Noble Six. The team's most recent addition... my, my. So much black ink... Six has made entire militia groups disappear. Curious... "hyper lethal". There's only one other Spartan with that rating."
—Dr. Catherine Halsey
-location unknown, 5 days after the fall of reach.
'' Demon, you killed my son, I'll kill you where you lay.'' An alien elite said as he kicked the human that was fully armored in the helmet and in the gut, but as the elite did so the armor fell apart revealing nothing.
"What the hell....Shipmaster, the Spartan escaped, all that's here is the demons armor and-...''
The elite was cut off by a noise behind him, as soon as he turned around he found himself face to face with the Spartan with an energy sword pointed at the elite who looked at his belt finding that his sword wasn't there, just before the elite could look back up to defend himself he found the weapon being plunged deep into his abdomen incapacitating him.
Before taking the sword out turning it off, the Spartan grabbed the elites security card, putting his armor plating and helmet back on sealing himself from the outside world and disembarking from his prison cell leaving the elite crumpled on the ground bleeding to death as his life slipped out of his grasp and is soul went to whatever the elite believed in.
The Spartan ran through the corridors of the ship that had purple sleek walls that looked artificial, slicing elites and small creatures with weird things strapped to their backs, called grunts, as well as bird like creatures called jackals. Slicing clean through them with the energy sword, eventually the Spartan reached a sealed room that had weird writing on the door and a console beside It.
The Spartan smashed his fist right through the console which opened the door. He was met with a plasma rifle pointed at him, just as a streak of plasma shot out of the bluish weapon the Spartans augmentations and armor enhancements kicked in and he dodged the shot before swing his left hand with the energy sword throwing it like a frisbee and connected with the side of an elite that shot at him and slicing right though the elite, killing him in seconds.
The Spartan quickly picked up the plasma weapon and dealing with the other hostiles in the room. Looking around noticing that he was on the command deck. A realization went through the Spartans head where there is a ship there had to be a captain of the ship, and as soon as the Spartan thought of that a red dot blipped on the corner of his hud in the scanner, one blip turned into two, then triple, and there became so many blips that were converging on him that he couldn't tell the blips apart. A few seconds later the Spartan could hear the howls coming from the open door the Spartan came in from.
In a flash, the Spartan ran to a control panel and pressed different buttons rapidly before one button closed and sealed the door of the command from the covenant soldiers. The covenant started banging on the other side of the door. After a few minutes of staring at the door, with his rifle raised at the door making sure they weren't able to get through before placing the rifle in a magnetic lock on the side of his upper leg before walking over to the command chair that sat in the middle of the circular room. He slumped down in it and stared at a view on the screen that showed a planet that resembled an early version of Earth.
The planet looked like it wasn't touched by either human or covenant, but why was the ship heading towards the planet and why such a large force which was going through the Spartans head before he was taken out of his trance from the ship shuddering and the artificial metal whining from the strain it was taking.
The Spartan looked over the view screen and saw that the ship was being pulled into the planets gravitational fields and started burning up. As the Spartan quickly looked around finding three escape pods on the far side of the wall, he quickly grabbed a few tools to fix his equipment, and helmet that had two huge circular cracks on the golden visor. Found a few stray weapons laying on the ground before running to the escape pods pressing a few buttons on the control panel launching the first two pods before jumping in the third and launching himself towards the planet.
As soon as he launched, he saw the first two pods were being shot at by a pair of banshees before exploding in a flurry of purple flames. Soon as the two pods were shot down the banshees turned their attentions to his pod and unleashing a torrent of plasma at him just barely missing before a direct hit to the top of his pod where his navigation controls were and frying them, so he couldn't steer making the pod tumble towards the planet in an flurry of orange and red flames.
-Ponyville library-
''Spike come take a look at this,'' a lavender mare asked for her assistant while looking through a set of binoculars out an open window of her home which was a tree and a library.
A medium purple and green dragon walked into the room ,a few inches taller then the mare. '' Yeah what's up twilight,'' the dragon named spike asked as he walked over beside the mare named Twilight, who was an alicorn. As soon as the dragon stood beside the mare, she levitated the binoculars towards Spike who took it in his claws, looking out the window to where Twilight was looking. Only to find two objects crashing off in the distance, looked up to find an egg shaped purple sleek object heading straight at them with unimaginable speed and still picking up speed as it fell towards the tree.
"TWILIGHT GET DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!'' Spike yelled, as he tackled twilight to the ground as the object collided with the top of the tree making the tree house shake so much that all the books and anything else that was not stuck to the ground fell over making it look as if a hurricane blew through the house ( not like Twilight hasn't already done that before). After a few minutes the house stopped shaking from the impact and allowing Spike to finally stand up from protecting Twilight from all the books and helped her up as well.
After a few minutes passed of re orientating themselves, they ran out of the library to see what had hit their home to find a bipedal creature in blue armor jumping out of the weird egg thing that he came out of which was red hot and quickly cooled, sealing itself to the top of the tree where prying eyes can't find it, the creature jumped down from a branch landing a foot away from the two and in a split second grabbed the two and jumped inside the house closing the door and dropping the two on the floor all in one swift motion. The creature stared at the two still laying on the floor, looking at the golden visor mesmerized by the mirroring effect it had and the lights on the armor.
'' Where am I.''
The creature asked as he kept staring at the two not moving anywhere till he got an answer from the natives. Not expecting them to answer though since he thought they would speak some odd language but to his surprise they answer in perfect English.
''My name is Princess Twilight Sparkle, you're in Equestria. Who are you and what are you may I ask,'' Twilight asked as she stood up on all four hooves and walked around the tall creature. From what Twilight could tell it was just as tall as Celestia herself, give or take a few inches shorter then her.
'' The names noble six reporting for duty,'' Six said as he stood straight with his arms held down at his sides clenched as he stood at attention. He felt something poking his arm, so he looked down to find scaly creature poking his arm with a claw, after a minute the Spartan moved his arm away from the dragon who was starting to get on Six's nerves and what really got the Spartan mad was when the dragon tried to climb up on him. Right as soon as he tried to do that, though Twilight saw and scolded the dragon and told him to say he was sorry.
''Sorry'' the dragon said, '' My names Spike by the way'' the dragon said as he held out his hand to shake which the Spartan accepted but as soon as they were about to shake Spikes face twisted oddly and his cheeks puffed out and a second later, the Spartans helmet was engulfed in flame making the Spartans shields flare shimmer then vanish as it was drained and slowly started recharging. That set the Spartan off. Six grabbed Spike by the neck lifting him up in the air, at eye level with Six, who took out a energy sword igniting it and putting it up to spikes throat.
Their only missing in action
Their only missing in action
Six stared at the little dragon in his grasp as he held the energy sword to the dragons scaly neck ready to take off his head at any moment
"Six please it was an accident......" Twilight pleaded as she stared in horror at the sight.
Six thought for a moment before setting down spike, deactivating the energy sword and reattaching it to his hip.
Six walks over to a window and looks up at the sky seeing the covenant ship go into cloaking and a memory comes into his mind
-flashback-
Six turns off the shielding device on one of the main spires and runs out, jumping forward as a falcon flys to the side of the platform on the spire and a large spartan wearing orange and grey armor extends his hand out to six as he jumps and reaches for it and grabs it, getting pulled up quickly, sits down on the seat beside the larger spartan named Jorge aka noble 5 and looks over seeing another spartan wearing dark blue armor but with different armor then six and Jorge's and was named carter also known as noble lead and noble 1, the first of the nobles"
"......Mac rounds have been authorized....", Carter said out loud as a longsword came above the falcon.
"Mac rounds in atmosphere....?" Jorge asked with a hint of worry.
"Only way to get their attention noble" carter replied as all three Spartans held onto their seats while all the transports took off away from the blast radius of the longsword class Mac rounds. Six tilted a bit to see the covenant spire one last time as the longsword fired destroying the spire and making the transport shake for a moment from the shockwave.
As soon as the spire fell a Plasma beam struck the longsword from above and went clean through it. The three Spartans leaned out and look up seeing a large covenant super carrier above as the longsword went down with hundreds of soldiers inside.
-flashback ends-
Twilight looked at six as he stared out of the window clenching his fists, " Umm six is something bothering you?" She asked making six look at her making her shiver seeing the cracks in the visor of his helmet. "That's classified" Six said plainly, walking over to a chair and sitting on it making it creak and groan from under his weight as Twilight's curiosity took over and she trotted over to a couch that was positioned across from the chair Six sat in.
Twilight watched as six took out pieces of metal and began putting them together making an object with arms, she then looked at the Spartan as he turned the thing on and it floated up off the ground without magic or special stones, twilight stood up staring at the floating object as it turned to six and began taking pieces of his armor off, fixing it, then placing it back on its appropriate spot.
After a few minutes the floating object turned off and landed on the floor with a thud, Twilight watched Six pick up the object and put it back in the bag leaving it on the floor by the chair, "W-what was that...thing..." She asked a bit worried making Six look up at her.
"Classified"
"Well where do you come from.....why is your name a number"
Six began clenching his fists when she began asking the questions, "Classified", Six said again plainly making Twilight groaned in annoyance.
Twilight thought for a moment then perking up from an idea, "Well what isn't classified....and why are my other questions classified" she asked smiling.
Six stared at her for a moment before sighing and getting up, walking towards a apart of the book shelf and searched for a book on humans, Twilight watched intrigued as a note pad and quill levitated over to her and began writing down notes as Six picked up a few books and walked over, setting down the books on the table in front of the chairs and sat back down in front of her.
Twilight looked at the books Six picked reading the names of the books and looking back at Six questionably, "Umm Six......these are all books about myths and stories for fillies" Twilight asked picking up one of the books as Six nodded and picked up a few books, flipping through the pages and setting the books down, open to a certain page.
Twilight looked at the heading of the mythological creature, then looked at Six, and back down at the book a few times. "Umm a-are you a h-human....." She asked as Six nodded looking down.
Twilight looked at Six and was about to ask him something before a knocking on the door was heard. "Uh oh....Six go up stares and hide in one of the rooms quickly" Six nodded and jogged up into one of the rooms and hid in the shadows, not making a single sound or movement.
Twilight walked over to the door and opened it revealing five other mares, one was a blue with a multicoloured mane, the second was pink with a puffy mane, the third one was white with a purple mane, the fourth was orange with a blonde mane, and the fifth was yellow with a pink mane and was hiding behind her mane.
"Hey girls what are you doing here" Twilight asked as normally as she could.
Rainbow walked in, looking around for something or someone/somepony, "Twi are you alright.....because we all saw a weird large purple egg of fire crash into here.....* Rainbow looked at the wall spike was slammed into, seeing an indent in it making her growl, "Where's Spike" Rainbow asked while walking through the room looking around for The alien.
Twilight thought for a moment before remember that spike went into the room that Six was in and mentally face-hoofing, "Well umm I think he went to bad....he is a baby after all...." Twilight said trying to lie the best she could.
In the room Six was hiding in Spike was looking for his stash of gems and bumped into Six and falling over making a loud thud sound making all the mares ears twitch from the main room of the library.
Rainbow quickly flew towards the room, breaking down the door and looking around seeing nothing out of the ordinary, "Huh I thought I heard something in here" Rainbow commented before walking out. Above where rainbow was just a moment ago, Six was digging his one hand and feet into the roof as his other hand was holding spike who was intern dumbfounded at how he got from being on the ground, to being held to by Six.
Six glanced at his radar making sure there was no one else in the area and silently dropped down to the floor and setting the dragon down on the floor.
"How did you do that.....are you a ninja or something" Spike asked staring at Six with eyes wide and mouth agape.
Six looked at Spike and brought up his pointer finger, placing it on his helmets face plate where his mouth would be making Spike nod and silently watch as Six stepped towards the door, opening it slightly and peaking out seeing the bag he left by the chair with the drone inside it. Six closed the door, taking out a data pad from a slot in his armor which made another memory resurface.
-flashback-
Jorge and Six walked into a cave as gun fire, plasma beams, and other explosions are heard in the distance.
Jorge walked by the other members of noble team carrying a large case, he walked towards the back of the cave where a spartan with green camo stood and dropping the large case on the floor.
"Who did you spend your money on this time" the spartan in the green camo armor named Jun aka noble 3 asked as he brushed his hand on Jorge's shoulder plate that was red hot from a plasma bolt.
"Her" Jorge said plainly taking off his helmet. Jun looked at the taller spartan, "you always pick her" Jun commented with a shrug.
"She always had him dialled in" looks back at the cave entrance where Carter was sitting on a rock with his helmet off watching the chaos that the covenant brought to the planet of reach.
"All our nukes are either Out-system or went down with the ships that carried them....." Carter said to a female Spartan in light blue armor named Kat/ noble 2.
" they'll be backing up a graveyard...." Kat said in a depressed manner. Carter looks up at Kat, " you're preaching to the converted". Kat looks back at Carter as an idea begins forming in her head "how converted?".
"I know that look, Kat"
"You can say no"
"No"
"You don't even want to know it?"
"....Fine. I'll hear it" Carter deadpanned ready to hear what Kat had to say.
"Remember that incident a couple years back? Colony ship en route to Cygnus? Over 700 dead?......"
"Vaguely. A slipspace drive malfunction, right?"
...Actually it was misplaced during a service haulout
"And this is relevant...how?"
"......A certain Covenant supercarrier could, with some assistance, suffer the same unfortunate accident."
"Even for you, Kat, that's-"
"Inspired"
"Not the word I would use" Carter finished as the rest of noble team came over hearing the semi- argument between Carter and Kat.
"What's going on?" Jorge asked curiously which made Carter sigh.
"Go ahead, Explain"
Kat turned around and walked over to a spartan with a helmet that had a skull on the visor named Emile or noble 4. Kat reached for a knife attached to Emile's shoulder plate, Emile grabbed Kats wrist before she could take the blade and making her look at him, " may I" she asked casually making Emile let her hand go from his grasp.
"Don't cut yourself" Emile spoke sarcastically as Kat walked in front of noble team and knelt down with the knife in hand, she began sketching the plan for the rest of noble team on the cave floor.
"Objective: destroy Covenant Super-carrier in geosynchronous orbit above us. Method? A slip-space drive in lieu of the nukes we don't have. Delivery system? Us. Solvable? Getting us up there." Kat finished standing up and handing the knife back to Emile, " thanks for sharing" she sarcastically remarked making Emile huff in response.
"Is this sanctioned" Jorge spoke up as carter swivelled his head towards Jorge, " What do you think".
Carter turned his attention back to Kat, "So...all we need is orbit-capable transport, and the single most expensive piece of equipment made by man?".
"As a soldier in the field, I couldn't possibly have access to those kinds of resources. That being said, a good place to look might be, I don't know, the nearest nonexistent launch site in the nonexistent Sabre Program which was dismissed by three administrations as a preposterous rumour, and in which our newest member was certainly never a pilot." Noble Six shuffled nervously as noble team looked back at him as he stood at the back of the group, "All we need is the green light from Holland." Kat finished explaining her plan to the stunned noble team.
"Good luck with that." Carter retorted
Kat held out a data pad in one of her hands, "do you want to tell him or shall I" she said in a taunting tone making Carter frown.
Carter stood up from the rock and walked over towards Kats extended arm with the data pad in hand, he took the data pad From her grasp while shaking his head in annoyance, "Oh, there's no way in hell he's gonna go for this." He said as he pressed a button on the data pad.
-flashback ends-
Six shook his head getting the memory out of his mind as he looked at the screen of the data which had the camera view from the robot, he made the robot turn the camera around searching for the little multi coloured creatures, but to his surprise the room was unoccupied. Six looked up seeing Spike staring at him from on the lone bed in the room.
"Hey are you alright... You just froze up for a moment there" Spike asked with concern, Six nodded slowly before pointing towards the door.
"I think they left" Six said which made Spike look down and think for a moment. "Yea Twi said they were going to help get ready for winter or some boring thing like that....I'd rather stay and read a comic" Spike emphasized his point by nodding towards a small pile of comics by a basket with a pillow and blanket.
Six looked at the comics for a moment until he heard a noise on the other side of the door making his training back on reach kick in, in one swift motion he took out the energy sword, and put his back to the wall beside the door hinges as the door slowly opened revealing a dark figure.
"L-Luna w-what are you doing here" spike spoke in shock as the dark figure named Luna walked in, shutting the door and locking it with her magic.
"Spike I'll ask you once and only once......" She stood in front of spike keeping eye contact with him, from Six's position he could see that her mane was moving and looked like the endless void of space which made Six weary from the thought of being on a carrier while being attacked by covenant cruisers, Six never liked not being in control of the situation and at the moment it seemed he wasn't in control of this one either as somehow this horse knew he was here.
Spike looked at Luna nervously, " well.....I'm the only one in h-here other than you......w-who are you looking for?" Luna stared at Spike seeing in his eyes that he was lying.
"Spike you shall tell me where the human is this INSTANT!!!" Luna yelled as her horn began glowing lighting the room up and making Spike shake in fear for a moment before glaring back at her and growling.
"NO! I'm not telling you anything and there's nothing you can do about it!" Spike yelled making Luna roar in outrage and pick Spike up in her magical grasp.
"Wrong answer lizard brain"Luna said demonically as she began squeezing the magical grip on Spike, to Six time slowed to a stop.
