Halo:battle for Equis

Assassination and Assault on Alpha Base

October 17, 2552, 0030 hrs

Golden Oaks Library, Ponyville

Twilight was sleeping after a day of doing chores with her friends and Matthew. Matthew kept on persisting to help, but Twilight said no multiple times. She was in a deep sleep until she heard her library door kicked open.

Whatever it was downstairs, It wasn't good, so she woke up Spike and ran to Matthew's room as well. Once the three got up, they ran to the balcony, only to be shot at with an explosive round.

They all jump off the balcony as the two figures showed themselves. One was wearing white armor with brown trims on the shoulder and wearing an EVA helmet, wielding a brute shot. The second was wearing the Mk. V mjolnir armor with steel color all over its armor and has a battle rifle and a magnum.

Twilight cast a shield spell when the soldiers open fired on them. The noise was loud enough to wake everypony up in Ponyville and see what was happening. Some ponies had muskets or a lever action rifle in their homes and started to shoot at the armored soldiers.

The rounds bounce off the shields as the one with the brute shot turned to them and fired a round, causing most to run. Once they were left alone, the two chased them into Sweet Apple Acres, unaware that a certain dragon sent an emergency letter to Celestia.

In Canterlot

Celestia was in her room, reading a novel when a scroll appeared in front of her. She opened it as it came from Twilight. Once it was open she read the contents inside.

"Please send help! Two armored figures came out of nowhere and started to attack us!"

Even though the letter was short, it said everything. Celestia immediately got out of bed and changed into her royal outfit and ordered two guards to get Shining Armor and a battalion of guards. The two ran to the barracks after receiving their orders. Right now, Celestia prayed to her parents that Twilight wasn't hurt, or there will be hell to pay.

Back in Sweet Apple Acres

Twilight and The other two were able to hide in the orchard of apples as they heard the two figures’ footsteps. Matthew saw a rusty and rundown blade with a small grip on the end. He grabbed it and hid.

The white figure saw her and proceeded to walk towards her, until it stopped when a sharp pain entered its exposed knees as Matthew lodged the blade into his calf. Unfortunately, he was kicked in the ribs and was sent into a tree. A sickening crunch of bones was heard as two ribs were snapped in half and his arm broken into different pieces.

"Matthew!" yelled Twilight as she went to levitate the one who hit Matthew, only to fail at it. The steel colored figure grabbed Twilight by her throat and pulled her closer to her and pulled out a magnum.

"Sorry kid, but it's just orders," it said in a female voice. As she was about to pull the trigger, a golden beam hit her in the back, forcing her to drop Twilight.

"Stay away from my student!!" Celestia yelled as she saw her pupil was about to die.

The two knew the mission is now over, the one with EVA helmet growled at the other soldier.

"Are you serious!? We can take them on!" she said.

The man growled again as his A.I radioed her through his helmet.

"We have to abandon the mission. The ones who hired us told us if the Royal Guard interferes, we have to leave," the A.I said with a demonic echo in its voice.

The female knew that the A.I was right, so she grabbed a teleport grenade and tossed it at their feet and two seconds later, they were gone.

The Royal Guard started to scan the area for the assailants as Twilight and her friends ran to Matthew.

"Matthew, please be alive!" Twilight said as she checked his pulse and found that his heart was still beating, albeit it was slowing down. Twilight told Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash to take him to the hospital. The two Pegasi picked him up, slowly so they don't put him in more pain, and flew to the hospital.

Celestia was very, very pissed off. She could handle them attacking slavers and destroying buildings, but trying to kill her student was the breaking point.

"Captain." Shining Armor turned around to face Celestia. "I want you to send guards into Ponyville hospital and have guards searching the forest to find them," Celestia said with contained anger. Shining Armor saluted her and told two pegasus guards to head back to Canterlot to get reinforcements. They took the orders and flew back, unaware that they were about to wake a sleeping giant.

Seven hours later

All the soldiers in the base were now awake and doing whatever was available. Viper received a new pistol, R6M semi, which is supposed to replace the aging M6D magnum and has a bigger magazine capacity by double the amount of rounds

He also received a new rifle, the Vindicator Mk.1. It was a weapon that uses both the accuracy of a battle rifle and the firing rate of a smg with a sixty round mag. It also uses a chainsaw on the bottom and the trigger on the side, which made so it could cut through anything or anyone.

Viper was in the base firing range, testing them out when Callie radioed him to get something to eat.

"Callie, I'll be up in a couple of minutes," Viper said as he pulled his pistol.

"You need to eat. Your daughter is worried about you," Callie said as Viper sighed.

"I'm coming up now," he said as Viper placed the two weapons on their respective place with the other weapons.

Viper entered the elevator to the main base floor as he checked the pistol one last time. He noticed that an extra button was added. Curious, he pressed it and a floating reflex sight appears out of nowhere.

He turned it off as he reached his destination. Viper started to walk to the cafeteria, wanting to get a quick bite to eat and see his daughter.

Inside Rusty's room

Cadence was talking with Arachnia and Rusty about Shining Armor's action. She was apologizing multiple times as Rusty just stared at her.

"Why should I take your word for it? All I know is that you would go back on your promise and go back to that genocidal bast..." Rusty didn't get to finish his sentence when Cadence said something surprising to him.

"I'll call off the wedding if you want," Cadence said. Rusty and Arachnia were shocked to hear that she is willing to call the wedding off.

"Why would you do that?" Arachnia asked her.

"When you told me what Shining Armor did to your hive, I thought that you were lying until I asked the soldiers and they said the same thing about what happened. I don't want to be with somepony who hates other species for what they look like," Cadence said as she looked at the ground.

"Also, it was an arranged marriage," Cadence said.

"What?" Rusty asked.

"A couple of years ago, Prance and Equestria wanted to ensure that they won't go back on the treaty, so they had me and Shining Armor agree to have an arranged marriage so it would strengthen our trade and military, until Prance was attacked," she said as Rusty and Arachnia looked at each other as Arachnia said to her some words of comfort.

"While we forgive you, you'll have to earn our trust if you want to be our friends, deal?"

Cadence looked at them as she nodded. Arachnia smiled, while Rusty stared at her with an emotionless face. The three went to the cafeteria to eat, until they bumped into a male soldier with a cut on his throat.

The three looked at him until they shrugged it off and entered the cafeteria and saw Viper and his team, Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, and Maria at a table.

Rusty and Cadence went to get a plate of food as Arachnia sat near her aunt. She noticed three missing bodies from the group.

"Where's Parker, Zecora, and Trixie?" She asked.

"Parker and Zecora picked up where they left off, if you catch my drift, and Trixie is helping Molly in the Nursery," Viper said as Arachnia couldn't help but blush at the thought of the two going at it last night.

Rusty and Cadence returned with a plate of food. Rusty’s was piled with pancakes, eggs, hashbrowns, and bacon, and Cadence having a fruit bowl and some eggs and toast.

"Anyone noticed that ONI disappeared last night?" Callie asked as she took a bite of her fluffy waffles.

"Yeah and good riddance to them!" Marcus said as he had an omelet and some hash browns.

"You know, Marcus, that if ONI leaves, then they fucked something up here," Blake said as he cleaned his plate of food.

Viper stopped eating since he thought of the possibility of ONI doing something that they would have to pay the price.

"If ONI did do something stupid, we need to tell the Colonel about it and start getting the young, sick, and elderly out of here before we have to pay for ONI stupidity," Viper said as his team agreed.

Back in Ponyville Hospital

Twilight was in Matthew's hospital room after the surgeons were able to save him, but was sleeping as Twilight ran her fingers through his hair.

Fluttershy knocked at the door as Twilight allowed her in.

"Hey Fluttershy," Twilight said in a sad tone as Fluttershy went near her.

"Twilight, I think that you need to rest. Myself and our friends are worried about you," Fluttershy said in a quiet voice.

"I can't leave Matthew like this. What if he wakes up and I'm somewhere else?" she said in a panicked tone.

"Twilight, you need to sleep. If he does wake up, I'll have Rainbow Dash go get you, OK?" Fluttershy said as Twilight nodded. She stood up and walked back to her home, unaware that the same figures were watching her.

Meanwhile with Rainbow Dash

Rainbow Dash was doing her regular routine to train with the Wonderbolts. As she was doing this, she saw a clearing in the middle of the Everfree forest and saw one of the UNSC bases in there and saw the same soldier that attacked Twilight.

She saw that most of the soldiers were outside or getting their gear on. She then immediately flew to Canterlot to tell Celestia.

Back at the base, three hours later

After telling the Colonel about their suspicions and evidence to support it, like ONI leaving no trace of them anywhere, when they would leave an agent behind, he ordered a base wide evacuation.

Viper and the Spartans, Red team, the Centurions and Hoplite, along with two battalion of Marines and a platoon of ODST, as they were waiting for any kind of attack.

Viper was happy that Nightmare Moon, Molly, his daughter, and the Cutie Mark Crusaders left a while ago. Rusty was sharpening his blade to the gravity hammer. Viper was about to radio the command center when a marine was shot in his throat.

"Take cover!" Viper said. All of them took cover behind various covers as they fired at the Royal Guard that arrived in numbers. The snipers had no problem picking them off, but were annoyed that they were using the forest. Viper killed three more when a unicorn came up behind him.

Viper activated the chainsaw and immediately cut the stallion in half, covering him in blood. They started to kill more, but for every Guard they killed, three took their place.

Viper heard cannon fire as the cannonballs hit the base or the civilians still inside. Some were able to get through the base wall and killing anyone inside.

Viper then grabbed some thermite grenades and started to throw them at the trees and burning them out, which killed many Royal Guards.

"Burn, motherfuckers!"

Right as they forced them back, they all heard a roar from above and saw a dozen of dragons flying towards them.

"Shit, we need to get back inside now!" One of the marines said as they ran into the base. Unfortunately, one ODST squad was burned to death when a dragon breathed fire onto them.

Viper hit the door control and had the entrance locked down. Viper knew that the doors wouldn't last long.

"Everybody head to the hanger. Move!" Marcus yelled as they ran like Satan himself was chasing them.

Most started to grab anything to slow down the Guards so they could get to the hanger. Unlucky for them, some civilians were still in the base, either stuck under debris from the cannon bombardment or helping the ones who were stuck.

"We need to get these civilians out now, we'll cover you," the Hoplite commander said as the marines and ODST were moving the rubble off of the trapped as the Spartans, Centurion, and Hoplite opened fire at the advancing Guards.

It took them a while, but they were able to get all of the ones who were trapped out and proceeded to head towards the hanger. There were fifteen pelicans left. The marines started to help the civilians as the rest started to pile crates on the door to slow them down.

When all the civilians were aboard, the rest ran to the pelicans, packing themselves like sardines as the door finally gave in. Viper and Rusty started to shoot at them, forcing most to take cover. As the pelicans took off into the air, a unicorn picked up a rocket launcher and fired a round at the back.

This caused the ship to dodge it, but it made Viper and Rusty lose their grip and hit the ground. The last thing they saw was Royal Guards surrounding them.

Meanwhile in the Banshee's call

Agent Talaway was happy that Viper and Rusty was captured and taken by the Royal Guards and the UNSC will want their blood. She was sitting in her office until she heard a knock.

"Come in," she said in a serious voice.

"It's been a while agent Talaway or Agent Arkansas," a voice that she hated the most said.

"Agent Carolina."