Part 9: Alpha Base

UNSC Spartan Alpha 91: 12:25 hours

"Bridge, me and Fireteam Aqua are going to meet the princesses and negotiate peace terms for a while. Are you sure you can handle things around here for a while?", Captain Allen asked while he boarded a pelican dropship with Fireteam Aqua inside.

"Affirmative.", Bridge said.

"Alright. I'm leaving the construction up to you, Dare, Hannah, and Lieutenant Lee while we're gone.", The captain responded while adjusting the collar of his navy uniform.

"Good luck sir."

"You too Spartan."

The pelican dropship ascended above the ground with it's engines roaring and took off to Canterlot. Bridge then made his way to Lieutenant Lee and Dare while the two were talking with Alpha Nine.

"Alright, let's get started people.", Bridge said.

"I'm ready sir.", Lieutenant Lee responded.

"Me too sir.", Dare replied.

"Okay then. Hannah we need to start the construction of Alpha Base ASAP.",Bridge said.

"Affirmative Bridge, where should we start?", His A.I. responded.

UNSC Captain Andrew R. Allen: 12:50 hours

"Why do we always have to be the escort Sarge?", PFC Millard asked the Sargent.

"Listen here son, we are good at escort and we'll be doing it at all times with the Captain. That's an order!", Sergeant Smith replied.

"You said it Miranda!", Sergeant Philips said.

"Hey if we go back to Earth, how about we go have a drink together?", Smith asked her boyfriend who was next to her.

"Alright I'm in.", Philips responded.

"Everyone were approaching our destination!", Eagle said to the group in the back.

"You heard him men! Be ready just in case!", Sergeant Smith said as she loaded a fresh clip into her battle rifle.

Canterlot Castle

"They should be here in few minutes sister.", Celestial said.

"Yes Tia. Are you sure that the guards won't panic and attack?", Luna asked.

"I'm sure I told Captain Armor to have his guards to be calm and to not panic. Captain Allen is a reasonable human. And he agreed to negotiate peace with us."

"I'm sure that he'll be arriving with his escort?"

"Yes, but his soldiers with him are called the marines."

"I see."

"Do you think that the changeling threat is done forever?"

"Maybe. If it wasn't for the humans then our most important cities would be demolished forever."

"I'm sure Chrysailis won't mess with them again."

"Tia they're here."

They saw the pelican dropship descend its landing gear and they saw Captain Allen in his uniform with Fireteam Aqua who exited out of the pelican's rear hatch. Some of the guards were paralyzed at the pelican and the figures who came out who wearing green and slightly brown outfits except for one who wore white.

"Hello princess it's good to see you again!", Captai. Allen said in a cheerful tone.

"Yes it's good to see you too!", Celestial said as Captain Allen shook his hand with Celestia's hoof.

"Shall we proceed?", The captain asked.

"Sure right this way.", Celestia replied.

"Uh captain, can me and the elements are going to see the rest of the humans? We would like to see them.", Luna asked.

"Sure, with commander Bridge's permission he'll let you see him and the rest of them.", Captain Allen replied.

"I guess he's alright with it sister.", Celestia said.

"I'll see you later sister.", Luna said.

UNSC Spartan Alpha 91 16:35 hours

The entire crew of the 'Euclid's Anvil' we're working hard on the base construction. There were workers, pieces of machinery, flat bed warthogs, and tools everywhere. Bridge was checking up on the base construction until he saw a blue burst in front of him.

"Hello Commander.", Luna said.

"Hello Princess Luna. Is there something that I can help you with?", Bridge asked.

"Is it alright to you if we can visit while my sister and Captain Allen are negotiating?"

"Alright fine if you don't touch ANYTHING of our's or distract our men I'll be fine with you here."

"Thank you, and Commander?"

"Yes?"

"We noticed that you are bigger than everypony here. Why is that?"

"It's everyone not everypony to us. And I mentioned that I'm a Spartan, I'm no ordinary soldier. I'm a generically enhanced super soldier that is the best of the best in our military. I'm a professional soldier."

"Why did you decide to become what you are now?"

"I wasn't. I was kidnapped."

"How old?"

"I was six years old."

"Why would you be kidnapped at six?!", Twilight asked.

"We were chosen to serve. I became a Spartan II with the rest of the cadets on Reach. We went under augmentation procedures which made us bigger, stronger, faster, better immune system, smarter, faster healing, and more dangerous to our opponents. I was one of the best.", Bridge said.

"What about the others?", Luna asked.

"Some either became crippled, permanently paralyzed, or dead.", Bridge stated.

"I'm sorry if I shouldn't asked that question."

"It's fine. I'm okay with it."

"Do you have manners to a girl?", Rarity asked.

"Yes I do.", Bridge said.

"Have you thought of removing that helmet of yours?", Luna asked.

"I only remove it in front of the people that I can trust, higher officials, and my A.I.", Bridge said.

"Hey big sis, we came to see the aliens!", A female voice said.

Bridge reacted and grabbed his Assault Rifle from where he was sitting and be aimed at three small creatures.

"State your business!", Bridge yelled as he pointed his weapon at the small horses heads.

"Sorry, we came with to see our sisters if they're okay.", The orange one said.

"Darling why are you here? We told you to stay home!", Rarity said.

"Sorry sis. We wanted to come with you.", The white one said.

Bridge lowered his weapon and talked to the small horses. "What are your names young ones?", Bridge asked.

"I'm Scootalo and this is Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell.", The orange pony said. "What's your's?"

"Hi I'm Commander Bridge, but you can just call me Bridge for short.", The Spartan replied.

"What's that kind of armor you're wearing?", Sweetie Bell asked.

"It's MJOLNIR powered assault armor for Spartans.", Bridge said.

"So what? I bet your armor won't stop you from a kick!", Rainbow Dash said.

"Try it.", Bridge replied in a solid tone.

Rainbow Dash kicked the Spartan's armor and his armor glowed with a yellow aura around it. He looked at his energy shield's and the attack only took about 5% of his shields. Under his helmet Bridge grinned with an evil smile.

"What the hay?! What was that?", The Pegasus asked.

"Oh yeah I forgot to tell you about that Spartans have energy shields which absorb damage from enemy attacks and they are powered by a fusion reactor built in the suits. A single spear or arrow that your guard use wouldn't do a single scratch to my armor a bit.", Bridge replied.

"That's like our kind of shields which are used by our magic. But it takes some of our strength to use them while your's doesn't.", Luna said.

"What exactly is a fusion reactor?", Twilight asked while looking at the Spartan's armor.

"The fusion reactor provides power the armor's shield's and all equipment of the MJOLNIR armor. It's the most essential part of our armor or else without a fusion reactor our armor wouldn't even work.", Bridge replied.

"That's so cool! Where do we get your kind of armor?", Apple Bloom asked.

"You CAN'T get it. You can only get Spartan Armor if you're in the Spartan program. And I don't think you ponies would be capable of lifting and handling a half-ton suit made of titanium."

"Why would a person like you be able to lift a half-ton without any magic?", Twilight asked.

"Remember? Spartans are stronger than other humans and during our augmentation procedures made us to lift three times our weight. I was one of the originals in the Spartan two program. We also had Spartan Three's, but the Spartan two's were more effective and skilled. Now we have the new Spartan Four program and I'm one of the leaders of the program. The armor that I have is Spartan Four armor on right now.", Bridge replied.

"Do you have any other branches that aren't for combat?", Luna asked.

"Well we have a lot. Equipment staff, maintenance crew, engineers, cooks, workers, janitors, and some other minor branches.", Bridge said.

"Do you have animals?", Fluttershy asked.

"Yes we do. Riley come here boy!", Bridge called out to a German Shepard. The dog came to his right side and he had his ears up and wagging his tail.

"He's cute!", Fluttershy said.

"Yeah he's a good dog. Don't make him angry okay?"

"Okay.", Flittershy said as she was petting Riley.

"I heard that you could go to other planets if I'm right? You are capable of interstellar space travel?", Twilight asked.

"Yes we had colonies, hundreds of them. We found out how to use slipspace technology for our ships and expanded beyond other star systems. Until the Covenant came and started to glass planet after planet during the war. Over 23 billion lives were lost during the war. But now we're rebuilding and we've found new planets to colonize.", Bridge replied.

"How did this war you speak about started?", Luna asked.

"It first began with a planet that we had named: Harvest. It was the beginning when they glassed the planet and then the UNSC and the Spartan's took the fight to the Covenant. They started a civil war against mankind and they believed that we were a problem to their religious goals. We never backed down on our people during the war. It took five long years to get Harvest back, it was hell on that planet. And then the crew of the 'UNSC Spirit of Fire' went there and found that the Covenant were looking for something. Professor Anders was kidnapped my the Arbiter of the Covenant and the crew of the 'Spirit of Fire' went from Harvest to Arcadia City and then to a forerunner shield world and Sergeant Forge sacrificed himself to destroy an invasion fleet that the Covenant formed from forerunner ships and it was destroyed with the help of Spartan Red Team.", Bridge said.

"In the ship that you crashed in do you know what it was?", Twilight asked.

"The 'Euclid's Anvil' is one of the four main Autumn-Class heavy cruisers in the UNSC. It was originally made in honor of the 'Pillar of Autumn' Halcyon-Class Heavy Cruiser. They are our newest cruiser addition since after the Human-Covenant war. We have more of the Autumn-Class cruisers but they all have different names like all other ships like the 'UNSC Justice and Vengeance' or the 'UNSC Eye of the Sky' Autumn-Class heavy cruisers. Our ships are made out of titanium and we have thousands of warships at the UNSC's disposal.", Bridge replied.

"It was nice talking to you, but I think we'd better go. It's getting late soon.", Luna said.

"Alright well it was nice to talk to all of you.", The Spartan replied.

"We'll see you soon.", Luna finished as they went away from Alpha Base's construction.

"Did you hear that Princess? They have thousands of ships made of titanium lay their disposal with advanced technology that no pony has ever seen before.", Twilight said.

"The Spartan's right. They have way advanced technology than we do. We should not become hostile with them.", Luna stated.

"That Spartan thinks he's soo cool with his advanced suit and weaponry, but I'm cooler than anypony else!", Rainbowdash said.

"Rainbowdash don't get on his nerve's he said he a professional. Let's go see my sister. She's probably waiting for us right now.", Luna said as the teleported to Canterlot.