Halo:battle for Equis

Forerunner Facility and A Siege

October 19th, 2552, 0800 hours

Location: Northern Equestria

Viper and the six Freelancer Agents were escorting Ellen Anders to, what she believed, is an underground forerunner facility.

"Okay, of all places, why do we have to be here?!" Washington complained as they started to walk to the known area of the entrance to the ancient facility.

"Because, Wash, Dr. Anders said that this facility could contain materials needed to give our ships a serious edge against the Covenant," Wyoming said as he held the MORS sniper rifle.

"So, Wyoming, how's the sniper working for you?" North asked.

"While it is taking me a while to get use to the single round, I was able to get around it eventually," Wyoming said.

"Hold up. Anders found something," Carolina said as Anders looked at a hand held machine, stolen from the Covenant, that finds forerunner technology on any planet. The machine started to pick up forerunner energy right below their feet.

"Spirit of Fire, this is York, do you read?" York asked over the radio.

"This is the Spirit of Fire, go ahead," the comms officer said.

"We've found the forerunner facility, requesting a firebase to be built near these coordinates," York said as Delta sent their location to the comms officer.

"Coordinates received. A firebase will be placed near the location in about an hour, standby," the officer said before disconnecting the line.

"So what are we going to do for an hour?" South asked.

"Now, we find a way in," Viper said as he started to grab thermite bombs from a forerunner storage cube and placed them in the snow

Meanwhile in the Appleoosian desert

Eleven figures were riding in Mongooses as to hide their presence from the pegasi that flew over them. But one individual stuck out from the rest. The individual was wearing the HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark I Prototype Armor Defense System or "Beowulf" Armor Defense System as he ran through the desert at high speed.

The ten soldiers were armed with White Phosphorus filled mortars. The "Beowulf" pilot saw the military base that they were going to hit, so he ordered the Marines to stop.

"You six, start setting up the mortars," the pilot said in a distorted male voice. "And the rest of you follow me, we got a score to settle."

The six soldiers started to set up the mortars as the five started to walk towards the military base. As the Beowulf Pilot got to the front entrance, he kicked the large doors in, causing them to fly off of the hinges as it crushed a couple Royal Guards behind them.

The Guards started to open fire at the group, some armed with machine guns from the destroyed Alpha Base, but since the four UNSC soldiers had level eight forerunner combat skin and shielding, while the pilot had level fourteen, the rounds bounced off them like a BB-gun against a brick wall as they started to slaughter everypony that wore the Royal Guard armor.

The new and improved gatling gun on the Beowulf armor is capable of being used with one hand, freeing the other for the use of the 105mm cannon on the other hand. The pilot was mowing down waves after waves of ponies, most having their body parts blown off, their insides spilling out or just having been riddled with bullets, while the unfortunate ones were blown to bits by either the cannon or the rocket launcher on its shoulder.

The four Marines were executing the surviving guards by either slitting their throats or shooting them in the back of the head. Fortunately for the Equestrian Guards, their attackers seem to be backing off, giving them time to regroup, until one of them heard whistling and looked up.

Before any of them could register what was happening, the mortars’ shells exploded, releasing its deadly payload. The white phosphorus started to burn violently in the affected area, burning the guards until their muscles and/or bones started showing.

The temperature was so hot, that their own armor started to heat up, adding more agony to them.

After ten minutes of the mortars firing, they stopped as the soldiers started to walk through the corpses of the dead Royal Guards, only to make a very gruesome discovery.

The crew firing the white phosphorus filled mortars hit civilians that were apparently refugees from the fall of Prance and it showed the seven men the civilian ponies that failed to hide from the destructive chemical radius.

"Damn it, Hoffman, why did you target the civilians?!" the leader of the attack said over the radio.

The four removed their helmets to throw up their contents of their stomachs onto the ground. While that was happening, the pilot looked at the corpses of the ponies killed by the volatile chemicals. He saw them running away, some on the ground, but what got to him the most was parents holding their children before they died.

"Dammit, do any of you hear what I just said?!" the leader yelled. After a minute, he received his answer, in the form of a titanium slug round hitting him in the chest, killing him almost instantly.

"Get to cover!" one of the Marines said as they hid behind debris.

"What the hell was that?! Was one of our own?!" the second Marine asked.

"Look, we don't know what's happening, but we need to get out of he..." The soldier didn't finish his sentence when another slug round ripped through his armor and shields, hitting his neck, decapitating him.

"We need to leave now!!!" one of the two surviving Marines said before running away from the sniper, until they both were filled with 20mm rounds, leaving them riddled with holes.

The Beowulf Pilot put down his minigun as he radioed someone.

"It's done, there's no witnesses alive."

"Excellent, return back to base when you receive one of the marines’ bodies to 'convince' the UNSC that it was the Equestrians doing. Oh, and Rusty?" the voice said to him.

"Yes?" Rusty asked.

"Your debt has been paid. Arachnia and Trixie will not be touched in any shape or form. Now head back to the makeshift base," the voice said as it disconnected the line.

Rusty grabbed a marine body before leaving the decimated base, but before thinking this.

'I'm sorry.'

At the forerunner facility, hours later

After hours of burning through the near infinite amount of snow, they found a way in. Earlier, a firebase was built near the hole.

Viper, Carolina, and Anders went down, while the rest stayed behind.

"Man, and I thought that Church was going insane, talking about an ancient civilization," Carolina said as Viper nodded.

'Come on, when are you going to tell them about me?' an A.I voice said in Vipers' helmet.

"I will, when the time is right. So shut it, Alpha. We got work to do," Viper hissed to him.

'Fine, Dickbiscuit,' Alpha said, whispering the last part, before going back into his A.I chip.

Viper and Carolina were watching every corner for anything that is trying to kill them. After 15 minutes of searching, they found a room, filled with what looked like cryo tubes.

"Hey, Anders, what is this place?" Viper asked.

"I believe this was a cryo room, similar to ours, but more advanced," Anders said. Viper and Carolina started look at the machine panel, but most would come up empty.

After searching through the cryo tubes, they were about to leave, until Viper saw two more near the back.

"Hold on, I see two more," Viper said as he walked towards it. He noticed that the cryo tubes were active, unlike the others. Viper then started to hit some codes from Anders. Once he entered it, the pods emitted a micro slipspace rupture, where Viper looked inside to see the occupants, only to be surprised.

"Oh my God."