Halo:battle for Equis

The Weapons Factory Part 1

The next day 0600 hours

Viper woke up and yawned. He decided to hit the showers so that when Nightmare Moon or Molestia wake up, they don't steal all the hot water. As he put his feet to the floor, he heard a distinct 'clop-clop'. He looked down to see two hooves, his hooves. He got up and went to the bathroom and looked into the mirror. His body changed to a unicorn. His fur was black and his mane and tail was silver with steel stripes near the end.

'Thank god that I'm not a girl, otherwise that would raise some eyebrows', Viper thought.

He walked into the room until he saw wings on his back when flexed his back.

'Great, I'm an alicorn. Can this day get any worse'? It got worse. When he went back to his room, his marefriends woke up and saw him. They instantly thought that he was an intruder and started to attack him.

"Hey, stop. It's me, Viper!" he said as Molestia tried to kick him in his man-er… stallionhood, but alas, she didn't stop in time to stop his baby maker from being crushed by her hoof.

"Oh my, Viper, I'm so sorry. I thought you were an intruder," Molestia apologized as Nightmare Moon helped him up.

"It's ok, but I might have a chance of not having foals, or kids ever in my lifetime from that kick," Viper said in a strained voice. The three decided to find Zecora, Viper limping rather than walking, to find out what happened to him.

10 minutes later

"What the hell is Poison Joke?" Viper asked.

"It's kinda like Poison Oak, instead it plays a joke on you," Apple Bloom said as Zecora started to look for the necessary ingredients to make a cure.

"How long will it take to make it?" Viper asked.

"A couple of hours, since all my ingredients are at my hut and some are in the Everfree forest. I'll be gone until then," Zecora said as she left to get the Poison Joke cure.

"Great, just great. How am I going to tell my team?" Viper asked himself as he left to his team bedroom.

Later, team bedroom

"HAHAHAHA, oh my god, I can't- I can't breathe!" Blake said as he and the team laughed at Viper’s misfortune, until Blake got kicked between his legs by said person.

"This is not a time to laugh. I can't do anything because of my... condition, so Marcus is the Squad leader until this is cured," Viper said in a tone that left no room for any arguments.

"Okay then, right now I'm going to stay on the base until further not..." Viper didn't finish when the P.A system turned on.

"Viper and his team, report to Colonel Anders for further orders." The P.A system then turned off. Viper and the other nine walked to the location. When they did, the Colonel asked for an explanation about what happened to Viper, who explained everything to him. After the explanation, the Colonel started to explain about the mission at hand.

"Yesterday, one of our satellites took an image over the griffon empire and found this," The Colonel said as a 3-D image of a building with smoke stacks coming out of it.

"What are we looking at, Colonel?" Blake asked.

"This is a weapons factory that the griffons are using to make these," Anders said as he brought more 3-D images showing German tanks, fighters and bombers, bombs and weapons used for ground troops.

"Jesus Christ, they look like they are preparing for a war," Brandon said as he saw the amount of weaponry and vehicles they were producing.

"The Captains are getting anxious about it because they are pretty much in the heart of Europe," Colonel Anders said as he brought the planet into view and zoomed onto the European continent, which they call it that since they don't know what the ponies call them, and it showed the griffon empire in the middle of the continent.

"Since the world, excluding some countries, still uses Bronze Age weapons and tech, they won't have any chance against them if they are invaded and that is bad for us, since they could fortify their homeland to make it nearly impenetrable and they could have air defense systems all over the country. They have 10 of these super factories all over their country, but this one is the most vulnerable. They put it between two mountains that makes it near impossible for land attack, but not for an air assault," the Colonel said as he showed the Spirit of Fire over the country in orbit.

"We are sending in a team of 19 to drop in and destroy the factory so their production is significantly decreased. You will be transported to the Spirit of Fire in one hour, dismissed," as Anders said that, the nine Spartans saluted him and left to the grab their gear and ammo.

1 hour later, Alpha base hangar.

The 9 Spartans walked to their assigned area, but was surprised when they saw Samantha and her team getting their gear ready, along with Rusty who was sharpening the blade side of the tenderizer.

"Guess you got pulled in this too, huh?" Jaeden asked as he talked to Samantha.

"Yeah, guess this has to be a big deal if they have Spartans on the mission," she said as Samantha pointed to the others. They heard their mission number called.

"Mission number 68-4965 is a go," the lady on the P.A system said.

"Guess that's our signal,"  Ryan said as he spit out a piece of gum. They started to enter the Pelican. Once they all got in, the Pelican took off and flew to the Spirit of Fire.

Meanwhile in Ponyville

Twilight was looking through Viper and his teams’ records that was on the drone. She went through each one and they all had one thing in common, they were all are on ONI’s bad side. Each Spartan had an impressive record of completing each mission without any injury and a high kill count. She saw that Viper chose them personally, each having a specific job on the battlefield.  She was surprised that Viper’s team survived a good amount of the war.

When she was looking through their combat records, Matthew knocked on her door.

"Who is it?" Twilight asked.

"It's Matthew," Matthew said. Twilight got up and opened the door, showing her slave with an envelope with the royal seal.

"What is this?' Twilight asked Matthew as she read it.

"I don't know. A royal courier dropped this at the door," Matthew replied.

Twilight read the paper that said that Princess Celestia and Luna are coming to Ponyville for a small social gathering. This raised her heart rate since this is the first time she ever introduced her friends formally to Celestia. She prayed that everything went smoothly.

Spirit of Fire drop pod bay.

The team were putting their weapons into the pods. Earlier they met Parker, another Centurion who knew Viper. When they checked his records, it said that he killed an elite Zealot and took his energy sword. He is serious when on the battlefield, but is usually calm outside of it.

"Okay, remember what the Colonel said. The Spartans are going to the front and the Centurion are hitting the back," Samantha said as they entered the SIOEV drop pods.

The task force was waiting until the light started to change color. They all grabbed their controls until the light turned green and they were ejected to the planet below.

The nineteen pods were falling towards the planet and high speeds, then the Centurion started to split off from the rest and aimed for the other side of the factory.

With the Spartans, north side of the weapons factory

The team opened their chutes to slow down their descent until they felt the pods hitting the ground and the pod doors blasted opened and the team started to fire at the griffons, who were confused. The Spartans’ fire power, along with four Spartans’ upgraded weapons, tore through the griffons’ armor. After the team of ten duck behind cover, the griffons opened fire with bolt action rifles, pistols, machine guns, and sub machine guns. The two forces opened fired, the Spartans’ shields holding on long enough for them to kill a good chunk of the griffon forces.

The Spartans started to advance, while Brandon stayed behind to give them sniper support. The griffons started to pour out of the factory and fired their guns at them. One of them started to become a problem for them.

"Brandon, can you take this damn gunner out, we can't advance?" Luke asked over the comms. 10 seconds later, the gunner was missing half a face as he went down.

"Moving up, thanks Brandon," Jaeden said as the 9 Spartans moved up. They split up into three groups, Blake, Andrew, and Ryan went to the left side. Marcus, Alex, and Jaeden went the right. The rest went straight down the middle.

With Marcus and his squad

Marcus, Alex, and Jaeden killed the griffons that started to pop out of the factory doors. Marcus grabbed one of them and stabbed it in the skull and pulled out the knife.  Alex used his modified assault rifle to his advantage and killed a group of griffons that tried to sneak up behind them. The three stop and heard tank tracks getting closer and turned to see a Panzer tank aiming its cannon at them. Wasting no time, they all scrambled. Jaeden pulled his grenade launcher and fired a grenade round at the tracks.

The tracks took damage, but was still operational. Jaeden grabbed a different round, a thermite grenade round, and put it into the grenade launcher and fired. The effect was instantaneous. The round burned through the tank armor and burned it to liquid metal, killing those inside.

"Hope to God that the others are having more luck than us," Alex said as they entered the building.

With Blake, Andrew, and Ryan

They weren't having the best of luck. The three Spartans are stuck between advancing griffons from behind, and six gunners in the front. Andrew and Ryan pulled a maneuver out of their playbook.  Andrew grabbed a bubble shield and chucked it at Ryan, who used his shotgun as a bat. The device was launched towards the machine gunners, who didn't see it until they turned into a bloody mist when the bubble popped up and their bullets bounced off the shield. Blake put his shotgun on his magnetic clip on his back and pulled out his pistol and started to shoot them in the head, causing streams of blood and brain matter to fly everywhere.

As the three advanced towards the entrance, they see the griffons desperately trying to close the doors, only to have a rocket to explode at their feet, launching chunks of body parts and intestines all over the place. Eventually, the team of three entered the factory and hoped that the others were okay.

With Callie, Luke, and Rusty

The Spartan 2 and the other two were pretty much having a blast. Callie would use her dual smgs and kill anything that was trying to kill her, even to the point of grabbing a MG34 machine gun and started to mow down the griffons. Rusty was using his rocket launcher and gravity hammer, and was demolishing everything that was in his way, while singing a Frank Sinatra song. Luke was beating a griffin to death, when said griffin tried to stab Callie in the back.

When he turned around, Rusty had the weirdest weapon ever, it looked like a Spartan laser, but when he fired, instead of holding the trigger and firing a laser, it pushed air out and flung griffons all over the place, killing most of them. He didn't want to question on how he got the weapon and proceeded to kill everything that was a griffon.

Eventually, the griffons were either dead or dying, the three went to the front entrance, only to be greeted by a Panzer tank. Since Rusty’s rocket launcher was out of ammo and they had no grenades, Callie ran onto the tank and hijacked the moving armor and used it on other tanks as more rolled out of the factory.

"Should we help her?" Rusty asked.

"Nah, Callie can handle herself. Besides, right now she is in her own place, and I don't want to be near her right now," Luke said as Callie destroyed another tank and she drove around the place.  The two Spartans saw more infantry coming in and some of them had Panzerschreck rocket launchers and aimed for the tank Callie is using.

Luke grabbed one of the griffons and snapped his head around as he grabbed the grenades that he saw.

Rusty had another mysterious weapon, this one was quite interesting. It had a DJ table on it and when fired, music was playing and these weird orbs that exploded upon impact. He was having a blast that he didn't see some of the corpses dancing as they died.

Meanwhile in Sugarcube Corner

Pinkie pie was getting some ingredients ready for tomorrow morning when she felt an itch on her back. She didn't know what it means, but she felt that somepony broke the fourth wall for their own use, but shrugged it off as she went back doing what she was doing.

Back at the weapons factory

The team finally reached each other inside the facility, but what they saw was appalling. There were humans and... ponies? The team saw them making weapons while griffons watched them from behind or from walkways above them. The team started to prep their weapons when they saw two griffons fall to the ground without their heads.

"Thanks Brandon," Callie said as they observed the situation.

"Well, what the hell are ponies doing in a griffon weapons factory?” Rusty asked as he gripped his hammer tightly.

"Maybe when the slaves started to decline, they had to look for another source of labor, and that is ponies," Marcus said as the team reloaded and started to engage the griffons head on. As they were killing the griffons, Callie started to yell at them to go outside through the north side of the place. As they were pushing them back, the Spartans were losing ammo quickly, so they grabbed any weapons that they could get.

As they started to kill the remaining griffons, they heard an explosion across from the other side. Then the factory started to collapse on them.

"Shit, this place is going down. We have to get out of here!" Marcus said as they ran like Satan himself was chasing them.

When they saw the entrance, they thought they were going to make it. Unfortunately, a griffon that was still behind, pushed a shelf that was holding crates of empty shells used for AA-guns and artillery guns.  They tried to get out of the mess of shells, but before they could, the rest of the factory started to fall on them. It was the last thing they saw before the building collapsed.