Halo:battle for Equis

A Day with the CMC

During the Weapons Factory, 0900

Viper was heading back towards his room, so he could get a nap in until he heard a scream that came from a room down the hallway. He ran towards to source of the scream and opened the door. When Viper entered, he saw Scootaloo curled up into a ball and screaming, like someone was hurting her.

"Scootaloo, it's me, Viper," Viper said as he tried to get Scootaloo’s attention. After 10 minutes of trying, Scootaloo was able to look at Viper and hugged him, surprising him.

"Please don't let him get me!" Scootaloo said as she choked on her words.

"Don't let who get you?" Viper asked, curious of who this pony is.

"My dad," Scootaloo said as she stopped screaming and started to whimper.

"Hey, hey, he won't get you. Now can you tell me why you were screaming like that?" Viper asked in a soothing voice. Scootaloo stopped whimpering and started to tell Viper about her father, Shadow Light, who is a unicorn captain for a prince named Blueblood. When she started to tell him about the abuse she had to put up with and nasty comments, like some were saying that she was a poor excuse of a daughter or she shouldn't have been born, Viper’s anger level started to rise.

'Whoever this Shadow Light is, when I find him, I'm going to make his life a living fucking hell for abusing his own daughter'. Viper thought as he pulled Scootaloo closer to him. If the abuse was torture to his ears, then the last one was the icing on the cake. Since Scootaloo was born a Pegasus than a Unicorn, her father decided to stop giving her the nutrients she needed to help her wings grow, which was why her wings were smaller.

"Please don't let him find me," Scootaloo said in a shaky voice.

"Scootaloo, he will never get you because between you and him are the Spartans, the Centurion marines, and the hoplite. Even if he is able to pass through them, I will fight to my last breath to make sure that he will never get to you, ever," Viper told her as he wrapped one of his wings around her. Viper didn't know how he did it.

'Must be a Pegasus instinct'. Viper thought as he comforted Scootaloo. Viper saw the time and decided to go get something to eat. Viper asked Scootaloo if she was hungry and her stomach growling confirmed it. Viper stood up and he, along with Scootaloo, went to the cafeteria to get some breakfast.

The cafeteria, ten minutes later

Viper and Scootaloo, along with the rest of the CMC, entered the cafeteria where a lot of different smells assaulted the ponies’ noses. They smelled foods from different cultures, like Asian foods, foods from the European countries and some from the Americas. Viper told the girls to follow him to a line that shortened since the morning rush ended.

"Okay girls, since you cannot eat meat, they have eggs, toast, hash browns, pancakes, waffles and other breakfast items there is," Viper said as he grabbed a plate and started to put on eggs, French toast and hash browns, along with some bacon. The three fillies looked at each other and decided to grab a plate and put food that was being served onto their plates. After they were done getting their food, they followed Viper to an empty table. After that they started eating.

While they ate their breakfast, Apple Bloom asked Viper a question.

"Hey, Viper. How do you get all of this food?" Apple Bloom asked. Viper chewed on a piece of bacon and answered.

"We made deals with some farmers all across Equestria, we give them money to help them and/or protection when they need to transport their goods, and we get 5% of their food and supplies," Viper said as he started to drink his glass of orange juice.

"I got a question too. How come you're eating meat even though you're a pony?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Even though the poison joke changed my body, I still have my canines," Viper said as he showed his teeth, which still has the sharp ones. Viper closed his mouth and cut a piece of French toast and dipped it into syrup before eating it. The girls ate in silence until Scootaloo had a question in mind.

"Umm, Viper, what is your real name?" Scootaloo asked. Instantly the entire cafeteria went quiet and all eyes were on Viper. Almost everyone heard of Viper before, but not his actual name. Viper sighed and answered.

"Well here's the thing, the only way I could reveal my name is if my teammates get married before me," Viper said casually as he finished his plate of food and brought it to the stack of dirty plates before leaving. The fillies were confused by that statement, so they finished their food and stacked their plates and ran to him.

"What do you mean 'if your teammates get married before you’?" Scootaloo asked. Viper chuckled and explained.

"A couple years before we came here, my team wanted to know my real name, but I told them no. After days of asking, they made a bet. If they get married before me, I'll tell my true name at the wedding, but if I get married before they do, then no one will know my actual name," Viper said as he entered his room.

"So basically what you're saying is that one of your team members gets hitched, then you'll tell your real name?" Apple Bloom asked. Viper nodded.

"So what are you going to do now, since you aren't doing any mission or things like that?" Apple Bloom asked as Viper sat on his bed.

"Well, I was going to get a power nap in, but since I'm wide awake, how about we watch a movie?" Viper asked as he went to get the box of movies. The girls got up and started looking through the collection of DVD discs. After ten minutes of digging, they found two movies, but couldn't decide what to watch.

"We should watch this!" Scootaloo said as she held up a movie called 'The Prince of Egypt' in her hands.

"No, we should watch this!" Sweetie Belle said as she held Pocahontas in her grasp.

The two fillies were bickering back and forth about which movie they should watch.

"Do they always act like this?" Viper asked Apple Bloom as he watched the two girls fight over what movie they could watch.

"Yep," Apple Bloom said as Viper got tired at the two fighting and grabbed the two movies, ignoring their cries of protest.

"Okay, since you can't agree on what to watch, we're going to watch this first," Viper said, holding up Pocahontas. "And we're going to watch this next." Holding up the Prince of Egypt. The two girls didn't complain as they got onto Viper’s bed. When Pocahontas started, it showed the famous Disney logo. When the movie started playing, it showed England in the 1600s. Sweetie Belle asked Viper something.

"What are they doing?" Viper chuckled at her question.

"That was us nearly nine hundred years ago. We were using boats designed for water and this shows about what was waiting for the crew on that ship," Viper answered as they saw Governor Ratcliffe entering from a stage coach.

"Who is he?" Scootaloo asked.

"That is Governor Ratcliffe, he's pretty much going to the 'New World' with one thing on his mind, getting as much gold as he can get," Viper said. They continued watching all the way to where they see the Native Americans. Viper started to tell them about the native, who lived off of the land and worked with others.

"Just like us, right, Viper?" Apple Bloom asked. Viper nodded, thinking about it. The Equestrians were like the natives and the four ships were the newcomers, with one difference, England sent ships to look for gold. They came to hide from the Covenant. As they continue to watch the movie, Viper noticed Scootaloo moving closer to him. Viper knew that she was still scared that her father was trying to get her, but he wouldn't let him touch her. As the movie neared the end, when both the English men and natives are on a path towards war, Sweetie Belle cut in.

"Why are they going to fight each other?" Sweetie Belle asked as the song 'Savages' started to play.

"Well, from other people's point of view, they think that one group or the other started the fight, but it's humanity fear of the unknown that started it," Viper said as he watched the two sides marching to war, then thought if the UNSC went to war against the Equestrians. The UNSC had the technology, but lacks troops, since they only had about 35,000 in total and about 15,000 were soldiers and 10,000 were former slaves and the Equestrians had the numbers, but lacks in the technology department. When the movie ended, Viper thought if he was an alicorn, he could use magic. He then lifted his hand to the movie player and tried to remove the disc. After a full minute, he was able to remove it, albeit with some difficulty, and he grabbed the second movie.

"Before I put this on, do you want to watch this?" Viper asked as the three fillies nodded. Viper sighed as he put the movie in and started it. As the clouds in the background started to dissipate and a trumpet was playing in the background. As the trumpet got to its last note of the song Deliver us the three CMC were shocked at the site of slaves being treated and worked to death.

"Why are they doing this?" Apple Bloom asked. Viper sighed and explained the situation to them.

"When the first civilizations started popping up, they needed workers to build their empires, unfortunately that meant looking for different people than their own. This movie shows the Egyptian enslaving the Hebrews, a religious group, and making them build different monuments and buildings for them," Viper said as it showed a mother, who's carrying a baby, and two kids, one holding a basket. The mother grabbed the girl’s hand and moved away from the slums, as Egyptian soldiers went into homes and killed the babies, this what got to the fillies.

"Why are they doing that?" Scootaloo asked, shocked.

"Well, since the Egyptian feared an uprising from the slaves, they killed the next generation of Hebrews. That and they did it to show them who's in charge and owns them," Viper told them as they watched the mother put the child in the basket. She sang a lullaby to him before putting the top on. She pushed the basket into the river, praying that he could find some place to be free. After the beginning it shows a young Moses and his older brother, Rameses, were racing to the entrance of a temple, when Moses knocked down a scaffolding, causing a tidal wave of sand to follow them. This got them berated by their father.

Later on, after Moses accidentally kills a man, Scootaloo asked him something.

"If Moses killed someone, then why is he going back?" she asked.

"You'll see," Viper said as it got to where Moses’ stick turned into a snake and the high priest did the same thing, but their way. As Moses tried to convince Rameses to let his people go, Rameses refused and forced them to work double, thanks to Moses.

As Moses once again tried to get Rameses to let his people go, he turned the Nile River into blood, which the priest did with powder. After Rameses refused again and this started The plagues

As the song progresses, it showed different plagues, like the frogs, locusts, and the burning hail.

"Why is that happening to them?" Scootaloo asked as they saw Rameses getting more and more frustrated as the song got near the end.

"Because when Rameses refused to let Moses’ people go, God sent ten plagues, each one getting more and more dangerous as Rameses became more determined to outlast them. Unfortunately, the Egyptians are paying for his stubbornness," Viper said as the song ended and he next scene went to show Moses and Rameses talking in the same place. Moses tells Rameses that something more dangerous than he himself doesn't know is coming, but the Pharaoh refused to listen and it costed him his son when the final plague, the plague of death killed all of the first born of those who didn't repent by putting lamb's blood on their door frames.

When the movie ended, Viper looked at the clock and started to freak out.

"Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit..." Viper said continually as he ran out of the room.

"Viper, why are you in a hurry?" Apple Bloom asked as she, along with her friends, followed him.

"Because I forgot that I am supposed to head to the Summer Solstice to overlook some new weapons and tech," Viper said as he went into the underground hangar.

"Can we go too?" Scootaloo asked as Viper looked at them.

"Fine, but don't touch anything without my permission. Got it?" Viper said as the girls nodded. The four boarded the Pelican and strapped in, with Viper helping them in, before the ship started to head towards space.

Summer Solstice hangar, twenty minutes later

Viper and the Crusaders got off the Pelican, with the girls having a hard time trying not to trip, as they walked to the R&D room. As Viper and the girls entered, they saw a wide variety of weapons and gadgets on the walls.

"Viper, can't believe you're late," Dr. Anders said as she approached him and the girls.

"When Captain Cutter said that something happened to you, I thought he was joking," Anders said as she escorted them to the weapons testing room. When they arrived, Viper saw three weapons on the table. The first one looked like the pistol that he would carry on covert operations, the second is the Sniper Rifle System 99C-Series 2 Anti-Matériel,  but has two barrels instead of one and the other looks like a sniper, but doesn't have a magazine or a bolt and is designed like the railgun from the 21st Century.

As Viper picked up the second sniper, Dr. Anders turned around and saw him looking through the scope.

"Ah, I see that you're looking at the new sniper rifle?" Anders asked as Viper looked for the chamber for the bullet. Anders rolled her eyes and grabbed it out of his hands.

"Two questions, one, what is this, and two, where does the ammo go?" Viper asked, curious about the new weapon.

"One, it’s called the Magnetic Operating Rail System Sniper Rifle, or as everybody else calls it, the MORS sniper rifle, and two, the ammo goes right here," Anders said as she grabs a couple of Titanium slugs that were covered in a light orange glow. Viper chambered the round in and he went to the shooting range. As he aimed his sights to a ballistic gel body with armor on it, he could tell that this weapon is going to mess up the ballistic gel body. He held his breath and fired.

When the round hit the target, Viper thought it would leave a huge hole, but instead he, along with the entire room, saw the ballistic gel body was turned into an orangeish skin before it peeled off and disappeared.

"What the hell happened?" Viper asked as he looked at where the ballistic body was.

"That was a forerunner light matter round that you fired. We found those on a forerunner shield world and we took some of the weaponry and a lot of 'combat suits'. Now let's test the rest of the weapons, shall we?" Anders said as Viper used the other weapons. He found out that the Magnum pistol is able to lock-on to targets that he highlights, so that no civilians get hurt and the sniper is a modified version of itself, using plasma infused 14.5x114mm APFSDS rounds and the second barrel was a railgun barrel that fires the round with a stronger penetration, but at the cost of its fire rate.

As Viper, including the Cutie Mark Crusaders, tried different weapons and gadgets that were in development, including a jump kit and an exo-suit, they decided to get something to eat before trying the last new toy. As Viper ate, Scootaloo and the others were talking on how fun it was to use the jump kit and exo-suit. Viper smiled at them, then internally frowning when he remembered when he was young, he would do the same thing, until he lost everything.

As they finished eating, Viper saw some ODSTs glaring at him, but ignored it as the four made their way to the hangar. As they entered, Viper saw an aircraft that looked like a crossover of a MiG and a harrier from the 21st Century. He asked a technician what it was and he said it was a Hornet. The Hornet are an interceptor fighter that has miniature drones outfitted with specialized auto cannons.

The fighter’s strength is in numbers and 25 are able to destroy a covenant corvette or damage a CCS-Battlecruiser. Viper saw it was a two seater, one for flying the aircraft and using the weapons and the other for controlling the drones. Viper said he is willing to do it, if the fillies are allowed to go.

The technician was flabbergasted at the proposition, but said only one could. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom respectively declined, Scootaloo decided that she would go. As Viper started to strap in Scootaloo, then himself in, Viper thought on how they were able to make this in a small amount of time.

As he started to get the aircraft ready, he turned to Scootaloo and asked her a question.

"Are you sure you want to go through with this?" Viper asked her, who nodded. As Viper got the green light, he flew out of the hangar at a fast rate, pushing him and Scootaloo into their chairs. As the ship slowed down enough for them to sit normally, Viper started to test the ship’s maneuverability and speed. When he started to perform the basic movement for the ship, he could hear Scootaloo trying to hold her lunch in. After a good 45 minutes of testing the ship’s maneuverability, he wanted to see how fast the ship could go.

Viper punched the ship and the ship went fast. As the ship started to speed faster, both Viper and Scootaloo were forced into their chairs until the ship reached its limits. After Viper slowed the ship back down, his ship instantly picked up multiple slip-space ruptures coming from the outer part of the solar system. Viper told the four ships and headed towards the area where the slip-space probes picked up the ruptures. When he arrived, expecting the covenant, he saw four Marathon class cruisers, twice as much as Charon class frigates, a Phoenix class colony ship, a cargo carrier, a star liner, three merchant ships, and one ship that made Viper’s blood freeze. A UNSC prowler, used by Office of Naval Intelligence or ONI.

"This is Viper-198 of the UNSC Summer Solstice, to the... UNSC Banshee’s Call, do you copy?" Viper said over UNSC frequency. He waited until a cold voice that belonged to someone he knows and hates came over the radio.

"This is Agent Talaway of the Banshee's Call. I want to know why the hell a Spartan is doing all the way out here?!"  Talaway said as Viper was trying not to yell over the radio.

"We were under 'Cole Protocol' and my team was aboard the Summer Solstice, Talaway," Viper said with a tiny trace of venom.

After Viper switched his radio frequency to another ship, the Lady of Sorrows and the Captain, who said that they were what’s left of the fleet defending Reach and they were escorting the civilian ships. When they heard Captain Cutter asking the fleet to help with picking up some soldiers and civilians, they complied and sent pelicans. Meanwhile Cutter told Viper that Zecora made the cure and to head towards the Summer Solstice hangar to head back to Alpha Base.

30 minutes later

After turning back to normal, well, as normal as an augmented super soldier could get, but found out that his body still contained magic. He tried to levitate something and it worked, only for the object to become a projectile as he pushed his hand. He went to get his armor, only to see a brunette four year old girl, who looked like she was looking for someone. As Viper walked to her, she got startled at the Spartan’s height. Viper got to one knee and asked her in a calm tone.

"Hey, are you lost?" Viper asked her in a soft voice. Instead of answering Viper, the little girl hugged him, surprising Viper. As Viper tried to find out why she's doing this, one word summed everything.

"Daddy?" The little girl asked.