Halo: Luck

Chapter 1 Part 2: Awkward Entrance Part 2

Rainbow Dash looked into the robot's eye slit, more terrified than she ever had been before. She heard a voice behind her, and recognized it as Twilight's.

"DUCK!" yelled Twilight and then sent a beam of lightning towards the green robot. It struck it right in the chest, while in the process throwing dust everywhere. She strained to see if it was gone. Rainbow darted back over the group, who were equally as terrified. The dust finally cleared, and what she saw left her unconfident that she could stop it. Bolts of electricity sizzled around it's body, with a slight 'zmmmmm' sound. She sent another spell, which didn't affect it at all. She could feel herself weakening, and knew there was only one last thing left to do. She constructed a shield of magic, and sent the girls running back home. When they were safe, she used the last ounce of energy left in her body to create one last spell. She hoped it worked this time...

Jun, was now having possibly the worst night/morning of his life. He wouldn't admit it, but those bolts of energy surprised him. Why were they so aggressive? He was only using self-defense. He watched his shield bar fill up, and then walked towards the purple unicorn, trying to reassure it that he was no harm, only to find it absorbed by magic and disappear.

"Great! This is just great! First I wake up and I'm attacked by a group of these 'ponies', and now their going off to get the whole calvary. Fucking great." He ranted, "Well, now that I've gotten that off my chest, I guess all I can do is follow them and try to negotiate again." While the kind part of himself urged him on, the spartan side was trying to put a gun to his head as if to say 'screw that, I'm not going to get fucked up again.' His kind, considerate side won over. He knew he was stronger. He decided to try and learn to use his wings. He looked back at them this time to find that they were a dark gray color. He focused on them in his mind. Just then, he managed to make them flap. Wonderful, he thought. In a matter of minutes, he could already hover and fly around. He started flying in the direction the ponies went, surprised that with the armor on he was flying anyways. He flew into the clouds to find that they were actually quite solid. He tilted his head at it. Weird. He could see the ponies running towards a distant town. He waited for them to get there, and then flew in to investigate the place.

Twilight landed in the center of the library, to find that all the books were scattered on the floor. That was the least of her worries, though. Spike came running down the stairs towards her.

"Twilight," he said, "you're ba-"

Twilight shook him. "We have no time for that Spike! Send a message to the Princess saying that there's a monster robot heading here! Quickly!"

"I might be able to do it if you stopped shaking me!"

"Oh, sorry."

Spike grabbed a quill and paper. After sending the note, he and Twilight walked outside to find that the Sun had come up. She saw the rest of the ponies coming into town a sighed in relief. Thank Celestia they were ok. They hid in Twilight's house and waited for the Princess. I know, I know. That's sounds boring. But what would you do differently? Alright, lets get back on track.

Jun noticed that Ponyville wasn't much different from what he expected. It looked like any medieval fantasy town. He trotted towards the center of town, noting that at the moment, the whole town looked deserted. Yet he wouldn't say barren. Stalls were lined around what he would consider the middle of town. He heard a door slam in the distance. He also noticed that he felt as if he could feel eyes trained on him. From a lot of different places. He pressed against the wall of a house quietly, and tried to decide between a military approach, or a relaxed approach. He didn't get to choose as what looked like a chariot landed in the center of town along with two armored ponies from whom he guessed propelled it. Just then a white pony stepped out and looked around. He assumed that she was probably a royal figure, and that she had both wings and a horn. He didn't want to confuse himself on what that made her. He stepped out of the shadows of the wall and walked casually towards her. It didn't make him any less prepared for what was to follow.

She turned around to glare at him angrily. Jun wasn't happy about that. Trying to negotiate with an individual who was angry made them unreasonable. He was about to introduce himself when he was struck by a spell, and was sent flying backwards towards a stall, smashing through it and rolling onto his hooves. "Holy shit," he muttered to himself. He ran towards her but was stopped by a force pressing against him. Some sort of magic she had was restraining him. He was pulled closer to her against his will.

"HOW DARE YOU! YOU SHALL NEVER HARM MY SUBJECTS! ANY WHO DO WILL BE PUNISHED SEVERELY!"

"Hold up a second! I never did attempt to harm your su-!"

"SILENCE!"

And with that she smashed Jun against the ground. Once, twice, and a third time before throwing him against the huge tree. He smashed through one of the windows and landed on the wooden floor with a groan. Damn, that one hurt. He groaned in pain again, and spit a little bit of blood onto his visor. He looked up to see the group of ponies who had caused this. "It was just self defense." He said before getting dragged out of the door by the Princess. He wasn't down yet though. He was levitated towards the Princess until he was  right in front of her. And that's when he made his move. He darted his hooves around her neck and put her into a headlock. Before he knew it, he started to choke her. His anger was pouring gas on the floor, and his training had lit the match. Before long she started panicking, and her eyelids started to fall. In the midst of all this, something shook him. He looked down, surprised to see the ponies crying for him to stop. Why hadn't he heard that?

"You're going to kill her!" the purple one cried. The rest begged for him to stop. He saw the two 'guards' from before rushing towards him. Finally, he let go. The Princess fell on the ground, wheezing. Jun felt the need to explain himself.

"I didn't want to do any of this," Jun said, "But it was in an act of self-defense. I'm not just going to let somepony slaughter me pointlessly." He noted his use of 'somepony'.

After a while, a lot of wheezing, and a rise back to consciousness, Celestia turned to speak to the robot. Maybe she had over-reacted. A crowd had gathered around to see the fight. Ponies were yelling out insults at the robot.

"Heartless being!"

"Robot!"

Jun didn't pay attention to any of the insults directed towards him. He planned to leave for a while and let the purple pony explain his innocence. He turned and faced 'Princess Celestia'. Jun was about to leave when he heard and insult that actually struck his heart.

"Monster!"

He stood up to his full height, and peered for the pony who said it. This action caused all of them to freeze and stare at him. "Who called me a monster?" he whispered, his voice ice cold. "Who?" The ponies shuffled aside to reveal a stallion who tried to look at him without shaking. He leaned down and put his face an inch away from his. "Don't ever, ever call me that again." And with that he left.