Halo:battle for Equis

Golden Oaks Library, Ponyville

August 24, 2552

Twilight woke up in cold sweat. 'This is the third time this week' she thought. Ever since she had the first nightmare 2 days ago, she’d been having the same dream. Each getting worse every night. This dream was in Canterlot. The streets were littered with guts and limbs, with the occasional missing head. Near the end, she heard a whining noise coming above her. She looked to the sky and saw a huge ship that has a glowing light coming from the middle.  She was too scared to move.

As it continued to build up, it finally came down on her, but before it hit her, she woke up.

Since she couldn't go back to sleep, she went to her balcony to remake her star chart. As she was recording, she saw what looked like three holes in space itself.

After a few seconds passed, they closed up, making it look like nothing happened. Twilight wrote a letter and decided to wake Spike up so he could give it to her mentor.

"Another 5 more minutes," Spike said. Since waking him up wasn't doing anything, she decided to use a different approach. She got a bowl of diamonds and shook it, which got his attention. "What, who’s there? Oh it’s you, Twilight," Spike said.

Twilight said, "If you send this letter to Celestia, you can have this," after that, the young dragon sent the letter and grabbed the bowl out of her hands.

After 10 minutes had passed, she heard knocking at the door. As she opened it, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack were standing there, which she let them in. Three minutes later, a bright golden light was seen in the library. After it stopped, it showed Princess Celestia and Luna, her brother and parents, in which they hugged each other. After the little reunion, Celestia spoke. "Hello Twilight."

Twilight then said, "Hello, Princess Celestia and Luna."

Luna asked, "Why did you ask us to come here?"

Rainbow Dash said, "Yeah, why are we here, especially at 1 in the morning?"

Twilight sighed and said, "Well, for the last 3 days, I keep getting nightmares."

This got Luna attention. "Nightmares you say? What kind of nightmares?"

After saying that, Twilight started to tell everyone about the nightmarish dreams she gets. It’s about a group of aliens that fight these armored humans, to everyponies shock. As she progresses some of them excuse themselves to throw up. She gets to her recent one. "I woke up in Canterlot, seeing the two armies fighting. Then these armored humans showed up in a weird airship. One of them was hit in the chest, instead of killing it, some sort of shielding stopped it, but it was giving a dull glow, making the rest to get to cover," Twilight said.

Shining armor stepped up and asked, "What is their military like?"

Twilight said "In my second dream they said they had an army called the marines, then the space navy, with a group called the air force, along with another group called ODST or Orbital Drop Shock Troopers." Everyone was stunned about these 'space humans', as Rainbow Dash says that they had so much military power.

"Who are the armored, shielded ones called, if you don't mind?" Fluttershy asked in a voice that it could have been muffled by breathing.

"I believe they were called Spartans or something like that," Twilight said. "I believe in my dream, one of the soldiers said they were given an augmentation that increases that person’s muscles and bones," everypony was dumb struck by this.

After 2 hours she decided to tell them about something that happened a few hours earlier. She told them since she couldn't go to sleep, she decided to work on her map chart when she noticed three bright holes that looked like someone or something ripped through space itself. After saying that Celestia started to talk.

"While this will take a little bit of time to digest this information, can you give a description about one of these 'Spartans'?"

Twilight took a deep breath and started talking. "One of them I saw was using a gun, as a human said, that had a wooden frame and some sort of chamber that has to be pulled in the back. It had a scope attached to the top of the gun," she waited a minute before continuing. "The Spartan had armor that looked like it came out of ancient Jaypon. He had a sword on his back. He had his helmet off. What his face looked like shocked me," as she stopped, everypony was leaning towards her. She finally said, "The Spartan looked like Matthew."

Everypony started to talk to each other until her father, Night Light, said, "How can he be a soldier? He can't hurt or attack anypony, ever."

"I know, dad, but he was different." Twilight said to her father.

"Different how?" Her brother asked.

Twilight finally said, "He was taller than Matthew and had a more pale skin and his eyes were a bright blue and his hair was cut short."

Luna asked Twilight, "How tall was he?"

"Around Celestia’s height."

After those words left Twilight’s mouth, everypony gasped and started whispering to each other. Someone that was almost as tall as Celestia was mind boggling. "He also has a necklace that he dropped when he was fighting a tall monkey like being. I went to pick it up and saw two names engraved into it. One was A.J and the other was Big M before he took it from me."

After she said that Applejack spoke up for the first time. "Wait a minute, did you say a necklace with those two names engraved in it." Twilight nodded.

Applejack spoke again. "Well, 14 years ago, we had a slave who was nicknamed Viper. He was a hard worker and helped us a lot. He was almost like an older brother until-"Applejack stopped.

"Until what?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Until our farm was attacked by timber wolves. He decided to lure them into the Everfree forest. It was the last time we saw him," Applejack said, crying a little.

Everypony was shocked to hear this. Applejack had a slave that she considered a brother. She stopped crying and let Twilight talk.

"So, princess, what do you think?"

After a full 5 minutes of silence, Celestia answered. "Since they aren't born in Equestria; they are considered free, but if slavers try to take them, I am willing to overlook their demise," shocking everypony. After that they all left to go home, but before that, Applejack thought 'is he still alive?'