Prologue: Feet First into Hell

Hello, my name is or at least used to be Tristan, but ever since I went to the 2013 E3 convention to see the Halo 5 reveal, and bought an item from a shady merchant, which caused me to arrive on a planet of Anthropometric ponies where I had been encased in stone for over a fifteen hundred years after helping a chimera named Discord fight against the leaders of the country I was on. My allies call me Master Chief, my enemies call me Demon and this is my story.

I entered the building quite relaxed and happy that I could finally go to E3. I decided to go as Master Chief, complete with the Assault Rifle, and Halo:CE Magnum. I even brought a combat Knife Replica that I put on the left arm of the costume.

For the most part I browsed through the items being sold buying a Energy Sword replica in the process, when a vendor caught my eye. He was an odd fellow wearing a hood that hid his face, he apparently saw me. “I have some interesting trinkets for sale, care to take a look.” He said emphasizing the word “interesting” more than usual. I decided to see what he had not seeing any harm in it.

The trinkets were various items that were in many different games ranging from the Apple of Eden, to a couple rings. That was when I saw a replica of the dog tags Chief held in the Halo 5 teaser trailer I just saw awhile ago, complete with Cortana's chip. I pointed at the dog tags and asked, “How much are you selling this for?”

The Man seemed to be in thought but eventually replied, “I’ll sell it to you for let's say, Twenty-five dollars.”

I flinched at the price but thought it would be neat to have and agreed, digging into my wallet where I put my cash saved for this event, drawing out a twenty and a five dollar bill I gave it to him and he happily gave me the dog tags and said, “I hope you have an exciting day sir.”

I thought nothing of it, and put the dog tags around my neck and continued to look around the booths and even got to try out a few future releases. At the end of the day I went back to my hotel exhausted, I fell asleep not even bothering to take off my costume.

I woke up the next day falling and only one word came to mind. Fuck!, a word that I screamed out without hesitation, not noticing my voice change. I would have flailed my arms and legs but I couldn’t even move them. It was then that something came to my attention, There was a heads up display on my helmet was showing a radar, blue bar at the top, a compass and a note on the lower part of the visor saying “Armor Lock engaged, shields diverted to head, spine, and joints.” I after reading this just closed my eyes and braced for impact. I landed on the ground two seconds later.

I found that I was still conscious and the bar on the top of my hud was flashing red. I tried to find a way to disengage the armor lock, several minutes later I found that all I needed was to make a mental command. I got up and looked around to see I was in some jungle.

It was then my mind connected the dots, and I realized, and said “I was transformed into a Spartan.” I looked at myself to confirm and indeed I was, the sage armor on my body showed that. I then realized that my voice wasn’t the same as it was before and that I recognized it from somewhere. I decided to see if talking again would jog my memory, “Testing, testing.” It was then I connected being a Spartan and my new voice together and realized I was the Master Chief.

With the new knowledge, my mind was doing flips and I was stuck between wondering how it happened and thinking how cool it was to actually be the Master Chief.

It was a few minutes later my thoughts cleared and reminded me that despite how cool this is, I would not see my family here, deciding I needed to find a way back to Earth no matter the cost. I explored the jungle hoping by luck that I would run into someone, that could help or at least tell me where I was, and who could help.

It seemed luck was with me, I spotted what looked like a medieval camp from the distance I could make out a banner with a laser red background the emblem itself was the oddest part It was a rough shield shape with a swirling green and tan. outside of the emblem had a deer antler on the left and a twisted unicorn horn on the right these sat on top of the shield. On the sides were a purple dragon wing and a light blue bird wing.

I put the banner in the back of my mind, once I figured out how to use the zoom function on my visor I was able to clearly see the camps troops. It was weird they looked like Anthropomorphic Pegasus, Unicorns, and normal horses if you call a horse with dyed fur, mane and tails ‘Normal’. Griffons, dragons and a few other mythological beings there were all Anthro, except for a single Chimera that reminded me of the banner, so I figured that the chimera was the leader or at least the general.

I set my visor to a normal setting, I take a look at my weapon replicas, and to my surprise the Assault rifle, Magnum and Knife were real, and my HUD displayed that I had ammo for the guns. I wanted to see one more thing, I took out the Energy Sword and activated it after a few minutes of figuring out how. I figured out that it activated upon squeezing the right side but applying less pressure on the left. My HUD told me the sword was at full charge. I was about to walk over to the camp before I noticed that I had Active Camouflage installed in my armor. Like most of the functions on my armor it was activated by a thought.

I finally made my way to the camp. I was about three hundred meters away when three of these Anthro People confronted me, crossbows aimed at my face. One of them stepped forward and shouted, “Put your hands in the air, or we shoot right now creature!”

I complied with her demands. Looking at her I saw that she wore green and tan leather armor in a camouflage pattern if Camoflage had swirls in it, her armor unlike the others had a single gold swirl on it, I guessed that it had something to do with rank. Her fur was grey, she had purple leathery wings, and her mane and tail both were brown with red running down the middle.

A minute later she made her next demand, “Turn around and walk forward, if you draw one of your weird items we will kill you.” I compiled yet again.

It took ten minutes to reach the camp and yet another ten minutes to reach the commander's tent, where we stopped and waited. The chimera dismissed the guards with a wave of his talon, looking at me the Cherma smiled and held out his paw in greeting, “Hello there human the names Discord, what’s yours?”

I look at Discord ignoring the fact he knew what I was and I replied, “You may call me Master Chief, or Chief for short.”

Author's Note

Here is the image of discords emblem that I was attempting to discribe

(Edit: item he buys is now the dog tags in the halo 5 teaser trailer because it made more sense. Also corrected the year)