You know, I didn’t ask to be here. To be among colorful miniature horses called ponies. And to top it all off, I don’t even know if my men were able to get the civilians to the evac points and whether or not they made it off the planet. By the way if you’re wondering, my name is Garen Gonzales, ODST captain, and here is how I ended up in this world called Equestria.

I was stationed on the planet Reach 3 years before the Covenant came. I was also known to be called the ‘Cobalt Trooper’ due to the amour color that I decided to have instead of the default ODST color scheme. But my choice in color proved to be very effective on night ops. Anyway, sometime after Jorge and Noble 6 along with a contingent of UNSC forces took out the Covenant super carrier, only to end up having the entire Covenant fleet dropped down onto our heads. All UNSC forces were ordered to get civilians to the evac points. And that gets to where I end up on my trip to Equestria.

We were crossing a sky bridge to get to where the evac point was. We were under heavy fire by Covenant forces.

“Ramerez, see if you can take out those snipers,” I called out.

“On it,” Ramerez said, taking careful aim before firing at the Covenant snipers firing at us from further up.

“Lucy, Davis, Jackson, take the right flank I’ll take the left.”

“What about me sir,” I turned around to see private Scorpus awaiting orders.

“Carlon, you’re going to stay here and support Ramerez. Make sure that no Covenant forces get to him. Plus, you’re our second best sniper, and I prefer that you stay in the back. I know you have this freaky healing power that only can happen to you but I don’t think it would be wise to send you in the front lines.”

The private gave me a nod letting me know that he understood. With that in mind I sprinted off to the left side of the bridge, easily taking out the grunts that were there while my squad took care of the forces to the right. That was when I felt a chill go down my spine.

“Captain lookout!”

Turning I saw an elite that had somehow snuck up on me. Time seemed to have slowed down as I watched the Elite getting ready to kick me off the side of the bridge. I noticed something was off as I noticed a black hue emanating from the sangheili’s head and two black robed figures that seem to be standing in midair at the other side of the bridge.

‘Oooh, this is bad,’ I thought as time seemed to have gone normally as I was kicked in the chest and sent flying off the edge. I could hear my squad screaming my name as I fell. As I looked at the sky I could see the Elite sent off the edge with multiple bullet wounds. And everything turned bright white as I continued to plummet to the ground.

‘Uh, this isn’t right. Why is everything turning white?’ I thought before blacking out.

I was partially waking up when I heard a man’s voice, “Don’t try to move, you have went through a temporal vortex. You’re lucky that I had found you before anyone else.”

“Wh what are you talking about,” I struggled to get the words out. I tried to look around my surroundings but my vision was blurry. The only things that I could make out were that I was in some small room laying on what seemed to be a bed of hay. I strained to get up only to be held down by someone.

“I don’t know who you think you are, but I won’t give you any information regarding the UNSC.”

“Relax boy, I’m only interested in your well being.” Whoever the speaker was I could tell that he wasn’t Covenant nor did he sound like he wanted to harm me.

“Why am I here and what do you mean by temporal vortex?” I asked, trying to get some answers while also trying to get my vision back. Why is my vision still blurry?

“Those are questions to be answered at another time,” The stranger replied, “For now, I’m afraid that you’re going to have to wait a while before your UNSC forces are able to get you.”

“Okay, so why don’t we…”

I never got to finish my sentence as darkness was overtaking me again. I was just able to hear one more thing from him.

“I’m sorry but it seems you may have gotten some rather bad luck. I’ll be seeing you again sometime after the 1,000th Summer Sun Celebration. Until then, bye.”

And that’s when I blacked out again. When I woke up again, I found myself in some sort of hallway in what appeared to be an old Middle Ages castle that has seen better days. I was relieved that my vision was normal and that I could get up again. Checking my gear, I still had my M6G magnum along with three extra magazines for it. I had lost my MA5C assault rifle, so I had two useless mags until I can find another one.

“Well, can this day get any worse.”

“Feisty.”

“What the… who said that?”

Looking around I didn’t see anyone who could’ve said that. And I barely caught movement on my radar’s motion sensor.

“Well, this is going to be interesting.”

I decided to go ahead and look around to see where I am and to figure out whatever that thing was that made that outburst. I took note on the fact that some of the décor did not seem to have any resemblance to human civilization, but still held some similarities. I also took note that it was in the late afternoon as it was beginning to get dark.

“Might as well look around for anything useful,” With that said I set off to look for any possible supplies that I could use to make it through the night and hopefully find a way out of this place. I also wondered what that stranger meant by the Summer Sun Celebration, not exactly a holiday I've heard of on any of the other colonies.

Author's Note

Alright my third story so far. And as you may have noticed, this takes place after Touch of Darkness. For events that will take place further in the futur, there won't be any real gory fighting going on. That will take place on my next story that will come sometime after this one. As for the chapters that I'm going to write, they will coincide with some of the episodes from the show but I will exclude some which I don't think the ODST would really have much of an important role. I would just have to see how well I do and what you guys think of it. Anyway enjoy.