HALO Into Equestria

Part 1

Prologue

High Altitude-Low Opening

Luna PoV

"I now pronounce you mare and co-" Celestia was cut off from marrying Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry when something smashed through the window, bringing with it a strange burning odor. On it's back was a cloth rectangle attached by strings and on it's chest was a large dog wearing strange tubes. The creature appeared to either be dead or unconscious. It was covered head to hoof in a multicolored clothing with a vest and helmet. While hanging there, the dog came to. It was confused at first and whimpered at the creature. Celestia asked me to view the creature's memory and I did.

2 Hours Earlier

Operation Green Day

April 2, 2025

4:15 a.m

MSG* Benjamin D. Williams

SEAL Team 4 Headquarters

Little Creek, Virginia

I grabbed my M27 and Five-Seven before putting on my helmet, calling Konrad, the team dog, to my side and headed to the hangar. Our mission was to invade a compound that a rogue general was hiding out in. It was going to be tough, the guy struck a religious fervor into his battalion and they would probably slaughter a farm of puppies,kittens and bunnies if he asked. Take a V-44 Griffon(V-22 Osprey with jet engines instead of turboprops) to the compound, HALO into the compound, clear courtyard of hostiles, capture if possible, kill if not. I boarded the Griffon and waited for take-off. The other members of the team boarded and soon we joined the fleet of V-44s and F/A-38s(VTOL F-22) in the air.

After an hour of waiting, we arrived over the drop-zone. I strapped Konrad to my chest and waited to be checked by the jump-master. Everyone was given the thumbs up and he opened the ramp. Suddenly, the Griffon was rocked by anti-air missiles. The pilot remarked "Holy shit! That was close." I inched my way closer to the ramp and looked out over the scene. Then the Griffon was struck by another missile. The jump-master was thrown off his feet and sucked into the sky. Captain Stuck ran up to me, shouting at everyone to go. He then kicked me off the ramp as the Griffon erupted into flame.

Konrad and I were thrown away from the blast and for a few seconds I tried contacting the people on the Griffon for a few seconds. "Anybody there. Answer me damn it. Come on answer me. Damn it, I'm gonna kill that son of a bitch!" I made myself straight as an arrow and pointed myself down. I dodged the various AA missiles and destroyed Griffons until there was one I couldn't dodge. I screamed and covered Konrad as well as I could as it detonated and the fire ball engulfed us.

Surprisingly, I awoke still heading towards the ground. I saw a city nearby and deployed my wing suit before gliding towards the city. I deployed my parachute and disoriented, I couldn't control myself and smashed into a window, were I was knocked out.

Present

4:17 a.m

April 2, 1006 ANM(After Nightmare Moon)

MSG Benjamin D. Williams

Canterlot, Equestria

Royal Palace

I awoke hanging from the from off the window I smashed through. Konrad was whimpering from my chest so I rubbed the area I thought his head was. I muttered to myself "I guess My vision was fuzzy and I could only see colorful blobs. The J.A.R.V.I.S(Just A Rather Intelligent System) A.I was alerting my to burns that had been stopped by the fire retardant suit I was wearing.

JARVIS was a recent technological advancement that came with the with long used T.A.G(Tactical Assistance Glasses) and I.W.M.D(Interactive Wrist Mounted Display). It monitored health and injuries and JARVIS gave the best medical course, the TAGs gave a HUD that monitored ammo and direction of which you are taking fire.

I looked down and saw that when I covered Konrad, I managed to stop most of the burns though he had some fur singed off. I reached to detach myself from the harness, but when I looked down I saw I was fairly high up. Seeing no other way down, I tried to detach from the harness only to discover that it was jammed. I drew my knife, cut the lines to the parachute, covered Konrad and brassed myself for impact. Remembering that I read somewhere there was a scientific study that proved that if you say profanity when you're hurt, it'll hurt less**. So as I landed, felt my legs break or come close to it and fell flat on my ass, I shouted "FUCK THAT HURTS!" through my teeth. JARVIS informed me that my left tibia was fractured. I detached Konrad from my chest, took off his oxygen mask and did the same to my own.

Suddenly, something pounced on my leg. JARVIS declared my left tibia was now fully broken. I tried to punch it in the head, only to punch something made of metal. Whatever it was was taken off of me by Konrad. Not wanting to be in a fight with a broken leg, I said "Konrad, heel." Almost immediately, Konrad got off it and walked back to me growling at it. Something approached me and said

"Hello, Master Sergeant Benjamin Donald Williams I presume. I am Princess Celestia. Care to explain why you just smashed through the window during a royal wedding?"

"One, I have no idea. I thought I was going to die in an explosion, but I ended up falling from the sky. Two, how do you know my name? Three, why was I attacked, as I now have a broken leg."

"I am sorry about your leg Sergeant, thank you for calling your dog off of the guard. My sister viewed your memories when you were unconscious, that is why I know your name. She also mentioned something about an explosion. As for why you were attacked, as I mentioned, you crashed into a royal wedding." I began tapping on my IWMD and began projecting a hologram of JARVIS.

"Hello ma'am, I am JARVIS, which stands for Just A Rather Intelligent System. Master Sergeant William's left tibia is broken. Your medical personal most likely will not know how to make it heal properly, of which I can be of assistance. I recommend moving him to the nearest hospital immediately."

"Ok. You 2, take him to the Royal Infirmary." 2 Guards picked me up and took me to the Royal Infirmary. The doctors were surprised to see me but with the help of JARVIS, they were able to fix it. Apparently they used some magic after learning the basics of human physiology from JARVIS. It'll be sore for a few days but other than that fine.

I was busy testing my leg when a guard walked up to me. "Mr. Williams, Princess Celestia has requested your presence at the reception of Princess Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry." I simply nodded and followed him. We walked through multiple doors in complete silence and eventually arrived at a garden. He turned to me and said "She will be with you shortly." before walking back towards the castle. I took a seat and muttered to Konrad

"Just think about it Konrad, a few hours ago the situation was FUBB(Fucked Up Beyond Belief) but now we're sitting at the reception of a princess in a world full of technicolor ponies." I then noticed Celestia standing nearby. I looked up and said "Oh, Hello Princess Celestia."

"So, what does FUBB mean."

"It's a military slang in my world. It stands for Fucked Up Beyond Belief. So, what did you call me down here for."

"Ah, yes. What can you tell me about what happened before you came here"

I was about to answer when JARVIS cut me off. "Ma'am I can do you 1 better. I am set to record all missions that Master Sergeant Williams partakes in. Would you wish for me to play Operation Green Day."

She considered for a moment and said "Yes, thank you JARVIS." JARVIS began projecting the last events on Earth I partook in. It cut off after the explosion and she stood there in awe for a few seconds. I didn't want to see her reaction to a mission that involved combat. "Well, that was interesting to say the least. Also we have decided what will happen to you. You will be a guard at the Friendship Castle, which is the castle of Princess Twilight. It won't be exciting but it gives you something to do. We haven't had a war in thousands of years. However, we haven't decided your rank."

"In my book, experience is the only rank that matters. So in my book compared to your best soldier, not to brag or anything, but I'm probably a Five-Star General. I don't like what I do, but someone's gotta do it." She called over who I assumed was Twilight and Flash and when they arrived, I gave them a 2 finger salute.

"Twilight and Flash, I have a proposal for you. Our friend here is military in his world and he needs a job. The captain of Friendship Castle has recently retired and I would like to instate our friend here in as captain. My sister says that he is a capable warrior. But the final decision comes to you."

Flash asked "What's your current rank?"

"Master Sergeant Benjamin Donald Williams at your service, but you can call me Ben. And this is Konrad."

"Master Sergeant, what's that? I recognize sergeant but that's not a rank in our military. What are the ranks in your army?"

"Enlisted ranks are Private, Private First Class, Specialist, Corporal, Sergeant, Staff Sergeant, Sergeant First Class, Master Sergeant, First Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Command Sergeant Major, and Sergeant Master of the Army. Officer ranks are Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Lieutenant Colonel, Colonel, Brigadier General, Major General, Lieutenant General and finally General. Why what are your ranks?"

"Um, Private, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant and Captain. That's a lot less than your army." Before we could go any further, 2 more ponies arrived. They were Twilight's brother and sister-in-law. We told them what we were pondering and they helped us figure it out. I noticed that Flash's expression and asked "Hey Flash, what's wrong?"

"Well, it's just that I kinda want to see your ability. You say experience is the only rank that matters."

"Ok, but I'm not gonna be known as the creature that kicked your ass at his own wedding. Celestia, you said that your sister viewed my memories, correct? Do you know what she did?"

"Yes Mr. Williams I do. Which memory would you like me to view?"

"Operation Rising Sun, April 5, 2019. Begins at noon. Also, October 5, 2020." She preformed the spell and everything faded to black.

Operation Rising Sun

April 5, 2019

12:03 p.m

CPL*** Benjamin D. Williams

Somewhere in the Caribbean

Shadow Company Mercenary Group Compound

The MH-6 Little Bird and AH-6 Little Bird, crested the mountain of an nearby island. I could see the compounds we were invading and the hovercraft of the USMC soldiers that were there to get us to the compound. "Williams, get on your IWMD and soften them up with the Reaper drone." said Cpt. Howard. I activated my IWMD and the screen became infrared as the images from the MQ-9 Reaper appeared. After a few seconds, the words 'AGM-114 Hellfire Online' appeared. I moved the crosshairs over a bunker on the beach and fired. The missile entered the screen and after a few seconds, the bunker was engulfed in a fireball.

"Good kill Alpha Team, hostile bunker destroyed." said Overlord.

"Roger that Overlord. Williams shift aim to AA emplacements." I did as told and shifted the aim over the Anti Air emplacements and SAM(Surface to Air Missile) sites. After about 30 minutes of raining down death, the AH-6 began strafing runs on the compound. On the final strafing run, the helicopter in the lead fired a missile at the wall. "Overlord, this is Alpha. Compound wall destroyed. Permission to begin raid."

"Permission granted Captain. This is Overlord to all units, Phase 2 has begun. Repeat. Raid on Compound is beginning." The helicopters moved to a clearing and landed. I checked my rifle and unhooked from the seat. As my feet the ground and we turned towards the compound, I heard many soldiers yelling

"GO, GO, GO."

"We got the main compound, boys. Johnson, Davis and Jackson go around the back. Set C4 on the wall and breach the wall. The rest of you are with me. Charge the breach in the wall!" shouted Howard, as we sprinted towards the compound. 3 peeled off and the 3 of us left continued forward. We slowed as we reached the wall and after a few moments we heard C4 detonate as the 3 that split off made their entrance. MSG Philips and Cpt Howard began moving into the breach before the mercs inside opened fire. Philips was killed and Howard was wounded. I tackled him behind a nearby rock and checked his wounds. After I made sure he wouldn't bleed out, I began frantically calling Overlord for air support.

"Overlord, Overlord, this is Corporal Williams. Captain Howard and I are pinned down by enemy mercenaries. Situation is FUBAR BUNDY(Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair/Reason But Unfortunately Not Dead Yet). Requesting air support."

"Negative Corporal. Thermal scans reveal that your teammates are inside the building. Using air support will kill them. I'm sorry Corporal. Reinforcements are on their way."

"Damn it Overlord. If we don't get something soon, your gonna have 5 more dead SEALs. Captain Howard is wounded and won't last much longer." I again stood up and fired randomly at the mercs before being forced down again. Howard patted me and said

"Williams, I'm not gonna last much longer. There are 3 ways of this ending; You doing something worthy of the Medal of Honor and me surviving, you doing something worthy of the Medal of Honor and me dying, or we both die here. Here are my grenades, flashbags, smoke grenades, and all my ammo except 2 pistol mags. Now, go get a Medal of Honor or die trying." He handed me the things he named and patted me again.

After staring at him for a few seconds, I said "See ya in hell man." I took a flashbang and frag, pulled the pins, waited 2 seconds and threw them. Then I did the same to all the grenades I had before throwing the smoke grenades to cover my approach. I turned around and started to fire at everyone I could see. All the mercs were disoriented from all the grenades and were quickly killed by my M27. I quickly arrived at the door of the compound. I kicked the door and as I charged inside, a merc that was hiding next to the door hit me in the head with the butt(stock) of his rifle. As I blacked out, the merc checked my dog tags and I could hear a man speak in an South African accent.

"Another one, eh." I could hear the merc say something" What's that? It's Williams. Bring him to me. IT'S POKER NIGHT!"

I awoke at a poker table sitting across from a man in a suit with messy dark brown hair. On either side of us were 2 dead mercs, one with what I could only describe as a giant fucking knife in his neck. We were in the second and top floor of the compound I was breaching. We were surrounded by mercs and on the other side of the room, I could see the 3 teammates I came here to save, on their knees with their hands behind their backs. As he saw me awake he said, "Ahhhh, you're finally awake. Corporal Benjamin D. Williams, I presume. I believe you would call this SNAFU(Situation Normal: All Fucked Up). You SEALs have caused me a lot of trouble, but I believe in forgiveness. So, I hope your good at five card hold-em, because let's just say, it'll be a long and painful death if you aren't."

He took the cards and gave us both 2 cards before placing two 6s and a 7  in the middle face up. He placed 2 cards face down before placing an ace and 4 face up. We revealed our cards; I had a 5 and 8, he had a 6 and Jack. He gathered the cards and again gave us 2 cards. He placed a 5, Jack and 10. He placed 2 cards face down, off to the side, and placed a 2 and 7 face up. We revealed our cards; I had two 4s, he had a Jack and King. He laughed before standing up and saying "You know what, Corporal Williams? I'm going to go easy on you. 1 finger every time you lose." The mercs behind me grabbed my hands and held them to the table. He took the giant fucking knife from the dead merc, who fell out out the chair. After cleaning it of blood with his sleeve and saying "I think I'll start with," and after a moment of thought "the ring finger." Then he cut off my ring finger at the bending point, to which I screamed in pain. As he held my finger like a trophy, I grabbed the knife of the merc on the right holding me down, stabbed him in the neck, before retracting and stabbed the one on the left in the stomach and after a few flashes of white, everything except me and the man faded to black.

He laughed as he threw my finger aside and said "Ah, we can't get married. You could have joined me Williams. Every kill rewarded by money. We could use your talent. I've been watching you for a while now and I was most excited when I found out that your squad was deployed to invade my compound personally."

I looked briefly at the stump that now was my ring finger and went into a fighting stance before stuttering out "Fuck you."

He held his arms out and said "I take no pleasure in this, really, I don't."

I spat back "I don't need 10 fingers to use a knife!"

He tossed his knife between his hands before saying "I've been doing this longer than you've been born kid."

Again I spat back "Bring it on, old man." After a moment of staring at him, I kicked him in his leg. He spun around and tried to stab me, which I blocked with my own knife. He tried to stab me in the shoulder but I blocked that attack too. He violently thrust his knife forward before I grabbed his arm and threw it back before punching him in the head. We broke combat and he said

"I'm very disappointed in you Williams. You could have joined me. Everything you ever wanted yours. Money, women, power but when my agent approached you, you declined for the fucking United States Navy Sea, Air and Land Teams. We had plans to kidnap your family, friends, girlfriend and if need be that fucking mutt, Konrad.

Taken by rage, I didn't let him go further as I said through my teeth "I'm going to kill you!" as I lashed out with my knife, which he back stepped to.

He laughed and said "I have very powerful friends that will hunt you down."

"And I have a fucking army at my back." He tried to punch me in the stomach with his left hand and I blocked as he tried to stab me in the shoulder. I caught it and threw it back and immediately he tried to slash me. I quickly stabbed him in the shoulder and backed up.

He began to become furious and nearly screamed "You can't win! I hold all the cards."

I intimidated him by saying "Then why are you afraid?" He lashed at me again. I blocked it and the following attack with my knife before crouching down quickly to dodge a slash and kicking him in the leg again. This time, he tripped me. He tried to deliver a killing blow before I quickly moved out of the way and his knife hit the area in between my arm and side. I tried to slash his arm but he pulled the knife out of the floor, however I slashed his leg. I got up and we stepped around each other. He tried to thrust his blade into my chest before I blocked it with my knife and the following attack. I tried to move in and stab him in the stomach. However he blocked it, but in the process he got in the perfect position for a kick in the stomach. The kick sent him to the floor but as I tried to stab him, he kicked me with both legs in the head. The light head I would have had from blood loss was killed by adrenaline and rage. I recoiled from the kicks and accidentally dropped my knife as I went on my hands and knees. Before he could attack, I grabbed the knife in a reverse grip. He himself attacked in a reverse grip which I dodged by grabbing his leg and stabbing him in the back. I let go and grabbed the knife from his hand I then promptly shoved the knife into his throat. He staggered back a bit and as he did, I grabbed the knife out of his back and stabbed him on the top of his head. I looked at his corpse after white flashes, the black that enveloped us faded away.

Once all the black faded away, I saw the corpses of all the mercs that were in the room, which was strange as none of them were in the I guess hallucination. Quickly remembering the reason I was here, I ran over to the squad mates that had been captured and cut their bonds. One of them asked "Dude, what the fuck was that? You just took on 4 mercs and that Australian dude, with a knife and a missing ring finger."

"I don't know man. Everything just faded to black except me and the dude. Speaking of missing ring finger, I think I'm about to pass out." Then I promptly passed out from blood loose. As blackness enveloped my vision, I could hear the door being kicked down.

I awoke hours later in a hospital with my ring finger bandaged.

18 Months Later

Sgt Benjamin D. Williams

Washington D.C, USA

White House

The President ended his speech "For his bravery under hostile fire and dedication to the mission when wounded and outnumbered, I present to Sergeant Benjamin Donald Williams, the Medal of Honor." I walked up and the president pinned the medal on my chest. Then he whispered to me "I believe you have a speech son." I nodded to him and walked to the podium.

"Thank you, sir. 18 months ago, I was hiding behind a rock with my wounded captain. The situation was FUBAR BUNDY. We were surrounded by enemies and taking heavy fire. Unable to use air support due to the presence of friendly prisoners in the compound, Captain Howard gave me all his grenades and ammo. He told me 'This will end 3 ways. With me doing something worthy of the Medal of Honor and him surviving, With me doing something worthy of the Medal of Honor and him dying or with both of us dying.' Captain Howard survived but Master Sergeant Philips wasn't so lucky. He was killed by enemy fire and is buried in the Arlington National Cemetery with his comrades in arms; past, present and future. 8 years ago, when I first joined the Navy, I listened to a speech given by Ronald Reagan about Private Martin Treptow, a barber who enlisted in the Iowa National Guard and became part of the famed Rainbow Division during World War 1. He was killed by enemy machine gun fire while delivering a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire. On his body was his diary, and under the flyleaf 'My Pledge' these words were written. 'America must win this fight. Therefore, I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure. I will fight cheerfully and do my upmost, as if the whole struggle rested on me alone.' At the beginning and end of the day during basic training, I recited those words. I would like to thank each and every one of you for this."

Flash whistled and said "Wow, that was something. I vote for captain." The ponies cast their votes.

I bowed and Twilight said "I here by promote you, Master Sergeant Benjamin Donald Williams to captain."

I thought to myself 'Wow, I just jumped up 8 pay grades.'

Then Celestia said "Follow me, we have an announcement." We walked out to the stage that had been set up for the party. Celestia took a mic and said "Hello everypony, we have an announcement to make. You may recognize this guy from earlier this afternoon. He is Sergeant Master Benjamin Donald Williams and as the title suggests, he is military in his world. He has no idea how he got here and he thought that he had been killed in his world. After hours of pondering what to do, I now present you the new captain of the Friendship Castle Guard." She cleared the way for me and gave me the mark.

"Ah, yes hello. Don't worry about me, you'll hardly notice the me." I thought to myself Yep, you won't even notice the 6'1, 200lb creature that's armed to the teeth. "Well, this is a party right," an all pink pony jumped up screaming 'YEAH!' and then I continued "So why don't I introduce you to some human music." and with that I walked over to the turn table and inserted a cable from the IWMD into the speakers. I muttered "Alright JARVIS, play Carry On by Avenge Sevenfold and Thriller by Michael Jackson.

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When Thriller came on, I began projecting the music video after setting up a white sheet. The crowd loved both and most began chanting for more. So I said "Alright this is the last one." I turned to JARVIS and said "Time to close out JARVIS. Ummmm, If Today Was Your Last Day, Nickleback."

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I took the cable out of the speaker and walked into the crowd. Celestia greeted me and walked me over to 5 mares and a reptile about 3 feet high. She said "These are Twilight's friends and you'll be taking the train to Ponyville with them. And this is Spike, Twilight's Personal Assistant. He'll help you settle in at the castle."

They introduced themselves and I gave a simple 'Nice to meet ya." before asking when the train was leaving. They responded with tomorrow morning and I excused myself, stating "Today, I was thrown out of a plane by an explosion, hit by an explosion, taken to another dimension, crashed through a window during a royal wedding, had my leg broken and magically fixed." Celestia had a guard escort me to my room. I took off my equipment before laying down on the bed, on which Konrad hopped up with me after taking off his ballistic vest. I fell asleep shortly after.

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Konrad(Oh, yeah. He's a german shepherd