ~~~~ Twilight and her friends were nearing the pelican but stopped dead in their tracks when they found a row of bodies... No not just bodies...alien bodies.. "What are those." asked Dash as she and Fluttershy just caught up to the group. "Oh those poor things, who could have done this?" Asked Fluttershy approaching the bodies. "I'm not sure. But I think I'm looking at it." All eyes were turned to a creature leaving the metal asteroid carrying two very large bags. ~~~~ Thomas stopped dead. Baring to his right wear the horses. Damn these fucks can run... Why are they looking at me like that? Oh right, I'm an alien to them.... The horses then proceeded to step closer whispering amongst themselves. Thomas then set down the 2 bags and pulled out his M6G Personal Defense Weapon System. "Freeze in the name of the Unified Earth Government." Thomas said now pointing his gun at the horses. The horse all stopped and looked at themselves. They then continued. "I said freeze!" Thomas then shot at their feet (hooves?) for his warning shot. They froze as the dirt flung up into the hair. Out of no where an armored unicorn levitating a spear charged Thomas. "BANG, BANG, BANG!" ~~~~ Twilight was on the verge of tears as she saw Corporal Feathered Heart fall to the ground... Bleeding... And not moving. "TWILIGHT!!!" Twilight turned to see Shinning running up to her with a group of Royal guard units. "Shining!!!" Twilight ran to embrace him. Shinning then gave the hoof movements to tell his men to surround the alien. "Shining be careful... You don't know what its capable of... He killed Feathered Heart." Twilight's face was now grim.. ~~~~ "GET OUT OF THERE!!! You can take them all down. Hell it took you three shoots to take that one horse down." Kate was now reading her side arm. "Kate calm your fucking shit! I am the superior, so calm down. That's an order..." Thomas responded from over the comms. ~~~~ Thomas began to drag the medical bags with his left hand and his pistol in his right. Pegasus guards started to fly over. Clever devils, surrounding me. Let the game begin., Thomas then flipped the bags over his shoulder and began running. Soon the pegasi started to fly after him. I wonder whats it like to get shot in a wing? He then flung around and let off 3 shots. Two pegasi soon fell to the ground blood squirting from their wings. Hmm 3 shots 2 hits... Damn I'm getting rusty with this thing... Thomas ran into he tree line of the forest and began running to Kate's position. "Kate take this!" Thomas tossed her one of the bags. "C'mon lets go!" The two began running deeper into the forest. Dodging trees, jumping over roots, and ducking under vines. "Keep running Kate, Don't look back!" ~~~~ "Get those two Pegasi to the hospital, YOU!" Shining pointed his hoof to a unicorn. "Send a message to the princesses requesting more troops. The rest of you set up a perimeter!" "Shining what was that thing? What is all this?" "I'm not sure Twilight... Whatever it is it isn't friendly and we are gonna stop it... You are free to explore the asteroid under my supervision" Twilight was reading to say something but was cut short by Shinning. "No buts Twilight. I can't have you getting hurt... Now U would like you to return home until we have a secure perimeter set up." "Ok Shine... I'll see you tomorrow." Twilight waved her friends over to follow in suite. ~~ 4 minutes later~~ "*pant* Kate I think were in the *pant* clear..." Thomas said as the two reached a clearing. "Okay good *pant* I need more painkillers *pant* really bad." Kate set the bag down and sat down in the shade. Thomas joined her... "Okay lets set up camp here... Cause I'm tired as fuck." Thomas then opened one of the bags and pulled out two brown packages. They read MRE on the front. "Which one do you want? Chili and Macaroni or Chicken Pesto Pasta?" "I fucking hate chili." She responded in a way that elected a chuckle from Thomas . After eating and minutes of talking they moved on too long term plans. "Thomas what do you do when you want to make diplomatic relations with an alien race?" Asked Kate. "Uhm I don't know, what?" Thomas set down a bottle of water he was drinking from. "You kindly raise the white flag and ask for an audience with their leaders... Then what do they do?" "I don't know." Thomas replied slightly irritated. "They try to arrest you. Then what do you do?" Kate then pointed to Thomas with her index finger. "I'd say fuck that alien and I'd kill them." Thomas replied in a comical voice. "Yes you could do that. But then you'd be a murderer... See you first need a bargaining chip... Like a hostage... Someone to level the playing field... To force their hand... Thomas we need a prisoner." Thomas only smiled in response. "I think I know who." Thomas remembering that one purple unicorn who seemed to be in relations with the soldiers commander. Author's Note Some may ask how she knows Feathered Heart... Well in this fanfic that was a good friend of hers while she was in Canterlot. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED! :) Editor Notes: Finally got back, had to do something. Made grammar corrections. Don't say people needs a better editor if they haven't edited yet, jeez. -Major Rainbow Dash
Chapter 3: Kidnapping Chapter 3: Kidnapping (A/N I finally of off my lazy arse and posted something!!!!!) Kate laid there heavily sedated while Thomas was cutting open the area right under her left breast. Once the cut was made Thomas then began to pull out the shrapnel that had been lodged into her, most of the shrapnel didnt make it that far... God its gonna be a pain to get the ones that landed close to her lung. After several minutes of digging through flesh Thomas finally got out all the shrapnel. He then began to sew the cut. "Oh god....I need some hand antiseptic." Thomas was dumping water on his hands to wipe the blood away. What he didn't realize is that the blood attracted some very hungry predators. "What in bloody hell is that disgusting smell... its like a cat rotting in the center of a bog." The smell was getting stronger with every passing second. "This thing must be wrong... The scanners show movement but there's nothing around here. Wait a minute!" Thomas grabbed the UNA standard M6J Carbine. They were disgusting, just animated walking piles of rotting wood. They seemed more curious than aggressive but it was no excuse for Thomas... He had an incapacitated teammate that they wanted, and he was the only thing that stood between them and her. Thomas raised his rifle and began to fire in 3 round burst. "BANG BANG BANG... BANG BANG BANG... BANG BANG BANG." Something unexpected happened. The rest of the wooden wolves fled while the three that were hit exploded. "That was... Easy enough." Thomas turned to face Kate then back to... Where? The piles of wood were? What the fuck!? They were just right there. Thomas then turned to his left to see the wolves fleeing. "Clever bastards." ~~2 days later~~ "Okay Kate from my observations the purple one goes to the pelican everyday... I think it is some sort of scientist." The two made a decent camp under the over grown roots of an old tree. Behind Thomas was a crudely drawn map of the pelican crash site and the land around it. "And you think there's only 40 men or so on patrol at a time?" "Yes and they trade places every 6 hours or so..." Thomas then began to explain his action plan. "Okay so you'll be in this big tree here, giving me a birds eye view... There is a fifteen minute gap where the patrols aren't guarding this area. So we have to time it just right. Understood?" "Hoorah, well this is gonna be exciting." Kate turned and grabbed her sniper rifle. "We better get some sleep, nightfall is in about 3 hours. And we're gonna need all the sleep we can get." ~~~~ "Need any help getting up the tree old man?" Thomas was standing under Kate who was currently climbing up the largest tree in the area. "Oh shut up... You are probably enjoying this." Kate said those words with a strong malice. I am enjoying that view, god she has a tight arse....."Besides I was cut open no more than three days ago..." Once up the tree Thomas turned to face the large grass lands surrounding the lake. "Kate you ready?" Thomas was now whispering through his comms set. "Affermative." Kate raised her rifle and looked though the digital scope and switched the settings to night vision. "The window opens... Now!" Thomas the crouched down slightly and started a slow jog to the pelican "Target locked, on the right side of the pelican, do you see it?" "Yes." Thomas picked up the pace only slightly to reach the pelican... Thomas was now in prone as he was no more then ten feet from the target. God I hope this works. Thomas the got up and made his way over to horse. ~~~~ "Hmm..." Twilight was look at a strange device. It was all black except for what appeared to be a small square under a glass screen. "I wonder." Twilight lifted a twig up with her magic and pressed the square in. The thing sparked to life showing an apple that had a bite taken out of it and under that it said 'iPod Infinity' "What language is thi-" Her sentence was cut short by by something covering her mouth. ~~~~ Thomas just put the horse into an awkward choke hold. He then tightened his grip until the purple unicorn stopped moving. Making sure the horse was unconscious Thomas then flipped it onto his left shoulder. And grabbed the iPod "Thomas... Window closes in 5 minutes." Kate spoke through the comms. "Okay, I'll be back in about 3 minutes." Thomas started picking up the pace... Once to the tree line he waited for Kate to get out of the tree. "Look what i found." Thomas was waving the music device in his hand. "Oh goody a 20 year old music player." Kate said in a very sarcastic way. Once back at camp they muzzled the unicorn and secured her with ropes. "Okay Kate... Draw a picture with the horse tied up and add a lot of humans guarding it." 'Why me? You have hands." "Because you can actually draw, I can only make stick figures... I mean I've seen your doodles on the seats of the pelicans, they're actually pretty good. Here." Thomas handed Kate the paper on a clipboard. About 20 minutes later Kate finished the drawing and handed to Thomas... "Man this is really good. Hell you even got the unicorns tattoo dead on." "Thanks, So Tom... Whats gonna happen to you?" "Well I'm gonna take the translator with me and hopefully it can decipher their language so we can communicate." Then Thomas grew a dark expression. "If I don't come back don't come after me. Now lets get some rest, we have a big day tomorrow." ~~Back at the pelican~~ "Twilight its getting late I think its time you get some sle-" Shining Armor went to where Twilight was. "Huh? I guess she went home already." ~~~~ "You sure they won't find it?" The time was about 15:00 and Thomas was taking off his gear and all things valuable. "Yes I highly doubt they are gonna check my ear and find the ear piece... Okay all I need is a white flag." "I have this white rag, I could tie it to a branch." Thomas and Kate made their way to the edge of the forest. "Here I go." Thomas walked out into the open raising the white flag. Guards rushed to him and quickly encircling him. Once he was captured he was brought to Captain Shining. ~~~~ "He is captured sir!" Said an Earth pony arriving to Shinning Armors tent. "Good." Replied Shinning. "Sir we found this on him." The soldier handed Shinning the price of paper. Shining was in complete shock. Twilight had been captured and was under heavy guard by the aliens. "Get a convoy ready! We're taking it to Canterlot!" Author's Note E/N: Well, I'm back. Had personal business to take care of, probably will be gone again. Did a speed edit, could be some errors in there.
