Chapter 1:
A New Battleground

---- Planet surface, 1 hour after drop ----

A warrior in black MK IV like armor crouched behind a bush, he had only just an hour ago dropped from orbit onto this lush world filled with colorful equines among other creatures from Earth Human mythology. His gold visor dulled itself so that the bright sunlight wouldn't give his position to the enemy he had pursued from deep space. The warrior pulled out a rectangular metal object which transformed into a long sniper cannon, he laid down and took aim through the bush. His targets were corralling the ponies of the settlement a few miles ahead into what looked like the town square, lining his shot up so the bullet would ricochet into multiple of the Blight that the traitor had somehow managed to gain the loyalty of.

"This is for Ashley you shit bags." he said under his breath, his voice sounding like a metal grater mixed with a old radio.

He pulled the trigger just as one of the arachnid-like humanoids picked a cyan pegasus up with the intent to skewer the rebellious mare. The shot turned the hostile's top half into orange dust instantly, though the warrior didn't stay put to check his shot as smoke billowed outward several hundred feet and the sound of the bullet echoed throughout his surroundings, sounding much like the crack of thunder overhead. The armored warrior activated his active camouflage before he could be spotted, though he knew that his foes were well aware of his presence. Checking his shot he saw that the nine ponies and a dragon had started running to his position, though as they got closer his neural implants began to ache.

"Interesting." he muttered, curiosity in his voice as he once again took aim with his thirty thousand year old rifle that he refereed to as 'Furies End.'

He lined up another shot on one of the larger Blight Females, since the males were much smaller and easier to kill at closer range. Kneeling, he cut loose the round, the black smoke and debris showering his surroundings and uprooting many small plants. The ponies and dragon that had been running his way stopped cold as a Blight burst from the ground before them and only a few feet from the soldier.

"In the name of the Mantle, you shall have no mercy!" the soldier screamed as he dropped 'Furies End' and jumped forward onto the females back.

"Deltan!" it hissed in a high pitch voice before shaking the massive soldier off of herself.

"How'd ya guess?" he replied as he landed on one knee and pulled out a short cylinder that extended into a pump action shotgun.

"Your kind always meddles in our affairs insect!" the Blight replied, aiming its two glowing plasma cannons at the Deltan Soldier.

The soldier replied with a blast from his shotgun that tore apart the torso of the spider-like lady with four arms as well as releasing a plume of black smoke and a sound similar to that of three thousand pound GP bomb.

"Who the buck are you?" the cyan pegasus that he had saved with his first shot questioned.

"Doesn't matter right now, just focus on getting someplace safe." the soldier commented as he calmly put his shotgun back into a small armored fanny pack over his butt plate.

"I would argue, but things are trying to kill us right now, come on girls!" a lavender unicorn with large wings shouted as she began to run with the other eight ponies and dragon past him.

The soldier turned slightly to see them vanish into the forest behind him as he extended his right hand, allowing his sniper to fly into it, before changing back into its storage format as he placed it into his pack, "Good luck ponies." he muttered.

Glancing at his scanner he then noted several hostiles closing in on him from the town, puling out a small pistol on his hip and flipping a switch so it would extend into a large service rifle resembling a UNSC Assault Rifle he readied himself for the oncoming attack. He stood as still as a statue in the clearing smoke from his earlier battle when a single hostile unit jumped out of the bushes behind him. He spun around and smacked it with the butt of his rifle before crouching down as another tried to latch onto him. The small, about three foot wide, spiders were in high numbers all about the Deltan soldier. He opened fire with his service rifle from the hip, using his targeting system to tell him where he was aiming while he jumped out of the way of more of the Maggots.

A Maggot then got lucky and latched itself onto his back, digging its dagger like legs into the soldiers armor. Multiple flashes of orange flashed on his HUD, warning him that the hazard layer had been breached as well as the power cells for the enhanced motor drives that gave him no resistance from moving.

"Get off!" He yelled in pain as he grabbed the Maggot by the head and ripped it off his back before stomping on it with his right boot.

Engaging his thrusters and hopping to the left he fired his service rifle and scored two more of the Maggots. four more popped up in front of him and he pumped the grenade launcher, sending a ball of energy outward and into the middle of the group vaporizing them upon detonation.

"Time to get the Hell out of here." he said as he turned to leave and was forced onto his back by a Blight Stealth Unit.

His larger foe held him to the ground as it studied him, then it raised one of its bladed limbs to strike. But before it could it was lifted with a golden aura that tossed it aside as if it was weightless. At the same time the soldier noted that his headache had gotten worse and would be physically impairing had his suits AI not shut down a vast majority of the nerves that detected pain.

"Are you alright noble warrior?" a large white unicorn with massive wings asked as she landed ten feet away, her glowing multicolored mane and tail flowing though there was no wind.

"Thanks to you, yes." he replied, his voice rough as he swayed back and forth trying to regain his balance.

"Is something the matter?" she asked, concern in eyes.

"I'll tell you later!" he replied as he gained enough focus to stare down his primary target, the age old Titan.

"Well, well, well, look who they sent to take me down, is Xenon too busy to visit me now?" The massive, fifteen foot tall, skeletal super soldier asked, his glowing green eyes staring at the dazed warrior.

The warrior didn't reply, instead he deployed two hardlight blades built into his wrists as two sentinel drones deployed from the pillars on his back and charged up their weapons. Raising his blades he stood still, waiting for his foe to strike.

"I am surprised at you Obsidian, no conversation between family?" the taller being asked as he drew two curved blades from his back.

"You betrayed us Henry, you shunned the Mantel and betrayed both the Deltans and the memory of our people, the Forerunners, by aligning yourself with the Blight. I have nothing left to say to you!" the Obisdian growled both in pain and anger.

"Oh please Nick, spare me your nobility nonsense, I am doing this to restore order, the Mantel failed, it is time for a new system." Henry replied.

"And what does killing my little ponies have anything to with this?" the white alien standing alongside Obsidian asked.

"Oh, we will try to keep the killing to a minimal, but we need your race for labor and technological advances." Henry replied as he got into a ready stance.

The Deltan Soldier charged, his drones following close behind before splitting off to kill the Blight that had begun to charge their master. The Deltan parried both strikes from the traitor before rolling to the left and using his thrusters to back off his target.

"You run?" the traitor asked.

"No, I re-position!" the soldier replied as he jumped his foe and slashed his back before landing on both feet and locking blades.

"I see now why they named you Harbinger, Nick." the traitor commented, trying to spark a conversation.

The Deltan ignored him as he was pushed off of the larger warrior, stumbling to regain his footing he was knocked back further by repeated strikes from his target. His implants spiked with pain when the flying unicorn shot a Blight with a beam from her horn, causing him to stumble before receiving a near fatal blow to the chest from his target.

"And this is why they call me Death." Henry shot as his face mask retracted and his actual skull smiled down at the wounded soldier.

Harbinger looked up at him before firing his thrusters as one of Death's blades impaled the ground where the Deltan had been. He rolled to his feet and drew his shotgun, taking careful aim he pulled the trigger and blasted Death away from his sword which was still stuck in the ground.

"Ah, so you have special equipment I see." noting that he had just been shot by a discontinued weapon.

"Death, this is Goliath, one of my oldest friends." Harbinger replied as he stood up and pumped the ancient shotgun for his next attack.

Before Harbinger could aim Goliath again he was picked up and thrown by a Blight Female and then covered by Maggots.

"But you see, I have friends too." Death snickered as his face mask slid back down.

Harbinger shot his slug from Goliath at the Female before ripping and punching the Maggots off of him. His implants screaming once more as the winged unicorn blasted Death away and grabbed him.

"We must retreat, we cannot defeat him like this!" she shouted as Harbinger kicked the last Maggot off of his leg while they flew threw the air.

"Very well." he replied, gripping his shotgun with his right hand as he was carried away from the battleground.

---- 1 hour 30 minuets after drop ----

The flying unicorn dropped Harbinger onto a balcony of a grand castle he had seen earlier from a distance while he was dropping onto the planet.

"Sister!" another, dark blue, winged unicorn shouted as the white one landed in front of her.

"Luna, Ponyville has been overrun by monsters that are not of our world." the white one said worriedly.

"What of Princess Twilight?" Luna asked.

"From what this noble warrior who fought the beasts said she and the other elements managed to escape." the white one replied, a grateful smile shot towards the wounded soldier.

"What beith thou name warrior?" Luna asked.

"I am Centurion II-064, the Harbinger of the Apocalypses, Major General Nickolas Obsidian." he replied, shaking his head as he tried to gather himself.

"I did not properly introduce myself earlier, my name is Princess Celestia, and this is Princess Luna, we are the rulers of this land known as Equestria." Celestia stated, her eyes showing signs of coming tears.

"I have my orders to bring down Death, those orders coincide with protecting your planet from him." Harbinger said with a grunt of pain.

"You are in pain again?" Celestia asked.

"It is something about the unicorns on this planet, my implants seem to be susceptible to their magic, your magic, at least that is what I've gathered." he replied as he clutched his helmet in obvious pain.

"Implants?" Luna asked.

"Neural enhancements that allow me to think faster, move faster, and understand other species such as I am now, they aside from my genetic augments make me a super soldier." the General answered.

Luna gave a nod to the nine foot tall soldier before looking to her sister who had walked away with a letter that had appeared from green smoke.

"Tia?" Luna said.

"Its from Twilight, they are safe, and she mentioned General Obsidian, though they didn't know his name, had saved them." Celestia turned and galloped over to the super soldier and before he could react gave him a hug, "Thank you for saving my former pupil!"

"I did nothing but my duty, I require no praise ma'am." Harbinger replied, his hands in the air.

Celestia released him and gave him a nod before turning around, "I shall have one of the guards escort you to a room while we figure out how to help you with your implant problem, then we will strategies on how to defeat Death."

"That last one is simple, I kill him." Harbinger replied, receiving a shocked expression from both Princesses.

"But wasn't he your friend?" Celestia asked.

"Once, but all things come to an end." Harbinger replied in a low, almost reminiscent voice before following the guard out of the throne room.

Author's Note

So I have been working on the timeline for a fanfic series I have yet to release completely, and Harbinger is the primary character followed throughout the different stories. I decided to cross it with ponies in this fashion since Harbinger is a lone wolf hunter and is sent on suicidal missions in which most would fail. Though as you read above he is out of his league here and may require help from those who do not share the same views as him in dealing with this problem.

In Chapter 2: The Plan, the backstory of Death and the other Titans will be uncovered amongst other events transpiring.

Until then, Tempest out