RAINBOW!

Six laid there and stared, as everything started moving slowly. He watched as her face twisted into a look of pain. Her body arched from the impact of the blade, the elite's hand now touching her coat. And he watched as the elite mercilessly threw her off and onto the ground. Then..... he laughed. The fucking split jaw laughed.

Six had seen soldiers die. He saw civilians die. Someone from his old company die. But only one other time had he felt what he was feeling now.

Anger: A strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath.

The word flooded his mind, and he felt the emotion torrent to the rest of his body. He stood up with no sound, his visor darker for his head was down. Then, he yelled. He yelled as he charged at the elite. He yelled as the elite shoved the knife into his side. He yelled as he tackled the elite, send punch after punch into the same spot of the hinge-head's helmet. Only when the helmet shattered, sending leftover shrapnel into the elite's brain, killing it, did he stop yelling. He stood up off of the now corpse of the elite, purple blood dripping off of his right hand. He turned around and rushed to Rainbow, catching a glimpse of the five girl's faces, fixed in pure terror. Six wondered if was because of Rainbow, or his actions. Regardless, he clamped his hand on Rainbow's wound. She was alive, but her shallower than normal breathing and faint pulse said she was alive barely.

"Twilight." She stood still, the same look still on her face.

"Twilight!.........TWILIGHT!"

"Ah! Please don't kill me!"

"Twilight..." Six got down on one knee, setting his free hand on her, his other occupied with Rainbow. "I need you to get us to the hospital. Rainbow is alive, but needs help....now."

Twilight gasped, seeming to hold her breath for no reason. "Okay, okay... I'll teleport us all."

* Ten minutes later*

"How is she doctor?"

"We've stopped the bleeding and stabilized her." The girls, Luna, and Six let out their breaths, the room filling with CO2. "But, there is a problem." And the CO2 is gone. "She needs a blood transfusion. The amount she lost is very dangerous, and with out it, she may not survive."

"Well, take one of us then." Twilight spoke.

"I'm afraid that's not possible. Mixing unicorn or earth pony blood with pegues blood will not work. And O negative is incredibly rare for pegues, we don't even have any on hand."

"Wait a minute..." Six yanked his dog tags off. "I'm O negative."

"Would that even work doctor?" Luna inquired.

"I will need to run some test, but at this point, to save an element of harmony, I'm willing to trying anything."

*Another ten minutes later*

Six sat in the corner of Rainbow's room. The doctor could not find any complication with his blood, and with approval of the moon princess, his blood was now in Rainbow. He couldn't figure her out. From trying to beat the crap out of him, to risking her own life for him. Was she being protective, or something...... more? He shook his head and grunted in frustration. His thoughts were pulled away as the door open, the rest of the elements entering.

"How is she?" They seemed to ask all at once.

"She stable. Everything went fine." Six stood up and went to the window. "It's all my fault. If only..."

"No, it's my fault Six. I pushed you to let us go with you, and.."

"You know what, your right. It is your fault. I told you girls to stay put."

"While what, you paraded, killing them all? And when the alien was on top of you, what should have Rainbow done, let you die?!"

"YES!" The girls took a step back from his answer.

"But..." a voice interjected.

"But nothing!" Six turned to the voice in a blind fury of words. "You should have let me die! I've seen to many good people do that! It's not your job to protect me, it's mine! That's why I'm a Spartan! For..... for..... for her..." Six's words trailed off when he saw the source of the voice, Rainbow. He choked, holding emotions back. He opened the window, and jumped out.

"Six!" The standing girls watched him run towards the lake.

Six sat on the edge of the pier, gazing at the sunset. This view was so peaceful. This was how he usually ended his days a the castle. Now, it was his sanctuary, his place of calm and quiet tranquility. Six sorted through all the events that happened, and the memories that came up.

"Olivia..."

"Hello Six."

He tuned meeting the white legs of Celestia.

"Hey sunshine," he looked back over the water. After a flash of yellow, Celestia sat next to him.

"I wanted to thank you. Not only did you get rid of the aliens, but you saved Rainbow's life."

"It's still my fault..."

"No, none of that." Celestia said sternly. "You did the best with what you were given, and every one is alive."

"But what if I wasn't here. Rainbow wouldn't be in the hospital."

"Okay, but you are here, and Rainbow is fine."

"I guess..." After a few moments, Celestia touched his hand. It gained his attention and he looked at her human-like appearance. It actually made a lot of sense. Sitting on her haunches could not be comfortable. He couldn't help but smile, yet she couldn't see it.

"That's not what I wanted to talk to you about though."

"Yeah?"

"Before you 'stormed off', the girls said you mentioned a 'her' right before you left. The girls were concerned, and so am I. Is it something you want to talk about?" Six sighed, his head dangling even lower. He rubbed the back of his neck, considering if he should tell her or not. He needed to build trust back up after his 'kingly' act, and decided to tell her.

"It was a while ago..."

"Her name was Olivia. She was apart of the Spartan-III program like I was, and we were in the same company. During training, we were divided into squads for a war games tournament. She was placed in X-ray, while I was in Echo squad. Of course, our squads faced of in the final match. The computer selected SWAT rules, and our fight started. At the end of the match, Echo had won, and Olivia blamed the loss on herself. Later on, I saw her sitting by her self in the mess hall, and I went to go sit with her. I even remember the first words she said to me...."

"What do you want?"

"A place to eat, if that's all right?"

Six chuckled at the look of confusion of Celestia's face.

"What's the matter, sunshine?"

"You two went on to become friends?"

"Weirder things have happened."

"I guess so. Never really expected an alien to fall from space to Equestria, and kill both the Changeling Queen and the Griffon King."

"Olivia looked away from me.

"I don't want your pity."

"Who said I was going to give it to you. Now, can I sit?" She motioned with her fork for me to sit. After a few moments of silence and eating, I thought it was time to pop the question. "Did your squad get mad at you when you all lost?"

"No."

"Then why do you blame yourself?" She dropped her fork on her tray and snapped her head to me.

"I thought you weren't gonna give me pity."

"I'm just trying to understand." I leaned back with both my hands in a defensive gesture. A heavy sigh escaped her lips.

"The final kill you got? I ordered him to move there. I just keep thinking 'What if it was a real situation? I would have sent that soldier to death?' and I can't get over it. I guess I don't have Kurt's ability to sense traps." The match was pretty close: 50-49 Echo. If she didn't give that order we would have probably lost. I needed to say something to make her feel better.

"We all make bad calls. The only reason you caught up was because of my bad calls." I said with a smirk.

"I guess your right." She said with a chuckle. She reaches across the table with an outstretched hand. "I'm Olivia." I grab it with my unpreoccupied hand. "Call me Six."

"We were both deployed to Reach after training. My deployment was to fill in a slot for Noble team, as you know, but her deployment was on Doctor Halsey's orders. Said she needed better security at Sword base, and she wanted her. So she was issued MP armor, and I got what I'm wearing now. On the way to Reach, we became very close friends, which was rare in the case of Spartans. We talked, we laughed, we screwed around with the other crew members." Six took a deep breath, for he knew where this story was heading, for he remembered how it happened. It was a memory he wanted to forget, but was branded into his head. After a few breaths, he continued. "Do you remember about the downed communication outpost I told you about?" Celestia nodded her head.

"Ok, well after that, the covenant laid siege to Sword base."

"Dot, what's our status with Sword base?" Carter said, more like a statement than a question.

"As of 08:00, ONI base: Sword, has been under siege by a corvette class carrier." I couldn't be more scarred for a life than I had at that moment. I reasoned with myself that she would be fine. She was a Spartan-III and after a few hours, she should still be alive. I was snapped out of my thoughts as my commander addressed me and my fellow Spartan, Kat.

"Kat, you and Six will run interference on the ground. First thing, help the soldiers out on the courtyard." He looked over the edge of the Falcon. "This is your stop."

"Got it boss." I replied jumping out.

"Got it, were your strike team." Kat said, following me. I couldn't tell you how relived I was at the first sight I saw with boots on the ground; There, on a bridge over the court yard, was a blue Spartan wearing MP armor. At first, I thought it was my eyes playing a trick on me, but she had a golden angle glow about her. Little did I know what that glow was. I ran as fast as I could up the left way up to the bridge to make sure it was no trick. There she was, sniper in hand.

"Olivia!" Her firing stopped dead as she slowly turned to me, trying to figure out if it was just a voice in her head.

"Six!" She headed straight for me, and that's when I saw her glow. Her shields were gone, which was a problem, because and ultra elite had just shown up on the opposite side.

"Olivia! On your six!" Yet, it was too late. She lurched forward, chest first. I flinched, my shields taking the impact of the needle. When I looked back, she was in front of me. But my HUD showed an X next to her four letter IDF 'OLVA'. She was dead."

Six paused to look at Celestia. Her composure was still the same, but around her eyes was a tint of red, with tears straining down her face. It broke Six's heart, but made him realize something. For how much he put her on edge, she seamed very genuine in her reaction.

"I grabbed her, panicking. "NO! No, no, no, no, no, no.........." I held her close to me, shaking her back and forth. "no, no, no, no, no....." And then I heard it. A laugh. The same laugh I heard when Rainbow got hurt, and I felt the same feeling: Anger. After getting on my knees to set her body down, the elite walked up to me, and energy gauntlet drawn. With his other hand, he reached out to grab my head. In one quick motion, I twisted his wrist, impaling my thumb on a pressure point that I knew was there. With continued pushing and twisting, I brought the elite to his knees. My right hand free, I moved the elite over the railing, and I ripped of his bottom mandibles. He
screamed, but I paid him no mind. Grabbing his left hand, I moved the gauntlet to his head. The incredible nerve pain I was causing him locked up his body from his own movements. Inching the two ends of the gauntlet towards his eyes, I whispered to him...

"I will wipe out your species."

And I shoved the gauntlet into him, killing him."

"Six, I'm so sorry. There is no way I would be able to comprehend how you really felt. Are you going to be all right?"

"I'll be fine." He let out a deep breath. "I'm just gonna wait here for a while." After a few moments, Celestia answered.

"I'll wait with you."

And wait they did. The sun was gone, the moon was high, and they were still there. Well Six anyways. Celestia was away in slumber land on Six's shoulder, a bit of drool dripping out of her mouth. When Six finally wanted bed, he picked Celestia up, and carried her to her chambers, setting her on the bed. With a quiet click of the door, Six made his way to his chambers.

Author's Note

Hi.

Edit: Yeah, I got rid of that whole 'related to rainbow', and went with a different approach. Hope you like.