Part 7: Back to the present & negotiations

Spartan Alpha 91, present time. 11:10 hours

"Well I should say who are YOU?", Bridge said to the White House horse.

"I am Princess Celestia, the ruler of Equestria.", The white horse said. "But my question is who are all of you?" She realized the Spartan was about two inches taller than her and she starred into his dark visor.

"Well that's my question to. You are a horse if I'm correct?"

"Actually our race are ponies. What is your race?"

"We're all humans. We started as ancient civilizations and now we've expanded beyond planets and stars."

"Wow I'm amazed! So your saying your not from Equis?"

"Equis?"

"It's the name of our planet. What is yours?"

"That's classified."

"Classified?"

"Classified means it's important information that I can't tell you under certain protocols. Until we can trust you me and Captain Allen will make up our minds. But first, are you related to the Covenant or have you heard of them?"

"Uh, no I haven't heard of this 'Covenant'. Who are they?"

"They're a race of different alien species but grouped under a religious banner. They will not stop until their goals are complete. They won't stop at anything ma'am, they would destroy anything in their path towards their objectives. You shouldn't trust them at all."

"That's very frightening. Have you met them?"

"Yes, but then they started a civil war to wipe out humanity and her colonies under the prophets of the Covenant. Billions of lives have been lost to defend our species. We though that we would lose the war, but we had the Spartans like me. We WERE humanity's saviors and super soldiers  throughout the entire war."

"Spartans? Can you tell me more about them?"

"That's classified but all I can tell you is that we were the best soldiers that humanity had. Always remember: 'Spartans don't die, they're just missing in action.' "

"That sounds very amazing towards all of the Spartans."

"Not all of us made it."

"Excuse me?"

"Most of the Spartans either sacrificed themselves or died to defend humanity. And my siblings were Spartans along side me. But they didn't make it from Reach."

"Reach?"

"A planet that we lost that was very important. Reach was destroyed. The immense of the entire planet, there's nothing left of it."

"I feel sorry for the lives who were lost."

"Me too, especially my sister and my brother."

"Can you tell me more?"

Bridge then had a horrible flashback and he heard voices.

"We might not defend Reach."

"Then we'll die trying Makena!"

"Watch out sir!"

"MAKENA!"

"NO!", The Spartan yelled at Celestia.

"Why, is there something wrong?", Princess Celestia asked.

"I don't want to talk about it and that's personal.", Bridge said in an angry tone.

"Why can't you tell anything classified?"

"They taught us how to be silent, then they taught us how to be Spartans."

"Who now?"

"That's classified."

"I hope that we can arrange peace negotiations."

"I hope so to Princess Celestia."

"I guess we're making history now with ponies and humans."

"Yep, that seems so."

"How did you end up here on this planet?"

"We have our ship over there which we crashed, but we made it out of there just in time before it went down. Her name is the Euclid's Anvil."

"I see. Do you have a leader?"

"Well we have Captain Allen of the Euclid's Anvil and me as the main leaders for the ship's crew."

"Can we see him?"

"I'll have to ask him. Sergeant Smith, can you send a message to the captain saying that we have a leader who would like to talk to him?"

"Understood sir!", Sergeant Smith said as she gave a salute and talked to the communications officer.

"Can my sister come to along with some other ponies?", Celestia asked.

"Sure, only if they don't touch anything of ours we should be fine.", Bridge replied back.

"My sister is the co-ruler of this nation and she would like to see you."

"Alright I'm down with that."

"I'm here with the girls sister", Luna said as she approached.

"Here is my sister Princess Luna. Luna say hi to him.", Celestia said.

"It's you!", Luna yelled.

"Uh sorry, have we met before?", Bridge asked.

"I've seen you in my dreams and I have seen you in Ponyville with that blue thing of yours.", Luna said.

"Blue thing?", The Spartan asked. "Oh yeah! Hannah come say hello."

As the Spartan took his A.I. out of the back of his helmet she appeared as her blue avatar in front of the ponies. (In case of you didn't know: Hannah has long hair and she has a different face and body than Cortana in case if you guys were wondering on how she looks like.)

"Hello Princesses, I'm Hannah.", The A.I. said as she put her hair back behind her head like the way that it was.

All of the ponies were in shock while starting at the A.I. But Celestia and Twilight had curious and puzzled looks.

"So she is something that you can put in your head?", Twilight asked.

"Well no not exactly in my head, but in my helmet. She's an artificial intelligence of the UNSC and we're all partners together.", Bridge said.

"So does she can be with you at anytime?", The white unicorn asked.

"Yes. That's not what all my armor can do."

"So whatever. It's not like you can survive falls from space or something like that.", The rainbow colored pony said.

"Actually I can.", The Spartan said.

"Oh really?!", Rainbowdash said.

"I'm a Spartan ma'am, I'm one of the best soldiers that humanity has on the front lines. And in case if you didn't know we fought a war that lasted about 30 years. It was a very painful experience for me personally."

"What a bunch of junk anyways! That seems lame."

Those words infuriated the Spartan with anger and hatred.

"What did you just say?! We have lost over 20 billion lives and we lost multiple planets that we've colonized!"

"So what?! Show me that you have proof!"

"Alright then. Hannah?", Bridge asked.

"Affirmative. Playing the clip now.", The A.I. replied back as a video clip played from Bridge's helmet and then the video played.

Bridge was on the screen when it came on and he was in a Pelican dropship while he was being debriefed for his mission by Captain Laskey.

"Spartan Alpha 91, over the past week our ships have been fighting Covenant ships trying to attack our colonies. The shipmaster is on the surface and his ship is left unattended but he is commanding his ships from the surface. Your objective is to kill him ASAP and kill any other Covenant soldiers, then a Pelican dropship will meet with you for extraction.", The captain said.

"Understood Captain Laskey.", Bridge said.

"Good luck Spartan Bridge, Infinity out!", Laskey finished.

"Are you sure your going to do this?", Hannah asked inside Bridge's helmet while he was grabbing his gear.

"Affirmative Hannah. I'm going in.", Bridge replied.

As the door opened he and had an Assault Rifle, DMR, Shotgun, and two Magnums with him as he jumped out of the Pelican from the atmosphere. He glided through the air with his built in thrusters in his armor which helped him from dying. Below him UNSC Autumn class cruisers and UNSC Broadsword and Longsword aircraft were attacking Covenant Remnant ships. He was near the ground and he used his thrusters to slow him down from surface of the planets soil. He then engaged Covenant troops and vehicles as he pulled out his Assault Rifle while doing a barrel roll towards his enemies. He shot multiple Grunts, Jackals, and Elites and used his built in jet pack to slow his descent. He shot a grunt inside the incoming Phantom and he climbed a Jackal's shield as he threw a frat grenade in the cockpit and he jumped out as the explosion happened behind him. Next he switched his weapons from his Assault Rifle to his Shotgun and shot multiple Elites in the face and he engaged his target. He faced the Shipmaster as the Elite tried to hit him with his energy sword but the Spartan was to fast for him and Bridge went behind him, knocked him down, and stabbed his knife through the Elite's head. After that UNSC Longswords flew over him and they targeted the Covenant super carrier with their payloads and Autumn Class cruisers firing their MAC cannons at the Covenant ship. Then the video ended with a Pelican picking up Bridge.

"Well what do you think about Spartans now?", Bridge asked all the ponies.

"Was that actually you?!", Twilight asked the Spartan

"Yes that was me.", Bridge replied.

"That was awesome!", Rainbowdash yelled in exitement.

"Can you tell us who you are exactly? I didn't get your name.", Celestia asked.

"It's Spartan Alpha 91, but you can call me Bridge. COMMANDER Bridge.", The Spartan replied.